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Pete Wilson for Governor
Los Angeles, CA
(213) 410-1990
(619)260-1990
San Diego Campaign Office - PRESS
Bill Livingston
Political Affairs contact: Cathy Hutchinson
Larry Goldzban - local office 224-2003
OHO Boss,
wife kids: Gayle Wilson
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20TH STORY of Level 1 printed in FULL format.
Copyright (c) 1990 Federal Information Systems Corporation;
Federal News Service
FEBRUARY 6, 1990, TUESDAY
SECTION: FROM THE WHITE HOUSE
LENGTH: 2022 words
HEADLINE: CB
REMARKS OF PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH
REPUBLICAN PARTY FUNDRAISER
CENTURY PLAZA HOTEL, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
KEYWORD:
BUSH-02/06/90 GOP FUNDRAISER
BODY:
PRESIDENT BUSH: Thank you, Frank and Governor Deukmeijan -- Duke, always a
pleasure to see you, to the California state delegation, many of whom are
here, thank you for coming and it's great to see our party Chairman, Lee Atwater
with us tonight, he is doing an outstanding job. I want to -
(Applause.)
He plays that rhythm and blues, I'd rather hear Vickie Carr sing, but
nevertheless - (laughter) - and thank you for the beautiful rendition of "The
Star Spangled Banner." Johnny, the honorary mayor of Hollywood, and all of you
who were supporting this marvelous effort for our party, headed by Frank Visco
(ph), and Frank, thank you for the introduction.
I see that we have a lot of celebrities here tonight and Bob Hope, thank you,
sir, for your remarks. When I first saw this star studded audience I thought I
had wandered into a Lakers game - (laughter) -- but I -- (applause) ---------- I don't
think there have been 50 many celebrities in one place since it used to be there
in Dodger Stadium at Tommy Lasorda's office before they allowed the visitors ---
kicked the visitors out of there. And of course, Arnold Schwartzenegger is
here, he was up visiting Barbara and me the other day at Camp David. I call him
Conan the Republican, but - (laughter) --- and he has taken on a big job for us
as chairman of this Fitness Council and it's very, very important. He is taking
it seriously. We saw his beautiful new daughter up there at Camp David. I bent
over to kiss her and she tried to bench press me, but - (laughter) -- that's -
where is he? Oh, right -- sorry about that - (laughs and laughter). That's
when I realized any kid has their own set of free weights doesn't need a teddy
bear.
Now there is one more person I'd like to mention tonight, even though he is not
here, a friend of everybody in this room. Tonight he is celebrating his 79th
birthday and I would like to simply say "Happy Birthday President Reagan,"
wherever you are and best wishes from all of us.
(Applause.)
And this is my first trip out here on behalf of the Caifornia State Party, I
want to thank all of you for the victory that you gave us here on election
night. I'll never forget the close win here. You have my gratitude. Duke --
certainly Governor, you do, and my appreciation for your hard work and
commitment for a job well done.
Tonight, I want to talk to you about another job, the job of preparing our great
country for the future. Last Wednesday I made my first State of the Union
address to the nation and I covered a lot of ground because our country faces
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(Applause.)
Look, unlike the Democrats we don't need gerrymandering because Republicans can
win on the issues, you heard Duke say it. In fact, we can put the Democrats out
of business on the issues. Look at what this Governor's Republican
administration has accomplished since 1983, the unemployment rate was 11
[percent], cut to 5.2 percent; 2.7 million new jobs created in this great state;
the list keeps growing, 14 new and expanded prisons open in 1991; education
funding more than doubled; drug education now included in every school from
grades four to eight; and California now has some of the toughest
environmental laws in the nation with thousands of acres of sensitive lands
acquired and preserved.
And thanks to common sense policies and strong leadership, California is
better off that it ever has been and let's keep it that way. Let's keep it
Republican and let's elect Pete Wilson next November to be Governor of this
great state.
(Applause.)
Unfortunately Pete couldn't join us tonight, he is in Washington, a crucial vote
in the Senate on education, and I appreciate his work for he is a proven winner
and the voters know it. And he is a strong environmentalist, a leader of the
war on drugs, key member of our team in the United States Senate. And believe
me, we'll miss Senator Wilson, but come to think of it, I really like the sound
of Governor Pete Wilson.
(Applause.)
Pete will be leading a solid team of candidates for state office to victory, and
with him they'll be the ones that keep the taxes low, the environment clean, the
economy strong.
People say I'm a cautious guy and I can understand that -- well, I really can't
understand it. I am going to go out on a limb tonight and make a prediction,
1990 will be a great year for the Golden State because Pete Wilson will be your
next Governor.
(Applause.)
And so my plea, in the tradition of Ronald Reagan and George Deukmeijan, let's
keep California great and keep it Republican. Barbara and I are delighted to
be with you. Thank you for what you are doing for this party, thank you for
what you are doing for the campaign for Governor and the other statewide races.
Thank you all, God bless you, and God bless the United States of America. Thank
you very much.
(Applause.)
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PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: PETE WILSON FUNDRAISER, Bonaventure,
6:45 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 18, 1990
Pete and Gayle Wilson, Assemblyman Ross and Diane Johnson,
Senator Marian and Garth Bergeson, Councilwoman Joan Flores,
Matthew and Paula Fong, Thomas and Mary Hayes and Johnny Grant.
Robby Britt -- that was an inspiring rendition of the
National Anthem. ( (Maybe you should sing it at the next ballgame
in San Diego.) )
( (Let me convey the apologies of a very close member of my
family who couldn't make it tonight. III But, as it turns out,
Millie is on the road promoting her new book.))\\\
( (Always impressive to have an author in the family. ))
((I see our national fitness czar, Arnold Schwarzenegger, is
with us tonight. You know, Arnold really wanted to entertain
the troops in Saudi Arabia, but we had to turn him down. Turned
out they didn't think it was very entertaining to watch a guy
bench-press an M-1 tank.))\\\
Let me say, it's great to be back with so many good friends,
back in the Golden State. The people who came to California,
wouldn't stop looking for gold until the trail stopped at the
edge of Pacific Ocean. That's why this state today is a place
where the dreamers are the doers.
ThAts one ReASON Clue
This is in Eact, the fifth time this year I've been back to
California. According to the U.S. Census, you already have the
2
largest Congressional delegation in America, and should receive
seven more seats in the U.S. House: Seven more reasons why
California is leading America into the future. And I can't think
of anyone better qualified to lead California into that future
than your next governor -- Pete Wilson. III
I will have a lot to say tonight about Pete Wilson and the
Republican future in California. But first, I would like to
speak of a two matters critical to the future of America and the
world.
A week ago tonight, I went before the Congress and the
American people to discuss two urgent and interrelated matters -
- the federal budget deficit, and aggression in the Middle East.
Even before the Persian Gulf crisis, we were already more
economically vulnerable than we should ever be, especially with a
projected federal deficit of $232 billion. So I told the
Congress, (and I know that Pete Wilson agrees) that we must
address our budget deficit -- not in 1991, or 1992, but now.
((And we did act. Not [[hours]] after the Joint Session,
Administration and Congressional negotiators reached a budget
agreement that meets four basic tests.
*** Our agreement includes measures to increase economic
growth, and cut our national dependence on foreign oil.
*** It is fair. Everyone will be called upon to make a
sacrifice, but no one will bear the burden alone. 111
*** It addresses the growth of the government's hidden
liabilities.
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*** Our agreement reforms the budget process.
And one thing more: We can cut this budget without hurting
the economy. 111
Without another phoney-baloney plan. 111 And we
can do this because we have an agreement that is credible, real
and will save America half a trillion dollars. \\\))
I also told the Congress if America is strong at home,
America can continue to lead abroad. But another component of
American leadership is priceless -- our servicemen and women in
the Persian Gulf.\\\
America is a mighty nation. But we are a great nation only
because of those who are ready to leave the comfort of their
homes\\ in Oceanside or San Bernadino\\ to serve on the front-
line halfway around the world. America is great because their
courage is great. III
Californians know this. That's why a California high school
offered to ship one thousand, one-pound care packages to the
region. We all wish their job was done. But we know that it's
not.
Certain objectives must be met. Iraq must withdraw from
Kuwait, without condition. Kuwait's legitimate government must
be restored. The security and stability of the Persian Gulf must
be assured. And American citizens abroad must be protected.
These goals are not ours alone. They've been endorsed by
the United Nations Security Council five times in five weeks. It
is truly Iraq against the world.
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And as the world unites to prevent aggression, it opens the
way to our final objective -- to create a new partnership of
nations. A new world order -- freer from the threat of terror,
stronger in the pursuit of justice, more secure in the quest for
peace.
The international community has already taken a giant step
toward that day.
Together with our friends and allies, ships of
the United States Navy are patrolling Mideast waters. They've
already intercepted more than 700 ships to enforce these
sanctions. The world is simply telling Iraq: We will not give in
into bullies.
On matters like these, we are called upon to put country
before self, and patriotism before party. But I am sure every
Democrat agrees --- we won't allow our political life to be held
hostage to a crisis. When Californians go to the polls, absentee
ballots will be coming in from Americans in uniform, including
those stationed in the Persian Gulf region. If our soliders,
sailors, airmen and Marines can find the time to vote under such
difficult circumstances; surely those of us at home will do our
civic duty as well
Politics should stop at the waters edge; but that still
leaves a lot of America in between. From Long Beach to Long
Island, we will vigorously campaign right up to the November
election. For those of us at home, we can serve our country by
being the best candidates, the best citizens, and yes, the best
Republicans and the Democrats we can be.
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And here in California, the best candidate for governor is
Pete Wilson.
Just a few minutes ago, I spoke of an international bully.
Well, it does Americans no good to stop aggression abroad, if
bullies take over the streets at home. Pete Wilson, as a former
United States Marine, as a Senate foreign policy and defense
leader, understands the need to repel aggression abroad.
But he also understands the need to repel aggression at
home. Let me tell you a story that means a lot to him, about a
policeman named Michael Callahan, an immigrant from Ireland who
came to these shores to find peace and prosperity. Michael
Callahan moved to Chicago, started a family, worked hard, and
rose to the rank of detective sergeant on the city force. And
then one evening, while on duty, Sergeant Callahan tried to
arrest two cocaine dealers. They drew their guns first.
Although Callahan managed to shoot one of the dealers, the other
one shot him. And so Sergeant Callahan died in Chicago, at the
age of 30, fighting the first wave of cocaine to sweep America.
But that was not in 1990, or 1980. He died fighting cocaine in
1908. 11 And his grandson, Pete Wilson, is with us tonight.
So when your Senator says we need to protect the public and
the police from cop killers and kingpins; when he says that those
who deal in death should reap what they sow; you can be sure --
Pete Wilson means business.
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I share his sense of mission. In May, 1989, surrounded by
hundreds of law-enforcement officers braving rainy weather, I
called on Congress to pass a tough crime bill.
Sixteen months have now passed. And despite the leadership
of Pete Wilson and others in the Senate, the House Democratic
leadership has gone off into left field. Even worse, several
measures receiving serious consideration in the House last week
would actually weaken law enforcement; would actually make our
cities and streets less safe than they are today. Such a bill
will stop at my desk. 111
Pete Wilson and I want a crime bill that will stop the
endless abuse of habeas corpus. A bill that guarantees that
criminals who use serious weapons will face serious weapons
charges and serious time. A bill that guarantees that evidence
gathered by good cops acting in good faith isn't barred by
technicalities that let bad people go free.
I cannot sign a bill that overturns Supreme Court decisions
limiting frivolous habeas corpus petitions; that expands the
coverage of the exclusionary rule; and weakens capital
punishment. And I will not sign a bill that handcuffs the
police.
But if some in the House have been an obstacle to tougher
laws, Pete Wilson has been an advantage in the Senate. He was
((an author of the death penalty provisions of the 1988 Anti-
Drug Act) ) ; one that allows capital punishment for the murder of
a law enforcement officer working on a drug-related case.
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I also know I can count on this Senator's support for a
tough, fair-minded and brilliant judge as my first nominee to the
United States Supreme Court -- David Souter. And in
California, I look first to Pete's advice in choosing strong
judges for the federal bench -- judges who care deeply for the
rights of victims.
Pete Wilson says, "I will not have California under siege to
rapists and thugs and drug dealers." He wants to change the
odds, to govern a California where women need no longer fear the
night, because drug dealers and criminals will fear the law.
And he would start by extending capital punishment in California
to major drug traffickers, ((the same as my proposals before
Congress. ))
So I have to ask: Is it any wonder that the endorsement of a
dozen law enforcement organizations has gone to the grandson of
Michael Callahan?
Tomorrow, in San Francisco, I will speak of Pete Wilson's
fiscal philosophy and, especially, of his long-standing
environmental leadership. He is, and always has been, a
conservative. But Pete Wilson also is, and always has been, an
activist who wants to use government creatively, to improve our
quality of life.
This balanced approach is the key to his success as a
legislator in Washington and Sacramento, and as Mayor of San
Diego. It as was as Mayor that Pete Wilson first showed a flair
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for executive leadership. Now he seeks the largest executive job
in America, second only to my own.
He faces a California skeptical of all rhetoric, impressed
only by action. But he has faced the voters before, retaining a
Senate seat that six predecessors lost. Pete Wilson broke the
jinx, and made history because he delivers on his promises.
Now Pete says, "If the voters think I'll be more useful as a
governor than as a member of the U.S. Senate, then that's what
I'll be." Ladies and gentlemen, that is what he should be ---
that is what he must be -- Governor Pete Wilson of California.
Thank you all, may God bless you and the United States of
America.
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Election Results
1986 general
Beryl F. Anthony, Jr. (D)
115,335
(78%)
($179,169)
USAA [sizy- 2211
ee Chairman.
Lamar Keels (R)
22,980
(15%)
($23,134)
oliticians: the
Stephen Bitely (I)
10,604
(7%)
ise money for
1986 primary
Beryl F. Anthony, Jr. (D) unopposed
1 competition,
1984 general
Beryl F. Anthony, Jr. (D)
117,123
(98%)
($93,041)
endous energy
Roy Rood (I)
2,516
(2%)
ny has already
Campaign Contributions and Expenditures
tors saying the
ably be in the
1985-86
Direct Cont. 1985-86
PACS Breakdown 1985-86
ed for an even
Receipts
$390,697
Indiv.
$78,325
Corp.
$137,207
T/M/H $106,940
Expend.
$179,169
Party
$1,148
Labor
$5,750
Agr.
$5,750
Unspent
$337,764
PACS
$277,197
Ideo.
$11,000
CWOS
$10,550
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Who could have predicted, 150 years ago as industrial democracy was just dawning in lands on
both sides of the Atlantic, where the richest and most dynamic parts of the world would be
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today? Few people in the late 1830s would have guessed that Switzerland, a land of mountain
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shepherds, would be the richest part of Europe, or that Japan, two decades before Commodore
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manufacturer and premier exporter. Hardly any thought that California would have the richest
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and most rapidly growing economy in the world. California was almost empty then, with less
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than 10,000 inhabitants in land that now holds 26 million. A British explorer sailing past Point
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untended on the hills-"California in a nutshell, nature doing everything and man nothing"-
and others were disgusted to see Californians slaughtering cattle for their hides, leaving the meat
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to rot in the sun. Yet the same explorer foresaw that this autonomous province of Mexico,
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thousands of miles from Mexico City and Washington, must become "English, in some sense of
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the word," British or American. "In the hands of an enterprising people," the New Englander
Richard Henry Dana wrote in 1840, "what a country this might be!"
And so it is. California is not the nation's cultural capital, but it is its entertainment capital; it
is not the financial capital, but it is its biggest and strongest engine of economic growth; it is not
the political capital, but it is one place where political trends are made and where presidents
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sparsely populated desert, mountains, and ocean. Looking out from Point Lobos or from Los
Angeles International, there is only a vast expanse of ocean between you and China. This is
America's very substantial foothold on the Pacific Rim, where millions of human beings packed
into enormous cities in the seismically active interstices between mountain and ocean have
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had become the number one immigrant destination in the world, so attractive to so many people
that the Russians, fearful of mass defections, refused to send their team to the 1984 Los Angeles
Olympics. The Olympics itself-the ceremonies, the pomp, the American victories-were one
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to make their organizer, Peter Ueberroth, Time's Man of the Year. Yet California's outlook has
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from smog and reeling after earthquakes. Its aerospace industry was on the rocks as defense
spending plummeted, and its microchip industry was in infancy. Moreover, for the first time in a
century, outmigration was coming close to equal the inflow of new residents. Its students were
rebellious and rejecting the values of their elders, and many of the elders themselves were unsure
that they had values worth defending. Abortion, pornography, marijuana-all were effectively
legalized in a few years. Show business, always a reflector of certain Californian if not national
values, mocked chastity and patriotism, and celebrated challenges to the establishment and to
middle class morality.
Presiding over California's government then, to be sure, was that defender of traditional
American values, Ronald Reagan. But he was politically beleaguered. His 1966 margin had
been cut in half in 1970 by an underfinanced opponent; his campaign to maintain a Republican
majority in the legislature had been frustrated; his efforts to hold down state spending and
prevent tax increases had failed; his chances of winning a third term or of getting elected to the
Senate in 1974 seemed iffy. In 1972, a Californian in the White House won a record reelection
margin, but he failed to engage the sympathies or capture the imaginations of ordinary
Americans; in his administration domestic government grew and defense spending was cut, and
when he was forced out of office by the Watergate scandal almost no one, in California or
elsewhere, regretted his political demise.
How to account for the change? What explains the rise in national confidence and pride? A
look at changes in California, the prototypical trendsetter state, over the last dozen years
suggests some answers.
First, the economy has changed. Californians have for some years lived in a nation-state whose
affluence can hardly be overstated. Yet the basis for its affluence used to seem mysterious-and
under threat. The standard explanation for years was that some boom industry-entertainment,
(first the movies, later TV and records, more recently video games and electronic toys), defense
(first aircraft, then aerospace)-was the engine of growth. The corrollary was that disaster was
looming when the latest boom went bust.
But over the long term California has grown rapidly despite wide oscillations in the health of
particular industries. Urbanologist Jane Jacobs has pointed out that in 18 months at the end of
World War II, metropolitan Los Angeles lost 230,000 jobs in defense industries, and every
expert predicted depression and depopulation of the Los Angeles Basin in the postwar years.
Exactly the opposite happened. In 1945-55 Los Angeles was the fastest growing metro area in
the nation and generated one out of eight new jobs in the United States. Standard economic
analysis tells us that growth comes where there are basic resources and access to markets. But
the 26 million people of California are separated by almost two thousand miles of desert and
mountain, punctuated by a few other California-like metropolitan areas, from any other
significant market, and its basic resources are limited. It has been a net importer of oil since the
1950s (although it is a significant producer as well), it is hundreds of miles from basic fuels like
coal and raw materials like iron ore; southern California is always in danger of running short of
water
water. California has only one basic industry dependent on its physical endowment: agriculture
not gr
(although that depends on irrigation as well). The answer is that California's economy, like the
pretty
thriving economies on the other side of the Pacific Rim, is growing largely because the people
bough
there want it to. But the big difference is that California, unlike Japan or South Korea or
systen
Singapore, welcomes immigrants and owes much of its growth to their ingenuity and enterprise
Cal
Economists of the right, supply-siders like Arthur Laffer, would explain all of California
indust
recent growth as the result of cuts in taxes and restraint in government spending. The private
anyon
sector, they say, has been given room to grow by Proposition 13 and other tax cuts in the late
endow
1970s and early 1980s. This, like the boom-and-bust theory, explains some things, but leave
whose
even more unexplained. For California has been growing rapidly for a very long time, and during
liked 1
most of that time it has been a big-government, high-tax state. That has been true at least since
gross r
the 1940s, when Earl Warren deliberately kept taxes high during World War II. He anticipated
growir
vast population growth after the war, and wanted to be able to build schools, highways, an
per ca
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water mains for the new residents; seldom has a public official been so right. California thus did
not grow as a tax haven, as a giant New Hampshire. It grew despite high taxes (they're still
pretty high, even after Proposition 13 and its progeny) and in part because of what the taxes
bought: a vast freeway system, an awe-inspiring water delivery system, a higher educational
system that every year nonchalantly takes in more than half the state's young people.
California's affluence thus depends on free enterprise and government, on one boom-and-bust
industry after another and on an underlying, prosaic economy that is much more solid than
anyone thinks. Californians have used government intervention and market mechanisms, natural
endowments and technological improvements-whatever comes to hand-to build a society
whose affluence is genuinely awesome. As an ex-governor running for president, Ronald Reagan
liked to say that if California were an independent country, it would have the seventh largest
gross national product in the world. He might have added that it would have one of the fastest-
growing GNPs in the world and, except for a few resource-rich enclaves, by far the highest GNP
per capita. California's success is all the more striking, because unlike some other high-GNP
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areas (Switzerland, Japan, Massachusetts) it has had massive immigration, beginning just at
easily fly to the
that time in the early 1970s when fashionable opinion was giving up on the possibility and
as a problem
denying the desirability of economic growth. Then the eyes of southern California were focused,
immigration to
literally, on the smog that was one result of four decades in which the Los Angeles Basin's
themselves the
population increased from 2.5 million to 10 million. Now the air quality in California is much
Opportunity
better, thanks in large part to stringent pollution controls which Reagan Republicans tended to
built by outside
resist, and growth is seen less often as a blight than as an opportunity.
Americans is W
Which leads to the second major change in California's life during the last dozen years-or,
migrants from
rather, two changes which are seldom thought of together, but which both symbolize Califor-
Francisco, all C
nia's openness. These are the vast technological advances, especially the development of the
Today it is far m
computer chip industry in the Silicon Valley, and the vast migrations, mostly of Mexicans and
had Fifth Avent
Asians, to California over the past two decades. California has succeeded in spawning a vigorous
farther out, to Sl
high-tech industry, growing though beleaguered by Japanese competition, and a sprawling low-
and 80 miles frc
wage (but high upwardly-mobile) economy, both at the same time. In the early 1970s California
Sierras. As Calif
was just one of many areas with some high-tech development, and in-migration had trickled
only Rodeo Driv
almost to a standstill. By the middle 1980s California still had the premier high-tech economy in
thermal baths. T
the world and had spawned hundreds of thousands of jobs for immigrants who are moving
The chance to do
upward more rapidly, probably, than any migrants in American history.
to California anc
Neither development was anticipated by any sizeable body of experts, and especially not by
Which leads
the doomsayers of the early 1970s who saw technology as a threat and growth as nothing but an
emergence of a C
environmental threat. Yet both are very much in line with California's history and tradition.
less abrasive tone
California's economic growth has always built on technological advance, from the early miners
those days of stu
to the Central Valley's farmers, from the movie moguls to the aircraft assemblers. The
wartime draft ar
microchip is just the latest chapter in a long saga. And California's economic growth has always
thought their bel
depended on vast flows of migrants. These people-from Massachusetts and Mississippi, Iowa
they thought we
and Oklahoma, from southern Ireland and southern Italy, from Jewish enclaves in New York
Guard to Berkel
and Chicago, from south China and rural Japan, from Armenia in Turkey, and now from Mexico
rebellious studen
and the Philippines, El Salvador and Indochina-powered that growth. What has attracted
that if he were Sl
them, it seems, and what they in turn have fostered, is a sense of opportunity and possibility,
their lapels or let
willingness to let people try things their way and to give heed to their pleas for help. The common
of thousands of V
ingredient to both is openness to people and to new ideas.
Californians a:
California's scientific and technological surge attracted favorable, if usually belated, notice
against a backgr
from journalists and politicians. Governor Jerry Brown made a point of his interest in space
that there could 1
exploration, and by the early 1980s Apple Computer founder Steve Jobs was on the cover of
another way woul
Time. Generally high tech was seen as an advantage, although occasionally observers suc-
united America
cumbed to the temptation of seeing any change in society as a problem: one writer lamented that
didn't foresee is tl
the University of California at Berkeley was being overrun by Asian mathematics and computer
permit American
whizzes, as if every university in the land wouldn't want a similar problem. As one chip executive
would require tha
put it, "It's our Chinese-American kids against their Japanese kids."
cultural diversity
Immigration, on the other hand, was seen almost always as a problem and a burden
away lived an ent
Government statistics and journalists' stories have been unable to keep up with the rapid upward
discovered, or red
mobility of these people: they begin their life in America in what look to journalists like ghetto
How have these
neighborhoods, but they quickly begin to make comfortable livings and to move up in the
the right word for
world-not to Beverly Hills, but to the San Fernando Valley and Orange County (the
a moment the stat
comparative absence of upwardly mobile migrants on the west side of Los Angeles makes them
California's growt
invisible to people in the entertainment business, and thus we don't see much of them on
programs, subsidi
television or in movies). Los Angeles is to the nation today what New York was in 1913: the great
examples of gover
entry port for people seeking-and finding-opportunity. Nor is this the result of simple
nearly as affluent
geographic proximity. Los Angeles is close to the Mexican border, to be sure, but it is 1,000
bipartisan, and ma
miles away from any significant concentration of population in Mexico except for the border
Brown's support of
towns. And while it is true that the West Coast is the part of the continental United States
Reagan spouted a
closest to Asia, that is not what makes Asian migrants stay here: they fly in, and could just as
programs; instead,
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higration, beginning just
easily fly to the Midwest or the South. In California and in Washington, immigration is treated
; up on the possibility ar
as a problem and immigrants are considered people in distress. But the continuing large
ern California were focusec
immigration to California is a sure sign that its economy is buoyant and for the immigrants
h the Los Angeles Basin
themselves the move is their big opportunity. Why else would they come?
ality in California is muc
Opportunity is what California has always represented to migrants, and this is a state largely
igan Republicans tended
built by outsiders. They may have been attracted, initially, by the climate, which for most
ity.
Americans is well-nigh perfect (or was, until smog was noticed in the 1950s). For post-1945
g the last dozen years—
migrants from the Midwest and South, the cultural atmosphere was good: except for San
ch both symbolize Califo
Francisco, all California then had the small-town atmosphere most Americans consider ideal.
lly the development of th
Today it is far more cosmopolitan: Los Angeles produced Rodeo Drive just as New York in 1913
is, mostly of Mexicans ar.
had Fifth Avenue. Many Californians find such an atmosphere unfriendly; they have moved
eded in spawning a vigorou
farther out, to suburbs in Orange County, and increasingly to small towns and subdivisions 50
tition, and a sprawling low
and 80 miles from the large metro areas or even, in the last 10 years, to the foothills of the
the early 1970s Californ:
Sierras. As California grew more affluent, its cultural habits grew more diverse: it supports not
in-migration had trickle
only Rodeo Drive, but decorated vans and weekend skydiving and skiing and surfing and Jacuzzi
mier high-tech economy
thermal baths. The new migrants will pioneer-are already pioneering-other cultural styles.
migrants who are movin.
The chance to do such pioneering, in turn, is part of what attracts people of talent and initiative
ory.
to California and keeps them there.
erts, and especially not
Which leads to the third major change in California life over the last dozen years: the
d growth as nothing but
emergence of a confident acceptance of the state's cultural diversity. There is an unmistakably
nia's history and tradition
less abrasive tone to public and to private life today in California than there was 20 years ago. In
nce, from the early mine:
those days of student rebellions and ghetto riots, of uptight fathers and long-haired sons, of a
aircraft assemblers. Th
wartime draft and a langorous peacetime affluence, Californians of all ages and backgrounds
conomic growth has alway
thought their beliefs were under attack and, if only in defense, attacked the beliefs of those who
etts and Mississippi, Iow.
they thought were their attackers. Politicians joined in. Ronald Reagan sent in the National
ish enclaves in New York
Guard to Berkeley while Robert Kennedy listened sympathetically, almost apologetically, to
key, and now from Mexic
rebellious students. Reagan didn't hesitate to attack ghetto rioters while Hubert Humphrey said
owth. What has attracte
that if he were subjected to such conditions he might riot too. When politicians wore flags on
portunity and possibility.
their lapels or let their hair grow, they were sending signals that cheered or infuriated hundreds
leas for help. The commo
of thousands of voters.
Californians and Americans generally in the late 1960s and early 1970s were operating
if usually belated, notic
against a background of cultural homogeneity. Whatever their own cultural style, they agreed
nt of his interest in space
that there could be only one prevailing cultural tone to society, and that those who behaved in
Jobs was on the cover
another way would be subject to attack as abnormal or dangerous. This is in fact how the war-
ccasionally observers suc
united America of the 1940s and 1950s behaved. But what the cultural warriors circa 1970
1: one writer lamented the
didn't foresee is that they were entering an era of cultural diversity, a time when affluence would
nathematics and compute
permit Americans to live by all manner of different rules and no universal military conflict
em. As one chip executive
would require that everyone be treated the same way. By the early 1980s it became clear that
cultural diversity was possible, and the fact that the people in the next subdivision or three miles
problem and a burder
away lived an entirely different lifestyle wasn't much of a threat against your own. California
up with the rapid upwart
discovered, or rediscovered, the old American rule of live and let live.
to journalists like ghett.
How have these developments changed California politics? The cultural warfare and-this is
S and to move up in
the right word for it-malaise of California life in the early 1970s swept away from memory for
nd Orange County (th:
a moment the state's nonpartisan political heritage. Government has played an important part in
Los Angeles makes the
California's growth from the time the United States went to war with Mexico to win it. Water
it see much of them
programs, subsidies to the first railroads, the freeways, schools and universities-all are
ork was in 1913: the grea
examples of government spending without which it seems unlikely that California would be
this the result of simp
nearly as affluent or productive as it is. But support for these measures has usually been
o be sure, but it is 1.00
bipartisan, and many of the most important-the Los Angeles Aqueduct, Earl Warren's and Pat
ico except for the borde
Brown's support of higher education-were pushed through without much debate. As Governor,
continental United State
Reagan spouted anti-government rhetoric, but did not really change the thrust of government
y fly in, and could just
programs; instead, he supported the state's largest (to then) tax increase, and his attempt to get
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the voters to approve a tax limitation referendum in 1973 failed. The real cuts in spendir
occurred after Proposition 13 in 1978, and even then the thrust was to put limits on what seeme
environment. Republic
to be runaway increases in government spending levels. Reagan's political role was to stand
cast outside southern (
one side in the cultural warfare, a stand that cost rather than gained him popularity: his victor
Californians are VC
margin as governor was cut in half between 1966 and 1970.
Governor Deukmejian
Standing on one of the other sides was his successor as Governor, Jerry Brown. It's hard
in Los Angeles County
a California Republica
remember how popular Brown was in his early years in office, and how fresh and innovative
tolerant, but ready at t
was. Personifying the affluent, skeptical young products of the baby boom generation who
standards for students
suddenly a huge part of the California electorate, Brown pioneered, and applied to the actual
These results repres
business of government, a politics that is the exact reverse of the politics produced by the New
Deal in most parts of America. That traditional New Deal politics-you can find it be
years ago. That is unc
voters often have the
exemplified in a Pennsylvania factory town-is liberal on economic issues and conservative
property tax cuts in 19
cultural issues, because most people in that community regard themselves as economical
overwhelmingly oppos
deprived and as part of a deep-rooted cultural community. Affluent, shallow-rooted California
central to that year's C
produced a politics conservative on economic issues and liberal on cultural issues. It
George Deukmejian.
traditional American politics turned upside down.
proposition authorizin
But this politics turned out to have rather shallow roots itself. Brown lost his hold on the
They have overwhe
imagination of the electorate in 1978, when he campaigned against Proposition 13, spouting
Rose Bird (who voted
standard big-government arguments, and then, when it passed 2 to 1, flip-flopped and posed
two other Jerry Brow
its chief supporter. That destroyed any belief that he was a uniquely candid, sincere politiciar
activists to control sta
the man who won 59% in California's Democratic 1976 presidential primary won only 4% four
same time they heavily
years later. Brown's passion for innovation came to seem only a reflex against the past, an echod
Bradley's campaign a:
his desire not to replicate his father's policies (although in so many ways he has replicated
greater margin to est:
father's career); his rigorous skepticism came to seem only corrosive cynicism. He was reelecta
being a bigoted reject
in 1978 against an opponent whose mistakes he shrewdly and cynically exploited. His rejection
quo. for the immigran
in the 1982 Senate election was no fluke and certainly not the result of enthusiasm for his
for the "bilingual" ed
opponent; it was a good indication of where he and his politics stood in voters' regard.
Spanish-language clas
George Deukmejian stands for a very different kind of politics, more Reaganite than Reagar
policies of Superinte
in standing against tax increases and seeking to replace welfare with workfare, but not interested
insisted on higher star
in dismantling the government which has served California so well. Standing for still other
sharp decline in the C
varieties of politics are Thomas Bradley, the Mayor of Los Angeles, who nearly won the 1982
\ few years ago S(
governor election but was shellacked in 1986, and the Democrats who won statewide office
World commonwealth
1986: Lieutenant Governor Leo McCarthy, an old-fashioned liberal; Attorney General John
these three groups WC
Van de Kamp, a crusader against crime; Secretary of State March Fong Eu, who was herse
different ways, the Sl
mugged in 1986; Controller Gray Davis, a former top aide to Jerry Brown; and Treasurer Jesse
voted to recall Chief
Unruh, who as custodian of a huge portfolio of pension funds has made himself one of the
rather than Tom Br:
leading investment decision-makers in America.
language. California
This variety reflects a movement away from ideology by California's primary voters. In the
American tradition. I
1960s and 1970s Democrats tended to favor the most liberal candidates: George McGovern
the image of the plac
1972, Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy in 1968. But by the 1980s they were less
government structure
enthusiastic than voters elsewhere in backing an economic liberal like Walter Mondale, and the
successes. Its supple
contests in statewide races could not be classified as liberal-conservative battles. The conven-
and help them rise, it
tional wisdom about California Republican primary voters from the time Barry Goldwater beat
American traditions.
Nelson Rockefeller in 1964 is that they are heavily conservative. Yet in the last two Senate
show is what many A
races, they have tended to prefer candidates classified as moderates. Pete Wilson and Pete
Governor. Elected
McCloskey shared 64% of the primary voter in 1982, running against Barry Goldwater Jt.,
went to the polls, a
Robert Dornan, and Maureen Reagan, and in 1986, Ed Zschau beat Bruce Herschensohn 39%
Democratic law allov
31%, with the vote among other candidates split in a way making it plausible that Zschau couk
the same opponent,
have won a runoff. The Republican electorate today is younger than the voters that chose
The result cannot be
Goldwater over Rockefeller and Reagan over the now forgotten San Francisco Mayor George
voted for a black can
Christopher two years later, it is less likely to come from the Midwest and more likely to have
made and the manne
grown up in California, less opposed to Franklin Roosevelt than it is dedicated to saving
infuriated many othe
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ading
environment. Republican registration has been growing, and 45% of the 1986 primary vote was
emed
cast outside southern California, in counties where Zschau led Herschensohn 56%-13%.
id for
Californians are voting for divided government, pitting Speaker Willie Brown against
ctory
Governor Deukmejian, Democratic Mayor Bradley against a conservative Board of Supervisors
in Los Angeles County, a Democratic U.S. House delegation and Senator Alan Cranston against
.rd to
a California Republican president. The result is a government fiscally restrained and culturally
ve he
tolerant, but ready at the same time to pump more money into education and to insist on sterner
were
standards for students and sterner restrictions on drug use.
ctual
These results represent a consensus that is inconsistent by the ideological standards of 20
New
years ago. That is underlined by the results on recent ballot referenda in this state where the
best
voters often have the last say over legislators and governors. Californians insisted on local
ve on
property tax cuts in 1978, but balked at deeper tax and spending cuts in 1982 and 1984. They
cally
overwhelmingly opposed the limits on their right to have guns in a 1982 proposition that became
orniz
central to that year's campaign, and provided enough votes to defeat Thomas Bradley and elect
was
George Deukmejian. But they delivered an overwhelming majority in 1986 against the AIDS
proposition authorizing quarantines put on the ballot by followers of Lyndon LaRouche.
1 the
They have overwhelmingly supported the death penalty and in 1986 voted out Chief Justice
uting
Rose Bird (who voted to overturn convictions in all 65 death penalty cases she considered) and
ed as
two other Jerry Brown appointees to the Supreme Court; they did not want Brown's judicial
cian.
activists to control state policy for decades after they had tired of him and his politics. At the
fou:
same time they heavily supported a toxic waste proposal put on the ballot by Democrats to help
ho of
Bradley's campaign and rejected a move to cap elected officials' salaries. They voted by an even
d his
greater margin to establish English as the official language of state government. But far from
ected
being a bigoted rejection of outsiders, this amounts to little more than a ratification of the status
ction
quò, for the immigrants themselves are rapidly learning English and show no substantial support
r his
for the "bilingual" education programs designed by Brown appointees to keep their children in
Spanish-language classes even after they become competent in English. This is in line with the
agar.
policies of Superintendent of Public Instruction Bill Honig, first elected in 1982, who has
ested
insisted on higher standards of instruction and has helped to turn around what was in the 1970s a
other
sharp decline in the quality of California's hitherto superb system of public education.
1982
A few years ago some Californians thought the state was about to become a sort of Third
ce in
World commonwealth, with a black-Hispanic-Asian majority. But they failed to understand that
John
these three groups would not make up one cohesive bloc just because they were all, once and in
erself
different ways, the subjects of discrimination. Most Hispanic and Asian voters, for example,
lesse
voted to recall Chief Justice Rose Bird in 1986; near-majorities voted for George Deukmejian
the
ather than Tom Bradley; over 40% of Hispanics voted to make English the official state
anguage. California in the 1980s, for all its outre lifestyles, is a success story squarely in the
1 the
American tradition. Its upwardly mobile new immigrants are no more going to make California
rn in
be image of the places they left behind than its affluent residents are going to dismantle the
less
overnment structures and programs which have contributed so much to its private economy's
1 the
accesses. Its supple and strong economy, its capacity and willingness to welcome newcomers
were
tid help them rise, its tolerance of eccentricity but insistence on standards, are all in the best of
beat
American traditions. What the success and the confidence of California in the 1980s helps to
nate
Now is what many Americans in the 1960s and 1970s forgot: that America works.
Pete
Governor. Elected by the narrowest of margins in 1982-he actually lost among people who
lie
to the polls, and won only because the Republicans took brilliant advantage of a
emocratic law allowing anyone to vote absentee-Deukmejian was reelected in 1986, against
ould
same opponent, with a higher percentage than Ronald Reagan has ever won in California.
hose
result cannot be ascribed to racism; after all, in 1982 48% of the voters in a 7% black state
orge
for a black candidate for governor. It was an endorsement of the decisions Deukmejian has
have
and the manner in which he has handled the office. Those decisions and that manner have
the
unated many other California politicians. In his first year as governor, Deukmejian stopped
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the Democratic legislature from raising taxes, arguing that economic growth would produce
enough revenue; that turned out to be right, and the governor resists tax increases still. Orderly
gaunt and haggard, th
and aloof, a believer in pomp and ceremony, Deukmejian is not close to other officials, not even
ridiculous by dying hi
Republicans though he spent four years as attorney general and 16 years in the legislature
California: his longtim
Sacramento; he sticks closely to a tight-knit staff. He professes no grand goals for his second
Ronald Reagan seeme
term, but is in a position to continue his experiments with workfare, keep control of the budget
spending at home se
(which must be approved by two-thirds votes in the legislature, and hence is usually the product
entrepreneurs, not go
of compromise), and appoint a majority on the Supreme Court. These are just the things-the
Republicans nominate
tative Ed Zschau, a su
aloofness, the lack of programs to target, the fact that he turned out to be right-politicians
assertive on foreign pc
cannot stand in a rival. He spurned those who urged him in 1987 to become a favorite son
But Cranston was no
presidential candidate, but at the same time set up his own organization, Citizens for Common
Sense, to help him travel around the country and the world to further his goals.
by phone call; he erao
Sacramento has become a kind of smaller Washington, a city where competent legislators
political prospects, CO:
besides. He criss-cross
work year-round and actually live, flying back to their districts on weekends, a city full of
which these days me:
lawyers and lobbyists who raise most of the campaign money for legislators and in turn are well-
parties-in 1986. The
positioned to ask for their support. It is at once cynical and competent, full of Democratic
for flip-flopping on issu
politicians and of talented bureaucrats who regard Republican campaign rhetoric as hogwash
time, he used Ansel Ad
but they find themselves unaccustomedly on the defensive. The Democrats' margin in the
and at the last minute
Assembly is down to 44-36, their hold on several seats is weak, and Speaker Willie Brown
Zschau, a business sch
widely unpopular; one Democratic assemblyman was convicted of mail fraud in 1987 in a case
eventually counteratta
involving a lobbyist who provided cash and prostitutes to legislators and another; Speaker Pro-
and tough drug laws. E
Tem Mike Roos, was under investigation in the same case. Republicans could put on a major
last weeks Ronald Re:
drive to capture control in 1988, as another Republican governor did in 1968. The Democrats
Some conservatives ha
are in a little better shape in the Senate, controlling it 24-15, with one Independent and several
home territory on the P
seats held only by incumbents' personal popularity. On the minds of both parties is the
message, but Cranstc
opportunity for redistricting after the 1990 Census. Democrats led by Representative Phillip
environment, turnout
Burton redistricted after the 1970 and 1980 Censuses, to their political profit; Republicans
Cranston won 50%-47
would love to control the governorship and legislature after 1990, and turn the tables. That
That means another
would have national implications. The Democrats' current 27-18 edge in the House delegation
Though 3 years young
might be reversed, and the incumbency of several nationally prominent Democrats threatened.
young journalist in the
The other statewide offices in California have duties of varying importance; politically, their
in the years after Wor
function is to give their occupants the visibility and name identification necessary to make a run
leading liberal political
for a really important office like governor or senator. Every governor since the 1940s except
and U.S. Senator in 19
Reagan has come from one of these offices. Among the current occupants, all Democrats, are
has ever received in Ar:
several likely candidates. Leo McCarthy, a former Speaker who solved many of Jerry Brown's
controller in the 1966
legislative problems while the governor stayed up late at night and worried about space, is one;
incumbent, Thomas K
he could also run against Senator Pete Wilson in 1988. Attorney General John Van de Kamp,
he thinking about runr
formerly Los Angeles County District Attorney, started his political career by losing a special
against Zschau?) It is
House election to Barry Goldwater, Jr., in 1969, but he is highly popular now, and could be
certain facts about Ra
elected governor in 1990. Gray Davis, with experience in the Assembly, a statewide victory, and
and then threw away hi
as Jerry Brown's chief of staff, can make a plausible case for himself. Only Jesse Unruh seems
opinion turned, and Cr
sure not to run for higher office: he lost to Reagan in the 1970 gubernatorial race, and has made
All this seems impla:
himself a figure of national stature as treasurer.
than magnetic. He is
As for George Deukmejian, despite his plodding, pedestrian style, he is mentioned sometimes
political operator-anc
by his admirers-including some with top-level Washington experience-as a presidential
was an Olympic-class
candidate. But he is not known outside California, and is anchored in his present office by his
Angeles or the 1936 o
reluctance to turn it over to his Democratic lieutenant governor.
