Fabian Nuñez becomes presidential election analyst for Univision

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Former California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez is becoming a talking head for the Spanish-language network Univision.

Nuñez, a Los Angeles Democrat who presided over the state assembly from 2004 to 2008, will join two Republicans as analysts discussing the presidential campaign on the network’s evening newscasts and its main public affairs Sunday show, ‘Al Punto.’

Nuñez is a partner in Mercury Public Affairs, a well-connected consulting firm, and will continue to work there while appearing on Univision, the Sacramento Bee reported.

The former speaker served as a national co-chair of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s unsuccessful presidential campaign in 2008.

He was more recently in the news after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, in one of his final acts in office, granted Nunez’s son a last-minute reduction in his prison sentence for the stabbing death of a student in San Diego.

Esteban Nuñez pleaded guilty to manslaughter in 2008 for his role in the fight and was sentenced to 16 years, Schwarzenegger cut the term to seven years. The younger Nuñez had been charged with murder, but prosecutors reduced the charge as part of the plea deal.

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-- Nicholas Riccardi in Sacramento