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UARY
INTERNATIONAL JEWELRY CE TER
DRUGS
AND
CLEAN
CASH
How the Colombian
Cartel Laundered a
Billion Dollars
Through the
Downtown Jewelry
District
JEWELRY
EXCH
NGE
GOLD,
DRUGS
AND
CLEAN
IN JANUARY, 1988, an employee of Loomis Armored Transport
Co. was checking a nightly shipment from a United Parcel
CASH
Service aircraft when he noticed a tear in one box. The shipping
manifest said the box contained "gold scrap" being sent from a
New York jewelry store to a firm called Ropex, a Los Angeles
gold dealer. But the box's contents seemed lighter than gold
would be, and when the Loomis employee looked at the parcel
more closely he could see neatly bundled stacks of currency
through the "torn cardboard.
The Loomis employee was puzzled, SO he called the shipper,
who explained that the currency was being moved from the
Colombians Sent Tons of
East Coast to Los Angeles to take advantage of better short-
term interest rates in a local bank.
Dirty Cocaine Money to
Loomis is a sophisticated international corporation that
handles many exotic shipments, usually without asking too
the Los Angeles Jewelry
many questions. But Ropex's answer didn't make sense,
particularly since it is easier, safer and faster to move money
District. $ 1.2 Billion
around the world by electronic means than by shipping boxes
of cash.
Came Out Spotless.
Like all armored courier companies,
With Its air of
Loomis tries to maintain close relation-
Intrigue and
ships with law-enforcement officials as
anonymity, the
well as with its clients. So the Loomis
downtown Jewelry
BY EVAN LOWELL MAXWELL
employee delivered the shipment-but
mart became a base
he also called the FBI.
through which the
Medellin cartel
At almost the same time, a new ac-
laundered more than
count was opened at a Wells Fargo Bank
$1 billion.
10
LOS ANGELES TIMES MAGAZINE, FEBRUARY 18, 1990
Iris Schneider / Los Angeles Times
branch near downtown Los Angeles. It
belonged to a gold brokerage firm called
Andonian Brothers, which immediately
began depositing large amounts of curren-
cy-millions of dollars a week.
In the past five years, both Congress and
the Treasury Department have cracked
down on currency transactions, making
banks legally responsible for reporting
large deposits to the Internal Revenue Ser-
vice. The crackdown has been strict
enough that Jack Kilhefner, the San Fran-
cisco-based senior vice president of Wells
Fargo Bank, monitors currency deposits
himself. Kilhefner says he spotted the ac-
tivity in the new account within 45 days
and ordered his security staff to investi-
gate. When the deposits reached $25 mil-
lion in the first three months the account
was open-unusually high, even for an
international gold brokerage-Kilhefner
told his chief of security to call the IRS.
The Loomis and Wells Fargo tips in-
volved different firms, but
both of them pointed to one
Above, two of the 35
ILL Street's
spot: the Los Angeles jewel-
PACIFIC
JEWELRY
people arrested
when federal agents
ry district downtown. Dur-
EXCHANGE
H
jewelry dis-
raided the jewelry
trict is post-
ing the next 13 months, the
mart Feb. 22. Left,
modern,
two bits of information led
officials conduct a
polyglot,
to an international investi-
search of the Pacific
multicultural, inter-
gation that uncovered a
Jewelry Exchange at
national-like
609 S. Hill St.
massive criminal conspira-
"Blade Runner"
cy, a conspiracy that, ironi-
without the acid rain. There is an air of
cally, had little to do with
intrigue and anonymity. People are dis-
the diamonds and precious
creet and wary. Armored cars make pick-
stones that fill the jewelry
ups and deliveries around the clock. Couri-
district. Its operation was so
ers hurry through the streets, clutching
efficient, so lucrative, that it
worn satchels and trundling catalogue cas-
was called "La Mina"-the gold mine-by
of money were counted, stacked, banded
es that could contain anything from pot-
the Colombian bosses who kept it working
and then deposited in local bank accounts.
metal pendants to priceless custom neck-
around the clock for three years, pulling
Bankers handling the deposits were always
laces. People greet one another in many
out money by the millions. La Mina's
told that the currency represented profits
languages, but business transactions are
"gold" was currency-tons of it.
from the sale of gold to investors and
conducted in soft English, deals are sealed
According to federal officials, between
jewelry makers.
with a handshake and million-dollar sales
1986 and 1989, La Mina laundered more
Once deposited, the currency turned in-
are made out of thin leather portfolios and
than $1.2 billion in cocaine profits for the
to bits and bytes of electronic data that the
scuffed shoulder bags.
leading members of the Medellin cocaine
launderers could transfer by wire all over
An estimated 50,000 people make their
cartel, turning drug-tainted cash from the
the world, the money's illicit origins fading
living in the businesses that fill the 30
streets of New York, Miami, Houston,
with each transaction. (The law doesn't
buildings on and near Hill Street that
Phoenix and Los Angeles into pristine
require banks to report wire transfers of
make up the jewelry district. It was a
funds that they could draw from secret
money.) According to investigative re-
perfect cover for La Mina.
bank accounts. Richard Lind, chief of
cords, the hundreds of millions of dollars
Ropex was housed in a high-security
money-laundering investigations for the
handled in the two Los Angeles offices
luxury suite at one of the district's best
FBI, puts it simply. La Mina was, he says,
were moved electronically to New York,
addresses, the International Jewelry Cen-
"the biggest laundering operation we've
then to Panama City and on to South
ter at 550 S. Hill St. The 16-story, gray
ever seen."
America, where they were used to pay for
marble and glass 550 Building, as it is
At the center of the operation, according
coca paste, airplanes, political favors-all
called, looks out on Pershing Square.
to investigators, were the unprepossessing
the things necessary to operate an interna-
Ropex occupied Suite 970, a choice loca-
offices of Ropex and Andonian Brothers.
tional criminal conspiracy like the Medel-
tion amid a mix of retail and wholesale
The two businesses received literally mil-
lin cartel.
jewelry operations. Like most of the suites,
lions of dollars a week from all over the
"It was an amazing operation," said one
Ropex's consisted of a display room and
country. In their back rooms, pallet-loads
federal investigator involved in the case. "It
several workrooms behind blank walls. Its
taught me a whole lot I never knew about
front doors were invariably locked.
Novelist and journalist Evan Lowell
how money moves, how the world really
The patriarch of Ropex was Wanis
Maxwell has written about crime in
works. La Mina literally dragged me into
(Joseph) Koyomejian, 47, who oversaw
Southern California for 20 years.
the 20th Century."
the daily activities of a dozen employees,
12
LOS ANGELES TIMES MAGAZINE, FEBRUARY 18, 1990
Top, courtesy of KCBS-TV; bottom, Larry Bessel Los Angeles Times
many of them members of his immediate
jewelry trade, in the retail arcade booths
community in Los Angeles. Those old-
family.
that peddle gold chains, bracelets and
country ties are believed to have been the
The Andonian Brothers operation con-
rings. But finding acceptance in the trade
basis of the network that became La Mina.
sisted of a showroom and several work-
is difficult: Newcomers face considerable
They are almost certainly the way in which
rooms that took up most of the third floor
resentment, even from old-line Armenians
the money launderers of the Los Angeles
of a building at 220 W. 5th St. The 220
on Hill Street.
jewelry district first came in contact with
Building is one of the original centers of
"They don't have the background in
Eduardo Martinez.
the downtown jewelry trade, and today its
craftsmanship," says Gregory Mikaelian,
lobby opens onto the dirty sidewalks of
president of the Wholesale Jewelers Assn.
DUARDO MARTINEZ ROMERO
Broadway. Street hustlers and the home-
and a 36-year veteran of the jewelry dis-
E
owns a ranch outside Medellin,
less abound. Nearby, vendors hawk every-
trict. "Their material is all mass-produced.
Colombia, headquarters of the
thing from junk jewelry to plastic shoes.
Most of them are in it only to make a buck,
world cocaine trade. On the sur-
The Andonian brothers were recent im-
not to make a contribution."
face, he appears to be a polished
migrants from the Middle East. Both Naz-
Mikaelian, himself an immigrant 40
international economist and businessman
areth and Vahe were born in Beirut and
years ago, says the "new Armenians" have
with an advanced degree in marketing, a
had fled the fighting in Lebanon in the
a difficult time integrating with their new
pleasant smile and banking connections all
early 1980s to settle with their families in
communities and tend to maintain strong
over the world.
Southern California. Koyomejian was a
ties among themselves. "They come from
Court records present a different image.
well-to-do Syrian-born Armenian who
ghettos, in the Soviet Union, in Syria, in
Federal officials say Martinez was the chief
had come to the United States in 1980,
Lebanon, in Iran. They have lived, some of
financial consultant to the Medellin cartel,
part of a worldwide diaspora of Middle
them, their whole lives without being able
the originator of schemes that laundered
Easterners. Thousands of the immigrants
to speak Armenian in public. It is against
billions of coca dollars for Pablo Escobar
ended up in Los Angeles, and thousands
the law in some countries. So it isn't a
Gaviria, Jorge Ochoa Vasquez, Jose Rodri-
more wound up in Europe and Latin
surprise these people distrust the police,
guez Gacha and the rest of the cartel's
America.
the government, everybody."
upper echelon. Investigators believe that
Although neither the Koyomejians nor
This sense of distrust and insularity is
Martinez was the key contact between the
the Andonian families were thought to
nothing new among immigrants, but it
cartels and La Mina.
have a background in the jewelry business,
seems to have been unusually strong
Officials began hearing of the operation
both gravitated toward Hill Street. Arme-
among the new Armenians. Investigators
by name in October, 1987, when, according
nians have long been prominent in the gold
say the individuals involved in La Mina
to federal court records filed in Atlanta,
and custom jewelry business, and Hill
maintained closer ties with some of their
Martinez met on his ranch with an Ameri-
Street offered many opportunities for im-
countrymen who'd emigrated to South
can dope smuggler and money launderer
migrants, mostly at the entry level of the
America than they did with the Armenian
who wanted to renew his contacts-and
WASHING DIRTY MONEY
Los Angeles' jewelry mart was at the center
of a massive international conspiracy
that laundered more than
$1 billion in cocaine profits.
6
-----
Remaining
5
Money from the L.A.
profits were wired
accounts was transferred
to secret accounts
to the cartel's Manhattan
In European banks.
bank accounts, then wired
through Panama to South
4
America to pay for coca and
The cash was counted,
operating expenses.
bundled and then deposited
in LA. banks, which were
told It was from the sale of
the supposed gold.
3 They shipped out boxes
of cash, marked "gold
scrap," to two businesses
2
To make their
In the L.A. Jewelry district
businesses look real, the
that were controlled by the
cartel.
Jewelry firms accepted
1
regular shipments of fake
Drug dealers delivered
gold bars from Latin
cash from cocaine sales to
America.
sham Jewelry companies In
New York City.
Illustrated by Jiro Matsuki
LOS ANGELES TIMES MAGAZINE, FEBRUARY 18, 1990
13
business dealings-with the cartel. Marti-
investigations would meet on Hill Street in
importing gold from Uruguay and Chile
nez told the American that he already was
Los Angeles.
and shipping huge amounts of drug money
using the services of a laundry. He called it
there as ostensible payments through the
"La Mina" and showed the American a
NJAN. 17, 1988, the American from
Banco de Occidente in Panama.
ledger. La Mina had processed $12 million
Atlanta met Martinez, the Colom-
La Mina had managed to export $28
in drug money in a single month.
bian money-mover, in Panama
million in the past 45 days, and the opera-
Several days later, the American, whose
City, the hub of the Central Ameri-
tion was capable of delivering laundered
name has never been revealed, was sum-
can banking system. This time, the
cash to Panama in 48 hours, more than
moned to a private compound in suburban
smuggler brought his partner, a personable
twice as fast as the Atlanta undercover
Medellin to meet Martinez's superiors, the
young hustler he called Alex Carrera. In
laundry. Martinez warned that if the At-
heads of the cartel. The compound was
reality, Carrera was a DEA undercover
lanta laundry didn't lower its "commis-
surrounded by high, white walls and
agent named Cesar Diaz.
sion" from 7% to 6% and speed up, he
guarded by a dozen heavily armed men.
Martinez didn't come alone, either. He
would give Atlanta's share of the business
Supplicants were summoned into the in-
introduced the two Americans to his Pan-
to La Mina. The DEA agents complied-
and managed to continue their undercover
contact with Martinez and the Medellin
La Mina 'was the biggest laundering
drug lords, in laundering or smuggling, for
the next 10 months.
operation we' seen,' the FBI says.
The DEA was just one of many agencies
interested in La Mina. Confiscated cocaine
money has become a significant source of
income for a number of police agencies,
which get to keep 90% of the cash they
seize. "Asset-forfeiture is the name of the
game," says one high-ranking U.S. Cus-
toms official. "Everybody in law enforce-
ment is chasing money. On any day in
Southern California, there may be 10 sur-
veillance teams-federal, state or local po-
lice-working money-laundering cases.
"All of a sudden these teams started
Alleged Medellin cartel leaders Include, from left: Escobar, Martinez, Rodriguez and Ochoa.
bumping into one another downtown in
the jewelry district. That's when every-
ner offices by a loudspeaker.
amanian bankers, who worked for Banco
body backed off and tried to figure out
After waiting for an hour, the American
de Occidente S. A., a Panama City bank
what the hell was going on down there."
was ushered into the presence of Gustavo
that was owned by Colombian banking
By the spring of 1988, a multi-agency
Gaviria Rivero, the cartel leader whose
interests.
task force had begun to search for La Mina
approval was required for all smuggling
Martinez was irritated with the Ameri-
in Los Angeles. That task force included
operations. A few minutes later, Escobar,
cans. Their operation had had the misfor-
the FBI, DEA, the U.S. Customs Service
the godfather of the cartel, joined them.
tune of "losing" a major shipment-$1
and IRS, plus agents and officers-some of
The American described a plan to smuggle
million that was seized by law-enforce-
them Armenian speakers-from state and
cocaine through north Georgia and also
ment officers when it arrived in Los Angel-
local police organizations. A team of senior
offered the services of his Atlanta-based
es. The Colombian was also upset because
officials of each of the federal agencies, plus
money-laundering operation.
the operation seemed slow, compared to
representatives of the Justice and the
As the American was leaving, another
La Mina. He wanted an explanation of
Treasury departments, was formed in
cartel leader became suspicious and start-
how the Atlanta laundry worked. Carrera
Washington to coordinate the Los Angeles
ed asking questions. The experience must
(Diaz) begged off on the details, saying
and Atlanta investigations. Important in-
have been unnerving because the Ameri-
that he would introduce Martinez to an-
telligence information was passed back
can was what the man thought he might
other American who actually handled the
and forth between the investigators, but
be-an informant for the U.S. Drug En-
transactions. Several weeks later, a meet-
the cases were worked separately to avoid
forcement Administration. But the smug-
ing was scheduled for Aruba, West Indies.
security breaches.
gler brazened the moment out and re-
On March 8, 1988, the Aruba meeting
Each of the two principal leads-the tip
turned to the United States.
convened in a $500-a-night hotel suite on
from the Loomis guard and the Wells
Within 30 days of the Medellin meet-
the Caribbean island. As the proceedings
Fargo Bank information-was worked in-
ings, the Colombians began using the
were being surrepetitiously recorded, Diaz
dependently, a tactic that minimized the
American's laundering operation in Atlan-
and another DEA undercover agent gath-
usual interagency friction in such collabo-
ta. In early 1988, according to court re-
ered a huge amount of information from
rations. "Big cases, big problems," one fed-
cords, the American laundered more than
Martinez, who was still upset about the
eral agent said, "but in this one, there was
$12 million through Atlanta bank accounts
lost $1 million shipment-but not too up-
more than enough to go around."
and wire-transferred the money to Pana-
set to brag about Colombian money-laun-
ma. So, at the moment that Los Angeles
dering prowess in general and La Mina in
ONDUCTING A DISCREET investi-
federal investigators were following up on
particular. Banco de Occidente, he said,
their tips from Wells Fargo and Loomis,
was a keystone of the cartel's money-ex-
port operation. And La Mina, he ex-
C
gation was a daunting assignment.
Security is tight on Hill Street. The
the Atlanta undercover DEA operation
sidewalk is the enemy, so gold bro-
was already in place and operating. What
plained, operated from the cover of a pre-
kers, gem dealers, jewelry designers,
no one realized then was that the two
cious-metals and jewelry business,
casters, polishers and retailers try to cluster
14
LOS ANGELES TIMES MAGAZINE, FEBRUARY 18, 1990
From left, Lope Medina Sygma, Associated Press, Sygma, Sygma
together in the same building. Armed
deposited directly into banks.
the spot-market explanation was accepta-
guards and closed-circuit television
In April, FBI Special Agent Nellie Mag-
ble enough on the surface to raise "reason-
cameras blankly monitor the public hall-
daloyo, posing as a cleaning woman, pro-
able doubt" in a courtroom and destroy
ways. There are hold-up alarms in every
vided further confirmation of that thesis.
their case against the firms. So agents
office. When an alarm is triggered, eleva-
Acting under a court warrant, Magdaloyo
began tracking the money in all directions,
tors rise to the top floor and lock, becom-
stole the office trash from the ninth floor of
trying to figure out where it was coming
ing traps for the unwary stickup man.
the 550 Building at the end of each busi-
from and where it was going by checking
That security-consciousness made
ness day. The refuse from Suite 970 yield-
bank records of electronic wire transfers.
street surveillances in the La Mina case a
ed some remarkable findings.
They are still chasing some of these trans-
nightmare.
The trash contained adding-machine
actions.
"The jewelry district is a very tight
tapes that broke down the currency ship-
Others led straight back to the Banco de
place," one federal agent says. "Every-
ments by denomination and further tallied
Occidente, Eduardo Martinez's favorite
body knows everybody else. A stranger
with the shipping labels. Slowly, a picture
Panama City bank.
can walk through the place once, just
of activities inside the suites was emerging,
URING THE SUMMER of 1988, the
An FBI agent posed as a cleaning lady.
D
Atlanta DEA undercover opera-
tion continued its contacts directly
with the men at the top of the
And the refuse she took out from Suite
Medellin cartel. Because La Mina
was working so well in Los Angeles, the
970 yielded remarkable findings.
Colombians stopped using the money-
laundering arm of the Atlanta DEA un-
dercover operation. But Pablo Escobar
shopping, and not attract any attention.
but there was still a major gap in it. The
and his colleagues were still interested in
But if the same seven or eight gringos
investigators had not established all the
using the DEA informant's cocaine smug-
show up day after day, and hang around,
elements of a crime. Any crime.
gling route through Georgia-and the At-
they'll be noticed, if not by the mer-
There is nothing illegal about conduct-
lanta investigation continued to amass in-
chants then by the security guards."
ing business in cash, particularly when a
formation about La Mina's connection to
The surveillance teams used every trick
business files proper Treasury Department
the drug trade. A deal was concluded to
they could think of to blend into the
currency-transaction reports, as the Ropex
smuggle 14,000 kilos of cocaine through
crowds on Hill Street and West 5th. They
and Andonian operations usually did. In
Mexico into the United States.
rented suites in the 220 and 550 buildings
these reports, the currency was described
At one of the negotiations for that deal
to give them an excuse to come and go.
as the proceeds of the sale of gold.
in Los Angeles, the Colombian intermedi-
Asian, Latino and black investigators were
There is some controversy among mem-
ary casually pointed out a downtown busi-
drafted for the job. Agents disguised
bers of the jewelry trade about that expla-
ness building and identified it as the loca-
themselves as homeless people, delivery-
nation. Ralph Shapiro, president of the
tion of the fabled La Mina.
men, construction workers-anyone who
Diamond Club, who has been cutting and
The address of that building was 550 S.
would blend in. Sometimes they were quite
selling diamonds since 1939, says that vir-
Hill St.
successful. For instance, one day the lobby
tually every legitimate wholesale transac-
The smuggling venture was a disaster
guard in the 220 Building, an off-duty
tion on Hill Street is conducted through
for the Colombians. On Aug. 10, Mexican
LAPD officer, mistook a black DEA agent
bank checks rather than cash and that
authorities intercepted a 700-kilo ship-
for a street narcotics dealer and chased
bankers should have suspected something
ment of cocaine at a remote landing strip
him out with a nightstick.
was amiss when the two gold firms depos-
on El Kino Island in the Gulf of California
"There's another little irony in the co-
ited such large amounts of currency.
west of Hermosillo. A few days later, an-
caine traffic," the investigator says. "By
"What kind of baloney is it to say that
other 700-kilo cache of cocaine was found
day, the jewelry district is a very respecta-
the jewelry business is done in cash?" Sha-
on the same beach. Papers filed in Atlanta
ble business area, but at night it turns into
piro says.
federal court indicate that the Mexican
'Crack Alley.' We weren't welcome in ei-
But the two suspect jewelry firms had a
authorities had been tipped about the
ther setting."
plausible explanation of their activity.
shipment by the Atlanta DEA agents.
Ropex and the Andonian Brothers were
They told bankers that they conducted
On the day the first cocaine shipment
not among the leading firms in the jewelry
their business in cash to avoid being hurt
was seized, Aug. 10, 1988, a member of the
district, but both seemed to be quite busy.
by sudden swings in spot-market pre-
Los Angeles La Mina task force met with
Both received frequent shipments of
cious-metals prices. A few banks, such as
an unidentified South American business-
"gold" or "gold scrap" from other jewelers
Wells Fargo, became suspicious and re-
man in Montevideo, Uruguay, who pro-
around the country. And both of the firms
fused to handle the cash, but others ac-
vided a detailed description of the internal
were quite prosperous, judging from the
cepted the explanation-and short-term
workings of La Mina.
banking activity they conducted. Messen-
deposits of hundreds of millions of dollars.
According to a document filed in the
gers from the offices were followed to local
On April 11, the FBI began closed-cir-
Atlanta case, La Mina was set up in June,
banks numerous times and observed mak-
cuit television surveillance in the public
1985, by a money launderer named Raul
ing large currency deposits. What intrigued
hallways outside Ropex. Within a few
Vivas, a Uruguayan precious-metals deal-
investigators was that the insured value of
weeks, DEA agents began similar surveil-
er named Sergio Hochman and another
the "gold" shipments often matched the
lance against Andonian Brothers, which
South American. The three men owned a
value of the currency deposits that were
had deposited the $25 million in cash in
corporation called Letra S.A. and a Uru-
made the same day. They began to estab-
Wells Fargo earlier in the year.
guayan currency-exchange firm called
lish that the Brink's or Loomis shipments
Justice Department prosecutors work-
Cambio Italia.
contained currency that was then being
ing with the 40-agent task force believed
Initially, the conspiracy had involved
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LOS ANGELES TIMES MAGAZINE, FEBRUARY 18, 1990
shipping gold-coated lead bars to front
each of the target businesses. In effect, the
rency. Teams of FBI and DEA agents
businesses posing as American refineries,
launderers' own security system was used
followed numerous couriers away from the
then wire-transferring cocaine money to
to bug them.
jewelry district during the next several
Uruguay as "payment" for the gold. But
months, gathering valuable intelligence in-
the informant described several variations
IVE MONTHS OF surveillance yield-
formation about previously unknown traf-
on the scheme that involved manipulating
seemingly legitimate gold transactions in
F
ed 3,000 reels of video and audio
ficking organizations that were using the
tape (in five languages and two
jewelry district launderers. (For example,
trading centers such as New York and
Armenian dialects), which gave the
the money-laundering operation was
London. At last the Los Angeles task force
investigators an intimate knowl-
linked directly to a Southern California
had a picture of how Ropex and Andonian
edge of the daily routine inside a money
narcotics case: A regular client of Ropex
Brothers would explain the cash that ar-
laundry. Brink's or Loomis shipments
from southern Orange County was arrest-
rived at their offices.
usually would arrive in the morning. Em-
ed with a 641-pound load of cocaine.)
