#  Calderon: The Art of the Squeal

     Details    Jerry Roberts and Phil Trounstine   ![logo](https://mail.citywatchla.com//templates/ja_teline_v/images/logo.png)         March 03 2014       [ARCHIVE](https://mail.citywatchla.com/archive)   - [  Previous Article **Are Mexicans the Most Successful Immigrant Group in the U.S.?** ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6530:are-mexicans-the-most-successful-immigrant-group-in-the-u-s&catid=16)
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> ***![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Mar-2014/12019f.png)CAL BUZZ***-Anyone who’s ever raised a teenager knows what a pain in the posterior it is nagging them to get a summer job. But we have to ask: hasn’t soon-to-be-ex-state Senator Ron Calderon ever heard of kids waiting tables or stocking shelves on the night shift at CVS?
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> Of all the scummy things Mr. Beef is [alleged by the feds](http://www.sacbee.com/2014/02/21/6179840/california-state-sen-ron-calderon.html) to have done, none appears more reprehensible than dragging his offspring into the stinking mess he’s made of his own life. Soliciting no-show and low-show jobs while also procuring tuition payments. [According to the FBI](http://www.scribd.com/doc/180417211/FBI-affidavit-pdf), he used them as his excuse for taking bribes from a sleazy hospital operator and an undercover agent posing as a movie producer with a hot girlfriend.
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> You can’t you make this stuff up. Oh wait, they did.

 Calderon’s [early response](http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2013/11/calderon-lashes-out-at-garcia-says-all-politicians-live-in-glass-houses.html#storylink=cpy) when his world began to crumble amid the FBI investigation a few months back was to feel extremely sorry for himself in public: “I would not wish on my worst enemy what I have been going through,” he said in responding to Assembly member Cristina Garcia, who had called for his resignation.

“But I do hope that Ms. Garcia comes to understand that what has happened to me could happen to anyone in public office.”

*To* *anyone?* Really?

Now Calderone and Mark Geragos, his cheeseball cable TV lawyer, are huffing and puffing about the [government “defaming” him.](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/834587-calderon-court-filing.html) It’s not Garcia nor the government that have put him in this spot, however; it’s his own over-arching arrogance and sense of entitlement, not to mention innate stupidity, that have Calderon facing 396 years in Stony Lonesome, with the chance to talk to his kids every now and again, on visiting day.

***(Jerry Roberts and Phil Trounstine publish the award-winning [CalBuzz.com](http://CalBuzz.com))***

***-cw***

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