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OFFICE OF PRESIDENTIAL ADVANCE
CONTACT SHEET
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Presidential Advance Office
202/456-7565
Presidential Advance Fax Number
202/456-2820
Judd Swift
WH Advance
202/456-7565
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Kris Goodwin
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213.612.4791
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curity Council members), a reserve fund to finance
is beginning in earnest about who it will be. Africans
peacekeeping operations, and the ability to send larger
claim it is their turn to have a secretary general, and
forces to keep hostile forces apart. Eventually, he said,
several candidates are being touted, including Sene-
international consensus might make it possible to pres-
gal's president, Abdou Diouf; a former president of
sure angry parties to settle their grievances and not
Nigeria, General Olusegun Obasanjo; former finance
resort to force.
minister Bernard Chidzero of Zimbabwe; Tanzanian
Pérez de Cuéllar also wants the U.N. to play a bigger
President Salim Salim; and Ugandan diplomat Olara
role in economic development and protection of the
Otunnu. But the Africans' lack of unity hurts, as does
environment. He has appointed former Italian Prime
the fact that the continent trails the world in economic
Minister Bettino Craxi as a personal representative to
devèlopment.
investigate debt reduction, and hopes to narrow politi-
Other potential candidates include Tommy Koh, Sin-
cal differences between rich and poor countries at a
gapore's former ambassador to Washington; former
World Conference on Environment and Debt in Brazil
Costa Rican President Oscar Arias; Finnish diplomat
in 1992. He said last year that he detects "the birth of a
Martti Ahtisaari, who oversaw U.N. Namibia opera-
new kind of loyalty, an Earth-patriotism, a looking at the
tions; former Norwegian Premier Gro Brundtland, who
planet and its atmosphere as an object for protection
would be the U.N.'s first female secretary general;
and not for aggression and pillage."
Sadruddin Aga Khan, former U.N. high commissioner
American officials say it will take more than eloquent
for refugees; and Ali Alatas, Indonesia's foreign
statements and skilled diplomacy for the U.N. to fulfill
minister.
even Pérez de Cuéllar's ambitions. They contend it will
Pérez de Cuéllar asserts to everyone that it's time
take managerial reorganization of a type that even
for him to quit, and there's every reason to believe he
Pérez de Cuéllar's admirers say is beyond him-a con-
means it. He is aging, has suffered a heart attack and
solidation of duplicate subagencies (such as the three
undergone bypass surgery, and reportedly has run
now supervising narcotics control, the dozens in eco-
down his personal fortune. He had to cut short a re-
nomic development, and the increasing numbers for
cent trip to Europe and Africa on doctor's orders.
environmental affairs); the elimination of unnecessary
With a new era dawning when the U.N. might really
programs (such as the $2 million decolonization pro-
become the world's peacemaking agency and
gram in a world now virtually without colonies); ap-
problem-solving forum, it would seem to be time for a
pointment of a deputy secretary general; and transfer
vigorous young person to take charge. On the other
of bureaucratic slots from economic oversight to
hand, if such a person cannot be agreed upon, the
peacekeeping.
world body could do far worse than to make do a
The biggest challenge facing the U.N., though, is
little longer with probably the best secretary general
picking Pérez de Cuéllar's successor, and speculation
it's ever had.
California exceptionalism, anointed in blood.
A
WOMAN OF INDEPENDENT MEANS
By Sidney Blumenthal
D
ianne Feinstein is quite calmly poised on the
almost no role in the redistricting. At the same time,
fault line of American politics. If she wins her
there can be no realistic plan by any presidential nom-
race for governor of California, Republican
inee of the Democratic Party to win the Electoral Col-
hopes for gaining control of Congress over
lege without figuring in California. For a beaten party,
the next decade will be dashed and Democratic hopes
a Feinstein victory will be taken as a tremor of great
for gaining the White House buoyed. After the reap-
possibility.
portionment of the House of Representatives based
For the candidate, this sweeping prospect has been
on the 1990 census, the California delegation will
achieved against a peculiar combination of odds. More
constitute one-eighth of the Congress. If a Republican
than once she has ridden into the chaos of the void and
does not preside as governor in a state where the
come out the other side, her coiffure unruffled. She has
Democrats control the legislature, the GOP will play
faced nearly all manner of bedlam and mayhem: familial
AUGUST 13, 1990 THE NEW REPUBLIC 23
insanity, divorce, illness, death, isolation, defeat, mur-
Dianne Feinstein's life is more vivid than her re-
der. More than ten years ago, she announced her retire-
strained image. She was born fifty-six years ago in San
ment from politics; within hours she was kneeling on
Francisco to a prominent surgeon and professor, Leon
the floor of City Hall, literally covered with flowing
Goldman, and a Catholic ex-fashion model and nurse,
blood, which anointed her mayor of San Francisco.
Betty. To the world beyond the front door, all in the
"I've just had a lot of death," she told me with compo-
Goldman family appeared to be going very well indeed.
sure. "And I've found that it does two things. It can
But Betty Goldman suffered from undiagnosed brain
make you very bitter, turn you very much into yourself,
damage, masked by alcoholism, that manifested itself in
or it can give you the strength to open up and be there
unpredictable and violent behavior. Dianne and her two
for others. If there's one thing about politics, it's the life
sisters were often beaten and threatened. She recalls
capsule sped up. You see much more of death, violence.
several of her mother's suicide attempts, and her father,
You see the renewal of life. Whether you want it or not,
the physician, frantically trying to wake the comatose
you see it."
woman, making her vomit up sleeping pills. If Dianne
Feinstein gives the impression of a resolved personal-
Feinstein appears controlled, polished, even stiff, it may
ity. With audiences large and small, she conveys an
be because she was raised between the poles of deco-
unusual empathy, even when she has scant direct expe-
rum and derangement.
rience with what she is addressing. But she also main-
tains an appropriate distance. One always senses her
H
er early introduction to politics came through
discretion; nothing about her is out of place. Her fusing
her Uncle Morris, who took her on happy outings
of empathy and self-control, warmth and coolness, re-
to City Hall, as if to a sporting event, to observe
flects a mature equilibrium. In her heels she stands at
"the Board of Stupidvisors," as he put it. After
nearly six feet tall, and in her conservative suits never
graduating from Stanford, where she won the race for
appears less than dignified. When she greeted Queen
student body vice president, the coed's traditional top
Elizabeth upon Her Majesty's arrival in San Francisco,
slot, she married a young lawyer and soon had a child. But
"it was hard to tell who was more regal," says a hostile
the marriage quickly and bitterly failed, and at the age of
politico with grudging admiration.
twenty-four she was left alone with her nine-month-old
"Tough but caring" is her slogan, reflecting her po-
daughter, living off alimony, without a profession.
litical persona, which has unexpectedly acquired charis-
Her interest, as it happened, was in criminal justice.
ma. "It's a great mystery," says Sal Russo, a Republican
She had spent a year studying the state system on a
political consultant, who has been conducting focus
foundation fellowship after graduation. Now she wrote
group research for the California GOP. Feinstein, after
Governor Pat Brown, an acquaintance of her father's,
all, had hitherto inspired respect, not enthusiasm. "I
inquiring about employment. She was offered a posi-
was shocked by the intensity for Feinstein. Reagan did
tion on the Women's Board to Terms and Paroles. Over
the same thing. People are not as ideological as political
five years, she spent much of her time in the state's jails,
consultants or reporters. They want some leadership."
passing judgment on more than 5,000 prisoners. She
"What people don't want anymore in politics," says
was acknowledged as an expert on criminal justice and
Feinstein, "is people who are pablum, who want to have
appointed to several commissions. She also opposed
it both ways, who don't stand up and take a position."
capital punishment.
As for her opponent, Senator Pete Wilson, the ever-
Dianne remarried, this time to Bertram Feinstein,
positioning Republican, she says: "He is pablum. The
nineteen years older and, in a startling asymmetry with
politics he espouses are pablum."
her brain-damaged mother, a brain surgeon. In 1969
she won a seat on the Board of Supervisors, and be-
he pablum factor, to be sure, has served him
T
cause she was the top vote-getter became its president.
well in the past, making him the right dull man
Twice she ran for mayor and was defeated. Her oppo-
at the right time. Feinstein is banking on the
nents taunted her as a rich bitch, "a Pacific Heights
moment now calling for the right woman. In the
matron," out of touch with blue-collar whites and mi-
past, she had been frequently out of political sync, the
norities alike, a cultural outcast in the countercultural
moment out of her grasp. But now she is riding a
capital. In San Francisco the dream of the Diggers'
slipstream that seems naturally to carry her along.
utopia had turned rancid; it was the age of Altamont,
Time and again, Feinstein has faced mortality itself
the Black Panther Party, and Patty "Tanya" Hearst:
and had no choice but to start over. Her surmounting of
"It's just a shot away
fatal caprice, at least as much as her position in favor of,
Even in San Francisco, where nobody anybody knew
say, the Big Green environmental initiative, has had a
voted for Richard Nixon in his landslide re-election,
profound appeal to women especially. Her personal
there was a resentful reaction of a Silent Majority. In
saga is her greatest political asset, transcending her
1975 George Moscone, the liberal, barely held off a
position on this or that issue. For Feinstein, the person-
conservative challenger for mayor; in office Moscone
al is the political. But her story has drawn a shock of
assiduously courted all the constituency groups, even to
recognition that translates into charisma partly because
the extent of appointing Jim Jones, the cultish leader of
she has suddenly fit the movements of larger political
the People's Temple, chairman of the city's housing
forces.
commission.
24 THE NEW REPUBLIC AUGUST 13, 1990
Feinstein, for her part, was distracted from politics by
His aides carefully checked her background and fi-
private ordeals. Her father died of cancer, and her
nances, finding her spotless. But, according to a former
beloved husband contracted the disease as well; his
Mondale adviser, she carried too many inherent liabil-
death was a long and painful one. In the end, she was
ities as a divorced Jewish woman. The candidate passed
alone again, emotionally drained, seemingly with no
over her and, in a rush, selected Geraldine Ferraro.
will to carry on in public life.
History seemed to have sidestepped Feinstein.
Quietly, she told a few reporters she was quitting
politics. Later that same day, November 27, 1978, she
hen she emerged last year as a candidate for
looked up from her desk to see a distraught former
supervisor, Dan White, racing past her office with a
W
governor, she appeared to have already been
eclipsed. In a fit of pique, her longtime political
pistol. Within seconds she heard a shot. She ran into the
consultant in effect fired her as a candidate, an-
office of supervisor Harvey Milk, the leading gay politi-
nouncing his resignation from the campaign by fax to the
cian in the city, and found him crumpled on the floor.
press before he informed her. He claimed she lacked a
She lifted his hand, trying to feel his pulse, and her
"fire in the belly." She was widely dismissed as lazy, head-
finger slipped into a gaping bullet hole. Both Milk and
strong, and aimless. Then she had a hysterectomy. "I had
Moscone, who had been shot minutes earlier, were
a fire in the belly," said Feinstein, "and had it removed."
dead. By the law of succession, Dianne Feinstein was
She was far down in the polls and little-known in
mayor.
Southern California. Her opponent was Attorney Gen-
Her experience now began to serve her. While others
eral John Van De Kamp, a decent and dull man, correct
fell apart, she was serene. "She was poised. She was
on every liberal issue, endorsed by virtually the entire
eloquent. She was restrained. And she was reassuring
political establishment in Los Angeles, and firing no
and strong," editorialized The San Francisco Chronicle.
one's imagination. The question on which they most
She won re-election a year later.
sharply divided was capital punishment.
And she remarried. Her husband, Richard Blum, a
She had reversed her position, coming to believe it
highly successful entrepreneur and economic adviser to
was somehow a deterrent, regardless of the overwhelm-
the city, led a Pacific Rim lifestyle that extended beyond
ing scholarly evidence to the contrary. Her conviction
his far-flung investments. He was a long-distance run-
was apparently rooted in a visceral response to viewing
ner, had scaled Mount Everest, befriended Sir Edmund
the consequences of gory murders as mayor-she men-
Hillary and the Dalai Lama, and was made an honorary
tions "brain matter all over" a mom and pop store and a
consul of Nepal. Blum would bankroll her future politi-
five-year-old machine-gunned on his front lawn. But
cal career.
her "toughness" was underscored by her presence at
least as much as her revised position. In the television
hough Mayor Feinstein prided herself on being
spot that advertised her death penalty stance, she ap-
T
at home on the streets of San Francisco, making
peared on grainy film announcing the assassination of
herself very visible, her unfriendly critics labeled
Moscone. It was war footage, and she was battle-tested.
her "Snow White" and "Goody Two-Shoes."
Van De Kamp countered by asserting his belief
Soon after she took office she banished blue jeans and
against capital punishment while saying he might carry
T-shirts from the City Hall work force. With her man-
out executions anyway. He was caught between a rock
ners and wealth, she was not exactly the saloon queen of
and a soft place. Thus, the gender roles in the primary
the Tenderloin, the majorette of Castro Street, the toast
were reversed. She dominated as the strong and mas-
of the Barbary Coast. It was said that she didn't care who
terful one. In the final tally she won by more than ten
you went to bed with so long as you were in bed by elev-
points.
en. She vetoed a resolution that would have granted full
She.was now thrust in the race against Pete Wilson,
benefits to the live-ins of gay city employees, while she
another clash of bright primary colors and shades of
desperately attempted to close the bathhouses at the be-
beige. But the contest between her story and Wilson's
ginning of the AIDS epidemic. She also satisfied neither
lack of one is not merely the unfolding of their
developers nor neighborhood activists by forging a
personalities.
compromise over downtown construction. Then a loony
In the gap between the California of dreams and the
sectlet called the White Panthers managed to collect
California of fact lies the strobe-like history of Califor-
enough signatures to force a recall election. She took
nia politics. Cruel illusion is the greatest factor in these
her victory by more than 80 percent as a personal vindi-
politics. The last thing Californians want is low-key
cation. For San Francisco, she had become a necessity:
reality; the California dream is to keep dreaming. Just
the straight man to play against, the moderating influ-
around the corner from Disneyland, however, is the day
ence to make it all work, the stately symbol to lend the
of the locust-in fact, the Richard M. Nixon Library and
city legitimacy in the eyes of a country where "San Fran-
Birthplace. California is in a constant state of flux,
:isco Democrat" was about to become a Republican epi-
relentlessly growing bigger, its inherent instability un-
het loaded with sly innuendo.
settling any momentary balance. There is also a menace
In 1984, just before the Democratic convention
amid the palms, a Chinatown going down, unseen ac-
olled into town, Walter Mondale interviewed her at
tors plotting to gain control of paradise.
ength about the vice presidency. He was impressed.
Ever since 1910, when the Progressives dynamited
AUGUST
13
the smoke-filled room, whoever could lay claim to the
negative or positive, Wilson's campaign is all tactics.
franchise of California exceptionalism has had an elec-
The message of Feinstein's campaign is cohering into
tric connection to a mythic force that can be turned into
a classic restatement of California exceptionalism. It is
political power. The state's important modern gover-
framed by the growing feeling in the state that things
nors all rose on that claim: Earl Warren and Pat Brown,
are slipping out of control. She sees a fissure in the
Ronald Reagan and Jerry Brown.
earth opening up, separating the 1990s from the past.
"California," she says, "has grown twice as fast as
B
y contrast, the two leading figures of California
America. It's due to grow another one-third in size in
politics in the 1980s-Governor George Deuk-
the next ten to fifteen years. Beginning with Reagan,
mejian and Senator Pete Wilson-have been
the philosophy has been 'get government off the backs
caretakers of the Republican advantage they had
of people.' Then, with Jerry Brown, it was 'small is
ridden into office. The Reagan years in Washington
beautiful.' With Deukmejian, it was that the economy
were an interregnum in California. During this period,
would take care of all things. The only thing that admin-
Deukmejian presided in Sacramento as an ideological
istration has concentrated on has been prison growth.
conservative who could never approach Reagan in his
So the educational system has gone down, the environ-
talent for dramatization.
mental cleanup has languished.
It's laissez-faire ide-
Wilson's story has been told before. But it is neces-
ology, Republican ideology
People are now begin-
sarily not about him, because the tale of the Protestant
ning to see the failures. They see it in the lack of
ethic is so generic. It is the Nixon story without all the
attention to the state's infrastructure to accommodate
weird edges and paranoid subtext. Wilson, by all testi-
growth, whether that be freeways or transportation sys-
mony, always wanted to be governor because it was a
tems or schools. There is concern over drinking water,
position he wanted to have. He came from a middle-
drought, medfly-and no policy.
The suburbs are
class background, went to Yale and Boalt Hall, won a
where families get the worst air quality, the worst in
seat in the state Assembly, and was elected mayor of
America. You grow up down there you have 20 percent
prospering San Diego. In 1976 he backed Gerald Ford
less air capacity.
People now want a more activist
over Ronald Reagan for the GOP presidential nomina-
government, an advocacy government."
tion. Two years later Wilson lost the Republican prima-
In the Feinstein campaign research, Wilson appears
Γy for governor. When he wanted to run again in 1982,
as too politically motivated. Four focus groups in heavi-
he was persuaded by the Republican powers that be to
ly Republican Orange County had difficulty assigning a
run against a weakened Jerry Brown for the Senate. In
rationale to him besides ambition.
the Senate, Wilson has been a cipher. He ran an empty
re-election campaign against a lame candidate, Lieuten-
A
nd he has another problem. He is the largest
ant Governor Leo McCarthy. Wilson's inoffensiveness
recipient of S&L campaign funds of any politi-
has been the heart of his appeal.
cian in the country. The fabled Charles Keat-
Wilson was a Bush-type Republican before there was
ing of the Lincoln S&L gave him $16,000,
a Bush presidency, a movable Republican. He has a
which he returned when the press exposed it. The S&L
suburban strategy, trying to win over social liberals
issue plays against a California backdrop. Deukme-
without significantly alienating the GOP base. Wilson
jian's chief fund-raiser, Karl Samuelian, happens to be
has also edged further away from the conservative line
Keating's lawyer. And, at his suggestion, Deukmejian
on abortion and environmentalism than Bush. Simply
appointed two of Samuelian's partners as the top reg-
by getting the Republican vote, Wilson may run a tight
ulators of the state S&L commission, which failed to
race. Democratic Party identification in California has
deal with the massive, still spreading, scandals. Wilson
dropped from 57 percent at the beginning of the 1980s
may bear the burden of the GOP incumbency. "The
to 49 percent today, while the Republican partisan at-
S&L debacle," says Feinstein, "is a case in point of
tachment has risen from 32 to 40 percent.
Republican philosophy." The California dream is not
Wilson's strategy is to hold his party, moderate his im-
being undermined by impersonal forces, in her ac-
age to draw independents, and tarnish Feinstein's. Go-
count, but by deliberate Republican policies. Connect
ing negative is as essential to him as going positive. Ac-
the dots.
cording to Otto Bos, his campaign director, Wilson will
Pete Wilson has never before had a difficult oppo-
attack Feinstein for her "flip-flop" on the death penalty;
nent. Dianne Feinstein has never faced a situation that
for her "taxing and spending" record as the mayor of
was easy. She has overcome all sorts of disorders, politi-
San Francisco; for the undisclosed investors in her hus-
cal and personal, to confront the disorder in California
band's enterprises; for her "extreme" statement in favor
she charges has been fostered by a long period of
of proportionate hiring goals for minorities and women;
Republican rule. The Democrats, however, have been a
for her association with Willie Brown, the elegantly at-
party on a gradual slide. And yet California is a place
tired black Assembly Speaker who has been crucial in her
where even a party can renew itself. By redefining Cali-
political education. To produce his negative ads, Wilson
fornia exceptionalism, she may rearrange the coordi-
has retained Larry McCarthy, auteur of the infamous Wil-
nates of the state's politics. She has emerged in a wrin-
lie Horton spot. Feinstein says, "It will be a Republican
kle of time in which, despite a thousand variables, her
campaign: nasty, demeaning, humiliating." Whether
victory may largely depend on her own efforts.
26 THE NEW REPUBLI AUGUST 13, 1990
Wilson
Bill Livingston- -
crime, SanDiego(619)260-1990
Ask Ed to introduce me to FredNelson, rm. 115
re: Souter's view on quotas - civilrights bill
Crime Bill- Marianne Mc Gettigan x2449
out of jud comm. House side
go to rules committee
-will call with lines we can use & Counsel
From DOJ
Wilson's overview on crime
Difi weak
1980 violent crime Lin San Fran
Reagan $ Denk tough on crime
$ goes to cities
She-
Federal level tough on crime
Date -
1986- 1 mind on death penalty
POTUS- tough on crime laws
Wilson isthe one who can carry on in CA.
Slame dems blocked reforms (death)
Wilson matches demands to atee !
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
August 27, 1990
MEMORANDUM
TO:
CHRISS WINSTON
RELEVANT SPEECHWRITERS
RELEVANT RESEARCHERS
FROM:
CAROL BLYMIRE CMB
SUBJECT: PRE-ADVANCE
Florida
This will be a three-tiered event:
President meets and greets Governor and Mrs. Martinez at
the Governor's Mansion, Tallahassee. This will be closed
press with no remarks. Depart for Governor's Club.
President arrives Governor's Club for a Florida GOP photo
op. This will take approximately 20-30 minutes with no
remarks. President departs for Tom Brown Park.
President arrives Tom Brown Park for a fundraiser for the
Grant Campaign. There will be a VIP photo-op, followed by
the President's remarks (8-10 minutes). This will take
place at a barbecue site there. There will be approxi-
mately 1500-2000 attendees. The Tom Brown Park is a city
park in Tallahassee.
Other info:
-- Teleprompter suggestion NO!
-- Congressman Grant's wife's name is Janet.
-- As far as we know this is the only fundraiser the President is
doing for a Congressman.
-- Your Political Affairs contact is Sally Salmon x6573.
Kansas, Kansas Expo Center, Topeka
This will be a two-tiered event:
President arrives Kansas Expo Center for photo-op.
Luncheon remarks for Hayden for Governor. Remarks should
be 8-10 minutes in length. Ticket prices are $500 per
person and $4000 per table. They are planning on at least
1,000 attendees.
Other info:
-- John Pinegar, Campaign Manager (913) 234-6453
-- Kathy Peterson, Fundraising Coordinator (913) 234-6453
-- Political Affairs Contact is Valerie Musgrove x6573
-- Teleprompter suggestion
YES!
Colorado, Denver Convention Center
This will be a two -tiered event:
Photo-op
Colorado GOP luncheon, brief remarks, 5-7 minutes. Ticket
prices are $250 per person, or table prices range from
$2,500 to $25,000. He will speak at approximately
12:25pm.
Other info:
-- Prompter suggestion
YES!
-- Political Affairs contact- Valerie Musgrove x6573
-- Convention Center contact- David Clough (303) 640-8026
-- Kristin French, Colorado GOP Communications (303) 893-1776
-- Rhonda Bentz, Hank Brown for Senate (303) 756-7690
San Francisco, The Fairmont Hotel
This will be a two-tiered event:
Photo-op with VIPs
Luncheon, remarks to be 5-7 minutes in length, ticket
price is $10,000/table. They are expecting at least
1,000 attendees with 15 at the head table. POTUS will
speak at approximately 12:15pm.
Other info:
-- The Fairmont Hotel is the hotel after which the television
show, Arthur Hailey's "Hotel" is modeled. It's the hotel they
show during the opening credits.
-- Senator Wilson will speak before the President.
-- This will be taking place in the Grand Ballroom.
-- Herman Wiener, Fairmont Hotel, General Manager, (415)772-5159
-- Marty Wilson, Wilson Campaign, (916) 446-5140
-- Ken Deutsch, Catering Manager, (415) 772-5186
-- Political Affairs contact, Cathy Hutchinson x6510
-- Teleprompter suggestion
YES!
Los Angeles, Westin Bonaventure
This will be a two-tiered event:
O Photo-op, San Diego Room, 20 minutes.
O Fundraising Dinner for Pete Wilson for Governor. POTUS
will speak at approximately 7:30pm for 8-10 minutes. They
have not sent out tickets yet, and do not have an expected
number of attendees, although my guess is 1,500.
Other info:
-- Political Affairs Contact, Cathy Hutchinson x6510
-- Campaign Contact, Joyce Valdez, Dinner Chrmn. (213) 624-1934
-- Teleprompter suggestion, YES!
Pete GOVERNOR WILSON
READ MY RECORD:
TOUGH LAW ENFORCEMENT FOR A SAFER CALIFORNIA
REMARKS BY U.S. SENATOR PETE WILSON
BEFORE THE
CALIFORNIA SHERIFF'S ASSOCIATION
JUNE 11, 1990
SANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA
revised
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THANK YOU FOR THAT KIND INTRODUCTION.
THE PURPOSE OF THIS MEETING, AT LEAST IN PART, IS TO AFFORD
YOU THE OPPORTUNITY TO COMPARE THE CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR SO THAT
YOU, AS THE CHIEF LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS OF CALIFORNIA'S
COUNTIES, CAN HAVE A BASIS UPON WHICH TO MAKE AN ENDORSEMENT.
I NOT ONLY WELCOME THAT COMPARISON, I AM EAGER TO HAVE YOU
MAKE IT. PAST PERFORMANCE IS THE MOST RELIABLE INDICATOR OF FUTURE
PERFORMANCE. TALK IS CHEAP. BUT I URGE YOU RESPECTFULLY TO LOOK
CAREFULLY AT THE RECORD AND SEE IF EACH CANDIDATE'S RHETORIC
SQUARES WITH HIS OR HER RECORD.
I REPEAT: I WELCOME SUCH ANALYSIS. I INVITE YOUR CLOSE
SCRUTINY.
BUT THERE ARE ALL TOO MANY WHO INSTEAD SUGGEST TO YOU THAT
SUCH ATTENTION IS NEEDLESS. AND INDEED MOST WHO DO ARE LIBERAL
COMMENTATORS WHO EAGERLY DECLARE THAT THE TWIN ISSUES OF CRIME AND
DRUGS NEED NOT OCCUPY THE VOTERS MUCH IN THIS ELECTION. THEY WANT
THESE ISSUES OFF OF THE POLITICAL AGENDA.
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DIANNE FEINSTEIN, ACCORDING TO THESE LIBERAL PUNDITS, HAS
MOOTED THE CRIME ISSUE BY DECLARING HERSELF IN FAVOR OF THE DEATH
PENALTY. THAT DECLARATION WILL DOUBTLESS SATISFY MANY WHO DO NOT
FAVOR THE DEATH PENALTY, BUT ARE PREPARED TO FORGIVE DIANNE
FEINSTEIN HER POSITION IF IT SERVES TO REMOVE CRIME AS AN ISSUE.
THEY ARE POLITICAL REALISTS, THESE LIBERALS, AND EVEN THOUGH
THEY MAY IN FACT SHARE THE VIEWS OF THE DEFEATED JOHN VAN DE KAMP,
THEY RECOGNIZE IN HIM THE POTENTIAL MICHAEL DUKAKIS OF THIS RACE.
THEY ARE EXCITED AT THE PROSPECT OF CO-OPTING WHAT HAS BEEN A
TRADITIONAL VULNERABILITY OF DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES.
IN HER CAMPAIGN AGAINST JOHN VAN DE KAMP, DIANNE FEINSTEIN DID
INDEED MAKE MUCH OF HER SUPPORT FOR THE DEATH PENALTY, AND EVEN
MORE OF HER OPPONENT'S OPPOSITION. SHE EXPRESSED "OUTRAGE" AT HIS
OPPOSITION.
BUT WHERE WAS DIANNE FEINSTEIN'S SENSE OF OUTRAGE DURING ALL
THE YEARS THAT YOU AND I AND GOVERNOR DEUKMEJIAN WERE STRUGGLING TO
OVERCOME THE ROADBLOCKS PLACED BY ROSE BIRD IN THE PATH OF
ACHIEVING THE PROTECTION OF THE DEATH PENALTY? APART FROM A LONE
VOTE CAST AS PART OF A UNANIMOUS RESOLUTION BY THE SAN FRANCISCO
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS IN 1973, SUPPORTING OF A VERY LIMITED
APPLICATION OF THE DEATH PENALTY, FEINSTEIN HAS MADE NO OTHER
EXPRESSIONS OF SUPPORT THAT I AM AWARE OF.
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AND THAT VOTE HARDLY QUALIFIED AS AN EXPRESSION OF OUTRAGE AT
OPPONENTS - OR EVEN OF UNQUALIFIED SUPPORT -- OF THE DEATH
PENALTY. TO THE CONTRARY, MS. FEINSTEIN FELT COMPELLED TO
EXPRESSLY QUALIFY HER VOTE ENDORSING ASSEMBLY BILL 90, WHICH
PROVIDED FOR THE DEATH PENALTY ONLY IN CASES OF FIRST DEGREE MURDER
OF POLICE OFFICERS, FIRE FIGHTERS, OR PRISONERS IN STATE PRISON BY
OTHER PRISONERS. AS REPORTED IN THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE OF
AUGUST 15, 1973, FEINSTEIN SAID, "I DON'T BELIEVE IN THE DEATH
PENALTY GENERALLY, BUT FOR THIS EXCEPTION."
HAVING SEARCHED THE PUBLIC RECORD SINCE SHE MADE THIS
STATEMENT, WE CAN FIND NO OTHER EVIDENCE -- UNTIL HER USE OF THE
DEATH PENALTY AS A POLITICAL WEAPON AGAINST JOHN VAN DE KAMP MORE
THAN 16 YEARS LATER -- THAT DIANNE FEINSTEIN WAS CONCERNED ENOUGH
ABOUT THE NEED FOR THE DEATH PENALTY TO DO ANYTHING TO HELP
ACHIEVE IT.
AND AGAIN, IF MY CAMPAIGN RESEARCH HAS MISSED SUCH EVIDENCE,
I INVITE MS. FEINSTEIN TO CORRECT THE RECORD. BUT WE HAVE BEEN
UNABLE TO FIND ANYTHING TO SUGGEST THAT SHE EVER URGED SPEAKER
WILLIE BROWN OR- DAVID ROBERTI OR OTHER FRIENDS IN THE LEGISLATURE
TO SUPPORT THE DEATH PENALTY.
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WE HAVE FOUND. NO EVIDENCE THAT SHE VOLUNTEERED HER SERVICES TO
ASSIST GEORGE DEUKMEJIAN, OR MADE SPEECHES OR WROTE OP-ED ARTICLES
ARGUING FOR ENACTMENT OF THE DEATH PENALTY, AS DID I AND so MANY
OTHERS.
so IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL WHEN DIANNE FEINSTEIN MOVED -- OR
WHAT MOVED HER -- FROM HER VERY LIMITED, CAREFULLY QUALIFIED
SUPPORT NOT "FOR THE DEATH PENALTY GENERALLY, BUT FOR THIS
EXCEPTION," TO HER RECENT VEHEMENCE IN ATTACKING VAN DE KAMP AS AN
OPPONENT.
WHAT IS MORE, SHE DECLINED TO SUPPORT THE VICTIMS' BILL OF
RIGHTS INITIATIVE IN 1982, WHEN I SERVED AS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
CHAIRMAN OF THAT IMPORTANT AND SUCCESSFUL INITIATIVE THAT SO MANY
OF YOU SUPPORTED so ACTIVELY.
ON PRIMARY ELECTION NIGHT LAST TUESDAY, THE SAME COALITION OF
CRIME VICTIMS, PROSECUTORS, AND PEACE OFFICERS WHO GAVE THE PEOPLE
OF CALIFORNIA THE VICTIMS' BILL OF RIGHTS IN 1982, AND LED THE
REMOVAL OF ROSE BIRD FROM THE SUPREME COURT IN 1986, AGAIN RESTORED
PUBLIC CONFIDENCE IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM OF THIS STATE WITH
THE PASSAGE OF PROPOSITION 115.
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ONCE AGAIN, WE WERE REQUIRED TO CURE THE DEFAULT OF THE
LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC LEGISLATURE, WHICH CONTINUES TO DO THE BIDDING
OF THE CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS RATHER THAN PROVIDING THE LAWS
NEEDED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT TO PROTECT THE PEOPLE FROM CRIME.
ONCE AGAIN, YOU IN THIS ROOM PROVIDED VITAL LEADERSHIP TO PASS
THE MUCH NEEDED REFORMS CONTAINED IN PROP 115, FOR WHICH I THANK
YOU WITH ALL MY HEART. I WAS PRIVILEGED TO SERVE AS THE HONORARY
CHAIRMAN OF PROP 115, so ONCE AGAIN I WAS PRIVILEGED TO WORK WITH
YOU TO BRING ABOUT FUNDAMENTAL AND DESPERATELY NEEDED CRIMINAL
JUSTICE REFORM. I THINK WE CAN BOTH BE PROUD AND GRATEFUL OF OUR
ACCOMPLISHMENT.
I WAS A WORKING CHAIRMAN. I TRAVELLED UP AND DOWN THE STATE
FOR MONTHS, MAKING APPEARANCES WITH MANY OF YOU AND YOUR COLLEAGUES
IN LAW ENFORCEMENT AND THOSE WONDERFUL, COURAGEOUS CRIME VICTIM
REPRESENTATIVES.
WE COLLECTED SIGNATURES AND MONEY, AND WE TOLD OUR STORY AGAIN
AND AGAIN. I WOUND UP BEING THE LARGEST SINGLE DONOR TO PROP 115.
DIANNE FEINSTEIN, IN CONTRAST TO 1902 AND 1986, DID LEND HER
NAME AS AN ENDORSER, AFTER SOME FALTERING FOR A TIME WHEN VAN DE
KAMP ADVANCED THE FALSE CHARGE THAT THE INITIATIVE WOULD THREATEN
THE CIVIL RIGHT OF REPRODUCTIVE CHOICE, WHICH IS, OF COURSE,
GUARANTEED BY THE CALIFORNIA STATE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO PRIVACY.
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BUT FEINSTEIN DECLINED TO MAKE APPEARANCES ON BEHALF OF PROP
115. SHE DECLINED TO GIVE MONEY, OR EVEN TO RAISE MONEY, TO HELP
QUALIFY OR PASS IT. SHE EVEN DECLINED TO SIGN HER NAME TO THE
BALLOT ARGUMENT IN FAVOR OF IT.
THERE IS ANOTHER FACT WHICH IS DISCONCERTINGLY INCONSISTENT
WITH FORMER MAYOR FEINSTEIN'S RECENTLY DECLARED FEWOY HAVOR FOR THE DEATH
PENALTY. IT IS A FACT WHICH FOCUSES ON THE LINKAGE BETWEEN THE TWO
INDICATORS OF A GOVERNOR'S COMMITMENT TO LAW ENFORCEMENT AND PUBLIC
SAFETY, THE DEATH PENALTY, AND THE APPOINTMENT OF JUDGES.
IF FORMER CHIEF JUSTICE ROSE BIRD STANDS FOR ANYTHING IN THE
MINDS OF THE PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA, IT IS AN UNYIELDING AND
IMPLACABLE OPPOSITION TO CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. INDEED, SHE HAS
BECOME VIRTUALLY A SYMBOL OF HOSTILITY TO THE VERY CONCEPT. THERE
ARE NO ADJECTIVES WHICH CAN ADEQUATELY DESCRIBE THE ZEAL AND ENERGY
OF HER OPPOSITION.
WHETHER IN THE MAJORITY OR IN THE DISSENT, BIRD LITERALLY DID
NOT ONCE FAIL TO VOTE AGAINST IMPOSITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY -- BE
IT THE SPECIFIC ISSUE, THE ISSUE OF CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT,
ADMISSIBILITY OF EVIDENCE, UNEQUAL PROTECTIONS OF THE LAW, OR
WHATEVER. THE CONSISTENCY OF HER OPPOSITION WAS COMPLETE,
ABSOLUTE.
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THAT IS WHAT MAKES DIANNE FEINSTEIN'S VIEW OF ROSE BIRD so
EXTRAORDINARILY INCONSISTENT.
JOHN VAN DE KAMP, THOUGH HE DECIDED TO REMAIN "NEUTRAL" AND
NOT DEFEND ROSE BIRD IN THE CAMPAIGN TO REMOVE HER FROM THE COURT,
CLEARLY ADMIRED THE CHIEF JUSTICE. HE TOLD THE SACRAMENTO BEE THAT
HE SAW HER AS ALMOST A JOAN OF ARC BEING BURNED AT THE
STAKE
FOR HER PRINCIPLES IN OPPOSING THE DEATH PENALTY.
GIVEN HIS HYPERBOLIC ADMIRATION FOR BIRD, IT IS NOT
SURPRISING, BUT RATHER CONSISTENT WITH HIS OWN DEEP-SEEDED
OPPOSITION TO THE DEATH PENALTY, THAT JOHN VAN DE KAMP TWICE ASKED
ROSE BIRD TO SWEAR HIM INTO OFFICE.
BUT GIVEN DIANNE FEINSTEIN'S MUCH ADVERTISED SUPPORT FOR THE
DEATH PENALTY, IT IS DOWNRIGHT INCONGRUOUS THAT AS MAYOR, SHE WAS
SWORN IN BY ROSE BIRD ON THREE OCCASIONS.
WHAT IS EVEN MORE DIFFICULT TO RECONCILE IS THAT AT THE VERY
MOMENT IN 1986 WHEN SHERIFFS, POLICE CHIEFS, PROSECUTORS, AND CRIME
VICTIMS WERE SEEKING TO REMOVE ROSE BIRD FROM THE BENCH IN LARGE
PART BECAUSE OF HER INTENSE HOSTILITY TO CAPITAL PUNISHMENT, DIANNE
FEINSTEIN PROUDLY SERVED AS THE CHAIRMAN OF A FUNDRAISER FOR THE
CAMPAIGN TO KEEP BIRD ON THE COURT!
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HOW COULD DIANNE FEINSTEIN, HOLDING so PASSIONATELY HER
PRESENT PRO-DEATH PENALTY VIEW, SO RECENTLY BE A LEADER IN SUPPORT
OF RETAINING ROSE BIRD, WHO WAS THEN AND FOREVER AFTER so
PASSIONATELY OPPOSED TO THE DEATH PENALTY?
WHERE WAS THAT SAME LEADERSHIP ON BEHALF OF ENACTMENT OF THE
DEATH PENALTY THAT FEINSTEIN PROUDLY DISPLAYS TODAY? WHY DID IT
LIE DORMANT FOR 16 YEARS? HOW COULD DIANNE FEINSTEIN BE so VOCAL
AND VISIBLE ON BEHALF OF ROSE BIRD, CALIFORNIA'S CHIEF CRITIC OF
THE DEATH PENALTY, AND YET BE so SILENT AND INVISIBLE IN SUPPORT OF
THE DEATH PENALTY UNTIL HER CAMPAIGN FOR GOVERNOR?
A CHAMPION OF ROSE BIRD AND THE DEATH PENALTY? THAT'S A
LIVING OXYMORON.
WELL, APART FROM ROSE, WHAT KIND OF. JUDGES WOULD DIANNE
FEINSTEIN APPOINT?
MAYOR FEINSTEIN HAS PROMISED TO APPOINT JUDGES BY NUMERICAL
QUOTAS. SPECIFICALLY, SHE WAS QUOTED IN THE LOS ANGELES TIMES OF
SUNDAY, JUNE 27, 1990, AS PLEDGING TO APPOINT WOMEN AS AT LEAST
HALF OF ALL JUDGES AND STATE ADMINISTRATORS, AND TO APPOINT MEMBERS
OF ETHNIC GROUPS IN NUMBERS REFLECTING THEIR PERCENTAGE OF
CALIFORNIA'S POPULATION.
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LET ME OFFER YOU SEVERAL CONTRASTS -- BOTH IN ATTITUDE AND IN
RECORD OF PERFORMANCE.
I WAS AN EARLY ADVOCATE OF REPLACING THE BIRD COURT WITH ONE
DEVOTED TO THE RULE OF LAW, AND TO PROTECTING CALIFORNIANS FROM
BECOMING CRIME VICTIMS.
AS EARLY AS 1982, I WAS EVEN CENSURED BY THE STATE BAR
ASSOCIATION DELEGATES FOR HAVING HAD THE TEMERITY TO CRITICIZE BIRD
AND HER RULINGS AS HAVING MADE CALIFORNIA NEEDLESSLY DANGEROUS.
MUCH EARLIER THAN THAT, IN FACT FOR ALL OF MY PUBLIC LIFE, I
HAVE BEEN A STRONG SUPPORTER OF THE DEATH PENALTY.
IN THE U.S. SENATE, ALONG WITH REPUBLICAN COLLEAGUE ALFONSE
D'AMATO, I PUT INTO THE FEDERAL CRIMINAL CODE A DEATH PENALTY FOR
THE SLAYING OF A FEDERAL, STATE, OR LOCAL PEACE OFFICER IN THE
COURSE OF A DRUG-RELATED INCIDENT.
SIMPLY DECLARING SUPPORT FOR THE DEATH PENALTY IS NOT ENOUGH.
KNOWING THAT THERE CAN BE NO DETERRENT EFFECT FROM A DEATH
PENALTY THAT IS NOT ENFORCED, I HAVE --- WITH LEAD SPONSOR SENATOR
STROM THURMOND -- OFFERED THE AMENDMENT TO THE CRIME BILL, NOW
PENDING IN THE U.S. SENATE, TO SET A DEADLINE FOR THE FILING OF
HABEAS CORPUS PETITIONS AFTER FINAL REVIEW OF TRIAL ERROR.
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AS GOVERNOR, I WILL INSIST UPON A PARALLEL STATE PROCEDURE TO
PUT AN END TO LIMITLESS APPEALS THAT MAKE A MOCKERY OF JUSTICE IN
CALIFORNIA, AND OF THE VOTERS OF CALIFORNIA WHO HAVE TWICE CALLED
FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE DEATH PENALTY.
CASES LIKE THAT OF ROBERT ALTON HARRIS ARE MORE THAN AN
OUTRAGE; THEY DEMORALIZE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS AND DESTROY THE
CONFIDENCE OF THE PEOPLE THAT THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM CAN, IN
FACT, PROTECT THEM.
MY PHILOSOPHY AND PRACTICE OF JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS OFFER
FURTHER VIVID CONTRAST TO THE JERRY BROWN-DIANNE FEINSTEIN SCHOOL
OF JUDICIAL SELECTION BY GENDER AND ETHNIC QUOTAS.