Cranston got into politi
Senators. The biggest upset in the 1986 Senate elections, coming after one of the shrewdest
world government. He
campaigns of recent times, was the reelection of California's Alan Cranston. After the 1984
supported the nuclear
campaign, he looked like a goner. He had just finished a humiliating presidential campaign in
favors some form of n
which his supposedly national stature netted him nothing more than a victory in a 1983
basically Keynesian ec
Wisconsin straw poll-and a $2 million debt. He would be 72 on election day 1986 and he looked
But Cranston is also
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75
produce
gaunt and haggard, though he has always been in excellent physical shape, and made himself
Orderly
ridiculous by dying his hair a shade of orange. His views on issues seemed out of line with
not even
California: his longtime support of disarmament seemed irrelevant when the contrary policies of
ature in
Ronald Reagan seemed to be bringing peace, and his longtime support of generous government
second
spending at home seemed foolish to young affluent voters who believe that markets and
budget
entrepreneurs, not governments and regulators, produce economic growth. And finally, the
product
Republicans nominated the strongest possible candidate to oppose him, Silicon Valley Represen-
gs-the
tative Ed Zschau, a successful entrepreneur himself, well-financed, tolerant on cultural issues,
liticians
assertive on foreign policy, market-oriented on economics.
rite son
But Cranston was not daunted. In 1984 he set about methodically raising money, phone call
ommon
by phone call; he eradicated his debt (while Gary Hart and John Glenn, with much better
political prospects, could not eradicate theirs) and by 1986 raised another $10 million or so
islators
besides. He criss-crossed California's small towns in 1985 and remained on the campaign trail-
full of
which these days means in TV studios and raising money personally on the phone and in
re well-
parties-in 1986. The day after the Republican primary, he had ads on the air attacking Zschau
ocratic
for flip-flopping on issues, and kept a running attack on them through November. At the same
gwash,
time, he used Ansel Adams photographs to identify himself with all the best things in California,
in the
and at the last minute sent out 250,000 letters to coastal households on environmental issues.
own is
Zschau, a business school graduate who approached campaigning as a management exercise,
a case
eventually counterattacked by calling Cranston a liberal and an opponent of the death penalty
er Pro-
and tough drug laws. But he never got the footing to get across his own positive message. In the
major
last weeks Ronald Reagan came back twice to California and scathingly attacked Cranston.
ocrats
Some conservatives had been attacking Zschau as too liberal, yet he was not able to carry his
several
home territory on the Peninsula south of San Francisco. Only Zschau could win with a positive
is the
message, but Cranston succeeded early in establishing a negative tone. In that negative
Phillip
environment, turnout was low (8%
below 1982), and neither candidate got a majority. But
>licans
Cranston won 50%-47%.
That
That means another six years for what is already one of California's longest political careers.
gation
Though 3 years younger than Ronald Reagan, he has been active in public affairs longer. As a
tened.
young journalist in the 1930s he published an unexpurgated version of Hitler's Mein Kampf, and
their
in the years after World War II he was a founder of the California Democratic Council, the
a run
leading liberal political force in the state. Cranston was elected state controller in 1958 and 1962
except
and U.S. Senator in 1968, and reelected three times-in 1980 with the most votes any senator
is, are
has ever received in American history. His career has had its ups and downs: he was defeated for
own's
controller in the 1966 Reagan landslide, and he won the Senate seat only when the moderate
S one;
incumbent, Thomas Kuchel, was defeated in the primary by right-winger Max Rafferty. (Was
Tamp,
he thinking about running a flip-flop campaign against moderate Republican Kuchel as he did
pecial
against Zschau?) It is a measure of the strength of the Reagan movement then that even after
ild be
certain facts about Rafferty's past came out-he sat out World War II with an alleged injury
Y, and
and then threw away his crutches on VJ Day-Cranston still won with only 52%. Six years later,
eems
opinion turned, and Cranston might have beaten Reagan had he run.
made
All this seems implausible when you see Cranston. He is quiet, almost shy, calculating rather
than magnetic. He is hard for many to get a handle on: part dreamy idealist, part shrewd
times
political operator-and neither role is very attractive to voters. His manner is quiet and cool; he
ential
was an Olympic-class sprinter, though he did not make the team for the 1932 Olympics in Los
y his
Angeles or the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, and he still runs and holds records for his age group.
Cranston got into politics, in the 1930s and 1940s, as an opponent of fascism and an advocate of
/dest
world government. He remains more interested in arms control than any other issue. He eagerly
1984
supported the nuclear freeze and is always ready to discuss the arcana of disarmament. He
gn in
favors some form of national service, not necessarily military, for young people. He supports
1983
basically Keynesian economics.
oked
But Cranston is also an operator. For 15 years his California colleagues in the Senate were
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men with rather abstract interests or limited attention spans, and so California interests-
Caspar
Weinb
farmers, aerospace companies, banks and savings and loans, labor unions, the entertainmen
he will have ar
industry, the new Silicon Valley industries-went to Cranston when they needed help in the
time to raise ca
Senate. Cranston delivered. When Lockheed needed a federal loan guarantee to stay in business
California inter
Cranston produced the critical vote on the floor by persuading a colleague who later admitted
law and compe
drinking problem to change his mind. He has no bias against business; he was a successful real
In California
estate developer himself. On the Banking Committee he looks out for the state's savings and
regard as this
loans. Perhaps more than anyone else in Washington, Cranston understands how the incredibh
although there
productive economy of California works, and who the major players are. That knowledge paid
as possible op
off in 1986, enabling him to match the Republicans' fundraising. In Washington, he has
Matsui, Attorn
nurtured friendships not so much with the strongest, best-known senators, as with those who are
must leave that
obscure and in some cases of limited talents. That helped to make him a good vote-counter and
1987. Their par
helped him win the position of Democratic Whip in 1977.
already raised
Now he is once again majority rather than minority whip-a position he relished, although
issues which ca
Majority Leader Byrd gives him a rather cold shoulder. Byrd has said he will give up the
and fair.
leadership after the 1988 election, but Cranston has not been mentioned as a competitor for the
Presidential
post. But if he has no great boosters for that post, he seems to have no great enemies in the one he
in many politic
has, and he might very well keep it whoever succeeds Byrd. There is a general assumption that
nationwide per
Cranston is serving his last term: he turns 78 in 1992. But he has work he wants to do and things
Republican eac
he wants to get done, and one lesson of the 1986 campaign is that there is more than one tenant
election day it
the political graveyard who underestimated the determination and political skills of Alan
effect: Californ
Cranston.
loser of the pre
One problem Cranston faces confronts every California senator: it's hard to stay in close touch
The great d
with 26 million people who live 2,600 miles away from where you work (especially when local
picked Barry
newscasts in Los Angeles and San Francisco are not going to do anything as un-with-it as
McGovern in 1
presenting 30 seconds of footage of a U.S. Senator). That problem will be faced in 1988 by
were extreme i
Senator Pete Wilson. He occupies a seat to which no one has been reelected since 1952; William
left: now both a
Knowland, Clair Engle, Pierre Salinger, George Murphy, John Tunney, S.I. Hayakawa-all lost
against: recent
or retired when they could not win. Will Wilson break the string?
Thus Gary Har
With a bland speaking style, a handsome but unremarkable appearance, a common name,
here in 1984 E
Pete Wilson is one of the more anonymous people in American politics. During most of his term
pressure from I
one-third of California voters were unable even to rate his performance. He made his pre-Senate
favorite son car
career in a media market with only 8% of California's population, and he won his Senate seat
ideas.
mainly because of the unpopularity of his opponent, Jerry Brown. Yet he has had a successful
Congressiona
and, by now, long career. He was a competent member of the California Assembly, a body full
had that many
skilled legislators; he was a very successful mayor of San Diego, a rapidly growing city that
the redistrictin
decided under his leadership to control its growth a little more strictly than it had in the past. He
Michael Berma
was bold enough to endorse Gerald Ford over Ronald Reagan in the 1976 presidential
Majority Leade
campaign-an endorsement that left Reagan so cool that he could hardly bear to pronounce
themselves at K
Wilson's name when he made a speech in his behalf in 1982. But Senator Wilson has been one
incumbent-prot
the Reagan Administration's more faithful supporters in the Senate. He even showed up one day
support their pl
in pajamas, while recovering from surgery, to cast a decisive vote for the balanced budget
polls in 1982, o
constitutional amendment. George Will called him "a rarity: a conservative who understands the
to create a com
discriminating, but vigorous use of government power for conservative purposes."
in 1984. The h
Unlike Cranston's previous four colleagues, Wilson has spent time and effort on parochia
advantage will
California problems and, with more friends in the administration than Cranston can count on
own advantage
has had some successes. He was the lead advocate of amendments to the immigration bill
fights of the 19
allowing in more guestworkers for California growers; he took on chief sponsor Alan Simpson
fights of the 19
and won. With less success he tried in 1984 to increase tuna tariffs (the U.S. tuna fleet is based
current plan.
San Diego). He worked with Cranston and against some Republicans on the California
In the meant
wilderness bill and was the chief Senate sponsor of the "wine equity act." On Armed Services
seniority and C
he calls for increased shipbuilding and rehabilitation on the Pacific Coast and generally supports
California Den
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77
alifornia interests
Weinberger's Pentagon. On Commerce, a committee assignment doesn't he hurt picked when up it in comes 1987,
S, the entertainme-
Caspar will have an opportunity to vote many regulatory issues (which sides in between
needed help in
to raise campaign money), but sometimes he may be pressed and to movie take studios over fights copyright
e to stay in business
in the fight between cable TV operators
who later admitted
as a successful
1 California interests.ion.
In were lining up in late 1986 to run against Wilson for what many
state's savings
how the incredib
although there are mutterings on the right that he is dangerously moderate. Robert
regard as this jinxed seat. He is not likely to have a serious Republican primary Democrats opponent, named
at knowledge Pc
ashington, he
as Matsui, Attorney General John Van de Kamp, and San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein (who
possible opponents include Lieutenant Governor Leo McCarthy, Representative
with those who
must leave that office in 1987); Secretary of State March Fong Eu said she was running in early
1 vote-counter
1987. Their party's stands on national issues are a mixed blessing, and Wilson in early 1987 had
already raised $2.9 million. But Wilson so far lacks that strong identification with one or two
relished, althoug.
issues which can define a senator for his public and provide him the strength to win in foul years
will give up the
and fair.
competitor for the
Presidential politics. California has become a reliable Republican state in national elections—
nies in the one
in many political strategists' views. Others would only say that it comes close to matching the
assumption that
nationwide percentages: in the close contests of 1960, 1968, and 1976 California ended up
to do and thing
Republican each time by small margins. Culturally California may be a harbinger of trends; on
an one tenant
election day it often knows the result before it votes, but that doesn't produce any bandwagon
1 skills of Alan
effect: California more often than not has produced a higher than average percentage for the
loser of the presidential election.
y in close touch
The great days of California's presidential primaries-when its conservative Republicans
ally when local
picked Barry Goldwater in 1964 and its liberal Democrats Robert Kennedy and George
is un-with-it as
McGovern in 1968 and 1972-are now part of the distant past. Once both parties' electorates
ed in 1988 by
were extreme in the national context, the Republicans on the right and the Democrats on the
1952; William
left; now both are more normal. The timing which once worked for California now usually works
kawa-all lost
against: recent nominations have been decided by the time its last-in-the-nation primary is held.
Thus Gary Hart's good showing in the popular vote and excellent showing in the delegate count
ommon name.
here in 1984 availed him nothing. Governor George Deukmejian in early 1987 was under
ost of his term
pressure from Democrats to make the primary earlier and from some Republicans to become a
his pre-Senate
favorite son candidate himself. But with the steadfastness typical of his career he spurned both
is Senate seat
ideas.
a successful
Congressional districting. California's House delegation of 45 is the largest since New York
a body full of
had that many districts in the 1940s; it is lopsidedly (27-18) Democratic. That is attributed to
ing city that
the redistricting plans drawn up by the late San Francisco Representive Phillip Burton and
the past. He
Michael Berman, an aide to Representative Henry Waxman and brother of former Assembly
presidential
Majority Leader and now U.S. Representative Howard Berman. For this the Republicans have
0 pronounce
themselves at least partly to blame; in early 1981 they turned down overtures for a bipartisan
been one of
incumbent-protection plan on the dim hope that they could get Hispanic assemblymen to
up one day
support their plan. Then the Republicans turned to referenda, and failed again. They won at the
ced budget
polls in 1982, only to have Burton draw another plan before Jerry Brown left office; their effort
rstands the
to create a commission of retired judges to draw the district lines was turned down by the voters
in 1984. The history of redistricting in California tells us, in any case, that the Democrats'
parochial
advantage will dissipate over the 10 years the Burton plans are in effect, just as the Republicans'
count on,
own advantage did in the 1950s and the Democrats' advantages did in the 1960s and 1970s. The
ration bill
fights of the 1980s are history anyway, and the talk in Sacramento is now over the redistricting
1 Simpson
fights of the 1990s, although the Republicans in late 1986 filed a last-gasp lawsuit against the
S based in
current plan.
California
In the meantime, almost every House member has a safe seat and the ability to accumulate
Services,
seniority and concentrate on legislation. And, though they diverge widely on many issues,
supports
California Democrats and Republicans do sometimes cooperate, and effectively, as in their
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continuing battle against Interior Secretary Donald Hodel to limit or prevent offshore oil drilling
on the California coast.
SENA
The People: Est. Pop. 1986: 26,981,000; Pop. 1980: 23,667,902, up 14% 1980-86 and 18.5% 1970-80
Sen. Al
11.19% of U.S. total, 1st largest. 23% with 1-3 yrs. col., 20% with 4+ yrs. col.; 11.4% below poverty
level. Single ancestry: 8% English, 5% German, 3% Irish, 2% Italian, 1% French, Russian, Portugues
Polish, Swedish, Dutch, Scottish, Norwegian. Households (1980): 69% family, 37% with children, 55%
married couples; 44.1% housing units rented; median monthly rent: $253; median house value: $84,700
Voting age pop. (1980): 17,278,944; 16% Spanish origin, 7% Black, 5% Asian origin, 1% American
Indian. Registered voters (1986): 12,833,920; 6,524,496 D (51%); 4,912,581 R (36%); 183,798
unaffiliated (9%), 245,880 minor parties (2%)
1986 Share of Federal Tax Burden: $91,441,000,000; 12.16% of U.S. total, largest.
1986 Share of Federal Expenditures
Total
Non-Defense
Defense
Total Expend
$100,860m
(12.15%)
$60,556m
(10.09%)
$40,304m
(17.53%)
St/Lcl Grants
11,291m
(10.03%)
11,284m
(10.03%)
7m
(6.31%)
Salary/Wages
15,052m
(12.48%)
5,396m
(9.19%)
9,656m
(15.60%)
Pymts to Indiv
36,960m
(10.13%)
34,327m
(9.89%)
2,633m
(14.82%)
Procurement
35,228m
(17.13%)
7,223m
(12.99%)
28,005m
(18.66%)
Research/Other
2,328m
(8.73%)
2,325m
(8.73%)
3m
(9.19%)
Pacific A
Political Lineup: Governor, George Deukmejian (R); Lt. Gov., Leo T. McCarthy (D); Secy. of State,
man). S
March Fong Eu (D); Atty. Gen., John Van De Camp (D); Treasurer, Jesse M. Unruh (D); Controller,
Gray Davis (D). State Senate, 40 (23 D and 16 R); State Assembly, 80 (44 D and 36 R). Senators, Alan
Group R
Cranston (D) and Pete Wilson (R). Representatives, 45 (27 D and 18 R).
1984 Presidential Vote
1986
1980 Presidential Vote
1985
Reagan (R)
5,467,009
(58%)
Reagan (R)
4,524,835 (53%)
Mondale (D)
3,922,519 (41%)
Carter (D)
3,083,652 (36%)
National
Anderson (I)
739,832
(9%)
1984 Democratic Presidential Primary
1984 Republican Presidential Primary
Economi
Hart
6,606,198
(38%)
Reagan
Social
1,874,897 (100%)
Mondale
6,091,690
(35%)
Foreign
Jackson
3,589,248
(21%)
Key Vote
Three others
927,795
(5%)
1) Ease (
GOVERNOR
2) Immig
3) Lmt T
Gov. George Deukmejian (R)
4) Aid T
Elected 1982, term expires 1991; b. June 6, 1928, Menands, NY;
Election 1
home, Long Beach; Sienna Col., B.A. 1949, St. Johns U. Law Sch.
J.D. 1952; Episcopalian; married (Gloria).
1986 gen
Career: Practicing atty., 1952-53, 1958-62; Army, 1953-55;
1986 prir
Texaco Inc., 1955-58; CA Assembly, 1963-67; CA Senate, 1967-
79; CA Atty. General, 1979-83.
Office: State Capitol Bldg., Sacramento 95814, 916-445-2841.
1980 gene
Election Results
1986 gen.
George Deukmejian (R)
4,506,601
(61%)
Campaigr.
Tom Bradley (D)
2,781,714
(37%)
1986 prim.
George Deukmejian (R)
1,927,290
(94%)
19
William H. R. Clark (R)
132,126
(6%)
Receipts
1982 gen.
George Deukmejian (R)
3,881,014
(49%)
Expend.
Tom Bradley (D)
3,787,669
(48%)
Unspent
CALIFORNIA
79
SENATORS
Sea Alan Cranston (D)
Elected 1968, seat up 1992; b. June 19, 1914, Palo Alto; home, Los
Angeles; Pomona Col., U. of Mexico, Stanford U., B.A. 1936;
Protestant; married (Norma).
Career: Foreign Correspondent, Intl. News Srvc., 1936-38; Lob-
byist, Common Council for American Unity, 1939; Army, WWII;
Real estate business, 1947-67; Pres., United World Federalists,
1949-52; State Comptroller of CA, 1958-66.
Offices:
112 HSOB 20510, 202-224-3553. Also 45 Polk St., San
Francisco 94102, 415-556-8449; 5757 W. Century Blvd., #515, Los
Angeles 90045, 213-215-2186; and 880 Front St., #5S31, San Diego
92188, 619-293-5014.
Committees: Majority Whip. Banking, Housing and Urban Af-
fairs (2d of 11 D). Subcommittees: Housing and Urban Affairs
(Chairman); Securities. Foreign Relations (4th of 11 D). Sub-
committees: Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs; East Asian and
Pacific Affairs (Chairman); Western Hemisphere and Peace Corps Affairs. Veterans' Affairs (Chair-
man). Select Committee on Intelligence (7th of 8 D).
Group Ratings
ADA
ACLU
COPE
CFA
LCV
ACU
NTU
NSI
COC
CEI
1986
95
92
91
67
98
10
38
0
32
31
1985
100
-
92
87
-
4
31
-
21
-
National Journal Ratings
1986 LIB- 1986 CONS
1985 LIB- 1985 CONS
Economic
85%
-
8%
77%
-
19%
Social
92%
-
0%
88%
-
0%
Foreign
75%
-
0%
88%
-
0%
Key Votes
1) Ease Gun Cont
AGN
5) Grm-Rdmn Def Red
AGN
9) Rehnquist Nom
AGN
2) Immig Reform
AGN
6) Contra Aid
AGN
10) Tax Reform
FOR
3) Lmt Text Imp
AGN
7) SDI Funding
AGN
11) Drug Death Pen
FOR
4) Aid Tobac Ind
FOR
8) Lmt PAC Contrib
AGN
12) S Africa Sanc
FOR
Election Results
1986 general
Alan Cranston (D)
3,646,672
(50%)
($11,037,707)
Ed Zschau (R)
3,541,804
(47%)
($11,781,316)
1986 primary
Alan Cranston (D)
1,807,244
(81%)
Charles Greene (D)
165,594
(7%)
John Hancock Abbott (D)
124,218
(6%)
Two others (D)
142,193
(6%)
1980 general
Alan Cranston (D)
4,705,399
(57%)
($2,823,462)
Paul Gann (R)
3,093,426
(37%)
($1,705,523)
Campaign Contributions and Expenditures
1985-86
Direct Cont. 1985-86
PACS Breakdown 1985-86
Receipts $10,851,596
Indiv.
$8,874,482
Corp.
$360,332
T/M/H $262,357
Expend.
$11,037,707
Party
$19,523
Labor
$302,292
Agr.
$25,600
Unspent
$11,593
PACS
$1,373,466
Ideo
$380,874
CWOS
$42,011
Cand.
$375,250
80
CALIFORNIA
Sen. Pete Wilson (R)
Campaign Col
Elected 1982, seat up 1988; b. Aug. 23, 1933, Lake Forest, IL;
1981-8
home, San Diego; Yale U., B.A. 1955, U. of CA at Berkeley, J.D.
Receipts $7
1962; Protestant; married (Gayle)
Expend. $7
Career: USMC, 1955-58; Practicing atty., 1963-66; CA Assem-
Unspent
S
bly, 1966-71, Minor. Whip, 1967-69; Mayor of San Diego, 1971-
83.
Offices: 720 HSOB 20510, 202-224-3841. Also Fed. Bldg., 450
FIRST DIS
Golden Gate Ave., San Francisco 94102, 415-556-4307; 11111
Santa Monica Blvd., #915, Los Angeles 90025, 213-209-6765; Fed.
The north coa
Bldg., 1130 o St., Rm. 4015, Fresno 93721, 209-487-5727; and 840
and in most pl
Newport Center Dr., #240, Newport Beach 92660, 714-720-1474.
tend to cluster
Committees: Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (8th of 9 R).
the United Sta
Subcommittees: Agricultural Production and Stabilization of
rounded mour
Prices; Agricultural Research, Conservation, Forestry, and General
Redwood Emp
Legislation; Domestic and Foreign Marketing and Production Pro-
most of the ye:
motion. Armed Services (6th of 9 R). Subcommittees: Conventional Forces and Alliance Defense;
behind them bi
Manpower and Personnel (Ranking Member); Strategic Forces and Nuclear Defense. Commerce,
in the years af
Science and Transportation (8th of 9 R). Subcommittees: Communications; Foreign Commerce and
century great 1
Tourism; Science, Technology and Space. Special Committee on Aging (5th of 9 R). Joint Economic
Victorian mans
Committee. Subcommittees: National Security and Economics; Economic Goals and Intergovernmen-
around Santa I
tal Policy; Education and Health.
border, forms (
It is as distin
American that 1
Group Ratings
is more diverse.
ADA
ACLU
COPE
CFA
LCV
ACU
NTU
NSI
COC
CEI
1986
5
21
8
14
42
83
52
100
80
farmers still, ar
89
unaffected cult
-
1985
10
9
13
-
77
66
93
-
Sonoma and Al
the district. In
National Journal Ratings
Republican bec
1986 LIB - 1986 CONS
1985 LIB - 1985 CONS
areas. But in the
Economic
16%
76%
0%
-
86%
have made them
-
-
Social
37%
-
61%
45%
52%
carried every coa
Foreign
30%
65%
21%
-
78%
interior, aside fr
-
Zschau in most.
This is a sha:
Key Votes
Representative D
1) Ease Gun Cont
FOR
5) Grm-Rdmn Def Red
FOR
9) Rehnquist Nom
FOR
the right place
2) Immig Reform
FOR
6) Contra Aid
FOR
10) Tax Reform
FOR
congressional dis
3) Lmt Text Imp
AGN
7) SDI Funding
FOR
11) Drug Death Pen
AGN
moved to Sonoma
4) Aid Tobac Ind
FOR
8) Lmt PAC Contrib
FOR
12) S Africa Sanc
FOR
was elected to the
moving away, afte
had the good fort
Election Results
fishing industries
1982 general
Pete Wilson (R)
4,022,565
(52%)
($7,082,651)
Democrats were I
Edmund G. Brown, Jr. (D)
3,494,968
(45%)
($5,367,931)
migrants in the SC
Pete Wilson (R)
851,292
(38%)
1982 primary
Bosco has a mix
Paul N. (Pete) McCloskey, Jr. (R)
577,267
(26%)
Barry Goldwater, Jr. (R)
408,308
(18%)
district. Coming fr
Robert K. Dornan (R)
181,970
(8%)
Public Works anc
Maureen E. Reagan (R)
118,326
(5%)
California wildern
1976 general
S.I. Hayakawa (R)
3,748,973
(50%)
($1,184,624
his first year in t
John Tunney (D)
3,502,862
(47%)
($1,940,988)
concentrate on lo
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Pete GOVERNOR WIL SON
"VISIONS"
"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.
"It isn't enough to have held office. What is
important is what that person has done with the office. "
Pete Wilson, 1990
Californians will and should be persuaded to vote for
performance.
And the best guide to future performance is the record of
past performance.
The following pages contain a transcript of Pete Wilson's
60-second commercial, including supporting information that
highlights his visionary leadership as an Assemblyman, Mayor, and
U.S. Senator.
Among his many accomplishments:
**
It was visionary when Wilson authored legislation in
1970 to protect California's coastal areas -- the first
such bill of its kind in the nation.
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It was visionary when Wilson pushed for an affordable,
modern, light-rail transit system in San Diego --- the
first of its kind in California.
** It was visionary when Wilson pioneered the idea of
"growth management" in San Diego -- a policy that has
since been duplicated in cities nationwide.
** It was visionary when Wilson authored the only
constitutionally sound federal death penalty to protect
law enforcement officers involved in drug-related
cases.
It was visionary when Wilson initiated "Proposition J,"
in 1978, which restricted the future growth of spending
in San Diego, and became the model for the Gann
Initiative, limiting future state government spending.
Pete Wilson for Governor
1990
2251 San Diego Avenue. Suite B-200, San Diego, CA 92110 (619) 260-1990
1900 "K" Street, Suite 110, Sacramento. CA 95814 (916) 446-5140
Post Office Box 91097, Los Angeles. CA 90009
"BEFORE THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT HAD BEGUN, HE WROTE
THE FIRST COASTAL PROTECTION ACT TO LIMIT DEVELOPMENT
OF OUR COASTLINE."
On April 2, 1970, Pete Wilson -- then an Assemblyman --
introduced the "California Coastal Conservation and Development
Act" (A.B. 2131) to provide for the coordinated planning and
management of the coastal zone on a state-wide basis.
The bill was the first of its kind nationwide.
The National Audubon Society called it one of the most
important environmental bills of the year.
Specifically, the legislation would establish a state plan
for the coastal zone and create a "substantially new and novel
type of state organization to prepare the plan and regulate the
use of the coastal zone." (Legislative Analyst Office)
The state organization was to be named the California Zone
Conservation and Development Authority consisting of 13 members
and five coastal zone boards of nine members each.
An Oakland Tribune editorial endorsed the bill, saying the
legislature "should act now to put that bill [A.B. 2131] on the
statute books. Delay would serve no useful purpose."
While the legislation passed the Assembly, it was blocked in
the Senate. As a consequence, a statewide initiative was mounted
-- with Wilson's legislation the model -- which passed in 1972,
establishing the California Coastal Commission.
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"HIS INNOVATIVE LEADERSHIP BROUGHT THE FIRST LIGHT RAIL
MASS TRANSIT SYSTEM TO CALIFORNIA"
"WE BUILT IT ON TIME, UNDER BUDGET, AND WITHOUT FEDERAL
FUNDS."
Jim Mills, current Mayor Maureen 0 Connor and Pete Wilson
are credited with having done the major political spadework to
build the San Diego trolley system -- on time, under budget, and
without federal assistance.
Pete Wilson struck the hard bargain that both landed the
deal with the Metropolitan Transit Development Board to acquire
the 16-mile San Diego Arizona & Eastern Railroad at a bargain-
basement price of $18 million and persuaded the City Council to
reverse its position to the plan.
Both state Senator Jim Mills (who established the enabling
legislation and some of the key financing components of the
transit network) and Maureen 'Connor (who strongly supported the
idea of acquiring the old rail right-of-way) credit Wilson for
his actions.
"I can get people on base," then City Councilwomen Connor
said at the time, "but Pete is the Reggie Jackson -- he hits the
home runs."
According to a November 1978 Los Angeles Times article:
"
in conversations with individuals long involved
with transit planning, most of the credit goes to Wilson.
"Wilson, according to this consensus, worked out the
purchase of the SD&AERR for the trolley right-of-way, drew
up a solution for funding future bus service and convinced
plan." councilmen Bill Lowery and Bill Mitchell to support the
The Evening Tribune and The San Diego Union both supported
the proposed trolley, noting that the real price of the railroad
had been placed at $86 million.
New West Magazine, in the May 1979 issue said about the
plan: San Diegans want to bring back the trolley. If their
plan forties works, they may have the cheapest transit system since the
The "Little Red Trolley That Could" opened in 1981. It
proved an instant success, generating 95 percent of the operating
expenses at the fare box.
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"SO IMPRESSIVE WERE HIS MANAGEMENT SKILLS THAT HOWARD
JARVIS SAID, 'WE WOULDN'T HAVE NEEDED PROPOSITION 13 IF
EVERYONE HAD RUN THEIR CITIES LIKE PETE WILSON.
It was in 1978, during a televised debate that Howard Jarvis
remarked about Pete Wilson's fiscal management of San Diego:
"Pete Wilson is the best mayor in the state of
California
What Pete has done in San Diego should be
done and could be done all over the rest of this state
We wouldn't have needed Proposition 13 if everyone had run
their cities like Pete Wilson."
Well before the advent of Proposition 13, San Diego built a
reputation of sound, strict fiscal management. Under Wilson's
leadership, property taxes were actually reduced, while at the
same time, property taxes around the state were increased an
average of 17.1 percent.
About Wilson's fiscal management of San Diego, The Los
Angeles Times wrote in 1976:
"Unlike other major cities where the tax rate
continues to rocket each year, San Diego in fiscal
1976-77 will have the lowest tax rate in 65 years.'
In 1978, Wilson successfully spearheaded "Proposition J,"
which put "a tight lid" on how many tax dollars the city of
San Diego could spend.
Proposition J "permits the city budget to only increase to
allow for growth in population and to offset 3/4 of the increases
in prices. " This proposition -- like Wilson's coastal protection
act -- became the model for the Gann Initiative, passed statewide
in November 1979, which today limits state government spending.
Applauding Wilson's leadership, a May, 1978 San Diego Union
news article stated:
"Under his [Wilson's] direction, San Diego has gained
new stature as one of the best-governed, most economically-
operated cities in the United States. The mayor has dealt
courageously and constructively with such sticky problems as
managed growth, governmental reorganization, campaign reform
and striking employees."
In 1979, The Los Angeles Times compared San Diego with other
large metropolitan areas:
"In comparison with 25 other U.S. cities with a
population between 400,000 and 1 million, San Diego ranks
second in spending the least amount of money and having
the fewest employees per capita."
"HE WAS THE FIRST BIG CITY MAYOR IN THE COUNTRY TO
LAY DOWN THE LAW TO DEVELOPERS TO CONTROL GROWTH AND
PRESERVE OPEN SPACE. "
"The first major problem for the next Mayor of San Diego
will be controlling growth," Pete Wilson announced on the night
of his victory in November, 1971.
At that time, San Diego was expanding like topsy, with no
limit on its growth. Wilson -- who had set a $300 limit on
campaign contributions from any developer -- first established a
temporary building moratorium. He then initiated a Growth
Management Strategy that put the brakes on uncontrolled urban
sprawl.
Otto Kreisher of The San Diego Union discussed Wilson's
efforts to manage the city's growth:
"In 1971, Wilson campaigned to control rapid
residential growth, promising to curb developers who threw
up housing tracts and left it to the city to provide
services and facilities.
"Wilson says he has kept that promise, reversing a
'perilous trend' that was leading San Diego toward
Los Angeles-type urban sprawl.
"He authored a city council policy which focuses growth
into already developed areas rather than toward the city
limits."
About Wilson's visionary leadership, Robert Lindsay, of The
New York Times wrote:
"San Diego's efforts to regulate its growth are being
watched by urban planners as a test of the extent to which a
city can shape its future physical and social geometry,
whether it can stand up to the pressures of developers, and
whether it can strengthen and reclaim a dying central core."
The plan proved successful, saving open spaces and money.
Developers were so enraged that in 1975, during Wilson's
reelection campaign, they poured a record amount of money into
his opponent's coffers, outspending Wilson by nearly 2-1. But
Wilson won, carrying every neighborhood in San Diego.
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"HE WROTE THE FEDERAL DEATH PENALTY LAW FOR THE MURDER
OF FEDERAL DRUG AGENTS. "
Only one federal capital punishment law exists that is
considered constitutionally sound -- the D'Amato/Wilson death
penalty for drug crime provision, included in the "Anti-Drug
Abuse Act of 1988.'
The D'Amato/Wilson legislation -- passed into law in
November, 1988 -- combines two bills: S. 2206, introduced by
Senator Alfonse D'Amato (R-NY), and S. 2251, the "Law Enforcement
Protection Act," introduced March 31, 1988 by Senator Pete
Wilson.
The law authored by Wilson states that a person may be
sentenced to death or from 20 years to life for the murder of a
"law enforcement officer" if it is committed during the
commission or, in furtherance of, or while trying to avoid
apprehension, prosecution, or detention for a drug felony.
A "law enforcement officer" is broadly defined to include
street cops, as well as judges, prosecutors, corrections and
parole officials -- on federal, state, or local levels.
D'Amato's legislation, which is directed against major drug
dealers, was first drafted following the murder of a NYC cop at
the order of a drug kingpin.
The law authored by D'Amato provides for the same punishment
if a person "kills or counsels, commands, induces, procures or
causes" a death while engaged in or furthering a "continuing
criminal enterprise" or while engaging in a major drug crime.
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Pete Wilson
FOR GOVERNOR
1990
Volume V, Number 1
May 1989
Republican B esswomen
A Case For GOVERNOR Pete Wilson
With a 900,000 vote victory in his pocket,
Pete Wilson is probably one of the most popular
politicians in California. Unless he stumbles badly.
Pete Wilson could probably be one of California's
two senators for life. So why would he contemplate
running for governor? Simple. Pete Wilson is one
of the few politicians who matches the mood of
California voters on the basic conservative issues
yet has enough of the necessary progressive
elements to take the state into the 21st century.
As a bright, promising member of the
California Assembly more than 20 years ago, Pete
Wilson faced similar circumstances. He served in
the Assembly from 1967 through 1971. He was
author of the first coastal protection act, his party's
minority whip in his Freshman term. and wrote
tough anti-crime legislation before it became
fashionable. Pete Wilson then stunned the
California political insiders by announcing he would
run for Mayor of San Diego.
It was conventional wisdom of 1971 when
Senator Pete Wilson
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Pete Wilson for Governor 1990
2251 San Diego Avenue, Suite B-200, San Diego, CA 92110 (619) 260-1990
1900 "K" Street, Suite 110, Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 446-5140
Post Office Box 91097. Los Angeles. CA 90009
A Case for Governor Pete Wilson
(continued from page 1)
Wilson took office as Mayor, that the Mayor's office of any
Equal Rights Amendment and opposed government
big city was a political graveyard. Wilson proved political
restrictions on abortion.
pundits dead wrong. His political acumen rapidly placed
There is a special urgency to balance the needs of
him in the ranks of the most innovative politicians of the
California's growing economy with the desire to protect the
1970's in California. Wilson put growth management on
environment. As Wilson points out, these issues need not
the political landscape; he was aware of the tax and
compete in a state whose natural beauty is perhaps its
environmental damage that unbridled growth (sprawl) would
greatest assets. The two "are definitely not mutually
bring to his city. During his time as Mayor, from 1971 to
exclusive, in fact, they depend upon one another," Wilson
1983, San Diego moved in the ranks from the 12th to the 7th
says. It is an arena where Wilson has displayed his
largest city in the country. Wilson took steps to save the
independence to the advantage of California's future.
city's canyons, fought federal officials to a standstill on
offshore oil development, and persuaded developers to pay
Even when President Reagan pleaded for a veto to
for new public services. Pete Wilson also authored the first
stop much needed highway funds, Pete Wilson said he
San Diego law covering full disclosure of special interest
would stand with those seeking solutions to the inadequate
influence, limits on campaign donations to $250, and
freeways that dot our state. He stood up to his own party
forbidding corporate organization contributions, from
when it would have stopped legislation to clean our water
business to labor, from giving any funds to a pet politician
and air.
or cause.
Pete Wilson also joined a bipartisan effort to stop
Well before Proposition 13, Wilson drove taxes so
unwarranted off shore oil drilling by telling a succession of
low in San Diego that the late Howard Jarvis professed
Energy Secretaries to stop this short-sighted plan. He
there would have been no need for the radical property tax
proved to be the chief stumbling block to a federal effort to
reduction measure "if they'd all run their cities like Pete
wreck California's Coastal Commission, an entity that,
Wilson." Jarvis' partner, Paul Gann, modeled his state
ironically, Wilson had been involved with in his Assembly
spending limit on the effort implemented by Wilson in San
days.
Diego.
Perhaps there was no greater demonstration of his
Wilson's first term in the Senate, beginning in
balanced approach to political problems than his historic
1983, offered a distinguished record which was ratified by
wilderness compromise of 1985 - an unprecedented 1.8
the California voters on November 8, 1988, with a sizable
million acres of wilderness set aside in California which
margin of 52.8%-44%. Rejecting the "jinx" that has kept
freed much needed economic opportunities elsewhere.
theynx
junior California senators to one-termers, Pete Wilson has
"What we need is a state where board chairmen and
been a different Republican who recognizes the special
backpackers alike can share their future," Wilson said at
obligation which Californians have to shape the future.
the time. Nothing could be more true today.
One out of nine Americans are now Californians.
Wilson is currently serving on five major
The state's population is expected to grow from 28 million
committees which include the following: Agriculture,
to 40 million by the year 2000. Wilson's "quality of life"
Nutrition and Forestry; Armed Services; Governmental
message of holding the line on crime, protecting our natural
Affairs; Special Aging; and Joint Economic.
assets, and creating more jobs and opportunity was
overwhelmingly supported not only by Republicans, but
Independents and more than 25% of the Democrats.
With his experience in Congress, Pete Wilson can
Wilson has also made unprecedented inroads into
continue to build on the solid fiscal and economic footing
ethnic communities and displayed on-going support for
that Duke has provided. California needs a strong leader
women's rights. As far back as 1976, Wilson endorsed the
who can take the helm and guide our future.
Friday
May 11, 1990
Vol. 3
No. 162
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GOVERNORS '90
*11 CALIFORNIA: FEINSTEIN EDGES VdK; WILSON TOPS BOTH
The CA Poll, conducted 5/1-8 by Field Institute, surveyed
1,310 registered voters; margin of error +/- 2.8%. Dem
subsample: 631 reg. Dems; +/- 4.1%. (S.F. CHRONICLE, 5/11).
5/11
4/17
LIKELY
COMMITTED
WOMEN
MEN
Feinstein
39%
36%
40%
32%
40%
36%
Van de Kamp
36
35
36
27
31
43
Undec.
24
29
23
40
29
21
5/11
4/17
5/11
4/17
Wilson
48%
46%
Wilson
48%
43%
Feinstein
41
38
VdK
36
38
OTHER DATA: Feinstein also holds "a substantial lead in her
Northern California base," topping VdK 43-31%. VdK has a "much
narrower" 5% lead in "vote-rich" Southern California. Voters
"said they preferred Feinstein on the issues of abortion, the
environment and ethics. They also said she would do more for
education and the schools and she scored high on having a good
personality and being honest.
[But voters said VdK] would do
better in reducing crime. And
voters give him high marks for
being able to work with state lawmakers
and for being able to
strengthen the economy and keep taxes down" (Jerry Roberts,
CHRONICLE). Pollster Mervin Field: "It's still wide open.
What's giving Feinstein an edge is that she seems to be
resonating with a new agenda more than Van de Kamp" (5/11).
DEBATE WATCH?: When Feinstein and VdK debate this Sunday
they'll "have more to compete with than each other" (Rick
Rodriguez, MCCLATCHY NEWS SERVICE). They also "go head-to-head"
with "Murder She Wrote", "America's Funniest Home Videos" and,
during the last half-hour, "The Simpsons." In Feinstein's mock
debates, VdK is being played by L.A. attorney Barry Groveman. In
VdK's mock debates, Feinstein is played by L.A. attorney Loretta
Lynch. He's also being coached by Dem media consultant Bob
Shrum, who coached Sen. Lloyd Bentsen (D-TX) in his 1988 VP
debate against Dan Quayle (ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER, 5/10).
MAJOR PROFILES: "How Dianne Feinstein Has Defied the Odds,
From stiff stranger to front runner" (Jerry Roberts, S.F.
CHRONICLE, 5/11). VdK Q&A session, and op-ed analysis (John
Jacobs, S.F. EXAMINER, 5/11). "Van de Kamp has Surmounted
Political Contradictions" (Robert Gunnison, CHRONICLE, 5/11).
