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PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: PETE WILSON, SAN FRANCISCO
( (Time)) Wednesday, Feb. 2/1, 1990
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((Acknowledgements to come.))
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As you may know, I was just in San Francisco three weeks
ago. But, as Kipling said, San Francisco, like all of
California has one drawback -- it's hard to leave.
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For me, California has been hard to leave 12-2190 even when I'm back
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at the White House. You see, it was just yesterday that for the
second time in my Presidency, Barbara and I had the pleasure of
entertaining the winners of the Super Bowl -- and once again, our
guests were the San Francisco 11-189 Forty-Niners.
And just a few months earlier, Barbara and I hosted the
Oakland A's - after their great World Series victory. When it
comes to champions, I'm beginning to think California has
cornered the market.
Yet it is on behalf of another champion that I am here
tonight. A champion for the victims of crime and drug-related
violence.) A champion for the environment.\ A champion for
California.\ The next governor of your state -- Pete Wilson.
And with Pete at the top of the ticket, come November, the
biggest state in the Lower 48 will go Republican in a big way.
2
But California is prized for more than the size of its
electoral votes or its Congressional delegation. We must win
this state, because California represents the future.
After all, some Americans stayed in the cities of the East,
and built great industries\ -- and they have every right to be
proud. And some Americans came halfway across the continent, and
stopped in the plains to farm\ -- and they, too, have every right
to be proud. But then there were those who refused to stop until
the land stopped, whose quest for gold and glory took them all
the way to the shore of the shining Pacific. We call these
people, Californians.
Some found their gold. Most didn't. But all Californians
found the future. So the state of California today is the state
of the union tomorrow.
And when a state has the impact that a California does --
not just regionally and nationally but internationally, it needs
90,
a special kind of leadership - Pete Wilson's kind of leadership.
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Pete's twenty three year career in public life began in
54
Sacramento. Today, he is again a leader in legislation, this
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time in Washington. But it was as Mayor of San Diego that llurs Pete
first showed a flair, a talent, for executive leadership. His
was a magnificent accomplishment, for Pete led a city that has
become better as it has grown larger.
After all, it took Mayor Wilson to bring light-rail mass
transit to San Diego, on time, under budget and without federal
funds. It is exactly this kind of executive leadership that the
3
whole state of California needs to take it to the threshold of a
new millennium.
And, sadly, California needs something else. Despite the
strong leadership of a great governor, perhaps the most pro-law
enforcement governor in California history, the war against
violent crime has yet to be won. California streets are still
dangerous. The wheels of California justice still turn unevenly.
So California needs to continue a crime-fighting tradition, a
Republican tradition. California needs another governor who
shares our philosophy about crime. And our philosophy is simple:
Prison sentences should be at least as tough as the criminals we
convict.
At the federal level, I relied on Pete's help to pass part
of my anti-crime package. More money has been provided for
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prison space and more federal law enforcement officers. But
Congress has left too much work undone.
We need action on the rest of my proposals to fight violent
crime
by toughening federal sentences for those who use a
firearm in the commission of a felony. And if dealing drugs is
dealing death, then let's judge it for what it is -- murder.
Pete Wilson agrees. And he also agrees that whether the
laws are written in Sacramento or Washington, the spirit of
justice must be upheld. We believe it's high time to take the
shackles off the cops, the courts and the law.
4
Look at the record. Pete Wilson has already helped pass the
death penalty for drug kingpins who kill, or pay to kill, law-
enforcement officers.
Pete Wilson has already led the fight to protect the
practice of using confiscated assets of drug dealers to pay for
their own arrests.
jastc
Force
Pete Wilson has already written and passed legislation to
support the militàry's offshore interdiction of drugs.
To put it simply, as governor, Pete Wilson will pass the
tough laws, appoint the tough judges and build the necessary
prisons to put away violent criminals. For good.
A governor today must be as tough as the times. But the
challenges of the future will also require vision and compassion,
from the protection of a fragile seashore ecology to the
education of yet another generation of California children.
From the urban canyons of Los Angeles to the Yosemite
beloved by Ansel Adams, Californians were among the first to
stand up for the environment. And Pete Wilson was among the
first environmentalists to hold office. As you know, I just
heightened the federal commitment to a cleaner America by
proposing the creation of a new Department of the Environment.
As governor, Pete Wilson will create an Environmental Protection
at the Cabinet
Agency for California.
no environmental cabinet
But this is just another chapter in a. long career of
environmental protection. Pete has added thousands of acres to
the California wilderness system, saved canyons and protected
shaw
5
urban recreation sites. And he's helping to reduce air pollution
by vehicle emissions. In fact, we are even now working together
to encourage the development of cleaner, alternative fuels.
((Clean Air paragraph to come) )
Education is also critical to the future -- and a critical
responsibility of every governor. And so I am delighted to tell
you that no governor was more outspoken or helpful at the
Charlottesville Education Summit than George Deukmejian.
All the governors are disturbed that there are still many
American children -- often in the inner-city, often immigrants --
who are denied the American dream because of a lack of literacy
and job skills. This is unfair, unjust and unacceptable
And
that's why Pete Wilson backs my proposal for a half-billion
oncle union
dollar increase for Head Start.
Pete has also been a leader in educational reform. Almost a
year has passed since I sent the "Education Excellence Act" to
Congress. It is based on a few basic concepts: To make our
schools work, we must give parents, teachers and children the
power to choose. To make our system work -- states, schools and
individuals will need greater flexibility in the way in which
they can pursue their goals. And then we must all must be
accountable for the results.
Thanks to Pete's help, education reform has already passed
the Senate. Now it's time for the House to finish its homework
and pass our education reform -- now.