YOU NEEDN'T TAKE IT ON FAITH. AS GOVERNOR, YOU CAN EXPECT ME
TO CONTINUE THE KIND OF JUDICIAL SELECTION I HAVE BEEN PROUD OF AS
U.S. SENATOR. I WILL APPOINT MEN AND WOMEN OF THE SAME QUALITY AND
CALIBRE AS THOSE WHOM MY RECOMMENDATIONS HAVE PLACED UPON THE
FEDERAL BENCH.
I BELIEVE IN MERIT, NOT IN QUOTAS.
WE SHOULD PICK -- AND I HAVE -- THE BEST AND BRIGHTEST TALENT
FOR APPOINTMENT TO THE BENCH, STRICT CONSTRUCTIONISTS, SCHOLARS WHO
APPLY THE LAW WITH FAIRNESS AND INTEGRITY, AND WITH A DECENT
CONCERN FOR THE RIGHTS OF VICTIMS AS WELL AS THOSE OF THE ACCUSED.
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I HAVE SELECTED WOMEN, HISPANIC, ASIAN, AND BLACK CANDIDATES
FOR
THE
FEDERAL BENCH BUT ON MERIT, NOT BECAUSE OF THEIR GENDER
OR RACE. EACH RECEIVED THE HIGHEST RATING GIVEN BY MY JUDICIAL
SELECTION SCREENING COMMITTEE: EXTREMELY WELL-QUALIFIED.
IN ADDITION, I AM PROPOSING LEGISLATION TO CLOSE A LOOPHOLE IN
FEDERAL LAW THAT SOME FEDERAL JUDGES HAVE USED TO AVOID IMPOSING
MANDATORY SENTENCES. THEY HAVE DONE THIS BY INSTRUCTING THE JURY
TO TAKE SENTENCING INTO ACCOUNT WHEN DETERMINING GUILT OR
INNOCENCE, THEREBY INVITING JURY NULLIFICATION. MY PROPOSAL WOULD
PERMIT THIS FROM HAPPENING.
ALONG WITH APPOINTING MEN AND WOMEN AS JUDGES WHO WILL
FAITHFULLY APPLY THE LAW AS WRITTEN, AS GOVERNOR I WILL INSIST UPON
LAWS THAT WILL MAKE CALIFORNIA JUST AS SAFE AND DRUG-FREE AS
POSSIBLE.
THE SALE OF DRUGS IS THE MAJOR THREAT TO OUR CHILDREN, AND TO
THE FUTURE OF OUR STATE AND NATION-
THE SALE OF DRUGS IS NOT A CRIME OF PASSION: IT IS A CRIME OF
REASON AND PROFIT, IN WHICH THE ODDS FAVOR THE DEALER GIVEN THE LOW
RISKS POSED BY THE STATE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM AS COMPARED TO THE
FEDERAL.
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AS GOVERNOR, I WILL INSIST THAT THERE BE A "DARE/SANE" DRUG
RESISTANCE EDUCATION PROGRAM IN EVERY SCHOOL IN CALIFORNIA, so THAT
VERY EARLY IN THEIR LIVES, OUR KIDS LEARN TO VALUE THEMSELVES ABOVE
THE FLEETING BUT DESTRUCTIVE HIGH OF DRUGS.
I WILL INSIST THAT BAIL BE DENIED TO THOSE WHO CONSTITUTE A
SOCIETY, AS MAJOR TRAFFICKERS WILL BE PRESUMED TO BE.
I WILL INSIST THAT THE DEATH PENALTY BE EXTENDED TO THOSE
WHOSE EXTENSIVE DRUG DEALING ACHIEVES A MAGNITUDE THAT MEETS THE
FEDERAL DEFINITION OF A MAJOR TRAFFICKER.
I WILL INSIST, I REPEAT, UPON A DEADLINE FOR HABEAS CORPUS AND
OTHER POST-APPEAL PETITIONS TO PUT AN END TO DELAYS WHICH HAVE
PREVENTED ENFORCEMENT OF THE DEATH PENALTY.
I WILL INSIST UPON MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCES PARALLEL TO
THOSE IMPOSED BY THE FEDERAL LAW FOR LESSER OFFENSES.
AND I WILL INSIST UPON AN END TO THE PRACTICE OF ALLOWING
CONVICTED FELONS TO SERVE ONLY HALF THE TIME TO WHICH THEY ARE
SENTENCED.
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AND WHEN I SAY "I WILL INSIST," I MEAN THAT I WILL GIVE THE
LEGISLATURE THE CHANCE TO ENACT THIS LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM. AND IF
THEY REFUSE, I WILL TAKE MY CASE TO THE PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA ON THE
BALLOT, AND I WILL WIN
AGAIN.
IN MY CASE, AN INITIATIVE TO FINISH THE JOB WE BEGAN WITH THE
VICTIMS' BILL OF RIGHTS AND PROP 115 IS NO IDLE THREAT.
IF NEED BE, I WILL ASK YOUR HELP ONCE AGAIN.
IT IS ONE THING TO SPEAK, AS MS. FEINSTEIN HAS, OF HOUNDING
DRUG DEALERS INTO THE PACIFIC.
IT IS QUITE ANOTHER TO KNOW HOW TO DO IT HOW TO INCREASE
THEIR RISKS so THAT THE ODDS NO LONGER FAVOR DEALING
AND INSTEAD
FAVOR COPS AND THE KIDS THEY ARE SWORN TO PROTECT.
I WILL NOT HAVE CALIFORNIA UNDER SIEGE TO THUGS OR RAPISTS OR
SELLERS OF CRACK.
I PLEDGE TO YOU TO CHANGE THE ODDS TO PRODUCE A CALIFORNIA
WHERE WOMEN WILL NO LONGER FEAR THE NIGHT, BECAUSE WE HAVE MADE THE
DEALERS AND CRIMINALS FEAR THE LAW.
THANK YOU.
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Pete GOVERNOR WILL SON
SHERIFF'S ENDORSING PETE WILSON FOR GOVERNOR
William Amis -- Merced County
Fred Garrison Calaveras County
Mike Blanusa -Tehama County
Tom Clark -- Kings County
Robert Coane -- Tuolumne County
D.B. "Bud" Cook -- Monterey County
Robert Day -- Yuba County
Brad Gates -- Orange County
William L. Heafey -- Nevada County
Dick Michaelsen -- Sonoma County
Alfred Noren -- Santa Cruz
Richard Rainey -- Contra Costa
Mike Ross -- Del Norte
Gary Simpson -- Napa County
Floyd Tidwell -- San Bernardino County
Jim Trevena -- Stanislaus County
Edward Williams -- San Luis Obispo County
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
Pete GOVERNOR WIL SON
LAW ENFORCEMENT ORGANIZATIONS ENDORSING PETE WILSON FOR GOVERNOR
Peace Officers Research Association of California (PORAC)
California Police Chiefs Association
National Latino Peace Officers Association
California Council of Police and Sheriffs
California State Police Association
California Criminal Investigators Association
San Diego Police Officers Association
Los Angeles County Police Chiefs Association
Sacramento County Deputy Sheriffs' Association
Association of Orange County Deputy Sheriffs
San Diego Deputy District Attorneys Association
Citizens for Law and Order
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
Pete GOVERNOR SON
WILSON VISITS ST. AGNOS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL & OVERFELT HIGH SCHOOL;
OUTLINES DRUG BILL, TEACHES DARE ANTI-DRUG CLASS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Bill Livingstone
May 29, 1990
(619) 260-1990
CONCORD -- California Senator Pete Wilson today visited the
St. Agnos School, where he outlined legislation to require random
drug testing for first time drivers license applicants as a means
to prevent students from using illegal drugs.
"You cannot dull your young minds with illegal substances
and hope to compete in the world of tomorrow," Wilson told the
young students. "You must take charge of your future by making
the right decisions, by turning away from the lure of drugs."
Wilson said he would seek to enact the legislation if he
were elected governor. First time drivers license applicants who
failed a random test would forfeit the right to receive a license
for at least a year.
"Young students will have to choose between illegal drugs
and the legal privilege of driving," Wilson said.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration (NHTSA), up to 22 percent of all drivers involved
in an accident have drugs in their system. The Los Angeles
Police Department estimates that 20 percent of the drivers
arrested for driving while impaired are under the influence of
drugs other than alcohol.
Wilson's legislation would be patterned after the federal
law he authored in 1988, which authorized spending $5 million to
set up voluntary pilot programs in four different regions of the
country to randomly test first-time drivers license applicants.
Last year the Senate passed funding for the legislation, but
the House of Representatives failed to give its approval.
Before addressing the student body at St. Agnos, Wilson
stopped by a sixth grade classroom that is participating in the
Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program.
"This program instills feelings of self-worth in students
and teaches them good habits before bad ones can be learned,"
Wilson said.
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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
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Last year Wilson authored legislation to provide $10 million
to school districts to help fund DARE programs throughout the
United States.
Overfelt High School
After visiting St. Agnos School, Wilson traveled to Overfelt
High School in San Jose, where he taught a civics class, toured a
computer classroom, and met with teachers, administrators and
parents about his educational platform.
"The ultimate weapon in the fight against drugs is the
education of youngsters," Wilson said. "The interdiction of
drugs before they enter our cities and streets will help with the
problem. But education can greatly reduce demand, which is the
only way we'll get ahead in the drug war."
Wilson praised Overfelt's tutor program with IBM to help
prevent students from dropping out, and its student peer tutoring
program.
Overfelt is currently negotiating a contract with Digital
Corporation to install new computer equipment to more efficiently
administer school programs.
Last December, as part of his gubernatorial platform, Wilson
called for the integration of county and other local social
service agencies with school-based health program to help kids
overcome personal problems that can impair their ability to
learn.
"Early counseling of the very young can make the difference
between a successful education and falling behind and dropping
out of school in later years," Wilson said.
Wilson also proposed that all California women receive
adequate prenatal care, calling it perhaps the best investment we
can make.
"The first step in creating the optimum environment for
child development is to create a healthy child," Wilson said.
As governor, Wilson said he also would encourage mentor
programs as a valuable adjunct outside the classroom.
Finally, to coordinate the many proposals, Wilson said he
would appoint a cabinet-level secretary of child development and
services.
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Pete GOVERNOR WILSON
WILSON CALLS FOR TOUGHER PENALTIES FOR SELLING DRUGS NEAR SCHOOLS
AND RECREATIONAL AREAS; ENDORSED BY LA COUNTY POLICE CHIEFS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Bill Livingstone
July 9, 1990
(619) 260-1990
LOS ANGELES -- After teaching an anti-drug abuse class
(DARE) at the Hoover Street Elementary School, gubernatorial
candidate U.S. Senator Pete Wilson today called for much stiffer
penalties for selling dangerous drugs on or near a school or
recreation area.
"Penalties for selling drugs at schools and parks, where
children congregate, are too lenient and fail to offset in any
way the enormous profits that can be made by traffickers," Wilson
said.
Under current law, an adult, who is at least five years
older, selling crack to a minor on or near a school, during
school hours can be sentenced up to 15 years in prison.
But if it's not crack, not during school hours, and the
adult is less than five years older than the minor, the sentence
can be as little as three years. With time off for good
behavior, a dealer may serve as few as 18 months.
"It shouldn't make any difference what time of day or how
much older a dealer is or if it is crack or PCP, Wilson said.
"An adult selling any major drug to a minor, any time of the day
on or near a school or recreation area, should receive the same
harsh punishment.
Specifically, Wilson proposed:
Eliminating penalties based on how much older an adult
is than a minor, when an adult sells drugs to a minor;
Expanding the additional penalty for selling drugs on or
near a school or playground to other areas where minors
congregate, such as video arcades, public swimming
pools, and parks;
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Applying the additional penalty for selling crack on or
near a school or playground to include all narcotics;
** Applying the additional penalty for selling drugs on or
near schools or recreational areas 24 hours a day, not
just during school hours.
** Increasing the maximum penalty by five years, to a
total of 20 years, for selling narcotics on or near
a school or recreational area.
Wilson said selling drugs is not a crime of passion, but a
crime for profit.
"It's time we take the profit out of selling drugs, not by
legalizing drugs, as some have suggested, but by changing the
odds to increase the risks to traffickers," Wilson said.
Wilson Wins Police Chiefs Endorsement
At the press conference, Wilson also received the formal
endorsement of the Los Angeles Police Chiefs Association.
According to the Association's President, Azusa Chief of
Police Lloyd J. Wood, who attended the press conference:
"Many have talked a good game about their law
enforcement credentials, but none have produced the way
you [Wilson] have. You have been on our side for over
20 years, and we are proud to endorse your candidacy
and to be on your side during this campaign."
Last Thursday (7/5/90), Wilson received the formal
endorsement of the San Diego County Police Chiefs' & Sheriff's
Association, and the San Diego County Deputy District Attorneys
Association.
Also attending the press conference were Bell Chief of
Police Manuel Ortega, Signal Hill Chief of Police Michael
McCrary, South Pasadena Chief of Police William Reese, and Covina
Chief of Police John Lentz.
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Pete GOVERNOR WIL SON
WILSON ANNOUNCES LEGISLATIVE PROPOSAL TO INCREASE PENALTIES
FOR RAPE AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Bill Livingstone
June 25, 1990
(619) 260-1990
LOS ANGELES -- In front of the Los Angeles County Central
Jail, gubernatorial candidate U.S. Senator Pete Wilson today
called for stiffer penalties to protect women from rape and
domestic violence.
"California's laws must be reformed to deliver swift, just,
and `lasting punishment to the perpetrators of violent crime
against women," Wilson said.
In Los Angeles alone, 2,000 women will be raped in 1990. In
California today, law enforcement will receive 500 reports of
domestic violence. Close to 200,000 domestic violence reports
will be made before year's end, of which only 16,000 will result
in arrest.
Wilson's proposal -- called the California Act for the
Prevention of Sex Crimes and Domestic Violence -- would triple
penalties for violent sex crimes, require convicted sex offenders
to pay restitution to their victims, increase prosecution in
domestic violence cases, and expand domestic violence shelters
and treatment programs.
"This is an important step toward ending the pain and agony
suffered by nearly 12,000 rape victims and hundreds of thousands
of sexual abuse and battery victims in California every year,"
Wilson said.
Specifically, Wilson's proposal would eliminate "first-tier"
penalties that currently allow convicted sex offenders to serve
as little as three years in prison.
It would triple second- and third-tier penalties for rape,
sodomy and other sex crimes, increasing minimum sentences to 18
and 24 years respectively.
"The practical effect of these reforms is that if you are
convicted of rape you will face a minimum sentence of 18 years,"
Wilson said.
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The proposal also would require convicted sex offenders to
pay restitution to their victims for medical costs, therapy and
rehabilitation, and other losses incurred by the victim as a
result of the offense.
"Although monetary relief cannot remove the scars of violent
assault, in addition to a long prison term, we must insist sex
offenders atone for their actions by paying restitution to their
victims," Wilson said.
Wilson's proposal would address domestic violence by
authorizing a demonstration program that would require arrest in
certain cases of domestic violence, increase penalties for
spousal abuse, and expand domestic violence shelter and treatment
programs.
"As a nation, we historically have turned the other cheek to
domestic violence, considering it a matter best left to the
family," Wilson said. "We must bring this violent crime out of
the bedroom and into the courtroom."
Research strongly suggests that mandatory arrest, has a
strong deterrent value to ending repeated abuse, Wilson
explained.
Wilson noted that domestic violence shelters in California
turn away two women for every one they accept. (There are 60
shelters statewide.)
"Current facilities are inadequate. We can and must do
better," Wilson said. "Once. a women has taken the courageous
step of leaving her abusive partner, we must provide her with a
safe, supportive environment."
Wilson cosponsored legislation introduced last week in the
U.S. Senate to toughen federal penalties for rape and create new
penalties for repeat sex offenders. He said similar legislation
is needed at the state level.
Joining Wilson at the press conference today included Los
Angeles Deputy District Attorney Sterling Norris, rape victim
Tamra Wimler, Deputy District Attorney Gloria Michaels
(representing Women Prosecutors of California), Los Angeles
County Deputy District Attorney Carol Rose (Chair, Long Beach
Council on Sexual Assaults), Azusa Chief of Police and President
of Los Angeles County Chiefs of Police Lloyd Wood, San Diego
County Deputy District Attorney Gloria Michaels, crime victim
Colleen Campbell, Bell Chief of Police Manuel Ortega, Glendale
Chief of Police David Thompson, and Deputy District Attorney
Larry Donoghue (Head of Sexual Assault and Child Abuse Unit,
Comption office of the L.A. District Attorneys Office).
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WILSON CHARGES DEMOCRATS WITH BURYING ANTI-CRIME LEGISLATION;
ENDORSES REPUBLICAN LEGISLATIVE PACKAGE TO FIGHT CRIME
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Bill Livingstone
August 20, 1990
(619) 260-1990
SACRAMENTO -- Saying that Democrats are to blame for
systematically blocking important anti-crime legislation,
gubernatorial candidate U.S. Senator Pete Wilson today joined
Republican members of the Senate and Assembly to endorse an
all-out effort to pass bills before the end of the session to
reform our judicial system and toughen penalties for violent
crime.
"For more more than twenty years, Democrats in our State
Legislature have refused to give California the kind of criminal
law our district attorneys, police officers and sheriffs have
begged for," Wilson said. "As a consequence, our laws are
toothless and our streets are made more dangerous.'
Wilson said it's wrong when women and children fear to walk
at night. Instead, criminals should fear the law.
To make California as safe as it can be, Wilson said the
State needs to make its laws more in-line with federal laws,
which are much stricter.
As governor, Wilson said he would support anti-crime
legislation, as proposed by Republican members of the Senate and
Assembly, which would:
Prevent unlimited delay in capital punishment cases
by reforming Habeas Corpus procedures;
Allow for the death penalty during an unlawful drug
transaction murder;
Increase the minimum penalty for murder;
Increase the penalty for the murder of children
under seven;
Deny probation and prohibit suspension of a sentence for
drug offenses involving methamphetamine and other
controlled substances.
If Democrats continue to abdicate their responsibility to
pass needed anti-crime legislation, Wilson said, as governor, he
would resort to the initiative process, which he predicted would
be successful.
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The public, by voting overwhelmingly in support of the
Speedy Trial initiative last June, demonstrated they want reforms
in our criminal justice system and they want get tough on
criminals, Wilson explained.
"The public is at patience' end with Democrats bottling-up
legislation in Sacramento," Wilson said. "If they continue to
delay, we will act. We can't afford to have California at the
mercy of thugs and rapists."
Among the measures, as governor, Wilson would propose to the
legislature for enactment include:
** DRUG BAIL -- Authorize judges to deny bail to drug
traffickers who constitute a major threat to society;
** RAPE AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE -- Require a minimum
sentence of 18 years for rape, and require sex offenders
to pay restitution to their victims;
** TRUTH IN SENTENCING -- End the current practice of
allowing convicted felons to serve only half the time
to which they are sentenced;
** DEATH PENALTY -- Extend capital punishment to major
drug traffickers.
At the press conference were Lt. Governor candidate Senator
Marian Bergeson, Assembly Republican Leader Ross Johnson,
Assemblywomen Carol Bentley, Assemblyman Tim Leslie, Assemblyman
Curt Pringle, Assemblyman Jeff Marston, Assemblyman Pat Nolan,
and Detective Steve Baker, father of two boys murdered by Robert
Alton Harris over 11 years ago.
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REMARKS OF U.S. SENATOR PETE WILSON
BEFORE THE CALIFORNIA PEACE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION
MAY 7. 1990
Thank you for the very kind introduction.
As I appear here today, I am wearing two hats in a sense:
As your Senator and as a candidate for Governor. so, I thought
that I would start my remarks today with a brief update on what
is on -- and not on -- the Senate's agenda in the area of law
enforcement, and then talk at some greater length about the
campaign.
The Senate's Democratic leadership believes that there is
no need to consider crime legislation anytime soon. Indeed,
while it was first scheduled for late last year, it has been
put off and put off and put off.
And what is it that the Democrat's feel is unnecessary:
Well, there is habeas corpus reform -- which if it were on the
books would likely have prevented Robert Alton Harris from
obtaining one more delay.
Another issue the Democrat's do not want to address is
restoration of the general federal death penalty - -- for killing
the President, or murdering a federal law enforcement officer,
or killing someone during a skyjacking. For the Democrats,
this is not a pressing issue.
And there is a proposal to authorize the death penalty for
major drug dealers -- the kingpins. For the Democrats, this is
not a pressing issue.
Another issue is reform of the exclusionary rule. We
cannot expect police officers to go out day after day, busting
their humps, when the law presumes that they are intentionally
trying to subvert the constitution.
When a cop makes a search, we should give him or her the
benefit of the doubt: If it was an otherwise reasonable search
but no warrant was sought, we should allow a good faith
exception to the exclusionary rule.
The present rule presumes that the cop wanted to break the
law and invade someone's privacy. That's not fair to society
-- because the criminal goes free -- and it is not fair to the
cop, who sees his case go down the tubes because of a technical
mistake.
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For the Democrats, this is not a pressing issue.
What's pressing for Democrate? On what has the
Democratic leadership focused its attention? Hatch Act
changes to allow federal employee unions to engage in
politics on the job, and using taxpayer money to finance
congressional campaigns.
These are not my priorities, and they certainly are not
the priorities of the American people.
This is an election year -- as some of you may have
guessed.
As the campaigns have gotten into gear, the focus has
been on the records of the candidates -- as it should be.
After all, the past is the prologue to the future.
I am proud of my record of performance: 24 years of a
pro-law enforcement record that has earned me a large number
of endorsements from California law enforcement groups --
indeed, the lion's share of endorsements.
I am proud of these endorsements, as I would be proud of
yours.
My opponents, too, have been talking about their
records, and frankly, I am eager to have you compare our
records.
Let's focus today on two key elements of our records
that tell a lot about what kind of governors we would be.
One, the death penalty, which has received the bulk of
attention, and the other, of equal significance, judicial
selection.
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First, the death penalty.
John VandeKamp has at least been candid that he does not
believe in the death penalty and therefore could not and
would not, as a matter of conscience, have voted for it as a
legislator.
Does that mean that as governor, he could not and would
not, as a matter of conscience, sign into law needed new
protections that would extend the death penalty to the murder
of children under certain circumstances?
Evidently, because last year he refused to support the
enactment of that very law.
In testimony to the Congress, VandeKamp has termed
capital punishment a "barbaric notion.'
And yet the John Vandekamp of the moment is suddenly and
astonishingly positively strident in his demand for the
immediate execution of Robert Alton Harris without further
delay.
Are we to believe that this new found zeal will survive
his candidacy? After all, we are entitled to ask -- those of
us who believe that the death penalty is not a "barbaric
notion" but a needed deterrent -- because, while attorneys
general cannot commute sentences, governors can.
A governor who believes in the death penalty may in a
particular case find extenuating or mitigating circumstances
that would warrant commuting a sentence of capital
punishment.
But can a governor who does not as a matter of
conscience believe in the deaht penalty -- who in fact
believes it to be barbaric -- can such a governor ever in
good conscience impose the death penalty? How can he?
If John VandeKamp has indeed undergone conversion, he
should tell us. Let him announce to the world that he, too,
has joined Dianne Feinstein in the ranks of the converted, so
that she can no longer advertise that she is "the only
Democrat for Governor who supports the death penalty.'
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Dianne is a convert. Like John, she at one time felt
bound by moral and religious principles to oppose the death
penalty with rhetoric which quite emphatically forbade the
rest of us to support it:
"There is no moral or religious ground that gives you
the right to terminate the life of another human being."
Just how long it was after she issued that ringing
preachment that she underwent conversion is unknown. We know
only that the first public declaration of her support was
that made in the now-celebrated TV ad which ran in February,
announcing her candidacy for Governor to television viewers
just three short months ago.
The Mayor has said that much earlier, a conversation
with a parole candidate convinced her that capital punishment
is indeed a deterrent to the taking of life by criminals.
But nonetheless she maintained an uncharacteristic
public silence on this highly controversial subject all
through the '70s when embattled advocates for the death
penalty would have welcomed public support from her.
She did not urge Speaker Willie Brown, or President Pro
Tempore David Roberti or any other legislative friends to
support the death penalty.
She did not volunteer her services to death penalty
authors John Briggs or George Deukmejian.
She did not make speeches or write op-ed articles
arguing for its enactment, as I did.
She did not even express disagreement with her party's
platform spot. until a few weeks ago, after the running of the TV
Where has Dianne Feinstein been -- so quietly on this
vital question until so recently. Telling someone after the
fight is over that you were really on their side all the time
is rather cold comfort. It is certainly not remotely the
bold leadership which the Mayor promises on tough issues, and
this is one which, as of February, she professes to feel
passionately about.
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There is one fact more that is disconcertingly
inconsistent with the Mayor's recently announced fervor for
the death penalty. It is a fact which focuses on the linkage
between these two indicators of a governor's commitment to
law enforcement and public safety, the death penalty and the
appointment of judges.
If former Chief Justice Rose Bird stands for anything in
the minds of the people of California it is unyielding and
implacable opposition to capital punishment. Indeed she has
become virtually a symbol of hostility to the very concept.
There are no adjectives which can adequately describe the
zeal and energy of her opposition. Whether in the majority
or the dissent, she literally did not once fail to vote
against imposition of the death penalty -- be the specific
issue, admissibility of evidence, unequal protection of the
law, or whatever. The consistency of her opposition, I
believe, was complete, absolute.
That is what makes Dianne Feinstein's view of Rose Bird
so extraordinarily inconsistent.
John VandeKamp, though he decided to remain "neutral"
and not defend Rose Bird in the campaign to remove her from
the court, clearly admired the Chief Justice. He told the
Sacramento Bee that he saw her a
n
almost a Joan of
Arc
being burned at the stake
"
for her principles in
opposing the death penalty.
Given his hyperbolic admiration for her, it is not
surprising but consistent with his own deep-seated opposition
to the death penalty that John VandeKamp twice asked Rose
Bird to swear him into office.
But given Dianne Feinstein's much advertised support for
the death penalty, it seems downright incongruous that the
Mayor was sworn in by Rose Bird on three occasions.
What is even more difficult to reconcile is that at the
very moment when Rose Bird's removal was being sought in
largest part because of her intense hostility to capital
punishment, Dianne Feinstein proudly served as a co-chair and
fund-raiser for the campaign to keep Bird on the court!
How could Dianne Feinstein, holding passionately a
present pro-death penalty view, so recently be a leader in
support of retaining Rose Bird who was then and forever after
so passionately opposed to the death penalty?
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Where was that same leadership on behalf of enactment of
the death penalty? How could Dianne Feinstein be so vocal
and visible on behalf of Rose Bird, California Chief Critic
of the Death Penalty, and be as silent and invisible in
support of the death penalty? A champion of Rose Bird and
the death penalty? -- that's a living oxymoron.
Well, apart from Rose, what kind of judges would John
and Dianne appoint.
Mr. VandeKamp thought well enough of Jerry Brown's
judicial selections to give them sold "B to B plus" ratings.
Beware of easy graders.
Mayor Feinstein, ignoring the ethical duty to appoint
without condition judges who will discharge their oath to
apply the law as written fairly and impartially, has instead
pledged never to appoint judges who do not share her personal
pro-choice view.
I have been pro-choice all of my public life since my
vote for the California Therapeutic Abortion Act. But it is
the law -- specifically the right of privacy contained in the
California constitution -- which should and does guarantee
California women the right of reproductive choice, not the
Governor. personal views of the Governor or of judges appointed by the
Further Mayor Feinstein has promised to appoint judges
by quotas.
Let me offer you several contrasts -- in attitude and in
record of performance.
I was an early advocate of replacing the Bird court with
one devoted to the rule of law, and to protecting
Californians from becoming crime victims.
As early as 1982, I was even censured by the State Bar
delegates for having had the temerity to criticize Bird and
her rulings as having made California needlessly dangerous.
Much earlier than that, in fact for all my public life,
I have been a strong supporter of the death penalty.
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In the U.S. Senate, with Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, I put
into the federal criminal code a death penalty for the
slaying of a federal, state or local peace officer in the
course of a drug-related incident.
And knowing that there can be no deterrent effect from a
death penalty that is not enforced, I will -- with lead
sponsor Sen. Strom Thurmond -- offer the amendment required
to set a deadline for the filing of habeas corpus petitions
to six months after final review of trial error.
There must be an end to limitless appeals that make a
mockery of justice and of the vote of the people of
California twice for the protection of the death penalty.
Cases like that of Harris are more than an outrage; they
demoralize police officers and destroy the confidence of the
people that the criminal justice system can in fact protect
them.
My philosophy and practice of judicial appointments
offer further vivid contrast to the Jerry Brown-John
VandeKamp--Dianne Feinstein school of judicial selection.
You needn't take it on faith. As governor you can
expect me to continue the kind of judicial selection I am
proud of as a U.S. Senator. I will appoint mon and women of
the same quality and calibre those whom my recommendations
have placed upon the federal bench.
I believe in merit, not quotas. We should pick -- and I
have -- the best and brightest talent for appointment to the
bench, strict constructionists, scholars who apply the law
with fairness and integrity and with a decent concern for the
rights of victims as well as those of the accused.
I am proposing legislation to close a loophole in
federal law that some federal judges have used to avoid
imposing mandatory sentences. They have done this by
instructing the jury to take sentencing into account when
determining guilt or innocence, thereby inviting jury
nullification. My proposal would prevent this from
happening.
I have proposed a state truth-in-sentencing law that
would make criminals serve their real time of sentence
instead of automatically gaining half-time off.
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On the federal level, legislation I cosponsored
eliminated parole and established determinate, uniform
sentencing. This prevents convicted criminals from escaping
doing hard time for tough crime, and we need the same reform
on the state level.
Similarly, I propose California follow the realistic
federal reform of denying bail to drug kingpins.
I could go on about my record on other issues I know you
care deeply about: the doubling of federal benefits for
survivors of slain law enforcement officers, a rescuing and
expansion of the federal asset forfeiture program that has
provided millions of dollars to local law enforcement
agencies, the securing of a national set-aside of radio
frequencies for law enforcement and other emergency service
agencies.
But, what I wanted to speak to directly are the
fundamentals. In other words, my respect for the law. And
for that, I am not only proud of the positions I espouse, but
also the record of achievement I have compiled.
Thank you.
Wilson blends fiscal
Q:
The state faces a $3.6 billion
deficit starting July 1. What
do you do with a deficit of that
size?
caution, commitment
A:
You have the kind of a fiscal
planning process that allows
you sufficient early warning so
By George Raine
that you can make revisions in
OF THE EXAMINER STAFF
spending, or, if you come to the
If Sen. Pete Wilson becomes governor
conclusion that you need more
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revenues, in time to do that.
Q&A:
of California, look for a kind of govern-
The state's fiscal system is by
mental bouillabaisse, a place where
and large much better than the
spending is restrained and yet prena-
federal system. It could scarcely
WILSON
tal care joins the list of inalienable
be worse, except in one respect:
(The federal system) has achieved
rights.
a mechanism for mandatory
This is the agenda of a Republican
spending reductions.
proud of his annual "Golden Bulldog Award," from a
Gramm-Rudman, for all of the
group called Watchdogs of the Treasury, who moves
criticism, has worked. It has re-
easily among both the guardians of the environment
quired a significant decrease in
spending.
and of premature infants born addicted to cocaine.
Wilson, for whom the primary election field was
cleared of serious competition by the Republican Par-
Q:
You don't need
Gramm-Rudman in Califor-
ty, will face as his Democratic opponent either former
nia, right?
San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein or Attorney
A:
I think you do.
General John Van de Kamp. In a 90-minute interview
with Examiner editors and writers, he laid out a varied
Q:
But what would you do now,
assuming you were in office
program:
now and you were faced with this
California needs a mandatory spending control,
deficit? What is a prudent
exactly like the Gramm-Rudman device on the federal
course?
level, as a mechanism to meet the constitutional re-
A:
A prudent course is one that
would make the cuts with a
quirement to balance the budget.
minimum of pain to the most
Every uninsured California woman of childbear-
needy of recipients. I think there
ing age would get prenatal care, conservatively valued
is a significant difference between
at $1,700. Funding might come from the cigarette tax
COLAs (cost-of-living adjust-
monies, Proposition 99, and this plan "is a hell of a lot
ments) for programs and COLAs
for people. What we have now are
Blending caution with commitment
not just entitlements for people,
which we should honor to the
cheaper than failing to do it," so explosive is the number of
maximum extent we can, but as
damaged infants born to drug-addicted mothers, said Wil-
well we've got entitlements for
son.
programs. We have program
He would be reluctant to raise taxes and he opposes
growth that benefits the public,
but not necessarily the people who
the income tax boost that his two Democratic opponents
would fall, for example, in the cat-
favor — from 9.3 to 11 percent for people earning $100,000
egory of the needy, aged, blind and
or more. But he adds, "I will not say that I would forever
disabled. That's a very obvious,
foreclose the possibility of new revenue."
special category.
If additional taxes became necessary, public safety
would be a certain beneficiary, for Wilson has made crime
Q:
Does that include, if neces-
the centerpiece of his campaign.
sary, a tax increase of the
kind Van de Kamp or Feinstein
Wilson, who earned the enmity of conservatives by
are talking about? Moving the in-
declaring himself in favor of reproductive choice, proposes
come tax from 9 to 11 percent for
another social reform that interests moderates: the integra-
people earning $100,000 or more
tion of social services and education. This would be a kind
a year?
of health-watch in the schools, with county health-care
A:
:
I would not favor that. As
workers required to devote more attention to children.
you know, I have said I will
never say never. While I have a
"We need to find that little girl who is sitting there in the
long history of being reluctant to
corner for no apparent reason unable to learn we need
tax people at all levels
you
to know if it is because she is suffering depression, and we
can't responsibly at this point say
shouldn't wait to find that out when she is 16. We have to
that you will take a no-tax pledge.
find it out when she is 6 or 5 or 4," said Wilson.
2
What are your priorities and
ence most in need - young child-
- and in some cases very small. If
Q:
how would you fund them?
ren. That is because people who're
you are going to use the small-
supposed to provide these services
business man or woman as your
sit in an office somewhere, a coun-
vehicle, you can't expect them to
A:
:
First, to change the climate
in this state from one of need-
ty office, and they never get to
pay for it.
lessly dangerous streets and
where the kids are, which is in the
One of the more reasonable
schools.
propositions that I have seen
parks, homes and school yards to
So, what I have provided for is
would require some payment by
one of much great safety, to a
the creation of a cabinet-level po-
businesses of a certain size. It
much more drug-free society.
Parts of it have definite cost
sition, a secretary of child devel-
would require that those not able
implications. If you are going to
opment.
What I've spoken of is
to afford it would be subsidized by
bring truth in sentencing, if you
a health watch in each school.
general fund revenue sources.
are going to have mandatory min-
What you are doing is better inte-
grating the delivery of service by
Q
Surveys done recently re-
imum sentences, if you are going
garding the Deukmejian ad-
to knock out the 50-50 good time-
compelling a coordination be-
ministration show that people
work time, very clearly that pro-
tween the school principal and
want activism. They want vitality
longs the time served (and means)
whoever is directing mental
in California government. What
more prisons, which is why I sup-
health services.
are you going to deliver?
port the $900 million bond issue
We have all heard countless
A:
That has been my history in
for new prison construction
stories about the wonderful school
the role of chief executive.
The rest has to come out of the
nurse that has saved some child
I am attracted to the executive
general fund.
from being thought retarded, just
role because it does afford you the
by discovering the kid had a hear-
opportunity to be the policy lead-
Q:
Does something else get cut?
ing problem or vision problem.
er, to implement the policy. It is a
Well, I am convinced that we need
role for an activist.
to go a step beyond that and find
I think the challenges the
A
:
If we were left to that, I
that the little girl who is sitting
state faces are going to require an
would have to say yes, but I'm
there in the corner for no appar-
activist governor. The priorities
not sure that we are left to that.
ent reason unable to learn is just
that I have - crime and drugs
I think that it is possible that in
in some sort of a funk. We need to
Education is an area in which
the initial period you would not
know if it's because she is suffer-
there is going to have to be a great
need a specific increase in a sepa-
ing depression and we shouldn't
deal of activism. We have an
rate revenue source for that pur-
wait to find that out when she is
intolerable dropout rate, and obvi-
pose. However, over time, con-
16, we have to find it out when she
ously it is aggravated in certain
ceivably you could.
is 6 or 5 or 4.
ethnic groups. It is unfair to the
Other than crime, what are
kids. It is unfair to society, to em-
Q:
Q:
Could these services be deliv-
your priorities?
ered with existing taxes?
ployers.
You can't realistically talk
A
Prenatal care. Conservative-
A
I think they are going to cost
about California or America being
ly, it's $1,700 (for every wom-
some money but I don't think
competitive in the international
an)
I think that women who
they are going to cost a great deal.
marketplace if you've got kids who
are not presently covered by some
are dropping out of school. We
other program should be (cov-
Q:
How might you provide
will not reverse that by a welter of
ered) by reallocation of Prop. 99
health care for the unin-
programs that are directed at high
(cigarette tax) funds.
sured?
school students. You have to start
Instead of waiting for women
A:
I do not want to see a
very, very early, with prenatal
who have not had prenatal care to
so-called single-payer system
care, then with preschool.
come into an emergency room and
by order of the U.K. or the Cana-
I noted that Dianne (Feinstein)
have a baby very likely to need
dian system. Instead, we should
has picked up on that as well.
some neonatal intensive care,
continue with a system that relies
You've got to make sure you've
spend the money in a preventive
primarily upon the mechanism of
got kids entering the classroom
fashion and you'll have healthier
employment-based health insur-
who are healthy enough to con-
mothers, much healthier babies
ance. So that you make use of the
centrate and motivated enough to
and you can never do more than
apparatus that you have. You've
learn. And if they are, they will
estimate what the savings will be.
got employers as a means by
stay
As it is, we've got an aw-
I'm convinced they will be im-
which insurance carriers can pro-
ful lot of kids whose horizons go
mense.
vide coverage, and you've got a
no further than dropping out of
private health-care system that
school and becoming a pregnant
Q:
What would your plan for
can be involved.
teen-age mother or a drug-gang
the integration of social ser-
The next question and the crit-
member.
vices and education look like?
ical one is how you pay for it.
A:
In every county, you've got
The millions of new jobs that were
services being provided for
created in this state and across
which you are already paying tax-
the country (in the past decade)
es.
In many cases they're not
were created by small businesses
reaching what I think is the audi-
Q:
All three of you look at the
state and see a fairly similar
PETE WILSON
analysis of what the problems are
- the horrendous dropout rates,
Born: Aug. 23, 1933, Lake
congressional pay raises, do-
environmental problems, growth
Forest, Ill.
nating his additional income to
control, crime.
College: Yale University,
chairity. He wrote legislation
And you have
different ideas about how to at-
B.A., 1955; UC-Berkeley, Boalt
increasing the military's role in
tack those problems. But some
Hall, J.D., 1962.
drug interdiction, and a federal
Home: Washington, D.C.,
capital punishment statute
people who have thought about
and San Diego
covering drug-related murders.
the future of the state say none of
Career: U.S. Marine Corps,
He introduced the first Califor-
you has really come close to
I've been reading about those
1955-58; private law practice,
nia Coastal Commission bill in
A:
people, those pundits pontifi-
San Diego, 1963-66; California
the Assembly.
cating. They aren't reading what
Assembly, 1966-71 (Assembly
Awards: Named Legislator of
any of us are saying.
minority whip, 1967-69); may-
the Year in 1985 by the Cali-
I read what some of these peo-
or of San Diego, 1971-83; U.S.
fornia League of Cities, the
Senator, 1983-present.
first federal official to earn the
ple are saying, saying we are not
addressing the problems of the
Career highlights and inter-
distinction. Regular recipient
ests: A fiscal conservative, he
of the "Golden Bulldog Award"
black and the poor and they are
concentrating on the white middle
has opposed a number of con-
from a national business and
gressional privileges. He has
chamber of commerce group,
class. It isn't the white middle
class, for the most part, that's
endeavored to curb mailing
Watchdogs of the Treasury.
dropping out. It is not the white
privileges for members' news-
Family: Married to Gayle
middle class who are predomi-
letters, and he has objected to
Wilson, who has two sons,
nantly the victims of crime. It is
Todd and Philip.
the not the white middle class, for
EXAMINER GRAPHICS
the most part, who are becoming
pick up on that fact. And yet these
teen mothers. If they are going to
But that's expensive.
make the criticism, they ought to
same people making these com-
ments absolutely tune out if any-
at least read the speeches.
DD
Yeah, it is. But it's a hell of a
I think many of the commenta-
one starts talking about things
lot cheaper than failing to do
tors are not focusing very realisti-
they think are tough law and or-
it, because for every addicted new-
der. They find that for some rea-
cally on what's wrong with the
born in a neonatal intensive-care
state. By God, if they are obsessed
son unresponsive in the real
unit, you could put four drug-us-
world.
with a statistic that three times as
ing pregnant women through drug
many young black men will be
But go into the ghetto and by
rehabilitation.
murdered as enter the UC system,
God, it's very responsive. That's
where the crime victims are. I
Q:
How do you convince Pat
then they ought to ask why. And
think they need to understand
Nolan or a generation of Re-
how you change that.
The answer is you change it in
you have to both build prisons,
publican assemblymen who don't
a couple of ways. It is obviously
change sentencing, start denying
want to spend a cent on any-
bail to traffickers. You have to do
thing?
much better to engage in preven-
tion than in the kind of remedial
all these things at the same time
A
:
What convinces everyone are
action that is necessarily less cost
that you're offering preschool to
the inescapable numbers.
effective and less humane. I'd
4-year-olds, that you are having
I had a letter a year ago, I
much rather finance physics labs
early mental health counseling to
guess, from a young woman doc-
than build prisons. But you have
identify problems with kinder-
tor, chief of OB/GYN at Harbor-
to take the world as you find it.
gartners.