OTHER NEWS: Germond & Witcover look at VdK's "Big Green"
initiative as it "shapes up as the most potent blow at unlimited
industrial growth yet devised on the national political
landscape" -- but they note criticism that "it serves as little
more than a vehicle for [VdK's and Tom Hayden's] own ambitions"
(Balto. EVENING SUN, 5/9). "Law and Motion," an S.F. legal
publication, says VdK's "convenient inconsistency is the
hobgoblin of a political mind" (Dirk Olin, May 1990).
PERSPECTIVE
James
CQ ROUNDTABLE
By Ronald D. Elving
The Political Mission
first faced the voters as incumbents). Conservatives found
him suspiciously heterodox; many found him stylistically
dull. And his Democratic opponent in 1988, Leo McCarthy,
Facing Pete Wilson
though hardly a juggernaut, had yet to be dispatched.
Yet Wilson's destiny was about to take on a new dimension.
He prevailed in his re-election race, running ahead of the
E
arly in 1989, Pete Wilson was discovered to be the new
national ticket. Then GOP Gov. George Deukmejian decided
colossus of California Republicanism.
against a third term. It did not take long for state Republicans
The party that once had spurned his contribution
to count those of their number who had been elected statewide.
turned to him in its hour of need. It was no longer enough
Aside from Deukmejian, Wilson was it.
for the former mayor of San Diego to be the state's Repub-
Suddenly, bygones could be bygones, including Wilson's
lican in the Senate. The party insisted he also become its
support of Gerald R. Ford over Ronald Reagan in the 1976
nominee for governor in 1990.
presidential primaries. Another bygone forgone was the 1978
Finding himself living a politician's fantasy, Wilson was
gubernatorial primary, in which Wilson, as a mayor, opposed
told he would face no significant opposition in the primary.
the Proposition 13 property-tax limit and finished fourth.
He was guaranteed the largest campaign treasury in
Forgotten, too, were Wilson's deviations on abortion and the
Golden State history.
Equal Rights Amendment. With Deukmejian's January sur-
And, should he win, well, look at
prise, even the right wing saw Wilson
the prizes. He would anoint his own
newly arrayed in garments of light.
successor in the Senate. He would
"The Republican bench is not short
play the pivotal role in realigning the
in terms of talent," says Wilson. "But it
largest U.S. House delegation ever.
Big stakes in California
is very short in terms of statewide iden-
And his name could be expected to
tification."
appear on some future national ticket
politics and in national
California gives new meaning to the
- perhaps even at the top.
politics are wrapped up in
term statewide. It stretches 1,000 miles
Notwithstanding all that, Wilson's
and will soon have 30 million people. A
decision was far from a purely per-
the political destiny of
candidate must buy TV in more than
sonal one. Big stakes in California
a dozen media markets, including Los
politics and national politics were
the state's junior senator.
Angeles, the world's most costly.
wrapped up in the senator's electoral
Wilson raised and spent about $15
destiny.
million on his 1988 race. He is confident
Republicans do not expect to con-
he can immediately return to the same
trol the California Legislature by
individuals and political action commit-
1991, when the new congressional district lines must be
tees for more. He expects to report $3 million raised by July 1
drawn. Without a GOP governor, they would face a fleecing
and eventually to spend $20 million or more. "I haven't noticed
like they got in 1981, when Democrats deftly rewrote the
anyone reducing their rates," he says.
state's political map to their own advantage. The state's
Not all the price tags are written in dollars. Wilson's
House delegation, now 26-18 Democratic, is expected to
campaign will distract him from the job he has, and vice versa.
grow by six seats after the 1990 census.
Only a few senators have gone home and been elected governor,
"House members who used to barely nod are now al-
and no Californian has. One who tried was GOP Senate leader
most eager to help me across the street," Wilson says.
William F. Knowland, who sought to swap jobs with Republi-
Beyond the House, a Republican in Sacramento helps
can Gov. Goodwin Knight in 1958 (both lost). Wilson, should
carry California in the Electoral College, where in 1992 the
he lose, could keep his Senate seat. But he could not sustain his
state may have a stunning 53 votes. That number could
current aura of eminence into his next re-election cycle.
make Californians all but mandatory on future national
Wilson says he would be loath to leave the Senate, unlike
tickets.
some colleagues who have recently expressed disillusionment
Wilson may have his personal preferences - "I think I
by retiring. But Wilson also reports that 14 of the 16 former
enjoy the administrative role more," he says but his decision
governors in the Senate have encouraged his prospective
clearly transcended personal ambition. An artist of understate-
switch, while the other two said he should think pretty hard
ment, the senator notes: "There is a lot riding on 1990."
about it "because it's a pretty hard job."
A scant few weeks before all this converged on Wilson, he
Wilson shrugs off talk of that other "hard job," in the Oval
had been struggling just to be re-elected to his Senate seat (a
Office, calling the governorship a "career capper." But, for
seat six predecessors had failed to hold when they
most politicians, the same could be said of the Senate.
1510 - JUNE 17, 1989
CQ
Calif. voters are skeptical,
durating
JANUARY 8-14, 1990
THE WASHINGTON POST NATIONAL WEEKLY EDITION
PAC
THE POLITICAL PULSE
ELECTIONS
He Left His Heart in Sacramento
California's governorship beckons Sen. Wilson
about six days, then back out on the SI
again."
By Jay Mathews
Securely mounted on this crime-bi
Washington Post Staff Writer
horse, Wilson charges with barely restr
glee at Van de Kamp's weak spot: his de
L
OS-ANGELES-Sen. Pete Wilson has
ner once considered a political liability, Wilson
a decade ago to drop charges because
dreamed of becoming governor of Cal-
edges close to passion when talking about
sufficient evidence against Angelo Buor
ifornia for a long time, and few politi-
becoming an administrator again, the kind of
suspected of raping and strangling 10 W
cians have sought that office with more ad-
work he did for nine years as mayor of San
and leaving their bodies on Southern C:
vantages: environmentalists' support; a rep-
Diego.
nia hillsides.
station for both frugality and social concern;
"You are responsible for one, the quality of
Republican prosecutors later took u
and the backing of a unified, wealthy GOP ter-
the services provided by your administration;
case and were able to have Buono sent
rified of losing the governorship in a reappor-
and, two, the responsibility to mandate costs,
to life in prison, an incident that Wilson
tionment year.
to set priorities, to engage in the difficult de-
"a legitimate issue" raised by Feinstei
In addition, Wilson's likely Democratic op-
cisions as to what doesn't make the cut," he
certain to be included in GOP television
onent in this year's race-moderate, well-
says.
the November election approaches.
regarded state Attorney General John Van de
Van de Kamp's campaign chairwoman
Kamp-is burdened with a potentially crip-
bara Y. Johnson, says the issue can be ha
ling blemish.
lecade ago, Van de Kamp declined to pros-
W
ilson's first run for governor ended
easily by emphasizing the many murd
As Los Angeles County's district attorney a
poorly in 1978, when he finished
Van de Kamp has taken off the street:
fourth among five candidates in the
long career as a prosecutor and attorney
:cute the "Hillside Strangler." Because of
GOP primary. He talked about trying again in
eral. As for Wilson, she asks, "How many
hat, "I don't think he can beat Pete Wilson,"
1982 but instead ran for the Senate.
ple did he put on death row?"
says one Democratic city officeholder here
He won a grueling, multicandidate primary,
Democratic consultant Kam Kuwata
who publicly supports Van de Kamp.
then defeated Democratic Gov. Edmund G.
Wilson may undergo more intense new:
Few forecasters can resist the temptation
(Jerry) Brown Jr., who was trying to move
dia scrutiny than in previous campaigns
O pronounce Wilson's move from Washington
from Sacramento to Washington. Wilson suc-
Johnson predicts strain from juggling
0 Sacramento a foregone conclusion. But,
cessfully labeled Brown a liberal extremist
campaigning with Senate service.
when a race is expected to cost as much as
then, and has begun invoking Brown's name
Careful of his image, Wilson recent]
$30 million and significantly influence the po-
again as an example of how bad for business
turned $17,500 in campaign funds from
itical map of the nation's most powerful state,
Democratic governors can be.
sieged savings-and-loan magnate Chark
all kinds of unexpected mishaps are possible.
By 1988, as Wilson won reelection by de-
Keating Jr. and allied contributors,
"The stakes are so high," says Robert Nay-
feating Lt. Gov. Leo McCarthy by 53 percent
though Wilson staff members say the
or, former state GOP chairman. "Anything
to 44 percent, he seemed to be enjoying the
jected Keating's request for a meeting
ould happen in that race."
legislative process and had won praise for his
his battle with federal regulators.
Mervin Field's last major California Poll on
work on defense and illegal drugs and as a foe
BY JAMES K.W. ATHERTON-THE WASHINGTON POST
Wilson is expected to call for a careful
he race showed Van de Kamp with 44 per-
of congressional spending on newsletters to
Sen. Pete Wilson
sition to a post-Cold War economy here,
ent, Wilson 43 percent and 13 percent un-
constituents.
serving research-and-development indus
ecided, a statistical dead heat. Van de Kamp
But Republican Gov. George Deukmejian
has favored abortion rights, supported limits
vital to future U.S. security and, coinc
as benefited from major environmental and
announced that he would not seek reelection
olitical reform initiatives drafted in his name
on offshore oil drilling and opposed Deukme-
tally, important to California's economy.
in 1990. With both houses of the state legis-
nd from the faltering campaign of his likely
jian's recent decision to cut funds for family
His main argument is that governmen
lature controlled by Democrats, the GOP
rimary opponent, former San Francisco may-
planning clinics.
make a difference in ridding society of
faced the risk of repeating the 1980 reappor-
r Dianne Feinstein.
Wilson has proposed a $1,200 prenatal-
creants and misery yet keep taxes low
tionment, when congressional and legislative
Wilson held an 8-percentage-point lead last
care stipend for every poor pregnant woman
proposal to open social-service offices in
lines were drawn distinctly to Democratic
in the state. And, to balance his un-Republi-
schools and create a cabinet position to
ummer, but Otto Bos, his campaign director,
advantage.
iscounts the narrowing of the race as the ex-
can fondness for government intervention to
see the program is designed to catch me
The party needed a Republican governor
redress social wrongs, he has emphasized
ected consequence of fading public memory
emotional and financial problems in the y
with veto power. Wilson was promised a unit-
very tough measures against crime and illegal
before they poison their adult lives. "Bui
f Wilson's strong Senate reelection campaign
ed party and plenty of campaign funds if he
drugs, the state's most potent issues.
I 1988.
prisons compensatory education, r.
ran. Plus, he had the security of knowing that
State drug laws, Wilson says, are too soft.
After initially debating whether to renew
dial health care, these things involve tre
he would have four years left on his Senate
is quest for the governorship, Wilson is ag-
"If you sell five grams of cocaine and get
dous costs," which taxpayers could be S
term if he lost.
busted and convicted in federal court," he
ressively raising money and won statewide
through early intervention, he says.
In interviews and at luncheon speeches,
says, "you're going away for a long time-
On having to choose between a legisl
eadlines last month for a novel proposal to
Wilson emerges as very different from the
minimum five years, no parole, no probation.
tegrate social-service offices into the public
and an administrative life, Wilson says, "I
hard-line Republican conservatives, such as
The same five grams in state prosecution will
chools.
I'm good at both, but there is no question
Deukmejian and Ronald Reagan, who have
get you in Los Angeles County a sentence of
Known for a restrained, businesslike man-
while it is more difficult and demanding, be
presided in Sacramento. Wilson consistently
about six months and actual time served
chief executive is also much more fun."
Pete Wilson: Stand-up politician
the California Republican Party,
moderate, Yalie, preppie as our
GOP candidate
explains: "Pete Wilson ran for this
president, but he's really learned
position at the urging of the Repub-
the difference between campaign-
for governor ducks
lican Party of California, the Re-
ing and governing he now speaks
publican National Committee, the
with bullets rather than para-
Democrats' barbs
former president of the United
graphs," said Popkin.
States, Ronald Reagan, and the
By George Raine
current president of the United
As the contest develops, though.
OF THE EXAMINER STAFF
States."
he will be portrayed by the Demo-
crats as the symbol of the status
BEVERLY HILLS - One day
Revenge for '81 apportionment
quo, and part of party that has
in 1955, Pete Wilson, English liter-
The governor elected in 1990
presided over a time of worsening
ature major and later a would-be
governor, used the quiet law library
will negotiate with the Legislature
crime statistics, the disrepair of
at Yale to prepare for final exams,
as lawmakers' districts are re-
reading the dreamy romantics and
drawn, and Republicans seek to
transportation systems and a less-
some truly awful poetry, like Percy
avenge what they call a blatant re-
ening of quality of life.
Bysshe Shelley's "To a Skylark:"
apportionment gerrymander pre-
It is the quick turnaround from
pared in 1981 under Democratic
senate candidate 10 gubernatorial
Hail to thee, blithe spirit!
control.
candidate that particularly tasci-
Bird thou never wert,
"Pete Wilson is the person who
nates Democrats. and the special-
That from Heaven, or near it.
Pourest thy full heart
Sen. Pete Wilson: Democrats label
can make that happen," said Visco.
interest mining it may represent.
him a shill for special interests.
This is Wilson's second cam-
"The Republicans have no one
In profuse strains of unpremedi-
else," said Brown. now the chair.
tated art.
paign for the party's nomination
man of the Democratic Party o:
for governor, and through the years
A man with a Flatbush accent
governor than as a member of the
California. "Deukmejian is a bro.
- he was an assemblyman from
happened by, scanned Wilson's
U.S. Senate, then that is what I will
1966 to 1971 and the mayor of San
ken down political horse. so they
reading material and sounded his
be."
Diego from 1971 to 1983 - he has
thought they would take their one
disapproval: "Wordsworth, Keats,
Not all days are colored with
candidate and run him from one
been known as one who dishes out
Shelley! An aesthete has snuck into
political tension, however, certainly
office to another."
small portions of himself to people
the law school."
not for the candidate who leads his
Brown theorized that Wilson
he is getting to know.
For reasons that may include
Democratic opponents, Attorney
would be run as an outsider, from
In an interview, the so-called
this experience. Wilson promptly
General John Van de Kamp and
anonymous politician told the story
Washington, so that he need not
joined the Marine Corps after be-
former San Francisco Mayor
about reading the romantics in the
ing graduated. Then. after law
Dianne Feinstein, in polls and in
take responsibility for the state's
Yale library and did the New York
condition.
school at Berkeley, he entered an
fund-raising.
accent with the cheery gusto of a
Wilson, in his quiet, bur.
even less aesthetic world: politics.
stand-up comic. Sam Popkin, a
These days. as he campaigns for
'Good Scout of the Year'
ton-down way. says, "It is best for
professor of political science at
the voters to look at the record."
the highest executive office in Cali-
One day last week while cam-
UC-San Diego and veteran Demo-
Such acrimony, however, had
fornia, he hears rancorous words
paigning in Los Angeles, Wilson
cratic pollster, has heard Wilson's
been foreshadowed to Wilson, the
Shelley never dreamed of:
had noontime and evening ap-
repertoire of impersonations and
English literature major, when 30.
"Basically, he's just a fund-rais-
pointments here at the Beverly Hil-
has watched his political evolution
er." says former Gov. Jerry Brown.
plus years ago he no doubt pressed
ton - one to accept an award and
to a point, he said, where he will be
to memory these honeyed words
"He's on retainer for the major spe-
gushing praise from the conserva-
very hard to beat.
from William Wordsworth's "Lines
cial interests of California."
tive Criminal Justice Legal Foun-
"He has fabulous management
dation, and the other to pick up the
Written in Early Spring:"
instincts," says Popkin. "He's got
The GOP's chosen one
"Good Scout of the Year" award
To her fair works did Nature link
every instinct you need to manage
This is the anthem that Demo-
from the Boy Scouts of America.
The human soul that through nu
government and policy and a very
crats will broadcast wherever Wil-
The senator, whom the authors
ran,
good nose for knowing what needs
-son travels this year and next -
of the Almanac of American Poli-
And much it grieved my heart to
to be get done." says Popkin, a
the charge that he is a political
tics call "one of the most anony-
think
former Jerry Brown ally who pre-
opportunist. Shortly after Gov.
mous people in American politics,"
What man has made of man
pared him for his debate with Wil-
Deukmejian announced he would
and whose speaking style they say
son in their 1982 Senate race.
not seek re-election. Wilson. 55,
is bland. whose appearance is called
"He's the same kind of serious,
who in November had won re-elec-
"handsome but unremarkable,"
San Francisco, CA
tion to his U.S. Senate seal by de-
works these crowds very well.
(San Francisco Co.)
feating Lt. Gov. Leo Mc( arthy, be.
"We cannot afford to have Cali-
Examiner
came the Republican Party's cho-
fornia under siege to rapists, thugs,
(Cir. D. 158,722)
sen one in the gubernatorial race.
sellers of crack." he told the justice
The fund-raising begins anew,
foundation. "Our criminal justice
after Witson raise and spent $13
system cannot be a misnomer."
JUL 5' - 1989
million in gaining a second term.
Above all, he has no opposition,
That sum is second only to that of
as a one-time challenger for the
the presidential candidates in fed-
Republican nomination, Los Ange-
eral races in 1988.
les Police Chief Daryl Gates, was
This is his ready reply: "If the
discouraged by party leadership.
voters think I can be more useful as
Frank Visco, the chairman of
18
Part I/ Monday, October 17, 1988
Known to Buck Leaders in Own Party
Wilson Pictured as Tough,
Parochial, Elusive Target
By FRANK CLIFFORD,
Times Staff Writer
When he was in college, Pete
Wilson was nicknamed "the pear."
One of his roommates composed a
cartoon strip called "The Adven-
tures of the Pear," poking mild fun
at the serious, plumpish young man
whom people have often tended to
underestimate.
"He never struck me as the
political type," said John Almquist,
the roommate-cartoonist.
Coming to the end of his first
term in the U.S. Senate, Wilson,
who is 55, does not have his name
on a piece of celebrated legislation.
He did not play a starring role in a
nationally televised congressional
hearing. He was not touted as a
possible Republican vice presiden-
tial candidate.
Nevertheless, Wilson has made a
KIRK McKOY / Los Angeles Times
mark in Washington, where he is
Sen. Pete Wilson with media.
better known for the way he fights
than what he fights for. As a
on more than one occasion.
freshman senator, he has bucked
Wilson has waged most of his
senior members of his own party,
battles on behalf of home state
and he has defied President Reagan
Please see WILSON, Page 17
Los Angeles Times
WILSON: Known for His Tenacity
in Fighting for Things He Wants
Continued from Page 1
causes, some of them quite paro-
them; Leo McCarthy, a senator for
chial. In the process he has taken
us," backed up with television ads
praise from environmentalists that
the Sierra Club was criticized for
some drubbings and has been ridi-
instruating that Wilson is a pawn of
declining to endorse Wilson this
culed as "pork barrel Pete." But in
defense contractors and big corpo-
California he has cultivated a
year.
rations.
grateful constituency that includes
Crisply tailored, always proper
If the ads have not hurt Wilson-
influential Democrats. And, in
and slightly aloof, Wilson, a former
and polls say they have not, yet-it
Washington, he has come to be
Marine, retains the proprietary air
is because Wilson has proved to be
known as a tough customer.
of an officer reviewing his troops.
an elusive target who is not often
"Wilson is no lightweight. You
He is seen as an informed propo-
identified with controversial caus-
nent of some of the nation's most
count on his being prepared, on
es.
having solid arguments. I wish he
expensive weapons systems. One
Regarded as a hawk on defense,
Washington defense analyst de-
were a lightweight because his
a conservative on economic mat-
scribed Wilson as "Mr. SDI" for his
positions in the Senate would have
ters and criminal justice, a moder-
aggressive advocacy of "Star
far less standing," said a senior aide
ate on the environment and even
Wars," the Strategic Defense Initi-
to a Democratic senator who fre-
something of a liberal on certain
ative.
quently does battle with Wilson
social issues, Wilson is a hard man
"He was the first mainstream
over arms control issues.
to label.
Wilson himself referred to that
Republican to come on very strong
In Washington, Wilson's friends
for SDI," the analyst said.
toughness when asked in a recent
interview to appraise his skills.
range from Republican moderates
Liberal Views Also
such as Sens. Bob Dole of Kansas
"I think I am a reasonably good
and Warren B. Rudman of New
But Wilson, who has supported
strategist, but I think the most
Hampshire to conservative hard-
the Equal Rights Amendment and
significant thing is just the will to
liners such as GOP vice presiden-
opposed prayer in school, also
win; the willingness to make a
tial nominee Dan Quayle.
speaks with conviction about
fight."
In California, Wilson commands
young women's right to have abor-
One Democrat who mistook Wil-
the respect of the party's conserva-
tions.
SOil for a pushover is former Gov.
tive core without sounding like an
"I don't think it's a smart thing, a
Edmund G. Brown Jr., who ran
ideologue. At the same time, he has
wise or a good thing, or one that
against Wilson in the 1982 Senate
broadened his base. He has courted
encourages respect for the law to
race.
environmentalists, Jews and urban
require a 16- or 17-year-old girl
Brown thought he could embar-
Democrats in various ways-by
who does not want to carry a
rass Wilson during a campaign
working against oil drilling off the
pregnancy to term to seek back-al-
debate with a question about a U.N.
resolution on the small African
California coast, by his unswerving
ley treatment or to seek to abort
support of Israel and by attending
herself with a coat hanger," Wilson
country of Namibia. Wilson's polit-
to the problems of the state's big
said during a recent interview.
ical career had been confined to
cities.
His friends from college say
California, where he served in the
He got along so well with Demo-
Wilson's conservatism was always
Assembly and in San Diego where
crat Dianne Feinstein that the
grounded in economic and foreign
he later became mayor. Brown
former mayor of San Francisco still
policy concerns.
figured him for a bit of a hick.
has not endorsed her own party's
Wilson attended college in the
'Brown lost the Senate race to
candidate in the Senate race.
early 1950s in the midst of the
Wilson, and to this day he has not
"From the moment Mayor Fein-
anti-Communist Joseph McCarthy
forgotten Wilson's ready grasp of
stein met Pete Wilson, she found
era, when liberals in many walks of
the Namibian situation and many
him very helpful to the city of San
life were ostracized. Yet Wilson's
other matters that came up during
the debate.
Francisco. When we had a problem
friends say that while he had
with the federal government, we
strong suspicions about the Soviets,
"Tough Competitor'
went to Wilson and he immediately
he was disgusted by McCarthyism.
"He's a tough competitor, as I
took care of it," said a former aide
"I was about as close to being a
found out. A good debater, better
to Feinstein who asked not to be
Communist as you could get, but I
than I thought he'd be," Brown told
identified.
always regarded Pete as fair and
Wilson's current Senate opponent,
Wilson's enthusiasm for envi-
thoughtful," said Thompson Brad-
ronmental causes comes and goes.
ley, who lived across the hall from
Lt. Gov. Leo T. McCarthy, during a
conversation at the Democratic
He refused to take a stand on
Wilson at Yale. "I never agreed
National Convention in Atlanta
Proposition 65, the toxics initiative
with anything Pete said about
this summer.
that passed overwhelmingly in
politics. But I liked him. He was a
1986. He withheld support this year
generous person, and he wouldn't
This year, the McCarthy cam-
from legislation that would grant
tolerate bias."
paign has been trying to cast
Wilson as an enemy of the common
wilderness status to 9 million acres
Early in the 1988 campaign, the
man. McCarthy aides have de-
of California desert.
McCarthy camp harped on Wilson's
scribed him as a country club
But his efforts to block the
"elitist" background. The son of an
Republican and a right-wing zeal-
Reagan Administration from al-
advertising executive, Wilson grew
:Recently, they have hit on the
lowing more oil drilling off the
up in a well-to-do neighborhood in
phrase, "Pete Wilson, a senator for
California coast has won such high
St. Louis and attended private
schools. Wilson's adversaries also
tried to liken him to Vice Presiden
George Bush, another Yale gradu-
ate whose education and sheltered
upbringing are symbols of Eastern
privilege.
But Wilson's college career was
nothing like that of Bush. While
Bush captained the baseball team
and graduated Phi Beta Kappa,
Wilson spent four comparatively
obscure years, a hard worker who
did not make a splash on campus.
His former roommates said they
were surprised when Wilson went-
into politics because, as one of them
said, he had struck them as "too
private" and "too thin-skinned."
These days, the people closest to
Wilson say he has never had the
politician's knack of showing off his
most endearing qualities. They say
his generosity, his sense of humor
and his musical talent-he is an
unabashed crooner of show tunes-
are too seldom on display.
Otto Bos, this current campaign
manager and Wilson's Man Friday
for 11 years, is forever talking
about Wilson's lighter side. Bos is a
repository of Wilsoniana, like Wil-
son mimicking a Scottish burr,
Wilson capering with the San Die-
go Chicken of sports arena fame.
He tells of the morning Wilson's
bellowing woke up hotel guests
Please see WILSON, Page 18
immigration reform in favor of a
WILSON: Emphasis Is
home state industry that gives him
a lot of support. In fact, he regards
his victory on the issue as his finest
moment in the Senate.
Placed on Economic
"Most people on the floor at first
did not appreciate what I was
trying to do. But, in the end, I think
and Foreign Policies
they did because losing would have
meant the death of a helluva lot of
small growers, and most of them
were in California."
Continued from Page 17
was barely able to talk. The day
Wilson has become known as
before dawn as he rehearsed a
after undergoing an emergency
quite a champion of California
singing part for a Riverside musical
appendectomy, Wilson was
interests. While that image helps
review
and of Wilson's mid-
wheeled onto the Senate floor on a
his reelection campaign, it gives
night ramble through the streets of
gurney, his arm still attached to an
rise to criticism that for a U.S.
New Orleans with friends during
intravenous tube, in order to cast a
senator he can be rather narrowly
the Republican National Conven-
tie-breaking vote on a deficit re-
focused.
tion, smoking a cigar and reciting
duction bill.
"Where some senators are a bit
poetry.
Friends cite that incident as
nervous about appearing parochial,
"People think of Wilson as this
evidence of Wilson's dedication to
Wilson comes to work with a fairly
Yalie in a button-down collar and a
public service. Others, however,
long list of parochial interests,"
Brooks Bros. suit, but he really isn't
point to a prickly side of Wilson's
said a defense industry lobbyist
that way," Bos said.
nature, which they say has hurt
who has worked in Washington for
But as Wilson's staff got ready
him.
many years. "Some of the things he
for the 1988 campaign, they had
"He's got a personal relations
pushes for are more defensible than
reason to worry that his public
problem, and it makes it difficult
others. On the other hand, who
image was a potential liability.
sometimes for him to get help for
hasn't pushed for a program of
Four years after he was elected
his own district," said Rep. Les
dubious merit?"
to the Senate, one statewide poll
Aspin (D-Wis.), who chairs the
California Democrats like to talk
indicated that a third of the voters
House Armed Services Committee
about the shellacking Wilson re-
in California did not know who
and who deals with Wilson on
ceived when he tried to secure a
Wilson was. His campaign staff
defense issues.
$50-million tax break for a home
responded with an early public
Aspin used the words "up-tight,"
state oil company, Unocal, as the
relations blitz-$1.5-million in TV
"imperious" and "tightly coiled" to
Senate was in the midst of negotia-
commercials last spring that por-
describe Wilson's manner. "His
tions over a tax reform bill intended
trayed Wilson as a sensitive, acces-
relations with colleagues are not
to eliminate such loopholes.
sible politician. It helped him build
terribly cordial. As a result, people
With the chairman of the Senate
a lead over McCarthy in the polls.
don't always want to help him."
Finance Committee, Bob Packwood
He has held onto that lead, but his
A former aide to Sen. Richard G.
(R-Ore.), leading the charge, Wil-
level of support has never been
Lugar (R-Ind.) said Wilson "seems
son lost badly, 60-33. Losing was
overwhelming. One poll, conducted
like he's got a chip on his shoulder
especially painful because the pre-
by his own staff and accidentally
about something. He seems kind of
vious week Sen. David L. Boren
leaked, showed that only 39% of
angry and sour.'
(D-Okla.), had easily won a $100-
the voters wanted to reelect him.
But if Wilson is not everyone's
million tax break for Oklahoma-
Under 6 feet tall and blandly
idea of Mr. Congeniality, some of
based Phillips Petroleum Corp.
handsome, Wilson does not stick
his off-putting qualities, particu-
But the story of Wilson's defeat,
out in a crowd. He speaks in a
larly his stubbornness, have helped
as told by the Democrats, tends to
gravelly monotone and can get lost
earn him a reputation as an excep-
leave out a couple of ingredients.
in the winding corridors of his own
tionally tenacious legislator.
California's Democratic senator,
locutions. "Pete can come to know
Three years into his first term,
Alan Cranston, also supported the
a subject too well," said one of his
Wilson went to the mat with one of
Unocal tax break. Moreover, Wil-
aides.
his party's most respected mem-
son had taken up the Unocal fight
His manner gets on some peo-
bers, Sen. Alan K. Simpson (R-
shortly after opposing Packwood's
ple's nerves.
Wyo.), over a major piece of legis-
controversial proposal to begin
"He comes across as though he's
lation-immigration reform-that
taxing income from the immensely
teaching you, as if he feels that if
Simpson had been struggling for
popular investment retirement ac-
you could only understand you'd
years to pass.
counts.
agree with him. It reveals a sense
Wilson wanted a guest worker
First, he fought the powerful
of self-importance that doesn't go
amendment that would allow Cali-
committee chairman, then he
down too well around here," said
fornia growers to continue to hire
turned around and asked Pack-
an aide to a Democrat who is on the
migrant laborers on a seasonal
wood for a favor.
Armed Services Committee with
basis. Democrats accused him of
"Wilson just wouldn't give up,"
Wilson.
trying to resurrect the old bracero
said Bill Diefenderfer, who was the
Members of his own staff agree
program affording undocumented
Senate Finance Committee's chief
that Wilson is not the most engag-
workers minimal rights and pro-
of staff at the time. "He got stepped
ing speaker.
tection. Simpson said Wilson was
on, and most guys would have
"He can be a little preachy, sort
jeopardizing a landmark bill for the
retreated from the field. But when
of a Boy Scout out there. I'd like
sake of "greedy" growers.
we looked down, he was still
him to be a little more of a heavy,"
Wilson lost on the first vote on
hanging on to our leg.
said Bos, adding: "I've tried to say
his guest worker amendment, re-
"Wilson is like that," Diefender-
to Pete, 'Damn it, throw away those
vised his proposal slightly and
fer said. "He's a pain.
But he
notes. Talk to the camera.'
came back to win. Now, he shrugs
won't take no for an answer. If I
His most memorable moment in
off the criticism that he was willing
had an issue I was pushing, I'd want
the Senate came at a time when he
to subordinate the national need for
him on my side."
A-16 Wednesday, May 24, 1989
Wilson: Get tough on crime
wide range of other subjects. He
Senator calls for
criticized the Senate for its rejec-
tion of the "superbly equipped"
stiffer penalties
John Tower as Defense secretary in
the wake of charges Tower is an
on pushers, rapists
alcoholic. He cited a need for pro-
tecting the environment "without
By Norman Melnick
shutting down the economy" and
OF THE EXAMINER STAFF
said the nation needed "all the
Sen. Pete Wilson says he in-
child care we can find
(but)
in
tends to make California's streets
the hands of the consumer, not
safer by seeking more severe penal-
bureaucrats."
ties for criminals - including life
James Lee, Wilson's press offi-
sentences for rapists and drug deal-
cer, said the 541 people had attend-
ers.
ed the event, which reportedly col-
lected $589,000.
Speaking at a $1,000-a-head
fund-raiser at the St. Francis Hotel
Earlier Tuesday, standing at the
gates to Chinatown and with a clus-
Tuesday evening. the Republican
ter of Chinese American elders
gubernatorial candidate said all the
1965 FILE PHOTO
other facets of the good life - a
looking on, Wilson spoke out on
Sen. Pete Wilson, speaking in S.F.,
stable economy, educational oppor-
pro-democracy demonstrations in
wants streets made safer in U.S.
tunity, clean air and water - were
Beijing that have precipitated a cri-
nullified "where people fear to leave
sis for the government of China.
fight crime.
their homes."
He urged the Chinese govern-
Wilson criticized state narcotics
ment to stop jamming Voice of
"I will not have California under
statutes as "too weak," rendering
America radio transmissions, to lift
siege," the former San Diego mayor
the impression that California. is
a news blackout imposed on foreign
said.
"not serious about the war on
news agencies and to heed the ris-
Wilson said Gov. Deukmejian,
drugs." He said a drug dealer selling
ing chorus seeking reform.
who has maintained a strong law-
five grams of cocaine would get six
"China cannot shut out world
and-order stance since he took of-
months in jail in a state court but
opinion without forfeiting all credi-
fice in 1983. had been frustrated by
fire years in a federal court.
bility with its own people and with
the Legislature in his efforts to
The candidate also touched on a
the civilized world," he said.
Frespo, CA
(Fresno Co.)
Bee
(Clr. D. 134,964)
(Clr. S. 157,228)
APR 2 9 1989
Allen's
P.C.B
Est.
1888
Wilson: Justice in state
meted out too slowly
By JOE ROSATO
traffickers as an example.
Bee staff writer
A seller prosecuted under federal
law faces five to 40 years in prison,
U.S. Sen. Pete Wilson D-Calif.,
with a five-year minimum. That
told 2 Law Day luncheon crowd in
same crime tried in Los Angeles Su-
Fresmo Friday that-there was a cri-
perior Court, he said, would result
sis in the criminal justice system
in a sentence averaging six months
and that reform of the criminal law
in jail, with release more likely at 60
was needed.
days because of overcrowding.
"We have not done enough, not
"That is not being serious about a
any of us, he said.
war on drugs," Wilson said.
Trials are delayed for years, and
Wilson is the early front-runner
there are big differences in sen-
for his party's nomination to be
tences handed out by state and fed-
governor. The latest California Poll
eral judges, Wilson told about 350
shows that Wilson is the runaway
people at the annual luncheon at
choice of Republicans, and former
the Fresno Hilton.
San Francisco Mayor Dianne Fein-
Wilson, who has announced he
stein is the early favorite among
will Fun for governor next year,
Democrats, to be their parties' nom-
called it "intolerable and incompre-
inees for the 1990 governor's race.
hensible to most Californians" that
If the general election were held
if had taken four years for the
today, the poll found, Wilson would
Southern California man accused in
Fresno Bee
be an easy winner over Feinstein or
the "Night Stalker" killings to go to
either of two other potential Demo-
trial.
SEN. PETE WILSON
cratic nominees - Attorney Gener-
Friday evening, Wilson and his
Spoke in Fresno Friday
al John Van de Kamp and Control-
wife, Gayle, were honored at a re-
ler Gray Davis.
deption: at the Duncan Water Gar-
dens Money raised at the $25-per-
that legal maxim was written pre-
Asked his assessment of the poll
person event went to the Fresno
sumably in the interest of the ac-
before his speech, Wilson told re-
Gounty and City Republican Wom-
cused criminal. But, he said, justice
porters that while he was pleased
en and the Fresno County Republi-
delayed is also justice denied for
with his showing, "polls are a snap-
can Gentral Committee.
victims of crime.
shot in time. They reflect the cur-
WHile the senator was speaking
After one legal motion after an-
rentistate of affairs."
at Law Day at the Hilton, his wife
other is made and trials are contin-
But more important, he said, they
was at the Ramada Inn giving a
ued, "memories fade, witnesses are
show that voters are happy with his
speech to Fresno Republican Wom-
often intimidated and witnesses and
performance as a U.S. Senator and
en.
evidence disappear," Wilson said.
as former mayor of San Diego.
I The Republican senator's speech
That is the concern of "taxpaying
"That has generated some confi-
was sponsored by the Fresno Coun-
citizens who do not understand how
dence in the voters, and I'm very
ty Bar Association, Fresno County
the criminal justice system can in-
pleased about it."
Legal Secretaries Association, the
volve so little justice in so many
s Wilson won re-election to a sec-
Law League of Fresno County and
cases as they perceive it," he said.
ond Senate term in November. He
the San Joaquin Association of Le-
Judges who are criticized for be-
was persuaded by Republican lead-
gal Assistants.
ing too lenient are entitled to com-
ers three months later to run for
Law. students are taught in a ba-
plain that it is not they who are
governor after Gov. Deukmejian an-
sic law class that justice delayed is
writing the laws, he said. Wilson
nounced that he would not seek a
justice denied. According to Wilson,
cited differences in sentencing drug
third term.
A-6 The San Diego Union
Friday, May 11, 1990
Execution
Military death penalties can be
sought for
imposed for violent crimes or spying,
but no member of the U.S. military
has been executed in peacetime since
drug killing
1961.
"We think the statute is clearly
constitutional and will pass constitu-
Case in Chicago
tional muster," said Andrea L. Zopp,
could be first use
one of the prosecutors handling the
case.
of '88 federal law
In a statement, Thornburgh
said, "Street level distribution net-
Associated Press
works such as the one alleged in this
CHICAGO - Federal prosecutors
indictment cannot be effectively dis-
yesterday said they will seek the
mantled without the cooperation of
citizen-witnesses.
death penalty against two Chicago
"When those witnesses are mur-
men in the first use of a 1988 U.S. law
allowing execution for those convict-
dered because of their cooperation
ed in a drug-related murder.
with law enforcement authorities,
No civilian has been put to death
Congress has determined that this ul-
for a federal crime since Julius and
timate sanction should be available."
Ethel Rosenberg were electrocuted
The 1988 law does not provide for
in 1953 after being convicted of sell-
automatic appeal, as do some state
ing atomic secrets to the Soviet
death penalty statutes. However, it
Union.
does provide that appeals of federal
U.S. Attorney General Dick Thorn-
death penalty cases would take pre-
burgh approved the use of the "ulti-
cedence over other cases in the
mate sanction" in the case of two
appeals court, Zopp said.
men accused of murdering a federal
The alleged drug dealers, Alexan-
witness to protect their $50,000-a-day
der Cooper and Anthony Davis, had
drug ring. One of the suspects is still
been named along with 20 others in
at large.
two indictments issued Oct. 19, 1989,
"You can be hard-pressed to find a
charging them with various federal
case of greater federal interest or a
drug charges.
case that would more cry out for
The new charges of murder
utilization of this sanction than the
against Cooper, 29, and Davis, 39,
case where a cooperating individual
were included in a superseding in-
is murdered for his cooperation with
dictment announced yesterday, along
a federal probe," Acting U.S. Attor-
with the notification that prosecutors
ney Ira Raphaelson said at a news
will seek the death penalty for both
conference.
men.
Under federal drug law enacted in
Federal authorities say Cooper ran
November 1988, drug kingpins and
an extensive street-level operation
others who kill or order killings
from 1982 to September 1989 that dis-
while committing drug-related felo-
tributed up to six kilograms of heroin
nies could be executed if convicted.
and two kilograms of cocaine a
But the constitutionality of that pro-
week.
vision is in doubt and it is certain to
Authorities say Cooper directed
face court challenges should federal
Davis to kill an associate, Robert
officials attempt to use it.
Parker, because Parker was cooper-
Older federal law has allowed cap-
ating with police and giving federal
ital punishment for "gathering or de-
authorities information about the
livering defense information to aid
drug operation.
(a) foreign government." But the
Parker was shot in the head five
statute is widely considered uncon-
times on Feb. 6.
stitutional.
TUESDAY, JULY 25, 1989 / DAILY NEWS
GOP is greener pasture now for Wilson, other environmentalists
pioned by such turn-of-the-century Ro-
tributed to his problems within the state
But it's not just a matter of Wilson forc-
pollster Lance Tarrance, a veteran of sev
publican Progressives as Theodore Roose-
party. Today that's changed, and he has
ing hard-line pro-devclopment Republi-
cral California Republican. campaign
MARTIN SMITH
velt and Gifford Pinchot. They would
the solid support of California GOP lead-
cans to accept his views on the environ-
saw the same trend developing national
have been upset by the events of recent
ers 1 including Deukmejian - - in his bid
ment as the price for his candidacy for
He declared:
years, when their party was more likely to
for the party's gubernatorial nomination
governor. The deteriorating quality of
SACRAMENTO
next year.
California's air and water have helped to
"This year 1989 may go down
U.S. Scn. Pete Wil-
be aligned against defenders of the envi-
heighten awareness of pollution problems
American history as the year in which
ronment and in favor of its exploiters.
Even Republicans who still lack much
son's split with Califor-
vironmentalism moved toward the ccr
This neglect of environmentalism
sympathy for environmentalism are eager
among Republican voters and politicians.
nia Gov. George Deuk-
of the political spectrum. The Exxon
caused the California party significant
to see Wilson nominated, considering him
mcjian over the need for
Extensive television coverage of the cf-
dez oil tragedy in Alaska, by itself, is m
oil drilling off the Cali-
losses in the 1970s and 1980s in coastal
to be the party's strongest candidate. The
fects of a recent ecological disaster has gi-
compelling than 90 percent of envil
communities, where cconomic affluence
state GOP desperately wants to elect a
fornia coast is only part
ven even further impetus to pro-environ-
mentalist oratory to date.
of the evidence that cn-
should have produced Republican strong-
governor who can vcto whatever gerry-
mentalist sentiment among GOP voters.
holds. Instead, Democrats frequently dis-
mandering plans that a Democratic-do-
"The stark contrast between grand
vironmentalism continues to gain greater
placed GOP members of Congress and the
minated Legislature devises in 1991.
A Republican political strategist - one
and gook, via television, has borne in
respectability within GOP ranks.
Wilson hasn't tried to disguise his envi-
who is not connected with Wilson's guber-
It's not that when Wilson favors a mor-
state Legislature by campaigning for en-
the American public images far more
ronmentalist differences with Deukme-
natorial campaign - noted this in a pri-
atorium on offshore drilling, he does so as
vironmental protections in these areas
gent than analyses of the greenhous
a Johnny-comc-lately environmentalist.
that have been especially sensitive to an
jian. Last month, in a question-and-an-
vate discussion recently in Sacramento,
feet, no matter how scientifically pre
issue that was being neglected by Repub-
swer session with The Sacramento Bee
saying:
cd."
