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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nFolks have been blowing up my inbox with links to the story of Leland Yee, a California state senator who was arrested yesterday for conspiring to traffic in weapons in a 137-page complaint, as well as taking a $20,000 bribe from an FBI agent, according to an Inside Bay Area link<\/a>. <\/p>\n Yee and an intermediary allegedly met repeatedly with an undercover FBI agent, soliciting campaign contributions in exchange for setting up a deal with international arms dealers.<\/p>\n At their first face-to-face meeting in January, “Senator Yee explained he has known the arms dealer for a number of years and has developed a close relationship with him,” an FBI affidavit says, noting Yee told the agent the arms dealer “has things that you guys want.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n According to Fox News<\/a> he’s not the first of Democrat California legislators to be arrested this year;<\/p>\n Yee is the third Democratic senator to face charges this year. Sen. Rod Wright was convicted of perjury and voter fraud for lying about his legal residence in Los Angeles County, and Sen. Ron Calderon has been indicted on federal corruption charges. Wright and Calderon are taking a voluntary leave of absence, with pay, although Republicans have called for them to be suspended or expelled from the Legislature.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Yee’s indictment included 25 others in a state-wide sweep. You might remember that we mentioned Yee<\/a> when a crackpot used his phony vet story to threaten Yee for his anti-gun position. <\/p>\n I guess it’s not too ironic that a legislator who publicly wrote legislation to limit weapons access to law abiding citizens privately conspired to arm criminals.<\/p>\n ADDED:<\/strong> You can see the depth of Yee’s commitment to keeping us safe from ourselves while arming criminals at Twitchy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"