(Reuters) –A prominent state senator withdrew from a race for California secretary of state on Thursday (March 27), a day after he was arrested by FBI agents and charged with corruption and conspiring to import and traffic firearms, his attorney said. Democratic State Senator Leland Yee said he would end his campaign to become California’s chief elections officer in a letter submitted to Secretary of State Debra Bowen’s office on Thursday, his attorney Paul DeMeester told reporters. A former San Francisco supervisor […]
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