The corruption in San Diego is not just limited to the mess at the Metropolitan Transportation Services or the Nathan Fletcher-Grecia Figueroa sexual harassment lawsuit. This latest political scandal exemplifies how local corruption run amok simply gets swept under the rug, allowing these criminals, who should never get near the public trust again, to reinvent themselves, take that new persona all the way to statewide campaigns, and then slink onto a national platform. As we continually warn: What happens in California never stays in California.
Jesus and Andrea Cardenas are the latest poster children of this. This brother-sister duo have been a boil on the side of San Diego politics for almost two decades. Jesus Cardenas had a brief stint in 2006-2007 with the California Democrat Party and the Orange County Democrat Party before launching his own “political management…