What's significant is that when he does
licans.
Capitol burcau, he was asked how a Wil-
"The Alaskan oil spill moves Republi-
He said that since voters perceive
spcak up on environmentalist issues, he
Clearly: there have been exceptions, and
son state administration might differ from
cans even further in the direction of cn-:
publicans as better managers than De:
no longer is regarded as a Republican pa-
environmentalists have continued to find
the present administration. After giving a
vironmentalism. The longer the Exxon
crats, the GOP now has the opportunit
riah the way hc was a decade ago.
To be sure, environmentalism - or
some Republicans willing to support'
few obligatory bows in the governor's di-
Valdez sits off the coast of San Diego and
make environmentalism once again
them. Wilson has long been one such ex-
rection for Deukmejian's tough stands
they don't let it in, the greater the aware-
own issue.
conservation, as it was labeled - first be-
came a political issue when it was cham-
ception, although he doesn't go as far as
against tax increases and in support of
ness of it So they ask, 'Why do wc want to
All of which suggests that, as far as
environmentalist hard-liners would like.
harsher measures against criminals, Wil-
drill off the coast? -
long-term interests of the Republ
Martin Smith writes a column for the
A decade ago, however, even this mod-
son said, "I'd be more of an active envi-
Shortly after this California GOP strate-
Party are concerned, Deukmcjian mi
Sacramento Bec.
erate support for environmentalism con-
ronmentalist."
gist made her observation, Houston-based
retiring at just the right time.
New Trolley Line for
Downtown San Diego
Boosts City Renewal
Ky KEVIN BRASS
T
he key to San Diego's Great American Plaza,
a sprawling, 3-acre office tower and hotel
complex under construction a block from the
waterfront, is a 50-foot-high glass atrium that
S: ices through the center of the project.
The $200-million complex wouldn't have been
built without it, or something like it.
In the atrium, the new Bayside Line of the San
Diego Trolley will connect with the existing trolley
line, which links downtown and the Mexican border
at Tijuana. The bay route will run between central
downtown, the Seaport Village shopping center
and the city's new convention center, due to be
TS
completed by the end of the year.
The Bayside Line is the next leg in a light-rail
system that planners hope will someday include
more than 100 miles of track throughout San Diego
County. The Bayside route is scheduled to carry its
first rider next June.
San Diego planners have lofty goals for the
8-year-old trolley, often cited as a model for urban
light-rail systems. Besides providing transporta-
tion to San Diego's growing tourist population, they
hope it will ease congestion in a downtown area in
the midst of massive redevelopment.
"Los Angeles could learn from San Diego as to
how to put an organization together" to develop a
Please see TROLLEY, K11
VINCE COMPAGNONE / Los Angeles Times
Red trolleys, part of what planners hope will be a 100-mile system in San Diego County, travel along C Street downtown.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1989
K11
LOS ANGELES TIMES
back to the aging area, and and by
city can bc successful."
TROLLEY: New Line Will Boost City Renewal
the relative case with which rights
The trolley's success has more to
of way can be arranged for.
do with civic pride and focusing
No federal funds were used for
attention on downtown than actu-
ments under construction. More
the initial $116.6-toilion trolley
Continued from K1
ally relieving traffic congestion.
SAN DIEGO TROLLEY LINES
light-rail system, said G.J. (Pete)
than 2.5 million square feet of
construction, allowing MTDB to
MTDB said the trolley carries an
Fielding, professor of social science
ST
ST.
office space is expected to open in
avoid the bureaucratic hassles and
average of 31,000 riders a day.
COLUMBIA
ASH
ST
AVE
AVE.
at UC Irvine and a specialist in
AVE
RUSS
downtown San Diego within the
long-term financial obligations of
making a relatively small impact
Santa Fe
transportation management.
A
ST
BLVD.
next two years. as well as 1,300
ten associated with such funding.
on the area's traffic volume.
The enclosed Great American
Depot
INDIA
Great American
12TH
new hotel rooms.
In addition to a variety of state
The trolley may not be a primary
station is the type of public-private
B
ST.
Great American Plaza is sched-
and local financing. MTDB re-
commuter vehicle. Fielding said,
Station
development that may become
AVE
uled to open late in 1991, but
ceives one-thurd of its funds from a
but it can help case freeway traffic
C
ST.
commonplace in San Diego as the
DR.
Starboard and Great American
0.5% sales tax. approved by San
during rush hours.
trolley operators seek to integrate
ST.
must complete the trolley connec-
Diego voters i:: 1987. 11 is expected
It also serves as a spark plug of
BROADWAY
the trolley directly into the office,
AVE
tion by June, 1990, the expected
to generate $750 million for San
sorts. Construction of the trolley
hotel and commercial projects it
BLVD.
E
ST.
ST.
sr.
South
East
completion date for the Bayside
Diego County transit projects from
was a signal to developers that San
Line
hopes to serve.
Line
Line.
1988 (i) 2008.
Diego was committed to revitaliz-
"Wc have the potential of bring-
F
AVE.
ST.
MTDB is using the Great Ameri-
Even transportation experts un-
ing the downtown area, Fielding
ing people right to the doorstep of
CALIFORNIA ST.
8TH
AVE
can project and the construction of
enthusastic about light-rail sys-
said, noting that it has a similar
UNION
ST.
STATE
G
offices or retail outlets." said Jack
10TH
its headquarters as models for
tems praise the San Diego trolley
effect on property values and de-
Limber, general counsel for the
6TH
ST.
ST.
future development along trolley
for delivering the most for the least
velopment wherever a line is built
Metropolitan Transit Development
FRONT
MARKET
routes. It already has identified 17
investment. Almost every part of
or planned.
Board (MTDB), developers of the
2ND
4TH
ISLAND
AVE.
sites along planned trolley routes
the trolley construction project has
"They've had a renewal effect
for potential joint developments.
been finished ahead of schedule
on these areas of San Diego,"
trolley.
Seaport
1ST
5TH
J
ST.
Designed by architect Helmut
The latest segment in the 17-
and under budget.
Fielding said. "It gives an area a
Village
Jahn and curving through the two
3RD
7TH
Imperial
13TH
mile-long East Line, connecting
"To me, they didn't spend a
face lift, something so an individual
& 12th
ST.
downtown to El Cajon, opened in
whole lot and they did real well,"
entrepreneur who is building a
city blocks of the Great American
Transfer
complex, with small stores on both
L
14TH
ST.
June. Future lines, still in the early
said Scott Rutherford, director of
business can say: "Something is
Convention
Station
sides of the tracks, the 100-foot-
planning stages. will connect
the Washington State Transporta-
happening here.' Not only does
long "Transportation Arcade" will
Center
downtown with the airport, Mis-
tion Center at the University of
[the trolley) increase property val-
bc covered by a ceiling of three
Gas Lamp
IMPERIAL
AVE.
sion Valley and northern San Diego
Washington in Seattle, cchoing the
ues, it gives an area a positive
hucs of glass.
South
County.
comments of other transportation
image."
The complex will also include
do
"We hope to get some really
experts.
San Diego's tallest-at 31-stories-
good examples off the drawing
"San Diego is pointed out time
Brass is a San Diego-based free-
building, also designed by Jahn. as
Bayside Line (under construction)
board and up in brick and mortar so
and again as (an example of] how a
lance writer.
well as a 15-story. 272-room all-
people will start believing in [joint
Transfer station
suite hotel.
projects]," MTDB's Limber said.
0
1/4
MTDB is supplying $1.2 million
MTDB was created in 1975 to
to the project's developers, Star-
MILES
oversee development of the transit
board Development Corp. and
DON CLEMENT / Los Angeles Times
systems in San Diego. Its 15-mem-
Great American Development Co.,
ber board of directors operates
for construction of the trolley sta-
redevelopment agency, noting that
ters, and a year later teamed with
independently of city and county
tion. The developers are contribut-
the whole design process was driv-
MTDB to build a 10-story complex
government, developing policy for,
ing $2.8 million.
en by the trolley. "We wish wc had
to house MTDB's headquarters. A
but not conducting. the day-to-day
The developers took on myriad
a little more elbow room."
ground-level trolley station was
business of the San Diego trollcy
design and bureaucratic challeng-
Besides a few design compromis-
built beneath the offices.
and various bus systems.
CS, such as arranging for railway
CS, the redevelopment agency of-
Starboard believes the Great
The board members are appoint-
protection insurance and designing
fered developers little more than a
American project will get a boost in
ed by county and city govern-
the complex around the trolley's
promise to help bring the two
a very competitive market from
ments. A representative is appoint-
exposed 600-voll cables. The trol-
blocks together-they were owned
the trolley. which will link the
ed by the governor.
Icy had to curve through the
by several different entities-by
complex to the rest of San Diego,
"The organization is a point of
complex, and MTDB wanted the
using its power of eminent domain.
Starboard President G. Bradford
real innovation," said UCI's Field-
station to accommodate four cars in
But Starboard knew what it was
Saunders said.
ing.
the station simultancously.
getting into, having already estab-
"The trolley gives the project
Development of the trolley was
"The design was very tricky."
lished a track record for public-
the ability to be a seven-day a
aided by general support from the
said Pam Hamilton, executive vice
private developments. In 1986,
week center." Saunders said.
downtown business community,
president of the Centre City Devel-
Starboard completed the $13.7-
Great American is just one of
desperate for anything that would
opment Corp. (CCDC). the city's
million San Diego police headquar-
several large high-rise develop-
bring developers and customers
A-4
SAN DIEGO TRIBUNE
Wednesday, May 9, 1990
Wilson unveils proposal
to assist pregnant addicts
By Ray Huard
Options for Recovery is "the kind
Fribune Politics Writer
of rehabilitation that offers, in my
Using an El Cajon drug treatment
judgment, the best hope of recov-
center for pregnant women as a
ery," Wilson said. "This facility is a
backdrop, U.S. Sen. Pete Wilson
godsend to these women and their
unveiled proposals yesterday for
babies."
dramatically increasing federal
Located in a six-bedroom leased
funding of such programs.
house, the center offers a nine- to 18-
"We have failed to find funding for
month treatment program for up to
treatment," Wilson said as he stood
18 pregnant women and their chil-
outside a pilot residential treatment
dren, said senior counselor Tori Fos-
center that is financed with state,
ter.
county and private money.
The center opened in January, but
"The federal government has done
already there is a waiting list, Foster
an abysmal job," said Wilson, a Re-
said.
publican candidate for governor and
Most of the women are referred to
former San Diego mayor.
the center by someone else. Some
Wilson said legislation he's filed
come voluntarily. Others are re-
would provide $200 million in 1991
quired to come by state social ser-
for outpatient and residential treat-
vice agencies or as a condition of
ment of pregnant drug and alcohol
parole.
abusers, up from $30 million.
"We provide a message of hope,"
Wilson's legislation would also
said Rebecca Ashby, project coordi-
nator of a program that refers preg-
provide $25 million to train health-
nant women in jail to the center.
care workers to identify women who
need such help, $40 million to find
Part of the problem is that many
foster homes for infants born addict-
pregnant addicts don't seek help be-
ed to drugs or alcohol and $40 million
cause they're afraid their babies will
be taken from them, Foster said.
to help coordinate services among
"We had a woman in here who had
agencies serving addicted pregnant
women and their children.
her baby on her couch because she
"If anybody is not moved by com-
knew she was using (drugs) and she
passion, they ought to at least be
was terrified," Foster said.
Judi Leone said she was told by
moved by reason," Wilson said in
state authorities that she would have
calling for the increased funding.
to either go through the program or
If trends continue, Wilson said,
put her 24-month-old baby, Cassan-
720,000 drug- and alcohol-addicted
dra, in foster care.
children will be born in California by
"My mother said maybe this baby
the year 2000. He said it will cost $1.6
is my salvation and I believe that,"
trillion to care for those children.
Leone said.
"This is not exaggerated when we
Said center resident Andrea Davis:
describe it as an epidemic," Wilson
"We lost control along the way."
said. "What people have to realize is
Through the center's programs,
prevention is the answer, the preven-
"We get some of our control back
tion of recurrence."
and our responsibility," said Davis,
He cited Options for Recovery, a
who is waiting to be reunited with
county drug treatment program of
her 3-month-old son when she fin-
which the El Cajon center is a part,
ishes the center program. Davis said
as an example of an effective re-
her son is living with her mother and
sponse to the problem.
visits on weekends.
Sunday, September 10, 1989
The San Diego Union
C-3
Crack babies: Child abuse through the umbilical cord
By Pete Wilson
civilized society cannot tolerate. Our
If there remain any who persist in
failure to address this problem re-
gal drug use and alcohol abuse by
abusing mothers. It is to protect the
the delusion that use of illegal drugs
sults in incredible costs both in
women during pregnancy. It is a des-
infants. The custodial setting for
is a victimless crime, let them walk
human misery and tax dollars.
perately needed beginning.
their mandatory rehabilitation is not
through a neo-natal intensive care
According to the National Associa-
The Act would offer grants to
prison. Instead it is the kind of round-
states that:
ward full of babies innocently addict-
tion for Perinatal Addiction, Re-
the-clock residential environment
ed to crack or PCP or alcohol.
search and Education, at least
Offer a comprehensive approach
provided to recovering addicts that I
Let them listen to the especially
375,000 babies were born in the Unit-
to the prevention of illegal drug use
have seen at California's Phoenix
piercing, incessant crying of crack
ed States last year to mothers who
by pregnant mothers, including pre-
Houses or Oakland's Mandela House.
babies, and let them watch these
ventive outreach, education and
abused alcohol or used illegal drugs
My own view was forcibly ex-
pathetic infants writhing so violently
treatment;
during pregnancy. That amounts to
pressed by Harvard Law Professor
in their cribs in withdrawal they
10 percent of all live births in the
Provide mandatory rehabilita-
Alan Dershowitz, a celebrated civil
must be swaddled to avoid doing
nation and marks a growth rate
tion to substance-abusing mothers
libertarian. Dershowitz declared that
themselves injury.
which is, to understate it substantial-
who give birth to a baby who is ad-
though he is "pro-choice" - as I am
These babies are victims. They are
ly, dramatically increasing. We are
dicted or otherwise injured or im-
Wall Street Journal's front-page
- he feels strongly that the women
they bring into the world.
victims of child abuse through the
paired by the mother's substance
experiencing a crack baby explosion.
story on July 18 on crack babies, had
who chooses to carry her pregnancy
umbilical cord.
It is a tragedy impossible to mea-
The initial cost of hospital care for
abuse during pregnancy;
given birth to seven addicted infants!
to term is morally obliged to refrain
We are seeing only the tip of the
sure fully, but thank God, it is pre-
these infants totals more than $13
Condition probation on absti-
from substance abuse or conduct
Cheryl is an aggravated but not iso-
iceberg, but already America is pay-
ventable. While expensive, we have
nence from substance abuse and
billion a year, now. Use of cocaine or
lated case: At the Martin Luther
during her pregnancy that will injure
ing a terrible price for our failure to
to provide widely available, quality
serious abuse of alcohol during preg-
from association with known drug
the health of her child
and that
King Medical Center in Los Angeles,
preventive outreach and treatment
prevent a tragedy of truly epidemic
users, and offer to mothers who have
nancy produces severe and irreversi-
the average mother whose child is in
the state has an entirely legitimate
dimensions - substance abuse by
that will allow mothers capable of
ble injury to the child. Low
successfully completed probation the
the neonatal intensive care unit has
interest in seeking to secure the
pregnant women. The use of illegal,
turning away from the substance
birthweight, prematurity, deformi-
opportunity to have their records ex-
health of the child she has chosen to
given birth to two addicted babies.
drugs or abuse of alcohol during
abuse to do so early enough in their
ties, retardation, other severe devel-
punged;
bear.
The experience is much the same in
pregnancy causes cruel suffering and
pregnancy to prevent even greater
opmental disabilities, stroke - all
Afford to a mother undergoing
Our response must be more than
Milwaukee or Philadelphia or Wash-
lasting impairment and damage to
injury to their babies.
are among the conditions which ex-
mandatory rehabilitation the oppor-
ington, D.C.
shaking our heads in dismay. The
the hundreds of babies being born
That is why I introduced legisla-
perts have determined to be caused
tunity to keep her. baby with her if
The Cheryls of the world must be
time has come to prevent substance
tion in the Senate, S 1444, the Child
each day innocently addicted to
the mother is competent to function
by substance abuse during pregnan-
got clean - both for their sakes, and
abuse during pregnancy and the epi-
drugs and alcohol.
Abuse During Pregnancy Prevention
in a maternal capacity.
cy.
certainly to prevent the recurrence
demic of human tragedy it is caus-
The emotional and physical suffer-
Act, to create five $10 million grants
The purpose of The Child Abuse
The pathetic "Cheryl," whose un-
ing.
of the avoidable tragedy of the addic-
ing of these children is something a
to states to set up comprehensive
happy history was reported in The
During Pregnancy Prevention Act is
Wilson is U.S. Senator, R-Califor-
tion of and damage to the children
programs for the prevention of ille-
not to imprison or punish substance-
nia.
Wilson
Sunday. December 10, 1989 B-1
OF
proposes
novel plan
for kids
A 16-year-old
Santa Cruz
girl, honored
for heroism in
the Oct. 17
earthquake,
faces hard
times this
Christmas sea-
son B-3]
Radical reforms
would link schools
with social services
By George Raine
OF THE EXAMINER STAFF
Sen. Pete Wilson has reached
into the theoretical world of the
social sciences and education,
snatched a number of ideas that
have been percolating about the
rearing of children and proposed
'reform so sweeping that even his
political opposites are stunned and
elated.
In the first major policy propos-
al in his campaign for governor, the
Republican has called for the inte,
Young people, coming of age in
San SanFrancisco Examiner
METRO
gration of social welfare services
with California's public schools.
times far more complex than a gen:
eration ago, would have easy access
to medical and mental health ser-
vices - and even be given atten-
tion in the womb, as a $1,200 pre-
natal care stipend would become a
[ See WILSON, B-4]
B-4 Sunday. December 10. 1989
SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
A section of the San Fancisco Sunday Examines and Charmat
WILSON from B-1
Boards Association in San Jose.
forts to coordinate services for
There are many seeds in Wil-
The theory of coordinating social
more cost-effective, more probable
children, with varying degrees of
Pete Wilson unveils
son's concept, including the prod-
services for children is an increas-
of success, more humane - to pre-
success, but educators consider the
ding of his wife, Gayle, a former
vent than to undertake remedial
radical plan for kids
ingly popular one, but no statelhas
addition of education to the mix
mental health worker. In an inter-
action," said Wilson.
linked them with education.
revolutionary - a kind of super-
view he said he had imagined it as
market of services in and around
federal legislation until he entered
Independently, Democrat Bill
state guarantee.
state-supported schools to improve
the gubernatorial race.
Honig, the state superintendent of
Coordinated services
Funding sources are undefined,
chances for success in learning.
public instruction, Assemblyman
but Wilson, in a tone that crosses
"I think it is a major break-
In California, there are 160 state
Teen falls through the cracks
John Vasconcellos, D-San Jose,
traditional Republican boundaries,
through in conceptual leadership in
programs for childre administered
Wilson illustrates the plan with
and other lawmakers have been de-
says, "What is spent is spent on
where education ought to be going."
by 45 agencies.
the story of a teen-ager who fell
signing similar plans. "If we were a
prevention, so you avoid the hellish
said Michael Kirst, professor of ed-
Specifically, Wilson proposes
through the cracks in California's
business," said Honig, "we would
costs that result when problems go
ucation at Stanford University. 41
that each county name someone to
welfare system - a Vietnamese
be looking for strategic investment,
undetected and prevent learning."
did not expect anything this bold,
integrate the agencies. "with the
immigrant and honors student who
for leverage points for higher re-
am surprised at its comprehensive-
schools as a focal point of preven-
Wilson, unchallenged in the
was arrested when she gave birth to
turn. It's bad policy (not to spend
ness, and everyone I know in this
tive service delivery." He says he
1990 GOP gubernatorial primary,
a 6-pound boy in a high school
on children's development) and by
business is elated," said Kirst.
would establish a cabinet-level sec-
restroom toilet and the infant
neglecting it for five years we have
outlined the ideas last week in a
New York, Oregon, Florida and
retary of child development ser-
drowned.
cost the state a bundle."
talk to the California School
a handful of cities have begun ef
vices if he were governor.
"How much better how much
Wilson's county-based "preven-
tive service delivery councils"
1966 FILE PHOTO
would coordinate a "bealth watch"
Sen. Pete Wilson is running.
on the young.
unchallenged in the 1990 state
Additionally, he proposes re-
GOP gubernatorial primary.
cruiting volunteers as mentors and
supplementary teachers; merit pay
our children," she said.
for outstanding teachers; flexibility
in selecting schools, with safe-
There may be land mines: Con-
guards to avoid segregation; possi-
servatives may interpret the
scheme as unwarranted state inter-
bly enrolling 4-year-olds in pre-
vention. DiMarco warns about the
school classes taught by retired
teachers; and identifying alterna-
potential for "another monstrous
tives to test scores in assessing per-
bureaucracy" while linking ser-
vices.
formance.
But Wilson, says ally Roberta
Weintraub, a member of Che Los
Education's future
Angeles Unified School Boandhas
Educators such as Maureen Di-
but one option: "If you want to
Marco, a Garden Grove Democrat
survive today you have to get real,
and the president of the California
about what kinds of kids you are
School Boards Association, says
educating."
Wilson's child development plan
foreshadows education's future.
Says Kirst: "We're operating
and if it blurs traditional political
with institutions that are based on
boundaries, "I say hooray."
the Ozzie and Harriet family of the
'50s and we have an entirely new
"I give Wilson points for courage
situation in terms of how children
in bringing out a dramatic plan that
go through their lives. We've got to
is a very well meaning, heartfelt
reorganize child services with the
attempt to have the public focus on
new experiences of children
Pete Wilson
U.S. SENATOR FOR CALIFORNIA
In 1982, Pete Wilson won the U.S. Senate seat earlier
held by such giants of California history as John Fremont,
Hiram Johnson and William F. Knowland.
In 1988, Wilson did something no occupant of that seat
had done in 36 years. Making history himself, Wilson
became the first Senator to re-capture the "jinxed" seat since
Knowland won re-election in 1952.
AN OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE
Pete Wilson was born August 23, 1933, in suburban
Chicago. He attended Yale University on an ROTC scholar-
ship, and was graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1955.
Pete Wilson is "a valuable rarity: A conservative who under-
From 1955 to 1958, Wilson served as a Marine Corps infan-
stands the discriminating, but vigorous use of government
try officer, then went on to earn a law degree from the Uni-
power for conservative purposes." Wilson supports a
constitutional amendment to balance the budget and the
versity of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall, in 1962.
adoption of a Presidential line item veto. Wilson's Senate term
Given an opportunity to serve, Pete Wilson has
has been marked by fiscal conservatism, including not only
never hesitated. His public service career began in 1966,
spending restraint but also opposition to tax increases.
when he was elected to represent San Diego in the California
Assembly, taking a seat in Sacramento alongside newly-
elected State Senator George Deukmejian and Governor
Ronald Reagan. Wilson immediately won the recognition of
his Republican colleagues, who chose the freshman to hold
the post of Minority Whip.
Opportunity knocked unexpectedly in 1971. Pete
Wilson's election as Mayor of San Diego that year presented
him with a unique chance to steer the city through unparal-
leled growth and change along a course combining fiscal
restraint and no-nonsense crime fighting with thoughtful land
management and significant political reforms.
In 1982, after 11 years as Mayor, Wilson went on to
Gayle Wilson takes an active role in her husband's work.
win his first term in the U.S. Senate, sweeping all but five of
Among the many community and charitable organizations she
the state's 58 counties in a hard-fought victory over Governor
is involved in are the John Douglas French Alzheimer's
Jerry Brown. Californians returned him to that office in
Foundation, the American Council for the Arts,and the Center
for Excellence for Education. Above, Mrs. Wilson visits a
1988, giving him a 900,000 vote margin of victory, the
Head Start program in Los Angeles.
largest recorded in the nation that fall.
A COMPASSIONATE CONSERVATIVE
As columnist George Will wrote in 1982, Wilson is
"a valuable rarity: a conservative who understands the dis-
criminating, but vigorous use of government power for
conservative purposes." Wilson labels himself a "compas-
sionate conservative."
In this time of record budget and trade deficits, Pete
Wilson has been a leading voice for fiscal restraint at home
and more aggressive action in the global marketplace. His
The grandson of a Chicago police officer killed in the line of
record is clearly one of fiscal conservatism, paving the way to
duty, Pete Wilson is a leader in the war on crime and drugs.
a leaner, more efficient government. When it comes to trade,
He's authored provisions to step up military anti-drug efforts, to
he espouses "Wilson's Golden Rule" -- "I'll let you into my
provide more resources to local law enforcement agencies,
and to allow the death penalty in drug-related murders. Above,
market if you let me into yours."
Wilson participates in a raid on marijuana fields in Northern
California.
UNITED STATES
SENATE
U.S. Senator for California
Promoting trade and holding the line on taxes and
spending keeps the economy growing and creates jobs, and
Wilson has always said, "the best social program is a job."
Fiscal reform has to begin at home, Wilson be-
lieves, including within the houses of Congress. He wants
to curb mailing privileges for Congressional newsletters,
which cost taxpayers millions annually, and he objected to
Congressional pay raises, donating his additional income to
charity for purposes ranging from AIDS to Alzeheimer's.
Among his proudest accomplishments in the Senate,
Wilson counts his contributions to the war on drugs, includ-
ing provisions he authored to increase the military's role in
drug interdiction, restrict illegal trade of chemicals used to
California is the seventh largest economy in the world. Pete
make "meth" and PCP, and make murder of a police officer
Wilson is a leader in efforts to keep our economy growing
in a drug-related crime punishable by death. Even though
and providing s,expecially through his work to promote
he's a hard-liner on crime, Wilson also is committed to
international trade. He was a founder of the Semiconductor
Working Group to pressure Japan to drop its unfair trade
building a drug-free society through better prevention and
practices, and his amendment to give export assistance to
treatment, including early drug education.
produce growers was called the "star of the 1985 Farm Bill."
Since introducing the first California coastal protec-
Above, Wilson tours a Los Angeles manufacturing plant.
tion bill in the Assembly in 1967 to forging the historic
California wilderness compromise in the Senate in 1986,
Wilson has blazed a trail of environmental accomplishment.
In his Senate service, he's won funds for new parklands and
toxic waste clean-up, earned wilderness designations for
California rivers, and improved pesticide inspection of
imported foods.
AN ADVOCATE FOR CALIFORNIA
Wilson's committee assignments on the Armed
Services, Agriculture and Government Affairs commit-
tees afford him an unparalleled opportunity to advocate
California's interests. He also serves on the Special
Committee on Aging and the Joint Economic Committee.
Californians should be able to make a living in a state worth
An advocate of peace through strength, Wilson is
living in, and Pete Wilson has been a leader in protecting the
considered a leading Senate expert on arms control and
environment, from co-authoring the California Wilderness Act
strategic force modernization. He supports the MX
to fighting offshore oil drilling. He's pushed for clean air and
won funds for parkland acquisition. Above, Wilson speaks at a
missile, but opposes the unaffordable Midgetman missile;
ceremony in the Santa Monica Mountains in Southern
for while Wilson advocates defense spending equal to the
California where more parklands were purchased through
task of keeping America secure, he also demands the
Wilson's support.
money be.well spent. His efforts improved management
of the military's $160 billion inventory.
Agriculture is California's biggest single industry.
Wilson has taken a leading role in writing legislation to
promote the export of crops. while helping farmers
compete against a flood of foreign imports at home. The
Targeted Export Assistance (TEA) program is among the
many achievements that earned Wilson the California
Farm Bureau's "Man of the Year" award in 1986.
Wilson's assignment in 1989 to the Government
Dimes
Affairs Committee caps the reputation he has earned from
groups like the League of California Cities, who named
him "Legislator of the Year" in 1985 for his advocacy of
state and local concerns.
Pete Wilson has been a leader on health care, from sponsoring
the Dole/Wilson AIDS bill to proposing an innovative strategy to
bring down the costs of long-term health insurance. He's
pushed a wide variety of causes, from sponsoring National
Burn Awareness Week to donating his time in the fight against
birth defects. Above, Wilson meets with March of Dimes
Ambassadors Gretchen Rosenkranz and Tony Volyles.
CRIME VICTIMS PRESS CONFERENCE
February 5, 1990
JUSTICE DELAYED IS JUSTICE DENIED
SENATOR PETE WILSON
Thank you Collene
Thank you ladies and gentlemen
Those of you who have followed this story, through the
qualification of this initiative, know what it's all about.
You know that the people who are standing behind me here
represent a coalition of crime victims, those who have survived,
who suffered twice, first a loved one or when they themselves
experienced a vicious crime, and second during the long days,
weeks, months and in some cases years, as you've just heard from
Collene in her case, seven years nine months and nine days before
justice was done.
That's not only a trauma to the people who are involved
directly as the victims. It does something very corrosive to
public confidence and what I've found and what many in law
enforcement have found, is that the people of this state are
frightened.
There's an irony, a bitter irony that California, blessed with
the most professional and dedicated law enforcement officials to be
found anywhere in the world, from the prosecutors who drafted this
measure, down to the beat cops who are sworn to protect the
citizens of this state. We have the finest law enforcement
anywhere and yet our streets are needlessly dangerous.
It's because the criminal law in this system is needlessly
dangerous. It's because the criminal law in this system is
needlessly lenient.
The procedures permit defense counsel for the accused to bring
about endless delay. And anyone who's been in a first year law
school class in criminal law has heard the old bromide, that
justice delayed is justice denied. It is indeed. But a lot more
often for the victims of crime than for those that actually
perpetrate the crime.
In 1982, this same coalition decided that they simply were not
going to passively accept their lot. And they said if we cannot
get the Legislators in Sacramento to change the law - if year after
year a graveyard legislative committee will kill the legislative
agenda requested by the District Attorneys' Association then we
will do it the hard way, by initiative with all the effort and all
the time and the money that is required to bring a change in the
law. And they did. They brought about the Crime Victims Bill of
Rights, Proposition 8 on the 1982 ballot. The same coalition
decided that justice was not being done by the high court of this
state that decisions were being made, far more favoring the rights
of the accused and of those actually convicted of crimes than of
those who had suffered the crimes.
They used again their rights under the election code to vote
out of office, Chief Justice Rose Bird, other members of the
Supreme Court and now once again because California is in a tiny
minority of jurisdictions that unlike the others and unlike the
federal system give adequate protection to their citizens.
We in California are compelled to live with much too lenient
laws. They attract those who are in crime for profit not crimes for
passion and we are not going to accept that.
We are in fact going to change the law in order to change the
odds to favor decent citizens who have a fundamental right not to
become victims, that is what this initiative is all about. It is
not about the right of privacy.
It in no way prejudices the right of a woman in California to
choose whether or not she will take her pregnancy to term and those
who believe that, I will just remind them that in the early 70's,
the people of this state put into the state constitution the
guaranteed civil right of privacy. That right is not a matter of
discretion with any governor or with any legislator. The people
have spoken. The matter is settled.
If Roe vs. Wade were flatly repealed tomorrow, in California
it wouldn't matter. It would not affect the right of a woman to
exercise her right of choice. And those who are seeking to confuse
and mislead the public -- I think are guilty of great cynicism and
I hope people who are concerned with that issue will not allow
themselves to be manipulated and used by people who are opposed to
this legislation because they like the status-quo as it relates to
criminal trials.
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And if you are in any doubt about who it is, who is for this
initiative and who it is who is opposed -- I have in my hand two
pieces of paper, one of them is a news story the headline is
attorneys to oppose initiative. Well, it is not all attorneys.
It's criminal defense lawyers and if there's any doubt about their
true feelings, their spokesman, in this case an attorney named
Elizabeth Simal makes reference to the fact that they were defeated
by this coalition in 1982 because of passage of Proposition 8.
And they were defeated again when Chief Justice Rose Bird was
removed from office by the actions of this coalition reaching out
to the people of California and telling the story, telling it
straight, and according to Ms. Simal the defense lawyers once again
are threatened.
Their way of life, the ease with which they have been able to
obtain continuances. The lack of reciprocity and discovery so they
can gain full knowledge of the prosecutions case and never show
their hand. The ability to endlessly delay trials just in
selecting a jury.
Those are the things that they don't want to change. And
those are the things that make it possible for the defense lawyers
to delay to the point where it took four years to bring the
"Nightstalker" to trial. Where on average it takes two years to
bring an alleged felon to trial in California -- where across the
land the average is six months. Justice delayed is indeed justice
denied.
And the people behind me have the courage to relive once again
the trauma that they have suffered as victims. Their lives, they
will tell you will never be the same again. They are here today
because of their determination to see to it that others do not
needlessly become victimized by the criminal law of the state of
California. They intend to change the future for others they
intend to change the law, they intend to see that we have a
criminal justice system worthy of the name.
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PETE WILSON FOR GOVERNOR - 1990
AN EVENING WITH PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH
BONAVENTURE HOTEL
SEPTEMBER 11, 1990
6:30 P.M. RECEPTION, 7:30 DINNER
HEAD TABLE
PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH
SENATOR PETE AND GAYLE WILSON
GOVERNOR AND MRS. GEORGE DEURMEJIAN (NOT CONFIRMED)
no!
ASSEMBLYMAN ROSS AND DIANE JOHNSON
MINORITY LEADER STATE ASSEMBLY
SENATOR MARIAN AND GARTH BERGESON
CANDIDATE FOR LT. GOVERNOR
COUNCILWOMAN JOAN MILKE FLORES
CANDIDATE FOR SECRETARY OF STATE
MATTHEW AND PAULA FONG
CANDIDATE FOR STATE CONTROLLER
HON. THOMAS AND MARY HAYES
TREASURER AND CANDIDATE FOR RE-ELECTION
K's
DANIEL AND BOBBI LUNGREN (NOT CONFIRMED)
CANDIDATE FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL AND FORMER CONGRESSMAN
JOHNNY GRANT
MASTER OF CEREMONIES
INVOCATION - NOT YET DETERMINED
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE - NOT YET DETERMINED
NATIONAL ANTHEM - ROBBIE BRITT
A young black man who has sung the National
Anthem previously at California events for
the President.
Nat'l Anthem
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PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: PETE WILSON FUNDRAISER, ((Place)) Bonaventure Hotel
7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 18, 1990
LA,CA
((Acknowledgements)) Its a pleasure to be here.
Gayle
( (Let me convey the apologies of a very close member of my
family who couldn't make it tonight. III But, as it turns out,
Millie is on the road promoting her new book.) )
( (Always impressive to have an author in the family.) )
( (On my way over here, I saw a billboard advertising a
movie, which I mistakenly thought was about the new liberal
vision for America. It's called, "Postcards from the
Edge. ") )\\\
But it's great to be back in the Golden State, with so many
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long-time friends. This is, in fact, the fourth time this year Advance
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I've been back to California. According to the U.S. Census, you
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already have the largest Congressional delegation in America, and
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should receive seven more seats in the U.S. House: Seven more
Amy Albright
reasons why California is leading America into the future. And I
can't think of anyone better qualified to lead California into
that future than your next governor -- Pete Wilson.
I will have a lot to say tonight about Pete Wilson and the
Republican future in California. But first, I would like to
speak of a two matters critical to the future of America and the
world.
2
A week ago tonight, I went before the Congress and the
American people to discuss two urgent and interrelated matters -
- the federal budget deficit, and aggression in the Middle East.
Even before the Persian Gulf crisis, we were already more
economically vulnerable than we should ever be, especially with a
projected federal deficit of $232 billion. So I told the
Congress, (and I know that Pete Wilson agrees) that we must
address our budget deficit -- not in 1991, or 1992, but now.
((And we did act. Not [[hours]] after the Joint Session,
Administration and Congressional negotiators reached a budget
agreement that meets four basic tests.
*** Our agreement includes measures to increase economic
growth, and cut our national dependence on foreign oil.
*** It is fair. Everyone will be called upon to make a
sacrifice, but no one will bear the burden alone.
*** It addresses the growth of the government's hidden
liabilities.
*** Our agreement reforms the budget process.
And one thing more: We can cut this budget without hurting
the economy.
Without another phoney-baloney plan. And we
can do this because we have an agreement that is credible, real
and will save America half a trillion dollars. ) )
I
also told the Congress if America is strong at home,
America can continue to lead abroad. But another component of
American leadership is priceless -- our servicemen and women in
the Persian Gulf.
3
America is a mighty nation. But we are a great nation only
because of those who are ready to leave the comfort of their
homes\ in Oceanside or San Bernadino\\ to serve on the front-
line halfway around the world. America is great because their
courage is great.
We all wish their job was done. But we know that it's not.
Certain objectives must be met. Iraq must withdraw from
Kuwait, without condition. Kuwait's legitimate government must
be restored. The security and stability of the Persian Gulf must
be assured. And American citizens abroad must be protected.
These goals are not ours alone. They've been endorsed by
the United Nations Security Council five times in five weeks. It
is truly Iraq against the world.
And as the world unites to prevent aggression, it opens the
way to our final objective -- to create a new partnership of
nations. A new world order -- freer from the threat of terror,
stronger in the pursuit of justice, more secure in the quest for
peace.
The international community has already taken a giant step
toward that day. Together with our friends and allies, ships of
the United States Navy are patrolling Mideast waters. They've
already intercepted more than 700 ships to enforce these
sanctions. The world is simply telling Iraq: We will not give in
into bullies.
On matters like these, we are called upon to put country
before self, and patriotism before party. But I am sure every
4
Democrat agrees -- we won't allow our political life to be held
hostage to a crisis. Politics should stop at the waters edge;
but that still leaves a lot of America in between. From Long
Beach to Long Island, we will vigorously campaign right up to the
November election. For those of us at home, we can serve our
country by being the best candidates, the best citizens, and yes,
the best Republicans and the Democrats we can be.
And here in California, the best candidate for governor is
Pete Wilson.
Just a few minutes ago, I spoke of an international bully.
Well, it does Americans no good to stop aggression abroad, if
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bullies take over the streets at home. Pete Wilson, as a former
United States Marine, as XX a Senate foreign policy and defense
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leader, understands the need to repel aggression abroad.
But he also understands the need to repel aggression at
home. Let me tell you a story that means a lot to him, about a
policeman named Michael Callahan, an immigrant from Ireland who
campign. hampure
came to these shores to find peace and prosperity. Michael
Callahan moved to Chicago, started a family, worked hard, and
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rose to the rank of detective sergeant on the city force. And
then one evening, while on duty, Sergeant Callahan tried to
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arrest two cocaine dealers. They drew their guns first.
Although Callahan managed to shoot one of the dealers, the other
one shot him. And so Sergeant Callahan died in Chicago, at the
age of 30, fighting the first wave of cocaine to sweep America.
5
But that was not in 1990, or 1980. He died fighting cocaine in
1908. And his grandson, Pete Wilson, is with us tonight.
So when your Senator says we need to protect the public and
the police from cop killers and kingpins; when he says that those
who deal in death should reap what they sow; you can be sure --
Pete Wilson means business.
I share his sense of mission. In X M X May, 1989, surrounded by
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hundreds of law-enforcement officers braving rainy weather, I
called on Congress to pass a tough crime bill.
Sixteen months have now passed. And despite the leadership
of Pete Wilson and others, the Democratic leadership has managed
to pass only half a bill. Even worse, several measures receiving
serious consideration in the House last week would actually
weaken law enforcement; would actually make our cities and
streets less safe than they are today. Such a bill will stop
at my desk.
Pete Wilson and I want a crime bill that will stop the
endless abuse of habeas corpus. A bill that guarantees that
criminals who use serious weapons will face serious weapons
charges and serious time. A bill that guarantees that evidence
gathered by good cops acting in good faith isn't barred by
technicalities that let bad people go free.
Of course, Congress may go ahead and send me a bill that
overturns Supreme Court decisions limiting frivolous habeas
corpus petitions. Congress can send me a bill that expands the
coverage of the exclusionary bill. Congress can send me a bill
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that weakens capital punishment. But such a bill would only
handcuff the police. And that is a bill I will not sign. IIII
But if some in the House have been an obstacle to tougher
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laws, Pete Wilson has been an advantage in the Senate. He was an
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author of the only constitutionally sound federal death penalty;
one that allows capital punishment for the murder XXXX of a law
enforcement officer working on a drug-related case.
I also know I can count on this Senator's support for a
tough, fair-minded and brilliant judge as my first nominee to the
United States Supreme Court -- David Souter. III And in
California, I look first to Pete's advice in choosing strong
judges for the federal bench -- judges who care deeply for the
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rights of victims.
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Pete Wilson says, "I will not have California under siege to
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rapists and thugs and drug dealers." He wants to change the
odds, to govern a California where women need no longer fear the
night, because drug dealers and criminals will fear the law.
And he would start by extending capital punishment in California
to major drug traffickers, the same as under pending federal law.
So I have to ask: Is it any wonder that the endorsement of a
dozen law enforcement organizations has gone to the grandson of
Michael Callahan?
Tomorrow, in San Francisco, I will speak of Pete Wilson's
M.
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fiscal philosophy and, especially, of his long-standing
environmental leadership. He is, and always has been, a
conservative. But Pete Wilson also is, and always has been, an
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activist who wants to use government creatively, to improve our
quality of life.
This balanced approach is the key to his success as a
legislator in Washington and Sacramento, and as
Mayor of san
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Diego. It as was as Mayor that Pete Wilson first showed a flair
for executive leadership. Now he seeks the largest executive job ?what
in America, second only to my own.
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He faces a California skeptical of all rhetoric, impressed
only by action. But he has faced the voters before, retaining a
Senate seat that six predecessors lost. Pete Wilson broke the
jinx, and made history because he delivers on his promises.
Now Pete says, "If the voters think I'll be more useful as a
governor than as a member of the U.S. Senate, then that's what
I'll be. " Ladies and gentlemen, that is what he should be --
that is what he must be -- Governor Pete Wilson of California. III
Thank you all, may God bless you and the United States of
America.
