California is a very broke-ass state, and so apparently, are its politicians: San Francisco’s Democratic Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi got caught lifting a few thousand dollars’ worth of merchandise from official rich person store Nieman Marcus. How very “Winona Ryder” of her! Come on, though, just go steal something more normal for a politician, like “education” maybe, or “our children’s future.” Those things are still legal.
Hayashi, 45, who has served in the Assembly since 2006 — and is married to Alameda Superior Court Judge Dennis Hayashi — was arraigned Thursday in San Francisco Superior Court. She had earlier posted $15,000 bail.
Hayashi was stopped by Neiman Marcus’ security detail shortly after leaving the store around 12:15 p.m. Tuesday with a shopping bag that included three items worth $2,450 that she hadn’t paid for when she checked out at the register, the district attorney’s office said.
Prosecutors did not specify what the items were, but a source familiar with the case tells us they were leather pants, a black skirt and white blouse.
[SFGate]
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Mary was merely liberating those items from The Man for Jesusween!
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I love it when 45 year old women wear leather pants.
The leather was for her husband.
Leather pants, white blouse, black skirt? Sounds like she was getting ready to pull a double shift as a cocktail waitress at one of those trendy Market Street martini bars.
Or an hot date with ESPN personality Chris Berman.
Too bad those Palin kids don't shoplift some condoms from the 7-11 every once in a while.
Will these do? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/12/occupy-w...
Hayashi spokesman Sam Singer called the assemblywoman’s arrest a mistake, saying she had walked out of the store with the items unintentionally and intended to go back.
Sing it, Sam.
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Beat me to it. Seriously, if that's the best she can come up with she may as well resign now.
Only because she's a Democrat. If she were a wingnut, she could claim her librul professors led her astray and made her do it, but now she's found Jeebus so if you think she should resign you must hate Jeebus.
Ah yes, the famous "Lindsey Lohan Defense." Well, you'll be able to add an orange jumpsuit to your wardrobe now, Councilwoman.
Didn't 9iu11iani's brat daughter get caught shoplifting last year?
Yes. She liberated a tasteful variety of expensive cosmetics from a Sephora store. But it was a cry for help, doncha know, so I'm sure the cops eventually decided the cosmetics walked out of the store on their own.
#Occupy Needless Markup!
Holy crap! My entire family's clothing budget isn't that much money. It certainly does suck being part of the 99%.
I honestly don't know what my family's clothing budget is, but I do know $2400 goes a looong way at Goodwill.
It's supposed to suck. How else could we 1percenters feel good?
Obviously a 1%er, otherwise the Walmart greeter would have tackled her.
Worse. The greeter would have sat on her.
Or knocked her over the head with his oxygen tank.
Even the greeters are on Hoverounds at my local Walmart. I'm sure they just cold run over the perps.
Going straight to hell at no more than 3mph.
Like a sloth outta hell.
I'm not sure they actually have $2450 worth of stuff at Walmart. Well, maybe in the guns section.
Oh, this gets better…
She chairs the Assembly Committee on Business, Professions and Consumer Protections.
Their website says the committee's jurisdictions include "governmental organization, efficiency and cost control" and "charitable solicitations."
"So, you see, Your Honor, I was just trying to cut costs for charity…"
$2,450 worth of stolen goods vs. $15,000 bail. . .who knows how much the case is going to cost this 1% household – another Dem proves they can't fiscally manage worth shit.
I'd like to know the wages of the third-world workers that made those items.
Well those guys on Wall Street have to eat, filet, lobster, cavier are expensive, particularly when they are polluting the places where those things grow.
Does Nieman Marcus carry remote-controlled dildos?
Hitachi sells there, I am sure.
Diamond encrusted, I'm sure.
Balls.
Cool, she's joining The Runaways.
The cops should leave the poor woman alone and go after the real criminals: people who shoplift food.
Or an Occupy Oakland protestor.
I was caught stealing, once, when I was FIVE.
i enjoy stealing, it's just as simple as that
I actually have never stolen anything- well, a few hearts. Never had to be marched back into a store to pay. When I was a kid, if I wanted to eat something, my mom made me wait until we got to the cash register- the other option was a good smack (although my mom denied she ever hit her kids- so I guess we weren't her kids)
You didn't see what they did there.
It's perfectly understandable — she was probably getting an outfit for a hot date and didn't want her hubby to know.
Good thing she wasn't an Occupy Oakland protestor, or they would have shot her in the head.