6
The political future of California and all of America rests
on yet another issue -- an issue that affects the voting rights
of every Republican, Independent and Democratic voter -- an issue
of fundamental fairness -- reapportionment.
( (It has been said that for the Democrats, reapportionment
has been a political goldmine. They get the gold. We get the
shaft. ) )
I need a Congress that will work with me to continue
economic growth, that will support America's role in this
changing world. Of course, California Republicans must first get
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a fair shake after the 1990 Census, when almost one out of eight
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Congressmen will represent your state.
But this is bigger than party politics. Gerrymandering
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violates the spirit of one-man, one-vote. Imagine that on a
summer night in 1981, a group of California Democrats sat in a
restaurant in Sacramento with pencil and paper and redesigned
your political future.
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Lines were drawn -- crazy, twisted lines -- that cut across
RNC
communities, towns and even streets -- without the slightest
regard for the will of the people. Since those district lines
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went into effect, there have been 135 general elections for
California's congressional seats, and only once has a seat
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changed party control. And remember, this same process of
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political dilution that hurts Republicans, also hurts every
minority voter in California.
7
So isn't it ironic, if a little sad, that in the very decade
democracy dawned around the world, a small group, who called
themselves Democrats, sat around a table in a restaurant to
infringe on voting rights in America?\\\
Still, Republicans do not seek revenge, a gerrymander of our
own. No. With a fair lines, we can win on the issues. And we
can also win on the strength of our candidates. And there's no
better candidate out there than Pete Wilson.
I believe it was Lincoln who said: "If you would test a man,
first give him power. " For twenty-three years, Pete Wilson has
been tested. He has used power not to glorify one man, but to
make a better life for millions. And with your support, Pete
Wilson will lead California and the Republican Party to greatness
in the 1990s.
Thank you, God bless you and God bless America.
#
#
#
Staffed
Christina
Davis/Martin
Title: Wilson
Date: Feb. 22, 1990
Title: Wilson
1/23 12:00 noon
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: PETE WILSON, SAN FRANCISCO
((Time)) Wednesday, Feb. 27, 1990
((Acknowledgements to come.))
As you may know, I was just in San Francisco three weeks
ago. But, as Kipling said, San Francisco, like all of
California, has one drawback -- it's hard to leave.
For me, California has been hard to leave even when I'm back
at the White House. You see, it was just yesterday that for the
second time in my Presidency, Barbara and I had the pleasure of
entertaining the winners of the Super Bowl -- and once again, our
guests were the San Francisco Forty-Niners.
And just a few months earlier, Barbara and I hosted the
Oakland A's - after their great World Series victory. When it
comes to champions, I'm beginning to think California has
cornered the market.
Yet it is on behalf of another champion that I am here
tonight. A champion for the victims of crime and drug-related
violence. \ A champion for the environment.\ A champion for
California.\ The next governor of your state -- Pete Wilson.
2
And with Pete at the top of the ticket, come November, the
biggest state in the Lower 48 will go Republican in a big way.
But California is prized for more than the size of its
electoral votes or its Congressional delegation. We must win
this state, because California represents the future.
After all, some Americans stayed in the cities of the East,
and built great industries\ -- and they have every right to be
proud. And some Americans came halfway across the continent, and
stopped in the plains to farm\ -- and they, too, have every right
to be proud. But then there were those who refused to stop until
the land stopped, whose quest for gold and glory took them all
the way to the shore of the shining Pacific. We call these
people, Californians.
Some found their gold. Most didn't. But all Californians
found the future. So the state of California today is the state
of the union tomorrow.
And when a state has the impact that a California does --
not just regionally and nationally but internationally, it needs
a special kind of leadership - Pete Wilson's kind of leadership.
Pete's twenty-three year career in public life began in
Sacramento. Today, he is again a leader in legislation, this
time in Washington. But it was as Mayor of San Diego that Pete
first showed a flair, a talent, for executive leadership. His
was a magnificent accomplishment, for Pete led a city that has
become better as it has grown larger.
3.
After all, it took Mayor Wilson to bring light-rail mass
transit to San Diego, on time, under budget and without federal
funds. It is exactly this kind of executive leadership that the
whole state of California needs to take it to the threshold of a
new millennium.
And, sadly, California needs something else. Despite the
strong leadership of a great governor, perhaps the most pro-law
enforcement governor in California history, the war against
violent crime has yet to be won. California streets are still
dangerous. The wheels of California justice still turn unevenly.
So California needs to continue a crime-fighting tradition, a
Republican tradition. California needs another governor who
shares our philosophy about crime. And our philosophy is simple:
Prison sentences should be at least as tough as the criminals we
convict.
At the federal level, I relied on Pete's help to pass part
of my anti-crime package. More money has been provided for
prison space and more federal law enforcement officers. But
Congress has left too much work undone.
We need action on the rest of my proposals to fight violent
crime -- by toughening federal sentences for those who use a
firearm in the commission of a felony. And if dealing drugs is
dealing death, then let's judge it for what it is -- murder.
Pete Wilson agrees. And he also agrees that whether the
laws are written in Sacramento or Washington, the spirit of
4
justice must be upheld. We believe it's high time to take the
shackles off the cops, the courts and the law.
Look at the record. Pete Wilson has already helped pass the
death penalty for drug kingpins who kill, or pay to kill, law-
enforcement officers.
Pete Wilson has already led the fight to protect the
practice of using confiscated assets of drug dealers to pay for
their own arrests.
Pete Wilson has already written and passed legislation to
support the military's offshore interdiction of drugs.
To put it simply, as governor, Pete Wilson will pass the
tough laws, appoint the tough judges and build the necessary
prisons to put away violent criminals. For good.
