2014 has seen three Californian senators from the Democratic party face charges this year, but the entire cake was taken this last week by Senator Leland Yee, a candidate for California Secretary of State.
Mr. Yee is a major supporter of gun restrictions, and has supported quite a few gun laws over the years in California:
- A law that would have banned magazine which can detach with a single button (SB 249)
- A law to redefine "Assault Weapons" to include more guns and ban the 'bullet button', as above (SB 47)
- A law to mandate specific methods of storage of unattended weapons (SB 108)
- Wanted to introduce legislation to license and background check people who bought 3D printers (Here). (No word on people who own lathes, or who buy pipe at Home Depot).
- Cosponsored legislation which would have banned semiautomatic weapons (Most of the package was vetoed by Governor Brown)
- Supported a violent video game ban (rental/sales to minors) before he was in the Senate which was overturned by the Supreme Court.
Turns out, he was allegedly smuggling illegal weapons into the United States, including shoulder mounted rocket launchers. And, yes, guns that were already defined as assault weapons... and even some guns with magazines with a larger capacity than the 10 currently allowed in the fine state of California. Here's a brief selection of allegations from the second link: "crimes including firearms trafficking, money laundering, murder-for-hire, drug distribution, trafficking in contraband cigarettes and "honest services" fraud."
It's the modern day version of Bootleggers and Baptists!
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- Boomer & Echo know that comparing oneself too seriously to a benchmark for savings/net worth/income/etc. is a fool's errand. Read why the goalposts shouldn't limit your understanding of finance.
- Jason Hull knows that there are only so many things that are 'once in a lifetime' opportunities - and most of them have a time-descriptor attached. (This was the FIRST time I used 'time-descriptor' in a sentence. I'm glad I hyphenated.)
- Is the stock market too frothy? Political Calculations does the math based on the prevailing dividend trend.
- Len Penzo stretches out his target demographic with some financial tips for teens, young adults, and the "teenage-thirtysomethings" oft-lampooned in Judd Apatow movies.
- Free By 50 discusses the fickle imaginations of the populace and dives into the falling number of people who call themselves middle class.
- At Holy Potato (which you should bookmark or subscribe to), an admission that Potatoes don't like/'get' tweeting. I liked the piece so much I tweeted it out. Isn't it ironic? Don't you think?
- Fellow Bostonian Matt at Mom and Dad money explains why college savings should be way down your savings list. You can't borrow for retirement!
- GREAT ROTATION (from the Makin' Sense Babe)
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