UCLA. She said the increase in
the incidence of addicted new-
And what you've got to do is
Q:
It's expensive. How do you
borns is occurring at a logarithmic
two things. There is a generation
exercise the leadership to get
rate - that in 1985 in L.A. Coun-
in which some of the older
that money or convince people?
ty, there were about 500 addicted
brothers will be in prison and we
A:
:
Part of it is leadership. You
newborns, and the next year there
need to generate a hope that the
just put your finger on it. The
were over a thousand and the next
baby brother will be one of the UC
most deeply disturbing aspect of
year, over 1,500 and the next year
admissions. The reason you've got
drug trafficking has been the ex-
over 2,500 and the projection was
three times as many black kids
plosion of crack use among young
that early in the '90e, LA. alone
murdered in largest measure is be-
women of childbearing age spe-
would be producing 10,000. Well,
cause of the drug trafficking.
cifically, the epidemic of addiction
that isn't just L.A. and it isn't just
Now you'd have to be a much-
among newborns
We can't
Harbor-UCLA and it isn't just the
less-than-casual observer not to
simply shrug it off when a woman
inner city. It's St. Francis, Alta
has an addicted child. You have to
Bates in Oakland
in Fresno at
see to it that she does not have an-
Valley Medical Center you see
other. What that means is you
newborns addicted at the rate of
have to afford treatment, to get
25 percent.
her clean.
We have found the estimated
The environmental czar?
cost of state and local agencies,
foster care, welfare, compensatory
D.D.O.
Yeah, I agree he needs a new
(education) costs - not the real
job but not that one. The rea-
long-term health costs, which are
son is very simple. The governor
much greater, but just the predict-
ought to be the environmental
able special added costs for an ad-
czar, and I intend to be.
dicted child - run about $130,000
No. 2, the creation of a new bu-
a year on through adolescence,
reaucracy with little responsibility
and that's why suddenly it begins
other than bringing lawsuits, with
to make sense
What you're
$40 million to spend on that, is
talking about is prevention. The
anathema to me.
costs of failing to do it are that you
What is necessary
is
to
have this explosion.
bring together under one roof all
There may very well be people
the different agencies having re-
who say, why in the name of God
sponsibilities for environmental
should we be spending this kind of
money when we are unable to pro-
protection and require that they
be answerable to and accountable
vide health care to those who are
to a cabinet-level officer. We're
uninsured? And it's a very good
question. The answer is, you're
going to have a California EPA
and transfer to that the functions
not going to shoot those drug ba-
bies and you're not going to sim-
of all the different agencies.
ply ignore them. And they are go-
Q=
The question, really, is who
ing to cost a fortune, and the way
are you politically?
to prevent there being more of
them is to rehabilitate their moth-
A:
There is a stereotype under-
ers. And if it's against your will,
standably and widely project-
and it has to be, it's not punish-
ed by Democrats that Republi-
ment; it's preventive, and it's an
cans are uncaring. The fact of the
essential if we are not to see utter
matter is they care passionately
chaos.
and have been pioneers in many
areas
Q=
You feel pretty passionately
I am a conservative Republican
about that. You also feel pas-
and certainly I have been very
sionately about the environment,
tight with people's tax dollars
but do not support "Big Green."
But, No. 1, I am moved by com-
I'm wondering why. Can you still
passion and concern
be an environmental governor
But even if you are not moved
A:
When Big Green had first
by compassion, and you should
been effectively written - -
be, then you ought to be moved by
and we ought to give credit where
the sheer irresistible requirements
credit is due and call it Hayden-
of financing a problem if you don't
Van de Kamp - Tom Hayden
deal with it and reverse it.
largely wrote it with the Sierra
Club and the League of Conserva-
tion Voters, and when they fin-
ished it, they afforded an opportu-
nity for participation of a kind,
which included financial partici-
pation.
$100,000?
DD
Yeah. And they said they'd
like me to be involved. We
said, let us take a look at it. It was
pretty much a take-it-or-leave-it
proposition, though. We said, look
there are parts of this that are
bad, parts that are innocuous, but
one thing that I find absolutely
unacceptable. It is obnoxious to
me and it's just bad government.
And that, it turned out, was a pro-
vision that was nearest and dear-
est to Hayden's heart. His effort
to create his next job.
L.A.Times
8.790
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 Democratic 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
ishe has sensed the voters'
twice, while many of his col-
behalf of the thrifts.
LATIMES July 18, '90
In her absence, Feinstein's cam-
paign staff also accused Wilson of
fire from Wilson late last month,
doing precisely what he accuses
Feinstein said she did not consider
Wilson Uses Quota
the former San Francisco mayor of
her proposal to be a quota system,
doing-supporting proportional
which she defined as one excluding
Issue in New TV Ad
representation of women and mi-
certain groups of people.
norities in government.
"Mr. Wilson has never known a
quota. I know what a quota is," she
Attacking Feinstein
They circulated copies of an
said. Her campaign staff later said
affirmative action plan used in San
Feinstein was referring to her
Diego during Wilson's tenure as
exclusion from private school as a
By CATHLEEN DECKER
mayor. The program's objective, as
youngster. The exclusion occurred
TIMES POLITICAL WRITER
set out in city documents, was to
because Feinstein is Jewish.
"make city employment
con-
The gubernatorial campaign squabble over
Wilson, in previous public com-
sistent with the minority composi-
appointing women and minorities to
ments, has suggested that by
tion of the city of San Diego."
government jobs-and whether that
promising a certain proportion of
constitutes a quota system-spills onto
jobs to certain groups, Feinstein
California's airwaves today when Republican
L
ivingstone said that plan, even
was de-emphasizing the individual
Pete Wilson accuses Democrat Dianne
though its objective is almost
merits of job-seekers. His cam-
Feinstein in a television commercial of
exactly that espoused by Feinstein,
paign ad underscores that senti-
planning to put "quotas over qualifications" if
was not a quota system. "That is a
ment, asking in its punch line
goal, not something that would
whether California can "afford a
she is elected governor.
The new 30-second ad hammering on an
happen immediately," he said of
governor who puts quotas over
the San Diego plan. "Wilson didn't
qualifications and promises over
area where Republicans hope Feinstein will be
vulnerable was expected to be aired on some
go to black groups and promise
performance."
them 7% of the jobs."
small stations Tuesday night, and will expand
Wilson aides refused to disclose
to television markets across the state by today.
The candidates have been bick-
how much they intend to spend on
Wilson, who is in Washington while the U.S.
ering for weeks over whether
the advertisement, except to de-
Senate is in session, had no direct comment on
Feinstein's pledge represents a
scribe the cost as substantial.
the ad, but his campaign spokesman accused
quota system or is more akin to
The strategy represents a calcu-
Feinstein of "pandering" to voting groups by
traditional affirmative action pro-
lated gamble. Summer is generally
promising to appoint women and minorities in
grams, which emphasize goals and
thought to be a season in which
proportion to their share of the state's
objectives over specific numbers.
voters are not paying attention.
population.
At the root of the dispute is each
But Wilson is apparently hoping
"She made those promises to get more
candidate's desire to appeal to
that he can do what Democrat
Please see QUOTAS, A17
diverse segments of the voting
Edmund G. Brown Jr. did in 1978
public-and particularly to women,
against Republican Evelle Youn-
who constitute more than half of
ger-hit his opponent early and
the electorate.
hard. Brown won that election.
The Wilson ad, notably, is being
Another candidate in recent
launched at the same time that
months launched a commercial
QUOTAS:
Republicans statewide begin to
that delivered a lead in the polls
emphasize the role of women and
that held until Election Day. That
the party's opposition to quotas. At
was Feinstein, who won the prima-
Wilson Attacks
the state GOP convention this
ry largely on the strength of a
week in Wilson's hometown of San
February commercial touting her
Diego, prominent Republican
leadership in the aftermath of the
Feinstein in Ad
women such as Secretary of Labor
assassination of San Francisco
Elizabeth Dole are expected to
Mayor George Moscone.
blast quota systems as demeaning.
The issue was first raised in the
Continued from A3
votes," said Bill Livingstone, Wil-
closing days of the primary cam-
son's spokesman.
paign, when Feinstein explained
Other
women would find it very distaste-
how she would handle appoint-
ful to have been given a job
ments at all levels of government,
[because of] a quota system."
from her office staff to judges and
department heads.
Feinstein's campaign immedi-
"Fairness is part of the dream,"
ately accused Wilson of "distorting
she told black audiences in Los
the issue."
"She voted against quotas when
Angeles on Memorial Day week-
end. "That is one of the reasons we
she was mayor," said Feinstein's
spokeswoman, Dee Dee Myers, cit-
have pledged an open and accessi-
ble administration. That is one of
ing her 1980 opposition to a San
Francisco City Charter revision
the reasons we have pledged to
that contained appointment quotas.
appoint women in proportion to
Feinstein also could not be
their parity of the population-
50%.
reached for comment. She traveled
Tuesday to Washington, where she
"To appoint people of color in
has scheduled a series of fund-rais-
proportion to their parity of the
population. To see that the admin-
ers.
istration is open.
That is the
agenda."
When the proposal came under
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Feinstein's quota problem
Dianne Feinstein played gender pol-
Feinstein's plan also is intellectually
itics and got away with it in the Demo-
dishonest. She makes it seem as if her
cratic primary. She told fellow party
by-the-numbers approach would blaze
members to choose her because she
new trails for women and minorities:
was a woman, and, evidently, that's
"an example of openness, of fairness,
why a lot of them did. But now she's
of justice and of economic opportuni-
getting some of the criticism she de-
ty," she called it last month.
serves for her scheme to guarantee wo-
But her proposal would apply only
men and minorities a certain number
to a small elite among women and
of jobs in her administration.
minorities - those who have reached
Her Republican rival, Sen. Pete Wil-
a position of influence or visibility that
son, says he would choose the most
would make them likely candidates for
-qualified people rather than order that
swomen or people of a particular race
a gubernatorial appointment. For the
fill a certain number of positions. And
great majority of people who have not
he has quickly spotted the potential of
reached this high plateau of influence
Feinstein's proposal as a campaign is-
and who may indeed be struggling
sue. On Saturday, he lambasted Fein-
against discrimination in hiring and
promotions, Feinstein's plan offers on-
-stéin for pledging last month to reserve
:half the jobs in her administration for
ly symbolic relief, and not much of
that.
women and to appoint minorities in
direct measure to the percentage of the
It's likely that Wilson has the major-
state's population.
ity of voters with him on this issue.
unfair
As Wilson said Saturday, Feinstein's
Even in San Francisco, Feinstein's
plan would potentially insult the wo-
hometown and a city with a solidly
men and minorities selected for im-
liberal reputation, preferential treat-
portant state positions. A quota sys-
ment for women and minorities is not
tem makes it appear that the people
a popular idea: Last week, voters there
filling the jobs aren't necessarily the
rejected a ballot measure for gender
ones most qualified for them, whether
balance on city boards and commis-
or not the perception is true. And it
sions by an overwhelming margin. San
would overly complicate the job of fill-
Franciscans seem old-fashioned
ing top state jobs - an effort that
enough to believe that people should
should have the simple, race-blind and
be hired on merit, and most Califor-
gender-blind goal of getting the best
nians would undoubtedly agree with
people.
them.
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Quotas
June 25, 1990
90-115
During the primary, Dianne Feinstein promised to give women half of
the jobs In her administration and to hire members of ethnic minority
groups in direct proportion to their representation In the population.
There's a word for that kind of rigid, numerical hiring -- "quotas."
KNX has another word for It -- offensive,
Given the firestorm of controversy her campaign pledge has generated,
the Democratic gubernatorial nominee may regret that she ever uttered
the "Q"_word. We at KNX certainly do.
Feinstein's promise has emboldened other well-intentioned liberals to
mount simHar proposals In the Legislature ; both the Assembly and
the state Senate are now debating variations on the quota theme.
The problem is that, while quotas sound good, they don't work. Under
a quota system, a job applicant's gender or the color of his skin become
just as Important as his or her qualifications -- maybe more so. And
that's the antithesis of the color-blind merit system which should be
the goal of a truly non-discriminetory society.
Quotas Insult the very people they purport to assist, by giving the
Impression that those workers owe their jobs to the quota, not their
own talent and initiative. They breed resentment, and tokenism and
mediocrity.
If she's elected, KNX hopes Felnstein will mount the most aggressive
affirmative action effort ever seen, Interviewing candidates of every
race, creed and color. Then we hope she'll hire only the most
qualified.
That's what equal opportunity is all about, Dianne. Quotas are for
parking tickets, not people.
KNX Radio weicomes editorial replies by qualified persons to maintain fairness and balance in the presentation of public issues.
George Nicholaw, Vice President, CBS Radio Division, and General Manager, KNX Radio
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CALIFORNIA ELECTIONS: THE AD CAMPAIGN
The race: Governor. Whose ad? Republican candidate Pete Wilson.
A new 30-second commercial airing statewide criticizes Dianne
Feinstein's pledge during the primary campaign to appoint women and
minorities in direct proportion to their numbers in the state's population.
In making the criticism, Wilson makes use of newspaper coverage of
Feinstein's remarks.
Elements of the ad, with analysis by Times political writer Cathleen
Decker.
Ad: As a Los Angeles Times headline reading "Feinstein Vows Hiring
Quotas by Race, Sex" is flashed on the screen, an announcer says,
"Dianne Feinstein has promised as governor to fill state jobs on the basis
of strict numerical quotas. Not experience, not qualifications, not ability
but quotas."
Analysis: Feinstein's pledge was to appoint proportionally; for
example, she would give 50% of her appointments to women and 25% to
Latinos. In repeating the vow, she has insisted that the appointees would
be women and minorities who had the experience, qualifications and the
ability to fill the jobs. She has also accused Wilson of implying that there
are not enough qualified women and minorities to serve in state
government.
Ad: An Asian Week headline, which says "Feinstein Compares White
Male Political Dominance to Apartheid," is raised on the screen. The
announcer says, "It's unfair, it's extreme and it's wrong."
Analysis: During her speeches, Feinstein regularly notes that by the
year 2000, minorities will be the majority in California. And, she argues,
it would not be fair to have the existing state government
bureaucracy-mostly white males-preside over a vastly different
population. She has not directly compared sitting politicians to those who
rule South Africa's apartheid system.
Ad: "Feinstein Quota Problem," the headline of a Los Angeles Daily
News editorial, is placed on the screen as the announcer says, "The L.A.
Daily News called it 'intellectually dishonest.' The ads next shows a
summation of appointments before and after Feinstein's tenure as mayor
of San Francisco. According to the summation, women held 33% of the
appointments before Feinstein and 34% after she took over as mayor.
The announcer implies that her campaign promise is particularly
dishonest when compared to her record as mayor.
Analysis: Feinstein's campaign spokeswoman, Dee Dee Myers, said she
cannot refute or confirm the numbers, which were accumulated by
Wilson's staff. Myers noted that Feinstein did appoint the first woman
treasurer and city attorney in San Francisco history, and appointed two
women to the city's Board of Supervisors.
Ad: The ad concludes: "Can we afford a governor who puts quotas over
qualifications and promises over performance?"
Analysis: Again, Feinstein has stressed that she believes she can
accomplish both goals-appointing women and minorities in
unprecedented numbers while also filling the government with qualified
people. Wilson has said he would look at merit alone, while encouraging
more women and minorities to apply for government jobs.
FEINSTEIN'S SUPPORT FOR GENDER BALANCING AND QUOTAS
The record is clear. Dianne Feinstein has repeatedly vowed
careful
to make appointments as governor based on race and gender.
Feinstein may not call such a plan a quota, but it's
doublespeak, just as she said the $172 million deficit she left
San Francisco was a "revenue shortfall. "
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*
Feinstein's call for quotas is clearly documented going back
to April 6, 1990, when Asian Week wrote the article, "Feinstein
Meets With 40 LA Asian Leaders."
"As governor, she [Feinstein] said, she will make
appointments of Asian Americans and other minorities
in proportion to their numbers in the population to
achieve parity."
*
*
*
According to the San Francisco Examiner (7/8/90), on
April 22 Feinstein appeared in San Jose before the Mexican
American Political Association, saying:
"This means that 25 percent of all judgeships
will be Hispanic, that 25 percent of boards and
commissions and department heads and staff positions
will be Hispanic.'
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*
The San Jose Mercury News (4/22/90) reported on Feinstein's
speech before the Mexican American Political Association as
follows:
"It was to even louder applause that
Feinstein vowed, if elected governor, to appoint
Hispanics to 25 percent of all judgeships,
commissions, department posts and staff positions,
mirroring their numbers in the state."
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The California Assembly on April 23, 1990 passed legislation
to make it official state policy that women should receive at
least half of all seats on government boards and commissions.
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Observed The San Diego Union in its article, "Assembly
Passes Bill Mandating Women on State Panel,' April 24, 1990:
"Democrat Feinstein has vowed to ensure that
half of her appointments as governor would go to
women.
"
Feinstein's press secretary, Dee Dee Myers welcomed passage
of both the less restrictive state Senate Bill of Senator Diane
Watson was quoted in the Los Angeles Times, June 15, 1990,
welcoming passage of both the less restrictive state Senate bill
of Sen. Diane Watson (D-LA) as well as that of Maxine Waters:
"But Myers welcomed the passage of the two bills
in the Legislature. 'It reflects support for Dianne's
position, she said. 'This is a substantial, serious
and workable proposal. It lends credibility to the
notion that this is an idea whose time has come
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Feinstein's firm commitment to gender balancing and quotas
was reported by the San Francisco Examiner in the article,
"Feinstein Makes a Pitch for the 'Gender Gap' Vote," (April 28,
1990) :
"The former San Francisco mayor, who said there
would be gender balance and proportionate ethnic
representation in her administration, told an audience
of women in San Francisco Friday that the tide of
women would rise with her 'in every executive pursuit. "
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Bill
Mandel, in a San Francisco Examiner column on May 7,
1990 said:
"Dianne Feinstein and her rival in the Democratic
gubernatorial race, John Van de Kamp, recently promised
a Hispanic political group they'd make appointments that
reflect the state's Hispanic population."
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In San Francisco during the first debate between Feinstein
and Attorney General John Van de Kamp on May 13, 1990, Feinstein
was asked if simply being a woman was sufficient reason for
people to vote for her. Feinstein responded:
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"I have pledged to gender balance
I think that
there is good reason why the women of the State are
supporting my candidacy."
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The San Francisco Chronicle article "Some Feminists Question
Feinstein's Commitment to the Cause," May 26, 1990 reiterates
Feinstein's support for gender balancing:
"But even as Feinstein casts herself as a
champion of pro-choice rights, pay equity and 'gender
balancing' in appointments, some women who have worked
with her in local politics say they believe Van de Kamp
would be more protective of feminist interests."
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Before the National Council of Negro Women in Los Angeles,
Feinstein called for quota as reported in the Los Angeles Times
article, "Feinstein Vows Hiring Quotas by Race, Sex," May 27,
1990:
" 'That is one of the reasons we have pledged to
appoint women in proportion to their parity of the
population -- 50%. To appoint people of color in
proportion to their parity of the population.
"In the past, Feinstein has spoken in broad terms
about 'gender balance' in her administration and
'opportunity' and 'fairness' for minorities. However,
her plan for direct quotas based on population has not
previously attracted wide attention."
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The San Francisco Chronicle article "Gubernatorial Primary
Enters the Final Stretch," of May 28, 1990 reports on Feinstein's
visits to four black churches:
"For months, Feinstein has pledged to 'gender
balance' all her appointments from her personal staff
to agency bureaucrats and judges, so that at least
half of her appointees are women.
"On Saturday, she told a black women's luncheon
that she would appoint 'people of color in proportion
to their parity of the population,' a pledge she
repeated in speaking to reporters yesterday."
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The San Jose Mercury News in the article "Crusade Invades
Foe's Stronghold,' of May 28, 1990 reported on her visit to the
First African Methodist Episcopal Church:
"She later told reporters that one reason she
has pledged to use strict race and gender quotas in
making appointments as governor is that she dreads
the prospect of California becoming 'a kind of an
apartheid society' with only white men controlling
the government."
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In the Los Angeles Times article "Ratings Provide
Opportunity for Environmental Offensive," Feinstein is again
quoted as supporting quotas:
"Also on Saturday, Feinstein vowed in her
strongest terms to date that she would deliver to
women half the appointive jobs in her Administration --
from judgeships to commissions.
She also pledged to give those jobs to minorities
in the same proportions as they appear in society; for
example, at current percentages. 62% would go to whites.
25% to Latinos and 7% to blacks."
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The San Diego Tribune on May 31, 1990 reported on
Feinstein's speech before students at Chula Vista's Southwestern
College the previous day:
"Feinstein, who is vying to become the state's
first woman governor, has not been subtle in the use
of her gender. Again yesterday she defended her
promise to put men, women and minorities into her
administration in proportions at least equivalent to
their percentage of the state's population."
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The Asian Weekly article "Feinstein Compares White Male
Political Dominance to 'Apartheid'' of June 1, 1990, reports
again Feinstein's support for quotas:
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"We don't want apartheid -- we cannot have a white
minority ruling over a majority of people of color,"
Feinstein emphasized to a crowd of about 100 at the
$200 per plate event. To prevent that from happening,
it is essential to practice 'sharing of government.'
and include Asians, Latinos and blacks, etc.
proportionately at all levels of government.
"And along the vein of 'sharing of governments,'
it is also important to have equal numbers of men and
women represented in government for gender balance,'
Feinstein pointed out."
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The San Francisco Examiner also reported on Feinstein's
reference to apartheid in its June 3, 1990 article, "Feinstein
warns of 'Apartheid'''
"Parity representation of minorities in state
government has been one of Feinstein's recurrent themes
in the long campaign for the Democratic gubernatorial
nomination, now in its final days, but she returned to
it with her toughest talk to date."
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Clearly the Los Angeles Daily News believes Feinstein is
calling for quotas when it penned an editorial of June 12, 1990
titled, "Feinstein's Quota Problem." About her proposal, the
paper wrote:
"But now she's [Feinstein] getting some of the
criticism she deserves for her scheme to guarantee
women and minorities a certain number of jobs in her
administration."
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Even NOW believes Feinstein is calling for gender balance,
according to a San Francisco Chronicle article of June 14, 1990,
titled "NOW to Hear Women Running for Governor":
"Candidates for executive offices also are asked to
commit themselves to making 'gender balanced' appointments.
Feinstein has promised to make 50 percent of her
appointments to state government women, a position that
Republican rival Pete Wilson has assailed as a quota
system.
"
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In a legislative summary, California NOW considers its top
priority passage of Assemblywoman Maxine Water's bill AB 2677,
which "requires gender parity on state appointed boards and
commissions."
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The California Democratic Party also believes in gender
balancing, which is included in their platform:
"We believe in the importance of women and
minorities being represented at all levels of government
and support legislation to require that all appointments
to government positions, boards and commissions be
balanced with respect to gender, race and ethnicity."
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FROM: 446 5171
TO:S.D. CAMPAIGN OFFICE
JUL 16, 1990 10:42AM #679 P.02
sac. Union 7116
Promise them anything
Feinstein's quota system would be bad policy
Listening to Democratic gubernatori-
As Sen. Pete Wilson, the Republican
al hopeful Dianne Feinstein campaign
nominee for governor, put it, Mrs.
for the state's top job, one can easily get
Feinstein may call what she is doing
the impression that there is hardly any-
"gender balance" or "proportional ap-
one left in California to whom she hasn't
pointments." However, as Sen. Wilson
offered a job should she be elected.
noted, "in truth it is a quota."
She has been running around the
Such quotas are insulting to women
state promising jobs to this group and
and ethnic groups and others who are
that group and probably raising a lot of
supposedly the people who will benefit
false expectations in her effort to secure
from them. The quotas imply that they
votes to provide her with a job.
will be hired because of who they are
Take note:
and not what they know. Quotas reduce
people to tokens.
"As governor, she said she will
"Quotas are unfair to the best qual-
make appointments of Asian Americans
ified applicant or candidate who de-
and other minorities in proportion to
serves to be selected for a post on merit
their numbers in the population to
and qualifications - without regard to
achieve parity." Asian Week, April 6,
race or gender," Sen. Wilson said in a
1990.
recent letter to Mrs. Feinstein. "More
"Democrat Feinstein has vowed to
importantly, the people of California are
ensure that half of her appointments as
entitled to expect from a governor that
governor would go to women." San Die-
he or she will appoint the most capable
go Union, April 24, 1990.
person to be found - without regard to
"Feinstein vowed in her strongest
race or gender."
terms to date that she would deliver to
Quotas are an artificial way of
women half the appointive jobs in her
attempting to place people in jobs. And
administration - from judgeships to
in California, they are an unnecessary
commissions. She also pledged to give
method of job placement.
those jobs to minorities in the same pro-
Studies show that in the coming
portions as they appear in society; for
years, increased numbers of women and
example, at current percentages, 62 per-
minority groups will be entering the
cent would go to whites, 25 percent to
workforce at a. time when there will be
Latinos and 7 percent to blacks." Los
an overall shortage of job candidates be-
Angeles Times, May 30, 1990.
cause of lower birthrates in the 1970s.
Setting employment quotas has
Changing demographics and free
always been an ill-considered activity by
market principles are a much better
government, and despite her denials
way of shaping the workforce than
that she is calling for quotas, Mrs.
would be the artificial quota system
Feinstein is engaging in that dangerous
Mrs. Feinstein would attempt to force
practice.
on us as governor.
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION vs. QUOTAS
During the primary, Dianne Feinstein went before a black
group and pledged to appoint blacks, before an Asian group and
pledged to appoint Asians, before a Hispanic group and pledged to
appoint Hispanics, and before a women's group and pledged to
appoint women -- and in each case pledged to appoint in
proportion to their share of the population.
In short, Dianne vowed to gender balance her entire
administration, as well as make all appointments -- including
judgeships -- based on the percentage of an ethnic group's
proportion of the population. This is unmistakably a quota
formula.
The affirmative action plan supported by Pete Wilson while
mayor of San Diego clearly does not establish any quota, but
instead was an effort to "provide equal opportunity to all San
Diegans who seek employment and promotions with the city.
It was the goal of San Diego to increase over time the
employment of minorities and women in certain occupational
groups, who were underrepresented in the city's workforce.
To achieve this goal, the affirmative action plans included
special educational training, establishing recruitment programs,
removing artificial barriers, and counseling employees on
promotional opportunities.
Importantly, as explained in the plan, "the affirmative
action goals set forth in this plan are entirely consistent with
the merit principle upon which the City's employment is based.
Nothing in this Plan should be interpreted as requiring an
appointing authority to hire, transfer, or promote a person who
is not qualified on the basis of objective job-related criteria."
Pete Wilson's Support
Dianne Feinstein's
for Affirmative Action
Support for Quotas
Random House Dictionary:
Random House Dictionary:
Affirmative Action:
Quotas: the proportional
encouraging increased
part of a fixed total
representation of women
that is due a particular
and minorities, especially
group; the number of
in employment.
persons of a specific
kind permitted to join an
organization, etc.
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Pete Wilson's Support
Dianne Feinstein's
for Affirmative Action
Support for Quotas
In 1972, the San Diego City
During the primary,
Council adopted ordinances
Feinstein appeared before
to create an affirmative action
Hispanic groups and
program for municipal employment.
promised them 25 percent
It did NOT set quotas or
of all government jobs,
numerical formulas.
appeared before black
groups and promised them
7 percent of all
government jobs, and
before women groups and
promised to "gender
balance" or reserve for
them 50 percent of all
jobs.
The San Diego affirmative
Feinstein made no mention
action plan was created to
to the need for affirmat-
ensure equal opportunity in
ive action plans to
employment by improving the
enhance the participation
participation of women and
of minority groups or
minorities who were
women. The California
underrepresented in the
civil service already has
workforce.
programs to ensure equal
opportunity. Blacks
The plan included training
comprise 11.7 percent of
programs so individuals could
the civil service, yet
develop needed skills, the
are about 7 percent of
development of upward and
the population. Asians
lateral "mobility programs,"
have 5.4 percent of all
job counselling, and the
civil service jobs, but
removal of artificial
are 3.2 percent of the
barriers.
workforce.
About the affirmative action
As reported by the
plans, Wilson said in 1979:
San Francisco Examiner,
"The Affirmative Action
(7/8/90) before the
Plans in this document are
Mexican American
intended to reinforce the
Political Association,
merit principle in public
Feinstein said, "This
emloyment. They should not
means that 25 percent
be interpreted as granting
of all judgeships will
'preferential treatment' to
be Hispanic, that 25
specialized population
percent of boards and
groups.
commissions and
department heads and
staff positions will be
Hispanic.
If
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Pete Wilson's Support
Dianne Feinstein's
for Affirmative Action
Support for Quotas
On June 28, 1990, Wilson said:
Before the National
"Quotas are unfair to the
Council of Negro Women' in
best qualified applicant or
Los Angeles on May 26,
candidate who deserves to be
Feinstein said according
selected for a post on merit
to the Los Angeles Times
and qualifications -- without
(5/27/90) : "That is one
regard to race or gender. "
of the reasons we have
pledged to appoint women
Quotas are unfair,
in proportion to their
extreme, and wrong. They
parity of the population
are divisive because jobs
-- 50%. To appoint
are awarded not on
people of color in
experience, ability, and
proportion to their
qualifications.
parity of the
population. "
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Pete GOVERNOR WILSON
"OUOTAS" -- 30 SECOND TV SPOT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Bill Livingstone
July 17, 1990
(619) 260-1990
SAN DIEGO -- Gubernatorial candidate U.S. Senator Pete Wilson
today unveiled a 30-second campaign commercial titled "Quotas," the
transcript of which follows:
VIDEO
ANNOUNCER
L.A. Times headline:
Dianne Feinstein has
"Feinstein Vows Hiring
promised as Governor to fill
Quotas by Race, Sex"
state jobs on the basis of
(5/27/90)
strict numerical quotas.
Video effect on copy
Not experience, not
qualifications, not ability
but quotas.
Asian Week headline:
It's unfair, it's extreme and
"Feinstein Compares White
it's wrong.
Male Political Dominance
To Apartheid" (6/1/90)
L.A. Daily News editorial:
The L.A. Daily News called it
"Feinstein Quota Problem"
"intellectually dishonest."
(6/12/90)
"San Francisco Appointments"
Especially when you consider
that in nine years as mayor of
Before
After
San Francisco, the number of
Feinstein Feinstein
women appointed by Feinstein
increased by only 1 percent.
Women 33%
34%
"Increase of only 1%"
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
"Quotas over Qualifications"
Can we afford a governor
who puts quotas over
"Promises over Performance"
qualifications and promises
before performance?
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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 (213) 410-1990
Pete GOVERNOR WILSON
FEINSTEIN'S APPOINTMENTS OF WOMEN WHILE MAYOR OF SAN FRANCISCO
Dianne Feinstein served as mayor of San Francisco from
December 4, 1978, to January 8, 1988.
In 1978, there were 23 separate boards and commissions with
180 members. In addition, the mayor's staff and the top city
managers were appointed by the mayor, for a total of 192
appointments.
While in office, the number of positions on some boards and
commissions were increased, and seven new boards and commissions
were created, for a total of 238 positions appointed by the
mayor.
In nine years as mayor, Feinstein increased the percentage
of women serving in her administration -- in the mayor's office,
in senior city management, and on boards and commissions -- by
only 1 percent.
While mayor, Feinstein made 291 appointments, of which 180
were men (61.9%) and 111 were women (38.1%). *
According to the Directory of City and County Officers for
San Francisco, following are the number of appointed positions in
city government, together with the gender breakdown and the
percentage of the overall number of appointments.
Last Report Before Feinstein Takes Office (July, 1978)
Men
Women
Total Appointed Positions
192**
126
64
Percentage
100%
65.6%
33.3%
Last Report While Feinstein is Mayor (December, 1987)
Men
Women
Total Appointed Positions
238***
155
82
Percentage
100%
65.1%
34.4%
*
As best could be determined by examining all the names on the
published directory of the mayor's office and other senior
officials, and on commissions and boards.
** Based on the names alone, could not determine for certain if
two individuals were men or women.
*** Based on the names alone, could not determine for certain if
one person was a man or a woman.
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Pete GOVERNOR WILSON
RECORD SHOWS FEINSTEIN'S PAST PERFORMANCE FALLS SHORT OF
1990 CAMPAIGN PROMISES
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Bill Livingstone
July 18, 1990
(619) 260-1990
SAN DIEGO -- An examination of the record reveals that
Dianne Feinstein's history of appointments falls far short of her
gubernatorial promise to appoint women to 50 percent of the
state's boards and commissions.
"Dianne Feinstein promised as governor to open the door to
women," Wilson Campaign Manager George Gorton said. "But as
mayor the door was more open to men , especially on the more
powerful boards and commissions."
On seven new boards and commissions created during her
tenure as mayor, women had 50 percent or more representation on
only the "Street Artists and Craftsmen Examiners Board" and the
"Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board." On the five other
boards and commissions -- considered more substantive -- women
were not once in the majority.
The addition of these newly created posts represented a 30
percent increase in the overall number of positions in government
to which she was able to make appointments.
They offered Feinstein the opportunity to appoint men and
women, unincumbered from carry-over appointments due to previous
administrations.
Yet an analysis of Feinstein's record shows that she
increased the number of women on all boards and commissions while
mayor by only 1 percent!
"Her overall record of appointments of women to boards and
commissions -- 34 percent -- was even lower than the state
average for cities, which was 35.5 percent," Gorton said.
Following is a list of the boards and commissions created
during her tenure, as well as the representation of men and
women:
Boards & Commissions
Men
Women
Residential Rent Stabilization
and Arbitration Board
(created 8/80)
6 (66.7%)
3 (33.3%)
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
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Committee on Elections
(created 11/81)
9 (81.8%)
2 (18.2%)
Street Artists and
Craftsmen Examiners
Board
(created 7/82)
0 (0%)
5 (100%)
Industrial Development
Authority
(created 7/84)
3 (75%)
1 (25%)
Landmarks Preservation
Advisory Board
(created 2/85)
4 (44.4%)
5 (55.6%)
Health Commission
(created 2/85)
5 (71.4%)
2 (28.6%)
Small Business Advisory
Commission
(created 3/86)
7 (63.6%)
4 (36.4%)
Feinstein's record is further diminished when considering
that appointments to the Commission on the Status of Women --
where there was a high rate of turnover -- accounted for 22.7
percent of all her appointments of women.
While Feinstein was mayor, there were 25 vacancies in this
one commission only. (This compares to only 4 vacancies for the
War Memorial Board of Trustees, which also has 11 members.)
Appointments to the Street Artists and Craftsmen Examiners
Board, the Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board, and the
Commission on the Status of Women accounted for 32 percent of
Feinstein's overall appointments of women as mayor.
WHAT THE MEDIA SAID
About Feinstein's record of appointments, the San Francisco
Chronicle (May 26, 1990) said: "As mayor, Feinstein's top
advisors were men and she had few women on her staff, although
she did appoint a few women department heads and named women as
city attorney and treasurer."
Warren Hinckle of the San Francisco Examiner (7/30/85) said:
"Despite her feminist cant, the mayor tends to surround herself
with compliant, if competent, men and has never appointed a woman
to any major City Hall position -- an abundance of which are
open for filling.'
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San Francisco Examiner, 7/8/90
WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT
In appointed positions in California, 1988
State
County
City
27.6%
34.3%
35.5%
In foreign parliaments and Congress
1989. in percent
Sweden 38%
Norway 34%
Netherlands 30%
Denmark 29%
W. Germany 15.4%
Luxembourg 14.6%
Ireland 14%
Switzerland 14%
Italy 13%
Belgium 8.5%
Portugal 7.6%
Spain 6.4%
France 6.4%
Britain 6.3%
U.S.
5%
Greece 4.3%
Voting on abortion rights
Legislators who supported abortion rights since the Supreme Court's
Webster ruling limiting abortion protections
90%
Women
82%
84%
Men
70%
67%
50%
40%
44%
33%
30%
30%
27%
Florida
Minnesota
Indiana
Kansas
Michigan
Pa.
Senate
Senate
Senate
House
House
House
SOURCE: Fund for the Feminist Majority
SF CHRONICLE
FRIDAY, AUGUST 3. 1990
Feinstein Answers Back
To Wilson's Quota Ads
Her new commercial says his is deceiving
By Susan Yoachum
Chronicle Political Writer
Firing back at Senator Pete
er used the word "quotas" to de-
Wilson for the first time on televi-
scribe her promise to appoint
sion, Disnue Feinstein yesterday
women and minorities to govern-
released an ad script in which she
ment jobs in parity with their
accuses Wilson of "deliberately
numbers in the population. News
deceiving" voters about quotas.
stories and headlines have used
The advertisement, which is in
the word "quota" to label Fain-
response to & Wilson commercial
stein's plan. When Wilson was
that attacks Feinstein for support.
mayor of San Diego in the 1970s. he
ing quotas in hiring. charges that
approved a hiring plan to give jobs
Wilson supports the quotas that
to women and minorities "in pari-
Feinstein abhors.
ty with the population."
Feinstein, the Democrat. and
Ad: "So why is Pete Wilson de-
Wilson. the Republican, have been
liberately deceiving you? Because
sparring over quotas since the gu-
by Pete Wilson's own definition.
bernatorial primartes. Both deny
he has a record in favor of quotas.
that they have used the emotional-
That's right. as senator. Pete WII-
ly loaded word "quota" to describe
son votes for government contract
their plans to hire women and mi-
quotas, and, as mayor of San Die-
norities.
go. Pete Wilson signed a plan to
George Gorton. Wilson's cam-
enforce rigid hiring percentages
paign manager, responded to Fein-
based only on sex and race and not
stein's first general election ad
merit."
with predictable skepticism.
Background: Feinstein cannot
"Obviously. she is trying to
have it both ways. If her state-
back out from what she did in the
ments about hiring women and ml-
norities - which are similar to
primary," Gorton said. "She has
obviously done enough polling to
Wilson's - are not quotas, then
neither are his. Wilson has voted
know that people don't like quo-
tas."
as a senator for legislation that
calls for hiring certain percentag-
Gorton scoffed at the idea that
es of minorities, and the city of San
Wilson (avoro quotac, as Feinstain
Diagn's offirmative action plan al-
charges.
30 calls for hiring certain percent-
"Pete's record for affirmative
ages of women and minorities. In a
action is, of course, X good record."
statement as mayor, Wilson said,
Gorton said.
"The affirmative action plans in
At issue in the long-playing ver-
this document are intended to re-
sion of Feinstein's and Wilson's de-
inforce the merit principle in pub-
bate over "quotas" is just what
lic employment. They should not
constitutes a quota. Neither has
be interpreted as granting prefer-
used the word YHOLE. and both
ential treatment to opecialized
have described their goals for hir.
population groups."
ing women and minorities in simi-
lar terms.
with the background of each state-
ment:
Ad: "Dianne Feinstein opposes
biring quotas. She's always oppos.
ed quotas. And Pete Wilson knows
it."
Background: Feinstein has nev.
Feinstein campaign to strike back at Wilson
Aug. so unim
TV commercial
What remains to be seen is
munity in Los Angeles, pledged in a
sponds directly to that commercial,
whether the voting public has been
speech "to appoint. women (and) to
stating, "Dianne Feinstein opposes
to launch attack
paying attention to this sharp debate
appoint people of color in proportion
hiring quotas. She has always op-
between two candidates who gener-
to their parity of the population."
posed quotas.'
on quota charges
ally share the same views on hiring.
Newspaper reports the next day
It then refers to a 1972 affirmative
By Gerry Braun
Both Wilson and Feinstein say they
said that Feinstein had pledged to
action plan that then-Mayor Wilson
Staff Writer
favor long-range hiring goals de-
abide by strict hiring quotas. Fein-
signed for the city of San Diego.
signed to bring the public work force
stein soon objected to that term,
For two months, Dianne Feinstein
According to a copy of the five-
claiming that she was discussing
has accused gubernatorial rival Pete
into conformity with the percentage
year program, it was designed to
of minorities and women in the job
long-term objectives to be achieved
Wilson of purposely distorting her
bring "city employment at all salary
market.
over many years. "These are goals,
views on affirmative action in hiring.
levels and in all job classifications"
Both candidates also say they op-
not quotas," she said, noting that she
into conformance with "the minority
For the past two weeks, she has
pose fixed quota systems, which, by
opposed a strict quota program
composition of the population of the
watched Wilson pour an estimated $1
their definition, would require pro-
while she was mayor of San Francis-
city of San Diego and with the avail-
million into a statewide advertising
portionate hiring to commence im-
CO.
mediately. In fact, neither utters the
Yet even before Feinstein defeated
ability of women within the city of
blitz claiming that Feinstein "has
San Diego job market."
promised as governor to fill state
word "quota" except to attribute it to
Attorney General John Van de Kamp
The ad then claims that "by Pete
jobs on the basis of strict numerical
the opposition.
in the June primary, Republican Wil-
Wilson's own definition, he is in favor
quotas."
Nevertheless, quotas have become
son was accusing her of favoring
of quotas."
Today, though unsure of the im-
a burning political issue in the gover-
strict quotas, and he has not changed
Wilson spokesman Bill Livingstone
pact that Wilson's attack has had,
nor's race, at least by dint of the
his tune despite repeated denials. By
disagreed, contending that the key
Feinstein finally will strike back.
amount of money and time it is ac-
contrast, Wilson speaks out for hiring
distinction between an affirmative
In her first television ad of the
corded by the candidates.
by merit and qualifications.
action plan and a quota system is the
general campaign, the Democratic
One reason is that surveys show
In mid-July, Wilson began airing
period of time it takes to be imple-
nominee makes the same charge
that quotas are extremely unpopular
his television commercial, which at-
mented. Livingstone said that no
against Wilson that he makes against
with voters, and particularly with
tacks Feinstein for favoring a quota
five-year plan could be called a
her, of favoring "rigid hiring percen-
the middle-class white voters who
system that is "unfair
extreme
quota system.
tages based only on sex and race and
dominate the California electorate.
and
wrong," and for having done
Feinstein campaign manager Wil-
not merit."
This debate actually began late in
little to improve the number of
liam Carrick disputed-that reading.
Not surprisingly, Wilson claims
the Democratic primary campaign
women in government while she was
"If you look at the original 1972 plan,
that his record is now being distort-
when Feinstein, attempting to shore
mayor.
nowhere are merit or qualifications
ed.
up her support within the black com-
The Feinstein commercial re-
mentioned," he said.
Pete GOVERNOR WILSON
We are proud to present Pete Wilson's record of commitment and
accomplishments on environmental issues. We are confident that it
is not only the longest, but clearly the strongest of the three
gubernatorial candidates.
