Fell asleep last night chewing on the thought, that Wilkes might very well be cooperating with investigators. (In a conversation a couple weeks back, his lawyer wouldn't comment on whether he was cooperating or not, but said an August statement about him being cooperative with the investigation was no longer operative). This Belize thing - he has to know that investigators are watching him, right? Would you let yourself look like you were heading south of the border if you knew you were being watched? Or would you let yourself look like that to lead investigators to whoever else? Or as a total decoy?

More on the Wilkes-Cunningham case from the team that is really busting this thing down at the San Diego Union-Tribune. Key point, sent along by Chris Cruse, "Schwarzenegger asked Wilkes to resign from Del Mar Fair Board and State Race Track Leasing Commission. [And] he did resign, effective Nov. 30." There is an awful lot of extraneous muck in this case, even by corruption/money-in-politics standards, isn't there? Maybe it's from talking to all those folks who knew Wilkes in high school in the early 70s (but not only), but there's a 70s/80s disco age cast and recklessness to this all that -- you don't see surface so often in political stories these days, I assumed because politicians would tend to the careful about the possibility they would get caught.

More via Kevin Drum.

Posted by Laura at December 9, 2005 12:03 PM