Fabian on the run
KABC has an amusing video of Speaker Fabian Nunez fleeing a television news reporter asking why he used campaign fund to pay for his extravagent lifestyle.
Nunez is facing questions from contributors and constituents after a Los Angeles Times story revealed expenses charged to his campaign account, including $8,745 at the exclusive Hotel Arts in Barcelona, Spain; $5,149 for a meeting at Cave L'Avant Garde, a wine seller in the Bordeaux region of France; a total of $2,562 for two "office expenses" at Vuitton, two years apart; and $1,795 for a "meeting" at Le Grand Colbert, a venerable Parisian restaurant.
Nunez has refused to answer questions about how those expenses relate to his job representing a Los Angeles community where more than 80 percent of families earn less than $50,000 a year. (That 1999 figure comes from his Web site.)