| | '''Leland Yee''' was the [[Democrat|Democratic]] Assistant [[President pro tempore]] of the [[California State Senate]], and previously served in the [[California State Assembly]] until his March 26, 2014 arrest for gun trafficking and [[corruption]]. | | '''Leland Yee''' was the [[Democrat|Democratic]] Assistant [[President pro tempore]] of the [[California State Senate]], and previously served in the [[California State Assembly]] until his March 26, 2014 arrest for gun trafficking and [[corruption]]. |
| − | Anti-[[Second Amendment]] [[Gun control|gun-grabbing]] (authored a state-wide measure in 2013 that passed both the Senate and the Assembly and was finally vetoed by Governor [[Jerry Brown]] to ban all [[semi-automatic]] [[rifles]] especially the [[AR-15]] and even the diminutive [[Ruger 10/22]]) "State [[Senator]] [[Leland Yee]] was arraigned on seven charges of corruption and firearms trafficking<ref>http://hotair.com/archives/2014/03/27/we-hardly-knew-yee Accessed March 28, 2014</ref> Wednesday, swept up in a broad FBI sting involving more than two dozen people across the Bay Area suspected of selling [[drugs]], [[smuggling]] guns<ref>http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_25428957/state-sen-leland-yee-indicted-arms-trafficking-corruption?source=pkg Accessed March 28, 2014 </ref> and arranging [[murder]] for hire<ref>http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Keith-Jackson-former-S-F-education-official-5352182.php Accessed March 28, 2014</ref>." "The allegations against Yee reach back to his losing run for [[San Francisco values|San Francisco]] mayor in 2011, when he worked with a political consultant named Keith Jackson who at one time served on the San Francisco Unified School District board. Jackson was also arraigned Monday on charges that include involvement in a murder-for-hire scheme and narcotics trafficking." [[FBI]] Affidavits<ref>http://www.sfgate.com/file/757/757-complaint_affidavit_14-70421-nc.pdf Accessed March 28, 2014 </ref> "say Lee also introduced another FBI agent posing as a [[medical marijuana]] businessman to two state legislators working on the issue in exchange for two contributions totaling $21,000."<ref>http://www.sacbee.com/2014/03/26/6271916/fbi-california-sen-leland-yee.html and http://www.redstate.com/2014/03/27/leland-yee-gun-control-gun-running-california/</ref> | + | Anti-[[Second Amendment]] [[Gun control|gun-grabbing]] (authored a state-wide measure in 2013 that passed both the Senate and the Assembly and was finally vetoed by Governor [[Jerry Brown]] to ban all [[semi-automatic]] [[rifles]] especially the [[AR-15]] and even the diminutive [[Ruger 10/22]]) "State [[Senator]] [[Leland Yee]] was arraigned on seven charges of corruption and firearms trafficking<ref>[http://hotair.com/archives/2014/03/27/we-hardly-knew-yee We hardly knew Yee], Accessed January 14, 2015</ref> Wednesday, swept up in a broad FBI sting involving more than two dozen people across the Bay Area suspected of selling [[drugs]], [[smuggling]] guns<ref>http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_25428957/state-sen-leland-yee-indicted-arms-trafficking-corruption?source=pkg Accessed March 28, 2014 </ref> and arranging [[murder]] for hire<ref>http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Keith-Jackson-former-S-F-education-official-5352182.php Accessed March 28, 2014</ref>." "The allegations against Yee reach back to his losing run for [[San Francisco values|San Francisco]] mayor in 2011, when he worked with a political consultant named Keith Jackson who at one time served on the San Francisco Unified School District board. Jackson was also arraigned Monday on charges that include involvement in a murder-for-hire scheme and narcotics trafficking." [[FBI]] Affidavits<ref>http://www.sfgate.com/file/757/757-complaint_affidavit_14-70421-nc.pdf Accessed March 28, 2014 </ref> "say Lee also introduced another FBI agent posing as a [[medical marijuana]] businessman to two state legislators working on the issue in exchange for two contributions totaling $21,000."<ref>http://www.sacbee.com/2014/03/26/6271916/fbi-california-sen-leland-yee.html and http://www.redstate.com/2014/03/27/leland-yee-gun-control-gun-running-california/</ref> |
| | He is the author of [[video game]] legislation restricting the sale and distribution of the increasingly [[violence|violent]] and graphic video games to [[child|children]]. As a result, he is vilified by the video game addicts on the [[internet]]. Senator Yee filed an [[amicus brief]] in the case on his [[California]] video game legislation pending before the [[U.S. Supreme Court]].<ref>http://dist08.casen.govoffice.com/vertical/Sites/%7BBF15804D-042F-4DCF-8803-86441E95CD9F%7D/uploads/%7BF338F527-8D2E-4B9B-8A2F-B6D865D54A31%7D.PDF</ref> | | He is the author of [[video game]] legislation restricting the sale and distribution of the increasingly [[violence|violent]] and graphic video games to [[child|children]]. As a result, he is vilified by the video game addicts on the [[internet]]. Senator Yee filed an [[amicus brief]] in the case on his [[California]] video game legislation pending before the [[U.S. Supreme Court]].<ref>http://dist08.casen.govoffice.com/vertical/Sites/%7BBF15804D-042F-4DCF-8803-86441E95CD9F%7D/uploads/%7BF338F527-8D2E-4B9B-8A2F-B6D865D54A31%7D.PDF</ref> |