Table of Contents MAYOR SUSAN GOLDING SAN DIEGO BEING TAKEN OVER BY ELITE MALIN BURNHAM MURDER VIA MEDICAL FIELD

Qualcomm chief wins nation's top technology award

------------------------------------------------------------------------JAMES W. CRAWLEY Staff Writer 15-Sep-1994 Thursday

Irwin Jacobs | Qualcomm

Qualcomm's founder and chairman, Irwin Jacobs, will receive a NationalMedal of Technology from President Clinton next month, the CommerceDepartment announced yesterday.

Jacobs will be honored for "his vision, innovation and leadership" indigital wireless communications.

"It's a pleasant surprise and an honor," Jacobs said after hearing aboutthe announcement.

"This obviously is the most significant award I've ever received," headded.

Clinton will present the medal to Jacobs and four other awardees in a WhiteHouse ceremony in early October.

The medal is the nation's highest honor in technology and was created byCongress in 1980 to recognize innovation and the commercialization oftechnology.

Jacobs started working in the field of digital communications when he wasan assistant professor of electrical engineering at the MassachusettsInstitute of Technology during the early 1960s. He moved to the Universityof California San Diego in 1966.

While a professor at UCSD, he and Andrew Viterbi founded Linkabit, whichstarted as a small consulting firm dealing with the Defense Department. In1968, the pair resigned from UCSD to devote full time to the firm.

With Jacobs as chief executive officer, Linkabit became the foundation formost of San Diego's telecommunications industry. In 1980, the firm wasmerged into M/A-Com, and Jacobs remained at the firm until 1985.

Next, Jacobs and Viterbi founded Qualcomm -- Viterbi is a senior executivewith Qualcomm -- which has developed two major product lines: first, asatellite-based tracking and communications system for trucks, vehicles andships called Omnitracs; and more recently, a digital cellular telephonesystem called code division multiple access (CDMA).

Using a technique called spread spectrum, CDMA increases the capacity of asingle cellular phone channel tenfold.

The CDMA technology is one of two digital cellular phone systems that willbe deployed by mobile phone companies. The first CDMA systems will becomeoperational in Seattle and Los Angeles during the next year. The technologyis also being considered for the next generation of wireless phones, calledpersonal communications services.

Other honorees this year include Joel Engel and Richard Frenkiel, the twoscientists who pioneered the development of cellular phone systems while atAT&T Bell Labs in the 1960s and 1970s; Joseph Gerber, who has more than 600patents to his name and developed automated manufacturing equipment; Amgen,a California biotech firm; and Corning Inc., which makes glass and opticalproducts.

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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?

http://www.uniontrib.com/news/utarchives/cgi/idoc.cgi?269167Elizabeth Douglass STAFF WRITER 14-Feb-1997 Friday

Irwin Mark Jacobs

So who is this guy Irwin Mark Jacobs, who has plunged into the contentiousdebate over the expansion of San Diego Jack Murphy Stadium?

Jacobs, chairman of Qualcomm Inc., has offered to make a deal with the citythat would resolve the funding controversy and put the high-tech company'sname on the stadium.

...Qualcomm's offer is not just a showy gesture. A company gets publicity andrecognition -- which helps sell products and attract new employees -- whenits name is on a stadium.

Qualcomm has begun selling digital mobile phones, and it is anxious to getits 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 beenwell-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 1994National Medal of Technology, the nation's highest honor in science andtechnology. He was honored for his "vision, innovation and leadership" indigital wireless communication.

He has since earned many other awards and citations, including the 1995IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal.

Jacobs started working in digital communications when he was an assistantprofessor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology during the early 1960s. While at MIT, he co-authored a textbookon 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 consultingfirm. 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 Diegobusiness history, having spun off most of the companies that now make upthe city's telecommunications industry.

In 1985, Jacobs left Linkabit and helped found Qualcomm Inc. with Viterbiand others.

THE STADIUM CONTROVERSY

Qualcomm after brighter image in marketplace

http://www.uniontrib.com/news/utarchives/cgi/idoc.cgi?269171Elizabeth Douglass STAFF WRITER 14-Feb-1997 Friday

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If Qualcomm Inc. ends up with its name affixed to San Diego Jack MurphyStadium, it would dovetail with the company's recent efforts to make itsname and products better-known.

The company, long a quiet maker of wireless communications technology, hasbegun making digital wireless phones on its own and through a partnershipwith Sony Electronics.