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PETE WILSON FOR GOVERNOR - 1990
AN EVENING WITH PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH
BONAVENTURE HOTEL
SEPTEMBER 11, 1990
6:30 P.M. RECEPTION, 7:30 DINNER
HEAD TABLE
PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH
SENATOR PETE AND GAYLE WILSON
ASSEMBLYNAN ROSS JOHNSON
MINORITY LEADER STATE ASSEMBLY
SENATOR MARIAN AND GARTH BERGESON
CANDIDATE FOR LT. GOVERNOR
COUNCILWOMAN JOAN MILKE FLORES
CANDIDATE FOR SECRETARY OF STATE
MATTHEW AND PAULA FONG
CANDIDATE FOR STATE CONTROLLER
DANIEL AND BOBBI LUNGREN
CANDIDATE FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL AND FORMER CONGRESSMAN
DIRECTOR WILLIAM BENNETT
NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF DRUG POLICY AND CONTROL
JOHNNY GRANT
MASTER OF CEREMONIES
FRANK AND SHARON VISCO
CALIFORNIA REPUBLICAN PARTY CHAIRMAN
RABBI ISAIAH SELDIN AND WIFE
INVOCATION
CHARLTON HESTON
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
NATIONAL ANTHEM - ROBBIE BRITT
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GAYLE WILSON
If you had to pick a label to characterize Gayle Wilson's
active life, it might be "Career Volunteer." But you would be hard
pressed to find a single label for her interests.
Born in Phoenix, Arizona, Gayle earned early recognition in
high school from the Elks Club as the country's "Most Outstanding
Student, and from The Westinghouse Science Talent Search as one of
the top 40 national winners. Also a talented dramatic performer,
Gayle was active in both amateur and professional theater in the
Phoenix area.
After graduating as class valedictorian, Gayle enrolled at
Stanford, where she attended Stanford-in-Germany, earned her Phi
Beta Kappa Key and a degree in biology.
Gayle moved to San Diego following college and marriage, where
she became involved in a variety of volunteer activities and raised
her children. Over a period of two decades, Gayle served in
capacities ranging from ward clerk at a mental hospital to
moderator of a weekly public radio show on educational issues.
Throughout the 1970's, Gayle was an active member of Junior League
of San Diego, rising to the Presidency in 1978.
Her community service work included serving as a consumer
advisor to San Diego Gas Electric, and as a member of the city's
Park and Recreation Board.
At the same time, Gayle was launching a small business,
earning her real estate license, working as an employment
coordinator for a university paralegal program, and studying for a
masters degree in business administration.
Gayle brought her boundless energy to Washington, D.C. in May
of 1983, with her marriage to California Senator Pete Wilson.
A constant among Gayle's varied interests has been her love of
the performing arts. An accomplished singer and actress, Gayle
performed frequently at San Diego charity events. Her involvement
with San Diego's Old Globe Theatre led to her serving as a member
of the Executive Committee of the Capitol city's Shakespeare
Theater at the Folger, where she has chaired a number of special
events, including a performance of Romeo and Juliet benefitting the
Teen National Suicide Center. Her work on behalf of the arts
earned the attention of the American Council for the Arts and a
place on its board.
Gayle's long-time interest and aptitude in mathematics and the
biological sciences resulted in her being named to the board of the
Center for Excellence in Education, which sponsors the nationally-
renowned Rickover Science Institute. In San Diego, Gayle helped
found the local chapter of ARCS, an achievement rewards program for
college scientists, and became the chapter's first honorary member.
Gayle has been conducting in-depth studies on two health care
issues: Alzheimer's disease and Acquired Immune Deficiency
Syndrome (AIDS). She has visited the Gerontology Center at the
University of Southern California and met with researchers at the
University of California campuses in San Diego and Los Angeles.
Her AIDS studies have taken her to the National Institutes of
Health and the University of California, San Francisco, and to a
number of AIDS hospice programs.
Volunteer groups and charitable organizations throughout the
state have turned to Gayle for help and advice with their
legislative concerns and financial needs. She has been able to
successfully identify both public and private financial resources
for their vital programs.
Gayle's concern with abused and neglected children has taken
her to McClaren Center Hall; the Los Angeles County Children's
Home; Orangewood an Orange County facility for runaways; and to
Children of the Night, a shelter for child prostitutes seeking a
safe haven from the streets. She also serves on the boards of the
Phoenix House Foundation's Adolescent Drug Treatment Program in San
Diego, and the Children's Institute International.
Gayle is an energetic and effective Republican. She is the
current program chair of the Republican Congressional Wives, the
past co-chair of the Republican Women's Federated Forum, and serves
as vice president of the non-partisan Ladies of the Senate.
Gayle's two sons, Todd and Philip, attend the University of
Southern California in Los Angeles.
U.S. SENATOR PETE WILSON
UNITED STATES SENATE
WASHINGTON,D.C. 20510
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Navy Reservists
Check In, Begin
Adjustments
LATimes 8-30-90
By PAUL FELDMAN
TIMES STAFF WRITER
Kimberly Graftenreed, 23, was
forced to give up her Hermosa
Beach apartment to cope with the
pay cut. San Diego anesthesiologist
Winnie Variey-Maneciang, 49,
moved in with her daughter in
Orange County to lighten the daily
commute. And Mohan Vallabhap-
urapu, 35, missed his chance to
serve as a line judge in the U.S.
Open tennis tournament, now un-
der way in New York.
They were but three of the 80
Navy Reservists who streamed
into the Long Beach Naval Hospi-
tal Wednesday morning. duffel
bags dangling from their shoulders
and uncertainty etched on their
faces. Dressed in gleaming white
uniforms, they had assembled in
orderly fashion to help replace 150
doctors, nurses and technicians
who have been deployed in the
Persian Gulf crisis.
It was a scene that is being
repeated in communities across the
nation this week as thousands
trade civilian lives for active duty
in the largest mobilization of the
selective reserve since the 1961
Berlin crisis. Almost 50,000 mili-
tary reservists could be called up
by Oct. 1, putting their everyday
lives on hold for at least 90 days as
the Middle East crisis plays itself
out.
The Long Beach reservists, like
those elsewhere in the nation, are a
diverse lot. Some will earn as little
as $895-a-month base pay; a hand-
ful will get more than $4,000 a
month. They range in age from 19
Please see RESERVISTS, A34
A34
THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1990
RESERVISTS: Call-Up Puts Many Civilian Lives on Hold
band in San Diego for life
23-year-old daughter, wl
La Palma.
Continued from A1
young ensign asked the new
seven physicians and more than
A former Navy officer, the Fill-
"My daughter doesn't
to 55 and come from all walks of
charges to check off a box indicat-
140 nurses and technicians have
pino-born physician is currently a
idea of my being her re
life: a Los Angeles police officer, a
ing whether they had been acti-
departed to participate in Opera-
staff anesthesiologist at Kaiser
Varley-Maneclang smile
real estate agent, a housewife, a
vated for duty or shown up on their
tion Desert Shield.
Medical Center in San Diego,
because I have rules."
nursing college student, a mail
OWN.
Thus far, Varley-Maneclang is
where she says she earns $10,000 a
A handful of reservist
carrier, even an embalming assist-
Next, the reservists received
the only doctor among those acti-
month. As a reservist, she will earn
reporting to Long Beach
ant from the Los Angeles County
mixed news from Master Chief
vated to serve at the Long Beach
less than half that amount.
ramento, Dallas and Me
coroner's office.
Phillip Dozier, whose responsibili-
hospital.
But Variey-Maneclang seemed
need temporary housin
"To-say-that-your-appearance
ties include morale and welfare.
"This creates a lot of disturbance
less concerned Wednesday about
racks, Sanford said. But
here this morning has been greatly
Addressing "the quality of life
and disruption of your regular life,"
her pay cut-than about-her-new
of-the-Long-Beach uni
anticipated and much appreciated
issue," Dozier announced that tick-
she said. "But this is what we're
living arrangements-having tem-
those who can afford to-
is the height of understatement,"
ets will be made available to Dis-
trained for."
porarily traded life with her hus-
tinue living in their hos
said the hospital's commanding of-
neyland and Dodgers games. But,
ficer, Capt. F.G. Sanford, as he
he added, "eccentric haircuts" are
greeted the erstwhile "weekend
out.
warriors" who assembled in an
Brian Stringer, 23, a Cal State
auditorium at 7:30 am
Long Beach nursing student with a
Most agree that the mobilization
modified pompadour, cringed at the
will have a dramatic impact on
latter announcement. "I guess that
their lives, forcing them to make
means I am going to be going to the
sacrifices in finances, short-term
barber," he said later. "It's just one
goals, and in some cases, housing or
of those things."
hairstyles. But they add that these
In the modern day, equal-oppor-
are adjustments that they are pre-
tunity Navy, Kellie Hosch was
pared-in most cases, quite will-
facing a similar problem. Last
ingly-to make.
week, she had gone to a Beverly
Hills salon for a spiky hairdo. "I
G
raftenreed, a pharmaceuticals
have a faddish hair-style. Now I'll
buyer for the Thrifty Corp.,
have to comb it out like a geek,"
said she had been planning to
she laughed.
spend last weekend watching a pro
Other concerns centered on sub-
volleyball championship on the
stance rather than style.
shores of the Pacific, within walk-
ing distance of her apartment.
During a brief question-and-an-
After receiving a 4 a.m. call-up
swer session, Los Angeles Police
telephone call last Saturday, she
Officer Lanita Elias, 23, asked Na-
spent her time scurrying for
vy officials whether she can tem-
cheaper housing. settling finally
porarily defer paying bills because
for an inland apartment that she
of the large pay cut she is facing.
will share with a fellow reservist.
"That, unfortunately, will be the
"The base pay doesn't even cov-
lending institutions' call," came the
er my rent in Hermosa," explained
unsettling reply.
Graftenreed, who flipped through a
For the next three months, the
copy of Cosmopolitan magazine
reservists, most of whom are mem-
during slow moments of the orien-
bers of the Long Beach-based
tation. "But patriotically speaking,
Navy Hospital Reserve Unit 119,
I feel real good."
will assist in the hospital's operat-
Wednesday's session began with
ing room, orthopedics unit and
a long round of bureaucratic form-
out-patient clinics, Sanford said. In
filling. Laughter permeated the
recent days, non-emergency ser-
auditorium only once-when a
vices have been scaled back as
LOS ANGELES TIMES
with her
certain cases may even receive
be lives in
permission to moonlight to help
make ends meet.
like the
For a lucky few, including David
Poommate,"
Bookrum, the call-up will result in
ed. "That's
little disruption.
Bookrum, the senior enlisted ad-
its who are
viser of Reserve Unit 119, already
1 from Sac-
works at Long Beach Naval, as a
emphis will
civilian risk manager.
ag in bar-
"It. will be pretty much the
it members
same," be said. "Except, now when
it-at least
I get up, I will be putting on a
-will con-
uniform rather than a shirt and
mes, and in
tie."
ta times
8-30-90
Wednesday's session begun with
Thus far, Varley-Maneclang is
to 55 and come from all walks of
a long round of bureaucratic form-
the only doctor among those acti-
In Long Beach,
life: a Los Angeles police officer, a
filling. Laughter
valed to serve at Long Beach.
real estate agent, a housewife, a
permeated the
"This creates a lot of disturbance
nursing college student, a mail
auditorium only
and disruption of your regular life,"
Navy Reservists
carrier, even an embalaing assist-
once-when a
she said. "But this is what we're
and from the Los Angeles County
young ensign
trained for."
corner's office.
asked the new
A former Navy officer, the FHi-
Begin Coping
"To my that your appearance
charges to check
pluo-born physician is currently a
here this morning has been greatly
off a box indicat-:
staff anesthesiologist al Kaiser
anticipated and much appreciated
ing whether they
Medical Center in San Diego,
in the height of understatement,"
had been activat-
where she says she earns $10,000 a
By PAUL FELDMAN
Brian Stringer,
said the hospital's commanding of-
ed for duty or
month. As a reservist, she will earn
TIMES STAFF WRITER
23, a Cal State
shown up on
less than half that amount.
Long Beach
Kimberly Graftenreed, 23, was
their OWN
But Varley-Maneclang seemed
nursing student
forced to give up her Hermosa
ficer, Capt. F.G. Sauford, as he
with a medified
less concerned Wednesday about
Beach apartment to cope with the
greeted the erstwhile "weekend
warriars" who assembled in an
pempadour, cringed at the latter
pay col. San Diego anesthesiologist
auditorium at 7.30 a.m.
Next, the re-
announcement. "I guesa that
Winnle Verley-Maneclang, 49,
means I am going to be going to the
her pay cut than about her new
Most agree that the mobilization
servists received
moved in with her daughter in
Orange County to lighten the daily
will have a dramatic impact on
mixed news from
barber," he sald later. "It's just one
living arrangements--having tem-
porarily traded life with her hus-
their Rves, forcing them to make
Master Chief
of those things."
commute. And Mohan Vallabhap-
sucrifices in finances, short-term
In the modern day, equal-op-
band in San Diego for life with her
Phillip Dozier,
urapu, 35, missed his chance to
goals, and for some cases, housing or
whose responsi-
portunity Navy. Kellie Hoseh was
23-year-old daughter, who lives iu
La Palma.
serve as a line judge in the U.S.
Open tennis tournament, new um-
hairstyles. But they add that these
bilities Include
facing similar problem. Last
morale and wel-
week. she had gone to a Beverly
"My daughter doesn't like the
der way In New York.
are adjustments that they are pre-
pared-in most cases, quite will-
Hills salon for a splky hairdo. "I
idea of my being her roommate,"
fare.
Addressing
have a faddish hairstyle. Now PM
Varley-Maneclang smiled. "That's
They were but three of the 80
ingly-to make.
because I have rules."
Navy reservists who stresmed into
Graftenreed, a pharmaceutfeals
"the quality of
have to comb it out like a geek,"
A handful of reservists who are
the Long Beach Naval Hospital
buyer for the Thrifty Corp., said she
life issue," Dozier
she laughed.
had been planning to spend last
announced that
Other concerns centered on mub-
reporting to Long Beach from Sae-
Wednesday morning, duffel bags
ramento, Dallas and Memphis will
dangling from their shoulders and
weekend watching a pre volleyball
tickets will be
stance rather than style.
need temporary housing in bar-
uncertainty etched on their fuees.
championship on the shores of the
made available to
During a brief question-and-an-
racks, Sanford said. But members
Dressed in gleaming white uni-
Pacific, within walking distance of
Disneyland and
swer seasion, Los Angeles Police
of the Long Beach unit-at least
forms, they had assembled in or-
her spartment. After receiving a 4
Dodgers games.
Officer Lanita Elias, 23, asked Na-
derly fashion to help replace 150
am call-up telephone call last Sat-
But, he added,
vy officials whether she can tem-
doctors, nurses and technicians
"eccentric hair-
porarily defer paying bills because
who have been deployed in the
cuts" are out.
of the large pay cut she is facing.
those who can afford to-will cm
Persian Gulf crisia.
tinue living in their homes, and
It was that is being
urday, she spent her time scurrying
certain cases may even receiv
repeated in communities across the
for cheaper housing, settling finally
"That, unfortonately, will be the
permission to moonlight to be
nation this week an thousands
for an inland apartment that she will
lending institutions' call," came the
make ends meet.
trade civilian lives for active duty
share with a fellow reservist.
unsettling reply.
For a lucky few, including Day
in the largest mobilization of the
"The base pay doesn't even COV-
For the next three months, the
Bookrum, the call-up will result
selective reserve since the 1961
et my rent in Hermosa," explained
reservists, most of whom are mem-
little disruption.
Berlin crisis. Almost 50,000 mili-
Graftenreed, who flipped through a
bers of the Long Beach-based
Bookrum, the senior enlisted at
lary reservists could be called up
copy of Cosmopolitan magazine
Navy Hospital Reserve Unit 119,
viser of Reserve Unit 119, alread
by Oct. 1, putting their everyday
during slow moments of the orten-
will assist in the hospital's operat-
works at Long Beach Naval Hosp
lives on hold for at least 90 days as
tation. "But patriotically speaking,
ing room, orthopedics unit and
tal as a civilian risk manager.
the Persian Gulf erisis plays itself
feel real good."
outpatient elinics, Sanford said. In
"It will be pretty much U
out
recent days, non-emergency ser-
isame." he said. "Except now wher
The Long Beach reservists, like
vices have been sealed back as
get up, I will be putting on
those elsewhere in the nation, are a
seven physicians and more than
uniform rather than a shirt and tie
diverse lot. Some will earn as little
140 nurses and technicians have
as $895-a-month base pay; a hand-
departed to participate in Opera-
ful will get more than $4,000 a
tion Desert Shield.
month. They range inPage from 19
SAN DIEGO COUNTY
Los Angeles Times
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1990
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WILSON: Gubernatorial Bid to Have S.D. Flavor
1983 WILSON PORTRAIT
a
MR. SAN DIeGO Goes To SACRAMENTO
GORete
90
About 500 of these posters were printed up for last was a take-off from an earlier campaign poster that
September's state GOP convention. The promotion
read "Mr. San Diego Goes to Washington."
Los Angeles Times
HIGHLIGHTS
GOVERNOR'S RACE: U.S. Sen.
Pete Wilson's bid to become Cali-
Wilson Stump
fornia's gover-
nor will take on
a San Diego
theme, as the
Will Have Its
former mayor
plans to tout his
local accom-
Roots in S.D.
plishments and
mobilize local
leaders to
stump-on his behalf during the 1990
Politics: The former mayo
campaign. B1
faithful are ready to tout him as
America's Finest Candidate
"We're selling two things: Pete Wilson's
accomplishments as mayor of San Diego,
during his bid to become
and the second is the warmth and enthusi-
asm that people in San Diego have for Rete
governor.
Wilson," said George Gorton, Wilson's
campaign manager.
By RALPH FRAMMOLINO
For Californians "to see the bond he has
TIMES STAFF WRITER
for San Diegans will cause them to realize
that he must be a terrific guy," Gorton said.
Come October, a caravan of buses carry-
Wilson's critics, however, warn that the
ing "Wilson for Governor" banners could
San Diego story could boomerang on the
be groaning northward from San Diego
candidate, whom they claim hogs all of the
along Interstate 5, fanning out over the
accomplishments of his era but glosses over
state.
the major problems he left behind.
The passengers would be bankers, de-
They say the San Diego Cinderella story
velopers, businessmen or representatives
could be to Wilson what the so-called
from the Chamber of Commerce.
Massachusetts Miracle was to 1988 Demo-
Their mission: to persuade fellow Cali-
cratic presidential hopeful Michael Duka-
fornians that favorite son and former San
kis. That state's governor started the race
Diego Mayor Pete Wilson is one heck of a
bragging about Massachusetts' economic
you
guy.
resurgence under his guidance.
So far, the San Diego convoy is merely a
Yet by the end of the race, Dukakis found
OFFICE
vague, back-room concept being bandied
himself hopelessly mired in criticisms of his
about by the political strategists directing
Administration. Then-Vice President
the bid by U.S. Sen. Pete Wilson (R-Calif.)
George Bush seized the issue of the envi-
to be elected governor later this year.
ronment by blaming Dukakis for pollution
But the idea, they say, is indicative of
in Boston Harbor.
how much the Republican campaign will
And in a now-infamous television com-
rely on San Diegans-and Wilson's record
mercial, Bush took Dukakis to task for the
as mayor-to help portray their man as a
Massachusetts system of granting early
popular but tough administrator with the
parole by showing an ominous line of
acumen to manage a state budget of $50
convicts walking in-and out-of prison
billion. To underscore that hometown em-
through a creaking revolving door.
phasis, Wilson is expected to formally kick
And so it could be for Wilson, Said
off his gubernatorial campaign today at San
Richard Ross, political consultant for Dem-
Diego police headquarters.
ocratic gubernatorial hopeful Atty. Gen.
The San Diego strategy will feature a
John Van de Kamp. Ross is already busy
"Back to the Future" approach by touching
scouring the San Diego record for issues to
on the idea that San Diego during the
haunt Wilson, who has criticized Van de
Wilson years is a metaphor for California
Kamp's handling of the Hillside Strangler
today. During his tenure as mayor from
case while he was Los Angeles County
1972 to 1983, the campaign will assert,
Please see WILSON, B4
Wilson was able to hone solutions to
unbridled growth, increasing crime, trans-
portation 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 home-
town supporters, who are willing to stimp
the state on his behalf, strategists are enger
to show.
WILSON: Bid to Have
a San Diego Flavor
Continued from B1
district attorney.
who ran Gov. George Deukmejian's
"I'm not looking to run a cam-
1986 reelection campaign. Thomas
paign that's a [mudslinging] con-
now works for the Irvine Co. in
test about the 1970s," Ross said in
Orange County.
Sacramento. "The people of Cali-
"I think politics is as much
fornia are entitled to a debate about
symbolism as action, and by doing
the 1990s.
that he paints a fantastic symbol
"But" I'm not going to sit back
with which people can identify,"
and have John's record rewritten
Thomas said.
in the most negative light and
Wilson agrees.
(Wilson's) record rewritten to gloss
"Most people in California have
over his weak points."
been to San Diego, perhaps spent
So far, Ross said, he has found
some time there," he said in a
several major flaws in the Wilson
recent telephone interview from
record: a large increase in major
his Washington office. "They have
crime during his tenure; accept-
an impression of the city that's
ance of political contributions from
positive. They have seen it grow
beneficiaries of downtown rede-
larger, but in their view. it has not
velopment, including the now-
only grown larger, it has grown
bankrupt U.S. Grant Hotel; a city
better.
Administration that approved mas-
"They give me a great deal of
sive development on a former mili-
the credit for that, but I would
tary 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 environ-
mentalist and left office as a devel-
oper's friend, voting to allow the
construction of North City West.
Then there's the coup de grâce,
the $2.8-billion secondary-treat-
ment sewage plant the city of San
Diego is now forced to build largely
on its own, without federal grants
that were available during Wil-
son'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 govern-
ment grants when the reprieve
expired.
"This is his Boston Harbor,"
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Los Angeles Times
Ross said, referring to the ill-fated
Dukakis campaign.
Sen. Pete Wilson: "Most people
Even some of Wilson's support-
in California have been to San
ers aren't sure exactly how San
Diego, perhaps spent some time
Diego will play in a statewide
there. They have an impression
campaign.
of the city that's positive."
"I'm just reluctant to suggest
that you can take San Diego on the
have to say that it is credit that has
back of a truck and drag it around
to be shared."
and say there's the answer to your
Wilson campaign strategists,
problems, because the problems
however, are eager to make sure
differ significantly in the disparate
their boss receives his share of the
areas of the state," said Mike
credit for San Diego's good image.
Madigan, a former Wilson staff
"It's reality that Pete is so close
member and now senior vice presi-
to San Diego and he is credited
dent for Pardee Construction.
with taking it from a dark time to
Despite possible pitfalls, Wilson
make it one of the finest cities in
and his staff are eager to reinforce
the country." said Otto Bos, Wil-
his image as "Mr. San Diego."
son's campaign director.
F
or instance, a poster distributed
Although it will not be the
by his staff at the recent state
dominant theme in the race, Bos
Republican convention shows a
said the campaign wants to empha-
caricature of Wilson in front of the
size Wilson's experience as mayor
state Capitol holding a surfboard
because it is analogous to the
and dressed in a Hawaiian shirt.
executive responsibilities he will
Such a Wilson-San Diego link
handle as governor.
evokes good feelings from voters,
In addition, he said, the specific
say those familiar with the synes-
problems Wilson dealt with during
thesia of politics. Unlike the image
the 1970s and early '80s in San
of gang-infested, traffic-choked
Diego are now looming on the state
Los Angeles, or overly liberal San
agenda.
Francisco, San Diego remains for
"We think San Diego offers a
many Californians a palm tree
splendid metaphor for the chal-
paradise adorned with pretty
lenges of the state," Bos said.
beaches and pristine inner-city
Thus, the fact that Wilson at-
canyons.
tempted to control and direct San
"San Diego is the easiest thing to
Diego's construction boom with his
point to and say, 'Don't just trust
Growth Management Plan will
what I say but look what I've
mean a lot to a burgeoning state of
done,' said Larry Thomas, a for-
29 million people, Bos said.
mer Wilson staffer and San Diegan
Please see WILSON, B5
Continued from B4
"I think everybody's fond of
not reality.
S
o, too, will the story of how
their city, and if you sell your city
"I imagine if it rained and we
Wilson took over San Diego on
too much, that can engender some
needed rain, he would take credit
the heels of the Yellow Cab scan-
resentment," he said. "The slogan
for that. If bad weather came by,
dal-which saw City Council mem-
'America's Finest City' cuts both
he would have somebody else take
bers indicted on charges of accept-
ways."
credit for that. That's part of
ing payoffs from the
L
ee Grissom, president of the
politics."
company-and worked to pass one
Greater San Diego Chamber of
of the strictest local campaign
Commerce, scoffed at the idea of a
contribution laws in the country,
bus convoy, but added that he has
he added. The discussion of ethics
already volunteered to do some
is particularly timely with the low
elective stumping for Wilson.
public opinion of lawmakers and
"My commitment to Pete is if he
the recent conviction of Sen. Jo-
wanted to have somebody with an
seph Montoya (D-Whittier) on
appropriate level of credibility tell
corruption charges.
the San Diego story, I'd be willing
Other San Diego accomplish-
to tell that," Grissom said.
ments destined to be mentioned
Wilson said several others have
prominently in the campaign will
volunteered to do the same during
be Wilson's efforts to fight crime,
the gubernatorial race.
his backing of the immensely suc-
"I haven't called on them to do
cessful San Diego Trolley, buying
so, but I probably will say, 'Go to
more than 5,300 acres of park and
it,' " he said. "I'd be delighted to
canyon open space to save them,
have them tell the story, especially
and his guidance of downtown
coming from people who were
redevelopment through the inner-
leaders in the community."
city condominium projects of Park
But San Diego attorney Floyd
Row and Marina Place and the
construction of phantasmagoric
Morrow, who served on the City
Council for Wilson's first six years,
Horton Plaza.
For the fiscally conservative,
said he believes the San Diego
Wilson campaigners will be quick
strategy is an attempt by the
to quote the late tax crusader
former mayor to create a "per-
Howard Jarvis, who once quipped
ceived reality" of leadership that
that Proposition 13 would have
diverges widely from the truth.
In the case of government ethics,
been unnecessary if all cities were
run as efficiently as Wilson ran San
for instance, Morrow said that
Wilson was actually a Johnny-
Diego.
Wilson's San Diego ties will also
come-lately to the idea of limiting
be highlighted in the way the U.S.
campaign contributions to the cur-
senator runs his gubernatorial
rent $250 per donor per candidate.
campaign, Bos said. His main head-
Before he supported the stringent
quarters are in Old Town, and San
limit, Wilson was backing another
set of more liberal guidelines that
Diegans have prominent roles in
his campaign. Aside from Bos and
were defeated by a majority of the
Gorton, Marty Wilson (no rela-
council, Morrow said.
Morrow also charged that the
tion) is his political director, den-
tist Albert Anderson is his state-
city under Wilson looked good
wide volunteer coordinator and
financially because it failed to keep
retired businessman Frank Light is
up repairs on its roads and sewers,
which left subsequent City Coun-
his finance chairman.
Meanwhile, the campaign plans
cils with a legacy of sewage spills
to mobilize some of San Diego's
more prominent citizens to speak
that, until recently, even gushed
on Wilson's behalf throughout the
routinely into the waters of Mission
state.
Bay.
"We fully expect in this cam-
"He's going to go off on a
paign to have the San Diegans on
campaign and say, 'Hey, I'm fan-
the stump," Bos said.
tastic,'' Morrow said. "But the
"We're talking about something
opposite side of the coin is that's
in the fall," said Gorton. "You've
seen the movie-star buses, where
ON THE RECORD
they go from town to town on
behalf of an initiative. You might
"San Diego is the easiest thing to
see buses of San Diegans."
point to and say, 'Don't just trust
Political consultant Jim John-
what I say, but look what I've
ston said the caravan idea is
done.' I think politics is as much
"corny" but could work. "If I were
symbolism as action, and by doing
at some kind of rally and some
people with credentials showed up
that he paints a fantastic symbol
to tell about a guy's background,
with which people can identify."
I'd probably pay attention to it," he
-Larry Thomas, a former Pete Wilson
said.
staffer, on Wilson's plans to promote his ties
However, the convoy tactic
to San Diego in his bid to become governor.
would have to be employed gently,
B1
Gorton said.
Pete WILSON
GOVERNOR
CAMPAIGN UPDATE
AUGUST 1, 1990
POLLING DATA
o
In a Republican National Committee "likely-to-vote" survey completed after the June primary,
Pete Wilson maintained his lead over Dianne Feinstein by a 46-41% margin.
o
Arnold Steinberg's mid-June poll showed Wilson with a 2% edge statewide, but a 10% edge in the
pivotal Los Angeles area.
o
The Times-Mirror/Gallup "likely-to-vote" Poll in early July reported Wilson with a 48-42%
edge in the general election.
The California Eye (July 2, 1990) reported that many political observers are surprised that
Feinstein, after so much flattering press attention, "does not begin the general election with at least a
several point lead in the polls.
DI-FI DOUBLE TALK
At the California Republican Party convention July 20-22 in San Diego, Pete Wilson blasted
Dianne Feinstein for being "the candidate of change -- of changed positions." The Wilson campaign has
caught a number of issues on which Feinstein has changed her position in an effort to pander to specific
blocks of voters, said Otto Bos, Campaign Director. Some of Feinstein's flip-flop issues include:
o
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. Feinstein claims she has been pro-death penalty for 30 years. Yet in
1984 she had a very calculated and reserved support for the death penalty, and she supported Rose
Bird's re-election campaign in 1986.
MALATHION SPRAYING. On February 25, Feinstein told the L.A. Times that the new governor
ought to "explain the realities" and "not ignore the Medfly or our agriculture will be badly hurt."
But on July 27, Feinstein warned the agriculture community that "if this woman is elected
governor, she is going to end urban malathion spraying. Period. The End."
o
MATERNITY LEAVE. Feinstein blasted President Bush in May for opposing Congress' family
leave bill. Yet she told the New York Times on March 22, 1984, "I don't think the work market
has to accommodate itself to women having children."
Pete Wilson for Governor 1990
2251 San Diego Avenue, Suite B-200, San Diego, CA 92110 (619) 260-1990
1900 "K" Street, Suite 110, Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 446-5140
Post Office Box 91097, Los Angeles, CA 90009 (213) 410-1990
ETHICS REFORM. San Francisco voters approved a ballot initiative in 1986 over Mayor
Feinstein's objections to prohibit city officials from representing clients before City boards and
commissions. Yet in her much ballyhooed 1990 plan, intended to make her look like the
"outsider" attacking the political establishment," Feinstein called for legislation to ban elected
officials from lobbying government agencies.
BROWN SPEAKS
California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown told The Los Angeles Times (July 5, 1990) that he is
savoring the victory of "his close friend and political ally' Feinstein in the Democratic primary election.
Brown acknowledges a Feinstein victory, in combination with control of both houses of the Legislature,
would give him "an increased level of influence on public policy." The newspaper account quoted one
veteran legislative aide as saying that Brown will wield more power than ever in a Feinstein
administration. "He'll be in the catbird seat. He'll be the vice governor."
QUOTA QUESTIONS
Dianne Feinstein's pledge to institute a quota system of appointments should she be elected
governor continues to generate considerable controversy. Just before the primary, she pledged to "gender
balance" all state appointments as well as make appointments in proportion to an ethnic groups percent
of the state population. Pete Wilson said that women and minorities should gain more positions in
government, but on the basis of merit, not quotas. The Los Angeles Daily News, among others, called the
Feinstein plan "intellectually dishonest." It said that Californians would side with Wilson on this issue,
as did San Francisco voters earlier this month when they rejected a ballot measure that would have
required such "gender balance" on that city's boards and commissions. "San Franciscans seem old-
fashioned enough to believe that people should be hired on merit and most Californians would
undoubtedly agree with them." The Daily News said (6-12).
FEINSTEIN AD
Feinstein is trying to rewrite history by saying she never called for a quota system. According to
the Los Angeles Times (August 3, 1990): "While Feinstein did not use the term, 'quota.' it was widely
interpreted as a quota-like system and Wilson seized on the issue." About San Diego's affirmative action
plan, Wilson as mayor wrote in 1979, it is "intended to reinforce the merit principle in public
employment. [and] should not be interpreted as granting preferential treatment to specialized population
groups."
Pete GOVERNOR WIL SON
WILSON CALLS ON feinstein TO WITHDRAW SCURRILOUS S&L AD
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: BIII Livingstone
August 9, 1990
(619) 260-1990
SAN DIEGO -- Charging that It is premeditated malice,
gubernatoria candidate U.S. Senator Pete Wilson today called on
Ms. Feinstein to Immediately pull a 30-second ad that relles on
false charges and Innuendo to soil his reputation.
"You said to the media that there is no evidence that I did
anything wrong, yet now you are using McCarthyism tactics to
impugn my character, Wilson sald. "This is premeditated malice,
making false charges, engaging In character assassination, and I
call on you to Immediately withdraw your ad."
In response to her S&L mudslinging, Felnstein told the media
in Los Angeles on July 27, 1990: " ' I don't have any evidence
that he [Wilson] has done anything' wrong." Yet Feinstein's ad
clearly implies wrong-doing, and Indeed, has no other purpose.
"Feinstein, knowing of the falsity of the viclous charges
and Innuendo, not only persists in making them, but now seeks to
tell the ultimate big lie by using the all pervaslve medium of TV
to deliberately deceive the public,' Wilson said.
"What Feinstein is attempting is defamation, or would be If
a private citizen rather than a public figure were the target of
the mallcious lies," Wilson said.
The facts:
** Wilson was not a member of the U.S. Senate when the
S&L Industry was deregulated. Sacramento Bee columnist
Martin Smith wrote (8/5/90): "He [Wilson] served as
mayor of San Diego until January, 1983, and did not play
a role In either state or federal deregulation of the
Industry."
** Wilson cosponsored legislation in 1985 to ban S&Ls from
Investing in Junk bonds;
** Wilson opposed the S&L Industry's position on the two
key legislative bills bailing them out.
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2251 San Diego Avenue, Suite B-200, San Diego, CA 92110 (619) 260-1990
1900 "K" Street, Suite 110, Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 446-5140
Post Office Box 91097, Los Angeles, CA 90009 (213) 410-1990
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S&L REGULATORS
In July, Wilson voted for an amendment to step up the
government's Investigation of savings and loan fraud. The
amendment would provide additional money to the Department of
Justice and other agencies, and would establish a Financial
Institutions of Justice to provide for recovery of taxpayer
funds. It would also facilitate Investigation and prosecution of
criminal, civil and administrative claims against those
responsible for bank and thrift fraud.
DEMOCRATS DELAY LEGISLATION
Wilson said it was the House of Representatives -- led by
Speaker Jim Wright and Majority Whip Tony Coelho -- that delayed
legislative action on the S&L Industry.
As reported by The Washington Post (6/13/87):
"In a spectacularly dangerous example of misguided
sympathy, Congress is hard at work on legislation to
make S&L regulation weaker than ever. It has nothing
to do with Reaganite enthuslasm for deregulation. The
Impetus is coming from Democrats, and mainly from Texas.
"The House has passed a bill that would make It
harder for an S&L to foreclose on delinquent loans, of
which there are many in Texas, and very much harder for
federal regulators to close an S&L that is Insolvent.
"The chlef regulator says that the bill, If enacted,
'will shut down effective enforcement.'
Wilson recalled that Feinstein said she wanted to discuss
the Issues and wanted to keep this campaign on a high road. But
she has falled miserably. The only way she can make amends it to
Immediately take the ad off the air.
AY, AUGUST 7, 1990
EDITORIALS
of THE TIMES
CAMPAIGN WATCH
A Good Issue, but the Wrong Man
Because Dianne Feinstein
anger over the savings and
leagues had run only once.
and Pete Wilson both are in-
loan debacle. As a result, her
Moreover, his funds were re-
stinctual political moderates,
campaign is attempting to im-
ported as direct contributions,
few genuine differences over
ply that Wilson is particularly
while S&L gifts to his col-
issues have emerged in their
culpable in the matter because
leagues often were disguised.
gubernatorial campaign.
he received unusually large
For example, Alan Cranston,
However, as she demon-
contributions from S&L inter-
who ran only once during the
strated in the Démocratic pri-
ests:
period, is listed by Common
mary, Feinstein has a shrewd
Neither point is supported
Cause has having received on-
sense of the electorate's anxie-
by facts. A recent Common
ly $143,700. No mention is
ties and an ability to make her
Cause report said that Wilson
made of the $1 million he got
opponent their focus. In that
had received more money,
for a voter registration drive.
race, she managed to link
$243,000, from thrift-related
Finally, there is no evidence
women's apprehension about
contributors than any other
that Wilson, whose S&L con-
reproductive rights to John
senator. It did not point out
tributions account for less
Van de Kamp's personal reser-
that during the period ana-
than 1% of his total campaign
vations about abortion. Now,
lyzed, Wilson ran for office
funding, ever intervened on
she has sensed the voters'
twice, while many of his col-
behalf of the thrifts.
THE TRUTH ABOUT S&L'S AND PETE WILSON
"There is no evidence that Wilson did anything
Improper In exchange for those contributions. He
most likely is, as he asserts, a victim of reckless
guilt by assoclation." (Emphasis added)
Doug Willis, Associated Press
Monday, July 23, 1990
Pete Wilson did not take office as a U.S. Senator until
January, 1983, and had no role in federal legislation to
deregulate the S&L Industry.
Congress acted In 1980 upon the Carter Task Force
recommendations made in 1979 by passing "The Depository
Institutions Deregulation Act, which both granted much too
broad Investment powers to federal thrifts, and Increased the
level of federally Insured deposits from $40,000 to $100,000.
*
Pete Wilson was Mayor of San Diego and had no role In state
legislation to deregulate the S&L Industry.
The State of California acted to grant power to state-
chartered S&L's to make unsafe and unwise Investments that
led to widespread Insolvency and the need for the federal
deposit Insurance agency, FSLIC, to act to safeguard the
savings of depositors.
*
Pete Wilson is not a member of the Banking Committee, which
drafted the legislation to ball out the S&L Industry.
*
Pete Wilson was one of a handful of Senators who were original
cosponsors of legislation (S. 975, "The Securities, Safety, and
Soundness Act of 1985") introduced In 1985 to prohibit banks and
S&L's from Investing In Junk bonds.
Pete Wilson refused to Intervene with regulators on behalf of
Charles Keating and has never asked to meet with regulators on
the S & L Industry's behalf, whether the Institution's PAC or
its owners have contributed to his campaign or not.
Pete Wilson opposed positions of the savings and loan Industry,
during deliberations on the two key pieces of legislation
-- both In 1987 and In 1989 -- bailing out the Industry;
SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS 8-10-90
A-1
Feinstein's unspoken S&L ties
Ads criticize thrift
Blum confirmed Thursday that
son County deal saved the taxpay-
be and his partners and clients put
ers money. But some members of
fiasco as husband
up less than $8 million to buy the
Congress say they believe the deals
debt-plagued Jackson County Fed-
were done too hastily and may not
profits from bailout
eral Savings and Loan of Medford,
have been in the taxpayers' inter-
Ore. In return, be acknowledged,
est.
By Carl M. Cannon
federal banking officials pumped
No one claims that Blum has
Mereury News Washington Bureau
in $23.3 million in cash, guaranteed
done anything improper. In fact,
WASHINGTON - Dianne Fein-
another $35.3 million to cover
Blum argues: "If people like Pete
stein fired a new salvo Thursday in
loans that were
Wilson, who were accepting contri-
her campaign to blame gubernato-
presumed to be
butions from the savings and loan
rial opponent Sen. Pete Wilson for
bad and also to
industry. had been exercising the
the nation's savings and loan crisis.
pay the expenses
leadership they were supposed to,
But as the political ad hit the
of servicing the
then there wouldn't have been the
airwaves, a review of federal re-
non-performing
need for investment types like us
cords shows that Feinstein has
loans, govern-
to go in and do these bailouts."
benefited financially from that cri-
ment documents
Nonethcless, disclosure of
sis: Her husband, San Francisco
show.
Blum's Involvement in a savings
investment banker Richard C.
Blum's firm,
and loan bailout has obvious politi-
Blum, and some of Blum's clients
Richard C. Blum
cal ramifications for Feinstein.
bought one of the ailing thrifts at
Blum
& Associates, also
fire-sale prices - then received
was paid a $325,000 consulting fee
Blum is, in effect, Feinstein's
huge subsidies from the govern-
for putting the deal together, fed-
chief political backer - the couple
ment, as did a number of other
eral regulators said Thursday.
loaned $3 million to her campaign
purchasers of troubled S&Ls.
Federal regulators say the Jack-
See BLUM, Back Page
ийп Danket
Daily Financial Services Newspaper
Wednesday, January 11, 1989
154th Year
Congressmen
Put Bank Board
Tax Breaksin FSLICDeals
Assisted transactions In December 988 dollar. amounts in millions)
On Hot Seat
Share
Amount to
Amount to
Acquirent
Tax
Benefit
to
FSLIC
FELICH
Acquirer
South East Holding, Miami
$0.0
0%
$0.0
$0.0
Hearing Unleashes Anger
Ryan Financial, McLean, Va.
8.4
25
21
6.3
Golden West Financial, Oakland, Calif.
195.7
60
117.4
78.3
Over Yearend Bailouts
CalFed Inc., Los Angeles
22.5
37
8.3
142
Golden West Financial, Oakland, Calif.
8.2
6.5
1.7
By ROBERT M. GARSSON
First Nationwide/Ford, San Francisco
25.0
0
0.0
25.0
Washington Bureau
Citicorp Mortgage Inc., Chicago
1.4
0
0.0
1.1.