Pete Wilson's discovery of the environment did not come from
reading polls. Pete Wilson was an active leader on environmental
issues even before the first Earthday twenty years ago.
With almost everyone now embracing the cause of
environmentalism, it is prudent to be skeptical of politicians
wrapping themselves in the green flag. You need to read their
records, not just their lips. As Pete Wilson has publicly noted:
"There are some advantages to growing older: If you have used
the time wisely, you don't have to ask people to take what you say
on faith. No, instead you can confidently ask them to check your
record. And to compare it with that of your opponents. I
challenge my opponents to match my performance. Let them present
their credentials in terms of accomplishments -- and not just
simple promises nor simple sounding solutions for the future.'
The enclosed papers highlight Pete Wilson's past record and
vision for the future on issues including air quality, coastal,
energy, land use, pesticides and hazardous substances, public lands
and forestry, solid waste, transportation, water issues, and
environmental ballot measures.
In looking to the future, what will make the difference in
resolving our environmental problems is capable and committed
leadership. A subject as broad and as complex as the environment
cannot be done justice in simple campaign slogans or quick-fix
initiatives.
Pete Wilson works to understand the legitimate needs on a
particular issue. His fair-minded, hard-working approach to
difficult environmental issues has overcome polarized viewpoints
and consistently yielded positive results.
We would welcome the opportunity to discuss any of these
issues with you. We would be happy to provide you additional
information or clarification on any of these issues.
Most cordially,
OBBu
John Amodia
Otto Bos
John Amodio
Campaign Director
Environmental Staff
Pete Wilson for Governor
1990
2251 San Diego Avenue. Suite B-200. San Diego. CA 92110 (619) 260-1990
1900 "Ki" Street. Suite 110, Sacramento. CA 95814 (916) 446-5140
Post Office Box 91097. Los Angeles, CA 90009
PETE WILSON'S RECORD ON THE ENVIRONMENT
In 23 years of public service as a state assemblyman, mayor
of San Diego, and two-term United States senator, Pete Wilson has
distinguished himself by providing effective leadership on many
environmental issues:
As a state assemblyman in 1970, he wrote the first coastal
protection plan for California. While the legislature
rejected his initial bill by one vote, he helped forge a
stronger one the following year. When the legislature failed
to pass this bill as well, it became the model for the
succesful coastal protection initiative, Proposition 20.
As mayor of San Diego, Pete Wilson developed the first
growth management plan for any big city in America, while
doubling the city's parklands and open spaces. Wilson won
an award from the American Institute of Architects for his
pioneering work in developing this growth management plan.
He built the San Diego trolley, which stands as a model for
other urban transit systems, on time, under budget, and
initially without federal funds. Former state Senate leader
Jim Mills has said, "If not for Pete Wilson's leadership as
chairman of the San Diego Transit Development Board, the San
Diego Trolley would not have been built."
Wilson was the chief steward of San Diego during a critical
period when it could have become a sprawling urban
embarrassment. Instead, it became America's most livable
city.
Wilson saved the largest estuary in Southern California by
implementing an innovative flood-control plan for the
Tijuana River, rather than sacrificing it to conventional
concrete lining.
As U.S. senator, Wilson broke the long congressional
deadlock and, in collaboration with Senator Alan Cranston
and Rep. John Seiberling, steered the landmark 1984
California Wilderness Protection Bill through Congress,
setting aside 1.8 million acres of California wilderness and
protecting half again as much wilderness as recommended by
the Carter Administration. This legislation was declared by
Seiberling as the "conservation vote of the 98th Congress. If
Pete Wilson signed the ballot argument in support of
Proposition 70, quite properly regarded by the Planning and
Conservation League as the most important and far-reaching
effort yet undertaken in California for the acquisition and
protection of parkland and wildlife habitat.
Senator Wilson ended a five-year Congressional drought on
National Wild & Scenic River designation by protecting the
Tuolumne River, then the most threatened river in the
country. Subsequently, he helped secure wild and scenic
river protection for the Kern, Merced, and King Rivers. He
has now proposed protection for the Upper Klamath River and
Sespe Creek.
Wilson took the lead in protecting the California coast
against secretaries of the Interior in three federal
administrations by successfully fighting for a ban on
offshore drilling. He was also the only gubernatorial
candidate to publicly campaign in 1988 against the proposal
by Occidental oil Company to slant drill under Santa Monica
Bay. John Van de Kamp refused to take a position on this
issue, which involved drilling right next to a state beach.
As U.S. senator, Pete Wilson has strengthened, supported, or
written key federal legislation in the areas of clean air,
clean water, and toxic cleanup, including Superfund re-
authorization and expansion, re-authorization of both the
Clean Water and Clean Air Acts, authorship of the Safe Foods
Imports Act and the Global Ban on Dangerous Pesticides Act,
as well as legislation to accelerate toxic clean-up on
federal military installations. Pete Wilson has fought for
keeping California's tougher standards, for clean air,
pesticides and coastal protection.
In the area of clean air, Senator Wilson has taken the lead
to require emissions from offshore drilling and stationary
sources to meet California's more stringent standards, to
clean up cars and fuels, and to promote alternative fuels,
and has co-sponsored legislation to eliminate
ozone-depleting chemicals and reduce greenhouse gases. In
what the Sierra Club called the most important environmental
vote of the year, Wilson and Senator Tim Wirth rallied
46 Senate votes for the Wirth-Wilson Clean Cars Amendment to
the 1990 Clean Air Act.
As Pete Wilson has often said, a clean environment and a
strong economy are not mutually exclusive. The words
"conservative" and "conservation" share the same root. As a
Teddy Roosevelt Republican, Wilson broadens the
environmental channel and brings many conservatives into the
conservation mainstream. For example, he was instrumental
in obtaining the endorsement of the National Federation of
Independent Business, the nation's leading small business
advocacy group, for the Wirth-Wilson Amendment
Wilson helped secure $12 million for the EPA to develop a
plan to clean up and protect San Francisco Bay, and to
secure similar designation and funding for Santa Monica Bay.
Senator Wilson has supported protection of parks near
growing urban areas, including the Santa Monica Mountains
and Golden Gate National Recreation Areas. For these
efforts, Wilson has been praised as a "Mountain Man" by the
Los Angeles Times. He also received a special award from
the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, having both
protected $8 million for land acquisition for the Circle X
Ranch that the Reagan administration sought to rescind. He
also lent key support to state re-authorization of the
Conservancy, which was set to sunset in 1990. According to
the California League of Conservation Voters, Wilson was
"indispensable" and "courageous" in the successful effort to
protect Sweeney Ridge as part of the GGNRA.
In the last full Congress, Pete Wilson was rated by the
National League of Conservation Voters with a solid
environmental rating of 70%, identical to that of Alan
Cranston.
These are merely highlights in a long and proven career.
Given this record, it is clear that Pete Wilson is uniquely
qualified to lead California in addressing the difficult
environmental problems it now faces.
PETE WILSON'S ENVIRONMENTAL ETHIC
Pete Wilson is a return to the Republican conservationism of
Teddy Roosevelt. He will use the Governor's office as a "bully
pulpit" to make Californians understand that the environment is
everyone's business, and everyone's responsibility. An
environmental ethic will pervade the Wilson Administration from
the top down and from the first day, just as it did when newly
elected Mayor Wilson moved into San Diego City Hall in December
1971.
Pete Wilson explained his environmental ethic at the
Planning and Conservation League's annual conference in February
1990:
"The growth management effort I led as the chief
executive of San Diego depended for its success, not
only a carefully thought-out, coherent strategy, but on
the moral authority of an explicit environmental ethic.
"Yes, we are a nation that prizes individual effort and
achievements, and rewards hard work by securing to each
citizen the fruit of his or her honest labor. Our
Constitution recognized and protects private property
rights in the requirement that just compensation be
paid for any taking of property.
"But the individual citizens right to hold, enjoy, and
make use of his or her property is not absolute. It is
not a right to make unlimited use of one's property if
such use produces injury to the rights of others to
enjoy their private property, or to enjoy the public
physical environment.
"There is no right to foul public land or air or water,
any more than there is a right to steal public
property, or to vandalize a public building or
monument. Indeed, even where economic activity that is
otherwise beneficial to society -- a consideration to
which we can hardly be indifferent -- produces injury
to the environment that is not trivial, we are obliged
by the public interest to require corrective action or
to curb the activity producing injury."
The environment is not something separate from us. As John
Muir said, everything is hitched to everything else. We are
dependent upon the environment. It is our life support system.
With this understanding, a Wilson Administration will make
protection and restoration of our environment's health and
productivity one of its central concerns and commitments.
PETE WILSON ON
AIR QUALITY ISSUES
Pete Wilson has been a national leader in the effort to
strengthen the Clean Air Act. Specifically, in the battle in the
U.S. Senate in 1990 over the re-authorization of the Clean Air
Act, Wilson joined forces, first with Senator Tim Wirth and then
with Senator John Kerrey, in sponsoring and fighting for
amendments that national environmental advocacy groups called the
most important environmental legislation of 1990.
The record is clear: Pete Wilson sought a stronger national
commitment to cleaning up the nation's skies than either the
Administration or the Senate leadership. He and Senator John
Kerry fought a valiant rear guard action via the Kerry-Wilson
amendment to prevent a retreat from existing clean air regulatory
law. Theirs was the so-called non-attainment amendment.
In addition, Wilson and Senator Tim Wirth joined forces to
propose a model emissions reduction and alternative fuels program
that reflected a commitment to clean air consistent with
visionary reforms. This program mandated cleaner burning
conventional cars, alternatively fueled vehicles in severe and
extreme non-attàinment areas, reformulated gasoline that would
reduce air toxics and ozone, and strong fleet provisions.
Although narrowly defeated, these provisions have been credited
by House leaders of both parties as making a difference in
setting the stage for a stronger House bill.
Each of these amendments was endorsed by national
environmental advocacy groups.
Pete Wilson's commitment to take politics out of
environmental regulation is not an example of election year
conversion. In 1987, Senator Wilson introduced the innovative
concept of transferring jurisdiction over the air pollution
generated by Outer Continental Shelf oil platforms from the
Department of Interior to the Environmental Protection Agency,
which would enforce stricter standards. Although not adopted by
the Senate in that Congress, Wilson's actions are credited with
bringing offshore emissions under the more stringent regulatory
program of the EPA in the 1990 Clean Air Act re-authorization as
passed by the Senate.
As Governor of California, he will continue this leadership
commitment. The state program to control air pollution from
motor vehicles should include developing cleaner new vehicles,
clean gasolines, reducing pollution from the use of existing
vehicles, using alternative fuels, and implementing
transportation management measures.
Under Governor Wilson, California would continue its efforts
to reduce emissions by individual vehicles through pushing
technology to produce cleaner new cars, trucks and buses. The
State has led the nation and the world in this effort. Current
and future activity in this direction should include further
improvements in emission system durability, on-board diagnostic
systems, and related technology.
While the state's seven-year-old Inspection and Maintenance
Program has resulted in improved ability to minimize system
deterioration of passenger cars, as well as cost-effective
reduction of smog, further improvement should be pursued.
Significant emission reductions are also obtainable through
the use of cleaner fuels by both new and older vehicles. Thus,
Governor Wilson will continue efforts to reduce components of
current fuels that produce polluting emissions. At the same
time, the state will promote the technology required not only for
reformulated gasoline, but for alternative fuels such as
compressed natural gas, methanol, ethanol, and electric power.
As governor, Pete Wilson will assure that California
continues to set vehicle emission standards in the interests of
the health of Californians, even if they are stricter than those
of the federal government. Our weather and rapid growth demand
that we remain on the cutting edge of emissions control rather
than simply following less stringent federal standards.
However, he will not pursue California-only standards in a
vacuum. As he did with the federal Clean Air Act, he would
continue to try to bring the rest of the country up to
California's standards, so as not to put our economy at a
competitive disadvantage. This is also important since such a
high percentage of non-California vehicles operate in the state.
In regards to the California Clean Air Act, as governor,
Wilson would be committed to its full and timely implementation.
He would direct the California Air Resources Board to develop new
and expanded controls, as provided in the law, to reduce
emissions from motor vehicles, and off-road sources. He would
insist that the program be structured in a manner that will
continually tighten vehicle emission limits and improve the
durability requirements of vehicle smog control equipment.
Equally important to the sound implementation of the CCAA is
to improve the cooperation between state, regional, and local
agencies. As governor, Wilson would direct all state agencies
involved in the implementation of the CCAA to work with the
regional and local agencies to meet the Act's requirements. For
example: Caltrans would work with the regional transportation
planning agencies and local Air Pollution Control Districts to
implement the transportation management programs within the
required time-frame. The PUC and California Energy Commission
would work with the local air quality districts to ensure that
the goals for meeting their future energy needs and the CCAA
requirements are compatible. The ARB would continue working with
local air quality districts to make sure that the planning
requirements are met.
Global climate change is an international issue and is
addressed most effectively via the type of international
protocols established in response to the stratospheric ozone
depletion. Senator Wilson continues to press aggressively for
such comprehensive approach, which does not just reduce emissions
from the United States, but reduces them worldwide.
While science continues to study the global change theory,
California must continue to do its share, including conservation
and energy efficiency programs, shifting to non-fossil fuel
energy sources, development and utilization of cleaner fuels,
increased emphasis on public transportation, and reforestation.
Wilson has been an active leader in developing programs to
turn these needed policies into reality. Perhaps the most
prominent of his leadership efforts is reflected by his being an
early co-sponsor of S 1611, which set a national goal of reducing
carbon dioxide emissions by 20% by the year 2000 and also setting
time-lines to phase out the use of ozone-destroying CFC's.
Another strategy for clean air involves reducing emissions
from the generation of electricity. A Wilson administration
would encourage this by continuing to promote electrical energy
conservation, application of the newest pollution control
technology to power plants, and the cost-effective replacement of
older, dirtier plants with cleaner plants.
Finally, Governor Wilson's environmental ethic will stress
that the environment is everyone's business and everyone's
responsibility. We each owe it to our fellow citizens to assume
personal responsibility for our own contribution to air
pollution. Every Californian who drives a car or enjoys the
benefits of our industrial society plays a part in polluting the
air and thus has a duty to help cleanup the pollution.
This individual responsibility approach is now increasingly
important as the large, easy gains in emission reductions have
been achieved. The controls that reduce large amounts of
pollution at low cost are already in place; the emissions of
nitrogen oxide from all electrical generation facilities combined
only account for 4.5% of the total statewide NOx emission.
Therefore, each of the control measures that are adopted in the
future will control smaller amounts of pollution and will have to
involve or affect more people and industries than in the past.
PETE WILSON ON
COASTAL ISSUES
Pete Wilson has been in the forefront of coastal protection
for more than twenty years. He is strongly opposed to additional
oil lease sales off the California coast, and will fight to
protect California's coastal and ocean resources. Senator Wilson
supports a permanent moratorium on further lease sales off the
California coast -- both for federal and state waters.
In addition, a Wilson Administration will support and
adequately fund a strong, effective coastal protection program
under the California Coastal Commission. Having written the
first coastal protection bill in the country, before the first
Earth Day, Wilson has continued to promote a strong coastal
protection program:
"When Secretary Hodel sought to cut federal funding for the
California Coastal Commission because of its rightful
opposition to OCS leasing, I prevented what would have been
a fatal cut. Having been present at the conception of the
Coastal Commission, I was not about to allow its execution.
so, of course as governor, I will adequately fund the
Coastal Commission so that it can continue its important job
and do it well."
In addition, Wilson's commitment includes a willingness to
pursue legal recourse if such action is needed to protect
California's coastal and ocean resources.
Senator Wilson has been an active leader on federal
legislation regarding oil spill prevention and clean-up. This
past summer the Senate approved his amendment to retain in the
law unlimited oil company liability for spill damage from an oil-
rig blow-out. As Senator Wilson noted then, "Why should
taxpayers pay to clean up an oil company's mess?" Wilson's
amendment was included as a key vote in the 1989 LCV vote rating
analysis.
In addition, on the federal level, Senator Wilson has
actively advocated:
action by the Coast Guard to create safer shipping lanes;
creation of an adequately funded oil spill clean-up program;
legislation mandating the appropriate use of double-hulls
for new oil tankers, or other effective technologies, and
phasing out the riskier single-hull tankers now in use; and
expansion and protection of the system of marine sanctuaries
for especially sensitive or valuable marine areas, such as
Cordell Bank, Point Reyes - Farallone: Islands, Channel
Islands, Monterey Bay, and Santa Monica Bay.
an immediate moratorium on the use of driftnets on the high
seas, which cause the death of hundreds of thousands of
seabirds and marine mammals.
PETE WILSON ON
ENERGY ISSUES
California is nationally renowned as a leader in alternative
energy development and energy efficiency programs. Recently
implemented national appliance standards were principally based
on California standards. Pete Wilson will maintain California's
leadership on alternative, self-sustaining energy sources and
their applications.
As senator, Wilson has supported alternative energy
development through tax credits for investments in non-polluting
sources, such as solar and geothermal. Additionally, he was the
principal author of clean fuel amendments to the Clean Air Act
re-authorization. As governor, Wilson will be committed to
continuing California's leadership in these areas.
In a Wilson administration, the California Energy Commission
will periodically review energy efficiency standards for
residences and businesses with the aim of increasing efficiency
as new technologies and materials allow. This is a potentially
strong lever to encourage the development of innovative energy
conservation technologies for the homeowner, consumer, and
businessperson.
Towards these ends, Wilson will establish a California
Institute of the Environment as part of the University of
California. This Institute will draw on California's highly
skilled scientists, engineers, and managers to address our
environmental problems and opportunities. By spurring
development of an environmental technology industry in
California, the Institute will materially contribute to
development and implementation of alternative energy and energy
efficiency.
In addition, another powerful lever is the role of the
Public Utilities Commission in encouraging conservation practices
and technologies by electric and gas utilities. As Governor,
Pete Wilson will ensure that his appointees to the PUC understand
the importance of conservation as a primary source for meeting
California's growing energy demands.
Finally, Senator Wilson would re-examine the use of the
energy surcharge to ensure that state conservation efforts are
targetted for maximum payoff.
PETE WILSON ON
LAND USE ISSUES
Growth management may be the single greatest environmental
challenge in the 1990s. Our state grew by over five million
people in the 1980s. Inevitably, the qualities that have made
California so attractive are threatened as more people seek the
opportunity to share in them. This continued population growth
requires proven and innovative management skills. Senator Wilson
is the only major candidate who has demonstrated them.
As a state assemblyman, Wilson authored the law that created
the Governor's Office of Planning and Research, in recognition of
the state's interest in long-range planning.
Pete Wilson successfully pioneered urban growth management
in his eleven years as Mayor of San Diego, California's second
largest city. During that time, San Diego saw unparalleled
growth, yet set aside parkland, saved canyons from development,
and directed economic and population growth not by shutting out
business or by turning away newcomers and development, but by
working with them. As a result of this leadership in maintaining
San Diego's quality of life, Wilson has been recognized:
by the American Institute for Public Service in an award for
"preserving a livable, urban environment
through
innovative land-use techniques;"
by the Audubon Society for "outstanding achievement in the
conservation of natural resources;" and
by the American Institute of Architecture as an honorary
member for pioneering initiatives in growth management.
In pioneering growth management in large urban areas in the
1970's, Pete Wilson had greater success than anyone during that
period. Among the results of Wilson's efforts:
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The city protected from development the bulk of
environmentally sensitive lands within the city
limits -- much of it as parkland or dedicated open
space.
Most of the growth was steered to "in-filling" within
existing urban areas. This both re-vitalized the
downtown and minimized sprawl.
Other growth was kept contiguous to existing city or
county development.
Senator Wilson believes that California's environment is too
important to allow unchecked, unplanned growth and development.
He has said, "We must manage both the pace and distribution of
growth to assure that facilities such as transportation, open
space, and schools are adequate to serve the public's needs."
Pete Wilson believes that State government should be a
partner in helping to shape and direct the impacts of growth in
beneficial ways. Pete Wilson will provide this leadership. He
will draw on his experience as mayor of a rapidly developing
city, and bring together leaders from throughout California to
discuss problems and approaches to growth.
As governor, Wilson will define the broad state interest and
needs, such as protection of open space and prime agricultural
lands, and purchase of critical wildlife habitat, and will assist
local governments and regional agencies in meeting their own
growth management goals. State government can help direct
development for the good of the state or region as a whole where
the issues transcend local concerns, such as regional airports,
parkland acquisition, and regional or statewide transportation
networks. Furthermore, the state must assure that its
transportation planning is coordinated with regional and local
land-use planning to avoid conflict and to make each more
effective and efficient.
State government should not attempt to administer or dictate
local land use decisions from Sacramento. Senator Wilson does
not believe that central planning will work any better in
California than it has in Eastern Europe. This appears to be a
major flaw in former Mayor Dianne Feinstein's call for a rigidly
centralized growth management commission. To work, essential
land-use planning functions need to remain closest to the people
who must live with the decisions.
The state has a proper role to provide guidance and
facilitate local and regional cooperation. In addition, public-
private organizations such as Bay Vision 2020 are properly re-
examining the need for regional cooperation and the role of
regional agencies. These consensus-building approaches are
essential to develop and implement more effective solutions to
land use problems.
Towards that end, a Wilson administration will:
Review the appropriate state and local roles in planning,
and aggressively pursue means of state-local cooperation to
meet planning challenges that exceed local boundaries.
Use his experience in San Diego to explore ways to encourage
in-filling within existing urban areas to reduce urban
sprawl and avoid the loss of prime agricultural lands and
other open space.
Act to bolster and renew California's infrastructure,
including roads, rail, bridges, airports, sewer and water
systems, and power grids.
Make a special effort to preserve open space, parklands, and
historic and cultural resources.
Create incentives for local communities to cooperate with
their neighbors through state grants for transportation and
other community improvements.
Due to the intensity and nature of California's growth,
agricultural land is increasingly under development pressure.
Governor Wilson will support and sponsor stronger efforts to
provide farmers the means to keep their land in agricultural
productivity.
PETE WILSON ON
PESTICIDE AND HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE ISSUES
Pete Wilson has a strong record in the area of hazardous
substances management and in increasing pesticide safety. As a
U.S. Senator, Pete Wilson:
Voted for a five-fold increase in the federal Superfund
budget, and supported "Bhopal" amendments to address the
threat of accidental toxic chemical releases.
Personally wrote provisions for military toxic waste cleanup
in the 1986 Superfund re-authorization, and won funding for
the program in the FY 88 and FY 89 Defense Department
authorization bills. These measures will assure that toxic
sites on military installations are cleaned up with the same
diligence and to the same standards as on non-military
sites. With so many military installations covering such
large expanses in California, Wilson's measures are
extremely significant to the overall toxic clean-up program.
Fought and won battles against federal pre-emption of
California pesticide regulations through his seat on the
Agriculture Committee. Specifically, he defeated an
amendment to FIFRA that would have permitted federal pre-
emption of California's right to set more stringent testing
and data requirements than EPA.
Wrote the Safe Food Imports Act, which requires the Food and
Drug Administration to increase monitoring of imported
produce for illegal pesticide residues. The major
provisions of this bill were ultimately included in the 1988
Omnibus Trade Bill that was signed into law by the
President.
Introduced S. 1989, the Global Ban on Dangerous Pesticides
Act, prohibiting the export of pesticides banned in the
United States.
Endorsed the Cal-OSHA restoration initiative, Proposition
97. Prior to its elimination, Cal-OSHA maintained a more
stringent workplace exposure limit than federal law and
limited exposure to toxins for which there is no standard.
Voted for the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide
Act amendments, which mandate tougher standards for
pesticides.
Recently co-authored legislation that would substantially
increase the number of hazardous substance inspectors at
EPA.
A Wilson Administration will act firmly and decisively to
safeguard the public from dangerous substances in the
environment. It will take a firm approach to enforcement of laws
relating to hazardous substances, including the enforcement of
laws relating to pesticide use and exposure. In all cases, the
Wilson Administration will rely on objective scientific analysis,
and will seek to strengthen and streamline environmental
regulations to assure that they are most effective while not
creating undue harm to the state's economy.
The centerpiece of Pete Wilson's environmental program will
be creation of a cabinet-level Environmental Protection Agency
for California. Cabinet level status for the agency will
provide, under one roof, a coordinated and coherent functioning
of all the different state subagencies administering different
aspects of environmental protection in California, under the
direction of one highly visible and accountable cabinet officer.
This reorganization and elevation of the status of
environmental protection will not only be in the best interests
of a coordinated environmental policy, it will enable the
governor to provide hands-on leadership on critical environmental
issues. It will clearly be a far preferable approach to a
separately elected environmental advocate, who obviously could be
estranged from an administration, and whose duties may duplicate
many of its missions.
Pete Wilson strongly believes that the Governor, who
appoints department and agency heads and proposes their budgets,
must be the State's environmental advocate. His authority must
not be balkanized.
Cal-EPA would be charged with assuring the safety of all
Californians from hazardous wastes and other health threatening
pollutants. Specifically, this would be accomplished by making
several significant changes in state regulatory responsibilities
and transfers of appropriate jurisdictions. Responsibilities for
many aspects of pesticide regulation will be transferred from the
Department of Food and Agriculture to the new Cal-EPA.
Similarly, responsibilities in the Department of Health
Services for assessing the health risk of hazardous materials and
for cleaning-up existing contaminated sites will be transferred
to Cal-EPA. The Air Resources Board, State Water Resources
Control Board, and Integrated Waste Management and Recycling
Board will operate within the overall structure of the new
California EPA.
Cal-EPA would also be also be charged with developing
health-based standards for pesticides. The agency would be
directed to take special need groups, including children, into
account when setting standards. Standards would be determined by
Cal-EPA in consultation with scientists and physicians
specializing in food sciences and other relevant specialties.
By transferring these authorities, the regulatory process
for hazardous substances and pesticides will be strengthened, and
state government's mission to protect Californians and our
environment would be clear and emphatic. Cal-EPA will be
directed to operate its program in compliance with CEQA, as will
all state agencies.
The Cal-EPA would be committed to a scientifically-based
approach that exposure is the key factor in determining the
likelihood of chemically-induced cancer or birth defects. By
scientifically establishing these levels, the risk of cancer or
reproductive harm can be eliminated in a scientifically sound and
sensible manner. In a Wilson administration, science will be in;
politics will be out.
As governor, Pete Wilson will assure full enforcement of all
laws, including the provisions of Proposition 65. He will direct
all agencies to properly comply with its provisions by
integrating its requirements into their programs.
In regards to hazardous substances generally, the principal
goal is to encourage reduction of the volume of hazardous
materials generated. He would support ongoing research into
opportunities for reducing the production of hazardous chemicals,
and minimizing the production of hazardous wastes. The research
funds, however, should not come at the expense of ensuring sound
enforcement now of existing toxic controls.
Additionally, private enterprise must be given encouragement
and incentives to invest funds in research and development of
safe alternatives.
Senator Wilson supports as the clearly preferable method of
eradicating the Mediterranean Fruit Fly the release of sterilized
flies in sufficient numbers to prevent propagation. The
technology exists, and the capability to provide sterilized flies
in sufficient numbers is in process and should shortly be
achieved. Until then, the spraying of diluted solutions of
malathion, which the federal government has found to pose no
health hazard to humans or pets, should be conducted with
sufficient notice to avoid needlessly intrusive or irritating
surprise and inconvenience to the residents of urban areas.
PETE WILSON ON
PUBLIC LANDS AND FORESTRY ISSUES
As noted earlier, Pete Wilson's leadership was indispensable
to the addition of 1.8 million acres of U.S. Forest Service land
to the California wilderness system in 1984. Pete Wilson's
contribution, and its significance, was attested to in a December
1984 article in California Journal:
"That the California wilderness bill got to the
president at all was a formidable achievement and a
potent civics lesson on at least one point: a single
senator can indeed make a difference
Republican
Wilson came at the wilderness as if possessed by the
spirit of John Muir himself, or at least Smokey the
Bear
Although the California bill was but one of 19
wilderness measures that successfully wended their way
through Congress this year, it contained the largest
amount of acreage for any single state save Alaska
since passage of the 1964 Wilderness Act."
He also signed the ballot argument and strongly supported
Proposition 70, which was the largest open-space and habitat
acquisition bond measure in the history of the state.
Pete Wilson supports protection of the California desert.
More specifically, he supports designating Joshua Tree and Death
Valley as National Parks, with appropriate boundary expansions.
He also supports appropriate protection for the East Mojave
National Scenic Area.
As it is presently cast, S. 11 unnecessarily restricts
access for family recreationists. The desert is a much needed
recreational and natural resource for millions of Californians
seeking relief from the pressures of urban living. They should
be provided access compatible with protecting these ecologically
fragile areas. S. 11 simply does not meet this test.
Senator Wilson's support of access to desert wilderness is
consistent with his support for close-in urban recreation areas,
such as the Santa Monica Mountains NRA and Golden Gate NRA.
There are places where wilderness designation, with its
exclusion of vehicles, is necessary to protect special and
fragile areas. Other areas, however, can be protected while
providing access so people can enjoy and appreciate the scenic
and inspirational qualities of the desert.
Senator Wilson's commitment to protection of the desert
environment as a wildlife habitat is clear from his having called
on the Secretary of the Interior to place the desert tortoise on
the endangered species list on an emergency basis. Through this
listing, a very high degree of protection is afforded to desert
habitat, based on science, not on politics.
The determination of whether to list the desert tortoise on
a permanent basis is being made by scientists and biologists
based on the criteria of the Endangered Species Act. Having now
proposed its listing as a "threatened" species, in keeping with
scientifically-established criteria, adequate desert habitat will
be protected.
This is only Senator Wilson's most recent action to protect
the habitat of desert wildlife. For example, he was instrumental
in obtaining funding for the Coachella Valley Preserve to protect
the Fringe-Toed Lizard.
Also, Senator Wilson supports and has successfully fought
for increased funding for desert protection, which is especially
important in light of GAO'S observation that "BLM funding
shortfalls are so severe that even highly significant (desert
management) tasks cannot be performed."
Pete Wilson believes that the protection of desert
environment and enjoyment of desert recreation are not mutually
exclusive goals. He is committed to achieving both.
Regarding forestry, Pete Wilson supports sustainable,
environmentally sensitive management of the state's productive
forest lands. He has stated:
"I support ecologically sound protection of our old-
growth forest heritage and its dependent wildlife. I
will work to preserve additional old-growth redwoods in
California's North Coast, including protection of an
ecologically significant portion of the Headwaters
Forest.
"A Wilson Administration will not tolerate the destruction
of California's forest to meet debt payments on a leveraged
buy-out."
As a cosponsor of the Tongass Timber Reform Act, Pete Wilson
has stood foursquare behind protection of this prime example of
America's temperate rain forest in southeast Alaska. Indeed,
Wilson became the first Western Republican to co-sponsor this
important legislation.
As Governor, Pete Wilson will direct all state agencies to
comply with the California Environmental Quality Act. He believes
a coordinated, collaborative approach among state agencies with
relevant responsibilities -- specifically Department of Forestry,
Fish and Game, and Regional Water Quality Control Board -- offers
the best basis for assuring that timber harvest plans comply with
CEQA.
Lastly on forestry, the Forest Forever Initiative identifies
some important policy areas that need to be addressed,
particularly the sustainability of forest productivity and
related questions of wildlife, fisheries, and water quality.
Pete Wilson does not, however, generally believe that initiatives
are a sound or acceptable means to devise elaborate, finely
detailed regulatory programs. Therefore, he may not support
either of the forest management initiatives now being circulated.
His final decision will not be made until an initiative
qualifies.
Pete Wilson will direct state agencies to meet the need for
sensitive and sustained management of our forest resources.
As governor, Pete Wilson will continue to protect the
wildlife habitat, fisheries and recreation associated with free-
flowing rivers. His strong record on river preservation should
leave no doubt on his commitment.
Early in his first term as a U.S., Senator, Wilson took the
lead in gaining protection for the Tuolumne River, then
considered the most threatened river in the country. The
Tuolumne was seen by local irrigation districts as a backyard
resource for meeting the rising demand for electricity.
While seriously weighing the need for more power, Wilson
sided with those who wanted the Tuolumne to flow free. He
determined that while feasible alternatives were available for
the irrigation districts, only by designating the Tuolumne as
"wild and scenic" would Californians be able to permanently
preserve the outstanding recreational and natural values.
For his strong and effective leadership on the Tuolumne, Senator
Wilson was honored as "Conservationist of the Year" in 1984 by
California Trout.
He has continued this dedication to preserving important
free-flowing rivers and streams, and restoring river systems that
had been damaged over the years:
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In 1986, Wilson co-authored legislation authorizing $42.5
million for management, restoration, and monitoring of the
Klamath River.
In 1989 Wilson also co-authored a major river restoration
bill for the Upper Sacramento River and its tributaries, for
which the President has included funding in his budget. For
this achievement, United Anglers has named him "1989
Conservationist of the Year" for what they describe as
"
the most important California salmon and steelhead
legislation ever introduced."
Wilson supports strengthening House legislation giving
protection to Sespe Creek in Central California. His
amendments would add an additional eight miles of study
river on the Sespe, and would protect twice as many rivers
forest-wide than the Forest Service recommendation.
Wilson has also announced his support for protection for
what is now the most threatened river in the country, the
Upper Klamath. He will support legislation to preserve this
river as part of the national Wild and Scenic River System.
Finally, as governor, Pete Wilson would assure that cyanide
gold heap leaching does not pose threats to wildlife. Department
of Fish and Game and Regional Water Quality Control Board
requirements for protection and mitigation would be aggressively
enforced, and groundwater safeguards imposed.
PETE WILSON ON
SOLID WASTE ISSUES
Solid waste is a problem growing at a rapid rate. Pete
Wilson knows that it must be dealt with through a comprehensive
program that includes recycling and waste reduction. He believes
there are three keys to solving the state's solid waste problem:
1.
Encourage industry and consumers to create and use less
solid waste.
Part of a Wilson environmental ethic will be to encourage
Californians to get by with less packaging, and to use products
that are recyclable, non-toxic, or biodegradable, and to educate
businesses and consumers that more packaging and more waste mean
higher costs to society. Governor Wilson will set goals for
waste reduction by California society, and will hold industry and
consumers accountable.
2.
Create markets for recyclable goods so there is no
impediment to local recycling programs.
There are many different reasons for the lack of markets for
various recyclable products. Governor Wilson would order a
product-by-product investigation of the impediments to recycling,
and attack them on a product-by-product basis. Solutions may be
a matter of economics, of state regulation, or of consumer
behavior. Each of these impediments must be approached
individually. Fiscal measures would only be considered if proven
to encourage market forces, not merely for subsidies of programs
that would not otherwise survive.
3.
Develop advanced technologies to dispose of residual waste
that is neither minimized nor reduced.
Even with maximum recycling and waste reduction, there will
still be large amounts of waste entering the waste stream. As
governor, Wilson will sponsor research to develop alternative,
safe, and clean ways to dispose of this waste, and will also work
on regional solutions to landfill siting.
Pete Wilson will use his office as a bully pulpit to promote
replication of highly commendable private clean-up projects, such
as the Adopt-a-Beach program. He would encourage Californians to
assume responsibility for maintaining the cleanliness of our
state.
Solid waste is one area where Californian's daily habits are
going to have to change. Californians create too much garbage,
twice as much, for example, as the average West German.
Moreover, California is too beautiful to be used as a dumping
ground.
PETE WILSON ON
TRANSPORTATION ISSUES
As mayor of San Diego, Pete Wilson built the first modern
light rail system in California, the San Diego Trolley, on time,
under budget, and without federal funds. Serving as Chairman of
the San Diego Transit Development Board, Wilson was the key
negotiator with the Santa Fe railroad. He secured 18 miles of
their right-of-way, which was then estimated to be worth $80
million, for $18 million. Wilson's commitment and ability on the
trolley project was described by one of its principal advocates,
then San Diego City Council member Maureen O'Connor:
"I can get people on base, but Pete is the Reggie
Jackson. He hits the home-runs."
He has continued his commitment to mass transit by signing
the ballot argument for Proposition 116, the Rail Transportation
and Bond Initiative. He is also a strong supporter of
Proposition 108 the Passenger Rail and Clean Air Bond Act.
Not as well known was his commitment as mayor to increasing
the accessibility to bus service. Under his leadership, the San
Diego bus system simplified fares, increased routes, offered
accessibility to handicapped passengers, and more than doubled
ridership.
As a U.S. Senator, Wilson voted to override President
Reagan's veto in 1987 of the transportation re authorization
bill, which contained funds for the Los Angeles Metrorail, among
other projects.
Mass transit is an essential element to solving California's
transportation problems, but it must be supplemented by
intelligent use of other modes. All the surface systems must be
integrated to most efficiently move traffic, using information
and advanced communication technologies. In addition, Senator
Wilson supports increased reliance on user fees, including an
increase in the state's fuel tax, as well as prospective further
use of toll roads and bridges, as appropriate.
Senator Wilson strongly supports Proposition 111, which
would fund major high tech traffic congestion improvements, fund
some mass transit operational costs, provide funding for crucial
highway and road projects, and implement an important congestion
management program, which would begin to integrate land use and
transportation decisions as the local level. The latter approach
is not new to Wilson. As mayor, his early insistence on growth
management eased San Diego's traffic congestion problem.
PETE WILSON ON
WATER ISSUES
The issue of water is especially sensitive today, in the
fourth year of the drought. Should the drought continue into the
term of Governor Wilson, he will provide the leadership to ensure
that all segments of California's society -- residential,
industrial, agricultural, and natural resources -share in the
sacrifices necessary so that the basic needs of each are met,
fairly and equitably.
Since the celebrated and unproductive water war that divided
north and south over the proposed Peripheral Canal, more recent
developments give evidence of a wise appreciation that statewide
water cooperation, as well as consensus for the conservation and
development of an important resource on a regional basis, can
benefit all participants.
For example, as a U.S. Senator, Wilson participated in two
landmark resolutions of serious water controversies.
The Coordinated Operations Agreement has enabled the federal
Central Valley Project to be operated in conjunction with the
State Water Project in order to meet state-ordered water quality
standards in the San Joaquin - Sacramento River Delta and San
Francisco Bay. The COA also authorized the Bureau of Reclamation
and the state of California to make available hundreds of
thousands of acre-feet of federal water to SWP customers, using
state distribution facilities to get it to them, and authorized
$600 million in new loans and grants under the Small Reclamation
Projects Act. The COA also provided protection to the important
Suisun Marsh waterfowl habitat.
The second agreement produced a strategy to restore
fisheries on the Upper Sacramento River and its tributaries. It
involved the broadest possible representation of competing
interests, and the state and federal governments, as participants
in a two-year study and development of a comprehensive plan to
restore the sharply declining populations of steelhead and salmon
fisheries.
Legislation co-authored by Senator Wilson and Congressman
Doug Bosco will put $180 million into implementation of that
plan. A quarter of the money will come from the state, and the
balance shared equally between the federal government and private
river users.
These successes show that California can achieve even more
cooperation even during prolonged drought and even in the face of
relentless population increases.
As governor, Pete Wilson would extend his call for an
"environmental ethic" to our use and development of water
resources. That means that conservation would be the bedrock of
a Wilson administration water policy. Conservation, including
water reclamation, conjunctive use of water resources, and
aquifer banking, makes economic as well as environmental sense.
Neither our environment nor our economy can afford stalemate
on the issue of water. We need a consensus approach if we are to
solve the state's water supply challenge. The Wilson
Administration will provide the constructive leadership needed to
meet this difficult challenge. This will require a flexible,
open-minded approach to pursue innovative opportunities. Aside
from conservation, these may take the form of transfer of water
rights or new projects such as off-stream storage and aquifer
banking.
As governor, Wilson will strive to maintain the quality of
water. He will assiduously enforce the strong laws on the books,
including anti-degradation regulations and Proposition 65, to
ensure that the California's water is safe and reliable for its
many beneficial uses.
Pete Wilson brings special experience on water issues
unmatched by any of the other candidates. As mayor, he
inaugurated an innovative reverse osmosis project for water
reclamation that received international attention.
A Wilson Administration will be committed to:
Continuing to support construction of the Los Banos Grandes
Reservoir, which would provide substantial storage of water
pumped through the Delta during the wet season.
Restoration and protection of the San Francisco Bay and
Delta. As Senator, Wilson was able to secure $12 million for
EPA to develop a plan to restore and protect this world-
renowned resource. His administration will see that an
effective plan is implemented.
Complete the protection of Mono Lake through a partnership
effort by the State, Federal and Los Angeles City
government. His intervention last year on legislation to
support state funding for Mono Lake protection, and his
commitment for a federal partnership in this effort
catalyzed protection efforts.
Effective implementation of the proposed wetlands
restoration plan for the flyway in California's Central
Valley. This innovative partnership between federal and
state government and private conservation entities has a
goal of protecting 80,000 additional acres of existing
wetlands and restoring an additional 120,000 acres of
wetlands.
PETE WILSON ON
WILDLIFE ISSUES
Pete Wilson signed the ballot argument in support of
Proposition 70, the largest open space and wildlife habitat
acquisition bond measure in the history of the State. The Wilson
Administration will continue to make open space and wildlife
habitat acquisition a priority.
A Wilson administration will recognize that having close-in
urban recreational areas provides significant opportunities for
wildlife sanctuaries.
Senator Wilson also believes that we must reverse and repair
environmental degradation of our economically valuable resource
areas such as salmon spawning streams, wetlands, wildlife
habitat, and commercially capable timber lands. Not only do
these areas have great ecological and recreational value, they
are renewable resources. A Wilson Administration will seek to
increase investments in restoring these productive natural
systems, resulting in both an enhancement of environmental values
and economic dividends in terms of future commodities, jobs, and
tax revenues. Such restoration programs will strive to involve
youth, community, and business organizations.
Primary funding for such habitat acquisition should come
from general obligation bonds, such as remaining Proposition 70
proceeds, and any necessary future G.O. bonds.
For that reason, Senator Wilson finds himself unable to
support Proposition 117, though he shares the goal of acquiring
threatened habitat, because of the measure's proposed funding.
Rather than using bonds, Proposition 117 seeks to fund
acquisition by reallocating already-obligated revenue sources.