The information came as other parts of
ployees would spend the rest of the day
The wire taps and cameras turned up
the investigation were entering a new
counting currency with high-speed ma-
more evidence than the investigators could
easily handle. Some of the schemes in-
volved "paper gold"-gold that was traded
Some schemes involved 'paper gold,'
among conspirators without ever leaving
the custody of banks in New York, London
which was traded among conspirators
and elsewhere. The launderers had created
a 300-kilo pool of gold bars that were
without ever leaving the banks.
traded among several participants, each
trade generating a phony transaction that
could be used to cover the movement of
phase. At some point, the suspects clearly
chines, bundling it and preparing it for
drug money.
had become aware that they were being
deposit in local banks. Miscounts were
According to affidavits filed in the case,
watched. Michael Orton, the DEA's case
frequent and arguments almost constant.
the Ropex and Andonian Brothers laundry
agent in charge of the Andonian investiga-
Amounts as small as $20 were disputed. At
operations were overseen by a well-known
tion, reported that Andonian employees
one point, Wanis Koyomejian demanded
and outwardly respectable gold merchant
began shredding their trash and painting
that the traffickers send a representative to
called Ronel Refining Co., of Hollywood,
out shipping labels. (Later, couriers calling
watch the count or quit complaining.
Fla. Ronel, which also had New York offic-
Ropex to arrange for delivery of cash often
The surveillance revealed that the laun-
es and a gold holding account with a major
were told to use the private parking struc-
derers were using a bewildering array of
London bullion dealer, was the putative
ture at 550 S. Hill, because police surveil-
guises to cover their activities. Besides the
middleman for the nonexistent South
lance teams couldn't follow them without
two primary targets of the investigation,
American gold and was a regular trading
arousing the suspicions of attendants.)
other jewelry firms in downtown Los An-
partner with both Ropex and Andonian
But the evasive tactics came too late.
geles were involved in the sham gold trans-
Brothers. There were almost daily conver-
Investigators had enough information to
actions. Apparently, these other jewelers
sations between both Los Angeles firms
obtain court permission for more sophisti-
were paying for nonexistent gold with cur-
and Richard Ferris, Ronel's president.
cated explorations of La Mina.
rency provided to them by Ropex and
Many of these conversations had to do
On Aug. 23, a federal judge in New York
Andonian. Court records also suggest that
with the ring's efforts to conceal its activi-
authorized wire taps on the headquarters
the laundering activity had become so ex-
ties not from police but from legitimate
of New York firms that had been shipping
tensive that the legitimate gold-bullion
gold traders. In early December, a profes-
currency disguised as gold scrap to Los
market could no longer absorb the trans-
sional gold-trader from Cargill, Inc.-a gi-
Angeles. On Sept. 8, a Los Angeles judge
actions. Indeed, one of the principal sus-
ant, Minneapolis-based grain and com-
approved a similar FBI request for moni-
pects was overheard complaining that his
modities merchant-called Nazareth
toring inside the offices in the 550 Build-
purchases had caused a $3-per-ounce in-
Andonian and asked how Andonian in-
ing. During the next several months, addi-
crease in the wholesale price being charged
tended to use a large shipment of gold he
tional warrants were issued to permit
elsewhere in the Los Angeles area.
had just purchased. Andonian said that
closed-circuit television surveillance inside
The investigators weren't the only ones
some of the gold would be shipped to the
the Ropex and Andonian suites and moni-
using high-tech communications gear.
Andonian jewelry factory in Italy. The rest
toring of the suspects' telephone pagers.
When Wanis Koyomejian needed to talk
would be traded with Ronel.
High-tech surveillance is increasingly
to a South American confederate named
The next day, the Cargill broker appar-
common in complex investigations. Often,
"Pepe," he called a number in Uruguay
ently made a similar call to Ferris and
the intrusions involve "black-bag jobs,"
and was given the number of Pepe's inter-
received a different explanation for the
court-authorized police break-ins and in-
national satellite telephone pager. Koyo-
gold purchase. Ferris then called Andonian
stallation of electronic gear that ranges
mejian called the pager number, punched
to compare notes.
from fiber-optic television cameras to
in his own return number and hung up.
"I obviously didn't give him the same
state-of-the-art miniaturized room mi-
Twenty minutes later, Pepe returned the
answers as you did," Ferris told Nazareth
crophones and telephone bugs.
phone call.
Andonian.
But in this case, the agents may have
From Houston, Tex.
"Oh, my God," replied Andonian.
found their surveillance gear already in
La Mina was laundering not only cur-
Not long thereafter, Cargill quit doing
place. Investigators refuse to discuss the
rency from New York and Texas but also
business with Andonian and Ronel. Even-
technology they used to penetrate La Mi-
huge sums from Southern California.
tually, Cargill got out of the gold business
na, but an outside source familiar with the
Much of the foot traffic through the two
entirely, although not because of the An-
case said the agents simply tapped into the
suites consisted of men and women deliv-
donian-Ronel matter, according to Cargill
existing closed-circuit security systems in
ering sales cases or handbags full of cur-
Continued on Page 37
18
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Money Laundering
airport. In a cargo space consigned to
$30 million in currency, real estate and
Loomis, the dog "alerted" and tore into a
gold. Suite 970 and the Andonian Brothers
30-box shipment headed from a New York
showrooms in Los Angeles were closed
Continued from Page 18
jewelry store to Los Angeles. The customs
down. Two days later, Atlanta DEA un-
spokesmen. "We just felt gold was a busi-
dog-handler broke into the shipment and
dercover agent Cesar Diaz received a call
ness we didn't want to be involved in," a
found that it contained currency-
from Eduardo Martinez. Martinez told
senior company official said.
$4,869,000.
Diaz that he would be laundering a lot
Federal court records in Los Angeles
When the packages failed to arrive on
more cash in the future.
reveal a similar exchange between Vahe
Jan. 25, the Los Angeles phone taps re-
During the next several weeks, the At-
Andonian, Nazareth's brother, and a Los
corded Nazareth Andonian making several
lanta laundry handled more than $6.2 mil-
Angeles banker. The banker demanded to
panicky phone calls to Loomis, trying to
lion for the cartel, picking up cash in New
know why Andonian Brothers' tax returns
locate his shipment. Then there were calls
York and Los Angeles and shipping them
showed total annual sales of $18 million
to the New York jewelers who had made
to a new account in Panama. On March 29,
while its Dun & Bradstreet report showed
the shipment. But the boys in New York
the agents lured Martinez to a meeting in a
sales of $44 million. Vahe's answer:
weren't able to talk freely. They were being
Panama City bank. But because the
"I have no idea why."
interrogated by customs agents.
Americans lacked the power to make ar-
And finally, there were several calls
rests in Panama, they were forced to rely
Y JANUARY, 1989, it was time to
"with important news" for South America.
on Panamanian police.
B
begin the end game. The Andonian
But Andonian's contact was on vacation
Not surprisingly, Martinez escaped.
wiretap provided investigators with
and couldn't be notified.
"La Mina 30," as Martinez was called,
the perfect excuse. On Jan. 24, DEA
In the days following the $4.8-million
was finally arrested in Colombia late last
agents intercepted a cryptic phone
loss, the room bugs in the Andonian
summer. He is regarded by investigators as
conversation: A huge currency shipment
Brothers office recorded a glumly philo-
the most important Medellin cartel laun-
was about to leave the East Coast. A New
sophical discussion to the effect that the
derer ever extradited to the United States.
York confederate told Nazareth Andonian
loss of the New York shipment ought to be
He has pleaded not guilty to money laun-
the value of the shipment was "four kilos
regarded as a "good lesson."
dering charges and will go on trial in June
eight six nine," presumably a code mean-
And an expensive one.
in Atlanta. Federal agents from Los Angel-
ing $4,869,000 was on its way.
But the collapse of La Mina in Los
es are expected to testify and to play
That night, a U.S. Customs Service dog
Angeles had other repercussions as well.
videotapes of the La Mina surveillance as
being trained to check for narcotics ship-
On Feb. 22, raiding parties of federal
part of the prosecution's case.
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agents swept down on the jewelry district,
Of the 35 persons charged in the two Los
Parcel Service cargo aircraft at a New York
arresting more than 35 people and seizing
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"An environmental ethic will pervade the administration of
Governor Wilson from the top down and from the first day, just as
it did when newly elected Mayor Wilson first moved to San Diego
in 1971," Wilson said.
After taking a short ride on the San Diego trolley --
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country's history -- Wilson spoke briefly about his leadership in
pioneering growth management and its value to San Diego, a city
that until then "had simply grown like topsy."
At that time the law imposed no limit on the election
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office.
"I had made a campaign pledge that I would not accept any
contribution of more than $300 from any developer," Wilson said.
"The city manager and planning director and their staffs
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new and longer view of dealing with questions of land use and
growth," Wilson said.
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FOR GOVERNOR . 1990
WILSON HIGHLIGHTS HIS RECORD OF PERFORMANCE: CHALLENGES
OPPONENTS TO PRESENT THEIR CREDENTIALS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Bill Livingstone
February 12, 1990
(619) 260-1990
SACRAMENTO -- On the second day of his statewide tour to
announce the themes of his campaign, U.S. Senator Pete
Wilson stressed the importance of effective leadership to carry
California into the 21st Century.
"Leading and governing are what I have done and what I will
do," Wilson said. "Some people would call it, taking charge of
California's future. I think they're right."
Wilson said he firmly believed the best days lie ahead for a
people and Governor ready, eager, and determined to take charge
of California's future.
"The people of California want and are entitled to expect
their Governor to lead, to have vision, and not just to see
what's right, but to have the guts to do what's right," Wilson
said.
At a ribbon cutting ceremony in his campaign office, Wilson
said Californians will and should be persuaded to vote for a
candidate's performance.
"Voters won't and shouldn't be satisfied with claims of
'experience, Wilson said. "It isn't enough to have held
office. What is important is what you've done with the office.'
"I challenge my opponents to match my performance. Let them
present their credentials," Wilson said.
Wilson asked if his opponents had:
** Brought a light-rail system to their cities?
** Authored the first coastal protection act in America?
** Added acres for vitally needed urban growth to the
Santa Monica Mountain or Golden Gate National
Recreational Areas?
** Reduced the pollution of our air by vehicle emissions
or brought about the use of alternative fuels to
reduce such pollution?
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** Put a death penalty into law to protect cops against
ruthless assassins employed by drug kingpins?
** Authored the law that now requires the military to use
their manpower and equipment to keep illegal drugs
outside the borders of the U.S.?
** Proposed mandatory rehabilitation for women whose
substance abuse during pregnancy has led to an
epidemic increase in addicted and permanently
damaged newborns?
Wilson said the answer is that he has done all these things,
while his opponents have done of them.
"The answer is that talk is cheap and it is no substitute
for the kind of performance that has made and will make real
différence in the daily lives of all Californians," Wilson said.
Wilson emphasized that a Governor must lead to govern.
He acknowledged that the initiative process is a legitimate
remedy for legislative default.
"It is no cure for executive default and no substitute for
executive performance," Wilson said.
Wilson said proposing initiative measures does not excuse a
lack of record that reflects -- on the part of an existing
office-holder a lack of performance, a failure to have done or
solved anything worth being recorded.
"It is no substitute for leadership, past or future, and
certainly no excuse for past failure to perform and no guarantee
of future performance," Wilson said.
Wilson said being Governor is a daily, hands-on, managerial
responsibility.
"The duties of Governor cannot be discharged by proposing
ballot propositions and pretending that management of the state's
business can then be placed on auto-pilot," Wilson said.
Wilson said California's future depends on the energy,
vision and courage of a Governor able and eager to lead, working
with the legislative and private sector, in making the critical
public decisions that will quite literally shape the California
that our children live in.
"Governance is not PR," Wilson said. "It is those day-to-
day managerial decisions that are so critical a part of
leadership."
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Pete Wilson
FOR GOVERNOR . 1990
WILSON PROMISES TO "TAKE CHARGE OF CALIFORNIA'S FUTURE" IN
GUBERNATORIAL KICKOFF; PLEDGES TOUGH-ON-CRIME LEADERSHIP
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Bill Livingstone
February 11, 1990
(619) 260-1990
SAN DIEGO -- Recounting his 23-years in public office, as
Assemblyman, Mayor, and U.S. Senator, Pete Wilson today formally
declared he is running for Governor of California.
"I intend to be the next Governor of California," Wilson said.
"I intend to take charge of California's future, to lead the Golden
State through an era of incredible challenges into a new decade,
and a new century."
Kicking off his campaign in front of the San Diego Police
Officers Association, Wilson said he had spent a lifetime preparing
for the challenge, and that his record demonstrated vision,
experience, commitment, and guts.
"I challenge my opponents to match my record and match my
success, If Wilson said. "While others may find themselves running
from their record, I take great pride in running on my record."
Wilson cited many of his accomplishments, including:
**
Introducing of the first Coastal Protection Bill;
**
Pioneering the concept of Managed Growth;
** Building a light-rail mass transit system, on time,
under budget, and without federal funds;
** Pushing though a campaign finance reform law that
after 18 years is second to none;
** Making San Diego one of the safest big cities in
America;
** Authoring the death penalty law for drug kingpins
who murder federal agents.
To solve problems that besiege the state, Wilson said
California needs a leader with a record of achievement that makes
credible one's agenda for California's future.
"California needs a Governor with the ability to solve the
problems of today before they become the crises of tomorrow,"
Wilson said.
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Wilson said the greatest danger to California's present, and
its future, is that posed by the twin perils of crime and drugs.
Because of this scourge, Wilson said Californians are afraid
in their homes and afraid to leave them, which is intolerable. And
he pledged to bring this situation to an end.
and drug dealers,' Wilson said.
"I will not have California under siege to rapists and thugs
Wilson blamed the California Criminal Justice System for
making California's streets needlessly dangerous. To achieve its
needed reform, Wilson endorsed -- and is the Honorary Chairman --
of the Crime Victims Justice Reform Initiative.
Wilson also called for limiting the amount of time for filing
new appeals in capital cases -- in state and federal courts. He
called for a change in state law to deny bail to drug kingpins.
And he called for a "truth in sentencing" law that would reduce the
the crimes.
time-off for work or good behavior so that penalties will truly fit
"It is time for California to change the odds to favor the
citizen, by changing laws that are too lenient to criminals, time
for us to stop living in fear of criminals and drug dealers, time
Wilson said.
for criminals and drug addicts to begin living in fear of the law,"
Wilson said we can, and will, change California to make it
safe again.
SAN DIEGO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION ENDORSES WILSON
Wilson received the endorsement of the San Diego Police
Officers Association for Governor of California for his
longstanding support in law enforcement, his commitment to criminal
justice reform, and the leadership he will bring to the office.
Wilson praised the brave men and women on the front lines
against the war on crime and drugs.
"A Pete Wilson Administration will proudly stand with the
brave men and women who stand guard against the viciousness of
crime and drugs," Wilson said.
Other law enforcement agencies endorsing Wilson for Governor
are the Cal. Police Chiefs Assoc., Nat'l Latino Peace Officers
Assoc., Cal. Council of Police and Sheriffs, Cal. State Police
Assoc., Cal. Assoc. of Criminal Investigators, LA County Police
Chiefs, San Diego Deputy District Attorney Assoc., Assoc. of Orange
County Deputy Sheriffs, Citizens for Law and Order, and Sacramento
County Deputy Sheriffs Assoc.
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Pete Wilson
FOR GOVERNOR
1990
WILSON MEETS CALIFORNIA'S KIDS: PLEDGES TO BRIGHTEN THEIR
FUTURE AND FUTURE OPPORTUNITIES IF ELECTED GOVERNOR
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Bill Livingstone
February 14, 1990
(619) 260-1990
SYLMAR -- On the final leg of his four-day campaign
announcement tour for Governor of California, U.S. Senator Pete
Wilson today met with students at Sylmar Elementary School to
express his goals for brightening their future.
"As far as I'm concerned this is the most important day of
my announcement tour because you are California's future, Wilson
told the young students.
As Governor, Wilson said he would ensure they were fully
prepared for the challenges ahead as we approach the next
century. He also discussed individual responsibility in the war
on drugs.
"A drug deal is a raw deal for kids," Wilson said. "This is
not a message just for students, but for all of us. We all share
responsibilities in the war on drugs."
Wilson said it is a responsibility of law enforcement
officers to curb the flow of drugs across our borders and into
our schools. While we are making progress because of the heroic
effort of men and women on the front line, it will be to no avail
if we fail to also curb the demand for drugs.
To this end, Wilson pledged to do his share:
"I'll expand D.A.R.E. and other drug education programs in
the schools, Wilson said. "I'll help mothers addicted to drugs
so their children can be drug free."
"I'll appoint tough judges and build prisons to keep
criminals off our streets," Wilson said.
By their words and actions, it's crucial for teachers to set
at strong, moral example for their students, Wilson said.
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"Teachers must instill as part of every lesson the
importance of individual esteem, community values, and the
dangers of drugs," Wilson said.
Wilson said a child's education does not stop when he or she
walks out the schoolhouse door, and that parents have an
obligation to get involved in community and school affairs.
On the part of students, Wilson said they must learn about
the menace posed by drugs, for themselves and their community.
"Joining together we will win the war on drugs," Wilson
said.
SCHOOLS FOR A BRIGHTER CALIFORNIA FUTURE
As a major theme of his campaign for Governor, Wilson
earlier this year pledged, if elected, to appoint a cabinet-level
Secretary of Child Development and Services to better integrate
the functions of county and local social service agencies with
school-based health programs.
"Individual attention, caring, and guidance can change young
attitudes and young lives, it comes in time," Wilson said.
"How much better it is to prevent learning disorders than to
engage in the best, the most expensive, the most caring of
compensatory education," Wilson said.
"How much better -- how much more cost-effective, more
probable of success, more humane -- to prevent than to undertake
remedial action."
Additional proposals by Wilson to improve education and
child-development are:
** Tougher state laws to make schools safer;
** Greater prenatal care to ensure the health of newborns;
** Alternative credentialing of professionals;
** Enrollment of four-year olds in preschool class, which
could be taught by retired teachers;
** A more accurate and fair assessment of individual
student performance;
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TAKING CHARGE OF CALIFORNIA'S FUTURE
PROMISES vs PERFORMANCE
BY
U.S. SENATOR PETE WILSON
SACRAMENTO
FEBRUARY 12, 1990
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GAYLE AND I THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT ROUSING RECEPTION.
AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR STOPPING BY THIS MORNING. IT'S
ALWAYS GOOD TO BE IN SACRAMENTO AND TO BE AMONG FRIENDS.
YESTERDAY, I SPOKE ABOUT THE TWIN PERILS OF CRIME AND DRUGS
AND HOW WE CAN, AND WILL, CHANGE CALIFORNIA TO MAKE IT SAFE
AGAIN.
TODAY, I AM GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE KIND OF LEADERSHIP
CALIFORNIA MUST HAVE TO TAKE CHARGE OF ITS FUTURE.
THE PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA WANT AND ARE ENTITLED TO EXPECT
THEIR GOVERNOR TO LEAD, TO HAVE VISION, AND NOT JUST TO SEE
WHAT'S RIGHT, BUT TO HAVE THE GUTS TO DO WHAT'S RIGHT.
VOTERS WON'T AND SHOULDN'T BE SATISFIED WITH CLAIMS OF
"EXPERIENCE."
IT ISN'T ENOUGH TO HAVE HELD OFFICE. WHAT IS IMPORTANT IS
WHAT YOU'VE DONE WITH THE OFFICE.
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CALIFORNIANS WILL AND SHOULD BE PERSUADED TO VOTE FOR
PERFORMANCE. AND THE BEST GUIDE TO FUTURE PERFORMANCE IS THE
RECORD OF PAST PERFORMANCE
...
AND THAT IS WHY I INTEND TO BE
THE NEXT GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA!
...
NOT JUST BECAUSE I HAVE SERVED AT THE LOCAL, STATE,
AND FEDERAL LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT.
...
NOT JUST BECAUSE I HAVE HAD FAR MORE EXTENSIVE
LEGISLATIVE AND EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE THAN ANYONE ON THE OTHER
SIDE CAN OFFER.
BUT BECAUSE OF WHAT I'VE DONE AS THE CHAIRMAN OF THE
LEGISLATURE'S FIRST COMMITTEE ON URBAN PROBLEMS
...
AS MAYOR
OF SAN DIEGO, ONE OF AMERICA'S BIG CITY SUCCESS STORIES
...
AND AS U.S. SENATOR FROM CALIFORNIA WHO BROKE THE 36-YEAR OLD
JINX.
MUBaren
IT IS A RECORD I THINK WE CAN BOTH BE PROUD OF
AND A
RECORD THAT WILL BE PERSUASIVE AND WILL WIN.
I CHALLENGE MY OPPONENTS TO MATCH MY PERFORMANCE. LET THEM
PRESENT THEIR CREDENTIALS.
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HAVE THEY BROUGHT A LIGHT-RAIL SYSTEM TO THEIR CITIES? ON
SCHEDULE, UNDER BUDGET, AND WITHOUT FEDERAL FUNDS?
DID THEY AUTHOR THE FIRST COASTAL PROTECTION ACT -- STATE OR
FEDERAL -- IN THE NATION'S HISTORY? I DID, ALMOST 20 YEARS AGO.
HOW MANY ACRES HAVE THEY ADDED, FOR VITALLY NEEDED URBAN
RECREATION, TO THE SANTA MONICA MOUNTAIN OR GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL
RECREATION AREAS? HOW MAY CANYONS DID THEY SAVE? HOW MANY ACRES
TO THE CALIFORNIA WILDERNESS SYSTEM?
WHAT HAVE THEY DONE -- NOT TALKED ABOUT, BUT ACTUALLY
DONE -- TO REDUCE THE POLLUTION OF OUR AIR BY VEHICLE EMISSIONS?
HOW HAVE THEY BROUGHT ABOUT THE USE OF ALTERNATIVE FUELS TO
REDUCE SUCH POLLUTION?
FOR ALL THEIR RECENT, NEW FOUND TOUGH, ANTI-CRIME RHETORIC,
JUST WHAT HAVE MY OPPONENTS DONE -- NOT SAID, DONE -- ABOUT CRIME
AND DRUGS?
HAVE THEY PUT INTO LAW A DEATH PENALTY TO PROTECT COPS
AGAINST RUTHLESS ASSASSINS EMPLOYED BY DRUG KINGPINS? - CERTAINLY
NOT JOHN VAN DE KAMP WHO OPPOSES THE DEATH PENALTY.
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HAVE THEY AUTHORED THE LAW THAT NOW REQUIRES THE MILITARY TO
USE THEIR MANPOWER AND EQUIPMENT TO KEEP ILLEGAL DRUGS OUTSIDE
THE BORDERS OF THE U.S.?
...
OR AUTHORED THE LAW TO REQUIRE THAT FIRST-TIME
DRIVER'S LICENSE APPLICANTS REMAIN SUBJECT TO RANDOM MANDATORY
DRUG TESTING FOR ONE YEAR AFTER RECEIVING A LICENSE?
...
OR PROPOSED MANDATORY REHABILITATION FOR WOMEN WHOSE
SUBSTANCE ABUSE DURING PREGNANCY HAS LED TO AN EPIDEMIC INCREASE
IN ADDICTED AND PERMANENTLY DAMAGED NEWBORNS?
HAVE THEY PROPOSED A SWEEPING CHILD DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM TO
PROVIDE THE OPTIMUM EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT IN CALIFORNIA?
THE ANSWER IS THAT I HAVE DONE ALL THESE THINGS, AND MY
OPPONENTS NONE OF THEM.
THE ANSWER IS THAT TALK IS CHEAP AND IT IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR
THE KIND OF PERFORMANCE THAT HAS MADE AND WILL MAKE A REAL
DIFFERENCE IN THE DAILY QUALITY OF LIFE FOR YOU AND YOUR
FAMILIES, AND THOSE OF ALL CALIFORNIANS.
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WHETHER THE QUESTION IS ONE OF ETHICS, ENVIRONMENT, QUALITY
OF EDUCATION, OR HOW WE WILL MANAGE CALIFORNIA'S GROWTH, OR HOW
WE WILL SUCCESSFULLY COMBAT THE USE OF ILLEGAL DRUGS AND THE
CRIME IT SPAWNS -- A GOVERNOR MUST LEAD.
I REPEAT: A GOVERNOR MUST LEAD. EACH DAY.
THE INITIATIVE IS A LEGITIMATE REMEDY FOR LEGISLATIVE
DEFAULT. IT IS NO CURE FOR EXECUTIVE DEFAULT AND NO SUBSTITUTE
FOR EXECUTIVE PERFORMANCE.
AND MERELY PROPOSING INITIATIVE MEASURES DOES NOT EXCUSE A
LACK OF RECORD THAT REFLECTS -- ESPECIALLY ON THE PART OF AN
EXISTING OFFICE-HOLDER -- A LACK OF PERFORMANCE, A FAILURE TO
HAVE DONE OR SOLVED ANYTHING WORTH BEING RECORDED.
