Senator Leland Yee: Gunrunner and Speech Regulator

A hero of the speech regulation crowd has been revealed as a gun runner, trafficker and indicted Senator.  California Democrat Leland Yee was charged with multiple federal counts of gun running, trafficking and corruption.  Yee was a champion of the speech regulators in California and opponent of Citizens United.  One sample:


Two new bills propose ways to give voters greater insights into the flood of political money from often obscure nonprofit organizations. SB 3, by Sens. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, and Ted Lieu, D-Torrance, would require nonprofit groups that donate $100,000 or more in a year to political campaigns to identify the source of that funding. AB 45, by Assemblyman Roger Dickinson, D-Sacramento, would require politically active nonprofit organizations to disclose donors who in the six months before an election have contributed at least $50,000.


The bill would also give the state’s Fair Political Practices Commission greater power to go to court to compel such groups to reveal donors.