What do you get when an entitled Democrat state dictator legislator has his own job-security proposition thwarted at the polls and is termed out?
Some of the funniest “criticism of me is racist” schtick this side of O!’s campaign.
Former Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez, saying he now can speak more openly, is blasting accusations that he spent lavishly on overseas trips and retail purchases as racially motivated. [...]
The Los Angeles Democrat said he has no regrets over his spending of campaign funds, despite controversy over tens of thousands of dollars spent on high-priced hotels, wine, gifts and other purchases.
“Everyone’s done it like this,” Núñez said of previous legislative leaders. “The difference is there are some in politics who want to judge me in a certain manner.
“Because of the fact I am Mexican, they think I have to sleep under a cactus and eat from taco stands.”
I could point out the irony that while Nunez is dissing taco stands, a lot of white collar workers in Los Angeles are trying to save ‘em, but even the upper-middle-class taxpayers cannot help but look askance at Nunez attempting to pass off wine parties, shopping sprees in Paris and sharing a penthouse with a powerful Democrat fundraiser as just routine and normal.
In the interview on Univision’s Voz y Voto program, Núñez defended in Spanish his accommodations in fine hotels overseas.
“What’s a luxury hotel? A stay at a Sheraton? … I am, you could say, like a head of state. I’m the leader of the Assembly of the state of California. Where am I supposed to sleep?”
Núñez’s spending became a target last year in the campaign against Proposition 93, which would have altered term limits and allowed him to serve as Assembly leader an extra six years.
“The only thing that really results out of this is that groups that don’t like Latinos use this as a weapon to inflame anti-Mexican, anti-Latino politics,” he said.
As George M. Cohan once said, Always leave them laughing when you say goodbye.
Thanks, Fabian, and don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
Comment by K on 5/24 @ 11:39 am #
Does anyone else see the monster in the room here? This guy was a bigwig in the California legislature and he has to explain matters, en español, to Mexico’s colony in Los Angeles.
If anyone doesn’t think the Mexicans aren’t directly influencing US elections in a big way should think again. They are the swing vote for California’s 55 electors will soon be adding to that total as they become large percentages of other states.
Comment by Darleen on 5/24 @ 11:49 am #
K
Fabian probably thought he could get away with the race card by going onto a Univision and not get caught. He, like a lot of CA Dems, don’t quite get that a lot of Americans of Mexican descent are digusted by the pandering to illegals.
Comment by mojo on 5/24 @ 11:53 am #
Karma, man. Anybody named after Fabius is bound to be a blithering idiot, it seems.
Comment by Big Bang Hunter (pumping you up) on 5/24 @ 11:53 am #
- “Racism” had become the one word replacement for the all-time king of excuses “My dog ate my (fill in the blank).
Comment by MayBee on 5/24 @ 12:10 pm #
He’s lucky he didn’t get beaten up in one of those hate crimes Barack Obama was talking about yesterday.
Comment by Rob O'Connor on 5/24 @ 12:26 pm #
It has to be racism. What other explanation is there? Maybe he should run for office in Mexico; I’m sure the mexicans wouldn’t mind him spending their coca dollars!
Comment by The details on 5/24 @ 1:00 pm #
There’s a lot more to him than just questionable spending. Note, for example, the fact that he refers to himself as “Mexican” rather than “Mexican-American” or the like. See my name’s link for details about his past activities.
Comment by SarahW on 5/24 @ 1:23 pm #
Head of state. Maybe he should pick one.
Woo, I’m testing out an airbook. I like the cut of it’s jib. What , you expect me to compute under a sheep and eat haggis? RACISTS!
Comment by Spiny Norman on 5/24 @ 1:39 pm #
Not about to leave gracefully, is he?
Hasn’t he placed another initiative on the ballot to save his seat?
Comment by cjd on 5/24 @ 2:15 pm #
“I am, you could say, like a head of state. I’m the leader of the Assembly of the state of California. Where am I supposed to sleep?â€Â
Well said. After all, Imelda had a large mansion to traipse around, and thus needed all those shoes. We should cut him some slack.
Comment by Great Mencken's Ghost on 5/24 @ 2:43 pm #
Actually, it’s more like, “the state of California would be in a lot better shape if this fornicating thief had slept under cacti and eaten at taco stands.”
Comment by thor on 5/24 @ 4:18 pm #
Yeah, go ahead and laugh, Darleen. If you were cool, like me, you’d have learned first hand of the eminent risk and awful price of taco stands, as I have. Sixth Street, Austin, Texas, South-by-Southwest, yes, street fajitas smell awfully good when you’re stoned, jamming, and straight up cool, like me.
Acid reflux hits right at the un-Godly hour of 4 am, followed by good-morning fecal incontinence and then days battling mega colon.
Cool as me be, I’d rather eat a cactus and sleep under a rolling taco stand than re-live the nightmare aftermath from a goat burrito wrapped in tin-foil.
Comment by Merovign on 5/24 @ 6:23 pm #
More like “notoriously corrupt party-boy politician whines petulantly after his ass gets fired.”
Evidently, “he now can speak more openly” means “he no longer has handlers to remind him what an idiot he is.”
Comment by mojo on 5/24 @ 8:17 pm #
Ever see a stray cat in South Central?
‘Nuff said.
Comment by Cyrus Farivar on 5/24 @ 9:25 pm #
Despite what our Speaker said, my blog is about taco trucks, not stands. Also, I don’t live in Los Angeles, but thanks for the link!
Comment by B Moe on 5/24 @ 9:35 pm #
Taco trucks rock! They have started showing up on some job sites I cover on the outskirts of Atlanta, and the food is great, especially compared to the sandwiches on the old roach coaches. I look for the established crap vendors to have them shut down any day.