IT IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR LEADERSHIP, PAST OR FUTURE, AND
CERTAINLY NO EXCUSE FOR PAST FAILURE TO PERFORM AND NO GUARANTEE
OF FUTURE PERFORMANCE.
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BEING GOVERNOR IS A DAILY, HANDS-ON, MANAGERIAL
RESPONSIBILITY. THE DUTIES OF A GOVERNOR ARE THOSE OF
CALIFORNIA'S CHIEF EXECUTIVE. THEY ARE NOT, AND CANNOT BE
DISCHARGED BY PROPOSING BALLOT PROPOSITIONS AND PRETENDING THAT
MANAGEMENT OF THE STATE'S BUSINESS CAN THEN BE PLACED ON AUTO-
PILOT.
A GOVERNOR DOES NOT PROVIDE CALIFORNIA A GREAT WATER OR
HIGHWAY OR UNIVERSITY SYSTEM BY INITIATIVE. ASK PAT BROWN.
A GOVERNOR DOES NOT REFORM A MASSIVE WELFARE SYSTEM BY
INITIATIVE. ASK RONALD REAGAN.
A GOVERNOR DOES NOT RESTORE VITALITY TO CALIFORNIA'S ECONOMY
AFTER EIGHT YEARS OF NEGLECT AND WORSE, BY INITIATIVE. ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT REQUIRES PROMOTION; NOT A PROPOSITION. ASK GOVERNOR
DEUKMEJIAN.
A GOVERNOR DOES NOT DEAL WITH PESTILENCE BY INITIATIVE. ASK
JERRY BROWN.
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AND A GOVERNOR CERTAINLY CANNOT SUCCESSFULLY MANAGE ANYTHING
AS COMPLEX AS THE MIXED-BLESSING OF CALIFORNIA'S EXPLOSIVE
POPULATION GROWTH BY INITIATIVE. IT REQUIRES VISION AND
FORESIGHT, BUT IT DAMN WELL ALSO TAKES ALMOST DAILY DECISIONS ON
IMPORTANT DETAILS TO MAKE EVEN THE BEST, MOST CAREFULLY
THOUGHT-OUT AND PREPARED PLAN ACTUALLY WORK.
ASK PETE WILSON.
HE DID IT IN SAN DIEGO.
CALIFORNIA'S FUTURE IS BRIGHT WITH THE PROMISE OF OUR
PRIVATE CITIZENS IN ALL WALKS OF LIFE, MEN AND WOMEN OF ENERGY
AND CREATIVITY.
BUT THE FUTURE DEPENDS AS WELL UPON THE ENERGY, VISION AND
COURAGE OF A GOVERNOR ABLE AND EAGER TO LEAD, WORKING WITH THE
LEGISLATIVE AND THE PRIVATE SECTOR, IN MAKING THOSE CRITICAL,
PUBLIC DECISIONS THAT WILL QUITE LITERALLY SHAPE THE CALIFORNIA
THAT OUR CHILDREN LIVE IN.
GOVERNANCE IS NOT P.R.
IT IS NOT MANIPULATION.
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IT IS THOSE DAY-TO-DAY MANAGERIAL DECISIONS THAT ARE SO
CRITICAL A PART OF LEADERSHIP. ONLY THE GOVERNOR CAN MAKE THEM.
THE BUCK STOPS WITH HIM.
A GOVERNOR MUST LEAD TO GOVERN.
WHETHER IT WAS MAKING GROWTH MANAGEMENT WORK IN SAN DIEGO IN
THE '70'S, OR IN 1990, PROPOSING THE TOUGH, PREVENTIVE STEPS TO
CHECK THE EPIDEMIC INCREASE IN DRUG-ADDICTED NEWBORNS, OR
REFORMING CALIFORNIA EDUCATION TO PREPARE OUR KIDS TO COMPETE IN
THE 21ST CENTURY -- LEADING AND GOVERNING ARE WHAT I HAVE DONE
AND WHAT I WILL DO.
SOME PEOPLE WOULD CALL IT, TAKING CHARGE OF CALIFORNIA'S
FUTURE.
WELL, I THINK THEY'RE RIGHT. AND I FIRMLY BELIEVE THE BEST
DAYS LIE AHEAD FOR A PEOPLE AND GOVERNOR READY, EAGER, AND
DETERMINED TO TAKE CHARGE OF CALIFORNIA'S FUTURE.
THANK YOU.
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Pete Wilson
U.S. Senator for California
PR 89: 72
WILSON, CRANSTON INTRODUCE BILL TO PROHIBIT OFFSHORE OIL AND
GAS DEVELOPMENT WITHIN BOUNDARIES OF CORDELL BANK SANCTUARY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Lynda Schuler
May 18, 1989
Bill Livingstone
Franz Wisner
(202) 224-9652
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- California Senators Pete Wilson and
Alan Cranston today introduced a bill to prohibit offshore
oil and gas development anywhere within the boundaries of the
Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary.
The Commerce Department is expected to announce tomorrow
the formal designation of the sanctuary, including a
prohibition of drilling in the 18-mile core. However,
Commerce maintains it lacks the legal authority to bar oil
and gas activities throughout the entire 397 square miles
covered by the designation.
"The California Congressional delegation is adamantly
opposed to allowing oil and gas activities to occur anywhere
in the Cordell Bank sanctuary," Wilson said. "If the
Commerce Department lacks the legal authority to enact such a
ban, Congress will do it for them."
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA) also has agreed to propose a rule change that would
give it legal authority to extend the permanent ban on oil
and gas activities to the entire Cordell Bank area, but it
could take as long as a year to take effect. NOAA's lawyers
say that under the current rule, a move to ban oil and gas
drilling beyond the 18 mile area could prompt a lawsuit.
In the meantime, Congressman Doug Bosco (D-CA),
Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), and Congresswoman Barbara
Boxer (D-CA) introduced a bill on April 10 to direct the
Secretary of Commerce to revise the current rules
implementing the Cordell Bank designation to prohibit oil and
gas drilling in the sanctuary.
The bill Wilson and Cranston introduced today is a
companion bill to the House measure.
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"Anything less than 100 percent protection for Cordell
Bank would invalidate the intent of sanctuary designation,"
Wilson said. "It is positively absurd to imagine any
circumstance under which we would allow drilling in the
sanctuary, and we must change the rules to reflect that."
The bill sponsored by Wilson and other members of the
California delegation to designate the Cordell Bank area a
marine sanctuary was signed into law by President Reagan on
November 7, 1988 (PL 100-627).
However, during the process of completing the Cordell
Bank Environmental Impact statement, the Reagan
Administration appointees at NOAA chose not to propose
provisions that would prohibit oil and gas activities. As a
result, such provisions were never considered during the EIS
process and parties interested in oil and gas development
were not given an adequate opportunity to comment.
NOAA's concern now is that a sanctuary-wide ban could
invite lawsuits from oil companies who were not given the
chance to comment on. such a proposed ban during the EIS
process.
Wilson initially wrote to Secretary of Commerce Robert
A. Mosbacher on March 16, 1989 asking him to prohibit
offshore oil and gas development throughout the sanctuary.
Commerce and NOAA subsequently learned of the legal
entanglement and have been working with Wilson's office to
propose a rule change.
Wilson decided he would introduce a companion bill to
Bosco's H.J. Res. 233 in order to provide statutory
protection for the entire 397 square miles and to erase any
shadow of doubt that the rules process may leave a loophole
through which drilling could be allowed.
Cordell Bank is a large underwater island approximately
50 miles outside of the San Francisco Bay and just north of
the existing Point Reyes-Farallon Isslands sanctuary, both of
which are off-limits to oil and gas activities. Cordell Bank
reaches up to within 100 feet of the ocean surface at some
points and is home to a wide variety of corals and rare
marine plant and animal life.
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COMMERCE. SCIENCE AND TRANSPORTATION
SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON AGINO
United States Senate
JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE
WASHINGTON, DC 20510
February 15, 1989
The President
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear Mr. President:
In your State of the Union speech last Thursday night, I
sincerely appreciated your remarks regarding the need to
protect the environment and am heartened to know that we have
in you a President who is obviously willing to give substance
to your vision for America.
Of the many subjects you raised in your speech that I will
want to address at the appropriate time, the most immediate
issue is your announcement of a postponement of OCS Lease Sales
91, 95 and 116. From my perspective, this is indeed fantastic
news. I remember our conversation last fall on this subject
and am pleased to know that we continue to think alike on how
to resolve this perplexing problem.
It is obvious that the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act
of 1978 has not worked as intended with regard to the
California OCS. I agree with you that it is high time to
re-evaluate the OCS leasing process in these areas and develop
new recommendations on how best to proceed in a "prudent,
environmentally sound" manner. As you noted in your budget
message, if significant adverse environmental effects cannot be
successfully treated, it may be necessary to cancel these
pending sales.
In considering these environmental issues, I believe that
the task force you have established -- which now includes the
Departments of Interior and Energy and the National Academy of
Sciences -- should be broadened to include the Environmental
Protection Agency. EPA, after all, is the agency charged by
Congress to protect our environment. It can bring its
considerable expertise in air and water pollution problems to
the task force, and thereby enhance the credibility of any
recommendations that should be forthcoming.
WILSON
The President
February 15, 1989
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Additionally, the mandate of the task force should include
review of proposed leasing off Central California. Lease Sale
119 is scheduled for late next year and presents many of. the
same issues and problems as do proposed Sales 91 and 95. It
makes sense to have the task force address the entire
California OCS leasing question rather than merely focusing on
the northern and southern coastal areas.
Furthermore, it remains unclear from your budget message
as to whether "pre-leasing" activities (EIS preparation, public
hearings, Governor's comments, etc.) will continue
simultaneously with the work of the task force. This is a
matter of some urgency in light of the fact that the Interior
Department is currently prepared to issue a Final Environmental
Impact Statement for Sale 91 and reach other similar
pre-leasing "milestones" for Sales 95 and 119. In my view,
these pre-leasing activities should be postponed pending the
recommendations of the task force. It makes no sense to
proceed ahead with sale preparation when it is highly likely
that the terms of the sale -- indeed, the very existence of the
sale itself -- may be radically altered by the task force
recommendations.
Finally, I would like to discuss with you further the
question of how to more specifically define the mandate of the
task force and the timing of its recommendations. The items I
have mentioned in this letter, however, require your immediate
attention, especially as to whether the Interior Department's
pre-leasing activities on these particular lease sales are to
be indefinitely postponed.
Again, Mr. President, I applaud your initiative and salute
your courage in directly confronting this highly sensitive
issue. Your commitment to resolving this issue clearly
demonstrates that you are indeed an environmentalist. I look
forward to working with you in pursuing this matter to a
successful resolution and hope that you will be able to give
early attention to the recommendations that I have made in this
letter.
Sincerely,
PETE WILSON
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U.S. Senator for California
PR 89: 106
WILSON URGES SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE TO EXTEND
OFFSHORE OIL DRILLING MORATORIUM OFF CALIFORNIA COAST
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Lynda Schuler
July 13, 1989
Bill Livingstone
(202) 224-9652
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- California Senator Pete Wilson today
urged the Senate Appropriations Committee to extend the
moratorium on offshore oil drilling off of the California
coast for another year, saying the Senate "should be on
record in sending a strong message to the oil industry that
there are certain risks that just aren't worth taking."
The House of Representatives Wednesday approved the 1990
Interior Appropriations bill, which includes a provision
extending and expanding the California moratorium. In a
speech on the Senate floor today, Wilson called on the Senate
Appropriations Committee to follow suit.
"In the event the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS)
moratorium language is not reported out of the committee, I
will be here on the floor during the consideration of the
Interior Appropriations bill with an appropriate amendment,"
WIlson said.
Wilson said recent tanker spills in Alaska, off Rhode
Island, in the Delaware River, off the coast of Texas, and,
most recently, off the coast of San Diego from the crippled
Exxon Valdez tanker, are all testimonials to the "enormous
risks" that are associated with the offshore production and
transportation of oil.
"For too long, the Senate has avoided the issue of Outer
Continental Shelf oil and gas development," Wilson said. "We
can't afford to avoid it any longer."
The Senate has never voted for a moratorium on offshore
oil drilling, but has each year agreed to go along with the
House's ban on drilling during conference committee on the
Interior Appropriations bill.
"We should be on record in sending a strong message to
the oil industry that there are certain risks that just
aren't worth taking and that until these risks have been
minimized, certain reasonable restraints should be placed on
new OCS oil and gas development," Wilson said.
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"We have known for years now that tankers pose the
greatest risk of a oil spill, yet, very little has been done
over the years to minimize the risk of a tanker spill, as
evidenced by the Valdez incident," Wilson said.
Wilson said the current five-year plan by the Interior
Department to develop offshore oil and gas resources would
only increase the risks of spills.
"In fact, if the Interior Department gets its way, the
risk of a tanker spill would be even greater, as any new oil
and gas production rigs in the nearshore coastal waters of
California would likely pump their oil directly into waiting
tankers for transport to onshore refineries," Wilson said.
Wilson said the lack of spill cleanup technology is
"probably the most telling indictment" of the Interior
Department's plans to lease in environmentally sensitive
areas off of California. State and federal officials admit
little could be done to effectively contain a Valdez-size
spill off the coast of California, Wilson said.
Wilson outlined his objections to numerous Interior
Department actions, including:
** A request that the Coast Guard narrow offshore
shipping lanes to make room for more OCS tracts to be leased,
a move Wilson says will greatly increase risks of spills;
** A plan to develop OCS tracts off the coast of Camp
Pendleton in Southern California, which Wilson said would
inhibit Marine Corps training activities in the area;
** A continuing refusal to limit the air pollutants
emitted from offshore oil rigs.
"Californians have long been sensitized to the risk of
offshore development dating back to the Santa Barbara blowout
of 1969," Wilson said. "Now that the Valdez tragedy has
focused the nation's attention of these risks, it is time for
the Senate to speak to this issue."
"By extending the California OCS moratorium, we will be
telling the oil industry and the Interior Department that
business as usual is not enough," Wilson said.
"We need action to minimize the threat of tanker spills,
control dirty air emissions, minimize fishery impacts,
compensate for the loss of real estate values and address all
the other issues that have been at the heart of the
California OCS debate for the last eight years," Wilson said.
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U.S. Senator for California
PR 89:195
WILSON URGES JOINT INTERIOR DEPARTMENT-EPA MANAGEMENT
OF OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Bill Livingstone
November 20, 1989
Lynda Schuler
(202) 224-9652
WASHINGTON -- Faulting the Interior Department's record
of unsatisfactory support for protecting the environment,
California Senator Pete Wilson today called for hearings to
examine the possibility of expanding management of the Outer
Continental Shelf (OCS) to also include the Environmental
Protection Agency.
"Safeguarding the environment has taken a back seat to
the development of our natural resources at the Interior
Department," Wilson said.
"A proper balance between development and preservation
would be assured by directly involving EPA in the
administration of the Outer Continental Shelf," Wilson said.
To this end, Wilson today called for hearings to examine
the Interior Department's abysmal record of support for
environmental concerns when faced with the dual
responsibility of expeditiously developing the nation's
marine mineral resources.
"According to the National Research Council, the
Interior Department has failed to gather sufficient
information to make an informed judgement on the ecological
impact of OCS drilling off California's coast," Wilson said.
"Still, absent this crucial data, the agency has
steadfastly and tenaciously attempted to develop oil and gas
reserves located along coastal areas," Wilson said.
Wilson said he did not believe it was a stated policy of
the Interior Department to emphasize energy production at the
expense of the environment.
"It appears the Department is unable to reconcile the
dual responsbilities of developing our natural resources with
protecting the environment," Wilson said.
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The problem is not unlike that faced earlier this year
when President Bush announced the creation of the cabinet
level task force to review OCS development off the coasts of
California and Florida.
Initially, the President only included on the panel
representatives from the Interior Department, Energy
Department, and the National Academy of Sciences. Later, EPA
was added in order to balance the structural bias of the task
force.
"Just as the President determined that EPA should
necessarily be part of the task force charged with the review
of OCS development, I believe EPA should be included in the
day-to-day said. management of the Outer Continental Shelf," Wilson
"Only by allowing EPA to share in the stewardship of the
OCS areas can the public be assured protecting the
environment will receive equal treatment with the need for
exploiting our natural resources," Wilson said.
The OCS Lands Act Amendments of 1978 (OCSLAA) require
the Interior Department to take into account the potential
environmental impact when assessing OCS areas for leasing and
development. At the same time, the Department is charged
with developing marine mineral resources to meet the nation's
energy demands.
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United States Senate
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20510-0502
OFFICIAL BUSINESS
U.S.S.
07:17PM *SEN. WILSON D. c.
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NEWS FROM
Pete
Wilson
U.S. SENATOR FOR CALIFORNIA
PR 89: 23
BUSH A "MAN OF HIS WORD, WILSON SAYS:
"READ MY LIPS -- GEORGE BUSH IS AN ENVIRONMENTALIST"
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Lynda S. Royster
February 9, 1989
Bill Livingstone
(202) 224-9652
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- California Senator Pete Wilson said
today that President Bush's plan to announce during his State
of the Union address his decision to delay oil lease sales
off California's coast "demonstrates that Bush is a man of
his word."
"Read my lips -- George Bush is an environmentalist,"
Wilson said. "He promised me and all Californians concerned
about the coast during his campaign that he would take
another look at the issue of offshore oil leasing, and he has
certainly come through for us."
Wilson phoned the White House this morning to confirm
published reports that President Bush would announce tonight
his decision to delay indefinitely Lease Sale 91 in northern
California and establish a task force to review Lease Sale 95
off southern California's coast.
"Forming a task force to analyze the need for balance
between protecting the environment and developing our energy
resources is exactly what I advised President Bush to do last
fall," Wilson said. "It makes sense, and it is certainly
preferable to a continuation of the warfare between Congress
and the White House that characterized the last eight years."
During last fall's Presidential campaign, Wilson asked
Bush to review California offshore oil lease plans made by
the Reagan Administration and to take into account the unique
environmental dictates of the California coastline.
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C.
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Pete
Wilson
U.S. SENATOR FOR CALIFORNIA
PR 89:11LA
WILSON PRESENTS $3.6 MILLION TO LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCIES TO CONTINUE WAR ON DRUGS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: James Lee
March 20, 1989
Jeff Randle
(213) 209-6765
LOS ANGELES -- Citing the irony of using drug dealers' money
to fund law enforcement, U.S. Senator Pete Wilson presented $3.6
million today to various local law enforcement agencies from
assets seized in recent drug arrests.
"We're fighting drug dealers by confiscating their expensive
homes and fast cars and using the proceeds from those assets to
help fund local law enforcement efforts,' Wilson said. "It's a
pleasing irony that drug pushers are paying for their own
arrests."
Wilson co-sponsored the legislation allowing local law
enforcement agencies to seize and sell any assets of an individual
derived from drug sales or their use. The funds can be used to
pay for law enforcement operations or purchase equipment.
Wilson presented a check for almost $500,000 to Chief Ted
Cook of the Culver City Police Department. Prior to today's
award, the city had received $220,000, which was used for the
purchase of undercover vehicles, radio equipment, computers, and
recording devices.
"With ever increasing budget constraints on local
governments, the asset forfeiture program provides a means to
enhance law enforcement activities," Wilson said.
Wilson also presented a check to the Los Angeles County
Sheriffs' Department totalling $2.6 million following a speech
before the California Sheriffs' Association Convention in Long
Beach.
"Last year's omnibus drug bill gave law enforcement more
tools to fight crime and drugs," Wilson said. "We added more
federal prosecutors, more DEA agents and more FBI agents."
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"Just paying lip service and talking tough doesn't stop drugs
from flowing into our streets and schools. It will take a
commitment of federal, state and local dollars to not only stop
the importation, but also curb the demand," Wilson said.
Wilson also cited his work to permanently protect the asset
forfeiture program from elimination because of federal budget
constraints.
"Using seized assets to balance the federal budget is not the
solution, nor does it make good sense to deprive local law
enforcement of a valuable weapon to combat drugs and gangs,"
Wilson said.
"We need to address the problems in the federal criminal
justice system," Wilson said. "We need to develop a comprehensive
work-in-prisons program. It will benefit prisoners by giving them
job skills and help the public in funding their incarceration."
Wilson added that even though drugs were still a daunting
problem, progress was being made in several areas. Recent surveys
indicate declining drug use among school children and changing
public attitudes toward drug use among sports stars and in the
media.
"We've funneled more money into street-level law
enforcement," Wilson said. "But we must continue to work to
prevent our children from following the road to crime, drugs and
imprisonment. It's our responsibility to make sure a generation is
not wasted."
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Pete
Wilson
U.S. SENATOR FOR CALIFORNIA
PR 89: 66
WILSON REACTION TO PRESIDENT BUSH'S SPEECH ON CRIME
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:
Bill Livingstone
May 15, 1989
Lynda Schuler
Franz Wisner
(202) 224-9652
WASHINGTON D.C. -- Following is the transcript of
remarks made by California Senator Pete Wilson today in
response to President Bush's proposal for enactment of a new
legislative package of anti-crime and anti-drug measures:
"First of all I want to say that this is probably the
most important speech the President has made or perhaps will
make. The American people really have begun to doubt whether
in fact the American criminal justice system works. This
country needs even stricter measures against drug and gun
crimes, and not just at the federal level.
To really be effective, all levels of government must
*
act, and President Bush is correct to call on governors and
state legislatures to make the same changes he is demanding
from Congress.
"As the President said, we need to back up anti-crime
rhetoric with resources, including more federal agents, more
I
federal prisons and more prosecutors so we can have less plea
bargaining. Those who are convicted should do hard time --
it's the only thing that's really going to assure criminals
the streets that the odds have changed, that the risks are
not worth the reward. And it's the only thing that'll
convince the American people that they will, in fact, someday
soon be able to enjoy freedom from fear.
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"Furthermore, there is no justification for failing to
enact a death penalty against drug kingpins. Without that,
we are going to see the odds continue as they are -- in favor
of the drug kingpins, who see very well that the risks are
now minimal and the rewards great to a life of crime that
includes cold-blooded killing for profit. Crime does pay,
and pay handsomely, unless there are penalties enacted that
take the profit out of it.
"I'm a hardliner on crime. I believe in the death
penalty. I believe in doing "hard time." But, I would have
to add that it is only part of the solution to the
problem. We also need to educate kids against drug abuse,
but also to provide for the kind of things that will give
kids a decent break in life -- like good child care programs
and schools -- so they don't turn to crime later on. That
approach will not only save millions in taxpayer dollars but
also save uncountable human suffering.
###
Bush Dismisses Idea of Offshore Drilling Ban
Oil: President reaffirms need for environmental
headed by Interior Secretary Man-
The EPA chief said he questions
uel Lujan Jr., laid out a series of
whether the accident would have
caution. But he says the Orange County tanker spill is
options for each of the lease sales.
been averted by a double hull or
affected by the embargo, ranging
double bottom on the vessel. Bills
not related to safety of exploration at sea.
from beginning leasing to extend-
to require double hulls were re-
ing the ban for years.
cently passed by the House and
By RUDY ABRAMSON
halted lease sale preparations be-
Knowledgeable sources have
Senate, and a conference commit-
TIMES STAFF WRITER
gun by the Reagan Administration
said the area off Southern Califor-
tee is working out differences be-
and ordered an interagency task
nia is the most likely of the three to
tween the two houses.
WASHINGTON - President
force to assess the environmental
Bush said Monday the American
be opened to development since it
The oil industry and trade
and economic impact of developing
Trader oil spill off the Orange
is believed to have more than a
groups such as the National Ocean
three offshore areas rich in oil and
County coast has reinforced his
billion barrels of recoverable oil,
Industries Assn. have used the
gas: Lease Sale 95, off the Southern
far more than the Northern Cali-
accident off the California coast to
Heavy Ponderosa
caution about offshore oil drilling
California coast, Lease Sale 91 off
argue that tanker accidents make
Pine Table with
in environmentally sensitive areas,
fornia or Florida Keys sites.
Northern California, and Lease
Oil Finish shown
The offshore development that
offshore drilling even more imper-
but he brushed aside the idea of
6
Sale 116 off the Florida Keys. The
ative in order to restrain tanker
ft/$595
8 ft/
ending leasing on the outer conti-
6.7-million acres of Sale 95 extend
already has taken place off
nental shelf.
from the Mexican border to the
Southern California also has creat-
traffic.
