Wright Gamed the System: Now Represents Gaming Systems

“It’s great to see you, and you are missed,” political strategist Jason Kinney said at the start of a panel he participated in with Wright.

Wow! Talk about tone-deaf. Political operatives miss Rod Wright? Really? Maybe more people should run for office who do not live in the districts which they claim to represent.

His signature humor on display, Wright lapped up the laughter as he introduced himself to the crowd: “And I don’t represent anybody.”

No, he sure doesn't, and based on the eight convictions, he never really did.

Wright was convicted of eight felonies last year for lying about where he lived when he ran for office in 2008. He resigned from the Senate in September and served 71 minutes in jail.

Wright said he sometimes misses Sacramento, and he has returned a few times in recent months to work with formerly incarcerated people. But he’s also enjoying his more relaxed lifestyle, happy to no longer be flying back and forth to Los Angeles.

He was incarcerated for all of seventy. . .minutes. Yes, minutes. He misses Sacramento? Residents and voters in the state should declare that they miss a legislature which was working in their interests instead of special interests, protecting our rights instead of pandering to public sector unions and illegal aliens.

“I can’t believe I did this s— every week,” he said.

Neither can I

Three Comments below outline some worthy comments, and necessary questions, which the SacBee reported should have asked but did not.

 

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Chris Yeager

8 Felonies…. And he's back in the game spending 71 minutes in jail?
That is the Californian way… Crime pays bigger bills than honesty can only wish for…..

Good point. Why  was nothing more made of this turn of events? So, a legislator commits a felony, yet he can come back as a lobbyist. Someone needs to pass a law to end this politician-lobbyist merry-go-round.

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Anita Brady

The millions of dollars that prisons cost to build and maintain would need an increase in your tax dollars. Got cash? Personally, his downfall seems to be enough retribution.

Now, Dinesh D'souza on the other hand should go directly to jail. Instead of being discredited when he pleaded guilty to a felony, he converted his martyrdom in another right wing book and round of appearances on Fox. 

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Indeed. The State of California has increased spending on incarceration, with what to show for it? His downfall was one thing, but the fact that he has returned to Sacramento to wheel and deal once again: has Wright taken enough consequences for the wrongs that he committed?

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Brian Dosher

out of all fairness, my state Senator lives just out of his district with approval from the senate.   If you want to look it up he is Senator Ted Gains.   I don't know why this guy lied about it when you can get it approved

There is nothing like the truth to set people free. Ted Gaines did the right thing (unlike Wright). Just tell the powers that be the truth and there will be a way to make everything work out for the best.

Final Reflection

How telling, if not ironic, that the very state senator who was gaming the system by claiming he lived in one place, but was living somewhere else, now represents the gambling industry as a lobbyist in Sacrament.

Ka-Ching!

The SacBee did report the eight felony convictions. Why more people did not learn about Wright's return to the legislature is beyond me.

More Californians have probably decided that it is easier just to move rather than pressure the legislature to start doing right by its constituents.

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