Sentencing brings call for state senator to resign
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Source: AP
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California state Sen. Rod Wright was sentenced Friday to three months in prison for lying about where he lived when he ran for office and leaders of the Senate said he should resign immediately.
Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, a Democrat from Sacramento, said in a statement that Wright's constituents in Inglewood cannot continue without representation.
Senate Minority Leader Bob Huff, R-Diamond Bar, said Wright should resign or face expulsion.
Wright was previously suspended with pay from his post in the Senate. His Capitol staff did not immediately return calls seeking a response to the demands to resign. His lawyer Winston Kevin McKesson said it was not a legal issue and he had not talked about it with Wright.
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