"I have said we're not going to
northern border of San Luis Obispo
ed an infrastructure, such as pipe-
"Additional offshore produc-
County. Lease Sale 91 covers 1.1
lines and refineries.
tion," the association said, "will
have drilling in highly environ-
actually decrease the amount of
or
mentally sensitive places," he told
million acres off Mendocino and
About the same time the Presi-
tanker traffic off America's coasts.
Tuesday-Saturday
a White House press conference,
Humboldt counties.
dent was addressing the newest
spill, Environmental Protection
For every barrel of oil produced
11140 Ch
but I'll be darned if I think we
Bush told reporters Monday he
Agency Administrator William K.
domestically, one less barrel of
Between Vinelano
ought to shut down all offshore
has read the task force report,
Reilly was making the same point,
imported oil will be transported
drilling everywhere."
submitted to him in January, and
expects to announce his decision
telling reporters that he does not
into the country, nearly all of
see "a near-term alternative to
which is transported by tankers."
n discussing last Wednesday's
"fairly soon."
spill, the President was adamant
continued offshore leasing in a lot
The industry assertion is flatly
Administration sources said
of places."
disputed by environmental groups
in distinguishing between tanker
some of the President's advisers
accidents and drilling offshore.
have been urging him to announce
However, he added, "California
opposing development of the outer
continental shelf off California.
"I don't see that a spill from a
his decision when he returns to
is in some respects a very special
California on a four-day trip at the
place."
Drilling offshore, particularly off
tanker really has much to do with
Northern California, will produce
whether you can drill an offshore
end of this month. That suggests
that his course will be considered
"T
he sad reality of this coun-
more, rather than less, tanker traf-
well safely," he declared.
try's heavy dependence on
fic, said Lisa Speer of the Natural
Bush has before him a decision
politically popular in the state,
petroleum," Reilly said, "is that we
Resources Defense Council.
on opening up to leasing much of
where anti-drilling sentiment is
have had to look for it everywhere.
Reilly told reporters the ques-
Melvin
the outer continental shelf off the
strong.
We are committed to energy use
tion is moot. "Whether the leases
California coast.
Rather than giving Bush specific
levels that will require us for some
go forward or not," he said, "there
Shortly after entering office, he
recommendations, the task force,
time to come to import a large
is going to be a lot more tanker
deeper
amount of oil from other countries.
traffic coming into the country
That does, in fact, pose a large
because our own rate of production
number of hazards, particularly as
is decreasing as our rate of usage is
in the n
it comes in tankers."
going up."
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CALIFORNIA IN STATE OF FAST DECAY;
THE INFRASTRUCTURE IS CRUMBLING AFTER YEARS OF NEGLECT. BUT IT'S DIFFICULT TO
SEE WHERE THE BILLIONS FOR REPAIRS AND NEW FACILITIES WILL COME FROM.
SERIES: Agenda for the '90s. Critical issues facing California voters. First
in an occasional series.
BYLINE: By WILLIAM TROMBLEY, TIMES STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: SACRAMENTO
BODY:
It took the fury of nature to drive home a harsh fact of life that
Californians have been ignoring for years - the state is falling apart.
When the Nimitz Freeway collapsed and a piece of the San Francisco-Oakland
Bay Bridge fell during the devastating Bay Area earthquake last Oct. 17, the
notion of California as a progressive state that keeps everything shipshape
was destroyed as well.
California is entering the last decade of the century with its
"infrastructure" - roads, bridges, school classrooms, airports and sewer
systems -- in an advanced state of decay. Accelerating the decay are a rapidly
growing population and voters and political leaders who show little interest in
raising taxes to rebuild public works.
"You can make an argument that California is beginning to look like a Third
World nation," said Lewis H. Butler, president of California Tomorrow, a
planning group that worries about the state's future.
The most glaring case of neglect can be found on Oakland's Nimitz Freeway,
where last October's quake killed 42 people because the California Department
of Transportation did not have enough money to strengthen its most vulnerable
structures.
But there is other evidence that the state's infrastructure is crumbling
dangerously:
In Orange County, where only two miles of new freeway were built in the
1980s, gridlock is a daily fact of life.
* Much smaller Stanislaus County, in the San Joaquin Valley, has enough money
to resurface only 20 miles of its 1,600 miles of road each year. In addition, 50
of 250 county bridges need to be brought up to current earthquake safety
standards, but there is little money to do that.
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* Raw sewage spills are a common occurrence in San Diego, where city
officials must find $3 billion to build a new treatment plant.
*
The San Jose sewer system runs so close to capacity that city officials
pleaded with residents not to use their toilets en masse during halftime of last
year's Super Bowl football game, for fear the system would overflow.
*
In fast-growing Moreno Valley, in Riverside County, school enrollment has
doubled in five years, to 26,800, and is expected to double again by 1994.
Almost half of the pupils are in portable classrooms.
* Water officials fear breaks in the antique, leaky system of peat-and-sand
levees in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta that helps to separate salt water
from fresh and keeps the State Water Project flowing.
*
More state prisons and local jails are needed; more schools and colleges;
new airports and intercity transit lines; disposal sites for garbage and
hazardous wastes; parks, libraries and flood control facilities.
The list goes on and on - and the price is high.
"It is a problem of dramatic proportions," said Angelo J. Siracusa, president
of the Bay Area Council, an organization of major employers in the San Francisco
area. "I can't quantify it, and I don't know who can, but surely we're talking
about billions and billions of dollars" in new construction and repair.
California ranks near the bottom among states in per capita spending for
highways. The state also stands last in percentage of per capita income spent
for public schools, as calculated by the U.S. Department of Education.
"The buzzword for the '90s is competitiveness," said Steven Levy, director of
the Center for the Continuing Study of the California Economy. "How can you be
competitive if your roads are falling apart and your schools are lousy?"
There are a few bright spots in this generally gloomy picture.
More than $3 billion has been spent on new prison construction in the seven
years George Deukmejian has been governor, but even that is not enough to keep
pace with the swelling inmate population.
Thousands of new classrooms were built throughout the state in the 1980s,
though again not enough to meet the need. And new buildings are rising on
University of California and California State University campuses, after
several years of relative inactivity.
Finally persuaded that the state gasoline tax must be increased to pay for
transportation improvements, the governor is pushing a state constitutional
amendment on the June primary ballot that would lift the Gann limit on state
spending and would generate about $18.5 billion for new highways and other
transportation projects by raising the gasoline tax nine cents over a five-year
period.
All three of the major candidates in next year's gubernatorial election -
Democrats Dianne Feinstein and John K. Van de Kamp and Republican Pete Wilson
-- support this measure, which will be listed on the June ballot as
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Proposition 111.
In addition, Feinstein has proposed a new state growth management commission
that would try to direct California's explosive growth into areas that do have
adequate infrastructure.
And, last fall, Deukmejian also signed a package of bills that could help
California cope with its staggering output of garbage.
But for most of the last 25 years - through the governorships of two
Republicans, Deukmejian and Ronald Reagan, and one Democrat -- Edmund G. (Jerry)
Brown Jr. --- the state has failed to provide for the needs of its fast-growing
and rapidly changing population.
"We're facing the results of 20 years of negligence," said Robert Cervero,
associate professor of city and regional planning at UC Berkeley.
Joseph Bodovitz, president of the California Environmental Trust and former
executive director of the California Coastal Commission, called it "a
breakdown of the social contract."
California is not alone in allowing its physical plant to deteriorate.
Federal spending for infrastructure has declined steadily since 1969 - a
victim first of the Vietnam War, then of inflation, and now of the staggering
federal budget deficit.
Spending for public works has dropped from 2.3% of gross national product to
1% in the last 20 years, according to U.S. Department of Commerce figures.
"The budget deficit drives everything in Washington now, and the
infrastructure problem has been tucked aside," said Pat Choate, vice president
for policy analysis at TRW, whose 1981 book "America in Ruins" stirred interest
in the problem for a time.
The problem has been handed back to the states, "and they haven't done much
either," Choate added.
Ironically, in California the decline in public works spending has
coincided with a period of remarkable growth and change.
Last summer, the state's population slipped past 29 million. It will climb to
more than 35 million by the end of this century, if present trends continue.
Thickly populated new communities are springing up almost overnight. The city
of Moreno Valley, 10 miles east of Riverside, was incorporated only five years
ago but already has more than 100,000 residents. San Joaquin Valley communities
such as Lodi, Modesto and Tracy - rural in nature not so long ago ------ now are
filling with commuters from the Bay Area.
But many of these new residents must drive two hours or more, over congested
roads, to reach their jobs. In many places, schools are overcrowded, local
streets are jammed, sewer systems are inadequate, and water quality and quantity
is questionable. Meanwhile, the cities these commuters left behind are filling
mainly with ethnic and racial minorities who live in poverty.
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A new study by the state Assembly Office of Research notes that minorities
probably will account for almost 50% of California's population by the end of
the century.
The report warns about the "fracturing of California into a two-tier
society of haves and have-nots," as whites and Asians dominate the better-paying
occupations while "Hispanics and blacks are limited to the lower-paying jobs."
"Development and jobs follow the Anglo flight from the costly and crowded
cities to the affordable, uncongested dream life on the metropolitan fringe,"
the report states, "leaving the urban core to those who have the greatest need
for public services but the least ability to pay for them."
The state's failure to respond to population growth and demographic change
has produced a staggering bill for unmet needs in public works.
For instance, the unfunded portion of the five-year state Transportation
Improvement Plan now stands at $3.5 billion.
In the big cities, this means potholes, road closures and traffic jams. In
Stanislaus County it means a pitifully inadequate $7-million annual budget for
construction and maintenance of roads and bridges.
At least $8 billion is needed statewide to bring California sewage
treatment plants up to federal water quality and health standards by the year
2005, the State Water Resources Control Board estimates. Much more than that
would be required to meet federal air quality standards in the state's smoggiest
communities -- Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay
Area.
The state Department of Finance projects an increase in public school
enrollment of 1.4 million between 1989 and 1998, and the state Department of
Education said it will cost about $11 billion to house these additional
students.
In Los Angeles alone, 50,000 more pupils are expected in the next five years,
requiring construction of 35 new elementary schools, 10 junior high schools and
five senior high schools, at a cost of about $500 million. Another $500 million
is needed to repair existing schools.
That kind of money is not available, so class size will increase and all
schools will be placed on a year-round calendar.
The University of California, the California State University system and
the two-year community colleges say they need billions of dollars' worth of new
facilities if the state is to continue to offer higher education to all who seek
it.
Additional billions are needed for airports, prisons, hospitals, port
facilities, dams and a host of other projects.
All of this will cost at least $10 billion a year for at least 10 years, most
experts believe.
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Some in the Capitol quarrel with these estimates.
State Finance Director Jesse R. Huff, for one, said needs have been
overstated as a result of "some pretty simple ways of projecting." However, many
of the forecasts - those for the public schools, for instance come from his
own department.
Others believe the numbers cannot grow too large or they will breed a public
sense of helplessness.
"There is a major, a very substantial construction need," said Kirk West,
president of the California Chamber of Commerce. "But I don't want to give the
impression that the problem is totally overwhelming."
"The problem can be made to sound so massive that it defeats efforts to deal
with it," West said. "That is not the case. It is affordable and it can and
should be funded."
Just how is not so clear.
If Californians and their political leaders retain their aversion to new
taxes, the money to rebuild the state's rickety physical plant must come from
bond issues and from developer fees and user fees of various kinds.
But there is growing concern in Sacramento about the extent of the state's
bonded indebtedness.
Reflecting this concern, Deukmejian and legislative leaders agreed Friday to
place only about $3 billion in new bond issues before the voters next June, out
of a total of about $18 billion that had been proposed by individual
legislators.
Another $2 billion to $3 billion probably will be approved for the November
ballot.
If voters approve these measures, most of the money will pay for schools,
prisons, higher education facilities and transportation improvements, but will
make only a slight dent in the state's overall infrastructure problem.
Fees are the other possible major source of infrastructure financing user
fees, developer fees, special assessment districts.
Mello-Roos districts, created several years ago by legislation authored by
state Sen. Henry J. Mello (D-Watsonville) and Assemblyman Mike Roos (D-Los
Angeles), permit property owners in a given geographic area to assess special
fees to pay for roads, schools, sewers and other public improvements.
A few years ago these districts generated only about $20 million a year. Now
it is close to $700 million.
Higher sewer rates are paying the interest on bonds that are financing a
$3.4-billion upgrading of the Los Angeles sewer system. Higher rates also will
help to finance the $3 billion in new treatment facilities needed in San Diego.
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Charges for water in much of Southern California will rise sharply to pay
for the Metropolitan Water District's ambitious $3-billion expansion and
renovation plan.
Fees paid by developers now account for about 25% of new school construction
in fast-growing suburban areas. They also pay for parks, libraries, streets,
traffic signals, even police and fire departments --- services that were provided
by local government before the passage of Proposition 13.
"That's the biggest source of infrastructure financing we have and it's
largely invisible," said Dean Misczynski, a principal consultant in the Senate
Office of Research.
But developers pass most of these costs along to home buyers, which raises
housing prices and forces many potential buyers out of the market.
Most fiscal experts agree that bond issues and fees cannot provide enough
revenue to rebuild the state. New taxes are needed but they are also unlikely,
except for the half-cent sales tax increases that now have been approved by 16
counties, mostly for transportation improvements.
Most politicians in both parties think the "tax revolt" that led to
Proposition 13 in 1978 and to Proposition 4, the "Gann limit" the next year, is
still very much alive.
They may rail against the "anti-expansion, anti-government attitudes of the
last 20 years," as state Sen. John Garamendi (D-Walnut Grove) does, but they are
not about to propose higher taxes to rebuild the state's infrastructure.
So the neglect is likely to go on and the quality of life for most
Californians probably will continue its downward drift.
"People get the kind of government they deserve," said Lew Butler of
California Tomorrow. "The voters of California have wanted to believe they
could have lower taxes and still have a clean environment, safe cities and the
rest. Maybe now they're beginning to see it can't happen.'
REBUILDING CALIFORNIA
Cost estimates for the rebuilding of California's infrastructure vary widely.
They depend on how infrastructure is defined, the time period being considered,
whether deferred maintenance expenditures are included, the politics of the
person making the estimate and many other factors.
Here are some of the key problems and possible solutions:
TRANSPORTATION:
PROBLEM:
Construction of new highways and other transportation improvements has lagged
far behind the state's booming population, creating serious traffic congestion
in major urban areas and even in smaller cities. The five-year State
Transportation Improvement Plan shows a $3.5-billion revenue shortfall.
SOLUTION:
Passage of a 9-cent state gasoline tax increase next June, which would make
$18.5 billion available for transportation projects, if voters also agree to
raise the Gann limit on state spending. County sales tax increases and fees on
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new development also will pay for some new roads and other transportation
improvements.
SCHOOLS:
PROBLEM:
Enrollment in kindergarten through 12th grade is expected to increase by 1.4
million in the next 10 years. Another 26,000 classrooms, costing $11 billion,
are needed to accommodate these students. All of the money from past
voter-approved school construction bonds has been spent.
SOLUTION:
More bond issues -- $2 billion to $3 billion every other year -- plus developer
fees in fast-growing suburban communities.
HIGHER EDUCATION:
PROBLEM:
The University of California, the California State University and the
community colleges all expect large enrollment increases. UC wants more than $1
billion in state construction funds in the next five years, plus another $1
billion to build three new campuses by 1999. CSU is asking for $1.4 billion over
five years, plus $2.5 billion to $3 billion for five new campuses. Statewide
community college officials say $700 million is needed for building on existing
campuses and $1.1 billion for 16 new campuses by the year 2005.
SOLUTION:
Bond issues.
PRISONS:
PROBLEM:
Despite $3.5 billion worth of new state prison construction in the Deukmejian
Administration, state prisons remain seriously overcrowded. The inmate
population is expected to swell from 87,000 currently to 137,000 in 1994,
requiring another $3 billion to $3.5 billion in construction.
SOLUTION:
More bond issues.
SEWERS:
PROBLEM:
State officials say it would cost $5.6 billion to bring all sewage treatment
plants in California up to federal health standards and that figure will grow
to at least $8 billion by the year 2005. Los Angeles alone is spending $3.4
billion to upgrade its sewer system, while San Diego must build a new treatment
plant that will cost at least $1.5 billion. The federal government is phasing
out the grant program that once paid for up to 75% of these construction costs.
SOLUTION:
State loans and local bond issues, with interest on the bonds being paid by
higher sewer fees.
SOLID WASTE:
PROBLEM:
Californians generate 40 million tons of trash a year. The Little Hoover
Commission reported last July that 15 counties will exceed their landfill
capacity by 1996 and the entire state will run out of landfill space by the end
of the century. Some communities burn their trash in large incinerators, but
these are fiercely opposed on air pollution grounds. Recycling garbage is
helpful but markets for the recycled cans, glass and paper products are limited.
SOLUTION:
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Legislation authored by Assemblyman Byron D. Sher (D-Palo Alto), and signed into
law by Gov. Deukmejian, requires local governments to reduce solid waste 25% by
1995 and 50% by the year 2000. This will cost cities and counties $4 billion to
$5 billion, most of which probably will come from local bond issues, with
interest repaid by higher garbage collection fees.
GRAPHIC: Table, REBUILDING CALIFORNIA; Photo, The Bay Area quake was
devastating to the Nimitz Freeway in Oakland. Forty-two people were killed on
the structure last October and it spotlighted the vulnerable condition of
California's roads and bridges. ROBERT DURELL / Los Angeles Times; Photo,
Wearing AwayThe state's infrastructure -- bridges, schools, airports and
freeways -- are decaying, sparking some worried reactions. The Nimitz Freeway
collapse during October's Bay Area earthquake showed that California hasn't
kept everything shipshape. Accelerating the decay is population growth and
increasing traffic, above. GARY AMBROSE / Los Angeles Times; Photo, (Bulldog
Edition) The Bay Area quake, which devastated the Mimitz Freeway in Oakland,
spotlighted the worsening condition of the state's roads and bridges.
Associated Press
TYPE: Non Dup; Series; Main Story
SUBJECT: CALIFORNIA -- ECONOMY; CALIFORNIA -- TAXES; CALIFORNIA -
FINANCES; CALIFORNIA -- BUDGET; GOVERNMENT SPENDING; DEUKMEJIAN, GEORGE;
INFRASTRUCTURE; 1990S (DECADE); FUTURE; CALIFORNIA -- PUBLIC WORKS;
CALIFORNIA -- PUBLIC FACILITIES; BUILDING MAINTENANCE; NEGLIGENCE;
CALIFORNIA - SCHOOLS; CALIFORNIA -- EDUCATION; CALIFORNIA ----
TRANSPORTATION; PRISONS -- CALIFORNIA; WASTE MANAGEMENT; SEWAGE
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February 11, 1990, Sunday, San Diego County Edition
SECTION: Metro; Part B; Page 1; Column 5; Metro Desk
LENGTH: 2001 words
HEADLINE: WILSON STUMP WILL HAVE ITS ROOTS IN S.D.;
POLITICS: THE FORMER MAYOR'S FAITHFUL ARE READY TO TOUT HIM AS AMERICA'S FINEST
CANDIDATE DURING HIS BID TO BECOME GOVERNOR.
BYLINE: By RALPH FRAMMOLINO, TIMES STAFF WRITER
BODY:
Come October, a caravan of buses carrying "Wilson for Governor" banners could
be groaning northward from San Diego along Interstate 5, fanning out over the
state.
The passengers would be bankers, developers, businessmen or representatives
from the Chamber of Commerce.
Their mission: to persuade fellow Californians that favorite son and former
San Diego Mayor Pete Wilson is one heck of a guy.
So far, the San Diego convoy is merely a vague, back-room concept being
bandied about by the political strategists directing the bid by U.S. Sen. Pete
Wilson (R-Calif.) to be elected governor later this year.
But the idea, they say, is indicative of how much the Republican campaign
will rely on San Diegans -- and Wilson's record as mayor - to help portray
their man as a popular but tough administrator with the acumen to manage a state
budget of $50 billion. To underscore that hometown emphasis, Wilson is expected
to formally kick off his gubernatorial campaign today at San Diego police
headquarters.
The San Diego strategy will feature a "Back to the Future" approach by
touching on the idea that San Diego during the Wilson years is a metaphor for
California today. During his tenure as mayor from 1972 to 1983, the campaign
will assert, Wilson was able to hone solutions to unbridled growth, increasing
crime, transportation woes, political corruption and decaying inner cities in
the "laboratory" of San Diego.
And while Wilson grappled with those problems, his style was the kind that
engendered fierce loyalty from his hometown supporters, who are willing to stump
the state on his behalf, strategists are eager to show.
"We're selling two things: Pete Wilson's accomplishments as mayor of San
Diego, and the second is the warmth and enthusiasm that people in San Diego have
for Pete Wilson, II said George Gorton, Wilson's campaign manager.
For Californians "to see the bond he has for San Diegans will cause them to
realize that he must be a terrific guy," Gorton said.
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Wilson's critics, however, warn that the San Diego story could boomerang on
the candidate, whom they claim hogs all of the accomplishments of his era but
glosses over the major problems he left behind.
They say the San Diego Cinderella story could be to Wilson what the so-called
Massachusetts Miracle was to 1988 Democratic presidential hopeful Michael
Dukakis. That state's governor started the race bragging about Massachusetts'
economic resurgence under his guidance.
Yet by the end of the race, Dukakis found himself hopelessly mired in
criticisms of his Administration. Then-Vice President George Bush seized the
issue of the environment by blaming Dukakis for pollution in Boston Harbor.
And in a now-infamous television commercial, Bush took Dukakis to task for
the Massachusetts system of granting early parole by showing an ominous line of
convicts walking in -- and out - of prison through a creaking revolving door.
And so it could be for Wilson, said Richard Ross, political consultant for
Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Atty. Gen. John Van de Kamp. Ross is already
busy scouring the San Diego record for issues to haunt Wilson, who has
criticized Van de Kamp's handling of the Hillside Strangler case while he was
Los Angeles County district attorney.
"I'm not looking to run a campaign that's a (mudslinging) contest about the
1970s," Ross said in Sacramento. "The people of California are entitled to a
debate about the 1990s.
"But I'm not going to sit back and have John's record rewritten in the most
negative light and (Wilson's) record rewritten to gloss over his weak points."
So far, Ross said, he has found several major flaws in the Wilson record: a
large increase in major crime during his tenure; acceptance of political
contributions from beneficiaries of downtown redevelopment, including the
now-bankrupt U. S. Grant Hotel; a city Administration that approved massive
development on a former military artillery range in Tierrasanta, where two boys
were killed in 1983 while playing with live ordnance.
Sure to come up in the campaign is the persistent criticism of Wilson that he
took office as an environmentalist and left office as a developer's friend,
voting to allow the construction of North City West.
Then there's the coup de grace, the $2.8-billion secondary-treatment sewage
plant the city of San Diego is now forced to build largely on its own, without
federal grants that were available during Wilson's tenure. As mayor, Wilson was
instrumental in obtaining a temporary federal waiver to avoid building the plant
at that time, but his Administration failed to push a backup plan for securing
government grants when the reprieve expired.
"This is his Boston Harbor," Ross said, referring to the ill-fated Dukakis
campaign.
Even some of Wilson's supporters aren't sure exactly how San Diego will play
in a statewide campaign.
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"I'm just reluctant to suggest that you can take San Diego on the back of a
truck and drag it around and say there's the answer to your problems, because
the problems differ significantly in the disparate areas of the state," said
Mike Madigan, a former Wilson staff member and now senior vice president for
Pardee Construction.
Despite possible pitfalls, Wilson and his staff are eager to reinforce his
image as "Mr. San Diego."
For instance, a poster distributed by his staff at the recent state
Republican convention shows a caricature of Wilson in front of the state Capitol
holding a surfboard and dressed in a Hawaiian shirt.
Such a Wilson-San Diego link evokes good feelings from voters, say those
familiar with the synesthesia of politics. Unlike the image of gang-infested,
traffic-choked Los Angeles, or overly liberal San Francisco, San Diego remains
for many Californians a palm tree paradise adorned with pretty beaches and
pristine inner-city canyons.