A governor today must be as tough as the times. But the
challenges of the future will also require vision and compassion,
from the protection of a fragile seashore ecology to the
education of yet another generation of California children.
From the urban canyons of Los Angeles to the Yosemite
beloved by Ansel Adams, Californians were among the first to
stand up for the environment. And Pete Wilson was among the
first environmentalists to hold office. As you know, I just
heightened the federal commitment to a cleaner America by
proposing the creation of a new Department of the Environment.
As governor, Pete Wilson will create an Environmental Protection
Agency for California.
5
But this is just another chapter in a long career of
environmental protection. Pete has added thousands of acres to
the California wilderness system, saved canyons and protected
urban recreation sites. And he's helping to reduce air pollution
by vehicle emissions. In fact, we are even now working together
to encourage the development of cleaner, alternative fuels.
((Clean Air paragraph to come))
Education is also critical to the future -- and a critical
responsibility of every governor. And so I am delighted to tell
you that no governor was more outspoken or helpful at the
Charlottesville Education Summit than George Deukmejian.
All the governors are disturbed that there are still many
American children -- often in the inner-city, often immigrants --
who are denied the American dream because of a lack of literacy
and job skills. This is unfair, unjust and unacceptable. And
that's why Pete Wilson backs my proposal for a half-billion
dollar increase for Head Start.
Pete has also been a leader in educational reform. Almost a
year has passed since I sent the "Education Excellence Act" to
Congress. It is based on a few basic concepts: To make our
schools work, we must give parents, teachers and children the
power to choose. To make our system work -- states, schools and
individuals will need greater flexibility in the way in which
they can pursue their goals. And then we must all must be
accountable for the results.
6
Thanks to Pete's help, education reform has already passed
the Senate. Now it's time for the House to finish its homework
and pass our education reform -- now.
The political future of California and all of America rests
on yet another issue -- an issue that affects the voting rights
of every Republican, Independent and Democratic voter -- an issue
of fundamental fairness -- reapportionment.
((It has been said that for the Democrats, reapportionment
has been a political goldmine.\ They get the gold. We get the
shaft.
I need a Congress that will work with me to continue
economic growth, that will support America's role in this
changing world. of course, California Republicans must first get
a fair shake after the 1990 Census, when almost one out of eight
Congressmen will represent your state.
But this is bigger than party politics. Gerrymandering
violates the spirit of one-man, one-vote. Imagine that on a
summer night in 1981, a group of California Democrats sat in a
restaurant in Sacramento with pencil and paper and redesigned
your political future.
Lines were drawn -- crazy, twisted lines -- that cut across
communities, towns and even streets -- without the slightest
regard for the will of the people. Since those district lines
went into effect, there have been 135 general elections for
California's congressional seats, and only once has a seat
changed party control. And remember, this same process of
7
political dilution that hurts Republicans, also hurts every
minority voter in California.
So isn't it ironic, if a little sad, that in the very decade
democracy dawned around the world, a small group, who called
themselves Democrats, sat around a table in a restaurant to
infringe on voting rights in America?\\\
Still, Republicans do not seek revenge, a gerrymander of our
own. No. With a fair lines, we can win on the issues. And we
can also win on the strength of our candidates. And there's no
better candidate out there than Pete Wilson.
I believe it was Lincoln who said: "If you would test a man,
first give him power." For twenty-three years, Pete Wilson has
been tested. He has used power not to glorify one man, but to
make a better life for millions. And with your support, Pete
Wilson will lead California and the Republican Party to greatness
in the 1990s.
Thank you, God bless you and God bless America.
#
#
#
PETE WILSON, SAN FRANCISCO
7 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 27, 1990
THANK YOU PETE, MRS. WILSON ((GAYLE)), CHAIRMAN
ATWATER, AND COACH WALSH. LET'S HAVE A ROUND OF
APPLAUSE FOR THE LOWELL HIGH SCHOOL BAND.
AS YOU MAY KNOW, I WAS JUST IN SAN FRANCISCO THREE
WEEKS AGO. BUT, AS KIPLING SAID, SAN FRANCISCO, LIKE
ALL OF CALIFORNIA, HAS ONE DRAWBACK -- IT'S HARD TO
LEAVE.
so MUCH HAS HAPPENED, EVEN SINCE MY LAST TRIP
HERE. BISHOP SWING, WOULD IT SEEM PRESUMPTUOUS OF ME
TO SAY THAT MANY OF OUR PRAYERS SEEMED TO BE ANSWERED?
FROM MOSCOW TO MANAGUA, CHANGE IS IN THE AIR. AND THE
REVOLUTION OF '89 HAS CONTINUED INTO A NEW DECADE, A
DECADE OF DEMOCRACY.
TIME AND AGAIN IN THIS CENTURY THE POLITICAL MAP
OF THE WORLD WAS TRANSFORMED. AND IN EACH INSTANCE, A
NEW WORLD ORDER CAME ABOUT THROUGH THE ADVENT OF A NEW
TYRANT, OR THE OUTBREAK OF A BLOODY GLOBAL WAR, OR ITS
END.
- 2 -
NOW THE WORLD HAS UNDERGONE ANOTHER UPHEAVAL. BUT
THIS TIME, THERE IS NO WAR. WE HAVE SEEN A BOLD SOVIET
LEADER INITIATE DARING REFORMS. WE HAVE SEEN
PLAYWRIGHT VACLAV HAVEL MOVE FROM PRISON TO THE
PRESIDENTIAL PALACE. WE HAVE SEEN BOTH THE BERLIN WALL
AND A ROMANIAN DICTATORSHIP TUMBLE INTO RUINS. THE DAY
OF THE DICTATOR IS OVER.
