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MAYOR SUSAN GOLDING

SAN DIEGO BEING TAKEN OVER BY ELITE
MALIN BURNHAM
MURDER VIA MEDICAL FIELD
Qualcomm chief wins nation's top technology award
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JAMES W. CRAWLEY
Staff Writer
15-Sep-1994 Thursday
Irwin Jacobs | Qualcomm
Qualcomm's founder and chairman, Irwin Jacobs, will receive a National
Medal of Technology from President Clinton next month, the Commerce
Department announced yesterday.
Jacobs will be honored for "his vision, innovation and leadership" in
digital wireless communications.
"It's a pleasant surprise and an honor," Jacobs said after hearing about
the announcement.
"This obviously is the most significant award I've ever received," he
added.
Clinton will present the medal to Jacobs and four other awardees in a White
House ceremony in early October.
The medal is the nation's highest honor in technology and was created by
Congress in 1980 to recognize innovation and the commercialization of
technology.
Jacobs started working in the field of digital communications when he was
an assistant professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology during the early 1960s. He moved to the University
of California San Diego in 1966.
While a professor at UCSD, he and Andrew Viterbi founded Linkabit, which
started as a small consulting firm dealing with the Defense Department. In
1968, the pair resigned from UCSD to devote full time to the firm.
With Jacobs as chief executive officer, Linkabit became the foundation for
most of San Diego's telecommunications industry. In 1980, the firm was
merged into M/A-Com, and Jacobs remained at the firm until 1985.
Next, Jacobs and Viterbi founded Qualcomm -- Viterbi is a senior executive
with Qualcomm -- which has developed two major product lines: first, a
satellite-based tracking and communications system for trucks, vehicles and
ships called Omnitracs; and more recently, a digital cellular telephone
system called code division multiple access (CDMA).
Using a technique called spread spectrum, CDMA increases the capacity of a
single cellular phone channel tenfold.
The CDMA technology is one of two digital cellular phone systems that will
be deployed by mobile phone companies. The first CDMA systems will become
operational in Seattle and Los Angeles during the next year. The technology
is also being considered for the next generation of wireless phones, called
personal communications services.
Other honorees this year include Joel Engel and Richard Frenkiel, the two
scientists who pioneered the development of cellular phone systems while at
AT&T Bell Labs in the 1960s and 1970s; Joseph Gerber, who has more than 600
patents to his name and developed automated manufacturing equipment; Amgen,
a California biotech firm; and Corning Inc., which makes glass and optical
products.
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China plan may mean windfall for Qualcomm
By Matt Pottinger
REUTERS
October 18, 2000
BEIJING -- China Unicom will invite tenders next month to build a 10 million-subscriber CDMA
mobile phone network, offering potentially huge revenues to Qualcomm Inc. and equipment
makers, industry sources said yesterday.
Unicom, China's second-biggest mobile phone company, would set up a subsidiary to operate the
network covering major cities, said a senior executive with a Chinese CDMA equipment maker who
declined to be identified.
A tender document with specifications of the network will be issued to potential bidders next month
and construction will begin early next year, the executive quoted Unicom and Ministry of
Information Industry officials as saying.
On Monday, a top Unicom official told Reuters that the company would go ahead with narrow-
band CDMA networks, reversing a decision in June to drop the technology developed by
Qualcomm, a San Diego-based wireless technology firm.
China Unicom declined to reveal details about the CDMA roll-out other than to say it "won't be
very small" and subscriber capacity had yet to be determined.
If it actually reaches 10 million subscribers, it would mean huge contracts for North American,
Chinese and South Korean equipment and handset vendors, executives said.
The Chinese CDMA executive estimated a figure around $2 billion.
At the same time, Qualcomm would reap profits from sales of its chip sets and royalties on CDMA
equipment and handset sales.
Under a framework agreement between Qualcomm and China reached in February, Chinese
equipment makers would pay a 2.65 percent royalty on CDMA handset sales and a 1 percent
royalty on equipment sales, according to the Chinese executive.
Qualcomm would also make about $27 on each chip set it sells to handset makers, the executive
said. Qualcomm has declined to reveal the details of the agreement.
Chinese vendors have also offered discounted rates to China Unicom if it decides to expand the
network later using more advanced technology that allows services such as high-speed Internet, the
Chinese executive said.
Qualcomm had lobbied China for years to build networks using its CDMA, or code division
multiple access, standard.
Almost all China's 65 million mobile phone subscribers use the rival GSM, or global system for
mobile communications, standard promoted by European firms.
Foreign and Chinese executives speculated yesterday that the first round of contracts would go to
North American firms, including possibly Nortel Networks, Motorola and Lucent. Ericsson of
Sweden also manufactures CDMA equipment.
In separate news, Qualcomm said yesterday it has taken a stake in SkyBridge LP, which is building
a global satellite telecommunications network.
Terms and size of the investment were not disclosed.
In investing in SkyBridge, the latest of a number of ambitious and costly satellite-based
telecommunications ventures in recent years, Qualcomm joins several of the world's
largest telecom and aerospace firms.
SkyBridge's lead investor is the French telecom and aerospace group Alcatel, and other
major backers include Boeing Co., Loral Space & Communication Ltd., Litton Industries
Inc., EMS Technologies Inc., Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Sharp Corp. and Toshiba Corp.
Qualcomm shares closed up $2.81 at $74.19 in trading yesterday on the Nasdaq Stock Market.

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THE STADIUM CONTROVERSY
Jacobs hopes to ride to the rescue | Can Qualcomm's deal save stadium?
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Elizabeth Douglass
STAFF WRITER
14-Feb-1997 Friday
Irwin Mark Jacobs
So who is this guy Irwin Mark Jacobs, who has plunged into the contentious
debate over the expansion of San Diego Jack Murphy Stadium?
Jacobs, chairman of Qualcomm Inc., has offered to make a deal with the city
that would resolve the funding controversy and put the high-tech company's
name on the stadium.
...
Qualcomm's offer is not just a showy gesture. A company gets publicity and
recognition -- which helps sell products and attract new employees -- when
its name is on a stadium.
Qualcomm has begun selling digital mobile phones, and it is anxious to get
its name out. Being part of a sports stadium would be a big boost.
That kind of exposure would be a big change for Jacobs, who has been
well-known -- and even controversial -- in the wireless industry, but has
maintained a lower profile in the community at large.
A few years ago, though, President Clinton selected Jacobs for the 1994
National Medal of Technology, the nation's highest honor in science and
technology. He was honored for his "vision, innovation and leadership" in
digital wireless communication.
He has since earned many other awards and citations, including the 1995
IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal.
Jacobs started working in digital communications when he was an assistant
professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology during the early 1960s. While at MIT, he co-authored a textbook
on digital communications that is still in use.
He moved to the University of California San Diego in 1966. While at UCSD,
he and Andrew Viterbi founded Linkabit, which started as a small consulting
firm. In 1968, the pair resigned from UCSD to devote full time to the firm.
Linkabit, now part of Titan Corp., eventually became part of San Diego
business history, having spun off most of the companies that now make up
the city's telecommunications industry.
In 1985, Jacobs left Linkabit and helped found Qualcomm Inc. with Viterbi
and others.
THE STADIUM CONTROVERSY
Qualcomm after brighter image in marketplace
Elizabeth Douglass
STAFF WRITER
14-Feb-1997 Friday
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Qualcomm Inc.
If Qualcomm Inc. ends up with its name affixed to San Diego Jack Murphy
Stadium, it would dovetail with the company's recent efforts to make its
name and products better-known.
The company, long a quiet maker of wireless communications technology, has
begun making digital wireless phones on its own and through a partnership
with Sony Electronics.
But Qualcomm is new to the consumer market and, although it sells
telephones under its own name in Hong Kong and South Korea, it is not
well-known in the United States or overseas. The company has set out to
change that.
Qualcomm has begun buying full-page advertisements in newspapers and
national magazines and has been courting regional and national reporters
and Wall Street analysts. Late last year, the company hired a public
relations firm to help.
"This is a major transition for the company from mainly research and
development to a major manufacturing company and a company selling to
consumers," Qualcomm spokesman James Lee said yesterday. "So we need to do
a better job of telling people who we are and what we do."
Locally, the company has become an important part of the economy.
Although it's just a dozen years old, in recent years Qualcomm has emerged
as one of San Diego's fastest-growing and most-watched companies.
The wireless communications firm developed and holds patents on code
division multiple access (CDMA), a complex and long-doubted technology that
is the foundation for many of Qualcomm's products.
Despite the skeptics, so far that technology has produced a solid business
for Qualcomm. Its products range from its Omnitracs satellite messaging
service for the trucking industry to sophisticated computer chips for
telephones, and from the planned Globalstar worldwide satellite network to
new digital equipment and portable phones.
Its best-known product, however, could well be its Eudora electronic mail
software, which has become the most widely used mail program on the
Internet, with more than 18 million users worldwide.
The company was founded in 1985 by a group led by Irwin Mark Jacobs, Andrew
Viterbi and Harvey White. They created the company name from the
combination of the words "quality" and "communications."
From a small beginning in government work, the company has grown to $814
million in sales and $21 million in profit in fiscal 1996. Its stock hit a
52-week high this week of $63.125.
Spurred mainly by high telephone demand, the company has expanded with
impressive speed -- giving hope to a city grappling with the loss of
thousands of high-paying defense jobs.
Qualcomm's San Diego operations begin with its headquarters at the colorful
San Diego Design Center in Sorrento Valley and include a series of new
facilities, including a huge telephone production plant in University City.
That new plant, shared with phone-making partner Sony Electronics, has
already produced and shipped more than 1 million digital phones for use by
wireless carriers in the United States, Canada, Hong Kong and South Korea.
The digital phones are being sold in San Diego by AirTouch Cellular and
Sprint PCS, which is using them on the newly unveiled personal
communications services network.