"San Diego is the easiest thing to point to and say, 'Don't just trust what I
say but look what I've done,' " said Larry Thomas, a former Wilson staffer and
San Diegan who ran Gov. George Deukmejian's 1986 reelection campaign. Thomas now
works for the Irvine Co. in Orange County.
"I think politics is as much symbolism as action, and by doing that he paints
a fantastic symbol with which people can identify," Thomas said.
Wilson agrees.
"Most people in California have been to San Diego, perhaps spent some time
there," he said in a recent telephone interview from his Washington office.
"They have an impression of the city that's positive. They have seen it grow
larger, but in their view it has not only grown larger, it has grown better.
"They give me a great deal of the credit for that, but I would have to say
that it is credit that has to be shared."
Wilson campaign strategists, however, are eager to make sure their boss
receives his share of the credit for San Diego's good image.
"It's reality that Pete is SO close to San Diego and he is credited with
taking it from a dark time to make it one of the finest cities in the country,"
said Otto Bos, Wilson's campaign director.
Although it will not be the dominant theme in the race, Bos said the campaign
wants to emphasize Wilson's experience as mayor because it is analogous to the
executive responsibilities he will handle as governor.
In addition, he said, the specific problems Wilson dealt with during the
1970s and early '80s in San Diego are now looming on the state agenda.
"We think San Diego offers a splendid metaphor for the challenges of the
state," Bos said.
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Thus, the fact that Wilson attempted to control and direct San Diego's
construction boom with his Growth Management Plan will mean a lot to a
burgeoning state of 29 million people, Bos said.
So, too, will the story of how Wilson took over San Diego on the heels of the
Yellow Cab scandal -- which saw City Council members indicted on charges of
accepting payoffs from the company -- and worked to pass one of the strictest
local campaign contribution laws in the country, he added. The discussion of
ethics is particularly timely with the low public opinion of lawmakers and the
recent conviction of Sen. Joseph Montoya (D-Whittier) on corruption charges.
Other San Diego accomplishments destined to be mentioned prominently in the
campaign will be Wilson's efforts to fight crime, his backing of the immensely
successful San Diego Trolley, buying more than 5,300 acres of park and canyon
open space to save them, and his guidance of downtown redevelopment through the
inner-city condominium projects of Park Row and Marina Place and the
construction of phantasmagoric Horton Plaza.
For the fiscally conservative, Wilson campaigners will be quick to quote the
late tax crusader Howard Jarvis, who once quipped that Proposition 13 would have
been unnecessary if all cities were run as efficiently as Wilson ran San Diego.
Wilson's San Diego ties will also be highlighted in the way the U.S. senator
runs his gubernatorial campaign, Bos said. His main headquarters are in Old
Town, and San Diegans have prominent roles in his campaign. Aside from Bos and
Gorton, Marty Wilson (no relation) is his political director, dentist Albert
Anderson is his statewide volunteer coordinator and retired businessman Frank
Light is his finance chairman.
Meanwhile, the campaign plans to mobilize some of San Diego's more prominent
citizens to speak on Wilson's behalf throughout the state.
"We fully expect in this campaign to have the San Diegans on the stump," Bos
said.
"We're talking about something in the fall," said Gorton. "You've seen the
movie-star buses, where they go from town to town on behalf of an initiative.
You might see buses of San Diegans."
Political consultant Jim Johnston said the caravan idea is "corny" but could
work. "If I were at some kind of rally and some people with credentials showed
up to tell about a guy's background, I'd probably pay attention to it," he said.
However, the convoy tactic would have to be employed gently, Gorton said.
"I think everybody's fond of their city, and if you sell your city too much,
that can engender some resentment," he said. "The slogan 'America's Finest City'
cuts both ways."
Lee Grissom, president of the Greater San Diego Chamber of Commerce, scoffed
at the idea of a bus convoy, but added that he has already volunteered to do
some elective stumping for Wilson.
"My commitment to Pete is if he wanted to have somebody with an appropriate
level of credibility tell the San Diego story, I'd be willing to tell that,"
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Grissom said.
Wilson said several others have volunteered to do the same during the
gubernatorial race.
"I haven't called on them to do so, but I probably will say, 'Go to it,' " he
said. "I'd be delighted to have them tell the story, especially coming from
people who were leaders in the community."
But San Diego attorney Floyd Morrow, who served on the City Council for
Wilson's first six years, said he believes the San Diego strategy is an attempt
by the former mayor to create a "perceived reality" of leadership that diverges
widely from the truth.
In the case of government ethics, for instance, Morrow said that Wilson was
actually a Johnny-come-lately to the idea of limiting campaign contributions to
the current $250 per donor per candidate. Before he supported the stringent
limit, Wilson was backing another set of more liberal guidelines that were
defeated by a majority of the council, Morrow said.
Morrow also charged that the city under Wilson looked good financially
because it failed to keep up repairs on its roads and sewers, which left
subsequent City Councils with a legacy of sewage spills that, until recently,
even gushed routinely into the waters of Mission Bay.
"He's going to go off on a campaign and say, 'Hey, I'm fantastic,' = Morrow
said. "But the opposite side of the coin is that's not reality.
"I imagine if it rained and we needed rain, he would take credit for that. If
bad weather came by, he would have somebody else take credit for that. That's
part of politics."
GRAPHIC: Photo, Pete Wilson ; Drawing, About 500 of these posters were printed
up for last September's state GOP convention. The promotion was a take-off from
an earlier campaign poster that read "Mr. San Diego Goes to Washington.", CHUCK,
1988 Wilson Portrait
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February 12, 1990, Monday, BC cycle
SECTION: Regional News
DISTRIBUTION: California
LENGTH: 729 words
HEADLINE: Wilson touts leadership record
BYLINE: By CHRIS CHRYSTAL
DATELINE: SACRAMENTO
KEYWORD: WILSON
BODY:
Sen. Pete Wilson defined himself Monday as the only candidate for governor
with a proven record of leadership experience and ''the guts to do what's
right.'
Snipping a red, white and blue ribbon, the California Republican opened
his downtown campaign headquarters a mile from the state Capitol amid a noisy
crowd of supporters that included several state officials and lawmakers.
Leadership was the theme of Wilson's second day on the road during a
four-day swing through 13 cities to formally kick off his campaign.
' 'The people of California want and are entitled to expect their governor
to lead, to have vision, and not just to see what's right, but to have the guts
to do what's right,' Wilson said.
He arrived in a nearly presidential looking motorcade of shiny black cars
and an entourage with walkie-talkies, and was greeted by a small band of
shouting anti-abortion demonstrators and a bugler sounding a dreary 'Taps'' in
the bright sunshine.
Wilson, who is pro-choice, appeared unruffled by the protest and quipped to
reporters, ''I think the guy on the bugle needs lessons. He's very sour.
Focusing on his 23-year record in public office as a state assemblyman,
mayor of San Diego, and a second-term senator, Wilson challenged his opponents
to 'match my performance,' adding, ''They cannot do it.''
Wilson listed some achievements, including bringing a light-rail system to
San Diego ''on schedule, under budget and without federal funds,' authoring the
first Coastal Protection Act and backing federal legislation that added park
land and wilderness acres and requires military interdiction of drugs outside
the United States.
He also took credit for legislation reducing air pollution from auto
exhaust, promoting alternative fuels and proposing mandatory rehabilitation for
mothers of drug-addicted babies.
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Swiping at his rival for governor, Democratic Attorney General John Van de
Kamp, who personally opposes capital punishment, Wilson said he helped pass a
law providing the death penalty for drug kingpins who kill police officers.
Wilson, who is backing an anti-crime initiative on the June ballot, said the
initiative process by which voters enact laws, ''is a legitimate remedy for
legislative default.'
Initiatives ARE SREAT SHOULD never lu ountand/ But substi
But in an obvious reference to Van de Kamp, who is backing three measures
for
for the November ballot, Wilson said initiatives are ''no cure for executive
or
default and no substitute for executive performance.'
perf.
He did not mention by name former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein, also
seeking the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, but included her when, after
listing his legislative achievements, proclaimed, ''I have done all these things
and my opponents none of them.
He introduced Republican state Treasurer Tom Hayes, who is seeking
re-election, to the crowd, as he had shared the spotlight with another GOP
primary candidate, former Rep. Dan Lungren, who is running for attorney general,
in a campaign appearance in Sacramento Sunday night.
Campaign Director Otto Bos said Wilson intends to ''forge a very good,
strong ticket'' of Republican candidates. He has endorsed Lungren and Republican
Matthew Fong, the son of Democratic Secretary of State March Fong Eu, who is
running for controller.
Bos said Wilson is ''comfortable'' with both Republican contenders for
lieutenant governor, state Sens. John Seymour of Anaheim and Marian Bergeson of
Newport Beach, but obviously would make no endorsement until after the primary.
After a stop in San Francisco's Chinatown, Wilson visited the California
Farm Bureau in Fresno, where he said his opponents could not match his record
for:
--Legislation counteracting discriminatory trade practices that create
barriers to exporting California agriculture commodities.
--Legislation assuring California growers a supply of legal migrant
workers to harvest crops.
-Supporting improved monitoring and testing of imported agriculture
commodities to protect public health.
--Protecting local government from federal funding cuts for refugee
assistance and preventing closure of county resettlement programs.
Wilson's agenda included stops in Bakersfield and El Monte before heading
home to San Diego. Tuesday he will make similar appearances in San Diego,
Irvine, Chino, Santa Barbara and Los Angeles.
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February 12, 1990, Monday, Final Edition
SECTION: Part A; NATION; Pg. A3
LENGTH: 622 words
HEADLINE: Wilson's run in California hits snag from GOP Right
BYLINE: Valerie Richardson; THE WASHINGTON TIMES
BODY:
California Republican Sen. Pete Wilson's carefully prepared bid for
governor of the nation's most populous state has run into turbulence from a
faction of his own party.
Mr. Wilson, who launched his campaign formally yesterday on a four-day
tour, is under fire from a conservative group for his moderate stands and his
acceptance of more than $105,000 from the savings and loan industry over five
years.
= Pete Wilson is bought and paid for," said Paddy Lackey, a leader of the
California Pro-Family Women's Coalition, in a statewide mailing to newspapers
and party leaders.
The attacks are the first sign of dissent in an otherwise rigid Republican
coalition for the lone GOP candidate in what is widely seen as the year's most
critical election.
At stake is the political fate of California's congressional districts.
Population shifts over the last decade are expected to bring California five
to seven new congressional seats just as Republican Gov. George Deukmejian is
retiring after two terms.
Republicans are determined to avoid a repeat of 1982, when Democratic state
leaders gerrymandered the districts to the disadvantage of the GOP. Mr. Wilson
has made it clear that he will veto any redistricting plan that unfairly favors
the Democrats.
"There has been less turnover [in congressional districts] in California
in the last 10 years than in the Soviet Politburo," said Wilson campaign manager
Otto Bos.
As a result, national leaders are lavishing attention on Mr. Wilson's
campaign. His occasional deviations from the Republican Party line are
overlooked - administration officials were silent last month when he voted to
override President Bush's veto on visas for Chinese students.
With the uncontested GOP primary five months away, Mr. Bush last week added
$1.5 million to the Wilson campaign's $4.6 million war chest at a $1,000-a-plate
dinner. Another fund-raiser is scheduled here for Feb. 28.
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"We want an honest, clean break and a fair reapportionment," Lee Atwater,
chairman of the Republican National Committee, said last week.
Ron Brown, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, retorted: "We're
going to keep the redistricting pen in our hands."
So far, the Republicans have benefited from a Democratic Party split over
two prominent primary candidates - state Attorney General John Van de Kamp and
former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein.
Mr. Van de Kamp, heir to the Lawry's food products fortune, is leading Mrs.
Feinstein by as much as a 53 to 35 percent margin, based on an October poll. He
and Mr. Wilson are running almost a dead heat, according to more recent polls.
With $3 million in his war chest, Mr. Van de Kamp enjoys a considerable
fund-raising edge over Mrs. Feinstein, half of whose $2 million campaign fund
was donated by her husband, financier Richard Blum.
Despite her underdog status, Mrs. Feinstein has shown she can bruise Mr.
Van de Kamp. She repeatedly has jabbed at his decision not to prosecute the
Hillside Strangler, Kenneth Bianchi, in 1981 - the issue that pundits say could
prove to be his undoing.
The attacks indirectly have benefited Mr. Wilson, who is campaigning as a
law-and-order candidate. But he has drawn criticism from conservatives on other
issues, such as his pro-choice stand on abortion.
The California Pro-Family Women's Coalition is championing a write-in
campaign for conservative former baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth, a
Republican "in the mold of Ronald Reagan," said the group in a press release.
= Pete Wilson is going to cast votes consistent with a conservative
Republican philosophy," said Mr. Bos. "But he has a right and a duty to differ
when his conscience calls him."
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HEADLINE: Wilson touts leadership record
BYLINE: By CHRIS CHRYSTAL
DATELINE: SACRAMENTO
KEYWORD: WILSON
BODY:
Sen. Pete Wilson defined himself Monday as the only candidate for governor
with a proven record of leadership experience and ' 'the guts to do what's
right.'
Snipping a red, white and blue ribbon, the California Republican opened
his downtown campaign headquarters a mile from the state Capitol amid a noisy
crowd of supporters that included several state officials and lawmakers.
Leadership was the theme of Wilson's second day on the road during a
four-day swing through 13 cities to formally kick off his campaign.
' 'The people of California want and are entitled to expect their governor
to lead, to have vision, and not just to see what's right, but to have the guts
to do what's right,' Wilson said.
He arrived in a nearly presidential looking motorcade of shiny black cars
and an entourage with walkie-talkies, and was greeted by a small band of
shouting anti-abortion demonstrators and a bugler sounding a dreary ''Taps'' in
the bright sunshine.
Wilson, who is pro-choice, appeared unruffled by the protest and quipped to
reporters, ''I think the guy on the bugle needs lessons. He's very sour.
Focusing on his 23-year record in public office as a state assemblyman,
mayor of San Diego, and a second-term senator, Wilson challenged his opponents
to 'match my performance,' adding, ''They cannot do it.''
Wilson listed some achievements, including bringing a light-rail system to
San Diego ''on schedule, under budget and without federal funds, authoring the
first Coastal Protection Act and backing federal legislation that added park
land and wilderness acres and requires military interdiction of drugs outside
the United States.
He also took credit for legislation reducing air pollution from auto
exhaust, promoting alternative fuels and proposing mandatory rehabilitation for
mothers of drug-addicted babies.
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Swiping at his rival for governor, Democratic Attorney General John Van de
Kamp, who personally opposes capital punishment, Wilson said he helped pass a
law providing the death penalty for drug kingpins who kill police officers.
Wilson, who is backing an anti-crime initiative on the June ballot, said the
initiative process by which voters enact laws, ''is a legitimate remedy for
legislative default.
But in an obvious reference to Van de Kamp, who is backing three measures
for the November ballot, Wilson said initiatives are ''no cure for executive
default and no substitute for executive performance.'
He did not mention by name former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein, also
seeking the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, but included her when, after
listing his legislative achievements, proclaimed, ''I have done all these things
and my opponents none of them.
He introduced Republican state Treasurer Tom Hayes, who is seeking
re-election, to the crowd, as he had shared the spotlight with another GOP
primary candidate, former Rep. Dan Lungren, who is running for attorney general,
in a campaign appearance in Sacramento Sunday night.
Campaign Director Otto Bos said Wilson intends to 'forge a very good,
strong ticket'' of Republican candidates. He has endorsed Lungren and Republican
Matthew Fong, the son of Democratic Secretary of State March Fong Eu, who is
running for controller.
Bos said Wilson is ''comfortable'' with both Republican contenders for
lieutenant governor, state Sens. John Seymour of Anaheim and Marian Bergeson of
Newport Beach, but obviously would make no endorsement until after the primary.
After a stop in San Francisco's Chinatown, Wilson visited the California
Farm Bureau in Fresno, where he said his opponents could not match his record
for:
--Legislation counteracting discriminatory trade practices that create
barriers to exporting California agriculture commodities.
--Legislation assuring California growers a supply of legal migrant
workers to harvest crops.
--Supporting improved monitoring and testing of imported agriculture
commodities to protect public health.
--Protecting local government from federal funding cuts for refugee
assistance and preventing closure of county resettlement programs.
Wilson's agenda included stops in Bakersfield and El Monte before heading
home to San Diego. Tuesday he will make similar appearances in San Diego,
Irvine, Chino, Santa Barbara and Los Angeles.
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HEADLINE: WILSON TAKES SHOT AT CRIME AS HE OPENS GOVERNOR BID;
POLITICS: THE REPUBLICAN U.S. SENATOR OFFICIALLY TOSSES HIS HAT IN THE RING. HE
HAS NO GOP OPPOSITION FOR THE NOMINATION.
BYLINE: By JOHN BALZAR, TIMES POLITICAL WRITER
BODY:
Former U.S. Marine, state legislator, mayor of San Diego, and now U.S.
senator and great hope of the California Republican Party, Pete Wilson
officially entered the race for governor Sunday, his third try.
The 56-year-old, still boyish-faced Wilson began a four-day barnstorm of
California in San Diego, the town he calls home, and then headed north
reciting from Chapter 1 of the time-worn GOP campaign playbook -- the feverish
politics of crime.
"I will not have California under siege to rapists and thugs and drug
dealers!" Wilson told an audience of 200 outside the San Diego Police Officers'
Assn. headquarters.
He repeated the speech to about 300 people at a picnic at the Los Angeles
Police Academy, to 250 people in Alameda and to 350 people at the Railroad
Museum in Sacramento.
At each of the three stops, Wilson was greeted enthusiastically. In the only
sign of dissent he encountered, 15 anti-abortion demonstrators picketed his
Sacramento appearance because of Wilson's support for a woman's right to choose
whether to have an abortion.
In the 1990 gubernatorial preliminaries, Wilson sketched an activist agenda
of environmental protection, political independence and increased attention to
social problems and progress. Buthose themes were left in the background at the
formal campaign kickoff Sunday.
Wilson surrounded himself with police and prosecutors and focused
single-mindedly on what he said was California's No. 1 problem.
"It is a bitter irony that, despite our having perhaps the most pro-law
enforcement governor in our history, in George Deukmejian, and the most skilled
and dedicated law enforcement professionals to be found anywhere, California's
streets are needlessly dangerous.
"It is a misnomer to speak of a California criminal justice system. The
people of California have lost confidence in the ability of that system to
protect them. They are afraid - afraid in their homes and afraid to leave them.
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"Well," Wilson said, "that situation is intolerable and I mean to bring it to
an end."
Along with his speech, Wilson announced endorsements from a dozen law
enforcement groups, representing rank-and-file officers and police chiefs, and
from 300 prosecutors across the state. "I've never seen anything like it," he
said.
In subsequent days of his extended ritual "announcement" tour of the state,
Wilson plans to broaden his pitch to include education and quality-of-life
issues.
The senator is seeking to duplicate what George Bush accomplished at the
national level last election -- maintain Republican control of an office after
an eight-year GOP Administration. Not in 30 years has one party held the
governorship of California for more than two consecutive terms.
A Republican who can be described as a moderate on social issues and a
conservative on economic matters and foreign policy, Wilson enters the GOP race
in a happy and commanding position. He is the undisputed leader of his party,
and has no substantive GOP challenge to his candidacy.
This is a source of deep satisfaction, given his two previous runs at the
office. In 1978, the GOP Establishment gave him the cold shoulder and he
finished fourth in a field of five in the Republican primary. Four years later,
he set out again for the office but was persuaded by GOP elders to run for the
U.S. Senate. He won the primary and was elected over Democrat Edmund G. Brown
Jr., then the governor.
Wilson begins this campaign with substantial advantages. While he has a
seemingly united party at his command, Democrats face a costly and potentially
draining primary battle between Atty. Gen. John K. Van de Kamp and former San
Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein. And Wilson has shown the capacity to raise
twice as much money as either of the Democrats.
Still, Wilson's early campaign is not without its skeptics.
Some doubt his gusto in looking forward and engaging California's growing
list of problems. His speeches Sunday were often vaguer than even typical
political fare.
" California is besieged by big problems, there is no denying that. But no
state is blessed with more ability to solve those problems -- if we have the
right leader," Wilson said. "And guess who that is?"
As he spoke, his campaign was involved in a fund-raising drive that
underscored Wilson's apparent confidence in a strategy that looks back as much
as forward. A solicitation letter mailed to about 60,000 Republicans did not
mention his opponents but liberally fanned years-old hostilities toward Brown.
"None of the leading Democrat candidates for governor has criticized Jerry
Brown for his mismanagement of California, = said the letter, signed by Wilson.
In some areas, Wilson has offered ideas for the new decade, such as a
stronger educational effort to help young children and improved health care.
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But he has been reluctant to commit significant additional government financing.
On the subject of crime, however, Wilson was both specific and emphatic
Sunday.
He touted his role as the chairman of a June ballot proposition to speed up
criminal trials. This grass-roots initiative is the work of an active and vocal
group of crime victims and their relatives.
"It is absurd that it took four years to bring the 'Night Stalker' to trial,
that it requires two years on average to bring an alleged felon to trial in
California, = Wilson said.
He went further, even at the risk of over-promising. A drug-free
California, for instance. "I promise you we will succeed in this."
Later, aboard his twin-engine propeller campaign charter that lumbered
through the skies of Central California, Wilson was asked if his kind of
pledge was realistic. "I think you have to aim high," he replied.
One way to counter drugs, Wilson continued, is drug testing of first-time
recipients of driver's licenses. He proposed that young drivers face such tests
randomly for a year after receiving their license.
Leaders of the crime victims movement and assorted law enforcement supporters
joined the Wilson entourage on Sunday's campaign swing. Also along was Wilson's
wife, Gayle, an enthusiastic campaigner; her two sons from a previous marriage,
Todd and Phillip Graham; and no fewer than eight campaign assistants.
It was obvious to everyone that Wilson's third campaign for governor was
vastly different from his earlier tries.
"Based on some experience and successes, you get to feeling more confidence,"
Wilson said in an informal chat with reporters. "Ever since people asked us to
consider running this time, it's been remarkable."
Times political writer Ronald Brownstein contributed to this story.
GRAPHIC: Photo, COLOR, Wilson addresses supporters. ; Photo, U.S. Sen. Pete
Wilson formally announced his candidacy for governor at a picnic at the Los
Angeles Police Academy. JOE KENNEDY / Los Angeles Times
SUBJECT: WILSON, PETE; POLITICAL CANDIDATES; CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR; CALIFORNIA
--- ELECTIONS -- 1990; POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS; SPEECHES; CRIME -- CALIFORNIA;
DRUGS -- CALIFORNIA
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LENGTH: 874 words
HEADLINE: Wilson Opens Bid for Governor With Crime Talk
BYLINE: Mark Z Barabak, Chronicle Political Writer
DATELINE: San Diego
BODY:
During his 24 years in politics, Pete Wilson has fashioned an image as an
independent Republican, willing to buck presidents and other GOP brokers
whenever it suits him.
But yesterday, Wilson went back to basics, formally launching his campaign
for governor with a folksy rally in his adopted hometown and a familiar
Republican pledge to get tough on crime.
' 'AS governor of California, he vowed, ''I will not have California
under siege to rapists and thugs and drug dealers.
Wilson a former state assemblyman, San Diego mayor and now the state's
junior United States senator voiced his opposition to offshore oil drilling
and his support for ' 'managed growth.
He spoke of campaign finance reform and boasted about the light-rail system
that San Diego built while he was mayor, ''on time, under budget and without
federal funds.
But those were merely grace notes in a day otherwise devoted to a
full-throated chorus on crime, a GOP standard that carried George Deukmejian to
the governor's office in 1982 and easy re-election in 1986.
Appearing with rank-and-file police officers in San Diego, prosecutors in Los
Angeles and a group of police chiefs in Alameda, Wilson vowed ''to change the
odds to favor the citizen, not the criminal.
'The people of California have lost confidence in the ability of (the
criminal justice system) to protect them, Wilson said. ''They are afraid.
Afraid in their homes and afraid to leave them. Well, that situation is
intolerable and I mean to bring it to an end.
He reiterated his support for a measure on the June ballot, the so-called
Speedy Trial Initiative, which seeks to stiffen criminal penalties and
expedite court cases.
He called for legislation to deny bail to ''drug traffickers, to limit the
time period for death penalty appeals and to establish 'truth-in-sentencing
that would reduce time off for work or good behavior to make the penalty
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actually fit the crime.