As a result, health organizations, minority community
advocates, and conservation groups like California Trout have
joined in opposition to the initiative. Specifically, the
expressed fear of California Trout is that Proposition 117 will
lock into law for 30 years a specific distribution of wildlife
conservation funds. It would remove the governor's and
Legislature's flexibility and responsibility to allocate wildlife
conservation funds to the most pressing needs. Such
inflexibility would be part of the law for 30 years.
Pete Wilson does not support the hunting of mountain lions.
PETE WILSON ON
STATE ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCY
APPOINTMENTS AND ORGANIZATION
with regard to appointments to commissions, Senator Wilson
intends to appoint knowledgeable and fair-minded individuals who
will hold the public welfare, and its dependence on a healthy and
productive environment, above any special interest. He rejects
the implication that persons with any kind of affiliation to
regulated industries necessarily cannot meet that standard. He
agrees that there should be appropriate sensitivity to such
affiliations. These questions, though, must be decided on a
case-by-case basis.
Senator Wilson would insist on full disclosure and
elimination of any conflict of interest, consistent with his
career-long effort to appoint people of high ethical character
and professional ability. That does not mean that he would
reject persons with some background in, connection to, or
knowledge derived from an affected industry.
Senator Wilson's record as mayor of San Diego, and more
recently in recommending the appointment of federal judges in
California, demonstrates his commitment to strong appointees with
high ethical standards.
Reflective of his attitude on appointments is a letter he
wrote to President Bush regarding the position of Assistant
Secretary of Agriculture. In it, Senator Wilson urged selecting
an individual of the caliber of a William Reilly, now
Administrator of EPA, or Admiral James Watkins, Secretary of
Energy,
With regard to the abolition of commissions and boards,
Senator Wilson will, where appropriate, consider reorganization
of the executive branch where, in his opinion, reorganization
would be helpful to achieve environmental or other goals, and is
not outweighed by its disruptive effect. Senator Wilson has
already called for the creation of a California EPA and the
transfer to it of the appropriate jurisdiction.
The Cal-EPA would meld a collection of state environmental
agencies into a single, cabinet-level agency that would report
directly to the Governor. Right now, some divisions of state
government responsible for protecting public health and the
environment are buried, functioning obscurely within larger
departmental bureaucracies.
Creating Cal-EPA will bring together and elevate these
divisions, bring greater coordination, greater efficiency, and
greater environmental protection.
PETE WILSON ON
ENVIRONMENTAL BALLOT MEASURES
Senator Wilson has not yet taken a formal position either
for or against the "CAREFUL" or "Global Warming and Clearcutting
Reduction, Wildlife Protection and Reforestation Act of 1990" or
the "Forest Forever" initiatives. As a general rule, he will not
take a formal position on initiatives unless and until they have
formally qualified for the ballot.
While Senator Wilson may support some of the general goals
of the Environmental Protection Initiative, he does not support
the initiative itself, due to certain fatal flaws in its process
and substance. Whatever its benefits, which may be achieved by
legislation, the initiative is unacceptable because of its
creation of a statewide elected office of Environmental Advocate.
Regrettably, voters cannot simply vote only for the parts of this
initiative that they like. To reject its serious flaws requires
rejecting the whole.
The Advocate's $40 million-plus annual budget and the
authority to sue other state agencies is a recipe for mischief
and offers too tempting a platform for political demagoguery.
Moreover, the Governor -- who appoints the directors and proposes
the budgets of the many state government units responsible for
environmental protection in California -- should be California's
"environmental czar." In addition, California already has an
elected attorney general, who is charged under the laws of the
state to represent the people on environmental issues. We hardly
need another bureaucrat to spend $40 million a year launching
dozens of lawsuits to promote his own political agenda.
An "environmental advocate" position might work if it were
appointed by the Governor, as is the "public advocate" position
in New Jersey.
But what offers a much better hope of improving the
functioning of state government as the protector of California's
environment is Senator Wilson's proposed California EPA. All the
responsible operating units of state government would report to a
cabinet-level officer accountable to the Governor.
Elevating the responsibility for environmental protection to
cabinet status, as will occur in a Wilson administration, will
give it a new visibility and accountability, as well as providing
for a much more coherent and coordinated functioning of different
state environmental agencies.
As with all the other responsibilities of California's
elected chief executive, in the case of anything as vital as
environmental protection, the buck must stop with the governor.
But if he is to effectively exercise that responsibility, we
cannot diminish his authority to do so and delegate it to another
official who -- for all the news releases and lawsuits he might
file -- does not have the same responsibility. The Governor and
nobody else is and should be the chief state official charged
with the protection of the environment.
Ultimately, what will make the difference in resolving our
environmental problems is capable and committed leadership. A
subject as broad and complex as the environment cannot be done
justice in simple campaign slogans or quick-fix initiatives.
Substantive progress on our environmental problems will require
leadership. Pete Wilson works to understand the legitimate needs
on a particular issue. His fair-minded, hard-working approach to
difficult environmental problems has overcome polarized
viewpoints and consistently yielded positive results.
Pete GOVERNOR WILSON
WILSON, A BULLDOG ON FISCAL MANAGEMENT
Pete Wilson has earned the reputation of a tight-fisted
manager of government spending. He understands the meaning of a
"hard earned dollar" and has consistently fought to keep costs
and taxes to a minimum.
As Assemblyman in Sacramento, Wilson helped draft
major property tax relief legislation.
As Mayor of San Diego, Wilson spearheaded
"Proposition J" a city ordinance limiting government
spending, which became the blueprint for the Gann
Initiative restricting statewide spending.
As U.S. Senator in Washington, D.C., Wilson's fiscally
conservative voting record earned awards from the
National Taxpayers Union, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce,
and the National Federation of Independent Businesses.
Paul Gann, one of California's leading voices for the
prudent government management, said about Wilson in February,
1989: "Pete Wilson is undoubtedly the best qualified
candidate for the job [of governor]. We need you.
CALIFORNIA'S BEST MAYOR
Under Pete Wilson's stewardship, San Diego thrived, becoming
"America's Finest City.' As Mayor, Wilson demonstrated that
local government could be responsive as well as frugal.
Howard Jarvis remarked about Pete Wilson's uncommon ability
to manage San Diego's finances in a 1978 television debate:
"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."
Under Wilson's no-nonsense fiscal management, San Diego's
long term debt was cut as well as its long term debt per capita.
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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.
Under Wilson's careful management, the City's property tax
rate was cut by 25 percent, even before passage of Proposition 13
in 1978. The per capita tax burden after adjusting for inflation
actually declined by nearly 10 percent.
Reflecting the city's economic health, Moody's raised its
bond rating twice from A1 to Aa in 1973 and then to Aal in 1981.
San Diego took top honors in 1981 when Barron's compared it
with nine other cities of similar size (Boston, San Francisco,
Baltimore, Memphis, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, and
Pittsburgh). In per capita expenditures, per capita salaries and
wages, per capita property taxes, total debt, long term general
obligation debt, and general revenues, San Diego rated the best.
During Wilson's Administration, city spending per capita,
adjusted for inflation, actually declined by 15 percent. At the
same time, real per capita spending for law enforcement increased
by 37 percent.
About Wilson's skillful leadership, The San Diego Union
wrote in May, 1978:
"Under his [Wilson's] direction, San Diego
gained new stature as one of the best-governed, more
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.'
Wilson's innovative ideas and fiscal helmsmanship received
acclaim in journals and by national media.
In 1974, the Council on Municipal Performance, a non-profit
educational organization that develops and disseminates
information relating to municipal effectiveness, ranked San Diego
first (tied with four other cities) among 88 cities in a survey
of the budgetary process. It considered the effectiveness of
fiscal control, city management and administrative planning.
The Christian Science Monitor picked San Diego in 1975 as.
one of America's ten most livable cities in the United States.
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Harper's Magazine in 1975 ranked San Diego as the third
best city nationwide (after Seattle and Tulsa), when considering
health, affluence, crime, housing, education and professional
achievement, atmosphere and amenities.
Growth Management Saving Money
San Diego was growing by leaps and bounds when Wilson was
first elected mayor in 1971. Among his top campaign pledges, he
promised to control urban sprawl, preserving open spaces while
avoiding escalating costs associated with the construction of new
city services.
Wilson's answer to the complex problem was a revolutionary
plan labelled the Growth Management Strategy, which the City
Council passed in 1972.
San Diego became a laboratory for the entire nation.
Development was encouraged in the central areas of the city,
where services and facilities were readily available. In the
outlying areas, it was allowed only after an analysis of costs,
weighing the relationship between providing new services with the
revenues realized from broadening the property tax base.
About Wilson's visionary management plan, Robert Lindsay of
The New York Times wrote in 1979:
"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."
Under Wilson's leadership, taxpayers saved millions of
dollars. Property taxes remained low, with growth molded to make
efficient use of existing facilities and services.
City Analyst
To tighten fiscal management of San Diego's budget and guard
against the misspending of taxpayer dollars, the City Council
accepted Wilson's proposal in 1972 to hire a Legislative Analyst.
Responsibilities of the analyst included appraising the
costs and effectiveness of existing and proposed city programs
and policies.
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In the first two years alone, recommendations of the
Legislative Analyst resulted in savings of $7 million annually
and one-time savings of $1 million.
City Employees
With salaries and fringe benefits for municipal employees
constituting the largest single city expense, Wilson urged city
council members to be judicious in boosting salaries and fringe
benefits.
To emphasize the point, he succeeded in getting council
members to approve a policy stating that they would consider
inflation, the ability of the city and the taxpayer's ability to
pay, when setting salaries and fringe benefits for public
employees.
Gradually, the city reduced its ratio of employees to
residents. Importantly, wages that were paid were both fair to
city employees and to city taxpayers.
At the same time, the ratio of police employees to residents
rose by nearly 20 percent. Real expenditures for police
increased by 75 percent, and for fire protection by 40 percent.
About Wilson success in controlling government expenses, The
Los Angeles Times said in May, 1979:
"In comparison with 25 other U.S. cities with a
population between 400, and 1 million, San Diego
ranks second in spending the least amount of money
and having the fewest employees per capita."
Proposition J
To put "a tight lid" on the level of taxation by the City of
San Diego, Wilson spearheaded "Proposition J" in 1978.
Specifically, it "permitted the city budget to only increase
to allow for growth in population and to offset 3/4 of the
increases in prices.
The proposition -- which was adopted by 78 percent of the
voters -- became the model for the Gann Initiative of 1978 that
today limits overall government spending.
About Wilson's management of San Diego's economy, Paul Gann
said in June, 1979:
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"You've shown that local government can be
responsive and can be tight-fisted. Now is the
time to have that same kind of restraint for all
parts of the state. We need more than rhetoric.
We need the kind of action we have seen in
your city."
Creating Jobs
San Diego's notoriety for fiscal management proved to be an
attraction to America's top businesses. Major companies moved to
the city, bringing thousands of jobs. Commenting in 1978 on the
advantages of San Diego, James LaFleur, Chairman of GTI
Corporation, said:
"San Diego has one of the most favorable tax
climates in California. We were impressed with the
attitudes on the part of both the government and
the business community."
Announcing in 1978 his intention to move their headquarters
to San Diego, Forrest Shumway, President of Signal Companies --
at that time the 79th largest company in America -- said about
Wilson and San Diego:
"San Diego is probably the best run city in
the U.S."
San Diego Magazine said:
"Pete Wilson probably is the finest city chief
executive in knowing how corporations work."
Proposition 4 -- Gann Spending Limit
Wilson strongly backed the 1979 Gann Limit Initiative, that
was modeled on a much stronger measure pioneered by Wilson in San
Diego (Proposition J), to control the level of spending by the
state.
Proposition 7
Wilson supported the 1982 initiative by Howard Jarvis to
permanently index state taxes to inflation. This measure stopped
the state government's "secret tax increase" due merely to
inflation throwing taxpayers into higher tax brackets.
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No to Split Roll Tax
Since serving in the Legislature, Wilson has opposed the
split roll tax, which would increase taxes on small businesses.
Most recently, Wilson fought against placing such a tax on the
1990 statewide ballot.
Yes to Taxpayers Right to Vote Act
Wilson was the first candidate for public office to endorse
this statewide initiative. Sponsored by the Howard Jarvis and
Paul Gann organizations, it would guarantee taxpayers the right
to vote on local tax increases, ensure state tax increases are
approved by two-thirds votes of the Legislature, and applies a
higher threshold for approval of earmarked tax increases.
Inheritance Tax Repeal
Wilson favored both 1982 initiatives, Propositions 5 and 6,
to repeal the state inheritance and gift taxes. These measures
brought to a halt the government's double-taxation of income,
which had resulted in families losing their homes and farms.
U.S. SENATOR; FIGHTING FEDERAL SPENDING
Years of fiscal mismanagement by Democratic leaders in
Congress and the White House were reversed under the leadership
of President Reagan with the support of members of Congress.
Wilson argued strongly for the passage of federal spending reform
measures, as well as tackled wasteful spending in the military.
During Wilson's first term, taxes were reduced along with
the growth in federal spending, leading to record economic
expansion and the creation of more than 16 million new jobs.
Commenting on Wilson's record in the Senate, the Scripps
Ranch Star News said in 1986:
"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."
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.
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Balanced Budget Amendment
To put a stop to deficit spending at the federal level,
Wilson supports a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced
budget.
In the U.S. Senate, Wilson was co-chairman of Congressional
Leaders for a Balanced Budget (CLUBB), an organization to
encourage Congress to pass a balanced budget amendment.
In 1984, he sponsored a state ballot proposition to put
California on record in support of a constitutional amendment to
require a balanced budget. (The initiative was thrown off the
ballot by the Bird Court.)
Line-Item Veto
Wasteful spending continues at the federal level because
Democrats in Congress refuse to give the president line-item veto
authority, which is enjoyed by 43 governors.
Wilson views such legislation as necessary to cut wasteful
"pork" programs that are the inevitable byproduct of the massive
budgets enacted by Congress. It would save billions of dollars
and reduce the federal budget deficit.
Gramm-Rudman Deficit Reduction Bill
With Democrats opposed to a balanced budget amendment and a
line-item veto, Republicans in Congress -- including Wilson --
successfully passed into law the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Bill,
which requires Congress to reduce spending each year by a set
amount or face across-the-board cuts in spending.
Since its enactment, the law has helped reduce federal
deficits of $212 billion in 1985 to $100 billion in 1990.
Tax Reform Act of 1986
Wilson voted for the Tax Reform Act of 1986, reducing the
number of tax brackets from 14 to just three, and cutting the tax
rate on all incomes.
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Military Inventory Management
A member of the Armed Services Committee, Wilson launched an
unprecedented investigation into mismanagement and waste in the
military's $180 billion inventory system.
Wilson's subsequent legislation -- 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.
Wilson's leadership won praise from Democratic colleagues,
including Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) :
"He [Wilson] 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."
Fair Labor Standards Act
Wilson led the battle in the U.S. Senate to mitigate the
financial burden on state and local government, resulting from
the Supreme Court's Garcia V. San Antonio Transit Authority, thus
saving taxpayers millions of dollars.
Wilson initiated legislation to restore to state and local
government the opportunity to continue to offer compensatory time
off to employees for working overtime, rather than mandatory
premium overtime pay, as ordered by the Court.
Don Benninghoven, Executive Director of the League of
California Cities applauded Wilson's action:
"Thank you very much for your continuing
recognition of California cities' needs and for
your dramatic leadership in Washington."
Miscellaneous Legislation
**
Voted to reduce capital gains holding periods
from 12 to six months;
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Voted against a proposed delay in federal income
tax indexing;
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Supported a continuation in the federal income tax
deduction for state and local taxes;
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Voted twice to lower the capital gains tax, which
has been scuttled by the Democrats;
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Authored legislation to repeal the diesel gas tax
for farmers;
**
Cosponsored nine bills incorporating over 80
recommendations of the Grace Commission on
government waste.
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August 24, 1990, Friday, BC cycle
SECTION: Washington News
LENGTH: 620 words
HEADLINE: New Air Force One delivered
BYLINE: BY ELIOT BRENNER
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
KEYWORD: AIRFORCEONE
BODY:
The Air Force dusted off the runway for the arrival of the first new Air
Force One in 17 years, moving presidential travel into the jumbo jet era
with the arrival of a specially built Boeing 747.
The aircraft, one of two ordered for White House duty, was flown Thursday to
Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington from Wichita, Kan., where final
touches were put on the multimillion-dollar jetliner.
The plane arrived in the early evening with Col. Robert Barr, the
president's pilot since 1989, at the controls. The second plane, indentically
equipped, is expected to be delivered next spring.
At Kennebunkport, Maine, where President Bush is vacationing, White
House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said he did not know when Bush would make his
first flight on the new 747-200.
An Air Force spokesman in Washington said the plane is ready for
presidential missions but would not go into service until a few more practice
runs were made, both to make sure all the equipment works right and the crew and
cabin personnel know the set up.
The aircraft will carry 70 passengers and 23 crew members and it has more
than three times the floor space of the older 707s now used as presidential
planes. It has a main deck of 3,520 square feet and the upper deck, under the
distinctive 747 bulge, is 470 square feet.
The plane, also nearly twice as wide as the 707s will carry the tail number
28000. The 17-year-old plane now used for most flights is designated 27000. The
first jet-powered Air Force One - the one that carried President
Kennedy's body to Washington from Dallas in 1963 --- is number 26000.
Any plane carrying the president is automatically called 11 Air Force
One, and the primary plane is referred to by its tail number when not used
by the president.
The new plane cruises at 560 miles an hour at 35, feet and can fly 7,140
miles without refueling. It can be refueled in flight.
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In announcing the plane's range and refueling capacity, Fitzwater joked,
Look out world, here we come.
The plane was built at Boeing's plant near Seattle and then taken to Wichita
for outfitting with secure, worldwide voice and data communications and
state-of-the-art electronics. More than 238 miles of wire is wound through the
plane, more than double a standard 747. The wire is shielded to protect it from
the electromagnetic pulse of nuclear detonations that can disrupt regular
communciations equipment.
In addition to its communications gear, the new plane has an emergency
medical facility, work and rest areas for the president, his staff, the secret
service and news media.
The two planes, spare parts and a special hangar at Andrews cost the
government $410 million. The contract for the planes alone was for $262 million,
but an Air Force report last year estimated Boeing would spend nearly $650
million building the planes. Analysts have said Boeing absorbed costs over and
above the contract cost, chiefly for the prestige of building the presidential
plane. But it also was understood Boeing grumbled that changes demanded by the
government sharply drove up its costs.
Delivery of the first plane, originally set for November 1988, was delayed
by ''engineering and technical difficulties associated with the installation and
check-out of aircraft wiring,' Fitzwater said. Engineers reportedly had
difficulties modifying the wiring to withstand the electromagnetic pulses that
follow nuclear explosions.
The two existing planes will stay in the Andrews VIP travel fleet and two
older planes will be retired. The current primary plane has just 5,500 flight
hours on it and the other has about 10,000. Others in the fleet have well over
45,000 hours.
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The Seattle Times
August 25, 1990, Saturday, Final Edition
SECTION: EDITORIAL; EDITORIALS; Pg. A19
LENGTH: 220 words
HEADLINE: STOW THE FLAK -- NEW AIR FORCE ONE MEETS A VITAL NEED
BYLINE: BY JH
BODY:
OH, PUH-LEEZE! Let's cut the carping about the new Air Force One.
Some nitpicky quibblers must be really desperate to stir up a political
controversy.
They're groping. This one's a non-issue.
A new Boeing 747-200B was just delivered to Andrews Air Force Base outside
the nation's capital to serve as President Bush's official aircraft.
It was built at Boeing's Everett plant and outfitted at the company's Wichita
facility. Sure, it cost taxpayers a pretty penny: $ 330 million. (Its backup, to
be delivered next year, will cost the same.)
But don't blame George Bush. That's blatantly unfair. After all, this plane
was requested by the Air Force, approved by President Reagan, and funded by
Congress in 1986.
It's replacing a Boeing 707 that was built in 1973. That plane is so old it
no longer meets Federal Aviation Administration noise standards, and requires
runways 30 percent longer than its replacement.
The current backup Air Force One is an even older 707. Built in 1962,
it's the one President Lyndon Johnson was sworn in on after John F. Kennedy's
assassination.
Do the petty, partisan critics really want the president of the United States
flying around in planes that old and outmoded?
If any answer yes, remind them of who's vice president - and watch them choke
on their own political flak.
SUBJECT: AIRPLANES; PRESIDENTS
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August 24, 1990, Friday, Home Edition
SECTION: Part A; Page 36; Column 1; National Desk
LENGTH: 769 words
HEADLINE: NEW BUSH PLANE CREATES DUBIOUS IMAGE;
POLITICS: PUSHING AUSTERITY AS HE RIDES IN A $330-MILLION AIR FORCE ONE
MAY CREATE A PROBLEM FOR THE PRESIDENT. ACTUALLY, THE CRAFT WASN'T HIS IDEA.
BYLINE: By JAMES GERSTENZANG, TIMES STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
BODY:
How do you hide a $330-million airplane? One that weighs 836,000 pounds,
features an operating room, 85 telephones and a main deck that rivals the size
of a nice Pasadena home?
You don't. And that's a potential problem for the White House and President
Bush's political advisers.
The new Air Force One, a giant Boeing 747-200B with all those features
and many more, was quietly delivered to Andrews Air Force Base just outside
Washington late Thursday afternoon.
And now, the question facing the White House is: How does the President start
to travel about the country in this gleaming new flying White House without
causing a political ruckus --- especially in the wake of all the criticism about
his vacationing in Kennebunkport?
Never mind that the new plane is replacing an 18-year-old model. Never mind
that it was ordered by the Air Force, approved by the previous President and
funded by Congress in the 1986 budget.
When Bush starts to use the shiny new aircraft, which seems to glisten even
in the fog, the plane is likely to draw as much attention as the political
message he is delivering. And this autumn during the congressional election
campaign, that message is almost certain to focus on a Republican program of
fiscal austerity.
"I'd stash it in a hangar" until after the election, said a senior White
House adviser during the Ronald Reagan Administration.
Then, he said, he would start a major campaign to minimize the political
fallout. "I'd take every living President on a trip around the United States to
show it off," he said.
For now, White House aides are warily eyeing the plane, defending it as a
necessary element in the modern presidency while volunteering that they never
asked for it in the first place.
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The plane was originally scheduled for delivery in late 1988, after the
presidential elections. That way, Reagan could have used it for his flight home
to California -- leaving him to shoulder the plane's political baggage.
But design changes and the difficulty involved in providing a degree of
protection against the electronic interference of a thermonuclear blast created
delay after delay.
Here's what the President will get:
An airplane capable of flying 70 passengers and 23 crew members 7,140 statute
miles -- even farther if the aerial refueling capability is exercised. It has a
six-channel stereo system, two kitchens and a cargo belly that can carry 6,000
pounds of luggage.
The presidential suite includes an office and stateroom with two beds, a
lavatory and a shower. There are a dining and conference room and separate
cabins for Secret Service agents, presidential guests, staff members and a small
press contingent.
Emergency surgery can be performed in the plane's operating room. That was
high on the list of the White House medical unit when various White House
offices made suggestions for the interior design.
The reported cost for the plane and a similarly equipped spare to be
delivered in 1991 is $660 million. However, the government will pay $140 million
each -- about $15 million more than a civilian 747 might cost -- because Boeing
agreed to absorb nearly all unforeseen expenses under its fixed-price contract.
The primary Air Force One, a Boeing 707, has been in service since
1973. The backup plane dates to 1962. Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as
President on that plane, which also carried the body of the slain John F.
Kennedy from Dallas to Washington on Nov. 22, 1963.
Indeed, the difficulty that military pallbearers encountered in removing
Kennedy's coffin from the airplane influenced the design of the new Air
Force One, which will have a doorway large enough to allow a similar
ceremony to be performed with dignity.
The current Air Force One no longer meets strict Federal Aviation
Administration noise standards adopted in 1985 - it was given an exemption. And
it requires runways at least 10,500-feet long - or 30% more than needed for the
new, larger presidential plane.
On the other hand, the current plane has been in the air only about 5,000
hours.
"It's your grandmother's Buick that she only drives to church," said Lt. Col.
Darryl Hayes, an Air Force spokesman.
But, when the President trades in his low-mileage model, which will be used
by lesser dignitaries, won't he be inviting stormy skies?
No problem, said B. Jay Cooper, a spokesman for the Republican National
Committee. "It's such a visible piece of equipment that all presidents have
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had. If anyone tries to make an issue of it, I don't think the public will buy
it."
After all, he said, "it's not like a mayor buying a $50,000 limousine."
GRAPHIC: Photo, COLOR, New Air Force One arrives, complete with an
operating room. ; Photo, The new Air Force One Boeing 747 arrives at its
home base, Andrews Air Force Base, near Washington. BERNIE BOSTON / Los Angeles
Times; Photo, (Orange County Edition) The Current Air Force
SUBJECT:
BUSH, GEORGE; AIR FORCE ONE (AIRPLANE); UNITED STATES - -- POLITICS; PERKS;
PRESIDENT (U.S.)
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Copyright (c) 1989 Business Wire Inc.;
Business Wire
July 28, 1989, Friday
DISTRIBUTION: News Editors/Political Writers
LENGTH: 407 words
HEADLINE: PRES- BUSH -ENDORSEMENT; President Bush endorses Wilson for
California governor
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
BODY:
Citing U.S. Sen. Pete Wilson (R-Calif.) as 'the most qualified and
experienced candidate,' President George Bush Friday endorsed Wilson for
Governor of California.
Wilson has served 23 years in public service, first as an innovative member
of the California State Assembly, then as the much-honored mayor of San Diego,
and now as one of the brightest young members of the U.S. Senate.
In the state legislature, working with then-Governor Ronald Reagan and
then-State Senator George Deukejian, Wilson wrote some of the toughest law
enforcement and anti-crime legislation during the late 1960s.
During his tenure as mayor of San Diego, the senator used prudent budget and
tax policies to provide jobs required in one of the fastest growing cities in
America, and did so while protecting the prized environmental assets of the
city.
' ' I am pleased to support Pete for governor. We'll miss him here in
Washington but I agree that his management skills are needed in Sacramento to
follow in the great tradition of Ronald Reagan and George Deukmejian,' Bush
said.
In meeting with the press immediately following his private meeting with Bush
at the White House Friday, Wilson said he was most proud of the early
presidential support for his gubernatorial candidacy.
Wilson said a central issue in the campaign will focus on the need for
stricter anti-crime laws and reforms in the judicial system to ensure those
accused of a crime receive a speedy trial and victims are not left waiting years
on end before justice is served.
The American people have begun to doubt whether in fact our criminal system
works, Wilson said. 'We need to change the odds in favor of the citizen and
not criminals.
Wilson praised Bush for his anti-crime and anti-drug measures announced last
May in a speech on Capitol Hill.
'As the president said, we need to back up anti-crime rhetoric with
resources, including more federal agents, more federal prisons and more
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prosecutors so we can have less plea bargaining,'' Wilson said.
Note To Broadcast Editors: A video feed is available from 1:50 to 2 p.m.
(Pacific Time), Friday July 28, on Telstar 301, transponder 9 H, downlink
frequency 4060, audio 6.2 and 6.8.
CONTACT: Wilson for Governor Campaign, San Diego
Otto Bos, 619/260-1990
KEYWORDS: CALIFORNIA DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
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The San Francisco Chronicle
FEBRUARY 7, 1990, WEDNESDAY, FINAL EDITION
SECTION: NEWS; A10
LENGTH: 384 words
HEADLINE: Bush Likes The Sound of 'Governor Pete'
BYLINE: Larry Liebert
DATELINE: Los Angeles
BODY:
President Bush helped California Republicans raise $ 1.5 million last
night for their twin goals - electing Pete Wilson governor and reforming
reapportionment.
Offering unstinting praise of Republican Senator Wilson, who is running for
governor, Bush told the $ ,000-a-plate dinner guests, ''He is a strong
environmentalist, a leader in the war on drugs and a key member of my team in
the U.S. Senate.
' ' And believe me, we'll miss Senator Wilson,'' he added. ''But come to think
of it, I really like the sound of Governor Pete Wilson.
The president also gave a boost to ballot initiatives to wrest control of
reapportionment from the Democratic-controlled Legislature in Sacramento.
' 'The time has come for redistricting reform. We've got to end the charade of
that Phil Burton Democratic gerrymandering,' the president said, denouncing the
districts drawn up after the 1980 census under orders from the late Democratic
Representative Phillip Burton of San Francisco.
The president said the next redistricting will be even more important because
the 1990 census ''probably will give California up to seven new House seats
meaning that nearly one of every eight congressmen in Washington will represent
California.
Hundreds of protesters gathered in front of the Century Plaza Hotel in
Beverly Hills, blocking the street at times. Most accused Bush of doing too
little about AIDS or blamed him for violence in El Salvador.
Inside, five hecklers with tickets shouted denunciations on the same themes
as their counterparts outside until they were dragged out of the room. A stink
bomb was set off in the hotel lobby earlier yesterday, and the corridors still
reeked last night.
On February 28, Bush will be in San Francisco to appear at a fund raiser for
Wilson's campaign.
Bush's increasingly heavy schedule of appearances in California may be
partly a response to complaints from state Republican insiders that the White
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House has paid too little attention to the largest state in both presidential
appearances and high-level federal appointments.
Yesterday, White House Chief of Staff John Sununu, who some Californians have
blamed for insensitivity toward the state, spent much of his time in
conciliatory meetings in Los Angeles with aides to Wilson and other top
Republicans.
SUBJECT:
PRESIDENT; CA; SPEECH; REPUBLICANS; ELECTIONS 1990; REAPPORTIONMENT
NAME:
George Bush; Pete Wilson
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March 1, 1990, Thursday, Home Edition
SECTION: Part A; Page 30; Column 3; Metro Desk
LENGTH: 506 words
HEADLINE: PRESIDENT SEEKS TO PLACE HIS 1988 MANTLE ON WILSON;
POLITICS: IN CALIFORNIA SPEECHES FOR GOP GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE, BUSH DEPICTS
SENATOR AS A CRIME-BUSTER AND PROTECTOR OF THE ENVIRONMENT.
BYLINE: By JAMES GERSTENZANG, TIMES STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: SAN FRANCISCO
BODY:
President Bush, intensifying the Republican Party's focus on the
California gubernatorial race, sought Wednesday to impart on Sen. Pete Wilson
the mixed mantle that served Bush successfully in the presidential campaign.
Bush depicted Wilson as a hard-nosed crime-buster, who believes "it's high
time we took the shackles off the policemen, the courts and the law." But the
President also described the Republican gubernatorial candidate as one who would
"protect a fragile coastal ecology or educate a new generation of children."
The themes worked well for Bush in 1988, when he turned Willie Horton, a
convict furloughed from a Massachusetts prison, into a political metaphor for
voters' fears of violent crime, and when he turned the murky Boston Harbor in
Gov. Michael S. Dukakis' political back yard into a symbol of environmental
failures.
With Wilson at his side at a $750,000 fund-raising dinner Wednesday evening,
Bush gave the themes a try again.
= California needs to continue a crime-fighting tradition, a Republican
tradition," he said in his prepared text. But in his delivered remarks, he chose
not to limit that tradition to his party, taking out the partisan reference.
The "tough-on-crime" issue promises to be central in the race to succeed Gov.
George Deukmejian. One of the candidates for the Democratic gubernatorial
nomination, former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein, has emphasized her
support for the death penalty, and the other candidate, John K. Van de Kamp, is
the state attorney general and former district attorney of Los Angeles County.
But in a state that has been graphically reminded of the threat of
environmental damage with the Huntington Beach oil spill just three weeks ago,
Bush also portrayed Wilson as an environmentalist. "He supports our America the
Beautiful initiative to plant a billion trees, to expand our national parks and
wildlife preserves, to make this more like the unspoiled green continent our
forebears knew," Bush said.
The President made no mention of the extremely sensitive issue of how much
of the nation's coastal areas should be opened up to offshore oil drilling.
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White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater has said that a presidential
decision on the matter is several weeks away.
Wilson, in a brief introduction of the President, told Bush that as
governor, he wanted to be "a partner" with him against drugs, for education and
on behalf of child development. "In these things, we share a dream," Wilson
said.
Earlier in the day, Wilson got help for his campaign from a former President,
Ronald Reagan, who helped him raise about $200,000 at a luncheon in San Diego.
Bush has two days of appearances planned in Los Angeles and Orange counties.
Today, he will tour the new north Los Angeles County prison, a maximum-security
jail built to house 2,064 inmates, attend a Republican Governors' Assn. luncheon
at Jimmy's Restaurant in Beverly Hills, and address a 100th-anniversary dinner
of the California Chamber of Commerce at the Century Plaza.
SUBJECT:
REPUBLICAN PARTY ( CALIFORNIA) ; BUSH, GEORGE; CALIFORNIA - ELECTIONS --
1990; WILSON, PETE; CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR; POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS; SPEECHES
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June 29, 1990, Friday, Home Edition
SECTION: Part A; Page 24; Column 1; National Desk
LENGTH: 784 words
HEADLINE: SENATE ADVANCES SWEEPING ANTI-CRIME BILL, GUN CURBS;
LEGISLATION: THE OMNIBUS MEASURE WOULD REINSTATE THE FEDERAL DEATH PENALTY,
SPEED MANY EXECUTIONS, EXPAND THE ASSAULT-TYPE WEAPON BAN.
BYLINE: By PAUL HOUSTON, TIMES STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
BODY:
The Senate early today moved within a hair of passing a sweeping anti-crime
bill that would reinstate the federal death penalty, speed the execution of many
Death Row inmates and expand a ban on semiautomatic assault-type weapons.
The omnibus measure also would authorize hiring 2,500 additional federal law
enforcement agents and 480 prosecutors for the war on drugs, give $450 million
more to local police agencies and provide $400 million in college scholarships
to students who agree to serve as police officers for four years.
The bill, similar to a measure pending in a House committee, was scheduled
for a final Senate vote after Congress returns from its Fourth of July recess.
Passage is expected.
The Senate moved quickly on the bill Thursday after breaking a month-long
procedural logjam that had threatened to doom the legislation.
Following emotional debates, senators refused to substitute mandatory life
imprisonment for the federal death penalty, and they rejected a new bid by the
gun lobby to delete from the bill an enlarged ban on rapid-firing weapons.
Already adopted last month was a far-reaching overhaul of the habeas corpus
system under which state and federal Death Row inmates try to reverse their
sentences or delay execution. Such delays, which now average eight years, would
be limited to about a year under the bill.
The Supreme Court ruled in 1972 that capital punishment could not be carried
out unless certain safeguards were enacted, including a separate sentencing
trial. Many states have instituted the safeguards, but the federal death penalty
has not been reinstated.
The Senate bill would provide the court-required safeguards for the federal
government, as well as expand the death penalty to cover more than 30 crimes,
including murder, espionage, treason, aircraft hijacking, kidnaping and hostage
taking.
In late action, the Senate added "drug kingpins" to the death penalty list.
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An effort by Sen. Mark 0. Hatfield (R-Ore.) to replace the death penalty with
mandatory life imprisonment was rejected, 73 to 25.
"We seem to be on a death penalty rampage," Sen. John H. Chafee (R-R.I.)
complained as he expressed support for the Hatfield amendment. "We've applied it
to everything but school truancy."
On the other side, Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.) said the public
overwhelmingly supports the penalty as a deterrent to crime.
Republicans forced several votes on the explosive death penalty issue,
clearly hoping to use it as ammunition in Senate campaigns this fall. It is not
likely to figure in the California governor's race, however, because Sen.
Pete Wilson, the GOP nominee, and Dianne Feinstein, the Democratic
candidate, both support capital punishment.
Sen. Alan Cranston (D-Calif.), who is not up for reelection until 1992, voted
against the death penalty.
Last summer, President Bush banned the import of 47 models of the
military-style assault weapons, but he and the National Rifle Assn. strongly
opposed extending the ban to 14 other models, mostly American-made.
On Thursday, the Senate turned back for a third time an effort to get rid of
the proposed new ban on such models as the AK-47, Uzi, Tec 9 and Colt AR-15.
Opponents had hoped to turn around the vote of Sen. Alfonse M. D'Amato
(R-N.Y.). That would have produced a tie, enabling Vice President Dan Quayle --
who rushed to Capitol Hill to preside over the Senate - to cast the deciding
vote against the ban.
But D'Amato stood fast while being lobbied during the roll call by Senate
Minority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kan.) and other opponents.
Thus, the three-year ban promoted by Sen. Dennis DeConcini (D-Ariz.) was
upheld, 50 to 48. It was a victory for police organizations and gun control
groups who argued that assault-type weapons are being used increasingly in
violent crimes.
Opponents tried to win over votes by offering an alternative to stiffen
penalties for crimes involving assault weapons. But the Senate wound up adopting
both the ban and the new penalties.
On habeas corpus appeals, a committee headed by former Supreme Court Justice
Lewis F. Powell Jr. recommended a major streamlining.
Death Row inmates routinely seek writs of habeas corpus in state and federal
courts in conjunction with other appeals. Inmates now must exhaust their
petitions in state courts before making collateral attacks on their convictions
in federal court.
The legislation would eliminate the exhaustion of state proceedings as a
prerequisite for federal appeals and would require federal courts to complete
review of habeas corpus petitions within a year.
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Pete WILSON GOVERNOR
WILSON -- CALIFORNIA'S TOP CRIME FIGHTER
Throughout his public career, Pete Wilson has been on the
frontlines of crime fighting and drug prevention.
Wilson believes its a fundamental right of all Californians
not to be a crime victim.
That's why he pushed new laws to crack down on international
drug peddlers, as well as to reduce domestic demand for drugs
through prevention and treatment.
As U.S. Senator for California, Wilson recommended tough
judges for appointment to the bench, who apply the law as written
and who have concern for the rights of victims as well as those
of the accused.
For his leadership on fighting crime and drugs, Wilson has
won the endorsement of more than a dozen law enforcement
organizations, from the California Police Chiefs Association to
the national Latino Peace Officers Association.
Among his top achievements, Wilson:
** Led the successful campaign to pass the Speedy Trial
Initiative (Proposition 115), which reforms California's
cumbersome and unfair criminal justice system;
** Authored with Senator Alfonse D'Amato (R-NY) the only
constitutionally-sound federal death penalty law,
which allows capital punishment for the murder of a
law enforcement officer while working on a drug-
related case;
Authored the federal law requiring the Defense
Department to assist law enforcement in the interdiction
of drugs beyond our borders;
Authored the federal law outlawing mail order sales and
the interstate shipment of drug paraphernalia;
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** Authored the federal law to protect U.S. law
enforcement officers working abroad in drug interdiction
efforts;
** Authored the federal law doubling the survivors
benefit for peace officers to $100,000.
Wilson Pledges to Make California's Streets Safer
In his announcement for governor, Wilson proclaimed: "I
will not have California under siege to rapists and thugs and
drug dealers."
Wilson said, as governor, he will change the odds to produce
a California where women no longer fear the night, because
dealers and criminals will fear the law.
Among the measures Wilson will propose to the legislature
for enactment include:
** DRUG BAIL -- Authorize judges to deny bail to drug
traffickers who constitute a major threat to society;
** DEATH PENALTY -- Extend capital punishment in California
to major drug traffickers, the same as under pending federal law.
To be classified a major drug trafficker, an individual must sell
more than 360 pounds of cocaine or similar large amounts of other
drugs, generate more than $10 million in drug profits, and
supervise more than five people. Currently in California, the
death penalty can be imposed only for first degree murder;
** MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCES -- Impose mandatory minimum
sentences parallel to those imposed by federal law;
** TRUTH IN SENTENCING -- End the current practice of
allowing convicted felons to serve only half the time to which
they are sentenced;
** ANTI-DRUG EDUCATION -- Offer in every school drug
resistance education programs such as DARE and SANE, so that
children very early in their lives learn to value themselves
above the fleeting but destructive high of drugs;
** RAPE AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE -- Require a minimum sentence
of 18 years for rape, and require sex offenders to pay
restitution to their victims. Current law allows sex offenders
to serve as little as three years in prison;
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** DEALING DRUGS AT OR NEAR SCHOOLS -- Stiffen penalties
for selling drugs to minors at or near schools. Also expand
penalties for selling drugs where minors congregate to include
such areas as video arcades, public swimming pools, and parks.
If the legislature fails to support the above provisions,
Wilson said he would utilize the initiative process to get them
passed into law.
SENATE RECORD
Drug Paraphernalia
In 1980, nearly 15,000 "head shops" selling products to
enhance and aid the consumption of illegal drugs operated in the
United States, generating annual sales of $1 billion.
Today, these paraphernalia shops are out of business, and
kingpins must operate underground because of Wilson's drug
paraphernalia law ("Mail Order Drug Paraphernalia Control Act"),
which he first introduced in February, 1985.
Wilson's legislation, which was passed into law as part of
the 1986 Omnibus Drug Bill, prohibits the interstate sale and
transportation of drug paraphernalia, such as crack containers,
coke pipes, and polyethylene bags for heroin.
About the bill, the Oroville Mercury-Register wrote:
"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." (April 3, 1985)
Since 1988, U.S. Customs has seized nearly $300 million in
drug paraphernalia.
Certification of Anti-Drug Cooperation
Each year the State Department by law must certify to
Congress which foreign governments are "fully cooperating" with
the United States in the war on drugs.
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Countries found not to be in full cooperation are subject to
a 50-percent cut in foreign assistance. The U.S. is also
required to object to international development loans for the
violating countries. However, the President can override
Congress if there is an overriding national interest in providing
such aid.
In 1986, Wilson expanded the criteria for determining if a
country is in full cooperation to include the prompt
investigation and prosecution of cases where U.S. drug
enforcement agents have been the "victim of acts or threats of
violence.
This legislation proved necessary when Mexican authorities
failed to aggressively investigate the brutal abduction and
murder of DEA agent Enrique Camarena. The inaction of
authorities placed the lives of other law enforcement agents
abroad in greater danger by drug dealers, since the agents could
be attacked without due recourse from authorities.
Wilson also expanded the criteria for determining if a
country is in "full cooperation" to include its willingness to
allow law enforcement officers to pursue suspected aerial
smugglers a reasonable distance into its airspace.
