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Home Front: Politix
State To Pay $335,000 For Ex-Senator's Crash
2009-07-07
The state will pay $335,000 to settle a lawsuit stemming from a crash involving former state Sen. Carole Migden.

Migden lost her Senate seat last year. She is now on the state's waste management board.
Supervising Deputy Attorney General Steven Gevercer said Monday state officials have agreed to pay the sum to 33-year-old Ellen Butawan. Butawan sued Migden and the state after suffering injuries when Migden rear-ended her in May 2007 in Solano County.

Witnesses reported Migden talking on the phone and driving wildly in her state-owned SUV before the crash. The San Francisco Democrat said she didn't remember the ride and suggested medication may have been to blame. She pleaded no contest to reckless driving.

Butawan's attorney said his client was fine with the settlement.

Migden lost her Senate seat last year. She is now on the state's waste management board.
They always take care of their own ...
Posted by:Fred

#6  Typical Bay Area , Sacramento corruption
Posted by: Sockpuppet of Doom   2009-07-07 20:00  

#5  At least about the waste part, tu.

Question: Is the state going to pay actual money, or with a worthless IOU?
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2009-07-07 14:32  

#4  She is now on the state's waste management board.

Sounds like an expert...
Posted by: tu3031   2009-07-07 13:23  

#3  The people of state voted her into office, they get what they asked for, a dope smoking, drug taking, law breaking idiot, but then our reps are supposed to be reps of the people and for San Fran she is. They get what they deserve.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2009-07-07 13:21  

#2  She can't even keep a wife!

In February 2004, she married Cristina Arguedas, a criminal defense attorney and her partner since 1985, in a ceremony at Sha'ar Zahav San Francisco City Hall officiated by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom. That marriage was later annulled by the California Supreme Court.
Posted by: Besoeker   2009-07-07 09:18  

#1  The article forgot to add that "Mad Madamn Midgen" has had a few accidents over the years, smokes pot, and is rumored to like other drugs. Now knowing this the CHP neglected to give her any kind of blood or urine test AFTER the crash. She claims to be on prescription drugs but we still dont know what kind (can you guess?). Also she claimed to be on state business but we never found out what that business was at the time (on a Sunday and out of her district). But now she is ensconsed in an appointed job that meets four times a year and pays six figures.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2009-07-07 08:56  

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