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   Bernie Ward was a legislative assistant for Democrat Barbara Boxer.   
      
   A federal judge decreed a prison term of more than seven years   
   Thursday for Bernie Ward, whose 15-year career as a leading liberal   
   voice on Bay Area talk radio disintegrated when he admitted   
   downloading graphic images of child sex and distributing them on the   
   Internet.   
      
   Ward pleaded guilty in May to distributing child pornography and   
   admitted sending between 15 and 150 pornographic images by e-mail,   
   which he said were part of research for a book. At Thursday's   
   hearing, attended by his wife and four children, he spoke briefly,   
   telling the judge, "I regret my actions, the harm they caused my   
   family, my friends and this community." He said he takes full   
   responsibility for his conduct.   
      
   Ward holds a master's degree in theology and spent two years in the   
   priesthood before leaving to get married. He worked for three years   
   as a legislative assistant for then-Rep. Barbara Boxer before   
   joining KGO in San Francisco as a reporter in 1985. He became a   
   talk-show host in 1992 and held forth on news and politics for three   
   hours every weeknight, while discussing religious issues on Sunday   
   mornings.   
      
   The station, which nicknamed him the "lion of the left" for his   
   outspoken manner and liberal views, fired him in December after his   
   federal grand jury indictment was unsealed.   
      
   Ward was investigated after a woman in Oakdale (Stanislaus County)   
   contacted police in 2005 and said a former priest, later identified   
   as Ward, had been having sex chats with her by e-mail and had sent   
   her a photo showing child pornography.   
      
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