So long and thanks for all the leadership

Fabian Nunez ends his time as Speaker having, as the Times article teases "put his name on major laws but hurt his image with self-indulgent spending of donations."

Dudes, so long as he was spending donations and not tax revenue then what in the hell is all the freaking out about.

Nunez has been the most effective Speaker since Brown and he did it in a post-term-limits era when the conventional wisdom was that we'd never, ever see actual Legislative leadership again. He helped prove that there's no longer a functional difference between the Assembly and Senate and single-handedly demonstrated the Assembly's dominance over the Senate.

I say, well done sir. If the worst they got you on is raising money and spending it - without screwing us out of ours or spending what we pay poorly, then you're historic-in-a-good-way in my book.