VICTOR HUGO SAID THAT NO ARMY CAN MATCH THE MIGHT
OF AN IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS COME. IN THE REVOLUTION OF
'89 -- AN IDEA OVERCAME ARMIES AND TANKS -- AND THAT
IDEA IS DEMOCRACY.\\ THIS HAS BEEN TRUE IN THE EAST.
NOW IT IS BECOMING TRUE THROUGHOUT THE WESTERN
HEMISPHERE -- FIRST IN PANAMA AFTER OPERATION JUST
CAUSE, AND NOW -- AT LONG LAST -- FOR THE BRAVE PEOPLE
OF NICARAGUA.
COULD WE HAVE ASKED FOR MORE?\\\
- 3 -
BUT WE ARE GATHERED HERE TONIGHT TO CELEBRATE
EVENTS CLOSER TO HOME. AS I SAID, CALIFORNIA IS HARD
TO LEAVE -- AND FOR ME, IT HAS BEEN HARD TO LEAVE EVEN
WHEN I'M BACK AT THE WHITE HOUSE. YOU SEE, IT WAS JUST
YESTERDAY THAT FOR THE SECOND TIME IN MY PRESIDENCY,
BARBARA AND I HAD THE PLEASURE OF ENTERTAINING THE
WINNERS OF THE SUPER BOWL -- AND ONCE AGAIN, OUR GUESTS
WERE THE SAN FRANCISCO FORTY-NINERS.\
AND JUST A FEW MONTHS EARLIER, BARBARA AND I
HOSTED THE OAKLAND A'S -- AFTER THEIR GREAT WORLD
SERIES VICTORY. WHEN IT COMES TO CHAMPIONS, I'M
BEGINNING TO THINK THE BAY AREA HAS CORNERED THE
MARKET.
YET I AM HERE ON BEHALF OF ANOTHER CHAMPION. A
CHAMPION FOR THE VICTIMS OF CRIME AND DRUG-RELATED
VIOLENCE. A CHAMPION FOR THE ENVIRONMENT. A
CHAMPION FOR CALIFORNIA.\ A CHAMPION FOR A SOUND AND
GROWING ECONOMY.
\
THE NEXT GOVERNOR OF YOUR STATE --
PETE WILSON. AND WITH PETE AT THE TOP OF THE
TICKET, COME NOVEMBER, CALIFORNIA WILL GO REPUBLICAN IN
A BIG WAY.\\\
- 4 -
CALIFORNIA IS PRIZED FOR MORE THAN ITS POLITICAL
IMPORTANCE OR THE SIZE OF ITS CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION.
WE MUST WIN THIS STATE, BECAUSE CALIFORNIA REPRESENTS
THE FUTURE.
CALIFORNIA IS AT THE FOREFRONT, NOT JUST
REGIONALLY AND NATIONALLY BUT INTERNATIONALLY, AND
NEEDS A SPECIAL KIND OF LEADERSHIP -- PETE WILSON'S
KIND OF LEADERSHIP. PETE'S TWENTY-THREE YEAR CAREER IN
PUBLIC LIFE BEGAN UNDER THE DOME IN SACRAMENTO. TODAY,
HE IS A LAWMAKER STILL, THIS TIME IN WASHINGTON. BUT
IT WAS AS MAYOR OF SAN DIEGO THAT PETE FIRST SHOWED A
FLAIR, A TALENT, FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP. AND IT IS
EXACTLY THIS KIND OF EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP THAT THE
WHOLE STATE OF CALIFORNIA NEEDS TO TAKE IT TO THE
THRESHOLD OF A NEW MILLENNIUM.
- 5 -
AND, SADLY, CALIFORNIA NEEDS SOMETHING ELSE.
CALIFORNIA NEEDS TO CONTINUE A CRIME-FIGHTING
TRADITION, A REPUBLICAN TRADITION.\\ IT NEEDS A
GOVERNOR WHO WILL CONTINUE THE WAR AGAINST VIOLENT
CRIME. CALIFORNIA NEEDS A GOVERNOR WHO SHARES OUR
PHILOSOPHY ABOUT CRIME. AND OUR PHILOSOPHY IS SIMPLE:
PRISON SENTENCES SHOULD BE AT LEAST AS TOUGH AS THE
CRIMINALS WE CONVICT.\\
AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL, I RELIED ON PETE'S HELP TO
PASS A MAJOR PART OF MY ANTI-CRIME PACKAGE. MORE MONEY
HAS BEEN PROVIDED FOR PRISON SPACE AND MORE FEDERAL LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS. BUT CONGRESS HAS LEFT TOO MUCH
WORK UNDONE.
WE NEED ACTION ON THE REST OF OUR PROPOSALS TO
FIGHT VIOLENT CRIME -- BY TOUGHENING FEDERAL SENTENCES
FOR THOSE WHO USE A FIREARM IN THE COMMISSION OF A
FELONY. AND IF THE KING-PINS WHO DEAL DRUGS ARE
DEALING DEATH, THEN LET'S JUDGE THEM FOR WHAT THEY ARE
-- MURDERERS.\\\ IT'S HIGH TIME WE TOOK THE SHACKLES
OFF THE COPS, THE COURTS AND THE LAW.\\\
- 6 -
A GOVERNOR TODAY MUST BE AS TOUGH AS THE TIMES.
BUT THE CHALLENGES OF THE FUTURE WILL ALSO REQUIRE
VISION AND COMPASSION, IF WE ARE TO PROTECT A FRAGILE
COASTAL ECOLOGY, OR EDUCATE A NEW GENERATION OF
CHILDREN.
