Unless you follow conservative blogs, you’ve probably never heard of Leland Yee. He is the California state Senator (from San Francisco of course) that was busted for gun running. Leland Yee is your prototypical Democrat hypocrite. He railed on and on for more gun control, yet was caught ‘allegedly’ gun running before getting busted by the FBI last week. Leland Yee is basically playing out a Grand Theft Auto video game character in real life. Yea if you turn on the news, or look in the various newspapers, you wouldn’t find a word mentioned about LeLand Yee. If he had been a Republican, Leland Yee would be getting the Chris Christie treatment in the media.
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A politician honored for his gun control efforts is arrested for attempted arms smuggling. He held press conferences denouncing violent video games and helped pass legislation in California prohibiting sales of such games to minors. And yet, secretly, he was living the life of a Grand Theft Auto character.
The downfall of Calif. State Sen. Leland Yee of San Francisco should be an utterly captivating, fascinating story, and the national media should be sinking its teeth into the details. I joked when Yee was first arrested about how he is destined to be parodied in Grand Theft Auto. That was before the FBI’s report was even released. Now, I’m convinced the report could be the outline for an entire Grand Theft Auto installment (have they set a game in a parody of San Francisco yet?). Yee’s story of corruption, attempted gun-running and accusations of vote-selling (an undercover FBI agent posing as a medical marijuana clinic owner wanted him to support legislation introducing new barriers to entry for potential competition) is actually just a small part of a larger story about the crime scene in San Francisco. Beyond Lee’s role, the whole story (pdf) is full of drug transactions, stolen booze fencing, a home invasion by apparently Mexican gangsters, what appears to be counterfeit credit cards supplied by a Russian hacker, and more. It has everything. There’s even a money-laundering scene that takes place inside a massage parlor. It’s part FBI report, part Hollywood pitch.
Even out here in California, there has been hardly any mention of Leland Yee. There were a couple news reports the night he was busted and a small article the L.A. Times, but other than that, nothing.