Termed-out Sen. Sheila Kuehl has landed a high-paying job on California's waste board, securing the $132,178 per year job despite a previous report that Sen. Carole Migden would land the gig.
Kuehl, who has chaired the Senate's Natural Resources and Health Committees during her tenure in the upper house, is leaving the state Senate after eight years and was appointed to the spot on the Integrated Waste Management Board by outgoing Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata.
Earlier in the day, Assembly Speaker Karen Bass named Assemblyman John Laird to a spot on the waste board, which has been a landing pad for politicos and ex-politicians for years.
Back on Nov. 16, the San Francisco Chronicle's Phil Matier and Andrew Ross reported that Migden, who lost a bruising primary to then-Assemblyman Mark Leno earlier this year, would get the lucrative waste board slot, courtesy of Perata:
Outgoing state Sen. Carole Migden of San Francisco - who was knocked off her perch in a contentious Democratic primary - has landed a new job and a raise as an appointed member of the California Integrated Waste Management Board.
Migden, who leaves office at the end of the month, was named to the $132,178-a year job by soon-to-be-termed-out state Sen. President Pro Tem Don Perata. As a state senator, Migden earned $116,208.
What happened between then and today remains unclear.
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