FROM THE URBAN CANYONS OF LOS ANGELES TO THE
YOSEMITE BELOVED BY ANSEL ADAMS, CALIFORNIANS WERE
AMONG THE FIRST TO STAND UP FOR THE ENVIRONMENT.\ AND
PETE WILSON WAS AMONG THE FIRST ENVIRONMENTALISTS TO
HOLD OFFICE. PETE HAS ADDED THOUSANDS OF ACRES TO THE
CALIFORNIA WILDERNESS SYSTEM, SAVED CANYONS AND
PROTECTED URBAN RECREATION SITES. AND HE SUPPORTS OUR
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL INITIATIVE TO PLANT A BILLION
TREES, TO EXPAND OUR NATIONAL PARKS AND WILDLIFE
PRESERVES, TO MAKE THIS MORE LIKE THE UNSPOILED GREEN
CONTINENT OUR FOREBEARS KNEW.
- 7 -
RIGHT NOW, PETE IS WORKING WITH ME ON OUR
ADMINISTRATION'S PROPOSAL TO ENACT OUR CLEAN AIR BILL,
THE FIRST SINCE 1977. ONE THAT WILL CLEAN UP THE SMOG,
CURB ACID RAIN AND CUT BACK ON THE AIR TOXICS THAT
PLAGUE CALIFORNIA'S AIR. CLEANER CARS. CLEANER FUELS.
CLEANER FACTORIES. THAT'S WHAT WE'RE STRIVING FOR.
AND WITH PETE WILSON AT THE HELM -- YOU'LL HAVE A
GOVERNOR WHO WORKS FOR A CLEANER CALIFORNIA, JUST AS HE
DOES IN THE SENATE.
EDUCATION IS ALSO CRITICAL TO THE FUTURE -- AND A
CRITICAL RESPONSIBILITY OF EVERY GOVERNOR. GOVERNORS
ACROSS THE COUNTRY ARE DISTURBED THAT THERE ARE STILL
MANY AMERICAN CHILDREN -- OFTEN IN THE INNER-CITY,
OFTEN IMMIGRANTS -- WHO ARE DENIED THE AMERICAN DREAM
BECAUSE OF A LACK OF LITERACY AND JOB SKILLS. THIS IS
UNFAIR, UNJUST AND UNACCEPTABLE.\\ AND THAT'S WHY PETE
WILSON BACKS MY PROPOSAL FOR A HALF-BILLION DOLLAR
INCREASE FOR HEAD START TO GIVE THESE CHILDREN A
HOPEFUL START.\\
- 8 -
ALMOST A YEAR HAS PASSED SINCE I SENT THE
"EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE ACT" TO CONGRESS. IT IS BASED
ON A FEW BASIC CONCEPTS: TO MAKE OUR SCHOOLS WORK, WE
MUST GIVE PARENTS, TEACHERS AND CHILDREN THE POWER TO
CHOOSE. TO MAKE OUR SYSTEM WORK -- STATES, SCHOOLS AND
INDIVIDUALS WILL NEED GREATER FLEXIBILITY IN THE WAY IN
WHICH THEY CAN PURSUE THEIR GOALS. AND THEN WE MUST
ALL BE ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE RESULTS.
LAST APRIL, I ASKED CONGRESS TO PASS THESE
MEASURES TO REFORM OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM. THANKS TO
PETE'S HELP, AND THAT OF OTHERS, EDUCATION REFORM HAS
ALREADY PASSED THE SENATE. NOW IT'S TIME FOR THE HOUSE
TO FINISH ITS HOMEWORK AND PASS OUR EDUCATION REFORM --
NOW.\\\
THE POLITICAL FUTURE OF CALIFORNIA AND ALL OF
AMERICA RESTS ON YET ANOTHER ISSUE -- AN ISSUE THAT
AFFECTS THE VOTING RIGHTS OF EVERY REPUBLICAN,
INDEPENDENT AND DEMOCRATIC VOTER -- AN ISSUE OF
FUNDAMENTAL FAIRNESS -- REAPPORTIONMENT.
- 9 -
( (SOME SAY REAPPORTIONMENT HAS BEEN A POLITICAL
GOLDMINE FOR BOTH PARTIES. I SUPPOSE THEY'RE RIGHT.\
THE DEMOCRATS GET THE GOLD. WE GET THE SHAFT.\\))
REMEMBER, AFTER THE 1990 CENSUS, ALMOST ONE OUT OF
EIGHT MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WILL REPRESENT THE STATE OF
CALIFORNIA.
THIS IS BIGGER THAN PARTY POLITICS.
GERRYMANDERING VIOLATES THE SPIRIT OF ONE-MAN,
ONE-VOTE. ON A SUMMER NIGHT IN 1981, A GROUP OF
CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATS SAT IN A RESTAURANT IN SACRAMENTO
WITH PENCIL AND PAPER AND REDESIGNED YOUR POLITICAL
FUTURE.
LINES WERE DRAWN -- CRAZY, TWISTED LINES -- THAT
CUT ACROSS COMMUNITIES, TOWNS AND EVEN STREETS --
WITHOUT THE SLIGHTEST REGARD FOR THE WILL OF THE
PEOPLE. SINCE THOSE DISTRICT LINES WENT INTO EFFECT,
THERE HAVE BEEN 135 GENERAL ELECTIONS FOR CALIFORNIA'S
CONGRESSIONAL SEATS, AND ONLY ONCE HAS A SEAT CHANGED
PARTY CONTROL. AND REMEMBER, THIS SAME BRAND OF
POLITICAL MANIPULATION THAT HURTS REPUBLICANS, ALSO
HURTS EVERY MINORITY VOTER IN CALIFORNIA.