During a brief airborne press conference, Wilson also proposed random drug
testing as a condition for first-time applicants to obtain a driver's license.
He said that would discourage drug use among teenagers, ''the audience you want
to deal with.
Asked whether he was ''over-promising'' with his tailored-for-TV sound bites
on a crime-free California, Wilson replied, ''I am going to make every
possible effort and I think you have to aim high.'
VITAL RACE FOR GOP
The 56-year-old senator entered the governor's race almost a year ago, at the
urging of party leaders who despaired when Deukmejian announced plans to step
down rather than seek a third term.
The GOP considers it crucial to hold onto the governor's seat during next
year's redrawing of state political boundaries, to keep an eye on Democrats who
control the Legislature.
So Republican Party heavyweights cleared the field for Wilson, leaving him
free to concentrate on the fall campaign against either Dianne Feinstein or John
Van de Kamp, Democrats locked in a bitter primary fight.
Assured of the GOP nomination, Wilson has taken advantage of his free ride to
raise more than $ 8 million, far more than either Democratic candidate has
managed.
Yesterday, however, Wilson aimed for a determinedly homespun image as he
formally began his campaign, shunning the glitzy hotel ballrooms typically used
for such occasions.
There were balloons, hand-lettered signs and straw boaters at a sunny morning
rally in San Diego, with a Dixieland jazz band providing musical accompaniment.
SAN DIEGO MAYOR
Wilson, a St. Louis native and Yale graduate, was posted to San Diego during
his service in the Marine Corps. He stayed on when his tour of duty ended and
was elected to the state Assembly in 1966. He served as San Diego mayor from
1972 to 1983, a time of tremendous growth.
Wilson is expected to cite his mayoral tenure as a model of executive
stewardship.
''I challenge my opponents to match my record and to match my success,'
Wilson told about 150 supporters gathered in front of the San Diego police union
headquarters. 'While others may find themselves running from their record, I
take great pride in running on my record.'
Then it was off to Los Angeles for hot dogs, barbecued hamburgers and more
tough-on-crime talk at a police academy picnic.
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In Alameda, his next stop, the venue was an auditorium at the scruffy Alameda
Hotel, a residential home for retirees. Wilson was introduced by Mayor Chuck
Corica, a conservative Democrat who backed Wilson's re-election to the Senate in
1988 and joined him in Alameda for the start of that campaign.
Wilson's final appearance last night was a reception at the California
State Railroad Museum.
CHINATOWN ON TODAY'S SCHEDULE
Today, the senator will visit San Francisco's Chinatown, one of 17 stops
Wilson plans over the course of a four-day, 14-city announcement swing.
A different message is planned each day, emphasizing ''leadership,' the
environment and education.
Strategists chose crime as yesterday's centerpiece knowing the first day
would draw the most press attention 'because we wanted to lead with our
strength,' said campaign manager George Gorton. ''You lead with what people
believe the key issue is, and that's crime.
GRAPHIC: PHOTO, Senator Pete Wilson and his wife, Gayle, responded to cheers
from a crowd in Alameda, BY BRANT WARD, THE CHRONICLE
SUBJECT: CA; BIOGRAPHY; GOVERNOR; CANDIDATES; ELECTIONS 1990
NAME: Pete Wilson
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SENATOR PETE WILSON STATEMENT ON
PRESIDENT BUSH'S CLEAN AIR PLAN
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Lynda Schuler
June 12, 1989
Bill Livingstone
(202) 224-9652
LOS ANGELES -- "President Bush's clean air plan is right
on target. It's tough, it's innovative, and it's just what
we need to get Congress moving on the clean air bill. We've
been waiting since 1977 for a President who would take charge
of the air pollution problem, and I am frankly thrilled that
President Bush has taken such a bold, sweeping move against
dirty air.
"The President's call for mandatory production of
alternative fuel-using automobiles is especially
encouraging. We've pushed through legislation to provide
Detroit with incentives to produce flexible fuel vehicles,
but this step by the President to require the American
automotive industry to adapt to the need for more flex cars
will be a giant help toward meeting the fuel substitution
goals we've set in California.
"Clean air simply has to be our number one environmental
priority this year, and I am extremely pleased that the
President is delivering on his campaign promise to address
the nation's air pollution problem."
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PR 89: 24
WILSON STATEMENT ON PRESIDENT BUSH'S
STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Lynda S. Royster
February 10, 1989
Bill Livingstone
(202) 224-9652
"It was a fine speech by a very caring, decent, gutsy
President who is determined to make real the dream he has of
improving America. It was a remarkably comprehensive speech
that I think demonstrated the very ambitious agenda that
President Bush has set for his Admiinistration, from doing
away with illiteracy to helping prevent the spread of AIDS to
protecting the environment to wiping out drug abuse. I am
especially pleased with the President's decision to postpone
and review the planned sale of offshore oil leases off of
California's coast, which I think clearly demonstrates that
this President is indeed an environmentalist. It was a very
fine, fine beginning for the Bush Administration."
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PR 89: 32
WILSON LAUDS CALIFORNIA'S ENVIRONMENTAL LEADERSHIP:
URGES QUICK CLEAN AIR ACTION BY CONGRESS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Lynda S. Royster
February 28, 1989
Bill Livingstone-
(202) 224-9652
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In behalf of California, Senator
Pete Wilson today accepted the top 1989 honor from the
environmental action group "Renew America," lauding the
state's environmental leadership and urging Congress to act
quickly to adopt clean air legislation.
"California is, as `Renew America' acknowledges with
this award, the leader among the states in establishing
programs and adopting laws to protect the environment,
Wilson said. "We Californians are proud to call ourselves
environmentalists, and we are honored to accept this award."
Wilson said Congress should move immediately to adopt
the Clean Air Act, which died at the end of last year's
session of Congress.
"It's high time Congress borrowed a chapter from
California's book and exhibited some leadership in enacting a
new clean air bill," Wilson said. "There are provisions of
the bill that will be of great assistance to California in
its ongoing efforts to reduce air pollution."
Wilson pointed, in particular, to a provision he
authored in last year's clean air legislation to crack down
on offshore oil operations that cause air pollution.
The "Renew America" group has issued an annual "State of
the States" report since 1987. This year's report judged
states in the following areas: food safety, drinking water,
growth and the environment, solid waste recycling, and forest
management.
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"This is a matter of some urgency in light of the fact
that the Interior Department is currently prepared to issue a
final Environmental Impact Statement for sale 91 and reach
other similar pre-leasing °milestones' for sales 95 and 119,"
Wilson said.
Wilson also urged Bush to include the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) on the OCS task force, which now
includes only the Departments of Interior and Energy and the
National Academy of Sciences.
"EPA, after all, is the agency charged by Congress to
protect our environment," Wilson said. "it can bring its
considerable expertise in air and water pollution problems to
the task force, and thereby enhance the credibility of any
recommendations that should be forthcoming."
Wilson applauded Bush's decision to postpone the lease
sales off California's coast.
"Your commitment to resolving this issue," Wilson told
Bush, "clearly demonstrates that you are indeed an
environmentalist."
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U.S. SENATOR FOR CALIFORNIA
PR 89:42
WILSON TOURS U.S. CUSTOMS COMMUNICATION "BRAIN CENTER" TO
CATCH DRUG SMUGGLERS; CALLS FOR GREATER MEXICAN COOPERATION
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Bill Livingstone
Monday, March 27, 1989
Lynda Royster
(202) 224-9652
LOS ANGELES -- California Senator Pete Wilson today
called on Mexican authorities to substantially increase
cooperation in identifying and apprehending illegal aircraft
crossing the southern border to reduce the stream of illegal
drugs.
"While the United States is making a considerable
financial and manpower commitment to stop drug trafficking
planes crossing our southern border, Mexico continues to turn
a blind eye to the problem," Wilson said.
Wilson said the U.S. repeatedly has tried to gain
greater cooperation from Mexican authorities for joint air
operations to catch drug running airplanes, only to be
rebuffed at every turn.
Wilson made the remarks following a tour of the new,
state-of-the-art U.S. Customs Service communication center
near Riverside, which has been designed to integrate data
from radars positioned along the U.S.- Mexican border and
coordinate the interdiction of suspected drug runners.
To date, two radar aerostats -- tethered balloons with
sophisticated radar equipment -- have been set up along the
border, each capable of scanning over three hundred miles of
airspace. By the end of the year, four additional aerostats
will be in operation, providing continuous surveillance from
San Diego to Brownsville.
"Most of the southern border is currently wide open to
low-flying aircraft smuggling drugs," Wilson said. "Once the
radar net has been established, we'll be able to identify and
track aircraft along the entire southern border."
Wilson said the aerostat radars cannot be operated
during inclement weather and have to be regularly serviced.
During these periods, U.S. Customs plans to use radars aboard
aircraft to fill in the gaps.
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"Once the radars are in place, the U.S. will be able to
systematically detect suspected drug traffickers flying
across the border, W Wilson said. "But because Mexico still
refuses to assist the U.S. in joint air operations, smugglers
will be able to avoid capture simply by flying back into
Mexican air space."
Wilson said the problem is particularly acute because
there exists more than 2,000 clandestine air strips along the
northern regions of Mexico.
While Mexico refuses to cooperate in joint air.
interdiction efforts, other countries such as Canada and the
Bahamas work closely with Customs officials to try and catch
suspected drug smuggling aircraft.
For example, on March 12, 1989, Customs detected a 980
Turbo Commander aircraft off the coast of Maine, which was
suspected of carrying a shipment of cocaine. When contacted
about the developing situation, Canadian authorities granted
Customs officials permission to follow the plane into
Canadian airspace. The plane was tracked to a landing strip
at Sorel, Quebec, where local officials were alerted.
Before they arrived on the scene, a truck that was going
to meet the plane got away. Still, Canadian authorities
detained three people from aboard the plane who were carrying
a total of $31,000 in cash. On futher investigation, it was
learned that the plane had no data plate and is suspected of
being stolen.
"Had this incident occurred along the southern border,
the plane would have been able to escape capture," Wilson
said. "Mexico refuses to let U.S. aircraft follow suspected
drug traffickers into their air space, providing a convenient
safe haven for smugglers."
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PR 89:68
WILSON TO HOLD THURSDAY PRESS CONFERENCE TO ANNOUNCE
LEGISLATION BOOSTING MILITARY INVOLVEMENT IN DRUG WAR
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Bill Livingstone
May 17, 1989
Lynda Schuler
(202) 224-9652
WASHINGTON -- California Senator Pete Wilson will hold a
press conference on Thursday, May 18 to announce details of
his legislation to force the Department of Defense to become
more actively involved in drug interdiction efforts.
The press conference will take place in the Russell
Senate Office Building, Room #232A, at 11:00 a.m. Also
joining Wilson will be Senator Alfonse D'Amato (R-NY).
"Seven months ago Congress passed legislation to
mobilize our vast military resources in the war on drugs,"
Wilson said. "But the response by the Defense Department has
been sorely inadequate. They continue to drag their heels
every step of the way."
Wilson's legislation would establish a specific command
structure within the Defense Department dedicated to
anti-drug efforts.
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PR 89:69
WILSON INTRODUCES BILL TO CREATE ANTI-DRUG COMMAND
STRUCTURE IN DEFENSE DEPARTMENT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Bill Livingstone
May 18, 1989
Lynda Schuler
(202) 224-9652
WASHINGTON -- Dissatisfied with the Defense Department's
performance in the war on drugs, California Senator Pete
Wilson today introduced legislation to create a high-level
command structure to effectively direct and coordinate
military missions to stanch the flow of drugs entering the
country.
"The Defense Department is AWOL when it comes to
aggressively mobilizing its resources against drug
traffickers,' Wilson, member of the Armed Services Committee
said.
"Last year Congress passed legislation, directing the
Defense Department to help fight the war on drugs, but they
have not adequately responded," Wilson said. "In the
meantime, the number of casualties on our streets continues
to rise."
Wilson's legislation, cosponsored by Senator Alfonse
D'Amato (R-NY), would create an Anti-Drug Task Force within
the Department of Defense composed of the four military
services and Coast Guard and directed by a three-star
officer.
The specific mission of the task force would be to
direct "personnel, equipment, and resources to support
federal law enforcement agencies on a full time basis in the
effort to interdict illegal drugs entering the United States
by land, sea, and air."
The task force would be required to consult and
cooperate with the Director of National Drug Policy.
Last year, Congress appropriated $300 million for the
military's anti-drug efforts. Yet, some eight months later
the military has spent only $51 million, most of which has
been directed to support the National Guard.
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In February of this year, DOD issued its first report to
Congress on progress made in meeting its new anti-drug
mission. Essentially the report is a plan on how it plans to
involve DOD departments. A second report was due May 1, but
has yet to arrive.
"Congress wants more than time-consuming, bureaucratic
reports and plans of plans," Wilson said. "It wants action.
It wants the DOD to make drug interdiction a top priority.'
Wilson said DOD is phasing in new policies and programs,
but progress is far too slow. DOD is not expected this year
to increase by much either its air or sea surveillance over
the previous year.
The February report, Wilson said, should have listed
specific aircraft, intelligence-gathering systems,
communication networks, vessels, active duty forces, and
National Guard contingents the DOD already had fielded.
Wilson said it is standard procedure for the DOD to
create a task force made up of all the services with a single
or well-defined mission. As examples, the Rapid Deployment
Joint Task Force was established to address the instability
in the Persian Gulf. To deal with the Cuban missile crisis,
the DOD created the Caribbean Contingency Task Force.
Wilson emphasized the cost-effectiveness in stopping
drugs before they enter the United States.
According to a study by Wharton Econometrics, every
dollar spent on intercepting drug shipments before they
entered the country resulted in the seizure of $7.05 of
cocaine and marijuana.
By comparison, every dollar spent on drug investigations
inside the country only netted $3.37 of cocaine and
marijuana.
"Much more can and should be done to interdict drugs
before they enter the United States," Wilson said.
Wilson authored with Senator D'Amato and Senator Sam
Nunn (D-GA) the legislation expanding the role of the Defense
Department in the detection and interdiction of drugs. The
law established DOD as the lead agency for monitoring and
identifying drug smugglers beyond our borders.
Also cosponsoring the legislation introduced today are
Senators Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ) and Alan Dixon (D-IL).
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Pete Wilson
U.S. Senator for California
PR. 89:145
SENATE PASSES TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS BILL: CONTAINS
$2 MILLION FOR WILSON'S DRIVER'S LICENSE DRUG TESTING PROGRAM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Bill Livingstone
September 28, 1989
Lynda Schuler
(202) 224-9652
WASHINGTON -- The Senate passed (9/27/89) the
Transportation Appropriations bill for FY 1990, which
contains $2 million to fund four pilot programs for random
drug testing of first-time drivers applicants.
California Senator Pete Wilson, who voted for the bill,
authored the law that establishes the driver's license pilot
programs.
"The purpose of the program is straightforward, to
prevent drug use instead of simply punishing drug users,"
Wilson said.
"Young people will have to make a choice, which will
have very real consequences," Wilson said. "Either they can
enjoy the legal privilege of a driver's license or choose to
use illegal drugs and bear the consequences."
Last fall, Congress passed Wilson's legislation
requiring the Secretary of Transportation to offer grants to
establish pilot programs in four states of varying size and
location for the random testing of first-time driver's
license applicants.
Individuals failing the test will be restricted from
receiving a driver's license for one year, with one
exception. The applicant can reapply, and, if he or she
passes a drug test and agrees to be tested for the rest of
the year, can receive a provisional license.
The regulations governing the test program must ensure
both privacy during testing and confidentiality.
Once funding is approved, the Department of
Transportation will draft regulations implementing the
program, provide for a period for public comment, and then
finalize the regulations for publication in the Federal
Register.
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States at that time will have the opportunity to apply
for participation in the program, after which a selection
will be announced and funding allocated.
The Senate bill now goes to conference to work out
differences with the House version, which does not contain
funding for the program.
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01. 29. 90 07:17PM *SEN. WILSON D. C.
P.3.1
Pete Wilson
U.S. Senator for California
PR 89:118
WILSON INTRODUCES BILL TO ESTABLISH DRUG WAR BONDS; WILL
MOBILIZE PUBLIC IN FIGHT AGAINST DRUGS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Bill Livingstone
July 20, 1989
Lynda Schuler
(202) 224-9652
WASHINGTON -- California Senator Pete Wilson today
joined Congressman Jerry Lewis (R-35) in announcing
legislation to authorize $4 billion in tax free Drug War
Bonds, to fund America's fight against drugs.
"Liberty Bonds generated critical funds to win World
War I and II," Wilson said. "The stakes are just as high
today, but the enemy is not threatening to invade. It's
already here."
Wilson said rallying cries to purchase Liberty Bonds in
the past -- such as "Make the World a Decent Place to Live
In," "Must Children Die and Mothers Plead in Vain?" and
"Sure, We'll Finish the Job" - are equally relevant today.
Just as in the past, Lewis said every American, young
and old, can fight the threat to our security, while
investing in his or her own future.
"The war on drugs," Lewis said, "like every war waged by
this country, will never be won until we mobilize the
American people."
Wilson said Drug War Bonds would provide the public a
means to directly participate in the national effort against
drugs -- the most important issue for the majority of
Americans.
Specifically, the legislation would allow the Secretary
of the Treasury to issue up to $4 billion in tax free bonds,
with an interest rate of at least four percent and a maturity
of not more than 12 years.
Stamps could also be issued, so that children could
contribute small amounts of money. Finally, the public would
have the opportunity to voluntarily make contributions to the
"War on Drugs Trust Fund," by direct payment or by a checkoff
on federal income tax forms diverting any refund otherwise
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Wilson said funds raised by this plan would be spent
under the authority of the President by the Drug Czar for
specific programs, including education, rehabilitation,
prison construction, block grants to law enforcement
programs, and hiring additional law enforcement personnel.
Wilson said additional money for anti-drug programs is
desperately needed. Congress passed last year a $2.8 billion
omnibus drug bill to fight the war on drugs, but provided
only $1 billion in funding.
"What Congress has failed to do, the American people can
do," Wilson said. "By purchasing Drug Bonds, our streets can
be made safer. Our children can receive the education they
need on the dangers of drug abuse. Treatment centers can be
fully staffed. And our law enforcement agencies can be
adequately manned and equipped."
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE:
Immediate
Sacramento, CA 95814
Robert J. Gore, Press Secretary
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Tom Beermann, Deputy Press Secretary
916/445-4571
1/9/90
The following is the text of Governor George Deukmejian's
Eighth State-of-the-State address:
"Lt. Governor McCarthy, Mr. Speaker, Mr. President Pro tem,
members of the Legislature, fellow constitutional officers, and
fellow Californians:
Researchead
"As we begin the first year of the 1990's, Gloria and I want
to wish all of you a new decade filled with hope, peace, continued
prosperity and much happiness.
"When I delivered my first State of the State address in
1983, our state had experienced an economic quake. For the past
Rolanos
seven years, we have worked together to restore fiscal solvency,
our credit rating, the economy, and to create jobs, jobs and more
jobs.
"As a result, the California that was once headed for the
poorhouse is now an economic powerhouse.
Dept Con Katz
"Back then, unemployment was 11 percent. We had no overseas
trade offices, no tourism promotion program, and no competitive
technology, workfare, or Rural Renaissance programs. The
agricultural industry was on the ropes. Our worker's compensation
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program was a mess, and prior to our administration, we had one of
the highest tax burdens in the nation.
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surrounding
"Since then, unemployment has been cut from 11 percent to 5.3
percent, and 2.7 million new jobs have been created for our
states
people. And while the budget I inherited contained a $1.5 billion
deficit, the budget I leave my successor will contain a
jobs
substantial surplus.
created
"We have become a state of builders. All told, we have
invested or plan to invest $44.6 billion to expand and improve
California's infrastructure.
"We have constructed or rehabilitated 1,133 lane miles of
state roads and highways, including the addition of 478 miles of
new roads to our system.
"In 1983, California had just 12 state prisons to house
dangerous criminals. Since then, we have built 14 new prison
has enabled us to remove an additional 52,000
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IacillLles.
convicted criminals from neighborhoods to send them to state
prison. And I will continue to push for a constitutional
amendment that allows all able-bodied criminals to work and help
pay the cost of their upkeep, just like the rest of us.
"We had no integrated strategy to clean up toxic waste or
reduce non-hazardous waste. In 1983, none of our state hospitals
for the mentally ill were accredited. Today, all of them are
accredited. We are providing $127 million this year to aid the
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homeless in our state. Our commitment to fighting AIDS and
finding a cure for that dreaded disease is unmatched by any other
state. And this year, we will provide 20 million meals for
seniors, as well as income security for more than 800,000 elderly,
blind and disabled Californians.
"Building on the progress of the eighties, it's time to turn
to the challenges of the nineties.
"We'll get nowhere fast if we don't do something about
freeway gridlock.
"Last year, we developed a major transportation improvement
plan for the 1990's. This June, the voters will be asked to
approve the Traffic Congestion Relief and Spending Limitation Act
of 1990, a comprehensive plan to relieve traffic congestion on our
highways, upgrade our urban and rural road systems and expand mass
transit.
"This plan is absolutely essential to the economic future of
our state and our quality of life. If you want to spend less time
stuck in traffic; if you want cleaner air; and if you want to
ensure that California's economy will remain strong so that your
children will have job opportunities, then I suggest it is worth
paying a few more pennies a day. I'm strongly urging all
Californians to join me and a bipartisan majority in the
Legislature in giving this landmark proposal their enthusiastic
support.
"Just as the next exit on the freeway is becoming harder to
reach, so is the dream of home ownership. I am proposing that the
Legislature join me in enacting a five-year, $2 billion Housing
Opportunity Program to greatly expand our efforts to put home
ownership back within reach of the average family.
"Using its existing bonding authority, the California Housing
Finance Agency will raise $1.8 billion of these funds through the
issuance of both revenue and private activity bonds. Another $200
million can be generated through a reauthorization of unutilized
general obligation bonds already approved by the voters when they
passed the First-Time Homebuyers Bond Act of 1982.
"Together, these funds will be dedicated to providing down
payment assistance and reduced interest rate mortgages for
thousands of first-time homebuyers.
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"With home ownership in California becoming ever more
difficult, let us take these important steps now to prevent the
American dream from becoming the impossible dream.
"The dawn of a new decade should bring with it completion of
our work on another milestone of humanity -- basic health care
coverage for all working Californians and their families.
"An estimated four million working Californians and
dependents have no coverage, and securing private health insurance
is too expensive for most of these families.
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"Pursuant to legislation I signed last year, a task force
established by our administration will make recommendations
shortly so that we can develop a plan that is both fair to small
businesses and which addresses the health care needs of the
uninsured.
"And while we're talking about insurance, let me also address
the subject of car insurance. When I vetoed Assembly Bill 2315
last year, I told the bill's author, Speaker Willie Brown, that I
would work with him to develop a practical and affordable basic
policy for motorists who are now unable to secure or afford even
minimal coverage. Our staffs have begun discussions which I hope
will lead to some positive steps this year to increase the
affordability of automobile insurance in California.
"California's response to the terrifying earthquake of
October 17, 1989 was outstanding. That earthquake may have
registered high on the Richter scale, but our people registered
even higher on the courage scale.
"Yet, we should learn from this experience and take
additional steps now to prepare for future disasters.
"I am proposing $11 million in additional expenditures to
fund new disaster readiness measures including, planning a site
for a Southern California Operations Center of the Office of
Emergency Services; statewide inspection of public schools and
state buildings; and the purchase of additional rescue and
communications equipment.
"I am also proposing an additional $350 million in bonds to
retrofit state buildings and higher education facilities.
In addition, I am proposing that $15 million from the
proceeds of the sale of some surplus property at Agnews State
Hospital in San Jose be directed toward providing permanent
housing for low income residents displaced from their homes by the
October 17 earthquake.
"Also, I will propose a method to assist earthquake-affected
communities which sustained major losses of tax revenue.
"Finally, let's understand that there are going to be more
serious earthquakes in California, and there's no way to duck that
reality. No earthquake rebuilding effort will be complete or
responsible, until we make earthquake insurance coverage a
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mandatory feature of all policies written for at-risk privately
owned buildings. I am asking the insurance industry, the business
community and the Legislature to work with me to develop a
practical plan to achieve this goal this year.