Mexican authorities repeatedly have refused to allow U.S.
agents to fly into their airspace when pursuing suspected aerial
drug smugglers, in essence providing a safe haven for the
traffickers. By contrast, Jamaican authorities allow U.S.
aircraft -- when a Jamaican law officer is aboard -- to pursue
airborne traffickers into their airspace.
Decertification of Mexico
In 1988, by a vote of 63 to 27, the U.S. Senate passed
Wilson's resolution disapproving the Administration's
certification that Mexico had fully cooperated in the
interdiction of drugs.
To buttress his arguments against Mexico, Wilson used the
new laws he authored in 1986. (see above)
As reported by The Washington Post:
"
as its chief sponsor, Sen. Pete Wilson
(R-CA) 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
"
(April 15, 1988)
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Even though the U.S. House of Representatives subsequently
failed to support the resolution of decertification, Mexican
authorities were given clear notice they needed to improve
cooperation with U.S. officials in the interdiction of drugs or
face stiff penalties.
Protecting the Decertification Process
The Senate approved an amendment by Senator Trent Lott
(R-MS) and Wilson in July, 1989 to strike proposed legislation
authored by Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT) that would have
weakened Congress' ability to put pressure on foreign governments
failing to fully cooperate in drug interdiction and eradication
efforts.
Specifically, Dodd's legislation would have removed the
requirement that decertification resolutions be handled under
"expedited procedures," which prevent committees from bottling up
legislation and necessarily allows the full Senate to act on
important issues.
Dodd had opposed decertification resolutions of Mexico the
previous two years. Removing the expedited procedures
requirement would have allowed the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, of which he is a member, to potentially block future
decertification resolutions.
Asset Forfeiture
It is fitting that one of the richest sources of anti-drug
funding for local law enforcement comes from cash and other
assets seized from drug dealers. This idea, known as the asset
forfeiture program, was inaugurated in 1981.
Wilson has been at the forefront of efforts to protect and
enhance the use of these funds for law enforcement activities.
Wilson's legislation in the 1986 Omnibus Drug Bill expanded
the use of asset forfeiture funds, and removed a cap restricting
the amount of money available for distribution to federal law
enforcement agencies.
In 1987, Wilson succeeded in blocking an attempt by members
of the U.S. House of Representatives to freeze the distribution
of asset forfeiture funds to law enforcement agencies for a year
as a budget-balancing measure.
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Watsonville Chief of Police Ray Belgard wrote to Wilson in
October, 1987, thanking him for his legislation:
our sincere thanks for your all-out
successful efforts toward restoring the funds for
state and local law enforcement agencies."
In the 1988 Omnibus Drug Bill, Wilson's legislation removed
from the Congressional budget process the requirement that funds
generated from the asset forfeiture program be annually
appropriated, a procedure that in previous years caused
unreasonable delay in the distribution of funds as well as
limited the amount of money available to law enforcement.
Death Penalty Law
On March 31, 1988, Wilson introduced legislation to allow
the imposition of a federal death penalty for the murder of any
law enforcement officer while working on a drug-related case.
Wilson's bill later was combined with Senator Alfonse
D'Amato's (R-NY) legislation that would allow for capital
punishment of a drug kingpin who "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.
Wilson's and D'Amato's bills became a single amendment to
the Omnibus Drug Bill of 1988, which was signed into law by
President Reagan. This measure is considered the only federal,
constitutionally-sound death penalty law on the books today.
The first use of the Wilson/D'Amato law occurred on May 5,
1990, when federal prosecutors announced they would seek the
death penalty for two men charged with the murder of a drug case
witness.
Military Interdiction of Drugs
On May 13, 1988, the Senate passed by 86 to 3 legislation
offered on the Senate floor by Wilson to expand the role of the
military in drug interdiction and surveillance along our borders.
The legislation, cosponsored by Senator Alfonse D'Amato
(R-NY) and Senator Sam Nunn (D-GA), was included in the Defense
Authorization Bill of 1988.
Wilson's legislation requires the military to play a major
role in the detection and monitoring of all potential aerial and
maritime drug traffickers.
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It also establishes the Department of Defense as the lead
government agency to coordinate all air and sea surveillance
activities.
Finally, it provides funding for the National Guard to
assist law enforcement in drug detection and interdiction.
Drivers License Drug Testing
The Omnibus Drug Bill, signed into law in late 1988,
contains Wilson's legislation authorizing a one-year pilot
program in four states, including California, for the random
testing of first-time drivers license applicants.
Applicants failing a drug test would be denied a license for
one year, although after six months they could reapply and
receive a license if they agreed to be tested at regular
intervals for six months. First-time drivers could also be
subject to a random test during the first year after receiving a
license to help ensure they keep off drugs.
The following year, Wilson won Senate support to fund the
program. But the House of Representatives failed to make the
money available.
High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas
Wilson helped write the law in 1988 to establish High-
Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) as a way to concentrate
federal resources in areas hardest hit by drugs and violence.
President Bush subsequently designated five areas nationwide,
including Los Angeles, and the Southwest Border region, which
encompasses San Diego.
The high-intensity areas now are receiving additional
federal assistance through a variety of programs in order "to
dismantle drug organizations and reduce the levels of trafficking
and violence. Along the Southwest Border, additional funds are
being deployed for "increased interdiction activity along the
border.
The Department of Justice has been named lead federal agency
to help coordinate anti-drug activities and strategies among the
five designated areas.
Bush requested $50 million for these areas for FY 1991.
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Survivors Benefit
Included in the 1988 Omnibus Drug Bill is a measure authored
by Wilson and others that increases from $50,000 to $100,000 the
federal death benefit paid to the survivors of a police officer
killed in the line of duty.
Crack Babies
Wilson is the recognized leader in the Senate on legislation
to assist substance-abusing mothers and their addicted newborns.
He was the first member of Congress to propose legislation to
counter the growing epidemic of crack babies.
Introduced on July 31, 1989, "The Child Abuse During
Pregnancy Prevention Act of 1989" would provide five $10 million
grants to states to set up comprehensive programs for the
prevention and treatment of drug-addicted mothers and their
newborns.
It also would require mandatory treatment of mothers who
give birth to drug-addicted infants, a measure supported by women
profiled in an article by the San Francisco Chronicle:
"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
"
(September 11, 1989)
While Democrats refused to act on Wilson's bill, in 1989 he
was able to gain Senate passage of an amendment to divert $50
million earmarked for taxpayer-funded Congressional newsletters
for crack babies.
When the House voted against Wilson's legislation, he then
won Senate approval of an amendment to appropriate $50 million to
treat drug-addicted mothers and their babies.
But Congress failed to complete action on the bill
containing Wilson's amendment. Finally, Wilson gained an
agreement with Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Louis
Sullivan to provide $115 million in FY 1990 to help treat
substance-abusing postpartum women -- a tenfold increase in
funding from the previous year.
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Most recently, Wilson introduced the "Substance Abuse During
Pregnancy Act of 1990" to provide $316 million to expand
treatment for substance-abusing pregnant women, promote training
of health care professionals to identify substance abuse by
pregnant women, improve recruitment of foster care parents, and
promote coordination of child welfare services for substance-
abused infants.
Crime Victims Justice Reform Act
Wilson is a leader in the "victims rights" movement, going
back to 1982, when he served as Southern California Chairman of
the 1982 crime victims initiative. Most recently he was honorary
chairman of the Crime Victims Justice Reform Act (Proposition
115), which passed in June, 1990.
Wilson's Judges
Wilson not only has filled the law books with tough-on-crime
statutes, but he's also been filling the legal bench with tough,
fair judges.
About Wilson's nominations, which have gained broad praise,
the San Diego Union wrote:
"Sen. Pete Wilson, quietly taking advantage of
a chance to influence the federal judiciary perhaps
more than any other senator, had proved to be a willing
partner with President Reagan in 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."
(October 20, 1985)
MAYORAL RECORD
As Mayor of San Diego, Wilson made public safety the top
priority for city spending. When he left office, San Diego was
the safest big city in California, and the third safest city
nationwide (after Philadelphia and Chicago).
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This fact becomes even more dramatic when considering that
eight other large cities in California with smaller populations
than San Diego suffered higher crime rates.
Wilson Pushes Higher Spending for Police Protection
During Wilson's administration, the Police Department's
budget expanded 320 percent. The per-capita increase totaled 228
percent.
Under Wilson's leadership, San Diego was the only major city
to significantly expand such spending in the wake of
Proposition 13.
Wilson Enhances Quality of Police Force
In 1973, Wilson proposed an educational incentive program
for law enforcement officers, whereby higher compensation would
be given for attainment of professional educational standards as
well as for bilingual ability. As explained by Wilson at that
time:
"I view the added stipend less a compensation
than as an incentive to improve professional competence,
from which the public benefits at least as much as
the officer."
The City Council approved Wilson's proposal. Later, under
Wilson's leadership, peace officers were given special pay for
providing field training, improved life insurance benefits, and
premium overtime compensation.
Wilson Improves Police Protection
To thwart a rise of burglaries, in 1974 Wilson called on the
City Manager and the Police Department to "pursue positive
remedies for the problem."
The Police Department subsequently developed a special
burglary prevention detail to concentrate patrols and educational
efforts in special areas of the city where the incidence of
burglary was particularly high.
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Keeping Peace Officers on the Beat
To enhance the effectiveness of law enforcement, in 1975
Wilson urged the Police Department to allow effective and
experienced patrol officers to remain on a beat for a period long
enough so they can get to know the people and the special
problems of the neighborhood. As explained by Wilson:
"Personal familiarity will engender trust and
communication, which may lead to opportunities for
crime prevention rather than for reaction to a crime
with immeasurable savings in costs both financial
and human.
Soon thereafter, Police Chief Ray Hoobler implemented a
successful program to keep specific policemen in the same
location, rather than automatically rotating them to new areas.
Fixed Term Sentencing
In his 1975 State of the City message, Wilson urged
lawmakers to support legislation to require fixed term sentencing
for criminals rather than indeterminate sentencing. Penalties,
he said, should necessarily fit the seriousness of the crime.
Death Penalty
Wilson has long been an advocate of capital punishment as a
means to deter crimes of profit. When a death penalty law was
vetoed in January, 1977, Wilson argued:
"I cannot help but think that capital punishment
would be a deterrent to rational, premeditated murder
The life who has nothing to lose and the armed robber who
kills to eliminate the only witness to his crime might
instead be deterred from taking a life if they thought
they would be required to pay for it with their own
lives."
In an op/ed published by the Los Angeles Times (Feb. 2,
1977), Wilson argued in favor of a death penalty law:
"The death penalty is reserved for murder -- a
killing proved beyond reasonable doubt to have been
premeditated. It is intended to stop the armed robber
from executing the grocery clerk or gas station
attendant who witnesses his crime, to inhibit the
hired killer and those who blow up planes and trains
not in the heat of passion but for premeditated profit,
without concern for innocent victims. It is intended
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to stop -- and needed to protect -- peace officers from
casual cop-killers."
Increasing Manpower
Wilson made clear his commitment to public safety in his
1979 State of the City address:
"Let this evidence of our commitment to public
safety give assurance to the officers and to our people
and give warning to criminals.
"With this added strength, City Manager Ray Blair
and Chief Bill Kolender feel it will be possible to
increase patrol division manpower by some 12 percent and
devote needed additional resources to combatting specific
problems of homicide, robbery, burglary, sex crimes,
narcotics, juvenile and gang crime and vice."
About Wilson crime fighting efforts, an Evening Tribune
editorial in January, 1979 said:
"Mayor Wilson
focused on San Diego's increasing
crime rate, proposing beefed-up law enforcement at an
annual cost of $5 million. The workable answer to
San Diego's police needs would be adoption now of the
mayor's program with additional manpower to be
authorized regularly on a timetable
"
Proposition A
To ensure public safety was made a priority, Wilson authored
Proposition A in 1980, which amended the city charter to require
that police protection receive the first call on city resources.
As explained on the ballot argument:
"Proposition A gives a message to the City Council:
police protection must come first in budgeting.'
With its passage, city spending for law enforcement
increased from 18 percent to 29 percent of the city's budget. By
1982, San Diego police officers received the ninth highest base
pay in the nation and the highest in San Diego County.
In the last four years of Wilson's administration, the
number of police officers patrolling the streets increased by 21
percent, with the number of officers per capita increasing 12
percent.
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Miscellaneous Crime Fighting Measures
** Wilson worked with the Police Department to create a
Border Task Force, a special police unit targeted against
violence along the U.S.-Mexican border.
** Wilson proposed a ballot measure in 1979 to allow the
sale and lease of industrially-zoned land for the construction of
new police stations to provide greater police protection in
outlying neighborhoods.
** To protect law enforcement officers from an armed
attack, Wilson spearheaded efforts in 1973 to provide $88,000 for
bulletproof vests. In April, 1978, the first contract was
awarded for the vests.
** Wilson urged the public to get involved in protecting
their neighborhoods. He appeared on television, explaining how
his own home had been burglarized. Legislation to encourage such
programs was passed in 1977.
ASSEMBLY RECORD
Wilson's support of law enforcement as an Assemblyman won
praise from then Attorney General Tom Lynch, who wrote: "I
express the gratitude of all law enforcement for your
effort [that] gives law enforcement an invaluable tool in
exposing organized crime activities in California."
Legislation Wilson authored would:
** Strengthen the law of perjury in California;
** Authorize the grant of immunity to organized crime
suspects in order to obtain information on the
higher-ups, who would otherwise remain insulated
from law enforcement investigations;
** Permit District Attorneys to subpoena records and
documents in investigations of organized crime;
** Prohibit investment in legitimate business of profits
derived from racketeering.
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For more information on Wilson's record of crime fighting
while Mayor of San Diego, please contact:
** Mr. Bill Kolender, Former San Diego Police Chief,
(619) 293-1108;
** Mr. Ron Newman, President of the San Diego Police
Officers Association, (619) 236-7404;
** Mr. Ray Blair, Former City Manager, (619) 297-0486.
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Summary
U.S. Sen. Pete Wilson: The First Stx Years
In January, 1983, Pete Wilson took the U.S. Senate seat
earlier occupied by such California political legends ar John
Charles Fremont, Hiram Johnson and William F. Knowland.
Forty-nine years old at the time of his election, Wilson
came to Washington after a hard fought campaign against
incumbent Governor Jerry Brown. His victory was fashioned by
sweeping all but five of the Golden State's 58 counties,
further demonstrating a voter appeal displayed over 16 years
in the State Assembly and the San Diego Mayor's office.
It was in the latter job that -Wilson first attracted
national attention, leading the city through more than a
decade of unparalleled growth to become America's eighth
largest, combining fiscal restraint and no-nonsense crime
fighting with thoughtful land management and significant
reforms of the political process.
Born in Lake Forest, Illinois, on August 23, 1933, Pate
Wilson earned a degree in English Literature from yale
University while on a ROTC scholarship. He served as a
Marine Corps infentry officer from 1955-58. He also holds e
law degree from the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt
Hall.
Wilson's political career got off to a fast start in
1966, when Republican colleagues in the California Assembly
elected the freshman legislator as Minority Whip.
A similar recognition has marked his first term in the
U.S. Senate, with U.S. Bews and World Report ranking him
among the most effective newcomers to the body.
From the start, Wilson set out to pursue twin goals: a
government that talks less than it innovates, and a nation
whose ultimate security depends on a dynamic economy to match
her unquestioned defenses. He has already established a
record of solid achievement.
In his first six years in the Senate, Pete Wilson has
made a difference. "Pete Wilson -- the First Six Years" is
by no means a comprehensive review of Wilson's efforts in the
Senate, it is representative.
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Pete Wilson serves on three committes: Agriculture,
Armed Services, and Commerce. He also is a member of the
Special Committee on Aging and the Joint Economic Committee.
Wilson chairs the Senate Wine Caucus, is an executive board
member of the Congressional Arts Caucus, and serves on the
Congressional Competitiveness Caucus, the Grace Caucus, the
Senate Border Caucus, the Senate Tourism Caucus, and the
Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control. Wilson is
the former Senate Chairman of the Congressional Leaders
United for a Balanced Budget.
A strong advocate of peace through strength, Wilson is
considered a leading Senate expert on arms control and
strategic nuclear forces. Through his seat on the Armed
Services panel, Wilson focuses much of his time on military
and defense-related issues -- in California, such activities
account for billions annually in payroll and contracts.
While Wilson supports defense spending equal to the task
of keeping America strong, he also wants that money
well-spent. Wilson's independent investigations into
mismanacement by the military of its $130 billion inventory
of supplies -- from canteens to tanks -- has already improved
the Pentagon's efforts to control theft and losses.
As the ranking Republican on the Manpower and Personnel
Subcommittee, Wilson has led campaigns to improve the quality
of life for servicepeople and their families, upgrading
military housing and health care, and cleaning up toxic waste
dumps on military bases.
On the Agriculture Committee, Wilson has played a
leading role in writing farm legislation to promote
California Crops abroad, while helping farmers compete
against unfair trade practices by foreign countries. This
has proved of special importance to a state whose $16 billion
agriculture industry is the nation's largest and most
diverse. The Wine Equity Act and the Targeted Export
Assistance Program are working for California farmers, thanks
to Wilson.
His "seasonal worker" amendment to 1986's immigration
reform bill will insure up to 350,000 workers vital to
California's agriculture, lifting the onus of illegality from
the farmworkers and at the same time, protecting American
jobs.
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Named to the Commerce Committee in early 3987 Wilson
won added clout on many issues critical so California,
as aviation safety. An outspoken advocate toucher
trade policy, the Commerce spot gave Wilson an even dreated
voice in his drive to apply "Wilson's Golden Rule' -- "I'll
let you into TITY market if you let me into yours" -- to
foreign countries offering less than free trading access.
His work on the Communications Subcommittee includes
representing California's entertainment industry, whose
creative pursuits provide jobs for thousands. He's
introduced egislation to put a stop to the international
piracy of America's creative works, like books, movies, and
music.
In addition to the roles prescribed by his Committee
assignments, Wilson has been active in the war on drugs,
environmental protection, and intergovernment affairs, among
other areas.
Wilson carried the ball in the Senate in passing
legislation to increase military assistance in international
druc interdiction. He's also written or co-written measures
to boost aid to local law enforcement, increase anti-drug
education and treatment, and allow the death penalty in cases
of druc-related murders of law enforcement officers.
Wilson's also had a big opportunity to improve the
criminal justice system by recommending tough, fair judges to
serve on the federal bench. As California's Republican
Senator, the White House has turned to Wilson to help choose
new judges, and President Reagan has accepted every Wilson
selection.
Also amono the bicgest accomplishments of his first
term, the Senator counts & historic compromise setting aside
1.8 million acres of California wilderness against future
encroachment, while releasing still more land for responsible
development end economic crowth.
Wilson has fought to protect the California coastline,
working with the bipartisan group that has successfully
opposed efforts to open up the coast for more offshore oil
drilling. He's also won funds to purchase new lands for many
of California's most popular national parks, and sponsored
legislation to designate four free-running California rivers
as Wild and Scenic Rivers, protecting them from development.
7
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Wilson's advocacy for California and local government
was considered the decisive element in the fight to work out
a sensible overtime pay compromise that would otherwise have
cost local taxpayers millions of dollars.
Such activities inspired the League of California Cities
to name Wilson in 1985 their "Legislator of the Year" -- the
first ever federal representative to be 50 honored.
Wilson has also carved out a role as an independent,
innovative voice on social policy, promoting public/private
partnerships as efficient means to meet society's needs.
For example, Wilson's long-term health care bill would
give federal employees the option of converting their life
insurance equity to buy coverage for nursing home care. With
so many new potential buyers, Wilson's proposal would entice
more private sector insurance companies to enter the market,
increase competition and make premiums more affordable.
As a Republican, Wilson rejects the idea that government
is the answer to our problems. But as syndicated columnist
George Will said of him, Wilson is "a valuable rarity: a
conservative who understands the discriminating, but vigorous
use of government power for conservative purposes.'
Wilson's voting record has been one of fiscal
conservatism. He has earned high ratings from many business
and taxpayers' groups, such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce,
the National Federation of Independent Businesses, the
National Taxpayers' Union, and the Watchdoge of the Treasury.
Wilson has taken up the charge to ban all Congressional
newsletters, which cost taxpayers about $100 million a year,
and he led the battle acainst the $12 thousand a year
Congressional pay raise. When the DAY raise went into
effect, Wilson donated his to charity.
And Wilson has been on the job -- in 1986, he recorded a
perfect 100% attendance record. In 1985, in spite of his
hospitalization for an emergency appendectomy, Wilson scored
91% attendance. In 1983 and 1984, his attendance was 98%.
Whether he's in Washington, or flying back to California
for a weekend or Congressional recess, Wilson puts in seven
days a week, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year -- and it's made
a difference, as this report demonstrates.
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Monday, July 23, 1990
California's Best Large Daily MIND CNPA 1990
Savings and loan
fallout crosses
political lines
By Daug Willia
Associated Press
ANALYSIS
SACRAMENTO - The savings
and loan scandal has damaged, and
Home Loan Bank officials on Keat-
perhaps destroyed the long political
Ing's behalf, and that Kaating
career of California's senior U.S.
wasn't even a California constituent,
senator, Democrat Alan Crunaton,
although Lincoln Sevings was based
and it has signtly ternished the im-
here.
age of the jurior senstor, Republi-
And Keating, who still contends
can Pete Wilson
is is the regulators' fould, not his,
Cranston and Wilson had entire
that Lincoln failed. made Cranston's
ly different roles in the savings and
political position even worse by
STAFF
loan story. Cranston is one of the
bluntly deslaring that he certainly
central players in a scandal that
hoped that Cranston and other sen-
may cost the taxpayers $200 billion,
ators to whom he contributed had
while Wilson in touched only by be-
trued to do favors for birth
Ing the recipient of a large number
it will be up to the Senate Ethics
of savings and loan contributions.
Committee and other investigators
They illustrate different aspects
to determine whether Cransion
of the ditemms that politicians at all
crossed any legal line that warrants
lavels face in soliciting campaign
contributions from special interests
punishment OF prosecution.
Bur while most of us recognize
who may later seek political favors.
that Crenston crossed over a line to
Creation's problems stam trans
unacceptable conduct. the problem
the size of the contributions he TO
12. we have difficulty in defining that
celved from Cherles Keating Jr.,
and the fact that Cranston inter-
line procisely. Both vocurs and poll-
vened with Federal Home Loan
tieans have problems sorting out
Bank regulators investigating Iceas-
proper and Improper conduct be
cause we have & system that forces
ing's Lincoln Savings.
candidares to raise millions of dol-
Cranston defands actions
Inru each election year from people
Cranston defends his interven-
who will be vesing political favors
later.
don In the Lincoln case as constitu-
ent service. Kaating complained to
Cranston that he was being ha-
A problem for Pate Wilson
rassed by regulators, and Cranston
This la a problem Pete Wilson
says be did nothing more than unre
also faces.
Federal Home Loan Bank officials
Unlike Cranston, there is no evi.
to resolve the issue rather than
dance that Wilson did anything to
leave it hanging over Kesting's
help Lincoln or any other thrift in-
head.
strution. In he voted against
Cranston says he was only doing
the savings and loan Industry's past-
what the voters normally want our
don on 1. 1987 bailour bill that Ilmit-
elected representative to do - be
ed the liability of invitutions to pay
their advocate when they get snared
back loss Investments.
by an unresponsive W overbearing
But as 1 senator from the AA-
government bureaucracy.
tion's largest state, Wilson has some
In fact, one of the reasons for
of the highess slection costs of any
Cranstoo's Senate longavity and the
US. senator, & fact multiplied by bis
high regard California voters had
race this year for governor, And
for him until recently was that be
Wilson has been extraordinarily
had one of the most helpful and $f.
successful raising money from all
fective staffs in Washington.
sorts of interest groups, Including
Responsiveness to constituents Le
the thrift Industry.
a political virtue we praise in polici-
A recent survey by Common
clans, and no reasonable person
Cause reported that the thrift indus-
would assert that & politician should
try gave 310 million over the last de-
help only people who did not con-
cade in political contributions. Most
tribute to his campaign.
of Keating's contributions to Cran-
But this Cranston defense is un-
ston fell outside of the definitions of
dermined by the enormous amounts
direct contributions which Common
Keating Have to Cranston and his
Cause measured, so Wilson
political commitions, $850,000 in
emerged at the top of the Ust recaiv-
cash plus an unused $300,000 line
Lng more of that money than any
of credit. Add to that the fact that
other member of Congress, some
Lincoln untimately failed, wiping out
$243,334.
savings of 22 000 California families
There is no avidence that Wilson
and contributing $2.5 billion to the
did anything Improper in exchange
bill that the texpayers will pay to
for those contributions. He most
guarantee savings in failed Institu-
likely is, as he assorts, & victim of
nons.
recrdess gullt by association
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4.3
Cranston Intervenes twice
But Wilson gets relatively little
sympathy for the damage to his rep-
Cranston $ further weakened by
uterion. Ma may be an innceant via
the fact that he went far beyond
tim of the system, but he has also
normal constituent work by person.
benefitted anormously from being B
ally meeting twice with Federal
parr of the system.
U.S. SENATOR PETE WILSON
UNITED STATES SENATE
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COMMENT:
U.S. SENATOR PETE WILSON
Governor's Race Focuses on
Feinstein's S.F. Budgets
San Francisco CA
Her supporters vigorously at.
Focus on Her Record
(San Francisco Co.)
tack the $172 million figure as inac-
In fact, Agnos and Van de
Chronicie
curate and misleading, saying San
(Cir. D. 630,954)
Francisco actually wound up with a
Kamp use the same campaign man-
surplus all nine years that Feinstein
ager, Richard Ross of Sacramento.
(Cir. Sat. 508,500)
He argues that Feinstein's record
was mayor.
will be an insurmountable handicap
APR 3 - 1989
Although opinions are strongly
in a race against the likely Republi-
colored by politics, most analysts
inside and outside City Hall agree
that, given such unusual circum-
can nominee, Senator Pete Wilson..
700
stances as the AIDS crisis, Feinstein
the former mayor of San Diego.
used the 1982 surplus about as con-
By Vice Kershner
servatively as was politically possi-
"An incredible amount of at
Chronicle Economics Editor
ble,
tention would be focused on com-
As Dianne Feinstein pre-
partsons" between the two ex-may-
"Dianne very properly spent
ors' records, Ross said, adding that
pares to run for governor, her
the money down over the years,"
the comparison is "devastating" to
handling of San Francisco fi-
said Rudy Nothenberg, the city's
the Feinstein campaign.
nances when she was mayor is
chief administrative officer, who
emerging as an important cam-
was appointed by Feinstein. He said
Agnos says he's not anti-Fein-
paign issue.
the former mayor performed a dif-
stein, just pro-Van de Kamp. "I'm
ficult juggling act - husbanding
going to be out front for John Van
A huge budget surplus evapo-
the surplus as long as possible in the
de Kamp. I'm not going to sit here
rated during Feinstein's last 6½
face of demands to improve the
and be a hit man on Dianne Fein-
years in office, but the city received
city's infrastructure and to meet
stein," he said. "If reporters ask
tangible benefits for the money -
pressing human needs.
(about the budget), I will give them
from new Municipal Railway buses
factual information and people can
to increased police patrols.
'Spend More on This'
draw their own conclusions."
Now Feinstein's budgetary re-
Supervisor Bill Maher, who
Agnos disputes Feinstein's as-
cord is particularly crucial because
wanted all the surplus to go into
sertion that there was a budget sur-
she is relying on an image as a com-
capital improvements, says Fein.
plus when she left office. "If there
petent, hands-on manager well
stein is partly to blame for putting
was a surplus," be said, "It sure
qualified to run California's $48 bil-
together a "dream budget" to solve
wasn't in hard dollars because we
lion state government.
many social problems in one fell
had to do so many things to balance
"Fiscal stewardship is an im-
swoop.
the budget. We had to cut #70 mil-
portant element in a campaign for
"But in fairness to the mayor,
lion in the city budget, we froze
governor," said political analyst
the board was pushing her every
raises for everybody in the city, we
Mervin Field. "If she were running
raised taxes on business, we raised
day to spend more on this, spend
for senator, it would be less of an
more on that," Maher said. "We had
fees on a variety of services, we cut
money, we had needs out there. You
some Muni lines."
issue."
can't just hang it all on the mayor."
But Feinstein says, "There is no
Feinstein's political opponents
point to two startling numbers: In
Complicating the issue for
deficit. The deficit is what the fed-
June 1982. San Francisco had an
Feinstein is that her successor, May-
eral government runs. The Califor-
unusual budget surplus of $153 mil-
or Agnos, belongs to a more liberal
nia budget doesn't have a deficit, no
faction of the Democratic Party and
city or county has a deficit. A deficit
is backing her leading opponent in
is when you spend when the reve
Most analysts
the governor's primary race, Attor-
nues aren't there.
ney General John Van de Kamp.
"When I left office, and my last
agree that
"It is not going to help her that
budget closed out, there was a sur
Agnos will be magnifying and un-
plus of $16.2 million." she said.
Feinstein used the
derscoring the attacks she can ex-
dect from the van DE Kamp peo-
Interpreting the Figures
1982 surplus
ple" Field said. "It's to Agnos ad-
It sounds as if someone must be
vantage for a gubernatorial cam-
conservatively
mistaken. But Nothenberg, a key
paign to feature the fact that the
player in both administrations, said
former mayor left him with a lot of
"There's nothing contradictory in
fiscal problems."
what these folks are saying. It's like
lion. By the time Feinstein left of-
comparing apples and oranges."
lice in 1988, the city If CAP project-
ed deficit for fiscal 1969 of $172 mil-
Indeed, Agnos and Feinsteir
are quoting statistics that mear
non.
quite different things.
The deficit cited by Feinstein's
critics - some analysts prefer to
call it a shortfall - is a February
1988 projection of what would have
occurred in fiscal 1989 if no addi-
BUDGET SURPLUS DURING FEINSTEIN YEARS
tional revenues had been raised or
expenditures cut. The surplus cited
San Francisco, which most years wound up with little or nothing left over,
by Feinstein is the sum of money
had a huge general fund surplus (technically known as the "amount
the city actually wound up with on
available after balancing") at the beginning of the 1982-1983 fiscal year.
June 30, 1988, that was not already
committed to other purposes.
$152.6
Within five years, that surplus was gone
and it took the next mayor, Art Agnos,
The budget debate now going
to reinstate a modest reserve.
on never would have materialized
In millions of dollars
except for two unusual events -
one that filled city coffers in 1982,
and another that emptied them five
years later.
Feast and Famine
Most years, San Francisco just
scratched along. But in June 1962,
the city enjoyed the luxury of a $153
million general fund reserve in its
budget for fiscal 1983.
$47.0
The money was there for two
$36.0
$37.0
main reasons: First, a state Supreme
Court decision allowed the city to
$23.4
spend money it had been collecting
from a contested business tax in-
$7.3
$9.7
crease that Feinstein had instituted
$1.8
$0.4
$.09
to make up for reductions in reve-
1979
1980-
1981-
1982-
1983
1985
1986
1987-
1988
nue after passage of Proposition 13.
80
81
82
83
B4
$
as
87
89
Second, two years of heavy rainfall
Source: City budget analyst
swelled power sales from the Hetch
Hetchy hydroelectric plant.
CHRONICIE GRAPHIC
Five years later, the projected
answer the Dianne Feinsteins of the
Finally, money went to make
surplus - the figure analogous to
world have is to spend more and tax
up for cuts in federal and state pro-
the $153 million - was only $90,000,
more."
grams as $10 million to build
according to city budget analyst
moderately priced housing and $14
Harvey Rose.
Needs to Be Met
million for medical care for indi-
gent adults.
Critics say Feinstein and the su-
Feinstein argues that at the
pervisors squandered much of the
time, there were needs that had to
Feinstein also says she tried,
money by hiring too many new em-
be met.
but failed, to stop the Board of Su.
ployees who would remain on the
pervisors from approving an expen-
payroll after the surplus disappear-
About half of the surplus mon-
sive comparable-worth pay package
ed. (Rose estimated that 1,600 work-
ey went to long-deferred infrastruc-
that raised salaries, primarily for
ers ere added from 1988 through
ture improvements, including $21
women and minorities, by an esti-
1985).
million for about 250 new and refur-
mated $28 million a year.
Supervisor Richard Hongisto,
bished Muni buses and $20 million
Finally, Feinstein backers say,
acting on a memo by Rose, warned
for road repairs.
2 use-it-or-lose-it attitude prevailed.
in March 1985 that the city was
Longtime Feinstein aide Hadley
quickly running through its sur-
Other money went for year-to-
Roff says that the meaning of the
plus. His warning to Feinstein was
year programs: the unexpected
state's Gann spending limit was still
dismissed with the comment that
AIDS crisis consumed $34 million
being tested in the courts at the
Hongisto must be "smoking some-
from 1982 to 1937, while $14 million
time, and no one knew whether the
thing funny," a comment that infu-
went to increase the size of the Po-
city would be forced to return the
riates Hongisto to this day.
lice Department by 380 officers -
surplus to the people via tax cuts. As
an action that Feinstein says lower-
it turned out, the city could have
"The mayor did not understand
ed the crime rate by 20 percent.
kept the money.
the phenomenon of raging and al-
most irreversible government
growth," said Hongisto. "The only
Still, Controller Sam Yockey,
whom Agnos brought in from state
Evening the Score
government to run the budget pro-
The 1982 surplus was a pleasant
cess, opines that San Francisco
surprise for San Franciscans, but a
made a mistake by using surplus
series of equally unusual events in
money to balance its annual budget.
late 1987 evened the score.
"I think the lesson is that you
By September 1987, as outsider
don't fund your ongoing day-to-day
Agnos caught up in the polls with
expenses out of your savings ac-
Feinstein ally John Molinari in the
count," he said. If a surplus
mayoral race, it became clear San
came up again, 1 would fight like
Francisco faced a budget problem.
hell as controller - that is the time
to spend money on asbestos (remov-
That month, the controller and
1987-88, the analysts wiped out a $20
al), on buying police cars. Don't
the budget analyst, who have to
million surplus that otherwise
spend it on ongoing programs.
make regular budget projections.
would have been carried over into
You're going to start building a
predicted that the cost of maintain-
the next year.
house of cards again."
ing 1987-88 levels of service during
fiscal year 1988-89 would be $76.5
Major Cuts
Nothenberg says that "as a mat-
million more than was expected to
ter of theory, all of us would have
be available for that year.
The projection stunned the
preferred to invest the money in
new mayor, who was forced to
infrastructure." At the time, he was
That $76.5 million figure did
make major program cuts and
head of the city Public Utilities
not seem particularly unusual -
freeze civil service salaries for 'a
Commission and advocated more in-
two years earlier, the city had faced
year. Initial projections were that
vestment in Muni buses. "But that
a projected $76 million shortage but
more than 1,000 layoffs would be
would have required that we cut
finished the year with a surplus.
needed; however, many vacancies
our response to human needs, and I
were not filled and only about 190
think that is implausible and impos-
people actually lost their jobs.
sible."
Feinstein says she could have
"Shortfalls were part of fiscal life
handled the shortage more easily
Business Attitude
Feinstein said.
than Agnos had she remained in
Business leaders, generally
To counteract the projected
office because the new mayor's
shortage, Feinstein imposed a hir-
team, led by Yockey, needed time to
friendly to Feinstein during her
terms as mayor, continue to give
ing freeze for nonessential actions,
learn the situation.
her high marks. Management con-
deferred capital projects and took
"I wish I had been there. If
sultant Jim Edgar, who has advised
other actions to save $80 million
were there. I would have handled
the city on budget matters since the
Yet by the next February, just
just as I handled a shortfall in 1980
administration of the late George
after Agnos assumed office, the pro-
of $130 million. Shortfalls are part
Moscone, Feinstein's predecessor,
jected deficit had ballooned to $172
of fiscal life because of the volatility
points out that the city has won
million.
of revenues," Feinstein said.
awards for the quality of its finan-
In fact, the $172 million projec
cial reporting, which he said was a
What happened in the interim
tion proved far too dire. The city
shambles when Feinstein took of-
A joint report by the controller and
wound up spending $17 million to
fice.
the budget analyst indicates. that
cover the lawsuits, not $40 million
there was no politics involved in the
(but the rest of the money is still
In addition, Edgar points to the
changed projection. Instead, it was
owed). In addition, the economy has
fact that the city has maintained a
the result of several factors. Among
proved to be stronger than anyone
solid AA credit rating with both ma-
the primary causes:
expected in. those worried week:
jor bond-rating agencies. "Those
guys aren't stupid," he said.
The city attorney advised tite
after the stock market crash, BK
city that it would owe $40 million in
more tax revenues are coming in."
An official of one of those rat-
back pay to employees who had
Now. It appears that San Fran
ing agencies, Moody's Investors Ser-
sued the city.
cisco will end the fiscal year June 3
vice in New York, said that San
Francisco's finances are generally
Revenues were down $15 mil-
with a $23 million surplus.
sound, with very low levels of per-
lion because the dry winter cut
capita debt, but that the city does
power sales from Hetch Hetchy.
not keep as much money in reserve
and voters' decision to repeal the
as bond buyers believe is desirable.
utility users tax reduced revenue by
an additional $10 million.
San Francisco, with a general-
fund budget of about $1 billion,
Based on lower expected rey-
should keep about $50 million in
enues from a variety of taxes for
reserve, the Moody's official said.
Summary Of Wilson's Record
As Mayor
One of Mayor Wilson's common refrains as he cam-
The city has bought 8,380 acres of open space since
paigns for the U.S. Senate is that he will be the same kind
1971. Inflation and a slowdown in the purchasing program
of senator as he has been a mayor.
will probably mean the acreage goals envisioned when
Here IS a rundown of Wilson's record on key issues
voters approved an open-space bond issue will never be
during his 10 years as mayor:
realized.
GOVERNMENT SPENDING - Wilson won approval
It took a federal crackdown before the city took major
for a City Charter amendment limiting city spending. a
action to correct pollution problems at the Point Loma
tighter restriction than the statewide Proposition 4.
sewage plant. Sewage problems still plague Mission Bay
San Diego has the lowest per capita gross debt of any of
from breaks elsewhere in the system.
the nation's 25 largest cities. Its bonded debt has de-
Wilson fought successfully for an Environmental Pro-
creased 53 percent since 1971: the city has the lowest ratio
tection Agency waiver so the city did not have to build a
of public employees to population among the nation's 16
multimillion-dollar sewage plant near the Mexican bor-
largest cities.
der. Some environmentalists say the waiver will ensure
In 10 years. the city's budget. in constant dollars. has
further pollution of the ocean.
increased only 18 percent. Public spending per capita has
The city adopted one of the nation's toughest anti-bill-
decreased 11 percent under Wilson.
board ordinances. The billboard industry fought the case
The city attorney ruled that San Diego need not abide
to the U.S. Supreme Court. with the city winning a partial
Monday, August 30, WBI
by the local spending limit. that the looser statewide limit
victory.
superseded it. But Wilson persuaded the City Council to
PUBLIC SAFETY - While other city services were
abide by the more restrictive local measure.
being cut, Wilson supported budget increases for both the
GROWTH - Scon after becoming mayor. Wilson
police and fire departments. Manpower levels for both
moved to stop urban sprawl. He pointed to the specter of
have increased but are still below those in cities of com-
Mira Mesa. where building had outstripped the city's abil-
parable size.
ity to provide services such as roads. water lines. sewers
In constant dollars, the public safety budget has in-
and police and fire protection.
creased 21.4 percent in the past five years, while the
The city became a leader in growth management. re-
overall city budget has shrunk 8 percent. But Wilson only
1)
quiring new developments to pay their way and not bur-
reluctantly agreed to support salary increases to reduce
den taxpayers. Wilson incurred the wrath of the building
turnover among fire and police personnel.
and financial industries: opponents said the slowdown
THE ARTS - Wilson has been a staunch supporter of
drove up housing prices.
COMBO (Combined Arts and Education Council of San
In recent years, Wilson's policy on growth shifted
Diego County). an alliance of 21 arts groups.
abruptly. He dropped his opposition to the controversial
Much of his aid to the arts community has been in
North City West. a 4,300-acre community of 14,000 homes
working behind the scenes to arrange financial support by
inside the city limits east of Del Mar. angering conserva-
the private sector. He once helped the financially strug-
tionists and the city of Del Mar.
gling San Diego Symphony through "shuttle diplomacy"
Wilson's shift proved decisive: the project was ap-
between the symphony and COMBO.
proved. even though it is planned for an area that the
At Wilson's urging. developer Ernest Hahn gave the
mayor's hand-picked urban planner said should not be
symphony $100.000.
developed until 1996. Similar projects in the area are
Wilson was active in the private fund drive to rebuild
THE SAN DIEGO UNION
pending.
the Old Globe Theatre. personally obtaining a $50,000
DOWNTOWN REDEVELOPMENT - Plans for public
grant from Atlantic Richfield. At his suggestion. the city
financing of San Diego's decaying downtown were on the
contributed $1 million to help the fund-raising effort.
drawing board before Wilson became mayor. He champi-
He has lobbied in favor of increased funding for the
oned the idea. suggested creation of the Centre City De-
California Arts Council. He was among council members
velopment Corp. and expanded the plan that now includes
voting tentatively in favor of using tax-exempt bonds to
housing. shopping, office space and hotels.
build a performing arts theater as part of Horton Plaza.
"Hampered by shifting plans. a sour economy and diffi-
THE POOR - Wilson has said that the poor are best
cult negotiations. ground has yet to be broken for the
served by creating a climate that fosters economic
Horton Plaza shopping center, the cornerstone of the
growth. "The best social program is a job." preferably in
project. The current projected date is November, three
the private sector. he said.
years behind schedule.
He has been leery of the "make-work" aspect of the
Voters rejected Wilson's plan for a convention center;
Comprehensive Training and Employment Act (CETA).
an alternative proposal is being prepared. The mayor
the federal government's effort to find jobs for the hard-
says new, privately financed high-rise buildings are an
core unemployed. Even before the program ended. the
indirect result of redevelopment. as the private sector
city had essentially dropped out.
realizes the city is determined to rescue the area.
He has preferred to use federal funding to: economic
ENVIRONMENT - Wilson opposed offshore oil drill-
development programs. including the Urt League.
ing and favored a 30-foot height limit on coastal building.
rather than sucial services. The city has lost some funding
He campaigned in favor of selling $65 million in bonds to
because it indicated it might use it in middle-class areas
buy open space
rather than for the poor.
