CA: Leland Yee should be a lesson to progressives.

[RandySF]

For the benefit of people outside San Francisco, Leland Yee was a local politician who got his start on the San Francisco School Board and moved his way up to the State Senate, running this year for Sec. of State. Throughout his careen he championed many causes dear to our hearts. And because of that, many people closed their eyes to the many warning signs about the guy, like walking out of a Honolulu store with a bottle of suntan lotion down his pants, or how he was stopped by police while taking "walks" through streets well know was "strolls" for hookers while championing laws against human trafficking. But we kept looking away because the alleged offenses were minor and charges were never pressed against him. And now he is being charged with attempting to sell guns supplied from Mindanao, a hotbed of terrorist activity in the Philippines.

Those of us who DID pay attention to Yee's activities are not at all surprised. I don't know if this habit of looking the other way is unique to the SF progressive movement or a flaw common with politics in general, but it's got to stop. I thought we learned our lesson a long time ago with Jim Jones.