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so ISN'T IT IRONIC, IF A LITTLE SAD, THAT IN THE
VERY DECADE DEMOCRACY DAWNED AROUND THE WORLD, A SMALL
GROUP SITTING AROUND A TABLE IN A RESTAURANT, WHO
CALLED THEMSELVES DEMOCRATS, INFRINGED ON VOTING RIGHTS
IN AMERICA?\\\
STILL, REPUBLICANS DO NOT SEEK REVENGE, A
GERRYMANDER OF OUR OWN. NO. WITH A FAIR LINES, WE CAN
WIN ON THE ISSUES. AND WE CAN ALSO WIN ON THE STRENGTH
OF OUR CANDIDATES.\\
YOU KNOW, IN THE EARLY DAYS OF OUR GREAT NATION,
SOME AMERICANS STAYED IN THE CITIES OF THE EAST, AND
BUILT GREAT INDUSTRIES\ -- AND THEY HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO
BE PROUD. AND SOME AMERICANS CAME HALFWAY ACROSS THE
CONTINENT, AND FARMED OUR RICH AND FERTILE PLAINS\ --
AND THEY, TOO, HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO BE PROUD. BUT THEN
THERE WERE THOSE WHO PRESSED EVER FORWARD UNTIL THEY
REACHED THE SEA -- GUMPTION, GOLD, AND GLORY TOOK THEM
ALL THE WAY TO THE SHORE OF THE SHINING PACIFIC.\\ WE
CALL THESE PEOPLE, CALIFORNIANS.\
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SOME FOUND GOLD. MOST DIDN'T. BUT ALL
CALIFORNIANS FOUND SOMETHING PRECIOUS -- THE FUTURE.
so TODAY'S STATE OF CALIFORNIA IS TOMORROW'S STATE OF
THE UNION.\\ AND THERE'S NO ONE BETTER TO LEAD
CALIFORNIA INTO THAT FUTURE THAN PETE WILSON.
IT HAS BEEN SAID THAT "IF YOU WOULD TEST A MAN,
FIRST GIVE HIM POWER." FOR TWENTY-THREE YEARS, A
CALIFORNIAN NAMED PETE WILSON HAS BEEN TESTED. HE HAS
USED POWER NOT TO GLORIFY ONE MAN, BUT TO MAKE A BETTER
LIFE FOR MILLIONS. PETE WILSON IS TODAY A GREAT
SENATOR -- A STERLING EXAMPLE OF CALIFORNIA'S PASSION
FOR EXCELLENCE. TOMORROW, THE GOLDEN STATE WILL BE
PROUD TO CALL HIM GOVERNOR.
THANK YOU, GOD BLESS YOU AND GOD BLESS AMERICA.
#
#
#
02/22/90
14:56
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NO. 002
001
Will Pete Wilson ask?
W here have all the campaign workers gone? All the
precinct captains? All the lawn sign distributors? All the
phone bank volunteers? All the precinct walkers? All
Ton
call
the envelope stuffers?
They are going to take a walk when it
comes time to work or vote for
gubernatorial candidate, Pete Wilson.
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Mr. Wilson seems to think that Real Republicans will abandon their
principles and throw themselves on the spear of "holy reapportionment," all
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for the sake of a phony "party unity."
Does Wilson think he can vote for tax-funded abortion; co-author with
Democrat Alan Cranston, S.1912, the bill to statutorily mandate legalization
of abortion on demand nationwide; vote against promoting monogamy in
AIDS education; lobby Governor Deukme jian to restore $20 million to the
abortion industry and all without political and electoral consequences?
Pete, that rumbling you hear is not your intestines, but the
disintegration of your grass-roots strength, a critical ingredient for a
California, Republican, gubernatorial victory in November.
Instinct
Mr. Wilson, you attack the right to life of preborn children. Politicians
Thurder
like you are responsible for the deaths of millions of innocent, defenseless
preborn children. Do you really think we would trade-off the threat you
represent to preborn children and to the moral integrity of the Republican
party for the weak chance of a less radical, liberal reapportionment?
There will be a political price for your abandonment of those moral
principles, e.g., respect for human life and family, that Real Republicans
hold dear and consider the bedrock of our country's well-being.
You follow in the footsteps of the other Republican gubernatorial
losers, e.g., Jim Courtner of New Jersey, and Marshall Coleman of
Virginia, who abandoned their commitment to the protection of human life.
Presidential candidate George Bush took California by a fraction of a
percent. No doubt the percentage you've lost by casting aside the voting
block of Real Republicans. Should a pro-abortion Republican candidate
expect a cross-over vote from pro-abortion Democrats, so militantly
represented by Attorney General John Van de Kamp and Diane Feinstein?
REAL REPUBLICANS !
ZOULIT
REMEMBER ED ZSCHAU
!
02/23/90
13:33
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NO. 004
001
PETE WILSON
COMMITTEE
CALIFORNIA
ARMED #:
ASSOCULTURE NUTAMOR AND TORESTRY
GOVERNMENTAL APRAIRS
Hnited States Senate
special COMMITTEE OK AGUIS
JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE
WASHINGTON, DC 20510
U.S. SENATOR FETE WILSON -- FACT SHEET ON ABORTION RIGHTS
For over twenty years in public office, M have been a
supporter of a. women's right to choose.
- As a member of the California State Assembly, I supported
the Therapeutic Abortion Act, which authorizes physicians
to perform abortions and opposed all amendments to the
legislation to restrict access to abortion procedures.
