CA Govt Just Grows More Corrupt. Nobody Will Catch Up To Big Brother - The FED.

California jobs go to those with connections

March 27, 2009|Patrick McGreevy

Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times / File

SACRAMENTO — Unemployment in California may be at its highest since 1983, but there are jobs with the state Legislature for the well-connected.

Yolie Flores Aguilar, a longtime friend and political ally of some powerful California Democrats, last year supplemented her income as vice president of the Los Angeles school board with more than $32,000 as a consultant assigned to a state Senate committee that, during her tenure, did not meet or release any reports.

State Sen. Rod Wright (D-Inglewood) was paid at least $27,900 by the state Senate last year for miscellaneous tasks as he was campaigning for his current job. And Californians pay Marisela Villar, daughter of L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, $68,000 annually as a field representative for Democrats.

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