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California gets C- grade in 2015 State Integrity Investigation

One night in March 2014, state Senator Leland Yee stood before a fancy dinner thrown in San Francisco by the Society of Professional Journalists to receive the Public Official Award — for a second time. Yee, a San Francisco Democrat running for secretary of state, was saluted for “his courage to oppose his own Democratic […]

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