Buy Sen. Migden's Car!

by Brian Leubitz [courtesy of Calitics: Soapblox California - Front Page]

Yes, really. You can really buy Sen. Carole Migden's car. It's up for auction in Davis today. It's a pretty sweet 2005 Cadillac STS with 45,450 miles on it.  And if you hurry you can bid on it for the bargain basement price of $16K, or about $37,000 less than the state paid for one of the pricier state vehicles in California's history. 

All of this from Matier and Ross:

Migden, you might recall, ran into a public relations nightmare right after being elected to the state Franchise Tax Board a few years back when she ordered a buffed-out Cadillac, complete with a Bose sound system, as her official state car. She canceled the order when word got around, saying she was wrongly being labeled as a big spender.

Once she returned to the Legislature, however, she was back to driving a Caddy -- at least until she joined the green parade and got herself a hybrid.

We called Migden's office in Sacramento, hoping the senator might have a sales pitch for anyone thinking of buying the STS. We didn't hear back from her, but her spokeswoman, Tracy Fairchild, had a question for us: "How in God's green earth did you ever come across that?'' (SF Chronicle 5/9/07)