WASHINGTON Angry House
Citizens Federal Savings Bank, Miami
7.1
25
1.5
5.3
Banking Committee members told the
Coast to Coast Financial Corp., New York
52.2
0
522
nation's top thrift regulators on Tues-
Home Federal S&L of Sloux Falls, S.D.
0.8
o
0.0
0.8
day that private investors had "robbed
Earley Investment Group, Waterioo, lowa
0.2
0
0.0
0.2
you blind in a-series or.yearend deals
Metropolitan FB, Mason City, lowa
7.8
0
0.0
7.8
in which billions or donars 324 tax bene-
Community Holdings
7.4
1.1
8.3
fits were passed out to purchasers of in-
solvent thrilts
First Federal S&L of Lincoln, Nob.
2.1
0.3
1.8
The chairman and members of the
First Nationwide/Ford. Sen Francisco
650.6
71
463.8
185.8
Federal Home Loan Bank Board heard
Northwest Federal, Oklahoma City
8.5
30
26
6.0
testy Banking Committee members re-
Local Federal S&L, Oklahoma City
9.7
50
4.9
4.9
cite a long litany of complaints, ranging
Home Federal S&L San Diego
35.8
65
23.3
12.5
from the lack of minority acquirers of
insolvent thrifts to the amount of mon-
Michigan National Corp., Farmingtom Hills
159.1
45
71.6
87.5
ey the agency committed to assist ac-
Robert M. Bass Group, Fort Worth
870.0
1-75
6525
217.5
quirers of bankrupt savings and loans.
First Network Savings Bank, Los Angeles
9.6
50
4.8
4.8
Not even the President of the Unit-
Pacific First Federal, Tacoma, Wash.
36.9
50
16.4
18.4
ed States nor members of his cabi-
Equimark Corp., Pittsburgh
20.2
75
15.2
5.1
net can commit the federal govern-
Bamett Banks Inc., Jacksonville, Fla.
0.0
80
0.0
0.0
ment to billions of dollars of
MNC Financial Inc.; Baltimore
0.0
O
expenditures without prior authoriza-
0.0
0.0
tion, prior appropriation, and prior ap-
River Valley Savings Bank, Peoria, IL
1.8
100
1.8
0.0
proval of Congress, said Rep. Henry
First Western, Las Vegas
0.0
100
0.0
0.0
B.: Gonzalez, Tex the committee's
Western Federal S&L Missoula, Mont.
0.3
100
0.3
0.0
new chairman.
CFSB Corp, Phoenix
311.9
25
78.0
234.0
Bank Board Chairman M. Danny
Utiey/Ford (Including Ronald O. Percimen)
1,275.4
Wall told the committee that the pre-
30
378.1
897.3
sent value of the deals completed by
Pacific USA (Talwan-owned company)
100.4
50
50.2
60.2
the agency in December amounts to
Centex Corp., Dallas
98.7
50
49.4
49.4
$16.6 billion: Present value is the
Hyperion Partners/Ranieri Wilson & Co.
48.8
83
16.3
32.5
amount that would be needed today to
Jackson County
9.3
80
7.4
18
fund the obligations incurred. The ac-
4 TOTAL
$3,985.8
49.6%
1,975.9
tual cost, assuming all those obligations
2,009.8
Dollar benefits to the ESLIC are contractually guaranteed
were paid out over a period of time.
in lieu of tax benefits the FSLICIS to receive 225% income of resulting forth before Income taxes,
would be more:
for the term of the agreement
However, it was the use of tax bene-
Source: Federal Home Loan Bank Board
fits- tax revenues forgone by the fed-
eral government.- that aroused the
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and peace
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day of the speech
into a section about trag, if that is
Perhaps this quote could be worked
being used.
TAKING CHARGE OF
CALIFORNIA'S FUTURE
PETE WILSON
A RECORD OF
PERFORMANCE, COURAGE AND VISION
Pete Wilson
Taking Charge of California's Future
PAID FOR AND AUTHORIZED BY PETE WILSON FOR GOVERNOR 1990
I.D. No. 89-0351
THIS DOCUMENT WAS NOT PRINTED AT GOVERNMENT EXPENSE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
i.
Pete Wilson Biography
1
I.
Quality of Life
4
A.
Protecting the Environment
5
1. California Wilderness Bill
7
2. Parks and Rivers
8
3. Coastline Protection
9
4. Fish and Wildlife
10
B.
Cleaning the Environment
11
1. Toxics
12
2. Air Quality
13
3. Water Quality
14
C.
Improving Our Infrastructure
16
1. Housing and Community Development
18
2. Transportation
19
3. Water and Sewer
20
4. Harbors
21
5. Disasters
22
D.
Promoting Economic Diversity
23
1. Trade
25
2. Agriculture
26
3. Defense
27
4. Entertainment
28
E.
Celebrating Diversity
29
1. Economic Development
31
2. Economic Opportunity
32
II. Crime and Drugs
33
A.
Fighting Drugs
34
1. Interdiction
36
2. Prevention
37
3. Treatment
38
B.
Cops and Courts
39
1. Local Law Enforcement
41
2. Cop Killers
42
3. The Wilson Judges
43
4. Crime Victims
44
III. California's Future: Our Children
45
A.
Education
46
1. Integrated Services
48
2. Federal Aid
49
B.
Caring for Our Children
50
1. Health Care
52
2. Day Care
53
IV. The Business of Government
54
A.
Government Efficiency
55
1. Deficit Reduction
57
2. Military Inventory Management
58
3. Midgetman
59
4. Fair Labor Standards Act
60
5. Mandates
61
6. Earthquake Engineering
62
B.
Government Integrity
63
1. Congressional Pay
65
2. Newsletters
66
V.
Human Resources
67
A.
Health Care
68
1. Long-Term Health Care
70
2. AIDS
71
B.
The Elderly
72
1. Income
74
2. Preventive Health Care
75
C.
Women's Rights
76
1. Equal Rights
78
2. Reproductive Rights
79
Appendix I
U.S. Senator Pete Wilson Offices
80
Pete Wilson for Governor Offices
81
Pete Wilson
Biography
In 1982, Pete Wilson won the U.S. Senate seat earlier
held by such giants of California history as John Fremont,
Hiram Johnson and William F. Knowland.
In 1988, Wilson did something no occupant of that seat
had done in 36 years. Making history himself, Wilson became
the first Senator to re-capture the "jinxed" seat since
Knowland won re-election in 1952.
An Opportunity to Serve
Pete Wilson was born August 23, 1933, in suburban
Chicago. He attended Yale University on an ROTC scholarship,
and was graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1955. From
1955 to 1958, Wilson served as a Marine Corps infantry
officer, then went on to earn a law degree from the
University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall, in 1962.
Given an opportunity to serve, Pete Wilson has never
hesitated. His public service career began in 1966, when he
was elected to represent San Diego in the California
Assembly, taking a seat in Sacramento alongside newly-elected
Governor Ronald Reagan and State Senator George Deukmejian.
Wilson immediately won the recognition of his Republican
colleagues, who chose the freshman to hold the second-ranking
legislative leadership post of Minority Whip.
Opportunity knocked unexpectedly in 1970. Pete's
election as Mayor of San Diego that year presented him with a
unique chance to steer the city through unparalleled growth
and change along a course combining fiscal restraint and
no-nonsense crime fighting with thoughtful land management
and significant political reforms.
From San Diego to the Senate
In 1982, after 11 years as Mayor, Wilson went on to win
his first term in the U.S. Senate, sweeping all but five of
the state's 58 counties in a hard-fought victory over
Governor Jerry Brown. Californians returned him to that
office in 1988, giving him a 900,000 vote margin of victory,
the largest recorded in the nation that fall.
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Along his way from Sacramento to San Diego to the
Senate, Californians have come to know Pete as a man who
addresses problems with intellect, not rhetoric; a man who
seeks solutions through innovation, not imitation; a man of
principle who wants government to be practical.
A Compassionate Conservative
As columnist George Will wrote in 1982, Wilson is "a
valuable rarity: a conservative who understands the
discriminating, but vigorous use of government power for
conservative purposes." Wilson labels himself a
"compassionate conservative.'
In this time of record budget and trade deficits, Pete
has been a leading voice for fiscal restraint at home and
more agressive action in the global marketplace. His record
is clearly one of fiscal conservatism, paving the way to a
leaner, more efficient government, rather than taking the
path of least resistance, inevitably leading to new taxes.
When it comes to trade, he espouses "Wilson's Golden Rule" --
"I'll let you into my market if you let me into yours.'
Fiscal reform has to begin at home, Wilson believes,
including in the houses of Congress. He wants to curb
mailing privileges for Congressional newsletters, which cost
taxpayers millions annually, and he objected to Congressional
pay raises, donating his additional income to charity, for
purposes ranging from AIDS to Alzheimer's.
Among his proudest accomplishments in the Senate, Wilson
counts his contributions to the war on drugs, including
provisions he authored to increase the military role in drug
interdiction, restrict illegal trade of chemicals used to
make "meth" and PCP, and make murder of a police officer in a
drug-related crime punishable by death.
Even though he's hard-line on crime, Wilson also is
committed to building a drug-free society through better
prevention and treatment, including early drug education. He
is the sponsor of legislation to expand the availability of
drug and alcohol treatment for pregnant and postartum women.
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An Advocate for California
Since introducing the first California coastal
protection bill in the Assembly in 1967 to forging the
historic California wilderness compromise in the Senate in
1986, Wilson has forged a trail of environmental
accomplishment. In his Senate service, he's won funds for
new parklands and toxic waste clean-up, earned wilderness
designations for California rivers, and improved pesticide
inspection of imported foods.
Pete's committee assignments on the Armed Services,
Agriculture and Government Affairs committees afford him an
unparalleled opportunity to advocate California's interests.
He also serves on the Special Committee on Aging and the
Joint Economic Committee.
An advocate of peace through strength, Wilson is
considered a leading Senate expert on arms control and
strategic force modernization. He supports the MX missile,
but opposes the unaffordable Midgetman missile; for while
Wilson advocates defense spending equal to the task of
keeping America secure, he also demands the money be well
spent. His efforts improved management of the military's
$160 billion inventory.
Agriculture is California's biggest single industry.
Wilson has taken a leading role in writing legislation to
promote the export of crops, while helping farmers compete
against a flood of foreign imports at home. The Targeted
Export Assistance (TEA) program is among the many
achievements that earned Wilson the California Farm Bureau's
"Man of the Year" award in 1986.
Wilson's assignment in 1989 to the Government Affairs
Commitee caps his reputation as a strong advocate for state
and local governments, already recognized by groups like the
League of California Cities, who named him "Legislator of the
Year" in 1985.
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I. Quality of Life
It is the California dream and Pete Wilson's challenge:
"To make a living in a state worth living in."
In the Golden State, unparalleled scenic beauty and
abundant natural resources create employment in tourism and
agriculture. Here, preserving the environment and providing
jobs go hand-in-hand.
Pete Wilson has built a reputation as the "pro-business
legislator with the conservationist bent," from his early
days in the State Assembly, when he wrote the first coastal
protection plan, to his years as Mayor of San Diego, where he
pioneered "managed growth" planning.
In the U.S. Senate, Wilson legislated the "California
Wilderness Act," an offshore drilling ban, and the "Safe
Foods Import Act," to name a few of his environmental
credits.
The daily beauty of our lives is the sum not only of
nature's works but also of man's; safe roads, affordable
housing and clean water are essential to a liveable world.
As Mayor, Pete Wilson made San Diego "America's Finest
City." As Senator, he's fought to keep California America's
finest State, whether it's budging the bureaucracy to build
housing for the elderly or bucking the tide to override the
veto of the 1987 "Highway and Mass Transit Bill."
Finally, when it comes to the quality of each of our
lives, the bottom line is economic opportunity. Pete Wilson
always emphasizes: "The best social program is a job."
The American economic resurgence led by President Reagan
found a willing partner in Pete Wilson. In California, farm
exports are up, thanks to Wilson's "Targeted Export Act," and
foreign copyright violations are down, due to his
"Anti-Piracy and Market Access Act," just to name a few of
his California economic initiatives.
To live securely and comfortably, in harmony with nature
and each other, is the dream that brings us to California.
It has been and is Pete Wilson's challenge to help
fulfill that dream for millions of Californians.
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A. Protecting the Environment
Since Pete Wilson came to the U.S. Senate, more
California land has been set aside as wilderness than in any
single term of any previous Senator. When Wilson took
office, the debate over how many and which acres to declare
federal wilderness areas had been raging for 20 years.
Within two years after taking office, Wilson ironed out
a compromise bill with Sen. Alan Cranston that included not
only 1.8 million acres of wilderness but also -- at Wilson's
insistence -- protection for the Tuolumne River and National
Scenic Area status for Mono Lake.
Wilson's arrival in Washington, D.C. also turned the
tide against Administration plans to open California's
coastal waters for oil exploration and production. With a
vigorous new Senator opposed to reckless, random offshore
drilling, the California delegation mustered a successful
bipartisan effort to keep a moratorium on new lease sales
throughout the 1980s.
Wilson's support for parks and rivers has helped save
scenic California treasures like Portola's Sweeney Ridge and
Tahoe's Hope Valley and to restore unique ecosystems like the
Trinity River Basin, as well as the vital fish and wildlife
habitat they provide.
WHAT THEY'RE SAYING ABOUT PETE WILSON.
Continuing the Teddy Roosevelt Tradition
"Environmentalism first became a political
issue when it was championed by such turn-of-the
century Republican Progressives as Theodore
Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot
and
environmentalists have continued to find some
Republicans willing to support them. Wilson has
long been one -- Martin Smith, Political
Columnist, SACRAMENTO BEE 7/25/89
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Setting an Example for Republicans
"If you want an example of someone who can
work for a better environment without abandoning
conservative principles, look no further than
Senator Pete Wilson
Pete is not embarrassed, as
we should not be, to side with those who have no
voice in politics -- the Blue Whale, the Pacific
Seal and the Bald Eagle. We must not be afraid
to proudly follow the leadership of the Pete
Wilsons of our party." -- Frank Fahrenkopf,
Chairman, REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE 1/1/88
Passing the Wilderness Bill
"Passage of the California wilderness
legislation in the U.S. Senate is cause for
jubilation on the part of all Californians
the
California bill represents an effective compromise
worked out by Alan Cranston and Pete Wilson." --
LOS ANGELES TIMES 8/13/84
Protecting Coastal Waters
"We at the Sierra Club greatly appreciate the
effort the Senator and his staff have given in the
fight to protect our fragile coastal waters. Once
again, many thanks." -- Robert Hattoy, SIERRA CLUB
2/1/86
Keeping Wild Rivers Running Free
"With Sen. Pete Wilson's endorsement this
week, a bill granting wild and scenic river status
for the Kern River is almost assured passage in the
U.S. Senate this year
-- RIDGECREST DAILY
INDEPENDENT 1/23/87
Adding to the Parklands Inventory
"Wilson has earned the accolades of
conservationists by stepping into the controversy
over adding Sweeney Ridge to the Golden Gate
NRA
Our thanks
for his efforts on behalf of
the generations who will enjoy Sweeney Ridge." --
OAKLAND YODELER 1984
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1. CALIFORNIA WILDERNESS BILL
The decades-long effort to preserve California's
wilderness for the enjoyment and inspiration of generations
yet to come culminated in the "California Wilderness Bill" of
1984.
The bill, written by Senator Pete Wilson and Senator
Alan Cranston, set aside 1.8 million acres of unique and
irreplaceable wilderness areas, at the same time it freed up
for development other areas that had been under a court
moratorium.
At Wilson's insistence, the bill designated an 83-mile
stretch of the Tuolumne River as a Wild and Scenic River.
Not since 1978 had a California river been added to the wild
and scenic rivers inventory.
The landmark wilderness bill, which was signed into law
in 1984, also designated the Mono Lake National Scenic Area.
"Reconciling the need for jobs and economic
growth with concern for the environment is one of
the great challenges of our time The compromise
on the terms of the California wilderness bill is a
fine example of constructive statesmanship on the
part of Senator Pete Wilson and Senator Alan
Cranston." -- Ontario Daily Report 7/5/84
"In the gutsiest call of his tenure so far, he
bucked business interests in California to back a
landmark wilderness bill
-- Golden State
Report 12/86
"The Tuolumne will now be rescued For that,
Senator Wilson deserves profound appreciation. His
decision was difficult but wise, and new
generations will remember the freshman Senator
who tipped the balance in favor of a national
treasure." Santa Rosa News Herald 2/14/84
"Wilson's bill is a reasonable compromise.
Environmental protection should be a bipartisan
cause. As a Republican, Wilson is helping make it
so." -- San Diego Tribune 2/84
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2. COASTLINE PROTECTION
Pete Wilson has been a consistent, effective proponent
of coastal protection throughout his career in public office,
as independent observers have noted:
"
as a state assemblyman, [Wilson] strongly
backed the original legislation that later became
the 1972 Coastal Initiative
as mayor of San
Diego he fought an oil drilling plan almost as
ambitious as Hodel's. And he's consistently sided
with
the
fight to stop Hodel's proposed lease
sale.' -- Syndicated Columnist Tom Elias 12/87
"James Watt's determined effort to start
off-shore drilling next year appears to have been
scuttled because of a bipartisan effor led by
Senator Pete Wilson " -- California Eye 10/3/83
"Wilson has lent a consistent, credible voice
to the bipartisan collection of Californians in
Congress that has blocked the administration from
expanding oil drilling off the state's coast." --
California Journal
With Wilson's arrival in the Senate in 1983, the tide
was turned against Administration plans to open California's
coastal waters to widespread random offshore drilling.
With Wilson's vigorous support, the California
delegation has maintained a moratorium on lease sales ever
since.
Among his long list of achievements are:
Wilson's 1987 amendment halted action to decertify
the California Coastal Commission;
Wilson persuaded George Bush in 1988 to indefinitely
delay any action on offshore oil leasing along
California's northern coast;
Wilson amended a bill in 1989 to cap liability for
oil spills at $100 million, maintaining unlimited
liability on cleanup costs of oil disasters.
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3. PARKS AND RIVERS
Early in his Senate term, Wilson convinced the Interior
Department to acquire the Sweeney Ridge, a 1063 acre
historical site near Pacifica, for the Golden Gate National
Recreation Area (GGNRA).
In the years since, Wilson has won funding for buying
more parkland in the Santa Monica Mountains, the Giant
Sequoia Redwoods in the Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Park,
the Martinelli ranch in the GGNRA and Tahoe's Hope Valley, to
name just a few key acquisitions made with Wilson's support.
Wilson's successful bid to win protection for the
Tuolumne River in the 1984 Wilderness Act won him the 1984
Golden Trout Award from Caltrout, Inc. Wilson went on to
sponsor bills to declare California's Kings, Kern and Merced
Rivers as Wild and Scenic.
"Although the Secretary [of Interior James
Watt] rigidly opposes new parkland purchases this
year, Wilson succeeded in adding $15 million for
land acquisitions in the Santa Monica Mountains."
--- The Los Angeles Times 10/83
"Observers credit Senator Pete Wilson with
decisive leadership in finally bringing the
Interior Department into good faith negotiations
[on purchase of Sweeney Ridge. ]"
-- Not Man Apart, Friends of the Earth 4/84
"We also appreciate your active support [for]
Upper Franklin Canyon Reservoir
Your active
support meant the difference in getting this bill
passed
-- Joseph T. Edmiston, Santa Monica
Mountains Conservancy 10/84
"Sen. Pete Wilson's backing of a congressional
appropriation to buy West Marin Ranchland for the
Golden Gate National Recreation Area is good
news
Wilson is a powerful ally," -- Marin
Independent Journal 8/21/86
"Thank you for your leadership and support in
protecting the Merced and Kern Rivers
We are
very grateful to you. -- American Rivers 11/4/87
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4. FISH AND WILDLIFE
Preserving wild rivers is only half the battle for fish
and wildlife habitat. Many of California's riverways and
wetlands are seriously degraded and require restoration.
In 1984, Wilson was among supporters of a bill that
authorized $57 million to restore the Trinity River Basin.
"Thank you for the tireless effort put forth
to see this legislative milestone come to
pass
The economy of this county is closely
linked with the fishery this bill is designed to
restore. " Trinity County Board of Supervisors
Chairman Donald A. Straw 10/8/84
In 1986, Wilson sponsored legislation with Congressman
Doug Bosco to authorize $41 million for restoration of fish
stocks in the Klamath River.
The Upper Sacramento River is the target of a similar
legislative effort, the Wilson/Bosco Upper Sacramento River
Fishery Resources Restoration Act, begun in 1989.
"Rep. Doug Bosco and Sen. Pete Wilson are
sponsoring legislation to provide $185 million for
long-term improvements in the sadly depleted
fisheries of the Sacramento River an important
step in the long and difficult task of restoring
the river to environmental good health. " -- The
Sacramento Bee 11/9/89
Wilson has also worked for legislation to help protect
endangered species like the California Condor and the
California Sea Otter, to study the effect of commercial gill
net fishing on endangered species, and to establish a
preserve for the endangered fringe-toed lizard.
"
this project is an excellent example of
cooperation between the public and private
sectors
and [it will] make an important
commitment to endangered species preservation. If --
The Nature Conservancy 10/17/84
Wilson's efforts have also won funds for habitat
acquisition, including wetlands near Modesto, waterfowl
habitat in the Sacramento Wildlife Refuge, and others.
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B. Cleaning Our Environment
What we eat, drink and breathe can poison us. Safe food
and clean air and water have all been subjects of Pete
Wilson's legislative efforts.
Wilson's "Safe Food Imports Act" and his "Global Ban on
Dangerous Pesticides Act" are aimed at reducing the potential
for toxic contamination of food. Wilson has also been
instrumental in Agriculture Committee legislation updating
U.S. pesticide law.
Clean air, according to the American Lung Association,
would save the nation $40 to $50 billion in annual health
care costs and spare as many as 120,000 lives.
As an amendment to the Clean Air Act, Wilson authored
legislation to require offshore oil drilling operations to
meet the same air quality standards as industrial plants
onshore.
The greatest hope for cleaner air is alternative fuels,
and to that end, Wilson was an original cosponsor of a bill
to induce automakers to produce more "flexible fuel" cars.
Three major clean water bills bore Wilson's stamp. He
spared California massive cuts in sewer grants in the "Clean
Water Act. " His vote to override vetoes of both that bill
and the "Safe Drinking Water Act" were keys to their
enactment. The Coordinated Operating Agreement, which Wilson
cosponsored, will incréase both water quality and
availability.
WHAT THEY'RE SAYING ABOUT PETE WILSON.
Working for Food Safety
"Senator Pete Wilson, R-Calif., unveiled a
bill yesterday to outlaw U.S. exports of hazardous
pesticides that have been banned or taken off the
market in this country." -- SAN FRANCISCO
CHRONICLE 11/28/89
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Ending Dangerous Pesticide Exports
"Sen. Pete Wilson has unveiled a promising
two-pronged strategy. He would end U.S. chemical
companies' current practice of exporting pesticides
that have been banned here [and] organize a
conference of major agricultural nations aimed at
writing and enforcing international pesticide
rules Wilson's initiative deserves serious
attention from Congress." -- CONTRA COSTA TIMES
12/4/89
Monitoring Imported Produce
"Sen. Wilson is absolutely right that tougher
pesticidé monitoring is required for fruits and
"
vegetables imported into the United States
--
GILROY DISPATCH 12/5/86
Reducing Air Pollution
" Smog is smog, whether it's hovering over Los
Angeles or out at sea Legislation proposed by
Senator Pete Wilson would extend the federal
Clean Air Act to include the Outer Continental
Shelf [and] it would shift regulatory power over
off-shore emissions to the Environmental Protection
Agency
KNX urges Congress to pass the Wilson
legislation. -- KNX RADIO EDITORIAL 2/12/87
Encouring Alternative Fuel Use
"Aready abuzz with ideas about using alcohol
fuels to fight the state's smog problem, California
received word recently that 14 U.S. senators have
launched an effort to encourage automakers to
increase production of methanol-fueled cars
We
commend Pete Wilson
for co-sponsoring the Senate
bill -- NAPA REGISTER 8/11/87
Taking a Stand for Clean Water
"Thank you for your strong support for the
Clean Water Act
Your leadership and courage in
support of the veto override reaffirms our
confidence." --LEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA CITIES 2/25/87
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1. TOXICS
In our food and water, in the ground beneath our feet
and the skies overhead, the toxic threat pervades our lives.
Pete Wilson has been a leader in the effort to diminish the
toxic threat.
Wilson's 1989 "Global Ban on Dangerous Pesticides" Act
would bar exporting pesticides currently banned in the U.S.
"Senator Pete Wilson's bill to prohibit the
export of dangerous pesticides
is long overdue.
It is plainly immoral to sell
insecticides
regarded as too hazardous for use in this country."
-- San Diego Union 12/3/89
In 1988, Wilson's leadership in the Agriculture
Committee stopped a move to preempt California's authority
over pesticide safety.
"Pete Wilson recently led a successful fight
in the Agriculture Committee to prevent the feds
from overriding the state's management of
pesticides, which generally is more stringent than
the E.P.A. " -- Sacramento Newsletter 5/30/88
Wilson's "Safe Food Imports Act," which was adopted in
1988, stepped up FDA inspection of imported foods and
required more consistent application of penalties.
"Sen. Pete Wilson's [bill to] beef up
inspection of the 20 million tons of produce that
come into the country every year
is getting rave
reviews. Visalia Times Delta 12/18/86
During the consideration of the Superfund bill in 1985:
Wilson's amendments to improve military toxic waste
cleanup were adopted by the Senate;
Wilson backed the "Bhopal Amendment" to require
listing and public notice of hazardous substances.
Also in 1985, Wilson's protests reversed the Food and
Drug Administration's plan to shut down its San Francisco
laboratory, the same lab that detected contamination in
Austrian wine, French brie, and watermelon.
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2. AIR QUALITY
"Smog" is as much a California hallmark as Hollywood or
the Golden Gate -- but smoggy skies aren't scenic, they're
sickening. Smog's high levels of ozone and carbon monoxide
are dangerous to human health, not to mention downright ugly.
Alternative fuels are one of the greatest hopes for
reducing air pollution, and Wilson has been extremely active
in their promotion.
Wilson was among the original sponsors of the "Methanol
and Alternative Fuels Promotion Act" of 1987, authored by
Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) to give automakers incentives to
produce "flexible fuel" cars -- autos that will burn either
alternative fuels or gasoline.
The Rockefeller/Wilson methanol bill swept through
Congress and was signed by the President in spring of 1988.
The "Offshore Oil Pollution Reduction Act" Wilson
introduced in 1987 to transfer the authority for policing
emissions from offshore oil operations from the Interior
Department to the Environmental Protection Agency was
included in the Clean Air Act.
"
Wilson's legislation may mean a difference
in the vital struggle to protect U.S. coastal
waters and inland areas from pollution." -- San
Diego Tribune 12/1/86
"If the move in Congress
succeeds, air
quality in Southern California could actually
decline California's sizeable congressional
delegation should join ranks to amend this gaping
flaw in the clean air package. Sen. Pete Wilson
already has pledged to lead the campaign in the
Senate." -- Paso Robles Press 10/23/89
"
if Sen. Pete Wilson is
successful
Authority to control air quality
would rest solely with the Environmental Protection
Agency
Wilson announced his solution at a
special federal hearing in Santa Barbara Monday
Wilson's idea was the only concrete solution
presented at the hearing." -- Santa Maria Times
11/25/86
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3. WATER QUALITY
California's legendary "water wars" have faded into the
past as conservation of the state's precious supply of water
has become the foremost priority.
Pete Wilson cosponsored the "Clean Water Act" of 1987
and voted to override the President's veto of the measure.
Wilson pushed for inclusion of a $12 million San Francisco
Bay cleanup program and a study of Santa Monica Bay
pollution.
Wilson defeated an attempt to revise the sewer grant
allocation formula that would have cut California's share of
the $2.4 billion fund by 15 percent.
"Please accept our appreciation for your
substantial efforts on the Clean Water
legislation. I recognize how difficult it was for
you to oppose the administration
and we are most
grateful. -- San Mateo Mayor Florence Rhoads
2/17/87
Other provisions of the Clean Water Act benefitted the
San Diego Wastewater Reclamation Agency, the Los Angeles
County Sanitation Districts, the East Bay Municipal Utility
District, and Lake Merritt.
Improving water supply and water quality through
intergovernmental cooperation was the key to ratification in
1986 of the "Coordinated Operating Agreement."
With Wilson's sponsorship, this federal/state pact
increased the amount of water available to the south at the
same time it insured the quality of water in the north.
"Sen. Pete Wilson, who understands California
water conflicts
deserves credit for shepherding
this landmark legislation through Congress. --
San Diego Tribune 10/13/86
Wilson has also been very active in the effort to
control the salinity of the Colorado River. His efforts
helped pass the Colorado River Salinity Control Act of 1984
to help improve water quality for Southern California users.
In the years since, Wilson has successfully won continued
funding for the program.
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C. Improving Our Infrastructure
We need not suffer change. We need to shape it. "
Pete Wilson
A 17-year record in state and local government -- six
years in the California Assembly and eleven years as Mayor of
San Diego -- earned Pete Wilson a reputation as one of
America's foremost leaders in implementing innovative
infrastructure solutions to the problems of managing
explosive growth.
California's natural beauty and bounteous natural
resources continue to attract literally millions of new
residents. Ironically, the same qualities that attract
people to California could be destroyed if rapid growth
overwhelms the capacity of services including transportation;
sewer and water, and housing.
In the Senate, Wilson has championed state and local
governments. He was named "Legislator of the Year" in 1985
by the California League of Cities, the only federal official
ever to win the award.
Examples abound in the pages to follow of Wilon's
succesful efforts to obtain federal assistance for
California, from housing to disaster assistance to mass
transit -- temporary housing for residents of a fire-damaged
senior citizens apartment complex in Redwood City, federal
damage assistance to help rebuild the Bay Area's
earthquake-racked cities, a new air traffic control tower for
the San Fernando Valley.
State and local government -- and state and local
taxpayers -- couldn't find a better friend than Pete Wilson.
WHAT THEY'RE SAYING ABOUT PETE WILSON.
"Dramatic Leadership for Cities
"
[The League] commends you on your dramatic
leadership [for cities] in Washington. It gives me
great pleasure to inform you that the League Board
of Directors voted to name you `Legislator of the
Year. -- CALIFORNIA LEAGUE OF CITIES 8/18/85
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Improving Low-Income Housing
"You are to be commended for the attention
you have shown in improving the housing conditions
for the City's low income tenants." -- Mayor Peg
Gunn, Menlo Park 6/5/84
Encouragement for Housing Bill
"As a resident of California as well as the
President-Elect of NAHB, I thank you for your
efforts to encourage enactment of the Housing and
Community Development Act of 1987." -- Dale Stuard,
National Association of Homebuilders 1987
Helping Build Senior Citizen Housing
"Thank you very much for your help gaining
loan approval for funds to construct new senior
housing
for the 400+ seniors on the waiting
list. " -- Ramona Senior Center 8/1/85
Funding for Highways and Transit
"I would like to thank you for your efforts on
H.R. 2, reauthorizing the federal transportation
programs. In particular, your vote has ensured
continued federal funding for highway and transit
programs throughout California." -- Mayor Tom
Bradley, CITY OF LOS ANGELES 4/14/87
Keeping Transportation Rolling
"
thanks for your leadership role
your
actions
mean important transit and interstate
transfer projects here will not be unnecessarily
delayed. -- Mayor Dianne Feinstein, CITY OF SAN
FRANCISCO 5/22/87
Recovering from Earthquake Disasters
"
we would like to express our sincere
gratitude for the support you gave to the community
after the earthquake of October 17.
we could not
have begun to recover as quickly as we were able to
without your help and assistance." -- Mayor Thomas
J. Ferrito, TOWN OF LOS GATOS 12/11/89
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1. HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Pete Wilson's policies to promote affordable housing and
liveable communities earned Wilson the 1985 "Legislator of
the Year" by the California League of Cities, the only
federal official ever chosen.
At the federal level, Wilson has given strong support to
housing and community development legislation and helped
localities win federal assistance for their efforts.
"Anni Chung, executive director of Self-Help
for the Elderly, credited Wilson with making the
Pineview senior housing project possible." -- Asian
Week 8/21/87
"Thank you for the support you gave our
project
a downtown community center has been a
dream for many years. Thank you very much for
helping Modesto realize its dream." -- Mayor
Peggy Mensinger, 8/16/85
"Thank you for your repeated efforts on behalf
of the City's program to improve living conditions
in the Buena-Clinton neighborhood." -- Mayor
Jonathan H. Cannon, Garden Grove 12/18/85
It is, however, at the state and local level where
decisions are made that determine to a large extent where
Californians will live and how well, and Wilson's experience
as San Diego Mayor won very high marks in that category.
Wilson's passion for "managed growth" was ignited as
Mayor of San Diego, where his innovative leadership won him
national recognition.
"Pete Wilson, San Diego's young and aggressive
mayor
has attracted national attention with his
efforts to manage growth and check sprawl." --
Planning Magazine 1977
"
the City agreed to create the San Diego
Housing Commission [to] as then-mayor Pete
Wilson put it, `hustle for housing'
A decade
later, the Housing Commission can point to tangible
accomplishments. -- San Diego Tribune 12/13/89
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2.
TRANSPORTATION
Delays and detours not only dispirit Californians, but
also diminish productivity. If left unmanaged, growth breeds
gridlock.
In early 1987, with California on the verge of running
out of federal highway funds, Senator Wilson cast the crucial
vote to override the President's veto of the Highway and Mass
Transit Act.
"
the Senator is willing to stand up for his
state when needed. -- The Political Report 5/1/87
The bill released billions in federal gas taxes from the
Highway Trust Fund, including over $1 billion for California
highways and millions more for mass transit projects like the
San Diego Trolley and BART.
The bill also raised the speed limit in rural areas to
65 mph, a policy Wilson strongly supported.
Wilson's also won federal support for airport projects,
like an air traffic control tower at Whiteman Air Park and
upgraded radar equipment at Buchanan Field.
"I would like to
express my gratitude to you
for your time and effort in holding the Air Safety
Control hearings
the information gleaned
will
be extremely beneficial to help insure the safety
of our airways." -- Supervisor Deane Dana, County
of Los Angeles 12/9/86
"Thank you for the assistance
to obtain a
grant for 15 buses. I would also like to thank you
for the personal effort that you have taken in
communicating your support of our project to UMTA
Administrator Ralph Stanley."
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Santa Cruz
Metropolitan Transportation District 12/12/85
"With your support the Appropriations
Committee included report language highlighting the
need for
funding for the BART Daly City turnback
zone project and for new rail cars. General
Manager Keith Barnard, Bay Area Rapid Transit
10/85
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3. WATER AND SEWER
The high costs of water and sewer systems are among the
greatest fiscal concerns with which the states and localities
must grapple. Federal funds for such projects are
diminishing, yet Pete Wilson continues to fight for
California's fair share of these funds.
Senator Wilson was an original cosponsor of the "Water
Resources Act" of 1986, the first bill in more than ten years
to authorize new federally-assisted water projects. The bill
authorized numerous water projects crucical to California.
The largest of all the projects authorized by the bill
was the Santa Ana River Main Stem Project, a $1.09 billion
Corps of Engineers project to provide flood control for
millions of Orange and Riverside County residents.
"Thank you so much for the part you played in
passage of H.R. 6. This is really good news for
Orange County." -- Tustin Mayor Donald J.
Saltarelli 12/17/86
"Sen. Pete Wilson, R-Calif., also went to bat
for the project before a Senate Appropriations
subcomittee. Wilson asked for $20 million
=
--
The Daily Report 4/6/89
Sewage overflows from Mexico have threatened the water
supply of border communities including San Diego and Calexico
for many years. Pete Wilson has been a partner in reaching a
binational solution to the problem:
"Thank you very much for your attention to the
Tijuana sewage problem
The agreement signed
recently with the Republic of Mexico is due to
your personal involvement and commitment. " -- San
Diego County Supervisor Brian Bilbray 10/24/89
"Together with Sen. Pete Wilson, Rep. Hunter
takes much of the credit for the $1.2 million joint
U.S. -Mexican project [to] expand the Mexicali
sewage system.' -- Imperial Valley Press 1/31/89
Wilson's efforts have also helped win federal funds for
projects ranging from drainage studies in Los Angeles to
reclamation operations in the Central Valley.
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4. HARBORS
California ports are critical to the state's economy,
with 18 percent of the nation's ship traffic recorded at the
ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach alone. In addition to
being centers of commerce, California's harbors are havens
for recreation, including boating and fishing.
Among the harbor projects Wilson's championed include:
** Project 2000, to expand the Ports of L.A. and Long
Beach, was among six California port and harbor
improvements Wilson worked to include in the 1987
water bill. Wilson had helped the project win an
interim appropriation in 1986.
Your
effort
in obtaining a commitment from
the Corps of Engineers on continued funding
is
greatly appreciated, Executive Director Ezunial
Burts, Worldport L.A.
10/29/86
** Wilson was working to improve the breakwater at King
Harbor when storms in 1986 and 1987 caused serious
damage along the shore. Later, storm-damaged
electrical wiring ignited a fire that destroyed the
pier. Wilson helped win federal aid to rebild.
'The words Thank you' seem inadequate to
express the City' S gratitude for your help
your
efforts made a significant difference
the
Community will long remember your help. -- City of
Redondo Beach
** Wilson's amendment in 1983 authorized a $19 million
breakwater to protect San Francisco's Fisherman's
Wharf, for which Mayor Dianne Feinstein presented
to him an Award of Merit.
** Wilson helped win authorization for the sale of Navy
land to Port Hueneme to allow for its expansion.
"The Navy agreed -- after threats by Sen.
Wilson to cut off funding for a wharf in Iceland if
a deal wasn't reached. -- Ventura Star Free Press
12/11/84
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5. DISASTERS
Whether obtaining emergency assistance to rebuild
Whittier's earthquake-ravaged business district or providing
temporary housing for Redwood City residents of a
fire-damaged senior citizens apartment complex, Senator
Wilson has quickly responded to help communities recover from
natural disasters.
"According to Whittier City Manager Thomas G.
Mauk, the grant [for earthquake relief] was
approved largely because of Sen. Pete Wilson.
Mauk praised the senator and recounted how Wilson
didn' t wait for us to call. He came here to see
the damage then asked how he could help. -- SAN
GABRIEL VALLEY TRIBUNE 4/24/88
When the Loma Prieta earthquake hit in 1989, Wilson's
on-the-spot assistance in coordinating federal aid proved
invaluable, as a bipartisan partner in appropriating $3.5
billion in disaster aid and a leader in winning the full
support of the Bush Administration for the recovery effort.
"Wilson was an architect of the $3.45 billion
U.S. emergency relief package President Bush signed
Thursday. -- Santa Rosa Press Democrat 10/29/89
"The Traffic Authority wishes to commend you
on behalf of the Bay Area region in securing
Federal disaster relief aid The amount of Federal
aid forthcoming would not have been possible
without the concerted effort of you and your
colleagues Chairperson Brian O'Toole, Santa
Clara County Traffic Authority 11/20/89
In addition to earthquakes, Wilson has helped expedite
federal disaster declarations as well as overseen the federal
disaster response to devastation from fires, floods, and
winter storms.
In particular, Wilson has been instrumental in gaining
federal cooperation for California firefighting efforts.
Wilson's legislation to make available twelve Air Force
helicopters was critical to firefighting efforts during the
summer of 1985, and in 1987, Wilson arranged with the Air
Force to transfer airdrop fire fighting equipment to the
California National Guard.
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D. Promoting Prosperity
Trade supports one out of ten jobs in California.
One-fifth of the state's agricultural harvest is exported,
and California manufactured goods like machinery and aircraft
are heavily marketed abroad.
In the future, not only the traditionally-exported
goods, but also products of cutting-edge fields like robotics
and biotechnology and services like insurance and engineering
will yield dramatic growth in exports, providing jobs.
While Pete Wilson's dogged work to open foreign doors to
California goods and services may always make today's
headlines, it is making a big difference in the state's
ability to compete abroad, now and in the decade ahead.
Californians are proud of our historically prominent
role in the nation's defense. Pacific-theatre fighting
during World War II, Korea and Vietnam built up the military
presence in California that continues to this day.
Today, California is home to over 100,000 civilian
Defense Department employees, and thousands more civilian
employees serve the needs of the more than 200,000 active
duty military personnel, their families, and a growing number
of military retirees.
Furthermore, California's preeminence in the aerospace
and electronics industries make it the number one recipient
of defense contracts, U.S. and foreign.
The entertainment industry is not only an important
employer but also a unique asset to California's economy and
culture. Senator Wilson has earned tremendous support in the
entertainment community for his efforts in their behalf.
WHAT THEY'RE SAYING ABOUT PETE WILSON.
"Adept at Covering the State"
"The Senator and his sharp staff have been
adept at covering the state
He has been
extremely visible on trade and defense matters,
both of major concern to California." -- GOLDEN
STATE REPORT 1985
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Getting Tough on Trade
"Wilson has generally opposed protectionist
trade policies, but at the same time has criticized
the Reagan administration for not working
aggressively enough to get Japan and other
countries to eliminate barriers to American
exports.' -- SAN DIEGO UNION 12/5/86
"The Fighter Farmers Deserve"
"Although California's No. 1 industry is
agriculture, it has been many, many years since
California has had a U.S. Senator like Pete Wilson
to give farmers the support they deserve
Wilson
is a fighter. " -- CALIFORNIA GRAPE GROWER 10/20/83
Safeguarding America
"Wilson is the first California Senator in 16
years to serve on the Armed Services Committee.