Expansion has forced Qualcomm to take on another full-time business: hiring
new workers.
In the past 12 to 14 months, the company has doubled its work force to
about 7,500 workers, and it continues to hire engineers.
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names the Top 25 Managers of the Year in its Jan. 10
issue. One is Irwin M. Jacobs of Qualcomm.
"A decade ago, skeptics dismissed his plan to commercialize a new and
powerful, yet technologically complex, digital wireless technology," says
the magazine, which itself had once been somewhat skeptical. Now Jacobs "is
having the last laugh," the publication writes.

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Mr. Clinton's neighborhood | Locals fear or cheer at the
prospect of an ex-president's presence
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Marsha Kay Seff
STAFF WRITER | Staff researchers Denise Davidson and Anne Magill contributed to this story.
24-Aug-1999 Tuesday
Here comes the prez. There goes the neighborhood.
You can bet that's the fear of some New Yorkers in the affluent suburb of
Westchester County, where Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton have been
shopping for a post-White-House home.
If not for Hillary's possible Senate race and its residency requirement,
the first couple's future address could be anywhere. Even Coronado, La
Jolla or Rancho Santa Fe.
After all, they're pretty rootless after stints in the Arkansas governor's
mansion and the country's No. 1 Colonial.
It's no secret that the president and wannabe senator are fond of America's
West Coast Riviera. The first guests already know their way around town.
Between them, they've made about a dozen forays here to schmooze with
political cronies and soak up the sun.
San Diego County certainly has plenty of water, a biggie on the couple's
wish list. Bill would enjoy the six-dozen-plus golf courses and Buddy would
be a hit at dog beaches in Del Mar and Ocean Beach. Then, too, without Air
Force One at the family's disposal, the proximity to Stanford and daughter
Chelsea wouldn't hurt, either.
But despite the obvious appeal of the Southland for the Clintons, the local
populace is divided about whether they would put out a permanent welcome
mat for the couple and their baggage.
A hearty welcome seems to hinge as much on residents' political preferences
as it does their fears about neighborhood impact.
San Diego attorney and friend-of-Bill Bill Lerach, who hosted the president
at his home in Rancho Santa Fe in the midst of the Monica scandal, says he'd break bread with the
Clintons anytime. "And there must be at
least five other registered Democrats here" in the largely Republican
enclave.
Not her, says ardent Republican Robin Parsky, who is one of Lerach's
neighbors. She predicts that sharing a ZIP code with the couple could be
even worse than the Heaven's Gate debacle.
She's felt the pain of a presidential visit. Along with the nuisance of
putting up with the gawkers and protesters.
The noise of security helicopters and motorcycles spooked her horses. "I
had to close the barn," says the ardent horsewoman, admitting that she's
thrilled that the Clintons are looking for digs back East instead of on the
West Coast.
Remember the rumors last year that the Clintons were moving to Southern
California post-presidency? Word had it that Hollywood director and
friend-of-Bill Steven Spielberg was trying to buy Tom Hanks'
4,000-square-foot, four-bedroom in Pacific Palisades home and the
adjacent property for his friends.
Well, Palisades residents might be comfortable with such a plan. But rural
Rancho Santa Fe couldn't deal with the traffic and commotion generated by
an ex-commander-in-chief, says Parsky who, incidentally, entertained
Barbara Bush while she was first lady.
Why not make lemonade out of the political hoopla, advises Ranchite Carol
Penniman. Her kids did.
Lerach's closest neighbors at about a half-mile away, the young Penniman
capitalists set up a lemonade stand when they heard the prez was coming.
Made $100 off neighbors and voyeurs who got thirsty craning their necks.
It was a regular party atmosphere, according to Mom Penniman.
But the Clintons as permanent fixtures in the neighborhood?
Well . . . "There are a lot of good, down-to-earth people here, but they're
very conservative. A lot of people resent his personal conduct," Penniman
points out. Her neighbors aren't snobs, and they'd chit-chat with the
couple at the post office, but they wouldn't embrace them, she says.
No doubt, most potential neighbors would agree with New Yorker Nancy
Moloff, who says, "All things being equal, I prefer that they do not live
across the street from me, but I guess they've got to live somewhere."
Cashing in
Realtor and 30-year Ranch resident Gerry Kirkeby believes that the
hypothetical Clinton move to The Ranch would be a nonissue. "We owe it to
our president to welcome and protect him."
Besides, Kirkeby says, there would be pluses to having such a muckety-muck
in the community. Good security, for one. Her daughter lives in the Los
Angeles condominium where Gov. Gray Davis still spends his off-time -- "and
there are plenty of men in dark suits talking into lapels."
Then there's the matter of Kirkeby's profession. She'd be tickled green to
sell the prez a home.
Let's see, in New York, the first couple has been checking out property
valued at between $1.5 million and $3.8 mil. Toby Graff, a White House
spokeswoman, says they're looking at everything from ranch-styles to
Colonial houses.
Kirkeby counts 31 Rancho Sante Fe houses on the market that fit that
criteria. Her fave is a $3.95-million, five-bedroom, eight-bath on three
walled and gated acres.
"We'd negotiate down so we could squeeze the place into their budget."
Besides, Kirkeby adds, "They'll have money, because they have friends in
high places."
Better to move to his side of the bridge, says Coronado resident and realty
broker Anthony Furlano.
He sold oceanfront Crown Manor to the late Larry Lawrence, who hosted the
Clinton entourage on more than one occasion. And Furlano would be happy to
sell the 22-room beach house to the Clintons. It's a deal down from the
original $12 million to a mere $7.9 mil.
But that's probably out of the president's price league. After all, he'll
be out of a job, and he's millions in debt from his legal bills. Instead,
Furlano has a $1.85-million four-bedroom contemporary/modern with a garage
for five vehicles and additional parking for six. The property offers views
of the yacht club and golf course and, if the president needs a security
gate, the realty broker is willing to install one.
He's not foolin' when he says the Clintons would be at home in the
community that's hosted a slew of dignitaries without stopping traffic,
from the late Marilyn Monroe to Crown Prince Haakon of Norway.
Furlano already has a leg up with the president, who sent him a thank-you
note for donating a few hundred flags for celebrity-watchers to wave during
the '93 visit. During the chief exec's last local appearance, the broker
asked the Secret Service to deliver a packet extolling Coronado's
lifestyle.
Across town in La Jolla, Qualcomm's chairman and CEO Irwin Jacobs, who
entertained the president earlier this year, says, "Everyone seemed rather
happy with him coming to our neighborhood. Things were much less intrusive
than you might think."
As for a long-term arrangement, Irwin says, "If you look for trouble, you
find it, and I don't look."
"We left when the president came to town," says one La Jollan, who declined
to use her name for fear of antagonizing her neighbors. "We knew it would
be hectic. But, she concedes, if Clinton moved here, he'd no longer be
president and that would help. "We live in a place with a lot of
celebrities, and the neighbors cope."
Fear not
Of course, local residents along with those in suburban New York could be
over-estimating the impact a former president would have on a community.
For one thing, the post-presidential entourage probably won't be as big as
people think. Spokeswoman Graff points out that the couple's personal
staff, paid for by the government, doesn't go with them.
Then, too, the most nervous of neighbors have to admit that the Secret
Service, which is mandated by law to protect a former president and spouse
for life, has been courteous, accommodating and sensitive on previous
visits.
The late President Nixon wasn't much bother to residents of San Clemente
when he hung out at his beach compound before, during and after he resigned
from office, according to local lifeguard supervisor Stephen Long.
With one notable exception: The surfers weren't too fond of that prez.
Long recalls that even though Nixon didn't go near the water, surfers were
banned from their favorite beach while the chief was in residence at the
summer White House.
The lifeguard's advice to the Clintons' future neighbors wherever they may
be: "They will bring drive-by tourists, so start collecting funny tales and
set up lemonade stands."
The Penniman kids already have the recipe.
Staff researchers Denise Davidson and Anne Magill contributed to this
story.

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MAYOR SUSAN GOLDING
Golding's record is best lesson in how to vote for
next mayor
What went sour with our mayor from first term into
the second?
October 15, 2000
There was hope and movement at City Hall during Mayor Susan Golding's first term. But rancor
and stalemate eroded her later years. Why?
Let's scan these eight years for hints in how to choose our next mayor, and in helping that mayor
avert such a civic roller coaster. Researcher Merrie Monteagudo counts 555 U-T news stories
focusing on the Golding years. Let's ramble through some of the key headlines:
1992: Golding capitalized on experience, foe's missteps. . . . Inaugural a festival; All San Diego
invited to her $60,000 party. . . . Vows to restore city's economy. . . . Carries on holiday traditions.
. . . 1,100 plus come in from cold to city's shelter in Golden Hall.
1993: Tijuana mayor thanks S.D. for help during flooding. . . . Mayors agree to monthly meetings.
. . . Golding names business advisers. . . . Lobbies for bases and funds, pleads city's case during
Washington trip. . . . Courting NBA, NHL. . . . Urges NAFTA zone.
1994: Golding urges Port to make Lindbergh look and function better. . . . Resurrects canal idea to
link San Diego bays. . . . Endorses strict teen curfew. . . . To get e-mail address for citizens to zap
her. . . . Golding's chief of staff resigning.
1995: New Padres owner Moores gets acquainted with mayor. . . . Mayor argues need for
ethics committee. . . . Plays hardball on booze at beach. . . . Names site for new library. . . . Won't
commit herself to serving out full second term.
1996: Mayor stresses rebirth of neighborhoods. . . . Money, mayor, land GOP convention. . . .
Tuning up symphony task force. . . . Wins re-election by record margin. . . . Haddad quitting as
mayor's chief of staff. . . . Golding's shift to Senate race.
1997: Mayor seeks talks with Chargers on expansion. . . . Takes first step in Senate race. . . .