"We can't talk about the challenges of the 1990's without
speaking of California's children. During the past seven years,
we have accomplished some needed reforms in our public schools,
and more than doubled their funding. And we have indeed restored
pride and excellence to our public institutions of higher
learning.
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"My message to the young people is that the benefits of
staying in school will pay off every day, for the rest of your
life. I urge you to remain with your education, and then your
education will remain with you.
"In 1986, I proposed, and we have implemented, a Children's
Initiative designed to improve health care, day care and child
support collections on behalf of the young, and to better protect
them from abuse.
"And yet, all our efforts will be squandered if we continue
to allow the destruction of our young people by poisonous drugs.
"My new budget contains an additional $10 million to expand a
life-saving effort we began last year -- drug education in our
schools. With two year expenditures totalling $54 million, we
will now be able to include drug education in every school from
grades four to eight.
"We must also take additional steps to stem the flow of
illegal drugs into our state. I am pleased to report that the
federal government has approved the allocation of $10 million to
the California National Guard to step up its work with local law
enforcement agencies to stop the smuggling of drugs across our
border.
"Recently, some have suggested legalization as a solution to
the drug problem. They are dead wrong. We must never, never wave
the white flag of surrender at the white plague of cocaine, and
other drugs.
"Currently, our school age population is growing at a rate
forty percent faster than our population as a whole. With that
kind of growth, we can't depend simply on building our way out of
the shortage of classrooms, even though we have completed nearly
700 school construction projects since 1983. My new budget
contains an additional $1.6 billion bond proposal for school
construction, but it will be accompanied by these additional
proposals:
'First, we will provide strong financial incentives to
districts which adopt a year-round school program, including
special per student payments and first-call on school construction
bond funds. It is simply inexcusable and wasteful to allow school
facilities to sit idle and unused for up to three months per year.
Extended Page 5.1
'Second, in order to encourage local districts who move
toward year-round schools to enact their own local school bond
measures, I would support a constitutional amendment to reduce to
60 percent the two thirds vote that is now required for approval
of those bonds.'
"Californians are justly concerned about preserving the
natural beauty and health of our environment and protecting it
from air, water and toxic pollution. We have enacted the toughest
laws in the nation, and we acquired and preserved thousands of
acres of sensitive lands. Yet regrettably, our state is getting
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dirtier by the day -- not from those types of pollution -- but
from the garbage thrown on our streets and the graffiti plastered
on our walls. It is time for California to clean up its act.
"I am proposing that we double the amount of litter cleanup
work performed by CalTrans on our state's major urban freeways.
We will also encourage neighborhoods, civic organizations and
youth groups to 'Adopt a Highway,' and take the responsibility for
keeping it clean. Also, I am instructing the California Highway
Patrol to redouble its efforts to catch litterbugs in the act,
pull them over, and fine them.
"I want Californians to be able to take pride in their
communities and their state once again. We must persuade, educate
and insist that all residents respect our roads, freeways, walls,
beaches, parks and neighborhoods -- and stop using them as their
own personal garbage dump.
"Finally, let me say a few words about the new budget.
"The budget I am proposing is a balanced budget that contains
a prudent reserve and no general tax increases.
"It is $3.4 billion more than the current year budget I
signed last July, and a little more than 100% bigger than my first
budget in 1983.
"The Department of Finance is projecting an 8.4% growth in
general fund revenues in the coming year. Yet, under existing
laws -- including entitlement programs, annual cost of living
increases, caseload requirements, and a constitutionally required
prudent reserve -- the general fund budget would expand by more
than 11%.
"Ladies and gentlemen, we must face reality. When you have
laws requiring spending increases of 11 percent and additional
income of 8.4 percent, it is evident that adjustments in some
programs will be needed to bring the projected rise in spending in
line with the projected rise in income.
"Any government which is programmed on auto-pilot to build
its base budget by 11 percent a year, not including any new
programs, is headed for trouble. The economy can't grow fast
enough, nor would the public stand for an annual automatic tax
increase, to sustain such an exorbitant level of government
growth.
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6.1
"And so, I will propose a number of reasonable and necessary
legislative changes in some programs. But let me emphasize that
this is my January budget proposal, which is based on the best
information we can get at this time. Just as I did last year, I am
prepared to sit down with the legislative leadership for as long
as it takes in the coming months to achieve a consensus budget.
"My fellow Californians, as we begin the 1990's, we should be
thankful that our state is stronger and more prosperous than it
has ever been. Through common sense and cooperation, we have
achieved fiscal responsibility. We have restored economic
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excellence -- but now we must preserve it, protect it, build upon
it and make sure that it is equally shared.
"The initiatives I have put forward today represent an
ambitious but compelling agenda for a state which in the 1990's,
will see its 29 million population grow by another five million
residents, and where ethnic minority communities combined, will
constitute the majority. And please understand, I haven't chosen
these policies with my eyes fixed on the future of this governor.
I've chosen them with my eyes fixed on the future of California.
"Like so many others, I became a Californian not by birth but
by choice. I adopted a state whose opportunities are as boundless
as its beauty, whose future is as bright as its sunshine, and
whose possibilities are as varied as its people. I want to
preserve that kind of California for all of California's children
and grandchildren.
"As I enter my 28th and final year of public life, I am
grateful for the opportunity the people have given me to serve
them, beginning only seven years after my arrival in this state,
with my first oath of office as an Assemblyman in this chamber --
and ending as the leader of a state that is the leader of America.
"As most of you know, Gloria and I are first generation
Americans. Our parents struggled and worked very hard to give
their children a better start in life than they had known.
"We have tried to do the same for our children, and as
Governor, my goal was to leave California better than I found it.
I believe that it is better than it was, and that is why literally
millions of people have come here in the past few years seeking
unlimited opportunities.
"Together, we have done well, but I know we can do better.
Despite some of our differences, we are bonded by our desire to
pass along to the next generation the golden opportunities of the
golden state. There is still much to accomplish in this first
year of the last decade of the 20th century, so let's carry on in
a spirit of unity and good will.
"Thank you very much."
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January 31, 1990
Redistricting
Background
Gerrymandering is older than the United States - Patrick Henry tried to redistrict James Madison
out of a seat on the First Continental Congress. California Republicans gerrymandered the state in
1951; the Democrats did so in 1961. Early, pre-computerized efforts were far less effective than
later ones.
The Supreme Court's one-man-one-vote decisions of the early 1960s made equal population the
paramount criterion in drawing district lines. Redistricters therefore were more free to ignore
geopolitical features such as county boundaries.
Ethics Reform Means Ending California's Gerrymander
A recent Los Angeles Times survey showed that most Californians think their lawmakers "are
for sale" to campaign contributors and that state government" is pretty much run by a few big
interests." (L.A. Times, p. 3, 1/4/90) "Ethics" reform plans proposed by Legislative leaders would
limit lawmakers' outside income and prohibit voting on legislation in which they have a financial
interest. (Sacramento Bee, p. 3, 1/5/90)
The glaring weakness of these proposals is that they completely ignore the primary source of
ethical breakdown in California government: gerrymandering. Gerrymandering frees lawmakers
from responsibility to the voters by creating legislative and congressional districts that make
incumbents defeat proof.
Gerrymandering derails every democracy's first line of defense against ethical abuses.
Legislators who fail to serve the public are supposed to have to worry about being turned out by the
voters, but that's not the way things work in California. Despite the voters' low opinion of office
holders, incumbents are almost always reelected easily. In 1988, every California Congressional
incumbent was reelected comfortably and only three legislative incumbents lost - 154 victories in
157 races, a 98 percent batting average! Nationally, last November, only seven of 401
congressional incumbents lost. Thanks to gerrymandering, lawmakers need not worry about losing
the public's support. They win reelection anyway, no matter how low the voters' opinion of them
falls. How is this possible?
How Gerrymandering Works
The party in power draws new district lines with great care and precision SO that they group as
many of the opposing party's voters in as few districts as possible. The party out of power then
piles up huge margins of victory in a few districts, while the party that draws the lines has its voters
divided more evenly across a larger number of districts that they carry with dependable, but not
unnecessarily large, majorities. The party in power doesn't waste their votes and wins the
maximum number of seats. The opposition party gets the minimum number of seats. And
challengers running against incumbents most often win no seats at all.
50% of the Vote Gives Democrats 60% of the Seats
Does it really work? Yes. Consider: In 1980, the last election before the current gerrymandered
district lines took effect, Democrats won 22 and Republicans won 21 of California's 43
Congressional seats. Just two years later, after the gerrymander, the Democrats'advantage soared
to 28 seats while Republican seats fell to 17. This happened only two years after Ronald Reagan's
landslide victory when the Republican president and Republican policies were at their highest levels
of popularity.
On the basis of statewide vote, legislative and congressional voting has been highly competitive
between the parties throughout the 1980s. In 1988's Assembly races, Republicans received 48
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percent of the statewide vote to 52 percent for the Democrats. GOP congressional candidates won
47 percent of the vote to 53 percent for the Democrats.
Those totals didn't matter, though, because of the gerrymander. The Democrats' unfair district
lines gave them 59 percent of California's Assembly seats and 60 percent of its Congressional
seats. No wonder lawmakers feel free to ignore the concerns of the voters. The people who are
supposed to be running things have been reduced by gerrymandering to almost negligible status.
Defeat-Proof Incumbency and Office Holder Arrogance
Gerrymandering breeds contempt for the voters among office holders. For instance, Rep.
George Brown represents a large section of California's "Inland Empire" - one of the state's, and
nation's, most conservative areas - though Brown is one of Congress's most liberal members.
Brown's district is a masterpiece of political architecture. It was drawn with enormous care to
purge Republican areas and pull in every nearby Democrat neighborhood. Brown freely admits his
reliance on his districts' gerrymandered lines.
"I think it [the gerrymander] was essential," he told the Wall Street Journal ("Incumbent for
Life: I Came, I Saw, I Gerrymandered," 11/4/88.) "This district could just as easily have its
Democrats spread among several others."
Brown knows he's out of touch with most voters even in his tailor-made district. He tells
constituents, according to the Journal, that "he supports greater defense spending, though he
regularly votes for less; and that he 'voted for the stronger death-penalty provisions in the 1988
Drug Act,' though he had opposed the death-penalty amendment. Tm not happy to do this,' he
concedes, 'but what can you do? That's the way politics is run these days."
Gerrymandering Corrupt from its Inception
Congressman Brown's hypocrisy and enthusiastic use of anti-democratic gerrymandering
should not surprise anyone, of course. From start to finish, the Democrat party's California
gerrymander during the 1980s has been characterized by deceit, abuse of power, and a dogged
determination to circumvent and derail the voters' right to self-government in California.
Gov. Jerry Brown signed the 1981 Phil Burton Democrat gerrymander, but voters rejected it
through a successful Republican referendum on the June 1982 ballot. The Supreme Court under
Rose Bird, however, had already ordered that the gerrymandered lines be used in the November
1982 elections regardless of the referendum, which would not take effect, the Court ruled, until
after 1982. Even liberal Justices Stanley Mosk and Otto Kaus joined in denouncing the ruling,
describing it as "an official alignment of the court with one side in a partisan dispute as to which we
should remain scrupulously neutral."
Democrats elected under this Rose Bird-supported gerrymander then drew another set of
gerrymandered lines that Gov. Brown signed into law on his last day in office, January 2, 1983.
Assemblyman Don Sebastiani qualified an initiative for the ballot in 1983 that drew entirely new
lines, dismantling the Democrats' gerrymander. The California Supreme Court under Rose Bird
stepped in again on the side of unfair districts, however, by removingthe initiative from the ballot.
Later, when asked about the incident, Willie Brown gloated that "Sister Rose and the Supremes
took care of that little matter [Sebastiani's initiative].'
After voters rejected a 1984 Deukmejian-sponsored initiative to have retired federal
appelate-court judges draw district lines, Willie Brown proudly admitted that the campaign against
the proposition had successfully misled voters with its charge that the initiative would "politicize the
judiciary."
The Gerrymander's Legacy: Big Money Politics - Voter Apathy - An
Avalanche of Initiatives
California's ethical problems developed quickly, in one day in fact: the day grossly unfair
redistricting became law in California. That cut the tether that ties government to the governed. It
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gave lawmakers a degree of unchallengeable power not previously attainable in California. The
only remaining avenues available to people interested in affecting their own government have
become large contributions and initiatives circumventing the Legislature.
Gerrymandering sends a strong message against voting. It removes the fundamental reason
people go to the polls. Democrats talk a great deal about wanting to increase voter participation, but
their consistent support of gerrymandering is the major cause of low turn-out. Why bother going to
the polls when everyone knows ahead of time that the same party always wins? Voters would have
to be exceptionally stupid to be repeatedly suckered, year in and year out, into believing in a system
as thoroughly rigged as are California's legislative and congressional elections.
Willie Brown and other Democrat leaders profess to be surprised to learn that citizens have a
low opinion of lawmakers and are cynical about state government. But who really can be surprised
at that when every voter knows that the last thing legislators worry about is being reelected? Voters
are losing faith in the system. Initiatives are increasingly used to bypass the unresponsive
Legislature while the numbers going to the polls have declined to historic lows.
With almost no chance of losing, lawmakers too often dodge the tough decisions they are
elected to make. When Legislators won't legislate, the system begins to break down, a problem
Republicans are not alone in recognizing. State Controller Gray Davis was quoted in the Los
Angeles Times as saying:
"Without leadership in Sacramento, it's no wonder we had 50 measures on the ballot. People
are starting to revolt against that kind of stand-still politics."
Republicans Don't Need to Gerrymander; Democrats Do
Republicans are accused of grinding their partisan axe in attacking the gerrymander because the
Democrats now draw the lines in California. It is true that there are clear partisan interests involved
for both sides. Democrat Chairman Jerry Brown stated his side clearly during a debate with
Republican Frank Visco when Visco proposed that they work together to find a fair system of
redistricting. Brown declined. He admitted with refreshing honesty that a fair set of district lines
would put the Democrats out of business. Those were his exact words: out of business.
Republicans freely admit that an end to gerrymandering would benefit our party, but only
because we have already won the votes. A fair plan would give us the seats the voters have said we
should have. Unlike the Democrats, Republicans don't need a gerrymander to win office. We've
won the political battle on the issues:
The Democrat party's essential problem with American voters is the radical, failed liberal
ideology of its leaders. Some Democrats suggest that the apparent collapse of communism will win
votes for their party. But the worst foreign policy disaster of the last Democrat presidential
administration was Jimmy Carter's debacle with the Ayatollah and the hostages, and did not
involve communism at all. What it did involve, on a grand scale, was liberal ineptitude in handling
foreign policy.
Equally inept liberal domestic policy-making gave us stagflation, record unemployment,
"malaise," Jerry Brown's "era of limits," Rose Bird, and a 1980 landslide Republican victory.
Republican presidential victories have continued mainly due to the stunning success of Republican
policies during the 1980s - tax cuts, reduced regulation, peace through strength — that have given
America record-breaking prosperity and an almost unbelieveable transformation of the communist
world.
That transformation was forced on the communists mainly by the economic collapse of their
own system, the renewed strength, under Reagan, of America's economy, and Reagan's
toughness, against adamant Democrat opposition, in bargaining with the Soviets and, when it
became necessary, in using military aid and military force against tyranny in Grenada, Libya, the
Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and Central America.
That's why a recent national survey found that large majorities of Americans believe the
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Republican party is better equipped than the Democrats to keep the peace, to keep the economy
strong, and to deal with whatever problem the poll's respondents thought most important for
America.
Liberalisms' across-the-board policy failures have left the Democrats dependent upon
gerrymandered districts and incumbent dominance over political contributions to retain control of
Congress and of California's Legislature. This is slender reed for long-term political success in a
democratic country, but it's all than have.
Fair Redistricting: What's At Stake
Winning fair redistricting is crucial because the great American successes, both at home and
abroad, of the last 10 years under Ronald Reagan, George Deukmejian, and George Bush were not
inevitable. Things were very different before 1980. Under President Carter and, here in California
under Governor Jerry Brown, the mood was what Carter called "malaise" - and what Brown
called the "era of limits." The Democrats that ran things in the late 70s thought America was nearly
finished. They were talking like people about to give up. They completely failed to see the great
things coming just around the corner.
Had they stayed in power, we would not now be able to talk about the longest peacetime
economic expansion in America's history, or about record levels of employment, or about the dawn
of perhaps the greatest age of increased democracy and diminished tyranny the world has ever
known.
The future is no more assured today than it was in 1979. Just as it was then, we have it in our
power to make the future what we will. It is our responsibility. If we don't control our future, we
can expect others to return us to the days of malaise and limits. Nothing could make this more clear
than to point out that Jerry Brown is back and itching to run things again.
This is what the battle to end gerrymandering is really about. Which road will the 90s follow?
The tragedy in Tienanmen Square reminds us how delicate the good we've seen happening can be.
We must stick to the ideas and principles - Republican principles- that made the difference
between 1979 and 1989. Our ability to do so will depend largely on our success in putting an end
to gerrymandering, once and for all.
The Cure
Two June ballot reform initiatives - one authored by Gary J. Flynn, the other by San Mateo
County Supervisor Tom Huening - would outlaw gerrymandering. Either of them would end the
corruption afflicting our system by removing the corruption's source and restoring fair
representation for the '90s.
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Political Profile
CALIFORNIA
Republican Almanac, 1987
VOTE FOR U.S. PRESIDENT
Yr Republican/Democrat M TotVote RepVote DemVote %Rep %Dem %0th
-
84 Reagan/Mondale
R
9,505,041
5,467,009
3,922,519
57.5
41.3
1.2
80 Reagan/Carter/Ander.
R
8,348,352
4,524,858
3,083,661
54.2
36.9
8.9
76 Ford/Carter
r
7,866,747
3,882,244
3,742,284
49.3
47.6
3.1
72 Nixon/McGovern
R
8,367,862
4,602,096
3,475,847
55.0
41.5
3.5
68 Nixon/Humphrey/Wall.
I
7,199,252
3,467,664
3,244,318
48.2 45.1 6.8
64 Goldwater/Johnson
D
7,057,577
2,879,108
4,171,877
40.8 59.1 .1
60 Nixon/Kennedy
R
6,506,578
3,259,722
3,224,099
50.1
49.6
.3
56 Eisenhover/Stevenson R 5,466,358 3,027,668 2,420,135 55.4 44.3 .3
52 Eisenhower/Stevenson R 5,143,228 2,897,310 2,197,548 56.3 42.7 .9
VOTE FOR U.S. SENATE
Yr Republican/Democrat M TotVote RepVote DemVote %Rep XDem %0th
-
86 Zschau/Cranston
d
7,398,462
3,541,804
3,646,672
47.9
49.3
2.8
82 Wilson/Brown, Jr.
R
7,805,450
4,022,565
3,494,968
51.5
44.8
3.7
80 Gann/Cranston
D
8,327,308
3,093,426
4,705,399
37.1
56.5
6.3
76 Hayakava/Tunney
R
7,470,586
3,748,973
3,502,862
50.2
46.9
2.9
74 Richardson/Cranston
D
6,102,432
2,210,267
3,693,160
36.2
60.5
3.3
70 Murphy/Tunney
D
6,492,157
2,877,617
3,496,558
44.3
53.9
1.8
68 Rafferty/Cranston D 7,102,465 3,329,148 3,680,352 46.9 51.8 1.3
VOTE FOR U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
ELECTION RESULTS
Yr M TotVote RepVote DemVote %Rep %Dem %0th M Mem #R #D Net
-
--
86
D
7,200,102
3,328,109
3,743,542
46.2
52.0
1.8
D
45
18
27
+
0
84
r
8,953,334
4,423,734
4,327,237
49.4
48.3
2.3
D
45
18
27
+
1
82
D
7,582,621
3,536,658
3,815,205
46.6
50.3
3.0
D
45
17 28
1
4
80
R
8,175,618
4,176,462
3,664,614
51.1
44.8
4.1
D
43
21 22
+ 4
78
D
6,525,641
3,105,933
3,335,332
47.6
51.1
1.3
D
43
17 26
+
3
76
D
7,453,832
3,220,418
4,144,324
43.2
55.6
1.2
D
43
14
29
-
1
74
D
5,745,758
2,334,870
3,265,153
40.6
56.8
2.5
D
43
15
28
-
5
72
D
8,007,166
3,719,898
4,161,984
46.5
52.0
1.6
D
43
20
23
+
3
70 D 6,319,394 3,047,735 3,169,817 48.2 50.2 1.6 D 38 17 21 + 0
68
R
6,880,270
3,741,454
3,036,602
54.4
44.1
1.5
D
38
17
21
+
0
66
R
6,274,805
3,336,943
2,937,862
53.2
46.8
.0
D
38
17
21
+
2
CALIFORNIA
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
February 22, 1990
MEMORANDUM FOR THE CHIEF OF STAFF
PATTY PRESOCK
DAVID BATES
LINDA CASEY
ANDREW CARD
WILLIAM KRISTOL
JAMES CICCONI
TIMOTHY MCBRIDE
DAVID DEMAREST
ROSE ZAMARIA
MARLIN FITZWATER
PAUL BATEMAN
BOYDEN GRAY
RICHARD TREFRY
FRED MCCLURE
DAVID VALDEZ
BONNIE NEWMAN
BILLY DALE
ROGER PORTER
JAY ALLISON
SIG ROGICH
JOHN HERRICK
BRENT SCOWCROFT
LAURIE FIRESTONE
CHASE UNTERMEYER
PEGGY SWIFT
SUSAN PORTER ROSE
KIM BRADY
ED ROGERS
JEAN LAMB
JOE HAGIN
DEB ANDERSON
JIM WRAY
TONY BENEDI
CHRISS WINSTON
USSS/PPD OPS
BOBBIE KILBERG
WHCA AUDIO/VISUAL
SICHAN SIV
WHCA OPERATIONS
WHTV
MEDICAL UNIT
PRESIDENTIAL
DOCUMENTS
THROUGH:
SIG ROGICH
ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR
PUBLIC EVENTS AND INITIATIVES
FROM:
JOHN G. KELLER, JR. XK
DEPUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND
DIRECTOR OF PRESIDENTIAL ADVANCE
SUBJECT:
TRIP OF THE PRESIDENT TO STATEN ISLAND,
NEW YORK; SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES, AND
PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA ON FEBRUARY 28 -
MARCH 4, 1990
For your use and planning purposes, the attached is a preliminary
outline schedule for the Trip of the President to Staten Island,
New York; San Francisco, Los Angeles and Palm Springs,
California. Please keep in mind that the following information
has not been finally approved and is subject to change.
Attachments
PRELIMINARY OUTLINE SCHEDULE
Staten Island, New York; San Francisco, Los Angeles and
Palm Springs, California
Wednesday, February 28, 1990
GUEST AND STAFF INSTRUCTIONS:
8:00 am Baggage Call. Please place all
unlocked baggage in Room 89 1/2,
O.E.O.B. at this time.
9:40 am Vans depart West Basement
en route Andrews Air Force Base
Distinguished Visitors Lounge.
9:40 am Those with own transportation
and baggage should arrive
Andrews Air Force Base
Distinguished Visitors Lounge
for check-in.
10:10 am
Those with own transportation
should arrive Andrews Air Force
Base Distinguished Visitors
Lounge at this time.
10:25 am
MARINE ONE departs White House en route Andrews
Air Force Base.
(Flying Time: 10 Minutes)
10:35 am
MARINE ONE arrives Andrews Air Force Base.
10:40 am
AIR FORCE ONE departs Andrews Air Force Base en
route Newark, New Jersey.
(Flying Time: 45 Minutes)
(Interchange: No)
(Time Change: None)
11:25 am
AIR FORCE ONE arrives Newark, New Jersey.
11:30 am
MARINE ONE departs Newark International Airport,
Newark, New Jersey en route Staten Island, New
York.
(Flying Time: 15 Minutes)
11:45 am
MARINE ONE arrives TBD Landing Zone, Staten
Island, New York.
11:50 am
MOTORCADE departs TBD Landing Zone en route
Shalimar Hall.
(Drive Time: 5 Minutes)
11:55 am
MOTORCADE arrives Shalimar Hall.
*
STAFF PHOTO
- Closed Press
(12:00 pm - 12:20 pm)
*
FUNDRAISING LUNCHEON FOR SUSAN MOLINARI
- Open Press
- Brief Remarks.
(12:25 pm - 1:00 pm)
1:05 pm
MOTORCADE departs Shalimar Hall en route TBD
Landing Zone.