But Qualcomm is new to the consumer market and, although it sellstelephones under its own name in Hong Kong and South Korea, it is notwell-known in the United States or overseas. The company has set out tochange that.

Qualcomm has begun buying full-page advertisements in newspapers and

national magazines and has been courting regional and national reportersand Wall Street analysts. Late last year, the company hired a publicrelations firm to help.

"This is a major transition for the company from mainly research anddevelopment to a major manufacturing company and a company selling toconsumers," Qualcomm spokesman James Lee said yesterday. "So we need to doa 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 emergedas one of San Diego's fastest-growing and most-watched companies.

The wireless communications firm developed and holds patents on codedivision multiple access (CDMA), a complex and long-doubted technology thatis the foundation for many of Qualcomm's products.

Despite the skeptics, so far that technology has produced a solid businessfor Qualcomm. Its products range from its Omnitracs satellite messagingservice for the trucking industry to sophisticated computer chips fortelephones, and from the planned Globalstar worldwide satellite network tonew digital equipment and portable phones.

Its best-known product, however, could well be its Eudora electronic mailsoftware, which has become the most widely used mail program on theInternet, with more than 18 million users worldwide.

The company was founded in 1985 by a group led by Irwin Mark Jacobs, AndrewViterbi and Harvey White. They created the company name from thecombination of the words "quality" and "communications."

From a small beginning in government work, the company has grown to $814million in sales and $21 million in profit in fiscal 1996. Its stock hit a52-week high this week of $63.125.

Spurred mainly by high telephone demand, the company has expanded withimpressive speed -- giving hope to a city grappling with the loss ofthousands of high-paying defense jobs.

Qualcomm's San Diego operations begin with its headquarters at the colorfulSan Diego Design Center in Sorrento Valley and include a series of newfacilities, including a huge telephone production plant in University City.

That new plant, shared with phone-making partner Sony Electronics, hasalready produced and shipped more than 1 million digital phones for use bywireless carriers in the United States, Canada, Hong Kong and South Korea.

The digital phones are being sold in San Diego by AirTouch Cellular andSprint PCS, which is using them on the newly unveiled personalcommunications services network.

Expansion has forced Qualcomm to take on another full-time business: hiringnew workers.

In the past 12 to 14 months, the company has doubled its work force toabout 7,500 workers, and it continues to hire engineers.

BAUDER:http://www.uniontribune.com/news/utarchives/cgi/idoc.cgi?527198+unix++www.uniontrib.com..80+Union-Tribune+Union-Tribune+Library+Library++%28QualcommBusiness Week magazine names the Top 25 Managers of the Year in its Jan. 10issue. One is Irwin M. Jacobs of Qualcomm.

"A decade ago, skeptics dismissed his plan to commercialize a new andpowerful, yet technologically complex, digital wireless technology," saysthe magazine, which itself had once been somewhat skeptical. Now Jacobs "ishaving 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

------------------------------------------------------------------------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 ofWestchester County, where Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton have beenshopping 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, LaJolla or Rancho Santa Fe.

After all, they're pretty rootless after stints in the Arkansas governor'smansion and the country's No. 1 Colonial.

It's no secret that the president and wannabe senator are fond of America'sWest Coast Riviera. The first guests already know their way around town. Between them, they've made about a dozen forays here to schmooze withpolitical cronies and soak up the sun.

San Diego County certainly has plenty of water, a biggie on the couple'swish list. Bill would enjoy the six-dozen-plus golf courses and Buddy wouldbe a hit at dog beaches in Del Mar and Ocean Beach. Then, too, without AirForce One at the family's disposal, the proximity to Stanford and daughterChelsea wouldn't hurt, either.

But despite the obvious appeal of the Southland for the Clintons, the localpopulace is divided about whether they would put out a permanent welcomemat for the couple and their baggage.

A hearty welcome seems to hinge as much on residents' political preferencesas it does their fears about neighborhood impact.

San Diego attorney and friend-of-Bill Bill Lerach, who hosted the presidentat 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 atleast five other registered Democrats here" in the largely Republicanenclave.

Not her, says ardent Republican Robin Parsky, who is one of Lerach'sneighbors. She predicts that sharing a ZIP code with the couple could beeven worse than the Heaven's Gate debacle.

She's felt the pain of a presidential visit. Along with the nuisance ofputting up with the gawkers and protesters.

The noise of security helicopters and motorcycles spooked her horses. "Ihad to close the barn," says the ardent horsewoman, admitting that she'sthrilled that the Clintons are looking for digs back East instead of on theWest Coast.