Golding's fate may hinge on stadium. . . . Issue bedevils Golding in L.A. . . . Project wins backing;
mayor offers deal. . . . Vows more openness. . . . Bids for high-tech firms, says downtown stadium
would be 'wonderful'. . . . To keep closer eye on city finances. . . . Steve Cushman picked as
Golding aide. . . . Out of the morass/mayor must become active leader. . . . Manager of Golding
Senate campaign quits.
1998: Task force shut out of secret ballpark talks; But citizen panel not benched, mayor says. . . .
Golding out of Senate race. . . . Library on life support; mayor fails to line up necessary council
votes. . . . Can now focus energies on San Diego. . . . Can regain city by inviting in advisers. . . . To
lose another chief of staff. . . . Mayor vows more openness. . . . Mayor, council endorse ballpark
site. . . . Golding to be gone one more week. . . . Envisions 'first great city' of 21st century. . . .
Leaves for 12-day trip to Great Britain. . . . Golding on trade mission to Asia.
1999: Golding revisits stadium battle site. . . . Defends Qualcomm Stadium. . . . Grand jury rips
Golding over ballpark. . . . Council puts up $25,000 for Golding to hire lawyers. . . . Charges
dismissed. . . . Leadership questioned. . . . Mulls run for Congress. . . . To be talk show host. . . .
Won't run for House. . . . Tells mayor hopefuls not to mix ballpark and politics. . . . Mayor plays
cronyism now, vision later.
2000: City is vibrant and strong, mayor says. . . . Refocuses on downtown library, seeks public
hearings on mayor's role. . . . O'Connor takes back spotlight. . . . Mayor aims at free 6-to-6 plan for
186 schools. . . . Calls council huddle on Chargers ticket guarantee.
On Tuesday here, we'll track the Golding years for their pattern, and find helpful checkpoints for
undecided voters.

October 17, 2000
Susan Golding's eight-year record as mayor should be on every mind as we vote on her successor.
It was a roller coaster. She had strong and productive intervals in her first term, marred later by
distracted and obsessive conduct.
The most painstaking record of Golding's tenure lies in 555 reports focusing on her and published
in this newspaper over her eight years. They detail a case history of the rise and fall of a local
politician. They raise hard questions we must put now to the two mayoral candidates.
It's poignant to remember Golding's starring role as she welcomed the Republican convention in
1996. In "Sunset Boulevard," those moments could have become the telling flashback as audience
and star wondered where she had gone wrong.
But a city's career is in the balance now, not a star's.
We look behind campaign rhetoric at the character and integrity of candidates to project their long-
run performance under pressure and temptation. Will Murphy or Roberts better put a city ahead of
his own political advancement? The next 22 days may afford this city its last best chance for eight
years to reclaim lost opportunities and regain momentum.
From the 555 news reports, one speculation is quickly confirmed: Term limits have boomeranged
on voters.
In November 1995, only three years into her first term, Golding was looking past San Diego,
seeking upstate interviews in her abortive run for the Senate seat now held by Barbara Boxer.
In an interview with Phil LaVelle, she declined to commit to completing the second mayoral term
she was seeking. Her mentor, Gov. Pete Wilson, had broken his pledge not to seek the White
House if re-elected to his second term. He never entirely recovered in public esteem.
So Golding kept saying she had "every intention" of finishing her second term. Such evasions are
common in politics, helping to explain our mounting distrust of politicians.
When she traveled in that campaign, City Hall often ground to a halt. Council members had an alibi
for stalemate. It wasn't only her travel but her disinclination, during absences, to empower others --
notably council members -- to move on with city business.
Golding's weakness in seeking advice and building consensus -- and her notorious antipathy to
accepting blame -- became interlocked legends at City Hall.
She left an unprecedented trail of departed staff appointees. Among chiefs of staff alone, Richard
Ledford left after 19 months for the Chamber of Commerce. Ben Haddad left after 22 months to
serve Gov. Wilson. Mark Hoglund left after six months for Lockheed Martin. Kris Michel left after
eight months to join the Padres. Kimberley Layton went after 29 months to the Chargers.
(Karen Scarborough, Golding's sixth chief of staff, hired last July, was injured seriously in an
accident; MaryAnne Pintar is serving.)
Golding's second-term obsession with sports stadiums and owners above infrastructure
and vital civic needs brought sullen criticism for her unanswered promises to San
Diegans.
Her advisory panels atrophied. She installed cronies. She made Steve Cushman her appointments
secretary and -- in de facto conflict of interest -- made him simultaneously director of the
Convention Center board and commissioner for its landlord, the Port.
To move again, San Diego needs a leader to whom such old-pol cronyism will seem as abhorrent as
it does to citizens. Golding's record will be a ghost at the polls on Nov. 7.

I
SAN DIEGO BEING TAKEN OVER BY ELITE
Politics / Election 2000
In the crosshairs: The San Diego school board election is heating up with television commercials
criticizing board member Frances O'Neill Zimmerman. The ads are funded by a partnership of wealthy
business owners.
A $500,000 ad campaign targets trustee Zimmerman
Some of the city's most prominent businessmen have bankrolled a half-million-dollar campaign
against outspoken San Diego schools trustee Frances O'Neill Zimmerman with a blitz of television
commercials that also tout recent school reforms.
Fueled by six-figure contributions from Padres owner John Moores, Wal-Mart heir John Walton
and Qualcomm chief Irwin Jacobs, among others, a group called the Partnership for Student
Achievement has spent $545,000 on the unprecedented campaign.
The high-stakes San Diego Unified School District board election, which many see as a
referendum on schools chief Alan Bersin, has spawned the campaign against
Zimmerman, the superintendent's most vocal critic.
LETTERS TO EDITOR October 11, 2000
The most important paragraph of your story was near the end: "A loss for Zimmerman
could create a super majority 4-1 voting bloc needed to sell district land."
It has been no secret that the district's Normal Street offices are not to the liking of Bersin, who
wants to move to new land purchased in Kearny Mesa. Such new facilities could cost millions
of dollars that otherwise could be spent on student needs.
The anti-Zimmerman campaign has nothing to do with back-to-basics school reform. Bersin's
"blueprint" passed, and is already taking place.
Why do the businessmen who are spending so heavily to defeat Zimmerman want land
now owned by the district? Development, of course. The reason they contributed to the
MM campaign was so that their companies could reap the benefit of construction and
repair work on the schools. Their contributions now to defeat Zimmerman and create the
super majority are so they can buy and develop school land.
Why else would these large developers and businessmen have such a great interest in a school
district that their children don't attend?
Voters should beware of allowing these wealthy people to control the school board. The San Diego
City Council does enough for them already.
CINDY McINTYRE
Serra Mesa
Power brokers fund unholy war against trustee
October 16, 2000
Here's a bargain only Faust could love.
As reported last week, a group called Partnership for Student Achievement has invested more than
$500,000 to brand Fran Zimmerman, a San Diego schools trustee running for re-election, as the
archenemy of back-to-basics education reform.
Contributors to the publicity-shy partnership include some major-league hitters -- Padres owner
John Moores, Wal-Mart heir John Walton and Qualcomm CEO Irwin Jacobs -- all batting in
100,000 clams to the cause.
John Johnson, Urban League president and chairman of the partnership's board of trustees, couldn't
tell a Union-Tribune reporter who's funding two other groups -- Essential Information and Public
Interest Projects -- that donated $170,000 to zap Zimmerman at the ballot box.
"It doesn't matter where the money comes from," Johnson said. "I would take money from the devil
if it would help the children with back-to-basics education reform."
Oh, my.
A brass-knuckled political hit bankrolled by the Prince of Darkness would be morally justified if it
nurtured B-to-B ed reform.
Now there's an inspiring message to send kids.
You have to wonder what Johnson would say to this paraphrase of his Faustian remark:
It doesn't matter where the money comes from. I would take money from the devil if it would make
Superintendent Alan Bersin more comfortable and grant him more flexibility in running the
district's business.
Now, I don't claim to have all the threads of this story woven into a nice, neat hairball. (And my
intent is not to glorify Zimmerman. She can forcefully defend herself, in person and in print.)
But of this much I'm sure: This downtown jihad to oust Zimmerman and replace her with
Chamber of Commerce favorite Julie Dubick has nothing to do with education.
This TV campaign to assassinate Zimmerman's character is a raw exercise in power,
impure and simple. Bersin may be far enough away to deny direct involvement, but why
would the cleanup hitters be in the partnership's lineup if they weren't acting on his
behalf?
Zimmerman asks -- and, if re-elected, will ask -- annoying questions about the conduct of district
business, including land sales and acquisitions, the execution of which requires a 4-1 super-
majority.
Plain and simple, the superintendent would love a board packed with admirers. (John de Beck, the
other trustee who has had the sand to stand up to Bersin, is not up for re-election. Nothing to do
about him.)
This overheated election has the same slam-dunk feel as Proposition C (the ballpark vote) and
Proposition MM (the school bond).
When the downtown machine gets revved up, victory is all but assured -- with or without the
exchange of souls.
Granted, Zimmerman can be a strong piece of work. She's no perky cheerleader. Her concept of
team doesn't include a curtsy and puckered lips.
Yes, she can bristle over Bersin's autocratic style. She can question the sacrifice of everything
associated with a broad education -- literature, music, art, science, carpentry, whatever -- in the grim
effort to lift standardized test scores.
She comes off as a pugnacious romantic, a champion of teachers and schooling that develops the
whole child, not the sliver of brainpower measured by a SAT-9 test.
But an enemy of reform? The Antichrist of children? No way.
Voters have at least one solid reason to choose one way or the other in the Zimmerman-Dubick
race.
It has nothing to do with education. It has everything to do with power.

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Scandal then and now: It's become a matter of
zeroes
October 15, 2000
To a sleuth like Dave Stutz, what's the difference between now and 30 years ago?
