Letters: From Senate to Chevron

Re “Senator quits for job with Chevron,” Feb. 23

When I finished this article, I was convinced there must have been something I missed. So I read it again.

State Sen. Michael J. Rubio’s resignation and immediate hiring by a huge corporation that it was his elected job to (among other things) protect us against is heinous enough.

But for him to say that “family comes first” and to complain that he was “tired” of the drive to his job in Sacramento has to be infuriating to the people who elected him.

Clearly there’s something wrong with this picture, and the apparent casualness with which Rubio, those tasked with reviewing his decision and The Times are handling it speaks volumes about how thoroughly our elected servants are beholden to big business, and how little will be done about it.

Mike Flanagan
Silver Lake

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