- AB your U.S. Senator, I have voted against efforts to
enact a constitutional "right-to-life" amendment, against
imposing bans on the distribution of contraceptive devices
to minors without prior written consent, cutting funds
for school-based health clinics, denying tax-exempt status
to organizations that perform or provide facilities for
abortions, and imposing regulations to gut the Title X
Family Planning program.
(5. 1912)
- I am an original cosponsor of the Cranston-Packwood
Freedom of Choice Act, which would codify Roe V. Wade in
federal law and prevent States from restricting a woman's
right to choose.
- TO further express my support for the basic rights
guaranteed to women under the Supreme Court's decision in
RCE V. Wade, I joined my colleagues in filing an amicus
brief to the Court on the Turnock V. Ragadale case.
- As a strong advocate of family planning efforts at all
levels, I have cosponsored the Title X reauthorization
legislation, opposed efforts to eliminate the California
State Office of Family Planning, and supported
international family planning programs.
- H have publicly urged KHS Secretary Louis Sullivan to
reconsider his ban on critical fetal tissue research-- a
ban whose impact on research into Parkinson's Disease,
Alsheimer's Disease, and cancer research will be
- devastating.
-
My support for women's rights does not end on the issue of
abortion or family planning; I have been a supporter of
the Equal Rights Amendment since its inception and have
cosponsored legislation in the Senate to achieve its
enactment.
02/23/90
13:34
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NO. 004
002
PRO-LIFE REPUBLICANS
PRESS ADVISORY
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
FEBRUARY 11, 1990
CONTACT ERIN 442-5689
Pro-life Republicans plan to protest the visit of U.S. Senator
and Republican Gubernatorial candidate, Pete Wilson, during his
Sacramento campaign stop on Sunday, February 11 at the Railroad
Museum in old Sacramento and Monday, February 12 at a breakfast
which the Senator will be hosting at his Sacramento campaign office
located at 1900 K St. The campaign appearance in Old Sacramento is
scheduled for 5:30 p.m. The Wilson breakfast is at 8:30 a.m.
Senator Wilson is a traitor to the pro-life, pro-family
majority of the Republican party. Senator Wilson has betrayed the
Republican party platform of pro-life, pro-family values as
exemplified by President George Bush and sold his political soul
to the same socially deviant factions which have successfully
steered the Democrat party away from mainstream America. Wilson is
nothing more than a liberal "Democrat" with Republican
registration.
We will neither support nor vote for any Republican candidate
who wishes to coerce tax payers to be fiscal accomplices of greedy
abortionists to the tune of $100,000 per day in California. Senator
Wilson plans to use our tax money to fund abortions during all nine
months of the pregnancy for any reason including sex selection,
birth control, fetal tissue harvesting or convenience. Senator
Wilson has pledged to usurp parental authority whenever possible
by advocating minors going behind their parents' backs to obtain
abortions and contraceptive devices. (Senator Wilson has also voted
to spend Federal tax monies for forced abortions in other countries
via United Nations programs.)
There is no fundamental difference between Pete Wilson and
Alan Cranston except their ages. Pete Wilson isn't pro-choice, he's
pro-death. For mainstream Republicans, that's no choice, which is
what Republicans are faced with in 1990.
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02/23/90
13:35
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NO. 004
003
NATIONAL BRIEFING
*81 GOP: "DESERVES ITS MINORITY STATUS"
BOSTON HERALD columnist Don Feder reports the GOP, "the Hulk
Hogan of the presidential arona,' is "magically transformed into
the mewling infant of congressional campaigns." The reason, he
says, is the "wimp factor. If Democrats are the party that lost
its head, Republicans lack a spine.
It is on the social
issues where the greatest opportunities exist to make inroads
into traditional Democratic constituencies (Catholics,
avangelicals, ethnics, blue-collar voters), that Republicans
prove their utter inability to grasp political reality.
Far
from an albatross, abortion could be as winning issue for
Republicans. Opinion polls and post-Webster state legislative
action demonstrate conclusively that the public is far more pro-
life than pro-choice. Except for an outright ban, they
consistently side with the right-to-life movement. The
Democrats' radicalism (their surrender to the extremists of
Planned Parenthood and NOW) make them extremely vulnerable here.
But Republicans are too busy listening to the knocking of their
knees to hear a groundswell. After bravely vetoing two abortion
bills in November, the president hit the campaign trail for Reps.
Claudine Schneider (R-R.I.) and Lynn Martin (R-Ill.), two pro-
abortion Republicans who aspire to the Senate. Republicans
enter the 1990 campaign season experienced at losing, prepared to
cower at the first sign that one of their issues might be the
least unpopular. Never was a party more deserving of minority
status in perpetuity" (2/5).
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February 27, 1990
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
CHRISS WINSTON
FROM:
MARK DAVIS
SUBJECT:
Remarks for the Pete Wilson Fundraiser
I. SUMMARY:
On the evening of Wednesday, February 28, you will address
an audience of 700 in the Grand Ballroom of the St. Francis Hotel
in San Francisco. You will be introduced by Senator Pete Wilson.
Your remarks will be teleprompted and are approximately 13
minutes long.
II. DISCUSSION:
- WITH SUCH
The text promotes Pete Wilson as gubernatorial candidate by BEDROCK
way of acknowledging such platform issues as crime, drugs,
issues
the environment, and education. It also mentions reapportionment.
makes the Repuldicem
case on
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men
who
shou
and
kined
1001
people
others at a bowling alley and set the building on fire. Mo-
closed today - 25 years after a
65
High Sur
tive: robbery. Among the victims: a father and his two girls.
bloody confrontation made this
south Alabama city a focus of
Fla.
Selma to
civil rights history.