"Inflation," says Stutz, a deputy district attorney and legendary prosecutor of white-collar crime.
He is not involved in the investigation of Padres majority owner John Moores and Councilwoman
Valerie Stallings, and perhaps others.
But he has been deeply involved in numerous other investigations -- particularly of two business
leaders who were incarcerated, C. Arnholt Smith and John Alessio.
And he was an investigator in one of San Diego's most famous political scandals. This month is the
30th anniversary of the indictment of nine people -- eight of them members of the 1967 City
Council -- for bribery in the Yellow Cab scandal.
All eventually were exonerated except one, who pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of
violating the state's election code.
There would have been convictions, but Stutz says he "was ordered by the Nixon administration not
to testify at the trial." He made that claim in a 1972 Life Magazine article that accused the Nixon
administration of "Tampering with Justice in San Diego."
By today's standards, the alleged payoffs in the 1970s case seem tame. Then-Mayor Frank Curran
was charged with accepting $3,500 from Yellow Cab, which was seeking a rate increase. Other
council members allegedly got payoffs of $1,000, $500 and the like.
The Life Magazine article also said the organized crime strike force in Southern California was
investigating whether Smith illegally funneled $2,068 to Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign
through a company controlled by Smith.
Stutz says the White House intervened in the investigations of both Smith and Alessio -- at least
initially. Eventually, both Smith and Alessio were convicted, but there was political infighting
aplenty.
Stutz, working for the organized crime strike force, as a U.S. Treasury agent, and for the DA's
Office, was involved in the cases against Smith, Alessio and hoodlums Jimmy "the Weasel"
Fratianno and Frank "the Bomp" Bompensiero, among others.
"I received a call from John Caulfield at the White House, saying he was phoning on behalf of John
Ehrlichman," Stutz recalls. Caulfield asked Stutz to fly to Washington, without telling his superiors,
with all the information he had on Smith and Alessio.
Stutz says he asked Caulfield to put the request in writing. "The line went dead," Stutz says.
Now, investigators are looking at bigger sums than they were 30 years ago, Stutz says. Stallings
grossed $14,000 by getting in at the initial price in a hot initial public offering, or IPO, of a
company controlled by Moores, and getting out on the day the stock peaked.
Very few people get in on the original price of a hot IPO -- or out near the peak.
There might be more: A grand jury is looking into an alleged pattern of gift-giving by Moores to
Stallings, and perhaps to other council members, knowledgeable sources say.
Some people might argue that a $14,000 stock windfall is nothing big, unless it's a small part of a
bigger picture.
Stutz notes that in 1996, two Superior Court judges in San Diego were convicted of racketeering
and conspiracy after receiving a total of $25,000 in gifts from a lawyer.
Lawyer Pat Frega gave former Judge James Malkus an $830 health club membership, $3,532 in car
repairs, a loaner car while the judge's car was being repaired, and a job for the judge's son, for which
Frega paid $9,900 for the son's wages.
The lead prosecutor on that case was then-Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles LaBella, who now
is in the private sector and represents the Padres in the Moores/Stallings matter. In the case against
the judges, LeBella worked closely with a U.S. attorney lawyer, who is a major investigator in the
Padres case.
"The difference between 1970 and 2000 is inflation," Stutz says. "The methods are the same, the
message the same; you just add another zero."
In the Moores/Stallings matter, Stutz says, "The definition of a bribe is: Did she get a benefit not
available to everybody else? The question becomes: Does she owe John Moores?"
Although he is not on the case, Stutz believes that Stallings received a clear benefit not available to
others and that Moores received something in return.
Stutz also says people aren't asking the right questions about the flights that mayoral candidate Ron
Roberts took on Moores' jets. "Why didn't Moores bill Roberts immediately after a flight?" Stutz
asks. "If the Padres send him a bill, and he pays it, then he doesn't owe them anything."
Stutz then harks back to the Yellow Cab case. He asked the president of Yellow Cab why he hadn't
billed the people to whom he allegedly had given gifts. "If they pay me, they don't owe me," Stutz
remembers the executive saying.

JOHN MOORES-
Frankenstein Mob Boss or Philanthropist?
Mind controlling athletes, educators, politicians,
future employees using web of doctors

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ELECTION '98
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Longtime Democrat Moores declares his independence |
Padres owner backs Davis, hosts fund-raiser for Fong
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Gerry Braun
STAFF WRITER
11-Oct-1998 Sunday
John Moores
When Padres Chairman John Moores moved to San Diego a few years ago, the
Texas-born computer software tycoon immediately ranked among the city's
wealthiest and most influential Democrats.
True, there was not much in the way of competition. But it was a
distinction Moores had earned by contributing hundreds of thousands of
dollars in his lifetime to Democratic candidates and party causes.
And now it is a distinction he has decided to forsake.
Moores recently re-registered to vote, listing his downtown condominium as
his residence so he can punch his ballot for Proposition C, the Padres
ballpark measure.
And in so doing, Moores did not register with the party of Jefferson and
Jackson, as he had done since he was a young man. Instead, he checked the
"decline to state" box and became an independent voter.
On Friday, the erstwhile Democrat put his nonpartisanship on display,
holding a fund-raiser at his Rancho Santa Fe home for Republican U.S.
Senate candidate Matt Fong.
Owing to an unusual convergence of momentum -- Fong had just pulled ahead
in a key statewide poll, and the Padres had just won the second game of the
National League Championship Series -- the event grew into the hottest
ticket in town. More than 300 people attended, twice the original estimate,
and Fong fund-raiser Lacee Beaulieu said a dozen more had to be turned
away.
"It's amazing when you do something in his house how many people will come
out," said one of the attendees, Ted Roth, the Alliance Pharmaceutical
Corp. president who is active in the Democratic Leadership Council.
Without question, the Padres majority owner was as large a draw as the
Senate candidate.
"You can be baseball fans and Republicans," explained Kim Dillon of Vista,
and she waited for a chance to talk to Moores.
"But mostly baseball fans," added her husband, Mark.
New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who leads a city where Democrats outnumber
Republicans 5-to-1, found inspiration in Moores' approach to politics, even
as he predicted the Yankees would beat the Padres in a World Series.
"John is absolutely right," Giuliani told the crowd. "Sometimes Republicans
are better than Democrats, sometimes Democrats are better than Republicans.
It just happens that way. It isn't always the case that Republicans are
always better or Democrats are always better.
"Life is more complicated than that," Giuliani said. "And except for the
most partisan politicians, you'd almost be ignorant not to recognize it."
It was the sort of sentiment not ordinarily heard at a Republican
fund-raiser just weeks before a November election. But it was music to the
ears of the host.
Moores, in a later interview, said his decision to re-register was not a
political calculation for the November election, but the culmination of
various frustrations with the Democratic Party.
Among them is its failure to give President Clinton fast-track authority on
free-trade matters. He previously has cited Fong's pro-NAFTA stance as a
key reason he supports the state treasurer over Democratic Sen. Barbara
Boxer, and he is a big backer of Texas Republican Gov. George W. Bush.
"There ought to be a free-trade zone in America top to bottom. It would
have been achieved by now if it wasn't for Clinton's inability to control
his own party," he said.
Still, Moores is strongly supporting Democrat Gray Davis for governor. He
has contributed about $200,000 to the Davis campaign, and he even invited
the lieutenant governor to throw out the first pitch at the Padres game on
Labor Day. (Fong, meanwhile, has been invited to sit in the owner's box if
the Padres make it to the World Series.)
The Oval Office exploits of Clinton and then-White House intern Monica
Lewinsky may have contributed to Moores' estrangement from the Democratic
Party, he said.
Moores was an early and "passionate" supporter of Clinton, contributing
money to his 1992 campaign and to party efforts to register minority voters
in Texas that year.
He said he soured on Clinton fairly quickly, though -- finding, for
example, the attempt at health-care reform to be poorly conceived. And
after the Starr report was released last summer, he told a reporter that
Clinton should resign as president if for no other reason than for lying in
public.
"It's not a misbehavior issue so much as it is lying," Moores said in
August, referring to Clinton's speeches to the country more than his
testimony to the grand jury. "There's a theory that the president of the
United States is always under oath."
Whatever his qualms with the Democratic Party may be, however, Moores may
be even more leery of the Republican Party, which he believes is dominated
by social conservatives with whom he finds little common ground.
"Newt Gingrich? He's a leader of the Republican Party? I wouldn't want him
in my house," Moores said. "And Trent Lott?" He shook his head.
Wondering "whatever happened to Eisenhower Republicans?" Moores said he
hoped that a "renaissance of moderate Republicanism" was in the offing.
"The Republican Party can be the majority party in this country forever if
just stays away from social issues," Moores told Fong in a quiet moment
away from the crowd. "They're going to suck the life out of the party."
Fong, who has courted social conservatives while running as a moderate,
listened and nodded without commenting, his expression somewhere between
comprehension and agreement.
Moores, however, seems to enjoy bucking convention. He was, for instance,
the only man not wearing a coat and tie at a fund-raiser where the
invitations clearly stated "business attire."
"I didn't read the invitation," he explained to an attorney who had
grumbled about having to wear a suit.
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Jim Gogek
Gogek is a Union-Tribune editorial writer.
08-Oct-1999 Friday
If you gave bricks and mortar to San Diego's leaders, they would each build
their own separate little wall rather than one big one. That is, if they
didn't start flinging the bricks at each other.
Working together seems impossible in this town, and this loopy controversy
over who will build the big bayside hotel is a good example.
First of all, I thought we had a deal here to build the ballpark. Remember
a couple of years ago, when the city, Port District, Centre City
Development Corp., and John Moores all got together and hammered out an
elaborate plan to pay for the thing? The big hotel is crucial to that deal.
Without it, the city will have a more difficult time getting the bonds to
pay for its share of the development.
