Ned Wigglesworth Quotations

We call on all those elected officials with ties to Brent Wilkes and Mitch Wade to come clean about whether Wade and Wilkes procured 'in any fashion' sexual partners on their behalf ... particularly those members among the top recipients of campaign contributions from these men.

At its most base level, the sheer wealth of these candidates shows that representative democracy in California isn't representative at all. These are wealthy, white individuals and that makes it that much harder for them to represent all of California's diversity.

It's a ton of money. And the amount of money that was spent shows just how important it is for wealthy interests in California to get policies favorable to them passed, both business and labor.

The insurance industry's enormous clout in Sacramento is tied to their political contributions, like those they gave to Mr. Vargas.

These are our taxpayer dollars and they're being spent to push an initiative and it very well could have been illegal in this case.

These guys clearly needed to put as much money as they could into the hands of politicians as quickly as possible, but that pushed them over the limit.