Too soon.
Eh, her husband's a judge—she'll walk.
Professional courtesy?
He will probably walk as well – away from the bench.
She'll be adding an orange jumpsuit to her wardrobe now.
Say you're Mary Hayashi's chief of staff, or spokesperson, or lawyer or whatever. How exactly do you characterize this to the public or the judge as a mistake? "She put the items in the shopping bag because goddamn Nieman-Marcus doesn't have any shopping carts like a proper American place of business, and then forgot." Don't think that'll fly.
Newt Gingrich: We have found your next wife!
Too old and we don't know if she has the requiste fellatio skills Newt demands from his wives.
What a horrible politician. Certainly she could have paid for that with bribe money…uh, I mean…donation money. She must not know shit gets done.
Or she could angle to become a VP running mate, she'll get a six-figure wardrobe budget and bathe in all the leather she wants.
Thou shalt not steal, Ms. Hayashi.
Thou shalt instead contribute unto the campaigns of thy colleagues, and unto thee shall come forth benefits to thine bottom line, as the tax collectors shall torment thee no longer, and government contracts shall be awarded unto thee, even as the rain falleth onto the poor, for they are homeless motherfuckers.
$2450???? That could probably buy most of the women's clothing at Unique Thrift- my store of choice. And they have leather pants- or chaps.
I am not interested unless there is a remote-controllled pink dildo involved. And why shouldn't there be?
No snark here, sorry. This is just fucking sad.
OT, but anybody else notice that half the white boys playing in tonight's World Series look like fundamentalist/polygamists?
It's their postseason facial hair, which they grow for superstitious reasons. Yeah, they look like a bunch of rebellious Mennonites out there.
So much to learn. So little interest. In my youth baseball players had rad nicknames like "Red" and "Whitey" and facial hair was NOT ALLOWED.
I'll don't think we will see many more players nicknamed 'Whitey'!
Facial hair still isn't allowed (with a few exceptions) on the Yankees.
(Is it mandatory for all closers to sport awesome big beards now?)
Bush league politics is funny shit.
Should have gone for the short skirt, looooooooooooooong jacket.
Well played, (by the band too).
I wonder what the total price was for the items that she did pay for.
She must have had liberal college professors.
But if this klepto had been a republican, right wing wingnut sites like Wonkette would have buried the lede like last month's dogshit. Gentlemen, you can't both it have ways! What's goose for the sauce is greece for the grinder.
Some one stealing from Neiman Marcus, now there's irony.
I know I feel way sexier when my clothes are — literally — hot.
"Tuesday with a shopping bag that included three items worth $2,450"
One of the items had to be a Waffle Iron. I wonder what the other two items were?
You mean Neiman Marcus doesn't put "free samples" out for it's customers to take???
She wasn''t stealing, she was going to donate the loot to the Fund for Recovering Republican Lesbian Gym Teachers in Olkahoma.
She'll get six months of probation and 120 hours of community service (spent in one walk by of a soup kitchen) for her trouble. If this wasn't a "prominent local politician" married to a judge, she'd be in for three to five years. Justice, sweet yummy justice.
It's okay. She apologized. If she offended anyone.
I blame the husband's phone sex fantasies.
Mr. 5-finger discount: What are you wearing right now that you paid money for?
Mrs. 5-finger discount: Nothing.
Being cheap is *always* a turn-on.
Cue victim angle: She has a compulsive theft disorder. She needs treatment, not punishment.
"Prosecutors did not specify what the items were, but a source familiar with the case tells us they were leather pants, a black skirt and white blouse."
Like the rest of us struggling in the tempest of our topsy-turvy economy, this poor woman has been forced to extremes just to get the essentials. Of a sound wardrobe, that is.
I can't believe there are this many leather pants to choose from at NM. http://www.neimanmarcus.com/search.jhtml?No=0&...
Those women's thighs are the size of my wrist.
Pants, a skirt and a blouse for an average of $800 apiece. Who is stealing from whom?
I guess that extra portion of millet at lunch for the Chinese child laborers that make these things adds some to the cost.
Sill women. Doesn't she know she needs to be nominated as the VP for the Republicans before she gets a Neiman Marcus shopping spree for the whole family?
REDISTRIBUTIONIST!!!
She made some work for the police. Let's call her a "job creator."
Leather pants are fucking expensive.
It was not meant to be a factual purchase.
I could use a Dr. Pepper right now.
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