Re “Senator quits for job with Chevron,” Feb. 23
When I finished this article, I was convinced there must have been something I missed. So I read it again.
State Sen. Michael J. Rubio's resignation and immediate hiring by a huge corporation that it was his elected job to (among other things) protect us against is heinous enough.
But for him to say that “family comes first” and to complain that he was “tired” of the drive to his job in Sacramento has to be infuriating to the people who elected him.
Clearly there's something wrong with this picture, and the apparent casualness with which Rubio, those tasked with reviewing his decision and The Times are handling it speaks volumes about how thoroughly our elected servants are beholden to big business, and how little will be done about it.
Mike Flanagan
Silver Lake
Letters: From Senate to Chevron
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HarveyPearson at 8:59 AM February 27, 2013
On Feb. 26 , under the heading "They're unmoved", a letter writer cited the old canard that "All of us were once immmigrants." Now, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, only one sixth of us are immigrants, even as we speak. I was born to native-born parents in Santa Monica, CA myself, so that makes me a native born U.S. citizen, just like them--not an "immigrant"---and at least as proud as a naturalized immigrant about my own distinctive pathway to becoming a U.S. citizen too!