Angered that the San Diego Legal Aid Society helped
rent-control activists put an initiative on the ballot. Wil-
son moved to stop city funding of Legal Aid. He later
relented, but only after attaching restrictions that prohi-
bit Legal Aid from using city funds to sue or lobby public
agencies.
TRANSPORTATION - One of Wilson's early success-
es involved cutting bus fares, increasing ridership and
allowing for expanded service.
Money problems hit the system after the city attorney
ruled that Proposition 13 invalidated a special transit tax
Rather than fight the issue in court. the Wilson-led coun-
cil ordered the bus system to tighten its belt.
The result has been increased fares and decreased
ridership. The council has opted not to replace the lost
transit tax revenue from the city coffers.
After initially opposing the idea. Wilson became a sup-
porter of the San Diego' Trolley and was instrumental in
its construction. He failed in his effort to have a new
airport built on Otay Mesa to replace Lindbergh Field. as
a safety measure.
PROFESSIONAL SPORTS - When the San Diego
Padres threatened to move in 1972. Wilson came out
swinging. He vowed to file a lawsuit. publicly blasted the
owner and organized baseballand rallied public support.
The McDonald's Restaurant baron. Ray Kroc. has cred-
ited Wilson with persuading him to buy the team and keep
it in San Diego.
Earlier this year. when the San Diego Clippers an-
nounced plans to move to Los Angeles. Wilson's reaction
was somewhat milder. He sent a "Dear Don" letter to
owner Don Stirling offering to discuss the issue.
One difference is that the city had a financial stake in
the Padres since the team plays in a publicly owned
stadium. while the Clippers' home at the Sports Arena is
privately owned. Another difference is that with a Senate
campaign under way. Wilson was not eager to tangle with
the volatile Stirling.
PUBLIC EMPLOYEES - Wilson has made a tough
stand on public employees' wage-and-benefit demands a
major plank in his political platform. He views public
employee unions as a menace to the safety and solvency
of the public.
He won voter approval for an ordinance outlawing
strikes by city employees. Under the amendment, all
strikers will be fired. He led the successful opposition to
employee-sponsored amendments to increase salaries
and ensure binding arbitration of contract disputes.
Pension benefits for new employees have been reduced.
When Wilson became mayor. 60 percent of the city budget
was for salaries: the figure is now 49 percent. City sala-
ries generally trail those of other large cities.
PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT - Wilson has reduced the
power of the bureaucracy and increased both the power
of elected officials and the amount of involvement by the
public in decision-making.
A council committee system allows the public to ex.
press its views on proposals before the proposals are
taken to the full council. The staffs of both the mayor and
council members have increased sharply.
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HEADLINE: Bush: Tough on crime, tough on criminals
BYLINE: By NORMAN D. SANDLER
DATELINE: LOS ANGELES
KEYWORD: BUSH
BODY:
President Bush helped dedicate a state-of-the-art jail built with local
tax money Thursday, punching a law-and-order campaign-year theme: ''If you're
going to be tough on crime, you've got to be tough on the criminals.
Against a backdrop of debate over crime-fighting credentials in
California's hard-fought race for governor, Bush sounded a call for more
prisons and tougher laws after touring the North Los Angeles County Correctional
Facility, a yet-to-be-occupied $134 million, 2,064-inmate maximum security jail.
''Talk to any law enforcement officer and they'll tell you what that
means,' Bush said. ''No more revolving door, no more criminals out there on the
street because there isn't enough cell space to hold them.
The nation's correctional system is suffering serious overcrowding,
compounded by a rise in drug-related crimes and violence. Bush noted Congress
has approved more than $1.5 billion for prison construction this year and said
he has requested an additional $374 million next year.
However, his point in Los Angeles was to laud local initiative and encourage
taxpayers elsewhere to not necessarily look to Washington for help in meeting
the demand for more prison space.
''That's a sign that your vibrant community -- the Los Angeles community,
the Los Angeles taxpayer -- knows that in the fight against crime and drugs,
tough talk is simply not enough. And if you're going to be tough on crime,
you've got to be tough on the criminals.
Bush is in the midst of a five-day trip away from Washington that features
political events for Republican candidates in the 1990 elections and includes a
two-day meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu in Plam Springs,
Calif.
Crime has emerged as a major issue in the costly contest to succeed George
Deukmejian as governor of California, the nation's most populous state.
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At a $1, 000-a-plate San Francisco fund - raising dinner Wednesday night
for Sen. Pete Wilson, the GOP gubernatorial hopeful, Bush said California
'needs a governor who shares our philosophy about crime'' and will support
prison sentences ''at least as tough as the criminals we convict.
Ironically, that was not all that different from some of the anti-crime
rhetoric heard on the Democratic side of the big-bucks race for governor, where
former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein has challenged Attorney General John
Van de Kamp on the death penalty in comparing their law enforcement records.
The law-and-order theme is one Bush found effective in 1988, when his use of
Willie Horton to fault the Massachusetts prison furlough program and paint
Democrat Michael Dukakis as soft on crime sparked cries of racism.
Bush was accompanied on his tour of the jail by L.A. County Sheriff Sherman
Block, who one day earlier announced plans to seek a third term despite a string
of embarrassments that includes the indictment last week of 10 deputies on
money-skimming charges.
Bush took note of the indictments, but told other members of the department,
Don't let it get you down.'
''Some bad apple turns up. (When) an officer abuses your trust or ours by
doing wrong, we must be that much more dedicated to supporting the countless
officers
who honor the law by doing what is right,' he said.
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HEADLINE: CB
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH
SEVERAL MEMBERS OF THE CALIFORNIA CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION
FOLLOWING THEIR MEETING WITH PRESIDENT BUSH
PARTICIPANTS:
SENATOR ALAN CRANSTON (D-CA)
SENATOR PETE WILSON (R-CA)
REPRESENTATIVE JERRY LEWIS (R-CA)
REPRESENTATIVE TOM CAMPBELL (R-CA)
REPRESENTATIVE ROBERT LAGOMARSINO (R-CA)
THE WHITE HOUSE DRIVEWAY
WASHINGTON, DC
KEYWORD:
WH DRIVEWAY-05/16/90 CRANSTON ET AL
BODY:
Q Can you tell us about the meeting, Senator? Have you got any indication what
the President's going to decide?
SEN. CRANSTON: It was like the budget sessions. The President did not state any
policy, did not declare any intentions, but made plain that he feels that more
energy is needed and that we have to reduce dependency on imported oil. He also
said he's reluctant to make decisions in the absence of an established overall
energy policy. But we need decisions. We don't yet have that overall policy.
Q How do you interpret that?
Q When do you expect a decision?
SEN. CRANSTON: Well, I told the President, as far as California goes, that it
would be tragic to develop oil off Big Sur or the beautiful Mendocino coast.
That would be like letting factories produce in Yosemite or going to strip
mining in the Grand Canyon. There are places in California where oil drilling
can be permitted, but it should not happen where it can destroy a beautiful
environment, adversely affect the transcedental beauty and peace and serenity
that has drawn people to live in California and draws people to California
from all over the world.
Q Where would you permit it -
Q Where should it be permitted?
Q Where are those places, Senator?
Q This is different than the California position in the past?
SEN. CRANSTON: That's - no -- I don't think anybody at the table stated that
there should be no drilling anywhere off the coast of California. But there
are beautiful places that must be protected. The President said this morning
that we must not be dependent on foreign oil. I told the President I don't
think WE want to trade in that dependency, and we must get rid of it, for
dependency on domestic oil.
Q Where would you --
SEN. CRANSTON: We should develop alternative fuels.
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Q Where would you -
SEN. CRANSTON: And that is a main objective that we must pursue.
Q Where would you -
Q Senator, where is it okay to drill off the coast? That seems different from
previous stances by the delegation.
SEN. CRANSTON: There is presently drilling off some parts of the coast. There's
drilling off the coast of Santa Barbara. There's drilling off the coast of Los
Angeles and Long Beach. I doubt that there are any places in Northern
California where there should be any oil drilling -- any new oil drilling.
But there might well be some off the coast of Southern California to the far
south and way out at sea. It should not be close to the shore.
Q How far out at sea?
Q Particularly where in Southern California?
Q How far out?
Q Where in Southern California, Senator?
SEN. CRANSTON: I don't have any precise suggestion about any place in Southern
California. Way - it should be at least 25 miles offshore in my opinion, and
I think that's the view of the Governor of California and the view of most of
the people who were at the table.
Q Was there an agreement - is there now
Q Is this a compromise of some sort?
SEN. CRANSTON: No. There - no, there's no compromise. There's no agreement.
There's not an adamant position: "no drilling anywhere."
Q Thank you, Senator.
SEN. CRANSTON: Thank you, all.
Q Thank you, Senator.
Q Senator Wilson?
SEN. WILSON: Yes?
Q Do you want to come up here.
Q Senator Wilson!
Q Senator Wilson, please come and join us.
Q Senator, what's your impression of the meeting? What did he tell you?
Q What did the President tell you, Senator?
SEN. WILSON: He said very little. He listened. He listened and thanked us for
coming.
Q Sir, would you come (all the way ?), please?
SEN. WILSON: Yeah. He listened and he heard a number of people urge that there
not be drilling -- pretty much what he has been led to expect, I think, from the
comments that he's heard otherwise. And he just listened and thanked us for
coming.
Q What did you tell him, Senator?
Q Senator Cranston has just said ---
Q What did you tell him?
Q - that there should be - there are probably some areas off Southern
California where new drilling probably could be permitted and it wouldn't be
environmentally sensitive.
SEN. WILSON: Who said that?
Q Senator Cranston ---
Q Senator Cranston.
Q --- told us that. Was that proposed in the meeting? And would you agree with
him? And what area is he talking about?
SEN. WILSON: No. No, I don't have any suggestions for drilling anyplace off
California.
Q You oppose drilling any place off California?
Q Are you ---
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Q Would you oppose it?
SEN. WILSON: Yeah, I've consistently opposed drilling off California.
Q Anywhere?
SEN. WILSON: Anywhere. I think that we are facing a situation where there is
relatively little oil, where there is not enough to warrant the substantial
risk, where you've got a very steeply descending outer continental shelf, which
means that, in contrast to other coastal states, the oil companies are
interested in those tracks that are nearest the shore. That's, I think, a
factual distinction, but, you know, the President indicated that he obviously is
concerned with the nation's energy supply, with mounting imports. He is quite
right in being concerned.
What he heard from, I think, most people today is that they understand and share
that concern, but they think that the amount of oil off the California coast
is trivial in comparison with what exists in other places, that there are some
very environmentally sensitive areas, and that in fact the entire coastline is
environmentally sensitive in the sense that you've got virtually the population
of Canada jammed into a coastal plain. And 50 I thought he listened very
carefully. And we hope that he's going to make the right decision.
Q How --
Q Senator, is the President screwing up your -
Q (Off mike) --- campaign for governor if he goes ahead -
SEN. WILSON: It doesn't - no, it doesn't hurt mine one way or the other. My --
Q (Inaudible) ----- the President out there?
SEN. WILSON: My position is well known and has been for three administrations
beginning with the Carter administration, and then in the Reagan administration.
It is the same in the Bush administration. And I think he's been responsible
and sensitive thus far, and I hope that he listened to us today, and that's
about all that we can ask for. He heard ----
Q And if -
Q When you say "no drilling," Senator, are you including pulling out the rigs
that are already out there in addition to opening new exploration?
Q Santa Barbara and that area?
SEN. WILSON: Pulling them out?
Q Yeah. And stopping the drilling - the places where they already have those
platforms?
SEN. WILSON: Well, there was no discussion of that. There was no discussion of
that. There's no discussion, as far as I know, of pulling out the state water's
platforms either. Frankly, I don't know what would be involved in that either
scientifically or legally.
Q Well, you said "none at all." That's why -- you're saying --
SEN. WILSON: Well, I'm talking about new.
Q You're saying new. Okay.
SEN. WILSON: I'm talking about prospective --
Q Senator, are you concerned that there appear to be now two different voices
speaking from the California bipartisan delegation and that some people seem
to be -- particularly Senator Cranston -- seem to be saying, "Well, we might
agree to some drilling in Southern California" ? Does that concern you?
SEN. WILSON: Perhaps it should concern him. I don't think that he is speaking
for the rest of US.
Q Did he say that at the meeting?
SEN. WILSON: What?
Q Did he say that at the meeting, that you heard?
SEN. WILSON: He said something that I found a little less than clear, so I'd
rather let him speak for himself.
Q Do you think it's a fait accompli --
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Q Did the President -- (inaudible) - for any areas that he would likely --
(inaudible) -- California?
Q -- that he's going to oppose (?) offshore drilling?
SEN. WILSON: No. I don't think anything 15 a fait accompli. The President
said, "I have not made up my mind, which is why I wanted to talk to you, and I
thank you for coming.'
Q Did you get the idea, though, that he definitely will open some new areas to
drilling off California?
SEN. WILSON: No. No. I don't have that idea.
Q Did anybody -
SEN. WILSON: I take him at face value. He said, "I have not made up my mind; I
want to hear what you have to say." And he heard a great deal.
Q Did he give you an idea of when he's going to make a decision?
SEN. WILSON: Not clearly, and we urged him not to feel in any rush to do 50. I
reminded him of the story of the death row inmate who was asked what he wanted
for his final meal, and he included a request for fresh strawberries, and when
he was told they were out of season, he said, "That's all right; I'll wait." We
think that it would be a good thing to have a clear national energy policy which
suggests alternative sources. We think that you ought to have benefit of the
kind of information which the National Academy of Sciences has proposed.
Clearly they don't have that information in several areas in terms of the
socio-economic consequences. And he heard about that today as well. So --
Q Anybody --
SEN. WILSON: -- from our standpoint it was a good meeting in that he listened.
Q Anybody in the meeting --
Q Senator, don't you think considering the --
Q -- who was in favor of new drilling anywhere?
Q Was Sununu in the meeting with you?
SEN. WILSON: Governor Sununu was there.
Q He was? Did he have anything to say on this, or question anybody?
SEN. WILSON: No. He asked a couple of questions.
Q What were they?
Q Senator, did anybody in the meeting ---
SEN. WILSON: Listen, I have a question for you. I have a vote on, friends, and
I know that you wouldn't want me to miss it, would you? That's my question.
(Laughter.)
Q Aaaw.
Q Thank you.
Q Can we get back to you?
Q Mr. Lewis? Do you want to come up?
Q Come on up.
Q Step into our parlor.
Q A little experience everyone should have.
REP. LEWIS: I beg your pardon.
Q Please come all the way up so the camera ---------
REP. LEWIS: Step up? All right.
Q Congressman, what did - what was the impression you got from the President
about what he intends to do about drilling off California?
REP. LEWIS: Well, it's very clear the President has not finalized any policy
yet. He was asking lots of questions, doing a lot of listening. It's very
apparent that the President's people feel the need and are under great pressure
to develop a national energy policy that takes a look at all of these areas,
including the prospect of potential drilling off various coastlines around the
country. I do not believe the President has made any decisions in that
connection, but I think recognizes that there are areas along coastlines in
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our country where there's potential that can be tapped and should be tapped.
Q Do you think that -
Q Senator Cranston told us that he believed that some drilling could be
permitted far offshore off of Southern California - a new position, we think,
from him. Did you - did he share that with you?
REP. LEWIS: Well
Q Limited drilling in Southern California would be fine?
REP. LEWIS: Well, Senator Cranston did not say specifically what areas he would
support offshore drilling at.
Q He told us.
REP. LEWIS: But in that meeting he did not suggest it. It's my -
Q Have you talked to him about this before? Do you know what he's talking
about?
REP. LEWIS: No. Sometimes I do; sometimes I don't.
Q He mentioned -- he said some areas and he didn't give us any -
REP. LEWIS: He didn't give us any specifics either.
Q Is that a new position that you've heard from him then?
REP. LEWIS: Well, I'd prefer that you speak to ---
Q What do you think of that?
REP. LEWIS: You have spoken to -----
(Cross talk.)
REP. LEWIS: Wait, wait, wait.
Q Let me ask your opinion. We're getting a lot of hints from the President that
he might want to drill somewhere, limited areas, off of California. Is that
acceptable to you?
REP. LEWIS: The President has indicated that, out of a comprehensive energy
policy, that offshore drilling is likely to be a part of such a policy. Almost
every person in the room, Democrat and Republican alike, including the Senator,
indicated their willingness to consider drilling in portions of California
offshore. There are places that do seem to viable in terms of potential, but
also where it's acceptable. There are areas that are unacceptable to me, and
I've expressed those in the past as well.
Q Where do you think they could drill in California?
REP. LEWIS: Well, it would appear that in places in Southern California where
they're drilling already that there's tremendous potential. That, for example
-- you can speak to Bob Lagomarsino about that.
Q Well, I wondered where is everyone --
REP. LEWIS: Well, if you go to Southern California, there are places where we
have substantial drilling already, where there is potential. But, indeed, none
of this should be considered separate of a comprehensive policy that looks
beyond just offshore drilling. Building our reserves, for example -- filling
those reserves is a part of a comprehensive policy and planning. Developing
hydroelectric as well as nuclear energy sources are very important. I think
it's very, very critical that we not make decisions, however, we're once again
in gasoline lines. The worst public policy will be developed if we make those
policies in time of crises, and I think that's what the President's looking for
here developing a comprehensive, long-term effort that is made in an
environment that's sensible rather than after people are standing in those
lines.
Q Congressman --
Q You said that
Q --- do think considering -
Q You said he asked a lot of questions. What --
Q Do you think, considering the President's ties to big oil, that he's just
going to ignore California and go ahead and drill anywhere he wants to?
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REP. LEWIS: I do not. The President has demonstrated already that he is not a
person who just reacts to somebody's special interest. Indeed, in this case
he's doing a lot of listening. He's attempting to figure out those elements of
a comprehensive and sensible policy. I think everbody in the room today was
most impressed by that. He's listening. He's not made a knee-jerk decision.
Q What did he mostly ask about? You said he was mostly asking questions. What
did he seem most interested in?
REP. LEWIS: Well, he was very interested in how individual members reacted to
the need for examining offshore potential in terms of a comprehensive energy
policy. He did ask a good deal as well about ANWR. There was an exchange there
that was serious. He appears to be in the midst of making decisions of his own
relative to what the comprehensive policy should include. I was most impressed
with a lack of knee-jerk on his part, but rather his being serious about
developing a policy that makes sense for America long term.
Q Well, what would -
Q Well, then do you foresee him putting off this decision until they come up
with a national energy policy, which is way -what? Six, eight months away?
REP. LEWIS: I -- the general judgment or feeling in this -- in the room today
was that nobody was anxious to have the President make public decisions
tomorrow, but rather to weigh and to consider every possibility. Nobody seemed
to suggest that this was something we had to do this month or next month. And
50 in that sense it was a very healthy environment in which the President was
asking these questions.
Q But he said during his news conference today that this decision was going to
be in days rather than weeks.
REP. LEWIS: Well, I didn't hear that news conference, but I do know what he said
in this room.
Q That's what he said -
REP. LEWIS: And -
Q -- to the rest of the world.
REP. LEWIS: Well, I do know what he was - what was suggested to him in this
room. A number of members on both sides of the aisle suggested that there's no
hurry here. And I think that was new input that was valuable. That may very
well affect his own time calendar.
Q Would you like to see him wait until after the elections so that he doesn't
screw up Pete Wilson's chance to be governor?
REP. LEWIS: I don't think this is an election issue. But if he could put it
off, sure, I'd love it. (Laughter.)
Q (Off mike.)
REP. LEWIS: It's not going to make or break that election, I can tell you.
Q How did you say that out of both sides of your mouth. (Laughter.)
REP. LEWIS: I was using yours as well.
Q Jerry, to sum up, if you could - if you had -- if you could direct what he'd
recommend, what would you like to see him do regarding extension of any further
drilling off of California? What sums up your own position?
REP. LEWIS: Well, there's not --
Q Just some in the south and none in the north?
REP. LEWIS: There's not any question we need to know where our energy resources
are -- no matter where they might lie, on-shore or off-shore. When you find
major resources, then a piece of that resource has to be available to be tapped
in a comprehensive energy policy. There are portions of our coastline, like
very far up north, where the volume seems to be quite low in all measurement
that I would personally take out of the mix. But on the other hand, I'm not an
expert on these things. The President is asking the right questions, and 1
think that will lead to a sensible long-range policy. Thank you.
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Q Thank you.
Q Mr. Lagomarsino, can you -
REP. CAMPBELL: Excuse me. I'm on my way, and I need to just say something to -
Q All right. Let this gentleman up here next.
REP. CAMPBELL: Otherwise - I appreciate it. I'm Tom Campbell from the Santa
Clara-San Mateo area. I'm Republican from the 12th Congressional District. The
one thing I wanted to clarify is just, from what I heard in the meeting, I did
not hear any commitment by the President to drill in Southern California. I
heard the Senator's comments before here. But I would not take away from this
meeting any indication that the President is prepared to drill in Southern
California. He was extremely clear that he is open. He's discussing it. He
knows we have a national energy need. But I never heard from him the expression
"Okay to go ahead and drill in Southern California" or "We're thinking of
drilling in Southern California. =
Q Well, how about -
REP. CAMPBELL: So any implication like that, I think, would be erroneous.
Q Well, how about a predisposition maybe that the delegation might be moving to
some kind of compromise that would -
REP. CAMPBELL: No. I would --
Q - allow him to drill in Southern California?
REP. CAMPBELL: I would disagree with that characterization as well. I think
going around the table there was a very clear sense that we were interested in
having no additional drilling in California. But the important point I wanted
to correct was the impression that perhaps the President had, in his mind, made
this division. And from my lights (?), I just didn't see it. It would be
perfectly consistent with what I saw the President today if he would adopt a
moratorium on all drilling off California.
Q Well, did you get any sense that the President's willing to do that, that he's
willing to adopt a moratorium?
REP. CAMPBELL: I absolutely got the sense that he is open to that. Absolutely.
We discussed alternative energy resources. We discussed putting money --
putting petroleum into the National Petroleum Reserve. We discussed Alaska. We
discussed wind. We discussed solar. Yes. I would say that it's still very
much on the table.
Q So you're saying that everybody around the table told him, "No, we don't want
any new drilling"?
REP. CAMPBELL: I don't think everybody was asked, and I don't think it came up.
But I'll say nobody said, "Yes, new drilling." So nobody spoke to say in favor
of new drilling. I regret I did not hear, except from a distance, what Senator
Cranston had said by initial statement, but if he left the impression that we
had cut some sort of a deal, that was something I'd very much disagree with.
Q I don't think it was that, but there sure appears to be some suggestion that
people were - said that they were willing to consider the possibility of the
delegation coming away from it -
REP. CAMPBELL: I wouldn't say that that was the --
Q All of your people say that the President made no commitment one way or
another, but ---
REP. CAMPBELL: I think that's right.
Q -- some people were telling -
REP. CAMPBELL: I think that's right.
Q - were indicating that -
REP. CAMPBELL: Well, I'll tell you the -
Q --- maybe there might need to be.
REP. CAMPBELL: I'll tell you the context in which that came up, and it might
help understand it better, was the deal five years ago with Secretary Hodel.
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That was discussed. And in that deal five years ago, there was discussion of
maybe trading some areas off for others. It was only in that context that the
issue came up. If I had to draw a conclusion, I'd say the overwhelming sense
was no drilling at all.
I appreciate the chance to correct that ----
Q Thank you.
REP. CAMPBELL: Thank you.
Q Congressman Lagomarsino.
REP. LAGOMARSINO: Yes.
Q You've lived with the drilling situation longer than anybody. What - how do
you read what the President is saying today about more drilling in Southern
California?
REP. LAGOMARSINO: Well, the reason the President had the meeting was to hear
from all of us. And I think he listened very attentively. I think perhaps he
may have left the meeting with a little bit different view than when he came in.
When he came in, one of the first things he said was, "It's down to a matter of
days, not weeks." Contrary to what it was some time ago when it was months, not
weeks. By the time it ended, and this is just an impression -- I might be
completely wrong -- he may well have had the thought that this is going to take
a little bit longer. He may go back and take another look, have people look at
some of the things that were brought up there.
Q Congressman, Senator Cranston indicated that he might be willing to have
drilling off the coast of Southern California, though way out off the coast.
It seems a change from what the delegation has been talking about before. Did
you get any indication of that?
REP. LAGOMARSINO: Well, there's delegation and delegation. The delegation has
never been united on this, although I think it's fair to say that most of the
delegation has been opposed --- period. Except that several years ago the
majority view on the delegation did work out a compromise with Secretary Hodel
-- thought they had a compromise. It fell apart. So when you say the
delegation it you know, there are various elements in that delegation.
Q What do you think the likelihood is that folks would need to consider possible
additional drilling in Southern California?
REP. LAGOMARSINO: Well, I think again it would depend on who you talked to. I
would not be opposed necessarily to additional drilling. As a matter of fact,
there's additional drilling in my district all the time. And to the extent that
there's no even consideration of other areas, it likely could mean there would
be more drilling there, drilling that was not --
Q So you would favor new areas?
REP. LAGOMARSINO: Well, I wouldn't - not -- let's put it the other way around.
I would not necessarily oppose new areas. I think we need -
Q Any suggestions where?
REP. LAGOMARSINO: - to look at a couple of things. One is, and I mentioned
these to the President, we have to solve the air quality problem. I think we' re
in the process of doing that in the Clean Air Bill. Secondly, we obviously have
to move ahead on the whole question of oil spill prevention and cleanup,
although you need that really right now with tankers and probably more than you
do with drilling. And you also have to look very carefully at where you're
specifically proposing to drill, I think much more specifically than has been
the case in the past. You say, "Okay, you can drill here and not there." And
some areas should be set aside permanently right now. There are some places off
the Santa Barbara coast that have been set aside for years by presidential or
secretarial order for years and years and years. Well, that should be made a
matter of law as we have done along the coast in California waters.
Q But is this a new turn in the road when Senator Cranston, an
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environmentalist, says maybe some new places in Southern California?
REP. LAGOMARSINO: You'd have to ask him. I don't know. You know, I don't know.
Q How does that sound for Santa Barbara? Does it sound like more drilling
there?
REP. LAGOMARSINO: I think there could be more drilling in Santa Barbara
regardless of what happens with the President because there are existing oil
leases there.
Q And you would not oppose it?
REP. LAGOMARSINO: I would be very troubled by it if I felt it was being done
because that was the only place that you -- that they could do it. If it was
done because it made sense and it was an environmentally acceptable place and so
on, no, what does it hurt to add some more drilling to what's already there?
That doesn't even necessarily mean more platforms.
Q Thank you.
REP. LAGOMARSINO: Okay?
Q Thank you, Congressman.
REP. LAGOMARSINO: Okay.
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LENGTH: 450 words
BYLINE: By Frank Bass, States News Service
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
KEYWORD: endorse
BODY:
Almost a year before the Republican primary, Sen. Pete Wilson's
gubernatorial candidacy was given a boost Friday by the endorsement of
President Bush.
Wilson, R-Calif., emerged from a brief Oval Office meeting with the president
to announce the endorsement, which could effectively co-opt any opposition in
the June primary.
"It is a little early," Wilson conceded. "(But) so far, there is no primary."
A second-term senator, Wilson now has the endorsements of Bush, Gov. George
Deukmejian (who is not seeking another term), former President Reagan and the
state's Republican congressmen.
Wilson, a former San Diego mayor, described Bush's endorsement as "useful"
and said he expects the president will campaign for him in California.
A statement written by Wilson's campaign committee and authorized for release
by the president said: "I'm pleased to support Pete for governor. We'll miss
him here in Washington, but I agree his management skills are needed in
Sacramento, following the great tradition of Ronald Reagan and George
Deukmejian."
At a White House lawn press conference, Wilson said he and Bush did not
discuss other pressing issues in California, such as the future of three
offshore oil drilling sites. Bush's chief of staff, former New Hampshire Gov.
John Sununu, also was at the 15-minute meeting.
The senator said his call for Interior Secretary Manuel Lujan Jr. to resign
from a Bush administration task force studying offshore oil drilling in
California and Florida was not discussed.
Wilson joined 18 Democratic congressmen last week in calling for Lujan to
resign from the task force, saying Lujan's statements about the issue had
compromised his ability to be considered an objective head of the commission.
Control of the governor's mansion in Sacramento is especially crucial for
Republicans heading into the race because congressional district lines will be
redrawn after the 1990 census.
A Republican governor could veto a plan submitted by the Democratic
Legislature and throw the matter to the courts, which currently are made up
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largely of GOP appointees.
Although Wilson currently is the only Republican running, it is likely he
will face substantial opposition from a Democratic candidate in the November
1990 contest.
Speculation this week swirled around former Major League Baseball
Commissioner Pete Ueberroth, who met Thursday in Sacramento with Assembly
Speaker Willie Brown.
Former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein and Attorney General John Van de
Kamp have indicated they will run for the Democratic spot, and Comptroller Gray
Davis also is thought to be mulling a bid. None can formally file for the
office, however, until February.
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HEADLINE: SOUTHLAND;
BUSH ENDORSES WILSON FOR GOVERNOR
BYLINE: From Times staff and wire service reports
BODY:
President Bush endorsed the candidacy of Republican Sen. Pete Wilson
for governor of California today in a move that appeared to be designed to
head off the potential campaign of former baseball Commissioner Peter V.
Ueberroth.
Wilson told reporters after a White House meeting with Bush that the
President had honored him with the "useful" endorsement privately. When asked
if Bush would campaign for him, Wilson replied, "I hope he will. I expect he
will."
Wilson rejected suggestions that the endorsement was premature, conceding it
came "a little early" but arguing it was in the tradition of former President
Ronald Reagan, who served two terms as California's governor. Ueberroth, who
stepped down this spring after five years at the helm of professional baseball,
is said to be toying with the idea of seeking the GOP nomination over Wilson.
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REMARKS OF PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH
AT THE FUNDRAISER FOR SENATOR PETE WILSON (R-CA),
GOP CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR
ST. FRANCIS HOTEL, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
KEYWORD:
BUSH-02/28/90 WILSON FUNDRAISER
BODY:
PRESIDENT BUSH: Thank you all very much. (Applause.) Thank you. (Continued
applause.) Thank you -- (name inaudible due to applause.) Please, be seated.
Thank you very much for that warm welcome back. (Continued applause.) Thank you
so much for that welcome.
And, Pete, oh how strongly I feel about this gubernatorial race. And I came out
here to wish you the very best and to state with confidence, especially after
talking to some of your most enthusiastic supporters before dinner, that you
will, indeed, be the next governor of the State of California. And I am
delighted to predict that right here. (Applause.) Just don't use the same
pollster Ortega did. (Laughter, applause.)
To you and Gayle - Barbara and I send our very best. The Wilsons were just
upstairs, and we talked to Barbara at home. And sorry she is not here tonight.
She is going to meet me in a day or so in - as we receive the Prime Minister of
Japan in California.
I want to salute Lee Atwater, who is doing an outstanding job as the Chairman of
the Republican National Committee. (Applause.) Frank, I'm not upstaging you,
but I'm saying nice things about you it seems like just yesterday and the day
before; but I'm glad you're here, sir, and I appreciate the work you're doing
for the party.
I'm delighted to once again be with Bill Walsh, who has been such an example not
just in the field of athletics but in his commitment to helping others. And I
also think we would be remiss if we didn't thank the Lowell (sp?) High School
band for their participation here tonight. (Applause.)
And as some of you know, I was just in San Francisco three weeks ago. But, as
Kipling said, San Francisco, like all of California, has one drawback -- it's
hard to leave. (Light laughter.) And 50 much has happened, even since my last
trip right here to San Francisco.
And Bishop Swing (sp?), my old dear friend, our pastor, now a bishop out here.
It's not that we find that hard to believe, sir, but I'm so glad to see you
again. (Laughter.) But he was our pastor in Washington. Would it seem
presumptuous of me to say that many of our prayers seemed to be answered; from
Moscow to Managua change is in the air, and the revolution of '89 has continued
into a new decade, a decade of democracy. (Applause.)
Time and again in this century the political map of the world was transformed.
And in each instance a new world order came about through the advent of a new
tyrant or the outbreak of a bloody global war or its end.
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And now the world has undergone another upheaval. But this time there's no war.
We've seen a bold Soviet leader initiate daring reforms; we've seen a
playwright, a humble man that I received in the White House the other day,
Vaclav Havel, move from prison to the presidential palace in Czechoslovakia;
we've seen both the Berlin Wall and the Romanian dictatorship tumble into ruins.
And I think it's fair to say that the day of the dictator is over. (Applause.)
Victor Hugo said that no army can match the might of an idea whose time has
come. In the revolution of '89, an idea overcame armies and tanks, and that
idea is democracy. And this has been true in the East, and now it's becoming
true throughout the Western hemisphere -- first in Panama, after Operation Just
Cause, and now, at long last, for the brave people of Nicaragua. And how could
we ask for more - (interrupted by applause).
Another symbol of change; this morning I called President Gorbachev and we had a
long talk on matters affecting Nicaragua and Eastern Europe. And after the call
and this highly rational, and I would say cordial discussion with this dynamic
new Soviet leader, my mind went back to those days not so many years ago when a
talk of this nature would not have been possible. The mood of the day back then
-- confrontation, rhetorical overkill, tension bordering on hostility. Yes,
we've got some problems with the Soviet Union, but today's talk was so
different. No polemics. Where we differed we vowed to discuss the differences
further.
And the point is, reason and calmness have replaced rhetoric. And, as your
President, I am determined to consult often with President Gorbachev to keep
open the door to negotiation and peace. These indeed are exciting times and I'm
proud to be your president in these times of change. (Applause.)
But we're gathered here tonight to celebrate events closer to home. As I said,
California is hard to leave. And for me, it's been hard to leave even when
I'm back at the White House. You see, it was just yesterday, Bill, that for the
second time in my presidency Barbara and I had the pleasure of entertaining the
winners of the Super Bowl. And once again, our guests were the San Francisco
Forty-niners. And just -- (interrupted by applause). And just a few months
earlier, Barbara and hosted the A's, the Oakland A's, after the great World
Series victory. Something about monopoly; there's something in the books about
cornering here; a little anti-trust action. But, when it comes to champions,
I'm beginning to think you have cornered the market.
And, yet, I'm here on behalf of another champion. A champion for the victims of
crime and drug-related violence; a champion for the environment; a champion for
California; a champion for sound - a sound and growing economy. And I'm
talking about the next governor of your state, Pete Wilson. (Applause.)
And, in this critical - critical for the nation election, with Pete at the top
of the ticket, come November, California will go Republican in a big way.
California -- (applause) - California is prized for more than its political
importance or the size of its GNP, that Pete - slightly braggard fashion there,
was talking about -- we must win this state because California really does
represent the future.
California is at the forefront, not just regionally and nationally, but as he
rightfully pointed out, internationally, and needs a special kind of leadership.
And Pete Wilson's kind of leadership it is. Twenty-three year career in
public life that began under the dome in Sacramento and today, he is a law-maker
still, this time in Washington, D.C. But, it was as mayor of San Diego, that
Pete first showed a flair, a talent for executive leadership. And, it is
exactly this kind of executive leadership that the whole state of California
needs to take it to the threshold of a new millennium.
You've got a good governor. In my view, we have a great governor, and I want to
see that tradition continue with Pete Wilson. (Applause.)
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And, sadly, California needs something else. It needs to continue a
crime-fighting tradition. It needs a governor who will continue the war against
violent crime. California needs a governor who shares our philosophy about
crime. And, our philosophy -- relatively simple: Prison sentences should be at
least as tough as the criminals we convict.
And, at the federal level, I relied on Pete's help to pass a major part of our
anti-crime package. More money has been provided for prison space and more
federal law enforcement officers. But Congress has left too much work undone,
and we need action on the rest of our proposals to fight violent crime by
toughening federal sentences for those who use a firearm in the commission of a
felony. And if the kingpins who deal drugs are dealing death, then let's judge
them for what they are -- murderers -- and it's time we took the shackles off
the policemen, the courts and the law. I am convinced we must be tougher on
these drug criminals -- (applause).
And a governor has to be as tough as the times. But the challenges of the
future will also require vision and compassion if we're to protect a fragile
coastal ecology or educate a new generation of children. From the urban canyons
of Los Angeles to the Yosemite loved by Ansel Adams, Californians were among the
first to stand up for the environment. And Pete Wilson was among the first
environmentalists to hold office. He's added thousands of acres to the
California wilderness system, saved canyons, protected urban recreation sites,
and he supports our America the Beautiful initiative to plant a billion trees,
to expand our national parks and wildlife preserves - (applause) - and to make
this more like the unspoiled green continent our forebears knew.
Right now, Pete is working with me on our administration's proposal to enact our
Clean Air Bill, the first significant change since 1977, one that will clean up
the smog and curb acid rain and cut back on the air toxics that plague
California's air. Cleaner cars, cleaner fuels, cleaner factories --- that's
what we're striving for, and with Pete Wilson at the helm, you'll have a
governor who works for a cleaner California, just as he has in the United
States Senate.
Education is also critical to the future, and it's a critical responsibility,
I'd say an increasingly critical responsibility of every governor. Governors
across the country are disturbed that there are still many American children,
often in the inner city, often immigrants, who are denied the American dream
because of a lack of literacy, a lack of job skills, and this is unfair, this is
unjust, and this is unacceptable. And that's why Pete Wilson backs our
proposal for a half billion dollar increase for Head Start to give this children
a hopeful start in life. I need that through the United States Congress.
(Applause.)
Almost a year has passed since I sent the Educational Excellence Act to
Congress. It's based on a few basic concepts. To make our schools work, we
must give parents, teachers, and children the power to choose. To make our
system work, states, schools and individuals will need greater flexibility in
the way in which they can pursue these goals. And then we must all be
accountable for the results.
Last April, I asked Congress to pass these measures to reform our educational
system. And look, thanks to Pete's help, and that of others, education reform
has already passed the United States Senate. And now it's time for the House to
finish its homework and pass our education reform now.
The political future of California, and all of America, rests on yet another
issue, and issue that affects the voting rights of every Republican, every
Independent, every Democratic voter - an issue of fundamental fairness. And I
am talking about reapportionment. Some say -- (interrupted by applause.) Some
say reapportionment has been a political goldmine for both parties. They may
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be right. Democrats get the gold and we get the shaft. (Laughter.)
Remember after the 1990 census, almost one out of eight members of Congress will
represent the State of California. Remember that. And this is bigger than
party politics. Gerrymandering violates the spirit of one man, one vote.
On a summer night in 1981, a group of California Democrats sat in a restaurant
in Sacramento with pencil and paper and redesigned your political future. And
lines were drawn -- crazy, twisted lines that cut across communities, towns, and
even streets, without the slightest regard for the will of the people. And
since those district lines went into effect there have been 135 general
elections for California's congressional seats, and only once has a seat
changed party control. And remember, this same brand of political manipulation
that hurts Republicans also hurts every minority voter in the State of
California. (Applause.)
So isn't it ironic, if a little sad, that in the very decade democracy dawned
around the world, a small group sitting around a table in a restaurant, who
called themselves "Democrats", infringe on voting rights in America. And still,
Republicans do not seek revenge, we don't seek a gerrymander of our own. No.
With fair lines we can win on the issues, and we can also win on the strength of
our candidates.
You know, in the early days of our great nation some Americans stayed in the
cities of the East and built great industries, and they have every right to be
proud. And, some Americans came half-way across the continent and farmed our
rich and fertile plains, and they too, have every right to be proud.
But, then there were those who pressed ever forward until they reached the sea.
Gumption, gold, and glory took them all the way to the shore of the shining
Pacific. And, we call these people Californians; and some found gold, most
didn't. But, all Californians found something precious: The future.
So, today's State of California is tomorrow's state of the Union. And,
there's no one better to lead California into that exciting future than Pete
Wilson. It's - (applause) -- it's been said that, if you would test a man,
first give him power. For 23 years, Pete Wilson has been tested. He's used
power not to glorify himself, to glorify one man, but to make a better life for
millions. He's a great senator today. A sterling example of California's
passion for excellence. And, tomorrow, the Golden State will be proud to call
him governor.
Thank you, and God bless you all. Thank you for having me here once again.
Thank you very much.
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WIL SON
GOVERNOR
WILSON ENDORSED BY WOMEN PROSECUTORS OF CALIFORNIA; FEINSTEIN
WON'T INCREASE PENALTIES FOR RAPE TO PROTECT WOMEN
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Bill Livingstone
October 14, 1990
(619) 260-1990
LONG BEACH -- For his leadership to strengthen state and
federal criminal laws, gubernatorial candidate U.S. Senator Pete
Wilson today received the endorsement of Women Prosecutors of
California (WPOC).
"Over the years no one has ever had to guess where Senator
Wilson stood on the death penalty, lengthening sentences for
violent offenders, or opposing liberal judges who refuse to carry
out the law," WPOC President Maryanne Gilliard said.
"Pete Wilson's tough-on-crime philosophy as well as his
consistent support of victims rights make him our choice for
Governor," Gilliard said.
Wilson, who believes it's a fundamental right of all
Californians not to be a crime victim, authored the death penalty
law for the murder of a law enforcement officer working on a drug
related case.
Wilson, as governor, said he would increase the penalty for
selling drugs to minors to help make our schools safe. He also
proposed new legislation to protect women from rape and domestic
violence.
"Our criminal laws are too lenient,' Wilson said. "Rapists
serve as few as 18 months behind jail, while victims suffer a
lifetime," Wilson said.
Under current law, a rapist faces three to eight years in
prison. But with time off for good behavior, he can be back out
on the streets in just 18 months. The average time served is
only three and a half years.
Wilson said Dianne Feinstein believes the penalties for rape
are adequate. In an interview published by the San Francisco
Chronicle (10/1/90), Feinstein said:
"He [Wilson] has proposed an enhancement to
(sentences for) rape. Rape already has been enhanced,
enhanced and enhanced. It's one of the longest sentences."
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Wilson said California cannot -- and should not -- look to
Feinstein for leadership to make our neighborhoods safe.
"Maybe spending 18 months behind jail is good enough for
Dianne Feinstein," Wilson said. "But for the 12,000 rape victims
in California every year, it's outrageous. It's wrong. And the
law must be changed so that women no longer have to fear the
night.
