State Assembly candidate gets 'a very public boot'

If I could only be so lucky as to stumble on a story like this:

SACRAMENTO (AP)— The mayor of West Sacramento — a candidate for a state Assembly
seat — got a very public boot.

Mayor Christopher Cabaldon emerged from a downtown Sacramento coffee shop on Monday to find
an orange boot attached to a rim of his Nissan 350Z, preventing him from driving off. It was the penalty for too many unpaid parking tickets.

Unfortunately for Cabaldon, the campaign manager for his political rival just happened to be
driving by. The campaign manager called an associate to bring a camera and then alerted the
media.

Cabaldon and Yolo County Supervisor Mariko Yamada are competing for the 8th Assembly
District seat in the June 3 Democratic primary.

While Cabaldon went to City Hall to pay the $567 in fines, Yamada’s campaign made the most
of the incident.

Her campaign manager said Cabaldon’s failure to pay his parking tickets was evidence that
the West Sacramento mayor believes he does not have to play by the same rules as everyone
else.