Rev. M
"This is D-day in terms of
later can
Gulf of Mexico
breaking the remaining badges
ganizers
and vestiges of racism not bro-
By Keith Carter, USA TODAY
Sunda
ken 25 years ago," said black
dents
Selma lawyer Yusuf Salaam.
test organizer Rose Sanders, a
gathered
Sunday, more than 300 peo-
lawyer, said she was beaten by
their cor
ple marched through city
a police officer. She also
of school
streets to show support for doz-
claimed the officer shoved a
"What
ens of black students occupy-
billy club into her genital area.
that a ha
ing Selma High School.
Selma police and city offi-
can conti
Today, city officials ask a
cials have steadfastly denied
Conn, 25
federal judge in Mobile, Ala., to
rough treatment of protesters.
of black
evict students and others who
Sanders, wearing a neck
of power
have occupied the school and
brace, used a megaphone to
Said C
City Hall since last week.
address marchers Sunday.
lie Morri
By Tonya Evatt, AP
A protest over the firing of
"I'm willing for my children,
is obviou
CAMPAIGN KICKOFF: Sen. Pete Wilson greets Christine
the city's first black schools su-
as much as I love them, to lose
situation.
Sherman, her 4-month-old son, Nicholas, in Los Angeles.
perintendent, Norward Rous-
a year in school SO that their
straint. V
sell, has been simmering for
children won't have to go
years as
Wilson enters California gov race
weeks. But tensions escalated
through this 25 years from
place at
last week when four black pro-
now," she said.
proper r
U.S. Sen. Pete Wilson, R-Calif., launched his bid for the
testers were arrested during a
The tension comes as Selma
A cit
governorship of the nation's most populous state. He's unop-
clash with police at City Hall.
prepares to commemorate
schedule
posed in the June 5 California primary that will decide
The protesters want the
"Bloody Sunday" March 7,
noon Wa
whether Attorney General John Van de Kamp or ex-San
school board to renew Rous-
1965, when civil rights workers
while bi
Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein is the Democratic can-
sell's contract for three years.
were beaten at the beginning
ered at (
didate. Wilson, 46, kicked off the campaign with a law-and-
One of those arrested, pro-
of a voting rights march from
ular mee
monday, February & 1990
order theme. He also opposed offshore drilling.
USA'S CALENDAR THIS WEEK
Virginia military schoo
'DEMONS' TRIAL: Testimony begins today in Pensacola,
Fla., in the trial of evangelist Mary Nicholson, 39, charged
By Andrea Stone
with first-degree murder in the starvation death of 4-year-
USA TODAY
old Kimberly McZinc, purportedly to exorcise evil spirits.
LEXINGTON, Va. - Those
FUR FUROR: Residents of Aspen, Colo., vote Tuesday
who've worn the Virginia Mili-
whether to ban fur sales in the chic resort community. If
tary Institute gray still talk
enacted, the prohibition would be the nation's first.
about their last big battle - in
1864. Ten cadets were killed
CELEBRITY LAWYER: Marvin Mitchelson, lawyer to the
and 47 wounded while fighting
stars, goes on trial Tuesday before the California Bar Asso-
on the side of the Confederacy
cation in Los Angeles on professional misconduct charges.
at the Battle of New Market.
Today, the talk is about a
CRASH PROBE: Federal safety investigators Tuesday be-
skirmish that will be far less
gin a four-day hearing in New York into the Sept. 20, 1989,
bloody but no less stubbornly
crash of a USAir Boeing 737 at LaGuardia Airport. Focus:
fought: The battle of the sexes.
the rudder trim design and cockpit crew performance.
The presence of women
"would mess up what we've
MINE EXPLOSION REPORT: The Kentucky Depart-
been doing for 150 years," VMI
By David O. Garcia
USA Today
ment of Mines and Minerals reports Tuesday on the causes
spokesman Tom Joynes says.
1950 VMI GRAD: Bill Buchan-
OPPOSI
of the Sept. 13 mine explosion that killed 10 workers.
The government disagrees.
an defends 'male bonding.'
cites 'ral
The U.S. Justice Department
ASYLUM CASE: The Li Jin Lin family goes to U.S. Immi-
told the state last month to ad-
remained neutral.
arch: ")
gration Court in Buffalo Wednesday in the first case involv-
mit women or face a lawsuit.
A state Senate bill to force
you reso
ing a new order that allows for political asylum if they're
Both the state and the VMI
VMI to admit women died last
Curtis
fleeing forced abortion policies in their home country.
Foundation filed suit asking a
week when Sen. Elmon Gray,
or fresh
federal judge to declare the
education committee chair-
tion ne
FROG FLAP: The Calaveras County Commission in Ange-
single-sex policy constitutional.
man and VMI graduate, re-
tucked,
les Camp, Calif., votes Wednesday whether to allow a spe-
The foundation administers
fused to allow a vote.
Cadet
cies of giant frogs to compete in a frog-jump contest.
VMI's $100 million endow-
A similar effort is being
topher
ment, the largest per capita of
made at the USA's only other
rat's pri
'WHITE SUPREMACY' REPORT: The New York state
any U.S. public college.
state military college, the Cita-
But th
Board of Regents in Albany discusses a controversial report
Charged with defending the
del in Charleston, S.C.
for men
Friday that says what schoolchildren are learning is based
state-supported college is Mary
U.S. military academies
Virginia
on "hidden assumptions of white supremacy."
Sue Terry, Virginia's first fe-
went coed in 1976.
cal elit
male attorney general. She in-
Both sides solidly adhere to
training
Written by Paul Leavitt. Contributing: Tim Landis and
sists the male-only policy is le-
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson's
state SC
Oscar Halpert.
gal. Gov. Douglas Wilder has
admonition on VMI's Barracks
about n
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