BERKELEY SPEECH-SUPPRESSION UPDATE: The Mayor has entered a guilty plea to charges of stealing massive quantities of the Daily Californian:

Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates pleaded guilty today to a petty theft infraction and was fined $100 for trashing 1,000 copies of the University of California, Berkeley campus newspaper that endorsed his opponent. . . .

Wednesday’s plea ends an embarrassing episode for the newly elected mayor. Bates, a former Alameda County supervisor who served 20 years in the state Assembly, became enraged when the Daily Californian endorsed former Berkeley Mayor Shirley Dean. So he threw away copies of the free newspapers in the trash.

It’s ended. But not forgotten.