The Los Angeles Times reported Friday that California Gov. Gray Davis named A. John Shimmon, a retired state tax official, to the state Workers' Compensation Appeals Board. The report infers that Shimmon, 79, basically knows nothing about workers' compensation, and that the only commonality that the paper could find between Shimmon and Davis was $550,000 in political campaign contribution over the last four years from Shimmon's son, David, a a Silicon Valley businessman.Shimmon will earn $114,191 a year at his new job. According to the paper, Davis' spokesman said the appointment had nothing t...
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