Not withstanding its importance to national
security, the assignment also is a relatively
unknown but powerful instrument of job creation for
the state." -- CALIFORNIA VIEWPOINT 1/28/87
Sinking Trade Pirates
"Intellectual piracy costs American
businesses
as much as $20 billion a year [and]
hits California's entertainment and computer
industries particularly hard. And it has prompted
Sen. Pete Wilson to introduced a measure that would
require stiff penalties against nations winking at
or aiding intellectual property theft." -- SAN
DIEGO UNION 5/22/86
Taking Care of Business
"U.S. Senator Pete Wilson
takes care of
California's key industries. In the latest case,
Wilson says he will introduce legislation to stop
Canadian cablecasters from stealing signals from
U.S. television stations." -- CALPEEK 1/87
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1. TRADE
California's perch on the rim of the Pacific gives the
Golden State a golden opportunity to tap the burgeoning
markets of Asia's industrialized nations.
"Wilson
has made international trade issues a
focus. " -- San Diego Union 12/5/86
An ardent foe of protectionism, Pete Wilson nevertheless
believes firmly that when foreign governments act unfairly,
the U.S. must retaliate. Wilson's made many contributions to
tougher U.S. trade laws, including:
** The "Targeted Export Assistance Act" of 1985
was the first program to offer farm export
assistance to counter unfair trade barriers.
** The "Fair Access to Foreign Markets Act" in 1985
directed the U.S. to resolve promptly all
pending agricultural trade complaints against
the European Community.
"Thank you
regarding the canned fruit case
with the EEC. Knowing that you supported a strong
stand [we] were able to eliminate an unfair
trade practice. " -- Ronald A. Schuler, President,
California Canning Peach Assn. 3/18/87
** Wilson's resolution urging retaliation for Japanese
violations of the trade agreement on semiconductors
passed unanimously in 1987, prompting action.
"Unanimous passage of your resolution
sent a
strong message that dumping
must end and the
Japanese semiconductor market must open. " --
Semiconductor Industry Association 3/20/87
** The "Anti-Piracy and Market Access Act" beefed up
copyright, patent and trademark laws on
"intellectual property" like movies, books, and
computer software. It became law in 1988.
"Wilson's bill would provide the strongest
legislative remedy," -- San Diego Union 5/19/86
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2. AGRICULTURE
With California farmers increasingly dependent on
foreign markets for sales, Pete Wilson's tenure on the
Agriculture Committee has been marked by his tenacious
pursuit of fair treatment for U.S. farm products.
For his efforts, the California Farm Bureau named Wilson
"Man of the Year" in 1986.
Wilson's "Targeted Export Assistance" program, known as
TEA, was enacted in 1985. Since then, exports of many
California crops have boomed. In the first year of the
program, kiwifruit exports to Japan jumped 270 percent,
pistachio exports rose 180 percent, and avocado exports
increased by 257 percent.
"It has been a tremendously successful program
in stimulating sales," -- U.S. Secretary of
Agriculture Richard Lyng 3/22/88
"It was Sen. Wilson who went to bat for TEA."
-- Washington Post 6/86
"Such significant export assistance should be
of incalculable benefit to sales of California
wines." -- The Christian Brothers 5/6/86
The "Wilson amendment" to the 1985 immigration reform
bill -- a "political coup" according to the Golden State
Report -- assures California growers a continuing supply of
legal workers to harvest crops.
"The Senator's legislation is humane,
realistic and essential to maintaining the West's
agricultural output." -- Sacramento Union 1/10/86
"This prospective happy ending to what has
been a long and difficult legislative struggle
stems from the stubborn refusal of California's
Senator Pete Wilson to admit defeat." -- San
Francisco Chronicle 11/12/85
Wilson's advocacy for California farmers and ranchers
also includes sponsorship of the "Perishable Agricultural
Commodities Act," the "Fair Access to Foreign Markets Act,"
and the "Wine Equity Act."
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3. DEFENSE
In 1983, Senator Wilson became the first Californian to
serve on the Armed Services Committee in twelve years. An
advocate of the doctrine of peace through strength, Wilson
fought to restore a tattered U.S. defense posture, while
assuring California received its "fair share" of funds.
By the estimates of the California Labor Council,
Wilson's first term efforts yielded California over 600,000
jobs.
Typical of the hundreds of examples of Senator Wilson's
work on behalf of California are the following:
** Wilson and Mayor Dianne Feinstein waged a successful
campaign to convince the Navy to name San Francisco
as the homeport for the U.S.S. Missouri.
"The Navy's decision to base the battleship
Missouri in San Francisco will mean an increase in
jobs and a substantial boost to the sagging ship
repair industry here Pete Wilson's vigorous
espousal of San Francisco's cause was of critical
importance." -- San Francisco Chronicle 6/2/85
** At Wilson's insistence, the Pentagon ordered a
head-on competition between the F-16 and the
California-built F-20 fighter plane. The
"fly-off" saved taxpayers millions of dollars
when the F-16's manufacturer dropped its price
to become more competitive. It also netted
California aerospace companies the opportunity
to develop a prototype for the advanced
tactical fighter (ATF) plane.
** Wilson's leadership as Chairman of the
Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel to
improve the quality of health care for the
military led to the creation of CHAMPUS, a new
health care system. A Sacramento-based group
subsequently won a three billion dollar
contract to provide outpatient services to
military dependents in California and Hawaii, a
contract that will provide high quality health
care while saving taxpayers $300 million.
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4. ENTERTAINMENT
The entertainment industry is not only one of
California's biggest employers, but also a source of cultural
pride for Californians. The impact on the nation, and the
world, of the movies, television programs and sound
recordings produced in California is tremendous.
Senator Wilson has earned the respect and appreciation
of the entertainment community in California, primarily for
his leading role in strengthening laws to protect U.S.
copyrights from foreign "pirates."
Wilson's "Anti-Piracy and Market Access Act' cracked
down on foreign governments sanctioning pirating. It was
included in the 1988 trade bill. The bill was hailed as a
tough response to increasing rip-offs of U.S. films, records,
and TV programs.
Wilson has also been an active participant in
entertainment industry efforts to fight unfair foreign trade
barriers, as well as to promote the industry's positions
domestically.
"He earned the support of the motion picture
industry as their Senate champion
I think he did
a superb job. -- Congressman Henry Waxman (R-CA)
3/15/85
"I thank you, heartily, jubilantly for your
steady support of our determination to open up the
Korean marketplace for acces to the U.S. film and
television industry." -- Jack Valenti, President,
Motion Picture Association of America 12/18/85
"U.S. Sen. Pete Wilson
spearheaded a
conference committee rescue effort to restore
job-seeking deductions eliminated in the Senate tax
reform bill. He focused on entertainment industry
talent as the principal victims of the proposed
repeal. "If -- Variety 6/24/86
"The new requirement
presents a serious
problem to struggling songwriters
We appreciate
all of your support. -- Burt Bacharach and Carole
Bayer Sager 12/87
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E. Celebrating Diversity
"We ought not to tolerate diversity. We ought to
celebrate it. "
Pete Wilson
Native Americans and Spaniards, the first Californians,
have been joined by waves of settlers from Europe, Asia,
Africa and Mexico.
Today, new immigrants continue to come to California:
we grow each year by a number roughly equal to the entire
population of the State of South Dakota.
In the Senate, Wilson has worked diligently to serve
California's diverse racial and ethnic population, and to see
that all Californians are given the opportunity to
participate fully in California's economic miracle.
In his early years, as Mayor of San Diego, Wilson's
vision brought new vigor and jobs to neighborhoods thought
hopelessly blighted.
When other cities were "clearing slums," Wilson's
innovative leadership in economic redevelopment showed the
way to reverse decline, provide jobs and at the same time
preserve the unique heritage of neighborhoods.
In the Senate, Wilson continues to carry the banner for
urban revitalization, protecting important fiscal tools such
as tax-exempt Industrial Bond financing, winning urban
redevelopment aid for many California projects, and promoting
minority business development.
WHAT THEY'RE SAYING ABOUT PETE WILSON.
The Roots of Redevelopment
"Reflecting a progressive brand of Republican
politics in California's predominantly Democratic
structure, Pete Wilson has required developers to
pay the cost of public facilities. He has sought
to limit slums and shoddy development through tax
penalties and has led an effort to redevelop the
ailing center city." -- Planning Magazine 1977
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Among San Diego's "Founding Fathers"
"Sen. Pete Wilson, mayor of San Diego from
1971 to 1983, was the recipient of the Founding
Father Award. Wilson was instrumental in getting
private developers to build Horton Plaza shopping
center, housing projects and new office buildings
downtown. He also spurred plans to build a new
convention center." -- SAN DIEGO UNION 10/22/89
"Great Credit' from "Grateful County"
"The County's UDAG application, which provides
$1,000,000 to help finance the Slauson Square
Shopping Center in the City of Maywood
would not
have been [approved] without
your interest in the
project
We are confident this project will
reflect great credit on you as the Senator. This
is only the second UDAG grant the County has
received. It is most important to us, and we are
extremely grateful for your support." -- Executive
Director David Lund, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
COMMISION, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES 1/29/88
Working for Latino-Americans
"We are extremely impressed with your
record
on behalf of the Latino-American
community. We share your concern about the high
illiteracy rate
and we applaud your efforts in
seeking a solution
your encouragement of
entrepreneurial and economic development, your
commitment to equal opportunity and protection
under the law, and your work to establish an
immigrant law that is fair to all peoples
"
George Ruiz, Political Action Chairman, LATINO
PEACE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION 10/31/89
Supporting Civil Rights
"We want to express our deepest appreciation
for your support of one of the most important
civil rights measures ever to come before the
Congress
Again, we thank you for your leadership
on this historic legislation." -- Chairperson
Benjamin L. Hooks, LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON CIVIL
RIGHTS 10/4/89
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1. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Diversity is the key to California's economic strength.
But with diversity comes the responsibility to keep the
boundaries of democracy wide enough for all to pass.
California's minority population has helped fuel the
engine of economic growth, and many minority entrepreneurs
have availed themselves of assistance from the Minority
Business Development Agency (MBDA).
The coauthor of S. 1848, "Minority Business Development
Act" of 1987, Wilson has twice earned the Minority Business
Development Centers' Advocate of the Year Award from Southern
California MBDCs, as well as the Western Region's Legislator
of the Year Award in 1987.
"This Award of Recognition' is presented to
you for your long and continued suport and your
active role in expanding economic opportunities for
minority business enterprise
II
-- Minority
Business Development Center, San Bernardino
10/11/88
Depressed communities with high unemployment do exist in
California. Reversing their decline is just as important in
the Golden State as it is in the Rust Belt, and Pete Wilson
has championed local economic redevelopment efforts.
** Wilson amended a 1984 tax bill to exempt Industrial
Development Bond (IDB) projects already underway
from the new law limiting the tax benefits of IDBs.
Wilson blocked a 1986 bid to severely restrict tax
increment financing, a widely used tool for urban
redevelopment. As Mayor, Wilson launched downtown
projects like Horton Plaza using tax increments.
Wilson has been pivotal in obtaining Urban
Development Action Grants for local development
projects, like the South Gate Plaza:
"This project should create thousands of badly
needed new jobs in this area and we are deeply
appreciative of your successful efforts in our
behalf." South Gate Mayor John F. Sheehy 3/31/87
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2. EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
Californians take pride in the state's diverse ethnic
mix, the largest and most diverse melting pot in the nation.
Pete Wilson is a fighter for economic opportunity for all.
Senator Wilson supported the "Civil Rights Restoration
Act," opposed curtailment of the fifth preference
immmigration category, and voted to establish a national
holiday in honor of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Sen. Pete Wilson voted to override President
Reagan's veto of the so-called Grove City civil
rights restoration bill.' -- San Diego Union
3/23/88
Wilson has pushed for jobs for disadvantaged youth,
including a minimum wage differential. He's also supported a
myriad of public-private partnerships for job training, such
as the East Oakland Youth Development Center.
"A distinct air of pride in their
accomplishment was on the faces of people at the
East Oakland Youth Development Center on Tuesday
when U.S. Sen. Pete Wilson visited the job training
facility to deliver a $25,000 federal grant." --
Oakland Tribune, 1/18/84
Wilson cosponsored legislation to provide $200 million
for adult literacy education focusing on adults who lack
sufficient language skills to gain productive employment,
with $50 million earmarked for "Workplace Literacy
Partnership Grants."
Wilson won funds from the Department of Education to
promote literacy, like the SER-Jobs for Progress grant
approved in 1988 to expand the network of Literacy Family
Learning Centers among Hispanics.
Wilson has also supported economic opportunity for those
trapped in poverty, voting for the 1988 "Family Security Act"
to help train and employ welfare-dependent individuals.
The Family Security Act was patterned after California's
GAIN program, a workfare-based effort to reduce welfare
dependency that had its roots in a San Diego demonstration
project during Pete Wilson's years as Mayor.
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II. Crime and the Courts
In January of 1908, police sergeant Michael Callahan
died in the line of duty, the shooting victim of a
cocaine-related crime wave sweeping through Chicago.
Seventy-five years later, in January of 1983, Callahan's
grandson, Pete Wilson, was sworn into the Senate, the victor
of an election highlighting his dedication to law and order.
Pete Wilson's record fighting crime and drugs is
befitting of the memory of his grandfather Callahan.
As a California Assemblyman, he and then-Senator George
Deukmejian fought to reinstate the death penalty. As Mayor,
he kept San Diego one of America's safest big cities.
As a Senator, Wilson applies his "tough on crime"
philosophy to fighting the war on drugs, assisting local law
enforcement, and reforming the courts through recommending
"tough but fair" judges and pushing for victims' rights.
Wilson's leadership in the drug war includes moves to
sanction Mexico and Panama for laxity toward drug trafficking
and to enroll the military in drug interdiction.
Preventing drug use and providing access to affordable
treatment are keys to reducing demand for drugs. To achieve
a drug-free society, Wilson believes in providing help when
sought and enforcing compliance as necessary, such as random
drug testing for transportation workers.
His support of local law enforcement includes enacting a
federal law to allow capital punishment in drug-related
murders of peace officers and saving a program allowing local
agencies to share in drug profits seized in joint anti-drug
operations with federal agencies.
A review of Wilson's record on public safety would not
be complete without mention of "The Wilson Judges."
Described as tough and fair, they have won plaudits from the
legal community as extremely well qualified.
Finally, Wilson has been a leader in the "Victims
Rights" movement, serving as Southern California Chairman of
the 1982 initiative and as honorary chairman of the Speedy
Trial Initiative that has qualified for the 1990 ballot.
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A. Fighting Drugs
According to a Justice Department study in 1987, and
subsequent updates, over 70 percent of individuals arrested
for street crimes like burglary, grand larceny, and assault
in Los Angeles and San Diego tested positive for drugs.
Fighting crime in California means fighting the drugs
that feed crime and gang violence.
Senator Wilson has pushed policies to crack down on
international drug peddlers as well as to reduce domestic
demand for drugs through prevention and treatment.
The military's vast resources were finally brought to
bear in the war on drugs after Congressional prodding by the
Wilson/Hunter amendment, which became law in 1988.
Keeping kids off drugs from the start is the goal of
innovative California programs like DARE, for which Wilson
won $10 million in an amendment to the 1989 education bill.
For those already addicted to drugs, treatment is
essential. When a drug-using or alcohol-abusing woman
chooses to carry a child, treatment may save not only the
mother's life but spare the child a lifetime of suffering.
The "crack baby" bill Wilson introduced in 1989 would
help provide treatment for addicted pregnant and post-partum
women and their babies. Wilson's work to help these women
has pushed funding from $4.5 million to over $100 million.
WHAT THEY'RE SAYING ABOUT PETE WILSON.
Lighting a Candle
"California's Pete Wilson put in an amendment
[to] eliminate the franked junk-mailings by members
of Congress and direct the saved $45 million to the
drug war
Rather than curse the darkness,
Congress should light a candle: $45 million would
rehabilitate more than a few addicts." -- William
Safire, N.Y. TIMES NEWS SERVICE 9/11/89
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Saving "Cocaine Babies"
"The surprise proposal by Senator Pete Wilson
would use an estimated $45 million in franking
savings this year to finance treatment programs for
coke-addicted women and infants." -- LOS ANGELES
HERALD EXAMINER 9/12/89
Without Raising Taxes
"Democratic critics on Capitol Hill have
flailed President George Bush for not raising taxes
and spending more to combat drug abuse. Now,
Senator Pete Wilson has given lawmakers a chance to
spend more without raising taxes." -- UKIAH DAILY
JOURNAL 9/19/89
Giving Smugglers the Blues
"Pete Wilson has been a fighter for more drug
interdiction resources for the southwest border;
better use of our military assets to combat the
drug smuggler; and tougher laws to keep the
narcotics smuggler off our streets. " -- SENATOR
DENNIS DECONCINI (D-AZ) 2/6/87
"A Soldier in the War on Drugs"
"Because you publicly rode to the rescue of the
Border Patrol, our most beleaguered law enforcement
agency; and because you became a soldier in the war
to stem the flow of illegal drugs
you, Pete
Wilson, have been selected as our Legislator of the
Year.' " -- STAMP OUT CRIME COUNCIL OF SAN DIEGO
12/86
Preventing Drug Use
"One more small step in the march against drug
use was taken recently when legislation was
introduced by California Sen. Pete Wilson to ban
the mail-order and catalog sales of drug
paraphernalia
We think Sen. Wilson did a good
job. --- OROVILLE MERCURY-REGISTER 4/3/85
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1. DRUG INTERDICTION
Policing U.S. borders for incoming drug shipments is a
primary federal responsibility, which has required tremendous
resources and changing attitudes toward foreign policy and
the military.
Among Pete Wilson's numerous efforts to step up border
drug interdiction efforts, he led the Congressional fight in
1988 to sanction Mexico for not doing enough to fight drug
traffickers.
"
as its chief sponsor, Sen. Pete Wilson
(R-Calif. ) put it the United States is
demanding better cooperation in narcotics
eradication and interdiction efforts
Wilson
cited Mexico for providing safe havens' for drug
traffickers, refusing to cooperate on
narcotics-related financial information and turning
down
hot pursuit of suspected drug-carrying
aircraft
" -- The Washington Post 4/15/88
In May of 1988, the Senate overwhelmingly approved
Wilson's amendment to the defense authorization bill
stipulating that it is a mission of the military to assist
local authorities in the interdiction of illegal drugs.
"Sen. Pete Wilson'
call to arms helped
rally the U.S. Senate behind needed legislation
throwing the armed forces into the war on
drugs
Sen. Wilson's argument as a chief
proponent of the Senate legislation is convincing.
"
-- Glendale Daily News Press 5/23/88
Also in 1988, Wilson was named to a special task force
to assist in writing a new omnibus bill anti-drug bill to
increase funds for the DEA, FBI, and other federal
drug-fighting agencies, as well as local law enforcement.
"Senator Pete Wilson should be applauded for
his leadership in gearing up the federal
bureaucracy for the war on drugs
Wilson has been
supportive of local law enforcement's efforts to
fight major drug traffickers." -- Orange County
Sheriff Brad Gates 4/21/88
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2. PREVENTION
Senator Pete Wilson has worked to provide federal
funding for programs to help reduce the demand for drugs
through education and treatment programs, as well as to
enforce stricter rules to help achieve a drug-free society.
Wilson is the chief Senate sponsor of the "Drug War Bond
Act" of 1989 sell bonds to raise money and public support for
the war on drugs.
"The proposal sounds appealing. Prevention is
the key, and bond money combined with effective
government programs and grassroots efforts to keep
communities drug-free, just might make a
difference. It certainly did in World War II," --
Santa Maria Times 8/4/89
A model drug prevention program, Drug Abuse Resistance
Education (DARE) was pioneered by the Los Angeles Police
Department and has spread throughout the country. The Senate
approved a bill by Wilson in 1989 to provide $10 million to
fund more DARE programs.
Wilson's Drug Paraphernalia Act to stop the mail-order
sale of pipes, "bongs," and drug devices plugged a major
loophole in community efforts to prevent drug use when it was
adopted in the 1986 drug bill.
"I am writing to express my strong support for
legislation you have sponsored which would prohibit
the interstate sale and shipment of drug
paraphernalia
I commend you for your foresight
in introducing this important legislation," New
York Governor Mario Cuomo 12/10/85
Wilson also supports drug testing of national security
and public safety workers. In 1988, Wilson authored a
provision of the drug bill to encourage states to require
random drug testing of first-time drivers license applicants.
"A driver's license is not a right
I want
that driver in the sedan going 60 miles an hour to
be
in possession of his full faculties. Anything
the law can do to assure that is so is fine with
me," Contra Costa Times Columnist Mary
Bachmann-Hartman 12/20/88
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3. TREATMENT
Drug treatment, while expensive, does work for many
addicts. Pete Wilson believes the government does have a
role in promoting accessible, affordable treatment, such as
the programs offered at California's Mandela House and
Phoenix Houses -- highly regarded residential facilities for
treating recovering addicts and alcoholics.
Wilson believes treatment should be mandatory for women
who give birth to drug or alcohol addicted or impaired
children.
To this end, Wilson authored S. 1444, "The Child Abuse
During Pregnancy Prevention Act of 1989, to encourage states
to establish programs to meet the need for treatment of
pregnant drug and alcohol addicts.
Wilson has led efforts in Congress and encouraged the
Administration to multiply the amount of money available for
treatment for pregnant mothers from $4.5 million to over $100
million.
"Regardless of how it is funded, the Wilson
bill deserves to be enacted
The Wilson measure
provides for mandatory treatment of mothers in
rehabilitation centers rather than jails. This is
a balanced approach that recognizes society's
responsibility to protect vulnerable infants from
the ravages of illicit narcotics. 11 -- Torrance
Daily Breeze 9/15/89
"For Joan, the drug treatment center is a
last-ditch attempt to become drug-free
She said
she supports Republican Senator Pete Wilson's
recent proposal for mandatory rehabilitation of
pregnant drug-users and would even like the measure
to include enforced drug treatment for the entire
family. -- "What To Do With Crack Mothers"
San Francisco Chronicle 9/11/89
"Last Thursday, the Senate passed a worthy
measure, proposed by Senator Pete Wilson, to
transfer $45 million from the Senate's mass-mailing
fund [to] drug-treatment programs to help addicted
women, mothers and infants." -- Los Angeles Daily
News 9/10/89
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B. Cops and Courts
While state and local governments are primarily
responsible for law enforcement, a federal legislator can --
and Pete Wilson does -- have a big impact on public safety.
Wilson is a dependable friend of local law enforcement.
He was the champion of local police and sheriff's agencies
seeking a fair share of the proceeds of drug profits seized
in joint operations with federal agencies, a program that has
earned millions for California law enforcement.
He authored the 1988 law to allow the death penalty in
cses of murder of law enforcement officers -- federal, state
and local -- in drug-related crimes.
Not only has he helped fill the law books with
tough-on-crime statutes, but he's also been filling the legal
bench with tough, fair judges.
Wilson has recommended nearly 20 individuals --
qualified, representative, tough and fair -- to serve on the
federal bench, and his choices have been unanimously approved
by the President and the Senate.
And finally, Pete Wilson has promoted victims rights.
Criminals get their "day in court," but too often victims and
their families must endure years in court before justice is
done. Wilson was Southern California Chairman of the 1982
Victims Bill of Rights and is honorary chairman of the 1990
"Speedy Trial Initiative."
WHAT THEY'RE SAYING ABOUT PETE WILSON.
Going to Bat for Local Law Enforcement
"We strongly agree with you, that this is one
of the most wrong-headed proposals in the law
enforcement area ever passed by the House, and we
are pleased to know that you will do everything
possible to restore full funding." -- Chief Conrad
Aponte, Jr., President, MONTEREY COUNTY CHIEF LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICER'S ASSOCIATION 10/6/87
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Standing Up for Law Officers
"During your seven years in the United States
Senate you have stood for dedication to the law
enforcment community and a commitment to
Latino-Americans. In law enforcement, you have led
the battle for better drug resources of the
military. We also appreciate your efforts to keep
the Federal asset forfeiture program intact
-- George Ruiz, Political Action Chairman, LATINO
PEACE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION 10/31/89
Winning Praise for Judicial Choices
"Sen. Pete Wilson, quietly taking advantage of
a chance to influence the federal judiciary perhaps
more than any other senator, has proved to be a
willing partner with President Reagan in moving the
courts away from liberal activism
The underlying
philosophy that Wilson looks for in recommending
judges is the same thing the White House looks for:
judicial restraint, not activism
Wilson's
choices to date have generally won warm, bipartisan
praise from the California legal community." -- SAN
DIEGO UNION 10/20/85
Earning High Marks for High Quality Judges
"The lawyers credited Pete Wilson,
California's Republican senator, for the high
quality of Reagan's appointments to the federal
district courts in the state." -- SACRAMENTO BEE
11/86
Promoting Victims Rights
"If passed by the voters, this new initiative
will greatly enhance and streamline our criminal
court system. Valuable court time and taxpayer
dollars will be saved through several reforms, and
all crime victims and citizens will be given a
right to a speedy trial
For example, under
present laws, if four men raped and robbed a woman,
that victim might have to testify in four separate
trials. Now she would only have to testify in
one." -- Mike Spence, Columnist, DAILY BRUIN
10/11/89
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1. LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT
Ironically, one of the richest sources of anti-drug
funds for local law enforcement comes from cash and other
assets seized from drug dealers. Known as the "asset
forfeiture" program, it has been in existence since 1981.
In 1986, Wilson authored legislation to allow for more
assets to be used to support anti-drug efforts, increase the
dollars going to local law enforcement, and step up
distribution of the funds.
In 1987, when the House tried to freeze the asset
forfeiture fund, Wilson, working with California law
enforcement agencies, successfully mobilized a nationwide
effort to restore the funds.
Congress again tampered with the program in 1988, voting
to end local sharing of assets seized in so-called "adoptive
cases," in which the bulk of the investigative effort is made
locally, yet the forfeiture is processed under federal law.
Wilson's "Law Enforcement Cooperation Act" was adopted
in 1989, preventing the ban on asset sharing in adoptive
cases from going into effect.
Since its inception, in California alone, more than $60
million has been forfeited and distributed to state and local
law enforcement agencies under the equitable sharing program.
"
our sincere thanks for your all-out,
successful efforts toward restoring the funds for
state and local law enforcement agencies." --
Watsonville Chief of Police Ray Belgard 10/14/87
"
thank you for your outstanding efforts in
restoring over $120 million in asset forfeiture
funds, which we seize annually from drug dealers."
-- Sonoma County Sheriff Dick Michaelsen 10/16/87
In another effort, Wilson twice convinced the Federal
Communications Commission to set aside part of the radio
frequency band for public safety. For example, the LA County
Sheriff must coordinate police, fire, and rescue activities
of hundreds of municipalities and outlying counties. As new
technologies require more and more band space, this set-aside
will be literally "a lifesaver."
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2. COP KILLERS
Pete Wilson emphathizes with the personal risk taken by
law enforcement officers to keep our streets safe.
Michael Callahan, Pete's grandfather, came from Ireland
to Chicago, where he rose to become a detective sergeant in
the police force. He was gunned down in the line of duty in
1908, at the age of 30, leaving Pete's grandmother to raise
Meg, Pete's mother, alone.
Among Wilson's most strongly-held beliefs is his
conviction that a constitutionally-sound death penalty
protects innocent lives. Wilson believes the deterrent force
of capital punishment helps safeguard American citizens,
especially peace officers on the frontlines against crime.
The murder of two DEA agents involved in a joint
operation with the Monterey Park police in early 1988
prompted Wilson's to introduce the "Law Enforcement Officers
Protection Act.
This bill established a federal death penalty for anyone
convicted of drug-related murder of a federal, state or local
law enforcement officer, officer of the court, or prison
guard.
Wilson's bill also doubled the death benefit for
survivors of officers felled in the line of duty.
The provision of Wilson's legislation covering the
killing of police officers in drug-related crimes was
included in a related death penalty bill adopted by the
Senate in the summer of 1988.
"The bill
supported by California Sen. Pete
Wilson, would
allow the death penalty for drug
kingpins [and]
anyone who kills a law enforcement
officer in an incident related to drugs. The bill
would
send a loud and clear message to those who
are keeping our nation in violent turmoil that we
have had enough," -- Pleasanton Valley Times
6/16/88
Wilson also voted to ban cop killer bullets, an issue of
extreme importance to law enforcement.
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3. THE WILSON JUDGES
Presidents traditionally turn to Senators of their own
party to recommend individuals for the federal bench. Wilson
has had the opportunity to recommend numerous candidates for
judicial posts, as well as for U.S. Marshals and U.S.
Attorneys, every one of which has been nominated by the
President and confirmed by the Senate.
Twelve judges in California's Central District, two in
the Southern District, three in the Northern District and one
in the Eastern District have taken seats on the bench at
Wilson's recommendation.
Wilson is a firm believer in the concept of judicial
restraint, and while he opposes "litmus tests" for judicial
candidates, he has consistently recommended judicial
candidates who reject an activist approach.
At the same time, Wilson has made a special effort to
seek out qualified candidates for the bench who belong to
minority groups.
"We applaud Wilson for the commitment toward
making the federal judicial selection process more
open and accessible to all well qualified members
of our society." -- William Lew Tan, Chairman of
the Board, Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics
"Sen. Pete Wilson's recommendation of Superior
Judge Lourdes G. Baird as U.S. Attorney in Los
Angeles is an imaginative and constructive
move
it suggests a serious commitment by Wilson
to less partisan leadership that is more open to
women
--
Los Angeles Times 12/4/89
"[The] new conservative majority in the
Federal Courthouse in Los Angeles [has]
lived up
to a reputation for toughness in sentencing,
but
the legal community no longer sees them
merely as tough, but some of the most experienced
and qualified federal judges ever selected
most
have been named by Sen. Pete Wilson [who] is given
most of the credit for the highly praised judges.
-- Los Angeles Times 2/21/86
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4. CRIME VICTIMS
The Speedy Trial Initiative is supported by all 58
elected D.A.s in California, every police chief and law
enforcement group and a large bipartisan group of lawmakers.
Pete Wilson, who served as the Southern California Chairman
of the 1982 Victims' Bill of Rights, agreed to chair the
group seeking to quality the initiative as a logical
extension of the effort begun in 1982.
The initiative, sometimes known as the "Nightstalker
Initiative" would limit the rights of criminal defendants to
those recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court, thus rolling back
earlier actions of the California Supreme Court under Chief
Justice Rose Bird to vastly expand the rights of the accused.
"Senator Pete Wilson was hailed as the
initiative's angel. Two previous attempts to
qualify the initiative had failed
this time,
however, Wilson's support and fundraising clout
would put it over the top.' -- Los Angeles
Magazine
"Speedier trials are essential. -- Pleasanton
Valley Times 8/31/89
"Pete Wilson, now serving as a U.S. Senator,
is the most prominent public figure associated with
the effort. Senator Wilson says he has lent his
name to the movement in order to "
change the
odds in favor of the citizen and not the
criminal -- San Gabriel Valley Tribune 6/2/89
A challenge to the initiative by California Attorney
General John Van de Kamp that it would take away women's
abortion rights was discarded by the state's district
attorneys and an independent legislative counsel.
"District attorneys from throughout California
yesterday declared Attorney General John Van de
Kamp dead wrong in claiming a proposed crime
initiative could jeopardize the state's abortion
rights
the California District Attorneys
Association by unanimous vote late Monday,
reaffirmed its endorsement of the crime
initiative. -- Los Angeles Herald Examiner 8/2/89
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III. California's Future: Our Children
"Let California's children be the best nourished in body
and spirit, the best cared for, the best educated, and the
best prepared to give America the confident leadership she
will require in the new century."
Pete Wilson
From prenatal care to pre-school for four-year-olds,
Pete Wilson believes California's children deserve the best.
In early childhood, from cradle to kindergarten, is the
time when many potentially serious developmental problems can
be most successfully addressed. It is in the early years
Wilson believes California must make a greater investment.
Prevention of birth defects through anti-drug and
alcohol programs, early detection of mental and emotional
difficulties, and integration of health and welfare services
into the educational system -- Wilson has advocated all these
steps and more in the creation of a comprehensive child
development program for the State of California.
Wilson wants to invest in prenatal care -- a minimum of
$1200 for every pregnant woman -- to save tax dollars that
would otherwise be spent later on remedial services and, most
importantly, to spare our children needless suffering.
Wilson is the acknowledged leader in Congress of efforts
to improve drug and alcochol prevention and treatment for
pregnant and post partum women and their children.
Wilson also believes the government should act to expand
affordable, high quality child care. To that end, Wilson
authored the Kids in Day Care Services Act, offering tax
credits or refunds to parents with children in day care.
Wilson's proposal to integrate social and educational
services into a Cabinet-level Department of Child Development
and Services is undoubtedly his most ambitious attempt to
change the lives of California's children for the better.
Choice and responsibility -- on the part of local school
districts and parents alike -- lie at the basis of all
Wilson's proposals. The hand that rocks the cradle, not the
hand of government, guides our children best.
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A. Education
To the three "R"s, Pete Wilson adds a fourth: readiness.
For in order to learn, children must be ready --
healthy in mind and body, safe in classrooms and on
playgrounds, motivated and stimulated by parents, mentors and
teachers, and reassured of the rewards of learning.
It is said that schools are society in microcosm. To
the halls of education, Wilson's reform proposals would bring
the tools of a healthy society -- the social services to
insure the physical, emotional, and developmental readiness
of our children for learning.
While education is largely a state and local
responsibility, Wilson, in addition to spelling out his
educational reform plan for California, has been a solid
supporter of California's educational needs in Congress.
He has been an advocate for immigrant education, impact
aid, education for disadvantaged children, and bilingual
education.
Wilson's contributions to education earned him the
Special Recognition Award for Congressional service fromm the
National School Boards Association in 1989.
WHAT THEY'RE SAYING ABOUT PETE WILSON,
"Sweeping Reform"
"Sen. Pete Wilson has reached into the
theoretical world of the social sciences and
education and proposed reform SO sweeping that
even his political opposites are stunned and
elated
-- SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER 12/10/89
"Imaginative Solutions"
"Pete Wilson understands that the serious
problems confronting California's schools require
imaginative solutions that cut across ideological
lines.' -- SAN DIEGO UNION 12/17/89
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Reaching Out to Children At Risk
"Wilson laid out an ambitious, perhaps even a
bit radical, program. including integration of
social services with education for children most at
risk of educational, economic and social failure."
-- Columnist Dan Walters, L.A. DAILY NEWS 12/19/89
"Refreshing, Positive" Proposals
"It's hard to recall the last Californian who
has sounded as gubernatorial -- or as positive --
as
Pete Wilson. Wilson's proposals go beyond the
doctrine of either party, which is one of the
things that make them refreshing." -- SACRAMENTO
BEE 12/6/89
"Ahead of the Curve"
"Sen. Wilson is ahead of the curve in
spotting a critical social dilemma [He] declared
education is not only a school burden but an
overriding human care problem." -- Herb Fredman,
Columnist, SAN DIEGO TRIBUNE 12/20/89
"Tireless Efforts"
"Thank you for your advocacy and tireless
efforts on behalf of the educational needs of
California's young people." -- Linda Lanterman,
FREMONT UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT 10/2/89
Restoring Vital Funds
" [Irvine has]
used available Emergency
Immigrant Education Assistance Act funds
I wish
to commend you for your efforts to restore funding
to this vital program " -- A. Stanley Corey,
Superintendent, IRVINE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
11/5/86
Supporting Immigrant Education
"I wish to express our sincere appreciation
for your efforts on behalf of immigrant education,"
-- Richard M. Firpo, ADMINISTRATOR OF STATE AND
FEDERAL PROGRAMS, FRESNO 10/22/86
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1. INTEGRATED SERVICES
Pete Wilson's proposal for universal reform of
California's educational system integrates social welfare
programs currently provided by a myriad of state agencies
into the school system.
Wilson is convinced that for children to learn, the
home life stress causing many of their problems -- substance
abuse, mental illness, physical abuse -- must be addressed.
His conviction is widely shared:
"Wilson called for a systematic integration of
social welfare services and the
school system.
Wilson was interrupted several times by
applause. The new president of the California
School Boards Assn. said Wilson's platform
" seems
to be a dramatic proposal for addressing the needs
of children." -- Los Angeles Times 12/4/89
"Sen. Pete Wilson has served notice that he
intends to be California's education governor. His
common-sense educational blueprint ought to command
bipartisan support." -- San Diego Union 12/17/89
"Sen. Pete Wilson
offered thoughtful and
innovative suggestions
to coordinate and
integrate
social services available to
children
-- San Diego Tribune 12/12/89
Wilson would establish County Child Councils and a state
Cabinet-level Department of Child Development and Services to
oversee and assist in carrying out these reforms.
Wilson's far-reaching plan to reform California
education also embraces:
"alternative credentialing" to help attract
specialists in other fields into the classroom;
"mentor programs" to provide adult role models;
"merit pay" and volunteer aides for teachers;
thorough testing of "open enrollment" as a means
to provide improved services and greater parental
choice.
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2.
FEDERAL AID
California has by far the largest and most diverse
school-age population in the nation. Helping California
schools win their "fair share" of federal funds is important
to Senator Wilson.
"Your recognition of education as a funding
priority affirms the vital role it must play in
building a solution to the nation's economic
problems -- H. David Fish, Legislative Program
Director, San Diego City Schools 11/23/87
Wilson is the Senate champion of "impact aid' for local
school districts, winning the Special Recognition Award from
the National School Boards Association in 1989 for his
efforts.
Wilson's support has helped protect federal impact aid
to school districts where many students' parents work or live
on federal property, which includes the vast population of
California military families.
" "Quite frankly because of your leadership
the program has withstood what could have been a
major disaster " --- John B. Forkenbrock, Nat.
Assn. of Federally Impacted Schools 10/25/89
The 100 member school districts join in
extending to you our sincere appreciation for your
support
-- Steven F. Speech, California Impact
Aid Association 7/6/87
Wilson has also been a leading proponent of immigrant
education and education for disadvantaged students.
"Your work was the determining factor in
restoring the $30 million of immigration education
funding you understand the importance in
educating immigrant children." -- Superintendent
Thomas W. Payzant 11/4/86
"Thank you SO much for your effort to
restore [to] California $27 million in services
for disadvantaged children." -- Superintendent of
Schools Bill Honig, State of California 12/16/87
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B. Caring for Our Children
Childhood specialists tell us that the early years, from
birth to age three or four, are the most critical to a
child's development.
From providing the best possible prenatal health care to
addressing developmental disabilities at the earliest
possible stages, Pete Wilson contends California can do more
to improve the health and welfare of our children.
Wilson believes a comprehensive program of caring for
our children must include adequate prenatal, neonatal and
infant health care, as well as quality day care for
preschoolers. He has proposed four-year old kindergarten for
children whose parents are unable to afford private
preschool.
Healthy babies are the aim of Wilson's efforts to
prevent drug and alcohol abuse by pregnant women. He
supports funding for prenatal and infant nutrition programs,
cosponsoring the Child Nutrition Act of 1986.
Wilson has been a leader in gaining additional funding
for preventing and treating pediatric AIDS. He supported the
Child Abuse Amendments of 1984, including $5 million to
assist in the care of severely handicapped infants.
"KIDS" the Kids in Day Care Services Act, is Wilson's
bill to expand the availability of affordable, quality child
care. The bill is among a number of child care proposals
currently before Congress.
WHAT THEY'RE SAYING ABOUT PETE WILSON
"A Good Plan"
Sen. Wilson's plan is a good one
We can
hardly afford to ignore this legislation. If the
babies of the world could speak, we wouldn't have
waited this long." -- SANTA PAULA CHRONICLE
9/6/89
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Promoting Prenatal Care
"His call for a $1, 200-per-mother investment
for adequate prenatal care could save California
millions of dollars in the long run. Better to
overcome learning disorders early than to spend a
fortune on remedial education " -- SAN DIEGO
UNION 12/17/89
Caring for Abandoned Babies
"In Congress last week, Sen. Pete Wilson
(R-Calif. ) won approval for an amendment to the
D.C. appropriations bill that would create a task
force to coordinate and improve the care of babies
abandoned at hospitals by their drug-addicted
mothers. -- THE WASHINGTON POST 9/17/89
Dealing With Parental Substance Abuse
"
The National District Attorneys Association
applauds your leadership The lack of adequate
resources to respond to growing numbers of children
whose safety and lives are at risk because of
parental substance abuse has produced a
crisis
Prosecutors support the expansion of
treatment facilities and improved child abuse
interventions, and we urge your continued
leadership in addressing these critical needs. "
:
NATIONAL DISTRICT ATTORNEYS ASSOCIATION 12/7/89
Help for Missing Children
"We want to take the opportunity to once again
applaud your efforts on behalf of missing
children -- Ann and David Collins,
Co-Presidents, KEVIN COLLINS FOUNDATION FOR MISSING
CHILDREN 5/21/86
"Dedication to Improving Child Health"
"Your efforts show your recognition of the
health benefits and cost-effectiveness of this
important program [Women, Infants, and Children
nutrition program] and your dedication to improving
maternal and child health. -- MARCH OF DIMES
11/86
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1. HEALTH CARE
Healthy children -- in mind, body, and spirit -- become
responsible adults. Our educational system cannot do it all,
however, for teachers are teachers, not psychologists or
social workers or physical therapists.
Too often, by the time children reach school age, it is
too late. Opportunities to discover and defuse disabling
difficulties have already been lost.
That is why Pete Wilson believes child health care must
begin with prenatal care, for which he has proposed a $1200
per mother investment, and include neonatal and infant care.
'Wilson has proposed a $1,200 prenatal-care
stipend for every poor pregnant woman in the
state
His proposal
is designed to catch
medical, emotional and financial problems in the
young before they poison their adult lives." -- The
Washington Post 1/2/90
His ardent support of the war on drugs is fueled by
Wilson's knowledge that parental drug and alcohol abuse can
harm innocent infants and drug-related neglect and physical
abuse can jeopardize child safety.
"U.S. Sen. Pete Wilson on Monday dedicated
himself to stemming the increasing number of babies
born addicted to drugs. Wilson said he has
proposed legislation that would make five $10
million grants available to states that create
programs to prevent pregnant women from using
drugs. " -- Torrance Daily Breeze 9/12/89
From a long-time involvement with the March of Dimes to
his current campaign to provide treatment for pregnant drug
and alcohol users, Wilson has stood up for combatting birth
defects as among the wisest investments our society can make.