This group began as a loose confederation of Mitrovich's Committee of 2000
-- a citizens group that was a major backer of Proposition C, the 1998
Padres ballpark ballot measure -- and members of the Greater San Diego
Chamber of Commerce and the San Diego County Taxpayers Association, a
business consortium that takes positions on local tax policy.
Group seeks revision of City Charter | Strong mayor, no manager is aim
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Philip J. LaVelle
STAFF WRITER
30-Aug-1999 Monday
The charter-revision committee includes business and civic leaders, and
aspiring local politicians, whose presence makes some members cringe
privately at the appearance of political self-interest. And there are
lawyers, Padres owner John Moores (who was not present that Thursday) and
Moores' new business partner, real-estate mogul Malin Burnham. And two
university professors thrown in to provide the theoretical underpinnings of
the discussion.
For nearly four hours the committee haggled over minutia such as who would
sit on the Retirement Board in the new municipal order. Agreement is an
elusive target, rarely nailed, say those who have attended meetings since
the beginning.
But while they diverge over the eye-straining details, they are of a
singular mind on one point: San Diego's city government, like a tired old
engine, needs a major overhaul. "The system's broken. It needs fixing,"
said Scott Barnett, executive director of Taxpayers Association.
Barnett will be a key player in this debate; his board of directors will
one day vote on whether to endorse the proposal. What, exactly, is wrong?
"Simple," Barnett said. "There's no financial accountability of our elected
officials and no control over our finances."
April 3, 2000
Dear Special Agent in Charge Gore:
Enclosed are two articles involving the Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego. I do not
understand why an investigation has not been conducted into possible conspiracy charges
against former city manager Jack McGrory for his questionable role in negotiating a
contract with the San Diego Chargers to the detriment of the citizens of San Diego. I do not
believe the task of watchdog is solely the responsibility of citizens like Bruce Henderson. I
expect that the FBI has people who can read a newspaper and that agents have enough
critical thinking skills to determine that conspiracies are involved in the negotiations of the city
leaders.
Nonetheless, I am sending you two articles: Alex Spanos and the Stadium Sham and
Neil Morgans April 2, 2000, column. In the Reader expose, it should be apparent to any
law enforcement agency that truly was concerned about corruption, (and I believe public
corruption falls under the jurisdiction of the FBI) that something underhanded has taken place
in the negotiations with sports teams in San Diego.
If your agents lack the critical thinking skills to identify possible criminal acts, let me state a few
facts, and give you a hint about what you might look for. Bruce Henderson stated, ...this
contract is so one-sided that an attorney who has any self-respect, who read
this agreement, would blow the whistle on it... Another quote from Mr. Henderson:
Its the sort of thing you would expect some sort of Simon LeGree would enter
into with the elderly, blind, deaf, and dumb couple who had no legal
representation, just had their hands guided to the signature line so they affix their
X. Its one of those contracts that if it were entered into with ordinary people,
they might even be able to go to court and have it set aside because the court
would say, You must have been taken advantage of. I suggest you follow the
money and investigate if former City Manager Jack McGrory was involved in influence
peddling to negotiate this contract, and gain a lucrative contract with the Padres. Also I
suggest an investigation to determine if Mayor Susan Golding is not in collusion with
Charger owner Alex Spanos to turn the land on which Qualcomm sits into a real estate
venture. I have read in the newspaper that Mayor Golding initiated the renegotiation of the
contract with Spanos. It now appears that using the land on which the stadium rests as a
real estate venture for profit has been discussed with real estate consultants. Also,
Qualcomm paid $18,000,000 for the right to have the stadium renamed; that figure appears
to be way below market value. Is it possible they were aware that the stadium had a death
warrant on it? Did Mayor Golding and McGrory receive financial remuneration from
Qualcomm? Judge McConnell has stock in Qualcomm. Is it appropriate for her to
be hearing the ballpark cases? It is apparent to me that a conspiracy is involved at the
highest levels of this city government, especially since I personally have been victimized
by this web of corruption that involves your agency as well.
Please check the legal definition of conspiracy and ascertain if it does not apply to the
situations involving McGrory, Spanos, and Golding. Please do not write me and tell me
this is not enough evidence. Attorney General Reno has misinterpreted the law with
regards to pursuing cases. It is your job to gather the evidence - not the citizens job. I am
providing you with enough information that should open an investigation into this matter.
You can expect that copies of this information will be sent to others so that your activities
receive proper oversight.
Roberts concedes taking a free flight with Padres
By Philip J. LaVelle
STAFF WRITER
October 11, 2000
More than three years after the fact, San Diego mayoral candidate Ron Roberts conceded
yesterday that he took a free flight to Hawaii in 1997 with the Padres baseball team.
The trip -- among a half-dozen Roberts took, either with the team or with team owner
John Moores on his private jet -- became the subject of many unanswered questions over the
past 21 days.
After being quizzed by a reporter in the middle of September, county Supervisor Roberts
acknowledged taking the trips and provided documentation that he paid for four of them. A fifth
was paid by the county as official business.
But the sixth trip to Hawaii, which Roberts said was a surprise Father's Day present paid for by his
wife and daughters, turned into a mystery story.
After more than three weeks and various permutations in the story line of when documentation
would arrive, Roberts said yesterday that he learned the truth Monday night.
Independent observers said they were willing to give Roberts a pass on the Hawaii trip explanation.
Taken in isolation, this trip was "an infraction," said University of California San Diego political
scientist Steve Erie, unconnected with either campaign.
But Erie and others said the broader pattern -- taking free trips and failing to quickly account for
them -- raises doubts about whether Roberts possesses the nerve to look Moores dead in the eye
and tell him things he may not want to hear.
The Padres have become a central issue in the campaign because construction work on the
downtown Padres ballpark has ground to a halt, thanks to litigation, financing snags and a federal
grand jury investigation of Councilwoman Valerie Stallings' financial relationship with Moores.
Moores' firm gets financing for hotel
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Caitlin Rother
STAFF WRITER
7-Sep-2000 Thursday
Padres owner John Moores' development company has obtained a $104 million
financing package for a downtown hotel, one of three it plans to build
within the ballpark district.
JMI Realty will put an additional $44.5 million into construction of the
512-room hotel, which will be the first and largest of the three.
Padres owners John Moores and Larry Lucchino are at the helm of the
largest redevelopment project in city history, thanks to passage of
Proposition C, the ballpark measure. They're smart, rich and powerful, and
their favors are courted in business and political circles.
Both men have lengthy ties to the party and Moores qualifies as a major
donor. While he recently registered as a nonpartisan, he remains
ideologically remote from the GOP and a strong ally of Davis, whose
campaign received $200,000 from Moores.
"Moores and Lucchino represent a shift in the power structure at a level
the Democrats have never been able to operate at. They bring a level of
sophistication, with resources, we haven't seen in San Diego before," said
attorney Michael Aguirre, a co-chairman of the Proposition C campaign.
Another high-profile Democrat, city schools Superintendent Alan Bersin,
strengthened his own hand when voters gave landslide approval to
Proposition MM, a measure that will pump $1.5 billion into school
construction and renovation.
Bersin, who came to San Diego as a U.S. attorney with White House
connections, is an ally of Schenk's and an education adviser to Davis. His
credentials as a crime-fighter and educator make him a formidable candidate
in a likely future campaign for office.
"If you tie it all together, it does represent a lot of power in and for
San Diego," Alpert said.
Padres boss gives $6.6 million to zoo | Moores' record gift
will be devoted to endangered species
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James Steinberg
STAFF WRITER
29-Aug-2000 Tuesday
San Diego Padres majority owner John Moores has donated $6.6 million to the
Zoological Society of San Diego, the largest gift ever by an individual, to
be used for conservation of endangered animals.
The zoo's giant pandas are the major beneficiary of Moores' largess. About
$4 million is earmarked to expand their two-acre enclosure in Balboa Park.
The rest will help finance the new $20 million home for the zoo's research
arm, the Center for Reproduction of Endangered Species, at the Wild Animal
Park in San Pasqual.
DIANE BELL
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SDSU's Weber to have home, at $1.2 million
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DIANE BELL
24-Aug-2000 Thursday
A group of civic-minded San Diegans has banded together to buy a $1.2
million home to serve as the official residence of the president of San
Diego State University. The group, which includes S.D. businessmen Malin
Burnham, John Moores, Bob Payne and others, purchased the four-bedroom,
four-bath home and is donating it to The Campanile Foundation at SDSU. The
home, formerly owned by John and Betty Mabee, is in Alvarado Estates next
door to the campus. An additional $300,000 has been donated toward
renovating the home.
Moores entity seals deal in ballpark area
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Anthony Millican
STAFF WRITER
23-Aug-2000 Wednesday
An affiliate of JMI Realty has closed escrow on the purchase of eight
blocks in downtown San Diego's ballpark district.
About one-third of the parcel will sit under the new downtown home of the
Padres. Crews had been clearing a portion of the property and preparing it
for construction even as it sat in escrow.
The land, sold by San Diego Gas & Electric Co. for $24.3 million, long has
been included in the planning for the 26-block redevelopment area on the
eastern edge of downtown.
It is the largest private land acquisition yet in the district, and
completing the deal is a major milestone, JMI Realty executives said
yesterday.
It "really kicks off, as a big first step, the private development" of the
ballpark district, said Dennis Cruzan, JMI Realty's managing director.
UCSD vies for tech center funding | Institute would be 1 of 3
based at UC campuses
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Jeff Ristine
STAFF WRITER
21-Aug-2000 Monday
Think of San Diego as an epicenter for research and innovation in
telecommunications and information technology.
Think of $300 million in state, federal and private investments between
2001 and 2004 alone. Then imagine that the odds this scenario will become
reality are no worse than 50-50, and you'll have some idea of the
excitement at UC San Diego.
Around the end of November, the university will learn whether it may
establish its proposed telecommunications and information technology
institute, a center aimed at turning technological advances into things
that will help the state economy.
