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Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch

Career path:

1. Public interest attorney, 1997-2010.
2. Marry then state Attorney General, 2003.
3. Get appointed to state community colleges Board of Governors, 2010.
4. Get elected to Alameda County Board of Supervisors, 2010.
5. Be absent from 20% of five-member Board of Supervisors meetings, November 2011 to present.
6. Separate from husband (now state Treasurer); reunite.
7. Call police from hotel room, claiming former boyfriend (from before your 2003 marriage) has lured you there and assaulted you, February 2012.
8. Issue standard "I have not been spared from the scourge of addiction that affects so many of us" press release; check into rehab for chemical dependency, February 2012.
9. Send press bizarre e-mail blaming husband (still Treasurer) for hooking you on drugs. End with "I simply can't bear this any longer. Goodbye to everyone." Cause recipient of e-mail to call police and paramedics to your house. Admit writing "part" of the e-mail, but deny sending it, or including the parts about your husband. Claim ex-boyfriend must have added those parts and sent it, even though the e-mail also calls for the ex-boyfriend to be jailed.
10. ???
11. Profit!

SF Gate

Ah, you youngsters...

Political flameout speeches are so 1962.

Tax ("You won't have Dick Nixon to kick around any more!") wonk