"He's one politician who's doing more than
just kissing babies -- he's helping to assure that
all babies start life healthy." -- March On, San
Diego/Imperial Chapter of March of Dimes
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2.
DAY CARE
As in so many areas, California is a leader in providing
innovative approaches to child care, and Pete Wilson is an
innovative leader for California in child care.
"Pete Wilson [helped] the hospital celebrate
the start of construction on a child care
center. Wilson said he wanted California's
children to be the best educated, cared for, and
nourished. -- SOUTH GATE PRESS 8/10/89
Wilson is the author of the "Kids in Day Care Services
Act" (KIDS) to give states the flexibility to set their own
child care standards and provide federal tax credits and
incentives to private business for child care.
"KIDS" would expand access to affordable, quality child
care for all American families by establishing refundable tax
credits worth up to $1500 per year for low income families.
"Sen. Pete Wilson recently introduced the
Kids in Day Care Services Act' to expand child
care services through private sector initiatives
and federal grants to states to improve. quality
of service. -- Del Norte Triplicate 4/5/89
"Wilson's
KIDS
bill would, for the most
part, leave [choice] up to the parent. The ABC
bill permits the funds to go where the government
determines.
-- Santa Monica News 5/26/89
Wilson firmly opposes federal legislation that would
give up local control and parental choice, and cost
Californians more to boot.
"California parents could wind up paying an
additional $400 a year for child care if
legislation in Congress is approved, Sen. Pete
Wilson recently told a Senate panel. " -- Hanford
Sentinel 5/24/89
"Following a tour today of the St. Lawrence
The Martyr Child Care Center, Senator Pete Wilson
warned parents [a] bill now under consideration by
Congress would severely restrict their choice of
child care. -- Atascadero News 6/7/89
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IV. The Business of Government
Administrative ability and ethical responsibility are at
the core of good government. Governing well requires both
efficiency and integrity.
Throughout his career, Pete Wilson has earned a
reputation as a top-drawer administrator and public servant
of the highest caliber.
Conducting the business of government requires the
application of standards and practices that are above average
and beyond reproach.
Throughout a twenty-year career, Pete Wilson has gained
renown as an honest and capable public servant.
As Mayor of San Diego, Wilson kept a tight fist on
government spending. Wilson won approval for a City Charter
amendment limiting city spending, and during his tenure in
City Hall, spending increased only 18 percent. Spending per
capita actually decreased 11 percent.
As Mayor, he also authored and led adoption of one of
the toughest campaign spending measures in the nation. He
was widely regarded as the man who restored integrity to the
scandal-tarnished reputation of San Diego city government.
Wilson has continued his conservative, conscientious
ways as a U.S. Senator, and they have proven to be winning
ways.
In battle after battle, Wilson has fought waste and
fraud in federal government. He has won many, including his
campaign to restore order to the grossly mismanaged military
inventory system -- a victory that saved taxpayers millions
of dollars annually.
His tenacious opposition to spending on Congressional
newsletters is not only an anti-waste campaign, but also an
effort to kill one of Congress' most notorious "perks."
Wilson does not send newsletters himself, nor does he
accept Congressional pay raises. He has striven in every
respect to earn the trust of Californians and to hold
inviolate the faith they have come to place in him.
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A. Government Efficiency
Tackling waste, fraud and inefficiency in government has
been a Pete Wilson hallmark.
Wilson's dogged pursuit of waste in the military budget
led Sen. Barry Goldwater to name him to head a special task
force on mismanagement of the military's $180 billion
inventory system.
Wilson is also credited with substantially scaling back
spending for the Midgetman missile, which Wilson considers
too expensive for the limited deterrent benefit it offers the
nation's defense.
For local governments, Wilson has been a long-time
leader for efficiency. In the California Assembly, he was an
ardent supporter of the "mandate" bill to put a stop to the
State passing along costly new regulations to localities.
In the U.S. Senate, Wilson fights costly mandates and
wins funds to help implement new laws, such as the 1985
immigration bill. Wilson added millions to the bill to help
localities cover the costs of the amnesty program.
The Wilson/Nickles bill of 1985 saved local governments
millions annually by effectively reversing a Supreme Court
decision forcing states and cities to pay premium overtime
rather than to offer compensatory time off.
Wilson's ongoing investigations of federal grants for
earthquake engineering research by the National Science
Foundation has revealed serious flaws in the process.
It's no wonder Wilson has repeatedly won the "Golden
Bulldog Award" from the "Watchdogs of the Treasury."
WHAT THEY'RE SAYING ABOUT PETE WILSON.
"Budgetary Toughness"
"Wilson, who endeared himself to many fiscal
conservatives as San Diego's mayor, has lost none
of his budgetary toughness in the U.S. Senate."
-- SCRIPPS RANCH STAR NEWS 3/6/86
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Implementing Grace Commission Ideas
"Thanks to your interest -- and support -- a
number of bills were introduced to implement many
of the recommendations of the Grace Commission."
-- CITIZENS AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTE 10/30/86
"A Rose to Wilson"
"A rose
to Sen. Pete Wilson for showing up
on the Senate floor to vote on the
deficit-reduction package just hours after he had
surgery to remove a ruptured appendix. II --
ESCONDIDO TIMES ADVOCATE 5/16/85
Investigating Pentagon Waste
"The armed forces are confronting
the loss
of hundreds of millions of dollars in arms,
ammunition and explosives Congressional scrutiny
began when Senator Pete Wilson asked the GAO to
investigate. -- NEW YORK TIMES 2/12/87
Looking for Savings
"A leading critic, Senator Pete Wilson,
contends that a system of 1,000 of these
[Midgetman] missiles would cost up to 100 billion
dollars -- more than four times the price of the MX
program. " -- U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT 9/23/85
"Heroic Efforts"
"Your efforts were heroic. As Fire Chief of
the City of Riverside I can say for my department
alone its passage avoided the expenditure of
approximately $450,000." -- Richard Bosted, CA
FIRE CHIEFS ASSOCIATION 12/4/85
Oversight Reveals Problems
"Scientists nationwide were stunned when the
NSF chose Buffalo, not Berkeley, [for] a proposed
Earthquake Engineering Research Center
thanks to
inquiries by Sen. Pete Wilson
it
has
been
discovered that the selection process was
compromised." -- SAN PEDRO NEWS PILOT 12/2/86
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1. DEFICIT REDUCTION
America continues to experience the longest sustained
period of economic growth since World War II, as inflation
and interest rates have been brought under control and new
job formation has reached record highs. But with economic
recovery has come an evil twin -- the federal debt.
Wilson takes a hard line against federal spending,
voting consistently to cut costs without raising taxes.
"U.S. Senator Pete Wilson is a man after
everyone' heart. He wants to cut federal
expenses.
-- Merced Sun Star 6/18/86
Wilson is among the most fiscally conservative members
of the Senate. His annual Congressional voting record has
been consistently lauded by the National Taxpayers Union, and
has repeatedly earned him the following distinctions:
** The Golden Bulldog Award" from the Watchdogs of
the Treasury, a taxpayer group;
** The "Spirit of Enterprise Award" from the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce;
** The "Guardian of Small Business Award" from the
National Federation of Independent Businesses
Touting unpopular budget cuts takes guts, but never more
so than in Wilson's case in 1985, when he left the hospital
32 hours after an emergency appendectomy to cast the crucial
vote for a landmark deficit-cutting measure.
" "This was real budget statesmanship. " -- San
Jose Mercury News 5/12/85
"Somebody in Washington finally bit the
bullet. " -- Peninsula Times Tribune 5/13/85
"Wilson's midnight ride saved the
package
-- Santa Ana Register 5/16/85
Wilson has repeatedly voted in favor of a constitutional
amendment to require a balanced budget, and to grant the
President line-item veto power for spending bills.
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2.
MILITARY INVENTORY MISMANAGEMENT
In 1985, Pete Wilson requested a General Accounting
Office (GAO) report on the Navy's inventory practices,
launching what has become an unprecedented individual
campaign to eliminate waste and mismanagement in the
military's inventory system.
Mishandling of the military's billion-dollar inventory
system not only costs taxpayers tens of millions of dollars
annually, but also creates the opportunity for dangerous
weaponry to fall into the hands of criminals and terrorists
due to lax security.
Armed Services Committee Chairman Barry Goldwater in
early 1986 named a special task force headed by Wilson to
launch a world-wide investigation into the problem.
Following a comprehensive analysis of the issue, Wilson
drafted a bill to reform the military inventory system. "The
Defense Supplies Security and Control Reform Act" adopted in
1988 requires the military to modernize facilities, tighten
security, and upgrade controls over ammunition and
explosives.
"I look forward to working with Senator Wilson
on this task force. He is the right person for the
job of trying to find the source of these
problems
The taxpayers of this country
are
very much in his debt for this initiative.
Sen. Carl Levin (D-Michigan), Task Force on
Military Inventory Management 7/22/86
theft
of weapons, ammunition and
explosives is virtually out of control
We
agree with California Sen. Pete Wilson, chairman of
the Senate panel studying the problem, that all the
armed services must institute more strict and
effective control and accounting procedures
"
-- San Mateo Times 8/8/86
"Pilfering Army supplies is SO common,
motorcycle gangs buy
grenades for $50 a pop.
Anti-tank weapons go for $1,000 each
it's
impossible to say how much of the military's $160
billion inventory is missing, said Sen. Pete
Wilson
-- USA Today 11/13/86
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3.
MIDGETMAN
Senator Wilson's was the lone voice raised in early 1985
on the cost and effectiveness of the Small Intercontinental
Ballistic Missile (SICBM), better known as the Midgetman.
Wilson not only argued against the huge cost ($40-60
billion) of the small missile program, but also maintained
that the strategic reasoning behind the missile was flawed.
A rail-mobile MX, Wilson asserted, would offer a more
affordable, equally survivable land-based missile force at
the same time it provided a greater deterrent to attack than
the single-warhead Midgetman.
With letters to the President and Congressional leaders,
articles in scholarly journals like "Strategic Review,
Wilson's anti-Midgetman campaign got results.
"A leading critic, Senator Pete Wilson,
contends that a system of these [Midgetman]
missiles would cost up to
four times the price
of the MX program. -- U.S. News and World Report
9/23/85
"Sen. Pete Wilson [is] the leader of a more
conservative group that has increasing doubts about
the Midgetman program. -- Wall Street Journal
3/4/86
"Wilson argues that the huge cost of the small
Midgetman
threatens to delay the new missile or
prevent it from ever being built.' -- Issues in
Science and Technology, National Academy of
Sciences
"Congress should be listening to Sen. Pete
Wilson.
Wilson's
idea
could reduce the cost of
the Midgetman
"
|
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
3/8/86
In 1987, Wilson the Senate to eliminate funds for the
missile, "zeroing" the Midgetman budget. Then, the Air Force
openly announced its opposition to building the missile.
While the Midgetman still has its supporters, Wilson's
position has won widespread support and it appears the
missile will never be built.
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4. FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT
The 1985 Wilson/Nickles bill saved state and local
taxpayers throughout the country millions of dollars annually
by mitigating the financial burden on state and local
governments resulting from the Supreme Court's Garcia V. San
Antonio Transit Authority decision.
Wilson initiated legislation early in 1985 to restore to
states, cities, and counties the opportunity to continue to
offer "compensatory time" to employees for overtime hours,
rather than mandatory premium overtime pay, as ordered by the
Garcia decision.
Subcommittee Chairman Don Nickles of Oklahoma and Wilson
steered the bill through Congress and the Wilson/Nickles bill
was signed by the President in December of 1985.
For his legislative efforts, as well as his work on
behalf of California local government in general, the
California League of Cities named Wilson "1985 Legislator of
the Year," the first federal official to earn the
distinction.
"Your efforts on behalf of state and local
governments to ameliorate the impact of the 1938
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) are greatly
appreciated by the City of Los Angeles
I feel
strongly that local people can identify their
problems and develop workable solutions more
skillfully than people in Washington who do not
have the background in state and local government
which you and I share," -- Mayor Tom Bradley, City
of Los Angeles 1/7/86
"Citing your help in such areas as the FLSA
exemptions,
efforts to procure reimbursement to
cities for federally mandated programs,
Mayor
Lionel Wilson nominated you for [Legislator of the
Year] and you received unanimous support. Thank
you very much for your continuing recognition of
California cities' needs and for your dramatic
leadership in Washington," -- Don Benninghoven,
Executive Director of the League of California
Cities 10/18/85
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5. MANDATES
In the California Assembly, Pete Wilson sponsored SB 90,
a bill to stop the state from passing along the costs of
newly-mandated programs to local government.
As Mayor, Wilson coped with costly federal "mandates"
that passed along the cost and enforcement of new federal
laws to the city government.
In the Senate, Wilson, has doggedly supported the
"Intergovernmental Regulatory Relief Act, 11. which has been
reintroduced three times in an attempt to require federal
reimbursement of the costs of new federal mandates.
"We think [Wilson] is correct and the proposed
bill is worthy of serious consideration. " --
Crescent City Triplicate 5/17/86
Wilson amended the 1985 Senate immigration bill to
require an additional $50 million annually to cover increased
costs expected to accrue due to the amnesty program.
"We appreciate that you went out of your way
on a very difficult piece of legislation. " -- Ron
Diridon, Chairperson of the Santa Clara County
Board of Supervisors 12/19/85
In 1987, Wilson managed to forestall the Reagan
Administration's move to accelerate the schedule for
including local employees under Medicare.
"You are correct that local governments are
in no position to shoulder yet another financial
burden as contemplated under mandating Medicare
coverage for all state and local government
programs. Your sensitivity and understanding of
local government must be applauded," Buena Park
Mayor Rhonda J. McCune 11/20/87
"
thank you for taking an active role in the
discussion of mandatory Medicare coverage we
must
oppose it unless and until it is fully funded
through the federal budget. CSBA appreciates your
dedication
--
California School Boards
Association 12/2/87
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6. EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING
"Next, the government will put a hurricane center out in
Kansas, " The Wall Street Journal wrote of the National
Science Foundation's decision to locate a new national
earthquake engineering center in Buffalo, New York.
When the NSF bypassed California to award the $50
million center to Buffalo, Senator Wilson called for an
investigation of the NSF decision, noting numerous problems
in the NSF's decision-making process.
"Sen. Wilson is on the right track in trying
to find out why the [NSF] wants to establish a $50
million federal earthquake research center in
Buffalo
"
-- Contra Costa Times 9/25/86
"Sen. Pete Wilson and some California
scientists think a federal grant for earthquake
studies went to New York rather than California on
very shaky grounds. After looking over their
evidence, we agree." -- Los Angeles Times 10/2/86
"Wilson is on solid ground
Californians
should join Wilson in sending protest tremors.
-- San Francisco Examiner 7/12/87
"Wilson wants the General Accounting Office to
investigate
Our government has made many
colossal blunders over its two centuries of
bureaucratic bungling, but few of this magnitude."
-- Antelope Valley Press 10/10/86
As the Buffalo center siphoned away limited funding for
earthquake research from California universities, Wilson
sought more funding. When the Loma Prieta earthquake struck,
Wilson redoubled his efforts to bolster federal support for
earthquake engineering in California.
"Wilson will push for more funds for western
research in light of the Bay Area disaster. Wilson
noted that earthquake engineering funds at UC
Berkeley had dropped
UCLA had to stop seismic
testing of bridges and bridge components and [other
universities] also experienced cutbacks," " -- The
Washington Post 10/26/89
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B. Government Integrity
In the tradition of the great California reformer Hiram
Johnson, Pete Wilson has stood on the front lines of ethics
in government for over two decades.
As Mayor of San Diego, Pete Wilson drafted and won City
Council passage of one of the toughest campaign reform
ordinances in the nation.
Wilson's personal finances are an open book. He has
upheld complete financial disclosure, going above and beyond
the legal requirement by releasing annually his income tax
returns. Furthermore, SO as to avoid any possibility or
appearance of a conflict of interest, Wilson and his wife
Gayle have placed their assets in a blind trust.
Wilson has declined to accept the pay raises Congress
has voted itself. Instead, he has donated tens of thousands
of dollars in additional pay to California charities. In
addition, Wilson has donated thousands of dollars in speaking
fees to charities.
Wilson's decision not to send Congressional newsletters,
which he believes to be thinly-veiled campaign mailings, has
saved taxpayers millions annually.
WHAT THEY'RE SAYING ABOUT PETE WILSON.
Restoring Integrity to City Hall
"Wilson has done an outstanding job
He
restored honor and integrity to the mayor's office
and to a city government that had been battered by
scandal." -- Tom Goff, Columnist, L.A. Times
11/15/82
Lawmakers Should "Follow Wilson's Lead'
"Until other lawmakers begin to follow
Wilson's lead, the crying need for institutional
reform on Capitol Hill will continue. -- GRASS
VALLEY UNION 6/29/89
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"More Power to Wilson"
"Wilson's call for an amendment blocking a
proposed congressional pay hike
deserves at
least a few whistles and cheers from
taxpayers
More power to Wilson if he can throw a
monkey wrench into the pay raise process."
--
THE VALLEY TIMES 1/16/87
Leading the Anti-Pay Raise Lobby
"Wilson had been a ringleader among the
senators who lobbied for a vote to cancel the pay
raise
Wilson denounced the House's bald-faced
and hypocritical action' in casting a fake vote
against the pay raise one day after the deadline to
block it.' SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE 2/12/87
"Wilson Deserves Bouquets"
"Sen. Pete Wilson and Sacramento congressmen
Wally Herger and Norman Shumway deserve bouquets
for opposition to the proposed 16 percent
congressional pay increase."
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SACRAMENTO UNION
Wilson "Has Set An Example"
"California's Sen. Pete Wilson has introduced
legislation to restrict the franking privilege.
And he has set an example by declining to send out
mass mailings." -- CHICO ENTERPRISE RECORD 7/5/89
Fighting Millions for Mailings
"
the mailings, which cost approximately
$125 million a year, could be in serious trouble.
On Sept. 7, the Senate approved, 83-8, an amendment
by Pete Wilson that would eliminate the newsletters
and invest the savings in programs designed to help
drug-addicted mothers Wilson has long fought
against newsletters." -- NATIONAL JOURNAL 9/23/89
"Wilson Is On the Right Track"
"California Sen. Pete Wilson is on the right
track in taking on congressional mail practices.
-- CONTRA COSTA TIMES 5/1/86
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1.
CONGRESSIONAL PAY
In this time of fiscal irresponsibility and massive
deficits, Pete Wilson believes Congressional pay raises are
unwarranted, and he has opposed every pay raise to come
before Congress.
**
In 1989, he voted no on the pay raise.
In 1987, he was among the Senate leaders of an
attempt to stop a $12,000 a year pay raise.
In 1984, he voted with the majority to repeal a
proposed $2,553-a-year pay hike.
He also voted against a pay raise in 1983.
Furthermore, in accord with his consistent voting record
against Congressional pay raises, Wilson has donated his
increased pay from 1987 on to charity.
Wilson's made donations to charities throughout
California, including: French Foundation for Alzheimer's
Disease, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, AIDS Project LA,
Phoenix House, United Negro College Fund, Armenian Relief
Fund, and the California Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund.
"Sen. Pete Wilson voted against the pay
raise
unconscionable' was the word he used --
for Congress to vote itself more money when its
primary job should be getting the deficit under
control
Wilson put his money where his mouth is
and has donated the raise to various
charities
-- Pasadena Star News 12/30/87
" [Congres] recently started receiving the pay
raises they allowed themselves earlier this
year
Pete is donating his extra money to
charity. Good for you, Pete. [Others] should
follow Pete's lead. " -- Tahoe Tribune 4/17/87
"Bravo Pete Wilson! Senator Wilson, R-Calif.,
who vehemently opposed the congressional pay
raises, is giving his $12,000 plus increase ot
charity." J.S. Wiegand, Orange County Business
Journal 4/27/87
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2. NEWSLETTERS
Since passage of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Balanced
Budget Act in 1985, Wilson has been leading a campaign to ban
Congressional newsletters, which cost taxpayers over $100
million annually in postage alone.
Wilson's decision not to send newsletters himself, and
his legislative progress toward reforming franking rules has
saved taxpayers tens of millions of dollars.
Accolades for Wilson's anti-junk mail campaign have been
overwhelming:
"Since 1971, lawmakers have flooded us with
6.1 billion pieces of mail for which we have paid
$1.1 billion
Senator Wilson has done us all a
big favor by giving this continuing abuse the
spotlight it deserves." -- Sonora Union Democrat
9/1/9/89
"Wilson can proudly boast of not dispatching a
statewide newsletter since 1985.' " -- San Pedro News
Pilot 3/13/89
"Sen. Pete Wilson, California Republican, has
argued repeatedly that unsolicited mailings should
be banned altogether. He has also been a fervent
supporter of mailing cost disclosure. 11' --
Washington Times 11/3/89
"
Senator Pete Wilson, something of a
general in the war against political postal
abuse, plans to come back again next year with
another effort to stop this shameless campaign
subsidy, and KNX applauds his persistence." " -- KNX
Radio Editorial 11/25/89
"Sen. Pete Wilson stopped sending mass
mailings last year. He proposed legislation to
prohibit such expenditures. " -- Riverside
Press-Enterprise 6/5/87
"Sen. Wilson is right to try and put an end to
these tax-supported political mailings. --
Marysville Appeal-Democrat 5/3/86
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V. Human Resources
California is blessed with bountiful natural resources,
to be certain. However, it is not the rich soil or abundant
sunshine but the rich heritage and abundant talent of
Californians themselves that make California "The Golden
State.
If
a child with AIDS is denied AZT because his parents
can't afford to buy the drug, or an elderly woman is left
penniless after paying her husband's nursing home bills, or a
widow's children go unfed because she lacks the training to
find a good job, it hurts all Californians.
The suffering or death of one Californian diminishes us
all.
Pete Wilson has consistently extended a helping hand for
Californians in need. He believes government and the private
sector, working together, can and must satisfy the human
needs of all our people.
Wilson has pushed for improved health care services,
from allowing innovative preventive health care approaches by
Medicare beneficiaries, to expanding availability of
long-term health care insurance for Americans concerned about
the high costs of nursing home care.
Wilson's support for elderly citizens includes not only
advocating improved health care delivery but also protecting
Social Security benefits.
Senior citizens should have the right to keep working
and keep earning income without losing their Social Security
benefits, Wilson believes. He's supported legislation to
phase out the earnings cap imposed on working seniors.
For working women, too, Wilson has been a proponent of
equal opportunity. He first endorsed the Equal Rights
Amendment as Mayor of San Diego and has cosponsored the ERA
every year it has been introduced in the Senate.
Wilson has been an advocate of women's rights not only
in the workplace but also in the control of their own bodies.
Wilson supports women's reproductive rights. He is a sponsor
of the Freedom of Choice Act of 1989, and he is a long-time
proponent of funding for family planning programs.
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A. Health Care
Senator Wilson has been a leader in health care issues,
particularly in proposing and promoting innovative,
affordable approaches to providing quality health care.
Wilson's bill, S. 38, would allow federal employees to
convert their life insurance to long-term health insurance --
at no additional cost to the taxpayer. The large new market
would spur competition among insurance companies to sell more
policies, and in turn, to offer coverage to the general
public at competitive rates.
In its Spring 1988 issue, "Who's Who in Senior Citizen
Health Care Policy," the California Medical Review identified
Senator Wilson as one of the "key Congressmen involved in
health care, noting his long-term care legislation.
Wilson is also a leader in the war on AIDS: he called
for a Presidential Commission on AIDS; he co-authored the
Dole/Wilson AIDS bill; he convinced the Army to turn over a
vacant San Francisco hospital for AIDS care, and he fought
for funding for AZT for low-income AIDS patients.
His advocacy of health care concerns has also included
promoting burn prevention and treatment, easing shortages of
health care providers, lowering the incidence of adverse drug
reactions, and numerous other efforts.
WHAT THEY'RE SAYING ABOUT PETE WILSON.
Long-Term Care Bill Earns Attention
"Wilson's bill is the only game in town --
With the House defeat of Pepper's costly long-term
care bill, a budget-neutral version by Sen. Pete
Wilson (R-CA) is gaining attention." -- The
California Report 6/27/88
and Appreciation
"I sincerely appreciate your interests in
developing a beneficial and affordable long-term
care policy." -- Congressman Fortney H. (Pete)
Stark (D-CA) 7/8/88
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"Meaningful and Humane" AIDS Policies
"We would like to thank you
for your
efforts and contribution to the first public
hearings on AIDS/ARC discrimination in the nation.
Your testimony will go a long way toward bringing
an end to AIDS/ARC based discrimination and working
toward meaningful and humane solutions to the
difficult tasks ahead. II --
Human Rights
Commission, San Francisco 3/7/86
Coping With The Nursing Shortage
"Thank you for your recent efforts to assist
California hospitals to better cope with the
current nursing shortage problem. Your active
support and involvement helped convince the INS to
grant a one-year blanket extension to all foreign
nurses [including] almost 1,000 in California.'
-- California Assn. of Hospitals and Health
Systems 6/7/88
Finding Health Professionals for Rural Areas
Thank you for all your help in the recent
designation
of Tehama County as a Health Manpower
Shortage Area
the medically indigent of the
county will now have continuous ready access to
primary health care services. -- Richard Blohm,
M.D. 9/7/86 Sacramento
Support for Trauma Care
'Thank you for the time and effort you have
expended recently on behalf of the trauma system in
San Diego county [and] in helping relieve the
financial problems plaguing our hospitals." --
David W. Cloyd, M.D., Chairman, Dept. of Trauma,
Palomar Medical Center 12/30/87
Bolstering Burn Units
"Your letter. weighed heavily in the
Committee's decision to mandate immediate financial
relief to Burn Center Hospitals. -- M. Marc
Goldberg, CEO, Sherman Oaks Community Hospital
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1.
LONG-TERM HEALTH CARE
At an average cost of over $22,000 a year, few Americans
can afford insurance premiums for long-term health care.
In 1988, Congress balked at adopting a bill to finance
long-term care at a cost of $30 billion. The 1989
Catastrophic Health Care Act (which has since been repealed)
did not address long-term care coverage.
Pete Wilson has a better approach. In 1987, Wilson
introduced a plan to allow federal employees to convert their
life insurance equity to purchase long-term care policies.
Wilson's bill, S. 1738, would cost the taxpayers nothing
and create a huge pool of potential policyholders to which
insurance companies would be induced to sell. As more
companies enter the market, competition would expand the
availability of coverage and reduce premiums.
A hearing has been held on Wilson's legislation and
support continues to build. Fifty-five of his Senate
colleagues have cosponsored the bill.
Sen. Pete Wilson introduced legislation last
fall to provide low-cost, long-term nursing
home/home health care insurance
The beauty of
Wilson's plan is that it wouldn't t deprive the
government of income It deserves a push. 11, --
Peter J. Hayes, Sacramento Union 1/15/88
"Republican U.S. Sen. Pete Wilson is proposing
an old idea with a new twist' to expand
life-insurance policies for federal workers to
include coverage for nursing home costs or other
long-term care. -- UPI 8/28/87
The lack of coverage for long-term care was one of the
concerns that led Wilson to vote to repeal parts of the
catastrophic care bill and the Medicare surtax in 1989. When
Congress revisits the catastrophic care issue in 1990, Wilson
will push for a comprehensive look at long-term care as well.
"Wilson's action is significant because he
now feels that Congress can do better." -- Frank
McPeak, "We Seniors," Senior Spectrum Weekly,
Sacramento 3/15/89
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2.
AIDS
Pete Wilson was the co-author, with Sen. Bob Dole, of
the 1986 AIDS bill that served as the blueprint for the
Administration's 1987 AIDS budget and was incorporated into
the AIDS bill passed later that year in Congress.
The Dole/Wilson AIDS bill stressed education, research
and counselling, with emphasis on outreach to ethnic and
racial minority groups such as Hispanics and blacks.
Wilson's long involvement in AIDS issues includes:
Wilson was the first Republican to call for a
national panel on AIDS, asking President Reagan
to create a Presidential Commission on AIDS.
"
federal legislation to form a medical war
cabinet' on AIDS has been proposed by Sen. Pete
Wilson we urge passage of this badly needed
federal legislation. -- San Francisco Examiner
"Wilson's several-months battle to convince
the Reagan administration it should take a tougher
approach to the deadly disease by creating a
National AIDS Commission is about to reach its
goal, -- Los Angeles Herald Examiner 4/20/87
It was Wilson who convinced the Army to transfer
its old hospital building in San Francisco to the
City to serve as a model AIDS patient care facility.
"
a
notable victory for the city and
Wilson
11
Sacramento Bee 9/30/87
Wilson supported the No on 64 forces against the
Lyndon LaRouche-inspired quarantine initiative.
"We would like to express our gratitude to you
for
attending the No on 64 Dinner
[and]
your
commitment to the defeat of the measure,"
Board of Directors, MECLA 10/24/86
Wilson is an original cosponsor of legislation
to help low-income patients pay for AZT, and
has been a leader in the bipartisan effort to
make AZT available to all, regardless of cost.
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B. The Elderly
Social Security and Medicare are the twin towers
supporting the entire span of services the government makes
available to the elderly. Pete Wilson regards these two
programs as sacred obligations made by this country to the
elderly.
Wilson has cosponsored legislation to insulate the
Social Security Trust Fund from budget politics, and he voted
to exempt Social Security from budget cuts mandated under the
Gramm-Rudman-Hollings bill to require a balanced budget.
He's also cosponsored legislation to increase the Social
Security earnings limit to allow working seniors to keep
their jobs and their dignity.
Wilson has been a leader in health care for the elderly,
too, working to expand health care options for Medicare
beneficiaries through the use of Health Maintenance
Organizations (HMOs) and other innovative approaches to
cost-efficient, quality care.
WHAT THEY'RE SAYING ABOUT PETE WILSON.
"Good to Know Someone Gives a Darn"
"Thank you very much for taking the time and
effort to clear up the misunderstanding with Social
Security for me. It is good to know there is
someone like you in the Senate who does give a darn
about the little' people and follows through with
action not just empty talk. I am very impressed."
-- Karin I. Reynolds, Westminster 4/22/85
Caring for Alzheimer's Patients
"Your letter of support was invaluable in
securing this grant, and on behalf of the estimated
10, 000 Alzheimer's families residing in San Diego
County, I wish to sincerely thank you, our partner
in easing the burden while finding the cure."
Alzheimer's Family Center of San Diego 2/86
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"You Got Action"
"I don't know why it takes you to intervene to
get my Pacemaker checks paid by Medicare, but it
seems to. I hate to bother you but you got
action. I feel sorry for those who don't have your
help. -- William Rosser, San Diego 2/7/86
"What a Big Relief'
"For many months I have been trying to get my
Medicare straightened out I was ready to give up
when my son said, Mom, call Pete Wilson's office,
they will help you. I finally did That was
Jan. 17, and on the 24th I received a call
informing me the error had been corrected
What a
big relief to have such an efficient man
working
for people who need help so desperately. -- Thelma
D. Pearson, Chula Vista 2/18/86
Helping Medicare Patients
"On behalf of the 5,000 Medicare patients that
we serve
, I would like to thank you
This,
obviously, could not have been completed without
your understanding and assistance." -- Family
Health Foundation of Alviso, Inc. 11/27/89
Assuring Vital Services
"The comprehensive outpatient services
provided to low income seniors at the funded
clinics are vital
The waiver program helps to
assure that these seniors will take a prevention
approach
rather than allowing their health to
deteriorate
thank you for your interest in and
support of our senior population." -- Marilou
Cristina, Director of Aging Services, Catholic
Charities, Santa Clara 12/4/89
"Our Deep Appreciation
"The Ventura County Council on Aging [extends]
to Senator Pete Wilson our deep appreciation [for
his] valuable active concern for Senior
problems
"
-- Resolution of the Ventura County
Council on Aging 1/23/86
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1. INCOME
Social Security helps provide financial security to our
nation's elderly, and Pete Wilson has steadfastly supported
this sacred obligation to America's senior population.
Since he came to the Senate in 1983 and voted for the
landmark Commission-drafted plan to save the near-bankrupt
system, Wilson has called for reforms to protect the system.
Wilson sponsored legislation to take the Social Security
Trust Fund "off-budget," because there is always pressure to
play budget politics by cutting benefits to make the deficit
appear smaller or borrowing from the fund to make up for
shortfalls in general revenues.
Wilson voted to exempt Social Security from Gramm-Rudman
spending cuts, maintaining that Social Security is a
self-supporting system funded solely through the Trust Fund
and not by general revenues.
** Wilson's 1986 legislation exempted the costs of
mailing Social Security checks from Gramm-Rudman
limits, ensuring prompt mailing of checks.
The Senate has approved a bill authored by
California Senator Pete Wilson to prevent any
disruption in the mailing of Social Security
checks
"
-- Desert Star 8/20/86
** Wilson introduced legislation in 1987 to expose
illegitimate sales schemes for supplemental Medicare
insurance, raising consumer awareness of abuses.
"Many of the gullible elderly are particularly
prone to sales pitches that prey on their
vulnerability. They deserve the protection that is
afforded in Senator Wilson's measure." -- San
Francisco Chronicle 4/8/87
** Wilson's bill to allow homeowners confined to
nursing homes or hospitals to take advantage of a
one-time senior citizen capital gains break
became law in 1988.
Wilson also cosponsored legislation to increase the
earnings limit to allow seniors to keep their jobs.
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2. PREVENTIVE HEALTH CARE
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Preventive health care spares suffering and saves
money. That conviction underlies Pete Wilson's efforts to
adopt preventive federal approaches to providing health care.
Wilson's successful fight to gain a four-year extension
on the Medicare Waiver demonstration program in 1989
prevented the closure of outpatient care clinics for
low-income elderly.
Wilson also ensured the continued provision of needed
health care services to roughly 15,000 elderly residents of
Los Angeles and Orange Counties by securing a legislative
waiver.
"Thank you for your assistance with the
waiver for the Watts Health Foundation
[to]
enable Watts to continue to provide quality health
care
to the population of south central Los
Angeles. -- Michael R. Pollard, Attorney 12/1/89
"We were delighted to hear of your hard work
and support to extend the Medicare Waiver another
four years. Thank you for your commitment to the
elderly of our community." " -- Mexican American
Community Services Agency, Inc. , San Jose 12/4/89
Wilson has been the key supporter of demonstration
projects to allow Medicare beneficiares to enroll
in Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs).
When the government cut off service by five
California HMOs to seniors in 1986, Wilson made
sure they had access to interim coverage.
Wilson amended a bill in 1984 to implement a
demonstration program for Social Health Maintenance
Organizations (SHMOs) to provide medical and other
health-related benefits like meals and day care.
Wilson's "Drug Utilization Review Act" would
help pharmacists prevent dangerous drug interactions
by creating a national computer network.
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C. Women's Rights
Pete Wilson has been unwavering in his support of equal
rights for all, regardless of race, color -- or gender.
Wilson came out early in support of the Equal Rights
Amendment, during his tenure as Mayor of San Diego, and he
has cosponsored the ERA in every session of Congress since
his election to the U.S. Senate.
Wilson's is among those names sure to be counted on the
list of public officials in support of equal opportunity for
women, be it educational or economic.
He supported the "Grove City" bill to retore civil
rights to women in higher education under Title X, and he
voted for landmark legislation to enforce child support laws.
For those women on the lower rungs of the economic
ladder, Wilson was among the sponsors of the 1988 "Family
Security Act" to help train and employ welfare-dependent
women collecting Aid to Families with Dependent Children, a
bill modeled on California's pioneering "workfare" program.
Wilson is also a consistent voice in favor of
reproductive rights for women.
He has voted against a constitutional amendment to make
abortion illegal and to cut off funding for various family
planning programs.
In 1989, in the wake of the Supreme Court's "Webster"
decision, Wilson among the first to sign onto a bill to
restrict states from abridging a woman's right to terminate a
pregnancy.
WHAT THEY'RE SAYING ABOUT PETE WILSON.
Consistent Support
"Wilson consistently has favored abortion
rights
and opposed [the] recent decision to cut
funds for family planning clinics." -- WASHINGTON
POST 1/2/90
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For Reproductive Freedom
"We at Planned Parenthood of Santa Clara
County want to express our gratitude for your
staunch support of family planning. Thank you for
your consistent votes for reproductive freedom last
term and for your co-sponsorship of the Freedom of
Choice Act.
we look forward to your continued
championship of family planning funding and
accessibility
"
-- Linda Williams, Executive
Director, PLANNED PARENTHOOD ASSOC. OF SANTA CLARA
COUNTY 12/28/89
Sponsoring Pro-Choice Law
"Pro-choice members of Congress turned up the
heat yesterday on the abortion debate, introducing
a bill that would prevent states from interfering
with a woman's decision to have an abortion
Sen.
Pete Wilson, R-Calif is a cosponsor of the bill."
-- SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE 11/18/89
Guaranteeing the Right to Choose
"We. wish to thank you for
sponsoring
legislation to guarantee a woman's right to
reproductive choice Your decision is welcome
news. -- Gloria J. Potvin, Co-Chair, PLUMAS
COUNTY PRO-CHOICE COALITION 12/16/89
An "Extraordinarily Important Decision"
"Thank you for signing the brief in Turnock
V. Ragsdale. Your decision to urge the Supreme
Court not to erode a woman's right to reproductive
choice nor to undermine the fundamental right to
privacy is extraordinarily important." -- Faye
Wattleton, President, PLANNED PARENTHOOD 11/30/89
A "Serious Commitment to Women
"Sen. Pete Wilson's recommendation of Superior
Judge Lourdes G. Baird as U.S. Attorney in Los
Angeles is an imaginative and constructive
move
it suggests a serious commitment by Wilson
to less partisan leadership that is more open to
women
-- LOS ANGELES TIMES 12/4/89
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1. EQUAL RIGHTS
Pete Wilson was an early supporter of the Equal Rights
Amendment, publicly announcing his support for the ERA as
Mayor of San Diego, and as a U.S. Senator he has cosponsored
the ERA every year it has been introduced.
As Mayor of San Diego, Wilson created the first
Commission on the Status of Women and implemented the consent
decree signed in 1977 to increase the City's hiring of women.
In addition to his support of the Equal Rights
Amendment, Senator Wilson has supported numerous other
pivotal legislation supporting women's rights.
In 1985, Wilson was an original sponsor of a bill to
overturn the "Grove City" case and restore civil rights
protection to women in higher education under Title IX.
When President Reagan vetoed the Grove City" bill --
formally known as the "Civil Rights Restoration Act" --
Wilson voted to override the veto in 1988.
In 1984 and 1988, Wilson supported landmark legislation
to require states to attach salaries and wages of parents
defaulting on child support payments and to withhold state
income taxes to enforce court-ordered child support.
"Thank you for your continuing support of the
Equal Rights Amendment. We have appreciated your
proclamations for Women's Equality Day
On behalf
of the women of San Diego, we thank you. --
Sue
Punjack, President, San Diego County Chapter, NOW
2/4/82
"Sincerest thanks for your support of
California Women Business Owners
--
U.S. Small
Business Administration 8/2/84
"President Reagan has decided to nominate
Orange County attorney Alicemarie Stotler for a
federal judgeship She would become the fourth
woman among federal judges in the district.
Stotler's nomination was recommended by Sen. Pete
Wilson
-- The Los Angeles Times 4/4/84
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2. REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS
"Government does nothing wise or good if it
enacts laws that force otherwise law-abiding
citizens to resort to illegal and dangerous acts."
Pete Wilson
For over twenty years in public office, Pete Wilson has
supported a woman's right to choose.
In 1967, as a member of the California State Assembly,
Wilson supported the Therapeutic Abortion Act, which made
abortion legal in California.
Wilson consistently supported the
pro-choice' position on abortion as a California
assemblyman, as San Diego mayor and even during his
statewide campaigns " -- San Diego Union 6/29/83
In 1989, as a Senator, Wilson joined in a Supreme Court
case and sponsored legislation to help protect the right to
choose -- signing a legal brief in the Turnock V. Ragsdale
case and introducing the "Freedom of Choice Act" in Congress.
"Thank you for your decision to join in the
Ragsdale case. It is a significant and vital
statement that Roe V. Wade should stand.'
:
National Abortion Rights Action League 11/8/89
"
our deepest thanks for your sponsorship of
the Freedom of Choice Act [to] assure states
could not undermine reproductive rights of women. "
-- Planned Parenthood, Shasta-Diablo 12/7/89
In the Senate, Wilson has also:
voted against a constitutional amendment to
criminalize abortion;
opposed bans on the distribution of contraceptive
devices to minors, and voted against cuts in funding
for school-based health clinics;
cosponsored reauthorization of Title X family
planning legislation, and supported continuing
aid to international family planning efforts.
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U.S. Senator Pete Wilson's Offices
WASHINGTON, D.C.
720 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
(202) 224-3841
LOS ANGELES
11111 Santa Monica Boulevard
Suite 915
Los Angeles, California 90025
213-209-6765
SAN FRANCISCO
250 Sutter Street
Suite 400
San Francisco, California 94102
415-556-4307
SAN DIEGO
401 B Street
Suite 2209
San Diego, California 92101
619-557-5257
FRESNO
Federal Building
1130 O Street
Room 4015
Fresno, California 93721
209-487-5727
ORANGE COUNTY
4590 MacArthur Boulevard
Room 220
Newport Beach, California 92660
714-756-8820
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Pete Wilson for Governor Offices
SAN DIEGO
2251 San Diego Avenue
Suite B-200
San Diego, California 92110
(619) 260-1990
LOS ANGELES
Post Office Box 91097
Los Angeles, California 90009
(213) 216-6070
SACRAMENTO
1900 K Street
Sacramento, California 95814
(916)-446-5140
PAID FOR AND AUTHORIZED BY PETE WILSON FOR GOVERNOR 1990
I.D. No. 89-0351
THIS DOCUMENT WAS NOT PRINTED AT GOVERNMENT EXPENSE
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