"You've got to have these ideas coming along," said Robert Conn, dean of
UCSD's School of Engineering. "If you don't have discovery and you don't
have invention, in the end you lose your technological edge."
...
The idea of creating three major UC-sponsored institutes arose from a
dinner discussion of California's scientific and technological needs held
by Davis, chief of staff Lynn Schenk, Scripps Research Institute President
Richard Lerner and John Moores, a UC regent, philanthropist and principal
owner of the San Diego Padres.
After consultation with high-tech CEOs, academics and legislative leaders,
Davis proposed the institutes as a way of forging new public-private
partnerships that would promote research with commercial applications.
Huttner, director of a systemwide Biotechnology Research and Education
Program for UC, said Davis recognized that California emerged from the
recession of the early 1990s partly because of "the link between the
research universities in the state and the entrepreneurial business
community, and how rapidly they were able to work together and get new
knowledge into the economy."
The partnerships "created all those jobs that replaced the jobs that we
lost, and those companies still keep being born every year," Huttner said.
Details kept secret
Because the selection process is a competition, most campuses are keeping
details of their proposals and sources of financial support fairly close to
the vest. More should be known in November.
UCSD's proposal promises to "conduct research in core technologies needed
to expand the reach and capacity" of the wireless Internet.
If approved, the institute would serve all of California, not just the San
Diego-Irvine region.
But Conn said there would undoubtedly be new spinoff and start-up companies
emerging from the institute's work, built on the future of
telecommunications and information technology.
UC Berkeley is collaborating with UC Davis, UC Santa Cruz and the as-yet
nonexistent Merced campus for a share of the institute funds.
Berkeley said its proposal would "expand the study of large-scale
information systems" and take on "broad impact challenges such as urban
planning, disaster mitigation and education."
Professor James Demmel, chief scientist on the Berkeley project, said
that's about all the university wants to say for now.
Noting UCSD's similarly generic project outline, Demmel said, "They're
meant to sort of raise awareness of what's going on, but not give our
competitors a great deal of information about what we're doing."
Without knowing more details, it's impossible to handicap San Diego's
chances in the competition. But UCSD generally has a very good reputation
in the sciences and what Smarr calls a "culture of collaboration," also
seen at Irvine.
Each of the six project candidates is shoring up financial commitments and
refining its proposal. The proposals will be submitted to UC scientists and
industry specialists for scientific peer review while a separate finance
team looks at the budgetary side.
The proposals then face a final decision by an international, five-person
panel headed by Lerner of The Scripps Research Institute. Lerner declined a
request for an interview.
It remains to be seen who would directly profit from an institute --
exactly how intellectual property rights and patents, for instance, will be
handled in these UC-industry relationships.
But Brauman, the selection committee member, said he hopes the institutes
rise above "business as usual."
"There's some awfully wonderful stuff in the University of California
system," he said. "Anything that can be done to make that better is great."
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CLINTONS MIND CONTROL DOCTOR
MOORES TIJUANA BALL PARK
READER ARTICLE MOORES 5 MILLION IN CONCESSIONS
SDSU is building in more ways than one
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TOM CUSHMAN
10-Aug-2000 Thursday
It's been said that this is a building year at San Diego State, and after a
visit to the campus yesterday I can confirm it as fact.
Any direction one looks, they're building. The parking lot for which I have
a permit has disappeared. The football operations center is fenced in,
surrounded by construction. Even on the football team's media day, more
hard hats than helmets are visible. John Moores' dollars are at work.
Neil Morgan
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Behind a fence at 10th and K: Field of dreams, civic squabbles
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NEIL MORGAN
30-Jul-2000 Sunday
In a hard hat, on base at this city's newest field of dreams, I felt the
same sudden glee I had as a Carolina kid, set free on an empty high school
field with my first ball and bat.
Put aside, for the moment, the tortured squabbling that clouds this
ballpark and the squalor that abuts it. About $150 million has been spent
here and in adjacent East Village: About half is John Moores' money and
half from Centre City Development Corp. and the city.

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Moores resigns as chairman of Peregrine
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Thomas Kupper
STAFF WRITER
20-Jul-2000 Thursday
John Moores
Padres owner John Moores has stepped aside as chairman of San Diego's
Peregrine Systems, a company in which his early investments yielded
hundreds of millions of dollars as the company grew and its stock soared.
In announcing the resignation yesterday, Peregrine said Moores had decided
it was time to "expand the roles" of others at the top of the company.
"It's a reflection of John's interests," chief executive Steve Gardner
said. "He's very much a builder. He tends to be more involved in the
earlier stages of companies than he is in the later stages."
Under the reorganization plan, Gardner becomes chairman of the company,
which builds software systems to keep track of corporate assets such as
computers, phones and trucks.
Moores, who first invested in Peregrine during 1989 and owned 74 percent of
the company as recently as 1997, has been selling stock in recent years
while turning his attention to the Padres and Neon Systems -- the Texas
company he heads that is at the center of the Valerie Stallings
stock-trading investigation. The financial association between San Diego
City Councilwoman Stallings and Moores, who are close friends, is the
subject of a joint inquiry by the District Attorney's Office and U.S.
Attorney's Office.
In the past year alone, Moores has sold almost $300 million of Peregrine
stock while giving away shares worth more than $30 million, according to
data from the research firm First Call. He remains one of Peregrine's
biggest shareholders, with stock worth some $200 million, though his
holdings were down to 4 percent of the company's outstanding shares as of
May 15.
The company said he will remain on its board.
In addition to expanding Gardner's responsibility, the company promoted
former Arthur Andersen managing partner Gary Lenz to president and chief
operating officer. Lenz joined Peregrine about a month ago as a vice
president.
Peregrine also announced fiscal second-quarter results slightly ahead of
Wall Street's expectations. The company said net income excluding
acquisition costs and related charges was $12.2 million, or 10 cents a
share, as revenue grew 83 percent to $94.3 million.
Gardner said in a conference call with analysts that, after closing its
acquisition of the e-commerce company Harbinger last month, Peregrine
already had acquired three new customers that bought products from both the
Peregrine and Harbinger product lines.
Peregrine shares, which have fallen 40 percent since the Harbinger deal was
announced, closed yesterday down 25 cents at $34.56 1/4 before the
announcement.
When Moores became involved with Peregrine, he had already made his fortune
with Texas-based BMC Software, a company he started in 1980 with $1,000 and
whose stock today is worth more than $4 billion. He started selling BMC
stock in the late '80s and looking for new investments.
At the time, Peregrine was already almost a decade old but was struggling
to build momentum. Moores invested and became chairman and then oversaw a
decade of growth that saw Peregrine reach $253 million in revenue last
year.
The company went public in 1997 and has since grown from 140 employees to
about 2,400, including employees of Harbinger. Gardner said growth was a
factor in the decision to reorganize the management team.
"We've just grown to the point where we needed to broaden the management
team," Gardner said.
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USINESS BRIEFING
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Compiled from staff and wire reports
11-Oct-2000 Wednesday
Peregrine CFO stricken
Peregrine Systems Inc., a maker of business software, said David Farley,
its chief financial officer, has taken an indefinite medical leave of
absence after suffering a heart attack early yesterday. Matthew C. Gless,
who has been second-in-command in Peregrine's finance department since
1998, will assume Farley's duties, the company said in a statement. Gless
has been with the company since April 1996. Gless told Bloomberg News that
Farley was in critical but stable condition. Shares of San Diego-based
Peregrine Systems fell 62 cents yesterday to close at 18.44.
UCSD: THE MOVE TO DIVISION II
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TIME TO STEP UP | UCSD's bold jump will bring whole new set of challenges
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Kevin Acee
STAFF WRITER
28-May-2000 Sunday
A movement nine years in the making yet hardly noticed by anyone is in its
final stages near the cliffs of La Jolla.
UC San Diego will rise this fall from the NCAA's Division III, where it won
25 national championships, to Division II, where it will be somewhat
underfunded and perhaps even more undermanned.
It is, at the very least, an intriguing move by San Diego's second-largest
university, even if many folks on campus and in the community are unsure
what it means and a good number more don't care.
The changes will be appreciable, even drastic in some cases.
Elsewhere, it may be like the axiomatic tree in the forest. Something like:
What if an athletic department stepped up and no one noticed?
"Most of the faculty, as long as (athletics) is not a detriment, basically
don't care," said Lea Rudee, an engineering professor who also serves as
the athletic department's faculty liaison.
"Our faculty, because it is a major research university, is much more
worried about sociology and grants for this study and that study."
UCSD received more than $446 million in research funding last year,
fifth-most in the country. It houses one of the nation's two
supercomputing centers. Five Nobel laureates teach at the school.
Where Padres owners John and Becky Moores have donated $28.6 million to San
Diego State's athletic department, the benevolent couple recently gave $20
million to help fund a cancer center at UCSD. Among all public universities
in the United States, UCSD last year was ranked seventh academically by
U.S. News and World Report.
From athletics' viewpoint, those things are great, but they also cause
something of a perception problem.
"A lot of people don't know a whole lot about UCSD athletics," noted
athletic director Earl Edwards, the man who succeeded longtime AD Judy
Sweet and quickly decided his first priority was to get the word out that
his department existed.
"We need to educate the campus more about athletics. We need to market
ourselves in the community better."
The move to Division II means UCSD's teams will consistently play better
competition. The Tritons will be part of a conference for the first time.
They hope to attract more people to games against Cal State Los Angeles
than they did when playing Division III foes such as the Savannah College
of Art and Design.
Tijuana children's clinic adds space and services
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Anna Cearley
STAFF WRITER
24-Jun-2000 Saturday
TIJUANA -- Doctors in white lab coats, San Diego Padres mascots and the
Tijuana mayor were on hand yesterday to mark the expansion of a medical
facility that serves children on both sides of the border.
