Susan Shelley: California politicians sure keep the lawyers busy

L.A. City Councilman Curren Price is headed to trial on charges of public corruption after a judge ruled there’s enough evidence for a dozen felony counts.

“This case is not going to be this kind of public corruption case where there’s strippers and cocaine and bags of cash in Las Vegas,” Deputy District Attorney Casey Higgins admitted. He said it’s more like “a long, secret corruption.”

Curren Price has had a long, public career. The South L.A. representative is term-limited, serving his final year on the council...