A man recently accused of raping three USC students was out
on parole after serving only two and a half years of a six-year
sentence for raping a woman in 1985.
"It's inexcusable that this man was let out of prison to
rape again," Wilson said. "Our laws are bankrupt when criminals
receive lenient sentences and are quickly allowed back out on the
streets to commit more crime. This has got to stop."
CALIFORNIA ACT FOR THE PREVENTION OF SEX CRIMES
AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
On June 25, 1990, Wilson announced legislation to increase
the penalties for rape and domestic violence.
Wilson's proposal -- called the California Act for the
Prevention of Sex Crimes and Domestic Violence -- would triple
penalties for violent sex crimes, require convicted sex offenders
to pay restitution to their victims, increase prosecution in
domestic violence cases, and expand domestic violence shelters
and treatment centers.
Specifically, Wilson's proposed legislation would eliminate
"first-tier" penalties that now allow convicted sex offenders to
serve as few as three years in prison.
It would also triple second- and third-tier penalties for
rape, sodomy and other sex crimes, increasing minimum sentences
to 18 and 24 years respectively.
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How Feinstein, Wilson Stand
on Criminal Justice Issues
By Susan Yoachum
and Jerry Roberts
Chronicle Political Writers
Republican Pete Wilson and Demo-
crat Dianne Feinstein VOW they would
lecting judges. Both candidates say they
favor a woman's right to choose whether
WILSON: That's perhaps best
wage aux aggressive war on drugs as gov-
to have an abortion.
exemplified by the fact that I have
ernor of California, but the two would-be
won the endorsement of almost ev-.
generals differ on how to pay for it
Each claims the biggest difference
ery major law enforcement orga-
between them on crime is their superior
trization in the state, Frankly, she
Feinstein supports a half-cent increase.
record.
just doesn't have comparable re-
in the state sales tax to attack what she
cord. She has not been responsible
believes are the root causes of crime Wil-
This is the second of a six-part series on
for placing on the books drug stat-
son emphasizes his support of bond issues
issues in the governor's race, based on
utes. She has made promises, but
to build more prisons, along with $300
interviews with Feinstein and Wilson. The
there is really no record. Hers is
million in new spending to treat drug-us-
interviews were conducted separately,
thin Mine is clear. and long and
ing pregnant women.
with the rivals each asked the same set of
consistent.
Feinstein says she would emphasize fi-
questions. Their answers were edited for
space.
The reason that police, sheriffs
nancing for drug education programs, and
and prosecutors and crime victims
Wilson stresses spending for punishment
have been at the forefront in sup-
of drug dealers.
Given that you and your op-
port of my candidacy is compara-
How they would lead a drug war are
ponent have both used flurries
tive performance. I was just en-
among the key differences between the
of tough rhetoric on the crimi-
dorsed by almost 700 prosecutors
candidates in the area of criminal justice.
noi justice issues, what int your
statewide, and a significant part of
view is the biggest difference
their reason is gratitude for the
Crime is the issue that both candidates
between the two of you?
effort I made to change the crimi-
outinely hir hardest in campaign speech-
FEINSTEIN: Our records. From
nal law through Proposition 115.
even though, as a practical matter, a
the day I became mayor to the day
governor often can do little to affect di-
She gave it minimal lip service
I left, by FBI statistics, the crime
She did not raise money or give
rectly the crime rate in the state
rate went down (in San Francisco)
money. She refused to sign the bal-
Most of a governor's impact in this area
by 27 percent. From the day he
lot argument. She has a minimal
comes from setting a tone, supporting or
became mayor (of San Diego) to
record with respect to judicial ap-
opposing legislation or initiatives and,
the day he left, using those same
pointments, in contrast with the
most important, by shaping the judiciary
statistics, the crime rate went up
recommendations I have made to
through appointments.
25 percent. We put new law en-
the president on good but tough
The crime issue that Feinstein and Wil-
forcement officers on the streets.
law-and-order judges. She was a
SOR hammer the most in campaign appear-
He actually ended up with fewer
fund-raising chairman for (former
ances is one they agree upon - the death
than when he started.
California Chief Justice) Rose Bird
penalty. Wilson charges that Feinstein is
In sentencing, I want to change
in her fight against removal.
less committed to it because she used to
the system SO it protects the public
oppose capital punishment and her sup-
by not releasing people who are
What is your position on
port for it evolved over a number of years,
known committers of violent felo-
Proposition 133, the so-colled
beginning in the early 1970s.
nies. That's a difference. He has
Safe Streets Act, and why?
In wide-ranging interviews, the candi-
proposed an enhancement to (sen-
dates revealed several more substantive
tences for) rape. Rape already has
FEINSTEIN: I'm strongly for it.
differences on criminal justice matters:
been enhanced, enhanced and en-
Intelligence sources say there are
hanced. It's one of the longest sen-
4,000 drug dealers in three cities
Feinstein supports Proposition 133,
tences. We have proposed adding
connected with Colombian drug
which would increase the state sales tax
the indeterminate sentencing
cartels now, what are we going
by one-half cent for four years, raising
back to crimes of violence where it
to do about it? How are we going to
about $7.5 billion to fight the war against
has not already been added back.
have a war on drugs? You can't
drugs. Wilsen has not yet taken 2 position.
have a war on drugs without an
We have also proposed manda-
arsenal
Wilson would use willingness to im-
tory jail sentences on the first con-
pose the death penalty as one measure in
viction of sale of narcotics. I also
The arsenal is prevention, it's
have said that I would do my ut-
rehabilitation; it's law enforce-
picking judges. Feinstein says that she
most to see the Speedy Trial Initia-
ment and it's conviction What
would consider both the death penalty
and abortion, among other criteria, in se-
tive (Proposition 115) is put in
Proposition 133 does is mount a
place. We both supported that He
$7.5 billion war on drugs. funded
was much more instrumental in it
through a half-cent sales tax in-
than I was, certainly, but I did sup-
crease over four years only. Nine-
port it.
ty-nine percent of the money goes
to counties. Several hundred mil-
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lion of it would go to law enforce-
prehension and prevention, and
ment, to counties, to prevention, to
son they are, and I guess that's best
that's Proposition 133, by (Lietrten-
early childhood education pro-
summed up by judicial tempera-
ant Governor) Leo McCarthy.
ment.
grams, to jails, to prosecutors, to
additional prison beds. It gives us
WILSON: 1 give (Deukmejian)
the arsenal to wage a war on drugs
high marks. He is deservedly re-
on both the supply side and the
garded as having been a great
WILSON: I think that anyone
demand side.
friend of law enforcement and a
who is a candidate for appoint-
WILSON: I haven't taken a po-
very strong crime fighter.
ment as a judge, who feels as a
sition yet. 1 am obviously sympa-
What I can do, what I intend to
matter of conscience, that they are
thetic to the goals, and I.do con-
do is to say to the legislators, En-
under a disability that prevents
cede the need.
act my legislative program' (for
them from doing their duty to ap-
When you talk about stricter
tougher criminal sentences). To re-
ply existing law should make that
sentencing of drug sellers, you're
form a substantive criminal law
known and be excused.
talking about the construction
that is dangerously lenient, unjus-
The death penalty is presently
costs of prison. The people of Cali-
tifiably lenient. And I intend to be
the law of California as it relates to
fornia have indicated, while not
very clear with the Legislature.
sentencing. So we are talking
eager to pay taxes, they are willing
And if they don't, then we are go-
about something that is not only
to approve additional bond issues
existing law but that is the law as it
for additional prison construction.
ing to be driven of necessity, back
to the ballot. But I would much
relates to sentencing.
I am in support of (Proposition
144), the ($450 million) prison con-
prefer to see the Legislature do
Litmus test is really not the
their job. Goddamn it, do what
point That was the phrase used
struction bond issue on the fall
they were elected to do.
with respect to asking a judge, or a
ballot.
You've got a handful of liberals
candidate for judgeship, where he
I also expect significant help
who are controlling a graveyard
or she would come down making a
for that portion of my program
(Assembly Criminal Justice) com-
decision. In other words, asking
concerning the rehabilitation of
mittee that has prevented the en-
them to precommit to the result
drug-using pregnant women from
they will reach when in fact that's
actment, through the legislative
the federal government. Present-
process, of what the people have
a violation of the canon of judicial
ly, there is pending a bill that
ethics.
just enacted in Proposition 115.
would provide some $300 million
for rehabilitation of such women.
In discussing the criteria
Since Governor George
each of you would use in ap-
pointing judges, there has been
Deukmejian has been arguably
of lot of talk in this campaign
the most pro-law-and-order
about "litmus tests." Would
governor in the history of the
you appoint only judges who
state, what do you think you
could de that he hasn't done to
support the death penalty and
abortion and would you ask
decrease the crime problem in
them about these issues?
California?
FEINSTEIN: First of all, my lit-
FEINSTEIN: Push for the enact-
mus test for the appointment of
ment of the "Safe Streets" initia-
judges will be people who are pro-
tive. You can't fight crime unless
fessional, who are tough, who are
you've got the armaments to do it
fair, who have a judicial tempera-
Law enforcement has declined by
ment and who are prepared to
6 percent statewide, during which
work hard. Judges who would not
time we've become a coke capital,
fight increasing usage of court-
the methamphetamine lab, the
rooms that you only use now for 3
PCP Lab and the heroin importa-
limited time of the day whether
tion capital of America.
that be night courts or weekend
How do we fight it? Everybody
courts.
flexes muscle, but nobody listens
Philosophically, my test for ap-
to the kind of muscle that comes
pointments on both of those issues
from the mouth. And you've got to
is somebody that interprets the
fight it on both the supply and the
constitution, so that it does not pre-
demand side. And you've got to
vent the exercise of the death pen-
fight it with prevention in schools,
alty as voted by the people of the
with education. You've got to fight
state and who believes that the
it with the carrot and the stick
constitution protects a woman's
And we've never had the money to
right to choice in the state.
do it. And for the first time, some-
There's no single one litmus
one had the guts to put on the
test. I mean, please don't just use
ballot a proposition that could
those two issues. Because the most
launch a true four-year war on ap-
important thing is the kind of per-
Davis/Blymire
Title: Plaza
Date: Oct. 17, 1990
Draft: One
Red coop
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: PETE WILSON, CENTURY PLAZA HOTEL
12:30 p.m., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26,
pitch
form 1990 Rundes
((It's a delight to be back in the Golden State. Let me
begin by recognizing a great two-term governor and Republican
leader -- George Deukmejian. \\)) (Acknowledgements to come.))
( (I must concede that there's someone not with us today --
an impressive, dedicated woman out there on the campaign trail, a
woman who's really the talk of this state. 11 But I'm not
surprised. 11 Barbara Bush loves to campaign in California.) )
( (Then there's that other formidable woman involved in this
gubernatorial race -- Gayle Wilson. \\)) And, of course, it's
always a pleasure to be back to say a few words of support for
your next governor -- Governor Pete Wilson. III
((Pete can tell you, this is the season in Southern
California when those hot, dry Santa Ana winds kick up. Of
course, during an election, you're not sure if all that hot air
is blowing in from the desert or from the liberal Democrats. ))
I know, because I saw the gubernatorial debate on cable.
Pete, you showed a mastery of the issues, and a true feel for
what Californians want. But, as for your opponent, I couldn't
help but notice her constant reference to the writing on her
hand. And I have to wonder if, after that debate, even incumbent
Democrats are beginning to see the writing on the wall.\\\
2
acress the conty
Californians, like
Americans, are sadly coming to the
conclusion that the only way to reform our government is to limit
terms for lawmakers. But the Democrats, including Pete's
opponent, are oblivious to the mood of the country. They
actually believe you should be happy with the government you're
getting from your Assembly and your Congress; they truly believe
they deserve to be re-elected from now until kingdom-come.
((These Democrat incumbents remind me of the Michael Keaton
character in "Pacific Heights" -- once they move into your
basement, they never move out. ) )
Well, Pete Wilson says enough is enough -- and so do I.\\
We don't need perpetual legislators and perpetual Congressmen to
rule for eternity. We don't need a House of Lords in
America. 11 We need more Republicans like Pete Wilson. And we
need a Congress that works.
(Last week we saw a California team slam its way to win the
the
World Series And I believe in two weeks, you'll see another
California Pup. team hit a grand slam on Election Day -- a team led by
Pete Wilson. And when they win, it will be a batting clean up of
the World Series of politics.
We need a clean up, because we've had it with Democrat
incumbents in Sacramento. And we've had it with Washington.
This Democrat Congress, for a whole year now, has held up our
Excellence in Education Act -- a plan that would empower
governors, empower state and local leaders, empower parents and
teachers, by giving them all the power of choice, and
increased eductional
3
accountability for the results. But the Democrats in Congress
believe there's nothing wrong with our schools; so when Election
want to sme Calif schools solition
Day rolls around, let's give this Congress a big fat "F". III
We've also had it with a Congress that cannot pass a budget
even on its own timetable, and within its own spending targets.
( (Budget section to come here if no agreement))
ESNAMIS
Most of all, we've had it with a Congress that is soft on
crime. In our war on crime and drugs, Pete Wilson has been a
notable exception -- a true leader.
And as your next governor, Pete says, "I will not have
California under siege to rapists and thugs and drug dealers."
Is it any surprise that he, and not his opponent, is endorsed by
the Women Prosecutors of California?
They know Pete Wilson wants to govern a California where
women need no longer fear the night because drug dealers and
criminals will fear the law. They know he would make your
streets safer by extending capital punishment in California to
major drug traffickers, the same as my proposal before Congress.
The first time I called on Congress to pass a tough,
comprehensive crime bill, I was surrounded by hundreds of law-
enforcement officers at the foot of the Capitol on a rain-soaked
morning in May of 1989. And after a year and a half, this
Democrat Congress still has not passed our crime bill. The hour
is late, but if Congress will send me a bill that includes a
workable death penalty, meaningful reform of habeas corpus and
the exclusionary rule -- in short, a bill that is tougher on
4
criminals than it is on cops -- I will sign it the instant it
lands on my desk.
Unfortunately, there are signs that this liberal Congress is
using a backdoor maneuver to undermine our tough approach. Just
last week, I received a letter from the National District
Attorneys Association urging me to veto any crime bill that
includes what is cynically called the "Racial Justice Act" --
really a quota system for the death penalty. The D.A.s of
America called this approach "simplistic, vague and unworkable." "
outnageous
When courts, free of bias, sentence killers to the ultimate
penalty, it is disgusting to think that our Congress would have
some live and some die according to racial statistics --
according to the color of their skin. And when it comes to the
subject of racial justice in America, it troubles me that our
Congress doesn't bother to listen to the most vulnerable of our
society -- families living in fear in West L.A., or in Watts --
in neighborhoods where just going to school or the corner store
wad
is an act of courage. If the Democrats in Congress were truly
wat real actions justice,
interested in racial justice, they wouldn't concoct a proposal
Arice that it would sabotage the death penalty. No, if they
Wonte peace
were truly interested in justice, they protect minority
Americans with the tough laws we proposed so very long ago.
Well, we can do something about this liberal Congress, and
Deno,
we can do something about the arrogance of the liberal California
legislature. We do can something because the voters are the true
5
incumbents.
We can elect more Republicans, and we can elect a
governor who never wavers in fighting crime, standing firm for
fiscal responsibility and protecting the environment.
In short, your next governor must be someone who won't need
crib notes to govern. Your next governor must be Pete Wilson. 111
But to reform the system, we must first fulfill our prime
responsibility as citizens -- and vote.
Already, absentee ballots are streaming in from the Persian
Gulf -- thousands of votes from our men and women in uniform. If
they can find the time to do their civic duty under such
demanding conditions, I know that Californians at home will turn
out as well.
And with your support and leadership, I am confident that
when the voters do go to the polls, they will vote for change.
They will vote Republican.
Thank you, may God bless you, and the United States of
America.
#
#
#
2
year you sent a message to Washington. The message was strong.
The message was clear. And the messenger was Gordon Humphrey.
1978 marked the first wave of what came to be known as the
Reagan Revolution. A set of new ideas that are really as old as
the Republic itself. That people, not government, know what's
best for themselves and their families. That a strong, diverse
economy -- not a strong, centralized government -- is the true
source of prosperity. That a firm defense does not threaten
peace, but promotes it. And the bottom line is this: We seek to
protect the family, empower the poor and reward the creative and
the risk-takers. Those are the values of New Hampshire, the
values of America, and the values of my friend Bob Smith. 1111
For six years, Bob Smith has also been New Hampshire's
"trusted friend" in Congress. The people here know him. They
know he's a man of principle, and that he's not running for
office to satisfy his own ego. I know he would have been just as
happy to see Gordon Humphrey run again. But New Hampshire's
going to send a new senator to Washington this year, and today
more than ever, the Senate needs leaders in the New Hampshire
conservative tradition -- leaders like your own Bob Smith.
Let me tell you why. For most of the past year, our
Administration has been working to produce a serious response to
a serious deficit -- grappling not only with the budget, but with
a unruly Congress in which both Houses are run by the Democrats.
It has been a difficult and arduous process. ((You know the
classic warning about the two things you should never watch being
3
made: sausage -- and legislation. 11 Well let me tell you --
during the past three weeks -- we've sure had a tour of the
hotdog factory )) III
The American people are frustrated. And so am I. But now,
at long last, we have a real budget -- and we hope Congress will
pass it quickly.
[BUDGET INSERT]
You know my feelings on taxes. I like new taxes about
as much as I like broccoli. III
But to reach this compromise -- to come up with any budget
at all this year -- I had to work with the Democrats who control
Congress. President Reagan found in '82, in spite of his
aversion to taxes, that the only way to govern was to accept a
compromise that included raising revenue -- in fact, this
happened -- taxes.
Like him, I'm determined to hold the line. I went to the
bargaining table assisted by one of the toughest, most principled
negotiators in all of Washington -- New Hampshire's former
Governor, John Sununu. But let's face it -- no Democratic
Congress is ever going to come up with a Republican dream
package.
If America wants economic growth, if America wants to hold
the line on taxes and cut spending, if America wants to get
serious about reducing the deficit, then America needs to send
Republicans like Bob Smith to the U.S. Senate.
(Smith/Garmey)
( (BUDGET INSERT) )
Lock at child care. Liberal Democrats wanted Federal
intervention. A Federal Committee -- really, a straightjacket -
- to mandate national child care standards. Their bill would
have cost $28 billion. Republicans demanded tax incentives to
help families -- not government -- address child-care.
Republicans ensured that local standards remain to meet local
needs. Our bill cost $10 billion.
It gets worse. Liberal Democrats aren't content with
kicking God out of the classroom -- they want to boot Him out of
child care, too. Democrats wanted 120 new pages of mindless
paperwork -- much of which would restrict or eliminate religious-
based child care centers. Thank goodness Republicans protected
religious-based centers, and parents' freedom to use them. In
short -- as usual -- Democrats wanted to expand the budget of the
bureaucracy. Republicans ensured the bill we get from House-
Senate Conference Committee will expand the horizons of our kids.
Next, look at crime. Here, too, the Loony Left is up to its
old tricks. Liberal Democrats believe in perverting Lincoln's
words. They think he really said, "God must have loved the
criminals. He made so many of them." // Over 15 months ago, I
sent our Administration's Crime Bill proposals to the Congress.
Yet we still have no bill. Here's why.
At every turn, liberal Democrats have tried to soft-pedal
the need to be hard on crime. They sympathize with the
criminals. Republicans, on the other hand, have demanded capital
punishment -- we sympathize with the victims. Democrats have
tried to kill an equitable death penalty -- a real death penalty
-- for those who will Federal law enforcement officials.
Republicans have insisted that those who take a life should pay
with their own.
Crime legislation is still in Conference Committee. If
Congress sends me a weak bill, I will veto it. If Congress sends
me a strong bill, it will only be because of Republicans who
insist that cop-killers get the kind of punishment they deserve.
You can see the problem. If Congress doesn't act, it hurts
America. But the way those left-wingers think, if Congress does
act, it hurts America, too. Here's the solution: Vote
Republican on November 6. //
'90-10-16 18:36 DOUG GAMBLE
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DOUG GAMBLE
90 OCT 17 A9:14
424-36th Place
Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Oct. 17/90
(213) 546-6409
TO: STEPHANIE LAUDNER
PETE WILSON FUNDRAISER - LOS ANGELES (Mark Davis)
IT'S GOOD TO BE BACK OUT HERE AGAIN. SOMEONE TOLD ME THAT SPEND MORE TIME IN
LOS ANGELES THAN TOM BRADLEY DOES. (Known for frequent trips to other countries.)
I'M DOING DOUBLE DUTY ON THIS TRIP. THEY'RE THINKING ABOUT MAKING MILLIE'S
BOOK INTO A MOVIE, AND I'M HER AGENT.
I HAVE TO CONCEDE THERE'S AN IMPRESSIVE, DEDICATED WOMAN OUT THERE ON THE CAMPAIGN
TRAIL WHO HAS REALLY TURNED CALIFORNIA ON. IN FACT, I HEAR BARBARA DID JUST GREAT
HERE EARLIER THIS MONTH.
THIS IS THE TIME OF YEAR IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WHEN THOSE HOT, DRY SANTA ANA WINDS
CAN KICK UP. OF COURSE, DURING AN ELECTION YEAR, YOU'RE NOT SURE IF ALL THAT HOT
AIR IS BLOWING IN FROM THE DESERT OR THE DEMOCRATS.
I HEARD ABOUT PETE WILSON'S OPPONENT BENDING THE RULES IN THE DEBATE BY WRITING CRIB
NOTES ON HER HAND IN INK. I DON'T KNOW ABOUT HER HAND, BUT I DO KNOW THAT THE
WRITING IS ON THE WALL FOR THE DEMOCRATS.
Sept. 18 / Administration of George Bush, 1990
women in our armed services serving now
back East, promoting her new book.
wo
in Saudi Arabia, the world around us re-
[Laughter] Her celebrity status has gone to
the
minds us every day that there is nothing
her head. [Laughter] I gave her a bowl of
dis
more precious than freedom. And so, I urge
Alpo, and she asked to see the wine list.
the
every citizen of Colorado and every Ameri-
[Laughter]
Ral
can to get out and vote. Don't take democ-
I'm sorry that our national fitness czar.
cor
racy for granted.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, could not be with
icit
Once again, it's a great pleasure to be
us tonight. You know, he wanted to enter-
I
here today to show my support for this
tain the troops in Saudi Arabia, but we had
we
party; to show my support for this strong
ticket, for candidates who have so much to
to put him down, say no. It turned out they
tha
didn't think it was very entertaining to
pro
contribute to Colorado and to their country.
watch a guy bench-press an M-1 tank
It
And I thank all of you for this very, very
[Laughter]
Wi
warm welcome. And may God bless this
bu
But we do have another czar with us to-
great State and those young men and
no
night, and that is our Drug Czar, Bill Ben-
women serving overseas. Thank you, and
God bless you all.
nett, who flew in with me today on Air
fou
Force One. Bill's bringing his tough and
inc
Note: The President spoke at 12:35 p.m. at
fearless leadership to our national war
tio
the Colorado Convention Center. In his re-
against the scourge of drugs. A few days
fai
marks, he referred to Natalie Meyer, Colora-
ago, there at the White House, he and I
ma
do secretary of state; Neil and Sharon Bush,
gave a 1-year update on our National Drug
bu
the President's son and daughter-in-law;
Strategy; and we both feel that in many
ad
Bruce Benson, chairman of the State Repub-
ways we are, indeed, making significant
hic
lican Party; Barbara Card, chairperson of
progress. And that's due to the tireless fight
bu
the fundraising luncheon; and Representa-
that Bill and so many communities and so
car
tive Brown's wife, Nan. The President also
many police forces-including the one right
ec
referred to Mrs. Bush's promotion of her
here, the LAPD-are making, waging
pla
book, "Millie's Book as Dictated to Barbara
against drugs. And we're grateful to you.
rea
Bush."
Bill, and we're grateful to the citizens out
Ar
here from whatever walk of life that are
participating in this war against drugs. We
rei
owe him a vote of thanks and, again, all of
tin
the volunteers that are pitching in.
th
Remarks at a Fundraising Dinner for
Let me say it is great to be back with SO
lea
Gubernatorial Candidate Pete Wilson
many good friends, back here in this
an
in Los Angeles, California
Golden State. You know, the people who
wł
September 18, 1990
came to California wouldn't stop looking for
Gl
gold and glory until the trail stopped at the
are
Thank you very much, Pete and Gayle.
edge of the Pacific. That's why this State is
wl
Pete, thank you for that welcome. And all
a place where the dreamers are the doers
ho
of you, and to Assemblyman Ross and Diane
and why California is leading America into
sei
Johnson; Senator Marian Bergeson and
the future. And I can't think of anyone
W(
Garth; Councilwoman Joan Milke-Flores;
better qualified to lead California into that
51
Matt and Paula Fong down here; and our
future than your next Governor, Pete
State chairman, Frank Visco; of course, Dan
Wilson.
We
and Bobby Lundgren; and Chuck Heston,
I will say I am very sorry that Barbara's
my friend here; Tom and Mary Hayes; and
not with us tonight, but she thinks the
Kt
Johnny Grant-what a wonderful turnout-
world of Gayle, just as I do. And both of us
thank all of you. Robby Britt, that was an
are strongly in your corner as you go down
cu
inspiring rendition of the national anthem.
to the stretch.
be
Thank you very, very much.
I'll have a lot to say tonight about Pete
Let me convey the apologies of a very
and the Republican future in California, but
ou
close member of my family who couldn't
first, let me just speak of two matters that
Ur
make it tonight. As it turns out, Millie is
are critical to the future of America and the
7,
1404
Administration of George Bush, 1990 / Sept. 18
world. A week ago tonight, I went before
And let me note the good news from our
the Congress and the American people to
allies. West Germany has pledged to sup-
discuss two urgent yet interrelated matters:
port the mission with almost $2 billion and
the aggression in the Middle East-and,
provide transport ships and planes. Japan
Rabbi, thank you for your overly generous
has now pledged a package worth $4 bil-
comments, sir-and the Federal budget def-
lion. France has added another 4,000
icit.
troops. And Great Britain has sent 120
Even before the Persian Gulf crisis, we
tanks, 6,000 troops-the famous Desert Rats
were already more economically vulnerable
that some of us remember from World War
than we should ever be, especially with a
II. It is truly, then, Iraq against the world.
projected Federal deficit of $232 billion. So,
We've also put tight sanctions into effect
I told the Congress-and I know that Pete
while working with the United Nations Se-
Wilson agrees-that we must address our
curity Council to allow food to reach inno-
budget deficit not in 1991 or '92 but right
cent children, mothers, the sick, and the
now.
We need a budget agreement that meets
elderly. And we've been working with
four basic tests. It must include measures to
many nations to get relief to the most piti-
increase economic growth and cut our na-
ful victims of this conflict-I'm talking
tional dependence on foreign oil. It must be
about those thousands and hundreds of
fair: Everyone should be called upon to
thousands of refugees, those that can afford
make a sacrifice, but no one should bear the
it the least, humbled in the desert off the
burden alone. A budget agreement should
Iraq border.
address the growth of the Government's
I spoke of our four objectives. But we
hidden liabilities, and it must reform the
have another, final objective; and that is to
budget process. And one thing more: We
create a new partnership of nations, a new
can cut this budget without hurting the
world order-freer from the threat of
economy; without another phony-baloney
terror, stronger in the pursuit of justice,
plan; with an agreement that is credible,
more secure in the quest for peace. The
real, and enforceable-one that will save
international community has already taken
America half a trillion dollars in 5 years.
a giant step toward that day. Together with
I also told the Congress that if America
our friends and allies, ships of the United
remains strong at home, America can con-
States Navy are patrolling the Mideast
tinue and will continue to lead abroad. But
waters. Already intercepted more than 700
there's another component of American
ships to enforce these sanctions against Iraq.
leadership that has no price tag, none at all,
And the world is simply telling Saddam
and I'm talking about the men and women
Hussein [President of Iraq], we will not give
who are serving this country in the Persian
in to intimidation.
Gulf. America is a mighty nation, but we
On matters like these, we are called upon
are a great nation only because of those
to put country before self, and patriotism
who are ready to leave the comfort of their
before party. And so, it's good that politics
homes in Oceanside or San Bernardino to
now are stopping at the water's edge, but
serve on the front line halfway around the
that still leaves a lot of America in between.
world in defense of freedom. America is
And from Long Beach to Long Island, we
great because its courage is great.
should and we will vigorously campaign
And we all wish their job was done, but
right up to the November election. And for
we know that it's not. Certain objectives
those of us at home, we can serve our coun-
must be met: Iraq must withdraw from
try by being the best candidates, the best
Kuwait without condition. Kuwait's legiti-
citizens and, yes, the best Republicans and
mate government must be restored. The se-
Democrats we can be.
curity and stability of the Persian Gulf must
I am sure every Democrat agrees: We
be assured. And American citizens abroad
will not allow our political life to be held
must be protected. These objectives are not
hostage to a crisis. When Californians go to
ours alone. They've been endorsed by the
the polls, absentee ballots will be coming in
United Nations Security Council 6 times in
from Americans in uniform, including those
7 weeks.
stationed in the Persian Gulf region. And if
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Sept. 18 / Administration of George Bush, 1990
our soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines
streets less safe than they are now. And
sec
can find time to vote under such difficult
such a bill will stop at my desk. It will not
Cal
circumstances, surely those of us at home
become law. I'll guarantee you that.
will do our civic duty as well.
pre
Pete Wilson and I want a crime bill that
vot
Just a few moments ago I spoke of inter-
will stop the abuse of habeas corpus, a bill
six
national intimidation. Well, it does Ameri-
that guarantees that criminals who use seri-
ma
cans no good to stop aggression abroad if
ous weapons will face serious weapons
bullies take over the streets at home. As a
pro
charges and serious time, a bill that guaran-
A
former U.S. marine, as a Senate leader in
tees that evidence gathered by good cops
I'll
foreign policy and defense, Pete Wilson un-
acting in good faith isn't barred by techni-
Me
derstands the need to repel, stand up
calities that let bad people go free. I cannot
wh
against aggression abroad. But he also un-
sign a bill that overturns Supreme Court
filli
derstands the need to repel aggression at
decisions limiting frivolous habeas corpus
home.
me
petitions, expands the coverage of the ex-
her
Let me tell you a story that means a lot
clusionary rule, and weakens capital punish-
do
to him, about an immigrant from Ireland
ment. And I will not sign a bill that hand-
named Michael Callahan, who came to
pro
cuffs the police officers all across the United
Go
these shores to find peace and prosperity.
States of America.
Go
Michael Callahan moved to Chicago, started
But if some in the House have been an
T
a family, worked hard, and rose to the rank
of detective sergeant on the city police
obstacle to tougher laws, Pete Wilson has
Ano
force. And then one evening, while on
been an advantage in the Senate. He played
duty, Sergeant Callahan tried to arrest two
a key role in passing the death penalty pro-
Not
cocaine dealers. They drew their guns first.
visions of the 1988 antidrug act, one that
the
And although Callahan managed to shoot
allows capital punishment for the murder of
Bor
one of the dealers, the other one shot him.
a law enforcement officer working on a
fer
Sergeant Callahan died in Chicago at the
drug-related case. And Pete says, "I will not
Fon
age of 30, fighting the first wave of cocaine
have California under siege to rapists and
Lui
to sweep America. But that was not in 1990
thugs and drug dealers." He wants to
era
or 1980. Michael Callahan died fighting co-
govern a California where women need no
sup
caine in 1908. And his grandson Pete
longer fear the night because drug dealers
trea
Wilson is with us tonight. So, when your
and criminals will instead fear the law. And
To
Senator says we need to protect the public
he would start by extending capital punish-
egg
and the police from cop killers and king-
ment in California to major drug traffickers,
on
pins, and when he says that those who deal
the same as my proposals before the United
Ben
in death should reap what they sow, you
States Congress.
Pol
can be sure Pete Wilson means business.
And so, thus, I have to ask: Is it any
the
And I share his sense of mission. On a
wonder that the endorsement of a dozen
veri
rain-soaked morning in May of 1989, sur-
law enforcement organizations has gone to
rounded by hundreds of law-enforcement
the grandson of Michael Callahan? Pete, we
officers at the foot of the Capitol, I called
need you to continue the work in this anti-
on Congress to pass a tough crime bill to
crime field.
Rei
build on what our Attorney General here
Tomorrow in San Francisco, I'll speak of
Gu
tonight, William French Smith, worked on,
Pete Wilson's fiscal philosophy and especial-
in S
to build on what my predecessor Ronald
ly of his longstanding environmental leader-
Reagan worked on and tried to accomplish.
ship. He is and always has been a conserva-
Sep
We put forward a new program, and now
tive, but Pete Wilson also is and always has
T
16 months have now gone by. And despite
been an activist who wants to use govern-
real
the leadership of Pete Wilson and others in
ment creatively to improve our quality of
unit
the Senate, the House Democratic leader-
life. And this balanced approach is the key
Y
ship has gone off into deep left field. And
to his success as a legislator in Washington
fun
even worse, several measures receiving seri-
and Sacramento and as mayor of San Diego.
big
ous consideration in the House last week
It was as mayor that Pete first showed a
pub
would actually weaken law enforcement,
flair for executive leadership, and now he
"Fir
would actually make our cities and our
seeks the largest executive job in America,
thei
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Administration of George Bush, 1990 / Sept. 19
And
second only to my own. And he faces a
1 not
Which brings me to the fact that Barbara
California skeptical of all rhetoric, im-
is not here. And she sends her love. She is
pressed only by action. But he's faced the
as committed as I am to seeing Pete and
that
voters before, retaining a Senate seat that
Gayle Wilson be the first family-succeed-
bill
six predecessors lost. He broke the jinx and
ing a wonderful first family-but to be the
seri-
made history because he delivers on his
first family of this great State. She sends her
pons
promises.
love and affection. And I expect she'll be
.ran-
And now Pete says, "If the voters think
out here campaigning for you.
cops
I'll be more useful as a Governor than as a
hni-
To my friend-our friend-George Deuk-
Member of the U.S. Senate, then that's
mejian, thanks for another welcome here to
inot
what I'll be." Well, all of us here know that
your State. I can think of a handful of
ourt
filling the Governorship after George Deuk-
people to whom I especially owe this chal-
pus
mejian is not going to be easy, but all of us
lenge of being President of the United
ex-
here know that if there's anyone that can
ish-
States, and certainly, George Deukmejian,
do it, it is Pete Wilson. And I am very
nd-
who helped me early on-his name comes
proud to be here for him. He should be the
ted
to mind. It's great that you're here once
Governor. And that is what he must be:
again, unselfishly helping the man that now
Governor Pete Wilson of California.
you want to see be your successor. I'm
an
Thank you for your support. Keep it up.
proud of you. What a record you've set for
has
And God bless the United States.
this State. What a terrific act to follow.
ed
I want to echo what both George and
ro-
Note: The President spoke at 7:46 p.m. in
nat
Pete said. Looking around, I see lots of rea-
the San Francisco Ballroom of the Westin
of
sons why the California GOP is going to be
Bonaventure Hotel. In his remarks, he re-
so strong in November: the whole ticket
a
ferred to Senator Wilson's wife, Gayle; Matt
not
concept, the rest of the ticket-Thomas
Fong, candidate for State comptroller; Dan
nd
Hayes, your current treasurer; Marian Ber-
Lungren, candidate for State attorney gen-
to
geson, right here, candidate for Lieutenant
eral; Charlton Heston, actor and political
Governor; Joan Flores for secretary of state;
no
supporter; Tom Hayes, candidate for State
and Matt Fong for controller; as well as our
rs
treasurer; Johnny Grant, the master of cere-
id
congressional candidate who's with us
monies for the dinner; Arnold Schwarzen-
h-
egger, Chairman of the President's Council
today, Alan Nichols. And a special thanks to
on Physical Fitness and Sports; William J.
Frank Visco, our State chairman, who's
"S,
d
Bennett, Director of National Drug Control
doing an outstanding job for the State
Policy; and Rabbi Isaiah Zeldin, who gave
party-a thankless job, but he's doing it
y
the invocation. A tape was not available for
very, very well.
And then those who have done and con-
n
verification of the content of these remarks.
o
tinue to do the heavy lifting around here on
making these events so successful: Katie
Boyd, Gene Trefethen, and my old friend
Ben Biaggini. What a wonderful job you all
Remarks at a Fundraising Luncheon for
have done pulling this marvelous event to-
Gubernatorial Candidate Pete Wilson
gether-twice, I might say.
in San Francisco, California
You have to agree, there's a very great
September 19, 1990
and formidable woman involved in this gu-
bernatorial race, but of course, Gayle
Thank you, Pete, and thank all of you. It
Wilson is too modest to admit it. And I
really is great to be back in California,
know it's true. And, Gayle, good luck to
united with all of you for such a good cause.
you, and thanks for all you're doing on the
You know, when they called about this
campaign trail.
fundraiser, they said to me, "It would be a
And one other with me here today and
big boost if this country's most famous Re-
traveling with me through southern Califor-
publican came here to help out." I replied,
nia and here is our brilliant and hard-work-
"Fine. What time do you want Millie to be
ing leader in the fierce war-national war-
there?" [Laughter]
against drugs. And I'm talking about our
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
October 16, 1990
MEMORANDUM FOR ANDREW H. CARD, JR.
JAMES W. CICCONI
DAVID F. DEMAREST, JR.
FROM:
ROGER B. PORTER
RBP
SUBJECT:
Possible Speech Insert on Crime Bill
This afternoon we received an encouraging letter to the
President from the National District Attorneys Association and
two State Attorneys General urging him to veto any crime bill
that includes the so-called "Racial Justice Act."
As we discussed on the phone, Andy, this letter may
provide a useful hook for a speech insert on the crime bill
clarifying our position on crime and pointing once again to
congressional inaction on an important issue.
If you have any questions, please let me know.
Attachment
October 16, 1990
Speech Insert
Crime Bill
Congress should not adjourn before it completes action on
tough and meaningful crime legislation the American people
want. I want the Congress to send me a bill that includes a
workable Federal death penalty, meaningful habeas corpus reform
and reform of the exclusionary rule. In short, I want to sign
-- and will only sign -- a crime bill that is tougher on
criminals than it is on law enforcement.
Just today, I received a letter from the National District
Attorneys Association urging me to veto any crime bill that
includes the so-called "Racial Justice Act" -- what is really a
quota system for the death penalty. As they said, this
approach is "simplistic, vague and unworkable." And, I must
AMERICAN of course, trials sho weall never A When trials have
add, it is unacceptable. The nation's prosecutors know what ween held
free of to
they need to make our neighborhood streets safe -- to take back When A
our streets. It is time, beyond time, for us to Senteres give them frie of rias, sends
killers the olt mate
those tools.
think this Coyins
penalty it is Disausting to
Killers would have some lines some die on
Topot CRIMINAL people to denth ACCORDING
the basis of their color
elimate
D-P
Hopes Ritteles This is A a sosition FAIRT so officer
entresad trink as to that The Denocrate A can outh apt anchule ligin to that Kull
When some killers ARe exquted, + some
spared, often
And it troubles me
feart concern of the must who line 6 than in
that this Corpus doesn't the hear unineable the
GOVERNORS '90
*1 CALIFORNIA: WILSON SUSPENDS CAMPAIGNING AND RETURNS TO DC
The final debate between Sen. Pete Wilson (R) and ex-S.F.
Mayor Dianne Feinstein (D) "was postponed yesterday as ...
Wilson
flew back to Washington to vote on the budget and
...
Feinstein
withdrew her offer to suspend campaigning while he is there"
(Jerry Roberts/Susan Yoachum, S.F. CHRONICLE). The debate,
originally scheduled for 10/18, has been moved to 10/25. Wilson
released a statement saying "he was returning because he had been
informed that crucial votes on the budget could come as early as
today. In the statement, Wilson urged Feinstein to suspend
campaigning while he is in Washington, as she promised to do
after their first debate." Wilson: "Ms. Feinstein graciously
promised to suspend campaigning the night of our (first) debate.
I accept her offer and know she will abide by the promise she
made to the voters." Feinstein strategist Bill Carrick: "That
was a one-time offer. There are no rewards for just doing your
job. Wilson took a solemn of oath of office, but he's been
totally negligent and AWOL since Labor Day. This is too little,
too late." Wilson director Otto Bos: "She's reneging on a
promise that was made in front of the state press corps. It's
the second time in a week that she's broken a promise. The first
was using crib notes in the debate. Frankly, her campaign seems
to be a series of broken promises" (10/16). "Wilson has been
under intense pressure to return, because Feinstein has been
blasting his Senate attendance record, which she says is the
worst in the Senate this year" (John Jacobs, EXAMINER, 10/16).
*2 CONNECTICUT: WEICKER ACCUSES ROWLAND OF MONEY LAUNDERING
Ex-Sen. Lowell Weicker (I) accused Rep. John Rowland (R) "of
improperly using the state GOP to 'launder money' originally
raised for Rowland's congressional reelection" (Alvin Powell, NEW
HAVEN REGISTER). Weicker claims Rowland "shifted money from his
congressional campaign to the [CT GOP], which then donated almost
the same amount of money back" to Rowland's Gov. bid. When
Rowland abandoned his bid for a fourth House term, he gave his
$104,000 in campaign funds to the CT GOP, which later gave
$82,200 to Rowland's gubernatorial bid. CT law "prohibits direct
transfers of money between a congressional campaign and a state
campaign, and Weicker's staff has asked" CT elections officials
to investigate (10/13). Weicker co-chair Thomas D'Amore said
three people who each gave Rowland's Gov. bid the maximum $2,500
also gave $1,000 to his congressional fund, only days before
Rowland declared for Gov. D'Amore "called the transfers away of
getting around the law," saying, "It is a very transparent
laundering of money." But CT GOP chair Richard Foley countered,
"When the Republican Party of Connecticut was helping Lowell
Weicker get elected to the Senate, I didn't hear these miserable
hypocrites complain then." Rowland spokesperson Jack Goldberg:
"It is an abysmal charge wholly made up by a desperate candidate.
Obviously, Lowell Weicker will be a dirt-bag governor because
he's resorted to dirt-bag campaigning." The CT Elections
Enforcement Commission will investigate the matter (Fink/Houston,
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