The $12 million project will add laboratories, consultation rooms,
nutrition and radiology departments to the current 3,000-square-foot
pediatric clinic south of the Otay Mesa border crossing.
Supporters say this latest growth spurt, to be completed by April 2001,
will provide some much-needed breathing room.
The clinic, originally designed for 400 consultations a month, has been
seeing triple that amount. About 125 U.S. and Mexican physicians work there
as volunteers.
"The waiting room is terribly overcrowded and people wait outside and
doctors do the best they can," said Pam Torlone, executive director of the
Foundation for the Children of the Californias.
The foundation works in tandem with a similar Mexican foundation to raise
money to pay for the clinic's eight staff members and expansion projects.
They hope someday to convert the clinic to a 24-hour facility with an
emergency department and 82 more beds.
Funds for the latest project phase came from mostly private donors on both
sides of the border, including the Mattel Children's Foundation, Qualcomm
and the Gigante supermarket chain. A recent telethon raised $2.5 million,
of which $1.7 million came from San Diego Padres Chairman John Moores.
Padres set their sights on ballclub for Tijuana | Border city
needs stadium, team says
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Anna Cearley
STAFF WRITER
28-Apr-2000 Friday
TIJUANA -- The San Diego Padres want to help bring a Mexican league or U.S.
minor-league baseball team to this fast-growing border city.
Tijuana's civic leaders like the idea. They think baseball will give their
sprawling urban area a stronger sense of community.
But before anything can happen, the Padres say, Tijuana needs to build a
new ballpark. The current 15,000-seat park, at the city's southern edge, is
hard to reach, in poor condition and is used by a soccer team almost
year-round. "Our No. 1 market in this region is San Diego-Baja California,
and the first thing they need in order for us to do anything, if Tijuana is
to be included in the (Padres' growth), is they need a ballpark," said
Enrique Morones, vice president in charge of Latino marketing for the
Padres.
The city has already set aside 33.3 acres for a ballpark and parking about
20 minutes from the border, near a planned highway extension.
The project would be one of the most ambitious in Tijuana's history. Using
a formula provided by the Padres, the city estimates a facility seating
12,000 to 20,000 would cost about $4 million. The city is trying to raise
the money from private investors on both sides of the border.
Padres officials say they won't put any cash into the project. But they are
willing to share their experts and consultants in designing the ballpark,
which would also be used for concerts and other events.
The Padres began courting Tijuana officials four years ago, but didn't
begin intensifying their efforts until after they got support for their own
new ballpark in downtown San Diego, expected to be completed in 2002.
Significant hurdles still remain for the unusual cross-border venture, such
as finding investors and determining whether Major League Baseball would
approve of the Padres' plans. Officials with the league office in New York
couldn't be reached for comment.
In the most dramatic scenario, the Padres would become the first American
baseball team to buy or co-own a franchise in the Mexican Pacific League,
which operates in the winter. The name "Tijuana Padres" is already being
floated by Morones, who says it has been received warmly in Tijuana.
The team is also considering two other plans.
Tijuana investors could bring a Mexican league team to Tijuana, and the
Padres could send players there to play in the winter league. Or, the
Padres could work with the California League of Professional Baseball,
which in the summer operates 10 Class A minor-league teams in California,
to set up a farm team in Tijuana.
The Padres say establishing a baseball presence in Mexico would help them
achieve something that has been a goal of John Moores and Larry Lucchino
since they bought the team in 1994: to make the Padres the first truly
international baseball team.
"We have a lot of interest in continuing to cement our relationship with
Tijuana," said Padres Executive Vice President Jack McGrory. "We believe
the two cities share a common regional base, and we want to develop a very
active role and voice in Tijuana." Tijuana's current ballpark once housed a
Mexican league team, but Los Potros, or "The Ponies," folded in 1991 due to
financial problems.
Gifts help Center for Children to expand | Moores and
Jacobs families among donors
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Clark Brooks
STAFF WRITER
28-Apr-2000 Friday
With the help of donations from local business leaders, the San Diego
Center for Children is replacing decrepit buildings and expanding its
services for troubled children.
The nonprofit center received $4.3 million from John and Rebecca Moores,
Irwin and Joan Jacobs and the Serenity Fund.
John Moores owns the San Diego Padres. Irwin Jacobs is chairman and chief
executive officer of Qualcomm. The Serenity Fund is sponsored by San
Diegans who desire anonymity.
Together, they are paying for construction of three cottages at the
center's Kearny Mesa campus. Two will be for residential care. The third
will be for therapy sessions for children aged 6 to 13 and their families.
The center has been operating 113 years. Children are referred there by the
county and by insurance companies for civilian and military families, said
Edwin Kofler, the center's chief executive officer.
The center provides services for about 150 children, including 35 in
residential care, Kofler said. When the three new cottages are completed,
the residential capacity will increase to 48.
Kofler expects the first cottage -- paid for by the Serenity Fund -- to be
built in six months. It will be 6,967 square feet with room for 16
children. It will also have two shared living areas and two kitchens.
A second cottage, the one paid for by the Jacobses, will be completed in
about one year. It is identical to the first.
Irwin Jacobs said he was impressed by the center's work and wanted to help
troubled children.
"We thought it was a very important thing for us to do," he said.
The third cottage, paid for by the Mooreses, is scheduled to be built
within two years. It will be the same size as the others but designed for
therapy. It will have two treatment rooms, six consultation rooms, a
multipurpose room and office space.
A spokeswoman for John Moores said he declined comment.
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FROM: http://www.uniontribune.com/news/utarchives/cgi/idoc.cgi?600325
Only a few months ago, owner John Moores had earned a place as one of the
most respected men in San Diego. He is recognized nationally as one of the
most community-minded owners in Major League Baseball. Now he faces a
federal grand jury probe of his ties to Councilwoman Valerie Stallings, and
both Roberts and Murphy are under fire politically for their past
associations with Moores. Although neither Moores nor Stallings has been
charged with a crime, their mutual dealings in Neon Systems have derailed
the city's ability to issue bonds for the ballpark's construction.
World-class cancer center planned at UCSD
The San Diego Union - Tribune; San Diego, Calif.; May 5, 2000; Cheryl Clark;
Abstract:
A regional cancer center financed by gifts of $47 million from local families is to be built in La Jolla,
consolidating research and treatment in what UCSD officials hope will become one of the nation's best
places for care.
The plan is to bring researchers, clinicians, prevention specialists and educators under one roof in an
effort that UCSD Chancellor Robert Dynes called a "bench-to-bedside approach to conquering cancer."
"San Diego deserves a cancer center that ranks among the world's best, and UCSD is the logical place,"
Dynes said yesterday.
2 prominent lawyers join Padres payroll
La Bella, Coughlan had big role in judicial corruption case
By Anthony Millican
STAFF WRITER
October 4, 2000
The San Diego Padres, whose majority owner is under investigation by federal authorities, have
hired two prominent lawyers who were on opposite sides in one of the region's most high-profile
corruption cases.
The ballclub has hired Charles La Bella, the former acting U.S. attorney for San Diego, and Jerry
Coughlan.
La Bella led the prosecution team that won convictions of two former San Diego Superior Court
judges and a lawyer in a gifts-for-favors judicial corruption case that began in 1996. A third former
judge pleaded guilty to bribery and testified against the others.
Coughlan represented James Malkus, one of the Superior Court judges La Bella helped convict.
Coughlan and La Bella said yesterday that they were hired to represent the Padres in connection
with the investigation into dealings between Padres owner John Moores and San Diego City
Councilwoman Valerie Stallings at a time she cast key votes in favor of a downtown ballpark for the
team.
But neither would say whether he was representing Moores, team President Larry Lucchino or
others as individuals.
One of La Bella's trial lawyers in the case against the judges was Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas
McNamara, who is heading the investigation involving Moores and Stallings.
http://www.uniontribune.com/news/uniontrib/wed/index.html
MALIN BURNHAM
Behind MM
Behind buying out Zimmermans seat
Burnham postpones meeting
San Diego's ailing Burnham Pacific Properties Inc. (NYSE: BPP), which
decided to begin liquidation last month, indefinitely postponed its annual
meeting of stockholders until the Securities and Exchange Commission
completes a review of the company's preliminary proxy materials filed in
late September. The annual meeting is normally held in May, but was
postponed to Oct. 18 as the company warded off a takeover bid by Ohio's
Schottenstein retail group.
We started out not in any way trying to fill the shoes of Bill Otterson,"
said Malin Burnham, the San Diego real estate magnate who served as
chairman of the search committee.
Burnham salute is love-fest of an event
--
Jeanne Beach Eigner
Jeanne Beach Eigner is a San Diego-based writer.
25-Jul-2000 Tuesday
Malin Burnham was the man of the hour Wednesday evening, saluted by the San
Diego chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. And all things
considered, confided a committee member, it wasn't a hard sell.
The MS Society is indeed a worthy foe for the scourge of MS, an
oft-crippling disease that affects the central nervous system. As for the
guest of honor, "If you went to central casting for a person who
exemplifies San Diego . . . you would think of Malin Burnham," noted dinner
committee member Herb Klein.
So 450 people thronged the ballroom of downtown's Hyatt Regency for this
seventh annual dinner, happy to toast rather than roast the honoree, who's
made his mark not only in business but yacht-racing, as a trustee of
Stanford University and in a clutch of civic enterprises.
Burnham Pacific suitor gets co-chair
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Thomas Kupper
STAFF WRITER
13-Sep-2000 Wednesday
The saga of San Diego's Burnham Pacific Properties took an unexpected twist
yesterday when the company said it has appointed retailer Jay Schottenstein
to serve as co-chairman alongside company founder Malin Burnham.
Schottenstein had prefered a liquidation plan and had said that at the Oct.
18 annual meeting he would try to oust management and force a liquidation.
