The Despicable Fabian Nunez

Fabian Nunez is the former Speaker of the California Assembly, a corrupt politician who was only interested in two things; raising taxes and enjoying the perks of government office. Termed out in the last election, he hopes to run for statewide public office again as soon as he is eligible.

He is also the father of Esteban Nunez, who is sitting in prison serving time for stabbing a young man during an attack at San Diego State University. The young man he stabbed survived-narrowly. Another young man, Luis Santos, was stabbed by one of Nunez's friends and died when his heart was severed.

After the stabbing, Esteban led his friends from San Diego to Sacramento, where they disposed of the weapon and bloodied clothing. He assured his friends that his dad would get them off due to his political clout. During the pre-trial process, Fabian Nunez stood on the courthouse steps and insisted that his son was innocent because the stabbing was in "self defense". It was not.

Eventually, Nunez and the others involved in the stabbing pleaded guilty and were sentenced to prison terms. Nunez got 16 years.

That was until Arnold Schwarzenegger, on his last day in office as California governor, commuted Esteban Nunez sentence from 16 to 7 years. In addition, Schwarzenegger possibly violated a  state law by not notifying the San Diego DA's Office or the family of Luis Santos.  To this day, Schwarzenegger has ducked questions about this disgraceful pardon.

Now Fabian Nunez is on a PR tour downplaying his son's involvement in the death of Luis Santos. He is giving interviews to local news stations in California insisting that his son had "no involvement in Santos' death". That is a lie. His son led a group of punks on a drunken foree into the San Diego State campus housing area because they had been denied entry to a party and attacked a group of youths with knives on the street they had linked to the party. Esteban Nunez stabbed one young man in the back with a knife and when he turned around, stabbed him in the front, almost killing him as his friend killed Santos.

The behavior of Schwarzenegger in doing a favor to his pal Fabian Nunez and Nunez's recent statements downplaying his son's involvement in attempted murder and murder is a disgrace.  It illustrates the utter moral corruption that is California politics.