(Drive Time: 5 Minutes)
1:10 pm
MOTORCADE arrives TBD Landing Zone.
1:15 pm
MARINE ONE departs Staten Island, New York en
route Newark, New Jersey.
(Flying Time: 15 Minutes)
1:30 pm
MARINE ONE arrives Newark International Airport.
1:35 pm
AIR FORCE ONE departs Newark, New Jersey en route
(E.S.T.)
San Francisco, California.
(Flying Time: 5 Hours 45 Minutes)
(Interchange: No)
(Time Change: Back 3 Hours)
4:20 pm
AIR FORCE ONE arrives San Francisco International
(P.S.T.)
Airport, San Francisco, California.
4:25 pm
MOTORCADE departs San Francisco International
Airport en route St. Francis Hotel.
(Drive Time: 20 Minutes)
4:45 pm
MOTORCADE arrives St. Francis Hotel.
*
PRIVATE TIME
(4:50 pm - 6:55 pm)
*
WILSON STAFF PHOTO
- Closed Press
(7:00 pm - 7:20 pm)
*
WILSON FUNDRAISING DINNER
- Open Press
- Brief Remarks
(7:35 pm - 8:05 pm)
8:10 pm
MOTORCADE departs St. Francis Hotel en route
San Francisco International Airport.
(Drive Time: 20 Minutes)
8:30 pm
MOTORCADE arrives San Francisco International
Airport.
8:35 pm
AIR FORCE ONE departs San Francisco, California en
(P.S.T.)
route Los Angeles, California.
(Flying Time: 1 Hour)
(Interchange: No)
(Time Change: None)
9:35 pm
AIR FORCE ONE arrives Los Angeles, California.
(P.S.T.)
9:40 pm
MOTORCADE departs Los Angeles International
(P.S.T.)
Airport en route Century Plaza Tower.
(Drive Time: 25 Minutes)
10:05 pm
MOTORCADE arrives Century Plaza Tower for RON.
Thursday, March 1, 1990
10:00 am
MOTORCADE departs Century Plaza en route
Paramount Studios.
(Drive Time: 15 Minutes)
10:15 am
MOTORCADE arrives Paramount Studios.
*
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
TAPING - STUDIO TOUR
- Pool Coverage
(10:20 am - 11:00 am)
11:05 am
MOTORCADE departs Paramount Studios en route
Century Plaza Tower.
(Drive Time: 15 Minutes)
11:20 am
MOTORCADE arrives Century Plaza Tower.
*
PRIVATE TIME
(11:25 am - 12:20 pm)
12:25 pm
MOTORCADE departs Century Plaza Tower en route
Jimmies Restaurant.
(Drive Time: 5 Minutes)
12:30 pm
MOTORCADE arrives Jimmies Restaurant.
*
GOP GOVERNOR'S LUNCHEON
- Closed Press
- Brief Remarks
(12:35 pm - 2:00 pm)
2:05 pm
MOTORCADE departs Jimmies Restaurant en route
Century Plaza Tower.
(Drive Time: 5 Minutes)
2:10 pm
MOTORCADE arrives Century Plaza Tower.
*
PRIVATE TIME
(2:15 pm - 6:45 pm)
6:55 pm
MOTORCADE departs Century Plaza Tower en route
Century Plaza Main Building.
(Drive Time: 5 Minutes)
7:00 pm
MOTORCADE arrives Century Plaza Main Building.
*
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE HEAD TABLE STAFF
PHOTO
- Closed Press
(7:05 pm - 7:25 pm)
*
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE DINNER
- Open Press
- Dinner
- Remarks
(7:30 pm - 8:30 pm)
8:35 pm
MOTORCADE departs Century Plaza Main Building en
route Century Plaza Tower.
(Drive Time: 5 Minutes)
8:40 pm
MOTORCADE arrives Century Plaza Tower for RON.
Friday, March 2, 1990
8:00 am
MOTORCADE departs Century Plaza Tower en route
Century Plaza Main Building.
(Drive Time: 5 Minutes)
8:05 am
MOTORCADE arrives Century Plaza Main Building.
*
STAFF PHOTO (TBD)
- Closed Press
(8:08 am - 8:25 am)
*
ADDRESS ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS
AND SCIENCES BREAKFAST
- Open Press
- Remarks
(8:30 am - 9:00 am)
9:05 am
MOTORCADE departs Century Plaza Main Building en
route Century Plaza Tower.
(Drive Time: 5 Minutes)
9:10 am
MOTORCADE arrives Century Plaza Tower.
*
PRIVATE TIME
(9:15 am - 10:45 am)
10:50 am
MOTORCADE departs Century Plaza Tower en route
Santa Monica Airport.
(Drive Time: 15 Minutes)
11:05 am
MOTORCADE arrives Santa Monica Airport.
11:10 am
MARINE ONE departs Santa Monica Airport en route
Anaheim Field Landing Zone, Santa Ana, California.
(Flying Time: 35 Minutes)
11:45 am
MARINE ONE arrives Anaheim Field Landing Zone.
11:50 am
MOTORCADE departs Anaheim Field Landing Zone en
route Santa Ana Bowl.
(Drive Time: 15 Minutes)
12:05 pm
MOTORCADE arrives Santa Ana Bowl.
*
STAFF PHOTO
- Closed Press
(12:10 pm - 12:25 pm)
*
"DRUG USE IS LIFE ABUSE" ANTI-DRUG RALLY
- Open Press
- Remarks
(12:30 pm - 1:30 pm)
1:35 pm
MOTORCADE departs Santa Ana Bowl en route El Toro
Marine Corps Air Station.
(Drive Time: 15 Minutes)
1:50 pm
MOTORCADE arrives El Toro Marine Corps Air
Station.
1:55 pm
AIR FORCE ONE departs Santa Ana, California en
route Palm Springs, California.
(Flying Time: 35 Minutes)
(Interchange: No)
(Time Change: None)
2:30 pm
AIR FORCE ONE arrives Palm Springs Regional
Airport, Palm Springs, California.
2:35 pm
MOTORCADE departs Palm Springs Regional Airport
en route Annenberg Residence.
(Drive Time: 20 Minutes)
2:55 pm
MOTORCADE arrives Annenberg Residence for RON.
Saturday, March 3, 1990
No Events Scheduled
Sunday, March 4, 1990
9:10 am
MOTORCADE departs Annenberg Residence en route
Palm Springs Regional Airport.
(Drive Time: 20 Minutes)
9:30 am
MOTORCADE arrives Palm Springs Regional Airport.
9:35 am
AIR FORCE ONE departs Palm Springs, California
(P.S.T.)
en route Andrews Air Force Base.
(Flying Time: 4 Hours 10 Minutes)
(Interchange: No)
(Time Change: Ahead 3 Hours)
4:45 pm
AIR FORCE ONE arrives Andrews Air Force Base.
(E.S.T.)
4:50 pm
MARINE ONE departs Andrews Air Force Base en route
White House.
(Flying Time: 10 Minutes)
5:00 pm
MARINE ONE arrives White House.
TOMORROW
Why voters are SO crabby in California
N
o other election this year will tell more
by MICHAEL BARONE
government. Now, the pendulum is swinging
about the future of American politics
back. All look back past the Deukmejian, Jerry
than the race for governor in trend-set-
Brown and Reagan administrations and ad-
ting California. America's outpost on the Pacific Rim has
mire the examples of Governors Pat Brown and Earl Warren,
been surging with economic growth and boasts a political
who from the mid-1940s to the mid-1950s built the state's
system that is the product of nearly a century of reforms. Its
freeways, water system, public schools and universities. The
three gubernatorial candidates-Democrats Dianne Fein-
candidates agree that California's schools were turning out
stein, former San Francisco mayor, and Atty. Gen. John Van
better students 25 years ago, when Pat Brown lost to Reagan,
de Kamp, and Republican U.S. Senator Pete Wilson-are
than they do today. In a state where freeway traffic jams have
competent, honest, principled and tested in high office. Yet
spurred record sales of cellular phones, they want to abandon
despite all this, the mood of the state is anything but sunny.
Jerry Brown's "small is beautiful" opposition to new freeways.
While millions cheer democracy and look forward to afflu-
Relnventing political organization. The antipolitics sentiment
ence in Eastern Europe, those who enjoy both in California
has led politicians into new methods of plying their trade that
are cynical and crabby. Why?
could lead to similar changes in other states. Republicans won
The media's message. The work of state government does
the close races in the 1980s with TV spots, targeted direct-
not register with the public. None of the TV stations in Los
mail and absentee-ballot drives. The Democrats countered
Angeles has a bureau in the state capital, Sacramento. In-
with targeted registration of blacks, Hispanics and Asians and
stead, newscasts concentrate on hideous crimes and their
by building old-fashioned precinct organizations. They almost
aftermaths, endless footage of freeway tie-ups and lifestyle
won the state for Michael Dukakis.
stories. In this climate of personal self-absorption and politi-
Neither of those methods is cheap, however, and that has put
cal alienation, candidates and
LEVERETT
a premium on fund-raising. Re-
officeholders must appeal to
publicans retain an advantage,
voters primarily through 30-
raising much of their cash from
second TV ads or targeted di-
tax haters, who were happy to
rect mail, often simplistic in
back a candidate like Wilson
content and negative in tone.
who is pro-choice and against
Mistrust of Sacramento. Legis-
coastal oil drilling. Democratic
lators have cemented themselves
money comes from more sources
in power by drawing pro-incum-
such as Sacramento lobbyists,
bent district lines and raising
Hollywood feminists and per-
lots of money from special inter-
sonal-injury lawyers. As in na-
ests. Well-placed lobby groups
tional politics, Democrats are
can easily work their will. For
less disciplined, and their activ-
instance, the criminal-lawyer
ists and money givers tend to
bar always blocks anticrime pro-
move candidates away from
posals in the Assembly.
mainstream positions. The good
In response, outsiders have
news is that the state will get a
taken to using the referendum
Flx this mess! Californians want more and better roads
competent leader. The bad news
process to bypass Sacramento.
is that voters aren't much
Since the success of tax-cutting Proposition 13 in 1978, ballot
pleased with the process and seem indifferent to the result.
measures have become the central focus of state politics. In
1988, the voters revised campaign-finance rules, mandated
education-spending levels, and chose among auto-insurance
The 10-seat congressional swing
proposals whose proponents spent $80 million on campaigns.
T
he California governor's race may well decide the balance of
In each case, they took power away from the Legislature,
power in the U.S. House through 2002. California is expect-
lobbyists, and Governor George Deukmejian. In theory, this
ed to get 52 House districts from the 1990 census (up from 45
gives power to the people; in practice, it creates unworkable
today), and if Democrats hold the Legislature, as seems likely,
laws and more discontent.
the districts are likely to be drawn by L.A. consultant Michael
The potency of the referendum process at the expense of
Berman-heir to the late master redistricter, Representative
the legislative process is highlighted this year as the guberna-
Phil Burton. A Republican governor could veto such a plan and
torial candidates use referenda to signal voters their stands on
force a compromise, or lead a referendum fight. At stake: As
issues. Republican Wilson is touting the crime-victims initia-
many as 10 congressional seats.
tive on the June primary ballot, while Democrat Van de
Kamp opposes it, saying it jeopardizes the pro-abortion Cali-
fornia privacy guarantee. Van de Kamp has sponsored an
A megabuck nightmare in '92
environmental initiative and one limiting legislators' terms in
T
his year's gubernatorial race could also pave the way for an
office, attacking the Sacramento powers directly. Democrat
astronomically expensive political showdown in 1992. If
Feinstein is boosting a measure to raise tax limits and allow
Senator Wilson is elected governor and if Senator Alan Cran-
more spending on transportation and education.
ston is still reeling from the Charles Keating S&L scandal, the
Consensus on government's role. Despite those differences, a
races for both Senate seats may be wide open in 1992. The last
remarkable agreement exists among the candidates about the
two Senate races here cost more than $50 million. With
need for a more aggressive state government-a trend that
multiple entrants, two simultaneous Senate races in California
augurs important national change. When Californians elected
could dry up California political money that often is exported
Ronald Reagan governor in 1966, it signaled a trend to less
to other candidates around the nation.
40
U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT, Feb. 5, 1990
National
Drug Control
Strategy
Budget Summary
STATE she 3
January 1990
The White House
This section presents the program and budget priorities for
Fiscal Years 1991-1993. Further detail on the Fiscal Year 1991
request is contained in the following Agency Summaries. These
resources are needed to implement the National Drug Control
Strategy and provide balanced funding for the overall drug
program. For Fiscal Year 1991, we are seeking $10.6 billion
dollars in drug-related funding -- a $4.3 billion (69 percent)
increase since taking office twelve months ago and a $1.1 billion
(12 percent) increase over the current Fiscal Year. Actual
spending -- the budget outlays -- for Fiscal Year 1991 will
increase by $2.8 billion, a 41 percent increase in just one year.
BUDGET AUTHORITY IN MILLIONS OF DOLLARS
FY
FY
FY
FY 90-91
1989
1990
1991
Increase
$
%
Criminal Justice
$2,682
$4,191
$4,279
$ 88
2%
Treatment
888
1,337
1,492
155
12
Education, Community
Action & the Workplace
677
1,118
1,242
124
11
International Activities
304
419
690
271
65
Interdiction Efforts
1,467
2,029
2,373
344
17
Research
231
318
383
65
20
Intelligence
53
71
172
101
142
TOTAL
$6,302
$9,483
$10,631
$1,148
12%
The figures for Criminal Justice include the costs of Federal
prison construction, which in FY 1990, totaled approximately $1
billion. Because prison construction costs do not recur in
subsequent years, the true programmatic increase from 1990 to
1991 is actually $1 billion higher than the figures above would
indicate. Adjusting for this, the FY 1990 to FY 1991 criminal
justice increase equals 34 percent.
2
National Funding Priorities For Fiscal Years 1991 - 1993
The Criminal Justice System
Increase assistance to State and local law enforcement;
Increase the number of DEA and FBI agents and support
personnel, and technical, and secure communications
capabilities;
Provide additional OCDETF personnel and resources for
investigations of drug trafficking;
Expand resources for money laundering investigations,
including resources for FINCEN;
Expand DEA State and local task forces and other
Federal/State/local task force efforts;
Automate DEA reporting capabilities;
Increase the BATF Armed Career Criminal program;
Expand and improve the DEA and Customs Service
precursor chemical programs;
Increase investigations against domestic marijuana
growers and distributors and reduce domestic marijuana
production;
Augment U.S. prosecutorial resources;
Increase the capacity of the U.S. Courts, including
additional judgeships, clerks, administrators, court
officers, and legal services for indigent defendants in
the Federal judicial system;
Expand the Substance Abuse Treatment Program of the
U.S. Probation Office to increase treatment
availability as well as maintain adequate supervision
of probationers receiving drug treatment;
Increase the capacity of the Federal prison system;
Establish a drug testing information clearinghouse to
promote drug testing within the criminal justice
system;
Increase the availability and quality of Federal prison
drug treatment services;
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PRESIDENTIAL T.P.: RGA FUNDRAISER
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1990
12:30 P.M.
Mr. Cook, Governor and Mrs. Deukmejian, Governor and
Mrs. Ashcroft, Governor and Mrs. Sununu, Lee Atwater, Fellow
Republicans. It's great to be back in California -- and to talk
about how Republican Governors can build better America.
Office of Governor is where the action is. First, they
count politically. Only GOP Governors can stop Democratic
gerrymandering. Remember 1984? Republican Congressional
candidates together received more total votes than the Democratic
candidates -- yet got 9 fewer seats.
We have to change that. Three States alone -- Florida,
Texas, and California -- may gain up to 13 Congressional seats
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through 1990 Census. California may get up to seven more. GOP
Governors can see that reapportionment doesn't turn into another
shell game where Democrats deal and mark the cards.
Next, Governors count by building America of ever-
greater opportunity. I need Republican Governors to help keep
Nation prosperous -- we've had over 20 million new jobs since
1982. So let's pass capital gains tax cut. // Governors can
also encourage a strong military. Californians know that strong
America is an America at peace.
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Another Administration priority is child care. I need
GOP Governors who support legislation to put choice in hands of
low-income parents -- allowing a grandparent to help, neighbor,
or church. // The environment is crucial. So we have sent up
legislation to reduce acid rain, air toxics, and urban smog --
first rewrite of Clean Air Act in over 10 years.
A priority of every State is freedom from crime and
drugs. Last month I announced 1990 National Drug Control
Strategy for FY 1990 -- Phase II of comprehensive drug policy we
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unveiled last year. We're asking Congress to spend over 10 and
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a half billion dollars. We also want expansion of death penalty
for drug kingpins. And budget request calls for more Federal
assistance to States and localities in drug use, prevention,
treatment, and law enforcement. We need Governors who'll wisely
use that assistance.
Our final priority is education. Like Pete Wilson,
George Deukmejian knows that future begins with kids. So last
fall he and other 49 Governors and I convened America's first
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Education Summit.
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From that summit came education goals I announced last
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month -- goals developed with the Nation's Governors. We want every
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student to start school ready to learn. Have proposed record
increase -- extra half a billion dollars -- for Head Start. //
We want drug-free schools -- so kids can learn. Graduation rate
must be no less than 90 percent. Diplomas must mean something.
We want our students to be first in world in math and science by
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2000. And each American to be skilled, literate worker and
citizen.
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These are great objectives -- and we'll obtain them.
goals. But only if we have great Governors acting in tandem with
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President, Congress, and county and local officials.
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George Deukmejian has helped provide that leadership.
As did one of great Americans of any time -- Ronald Reagan. As
will Governor Pete Wilson. Thanks for all you're doing. Let's
help a golden future for the Golden State -- and for America.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
February 26, 1990
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
TO THE NATION'S GOVERNORS
The East Room
11:59 A.M. EST
THE PRESIDENT: Before I talk about the issues that we've
been discussing with the Governors I'd like to make a brief comment
on yesterday election in Nicaragua. Any friend of democracy can
take heart in the fact that Violeta Chamorro won the election. And
the election process by all accounts; free and fair is a credit to
the people of Nicaragua who chose to determine their nation's future
at the ballot box. And that is a victory for democracy.
Yesterday's election moves us one step closer to the day
when every nation in this hemisphere is a democracy. And I'll soon
send messages -- I think they may have already gone out -- to Mrs.
Chamorro, congratulating her on her victory; to President Ortega,
congratulating him on the conduct of the election and on his pledge
to stand by its results; to President Carter and his counterpart on
that one, Dan Evans; to Mr. Soares of the OAS; to Perez de Cuellar
and Elliot Richardson of the United Nations for their leading roles
in observing the elections.
In the next few days I'll be speaking with Central and
South American leaders. This morning I talked to President Carlos
Andres Perez of Venezuela about appropriate trade and economic
measures that we can take to support the new government of Nicaragua.
We hope now for a peaceful transition for the
institutionalization of the democratic process in Nicaragua. And
there is space in a democratic Nicaragua for all political points of
view. Given the clear mandate for peace and democracy, there is no
reason at all for further military activity from any quarter. And we
hope the cease-fire will be reestablished without delay and respected
by all sides. For years the people of Nicaragua have suffered, and
today the people of Nicaragua have spoken, and now is the time for
Nicaragua to move forward to freedom.
And now, back to our agenda at hand. I am very pleased
to be with you on this occasion -- an occasion which I believe will
be viewed in years to come as a dramatic turning point for our
country. You've come to Washington for this annual meeting with an
uncommon agenda. Today, we're launching a new era in education
reform. Its focus: high expectations. Its hallmark: results. Its
energy derived from the people of our great nation who will insist on
a world-class eduction for our kids.
For the first time in America's history we now have
national education goals and objectives. Goals that pave the way to
a decade-long commitment to excellence in education for all
Americans. Goals that will guide us on the journey toward an
American renaissance in education.
We made the commitment to develop national goals last
fall there in Charlottesville, Virginia. Five months later, I'm glad
to see that the spirit of cooperation and bipartisanship, so much in
evidence there at Charlottesville, is still very much alive. That
spirit has got to endure. And over the coming months and years, the
spirit must serve as a signal to America that our commitment to these
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common goals remains unshakable, very strong. Not for just today,
not just tomorrow, but for the rest of the decade, to the year 2000,
until we get the job done and get it done right.
You know, only a year or so ago, the notion of the
President and the Governors agreeing on education goals was
considered a bold step for America to take. Even now, there are some
who say the goals we've established are too ambitious. I think
they're mistaken. They've failed to appreciate the depth of our
commitment to restructuring and change.
We've all been following the extraordinary events which
have unfolded before our eyes in Eastern Europe over the last year.
And there is a lesson in those events for all of us in this room and
for all Americans. And that lesson is, when people unite behind
common goals and demand the freedom to pursue their dreams, no system
can stop them. And nothing will stop us.
There is nothing more important to the long-term
stability and stature of America than establishing a first-class
education system. Nothing is more important to a competitive America
in the 21st century Nothing is more important to improving the
quality of life for our citizens, and nothing is more important than
the promise inherent in these goals that all children in America can
realize their fullest potential and reach our for their dreams.
I want to see these goals posted on the wall in every
school, so that all who walk in -- the parents, students, teachers --
know what we're aiming for, so that everyone knows we have set for
ourselves the goal that every child will be ready to learn from the
first day they walk into the classroom. The goal of raising the
graduation rate to 90 percent by making our schools meaningful,
challenging and relevant to the needs of our students. of setting
high standards of achievement among our students, seeing that they
leave the transition grades of four, eight and 12, having mastered
the important subject matter. The goal of achieving first place in
math and science among industrialized nations. of every American
adult being skilled and literate, equipped to be a productive worker
and a responsible citizen. And finally, the goal of every school in
America being safe, disciplined, and drug-free.
These goals and objectives have been developed with a
great deal of energy and effort over these past five months. And
with the input of hundreds of citizens from all sectors of society.
And I want to thank everyone who has participated in this process.
Governor Branstad and the members of your Education Task Force, I
thank you for your commitment, your dedication, and all the hundreds
of hours of hard work -- that as we acknowledge this first step,
we've also got to recognize that hard work lies ahead.
Over the next few months I know you'll be looking at
strategies in your states which will move us forward to these goals.
And strategies that will focus on measuring progress by results, by
how well students are doing. One of the Governors encouraged me in
the meeting in there to encourage the people of this country to
support state and local initiatives that have to do with making the
educational system better. And certainly, I am prepared to do that,
just as I am grateful to the Governors for their participation in
settin these goals.
In the coming months, we'll work together with Congress
on legislation to increase flexibility in federal funding in return
for enhanced accountability. And you, the nation's Governors, have
committed to break the bureaucratic shackles that smother innovation
and stand guard over the status quo.
Although the federal government traditionally has a
limited role in education -- and we all respect and acknowledge that
it is the dynamism at the state and local level that achieves
excellence I promise you that this administration is determined to
walk with you every step of the way.
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When I next meet with the Cabinet, my Cabinet, many of
whom were with us there in Charlottesville, I'll ask each to work
with our domestic policy advisor to devise strategies that can
support your efforts and those of your communities in helping to
achieve these goals. I will work with you to establish a bipartisan
group to ensure that proper and constructive measurements of our
educational performance are developed where they don't already exist.
And this group is going to report to me each year on the progress we
make.
And I'm calling on America's private sector to be a third
party in this enterprise. We need to know from them what the
workplace will need and expect of our citizens in the 21st century.
And we need their talent and their commitment to help move this
reform effort forward. And finally, I will do everything I can to
provide the national leadership and energy to keep education in the
forefront of America's domestic agenda.
The work ahead will not be easy. We're traveling
uncharted waters, and never before have we as a nation set such goals
for education. And never before have the nation's leaders stepped
forward to say we are willing to be held accountable for the results
of this process. And never before have the President of the United
States and the Governors joined together in a partnership and a
long-term commitment on a single issue.
If we can accomplish just one thing today -- and it may
be the simplest, and yet, most valuable of all -- it is to send a
message to parents, teachers, community leaders and every other
American. These goals are not the Governors' goals, they're not the
President's goals. They are the nation's goals. And we are
rejecting the status quo, raising our sites, investing our faith in
the American people. And so today, I hope the Governors and the
Cabinet will join me in extending a challenge to all Americans to
adopt these goals as their own, and to take aim now at the year 2000
and to enlist every ounce of American innovation, energy, resolve, in
the effort to achieve these education goals and prepare this nation
for the challenges of a new century.
Thank you all very, very much for your superb
cooperation. (Applause.)
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