Instead, management plans to undertake the liquidation on its own, bringing
a disappointing end to a real estate investment trust founded 37 years ago
by Malin Burnham, one of San Diego's leading corporate citizens.
Bersin sent a similar signal in retaining Charles La Bella to lead the
probe. As San Diego's acting U.S. attorney, La Bella was passed over by
Attorney General Janet Reno after his task force and the FBI urged Reno to
probe campaign contributions to Clinton and Gore.
Bersin knows he can be as hard to take as castor oil. He reels off names
he's been called to his face: "Tough. Overbearing. Uncompromising."
Yet as U.S. attorney, he negotiated crucial links of law enforcement
cooperation across this border during years when two reform-minded federal
attorneys were assassinated in Tijuana.
Malin Burnham, a citizen sponsor of a $1.5 billion San Diego school bond
passage, says its 78.5 percent plurality was a mandate "not only to fix
bricks and mortar but increase teaching skills and student performance.
Bersin is architect and contractor for these changes. He said then it would
take up to five years to fully set that course. He's on schedule."
Torrey Pines nearly SRO with research like Burnham
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NEIL MORGAN
11-Apr-2000 Tuesday
The much-discussed current breakouts in DNA and gene cloning are
accelerating basic research at Burnham, which seeks to pursue causes and
cures of cancer. The scientists develop strategies that aid pharmaceutical
companies in creating cancer diagnoses, which in turn may lead to
prevention.
One Dialogue member in yesterday's audience was Malin Burnham, who, with
his wife, Roberta, has been major benefactor of this laboratory.
Yet the proliferation of cancer research laboratories in San Diego has been
cause for concern at national scientific levels. UCSD also holds a National
Cancer Institute regional rank for its work, but as a clinical cancer
center dealing with patients. Scripps Health's cancer centers could soon be
merged.
There remains a glut of hospital beds and overlapping clinical cancer
centers in the region, vying for research grants. Yet, unusually for a
region this populous and health-oriented, none is qualified by the NCI as a
comprehensive basic research and clinical center. Some lack the size to
provide sufficient physicians in certain specialties to meet NCI standards.
The NCI has urged consolidation among San Diego cancer centers. Supervisors
Ron Roberts and Dianne Jacob have encouraged it by proposing that tobacco
industry damage payments be used in regional cancer research.
City's broken, but citizens can vote tools to fix charter
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NEIL MORGAN
08-Jul-1999 Thursday
Since last November, a group of as many as 35 San Diegans have given up two
Saturday mornings each month to the study of city charter reform, both here
and across the nation.
Many of the names are familiar and respected: Malin Burnham, Lisa Foster,
Barry Newman, Ted Roth, Kathleen McIntosh, John Kaheny, George Mitrovich,
Scott Barnett, Kris Mitchell, Richard Ledford, Steve Erie, Michel Anderson.
Mr. San Diego: Malin feted by `title' wave
BURL STIFF
25-Aug-1998 Tuesday
The late Joe Dryer was the first.
Malin Burnham is the latest.
He's "Mr. San Diego" of 1998.
he new Mr. San Diego, a graduate of Stanford University, is chairman of
John Burnham & Co. and Burnham Pacific Properties Inc.
Introduced by Pete Wilson, a longtime friend, Malin was cited for his many
contributions to the community, including key roles in the Centre City
Development Corp., the Metropolitan Transit Development Board, the San
Diego International Sports Council, the Hall of Champions, America's Cup,
and the La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation.
VALERIE STALLINGS
Breast cancer surgery for Stallings
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PHILIP J. LaVELLE
Staff Writer
20-Apr-1996 Saturday
Valerie Stallings
Valerie Stallings, more used to fighting political battles at City Hall, is
facing a different struggle today -- against breast cancer.
The San Diego councilwoman is scheduled for surgery Wednesday at UCSD's
Thornton Hospital in La Jolla.
Stallings, 56, is approaching this latest fight with the same brand of
tenacity that got her elected twice to the City Council.
...
She was elected to the council in 1991, easily defeating incumbent Bruce
Henderson in a runoff election. Seven weeks earlier, the underfunded
Stallings stunned many in the political community by forcing a runoff with
Henderson, campaigning with an energy and optimism that defied the
conventional wisdom that she had little chance.
"I can feel it," she often said.
Six months earlier, Stallings, then a cancer researcher at the Salk
Institute in La Jolla, was a political unknown.
Stallings won re-election in last September's primary, easily defeating
three challengers. She captured 52 percent of the vote to just under 39
percent for her closest challenger, land surveyor Michael Pallamary.
This year, Stallings serves as deputy mayor and presides over City Council
meetings in Mayor Susan Golding's absence.
Stallings is single with two grown children. She lives in Bay Park with her
dog, Marbi, a shepherd mix she found wandering Mission Bay three years ago.
She got news of her cancer April 12, just a few hours before she was
scheduled to join other local dignitaries in welcoming first lady Hillary
Rodham Clinton to San Diego.
When her turn at the Hyatt Islandia lectern came, Stallings said: "This
definitely is a Kodak moment in my life."
Yesterday she revealed there was more than the honor of greeting the first
lady at play.
Battling Cancer | The Hardest Campaign | Councilwoman
faces her biggest foe
-----
Ozzie Roberts
24-Apr-1997 Thursday
Valerie Stallings
It took one glance in a mirror for Valerie Stallings to go from a
self-pitying casualty to a self-assured champion in the battle against
cancer.
Two weeks after her mastectomy last April, the 57-year-old councilwoman
from Bay Park was in the office of plastic surgeon Anne Wallace.
Accompanied by Jane Potter, her faithful chief of staff, Stallings was
there to see about getting an artificial breast implanted.
Stallings finds spotlight can be harsh
http://www.uniontribune.com/news/uniontrib/sun/index.html
But councilwoman shows no sign she's ready to quit
By Caitlin Rother
STAFF WRITER
October 8, 2000
The cloud of conflict that descended on the life of San Diego City Councilwoman Valerie Stallings
in April has been harder for her to deal with than the breast cancer that hit her in 1996, she says.
"The cancer was my own body; I could deal with that," Stallings said last week in her first extensive
interview since federal authorities began investigating her dealings with Padres owner John Moores.
Stallings has been a frequent guest in the Padres owner's box at Qualcomm Stadium over
the years, recording the games in her score book.
When Stallings was diagnosed with cancer, Moores visited her frequently in the hospital.
She and Moores became close friends. And Stallings has always been a strong supporter of the
ballpark project.
Stallings suspected of leaking city secrets | Sources say Moores also a focus of
ballpark probe
Philip J. LaVelle
STAFF WRITER
11-Aug-2000 Friday
http://www.uniontribune.com/news/utarchives/cgi/idoc.cgi?588805+unix++www.uniontri
b.com..80+Union-Tribune+Union-Tribune+Library+Library++%28Stallings
Both council members told investigators about one incident, rumored for
months at City Hall, in which Stallings was suspected of tipping off Moores
by telephone in the midst of a closed-session meeting. Neither official
could pin down precisely when the alleged event occurred, other than to say
it took place during the period in which the city was in talks with the
Padres, most likely in the summer of 1998.
According to accounts provided by several sources, Stallings got up at one
point during the private meeting and placed a call from a telephone located
on the periphery of the room, dominated by a large conference table and
located on the 12th floor of City Hall next to the council's open chambers.
One council member became suspicious and alerted Golding, who reportedly
got up, walked over to Stallings and directed her to hang up.
Golding was out of town and could not be reached for comment.
According to records obtained by The San Diego Union-Tribune under the
California Public Records Act, Stallings used city phones to place 16 calls
to Moores between 1998 and this year. Four of these came in the two months
before her initial purchase of Neon stock, including two calls to Neon
Systems headquarters Feb. 23, 1999, and one to Neon Systems on March 1,
1999, four days before she bought the stock.
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AND MEDICAL RESEARCH=NON LETHAL
WEAPON RESEARCH
Non-defense items
clog Defense budget:
Breast cancer research, marijuana eradication,
black college aid, Native American health care
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By Jon E. Dougherty
2000 WorldNetDaily.com
An "incestuous relationship" between the administration and civilians appointed to "key
positions throughout the Pentagon" has enabled the Clinton-Gore White House to quietly
shift hundreds of millions of dollars of the defense budget to fund favorite non-military social,
health and research programs -- one of the biggest such line items being $175 million for
breast-cancer research -- according to a high-ranking Pentagon official. ..
"The Pentagon's key positions are filled with former Democratic staffers from Capitol Hill,"
said a key Pentagon official ...
In one year, the official said, the Pentagon spent $50 million on prostate cancer research
"because someone over on the Hill had a buddy who had prostate cancer, got concerned,
and threw the money" into the budget.
MURDER VIA MEDICAL FIELD?
Was my former boss, Marge Dansahws, death from natural causes? She died one week after I
revealed locally that I uncovered the plot about which I wrote you. She is the one who framed both
Gary Atwood and me, knew about the school embezzlements and shady real estate transactions
associated with the son of a former U.S. Congressman from Conneticutt, communist SDUSD
school board member, Ron Ottinger. Ron Ottinger is a lawyer who recruited Bersin, conspired with
SDPD officials to have us murdered, and was in contact with Gary Atwood.
Was the death of another neighbor in 1998 from an asthma attack a murder? His house which
never went on the market, was cleared out by men who looked like law enforcement, one of whom I
recognized as a man who had tailed me. The house was bought by an out-of-state banker. I was
surveilled from that house until I revealed to authorities that I knew they were surveilling me from
there and had taken photos. The person living there moved out the day after I informed them, and
the other neighbor who battered me and filed false reports against me moved into the neighborhood
shortly thereafter. Then HE began to surveil me. He has been seen by other neighbors giving
police black notebooks of information. He has monitored my every move since he moved in and
still does.
My other neighbor said she had surveilled me. The other neighbor, brother of the serial bank
robber, was framed.

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