Remember the rumors last year that the Clintons were moving to SouthernCalifornia post-presidency? Word had it that Hollywood director andfriend-of-Bill Steven Spielberg was trying to buy Tom Hanks'4,000-square-foot, four-bedroom in Pacific Palisades home and theadjacent property for his friends.

Well, Palisades residents might be comfortable with such a plan. But ruralRancho Santa Fe couldn't deal with the traffic and commotion generated byan ex-commander-in-chief, says Parsky who, incidentally, entertainedBarbara Bush while she was first lady.

Why not make lemonade out of the political hoopla, advises Ranchite CarolPenniman. Her kids did.

Lerach's closest neighbors at about a half-mile away, the young Pennimancapitalists 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'revery conservative. A lot of people resent his personal conduct," Pennimanpoints out. Her neighbors aren't snobs, and they'd chit-chat with thecouple at the post office, but they wouldn't embrace them, she says.

No doubt, most potential neighbors would agree with New Yorker NancyMoloff, 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 thehypothetical Clinton move to The Ranch would be a nonissue. "We owe it toour president to welcome and protect him."

Besides, Kirkeby says, there would be pluses to having such a muckety-muckin the community. Good security, for one. Her daughter lives in the LosAngeles condominium where Gov. Gray Davis still spends his off-time -- "andthere are plenty of men in dark suits talking into lapels."

Then there's the matter of Kirkeby's profession. She'd be tickled green tosell the prez a home.

Let's see, in New York, the first couple has been checking out propertyvalued at between $1.5 million and $3.8 mil. Toby Graff, a White Housespokeswoman, says they're looking at everything from ranch-styles toColonial houses.

Kirkeby counts 31 Rancho Sante Fe houses on the market that fit thatcriteria. Her fave is a $3.95-million, five-bedroom, eight-bath on threewalled 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 inhigh places."

Better to move to his side of the bridge, says Coronado resident and realtybroker Anthony Furlano.

He sold oceanfront Crown Manor to the late Larry Lawrence, who hosted theClinton entourage on more than one occasion. And Furlano would be happy tosell the 22-room beach house to the Clintons. It's a deal down from theoriginal $12 million to a mere $7.9 mil.

But that's probably out of the president's price league. After all, he'llbe 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 garagefor five vehicles and additional parking for six. The property offers viewsof the yacht club and golf course and, if the president needs a securitygate, the realty broker is willing to install one.

He's not foolin' when he says the Clintons would be at home in thecommunity 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-younote for donating a few hundred flags for celebrity-watchers to wave duringthe '93 visit. During the chief exec's last local appearance, the brokerasked the Secret Service to deliver a packet extolling Coronado'slifestyle.

Across town in La Jolla, Qualcomm's chairman and CEO Irwin Jacobs, whoentertained the president earlier this year, says, "Everyone seemed ratherhappy with him coming to our neighborhood. Things were much less intrusivethan you might think."

As for a long-term arrangement, Irwin says, "If you look for trouble, youfind it, and I don't look."

"We left when the president came to town," says one La Jollan, who declinedto use her name for fear of antagonizing her neighbors. "We knew it wouldbe hectic. But, she concedes, if Clinton moved here, he'd no longer bepresident and that would help. "We live in a place with a lot ofcelebrities, and the neighbors cope."

Fear not

Of course, local residents along with those in suburban New York could beover-estimating the impact a former president would have on a community.

For one thing, the post-presidential entourage probably won't be as big aspeople think. Spokeswoman Graff points out that the couple's personalstaff, paid for by the government, doesn't go with them.

Then, too, the most nervous of neighbors have to admit that the SecretService, which is mandated by law to protect a former president and spousefor life, has been courteous, accommodating and sensitive on previousvisits.

The late President Nixon wasn't much bother to residents of San Clementewhen he hung out at his beach compound before, during and after he resignedfrom 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 werebanned from their favorite beach while the chief was in residence at thesummer White House.

The lifeguard's advice to the Clintons' future neighbors wherever they maybe: "They will bring drive-by tourists, so start collecting funny tales andset up lemonade stands."

The Penniman kids already have the recipe.

Staff researchers Denise Davidson and Anne Magill contributed to thisstory.

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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.  

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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.  

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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 McINTYRESerra 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. 

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

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Longtime Democrat Moores declares his independence | Padres owner backs Davis, hosts fund-raiser for Fong

------------------------------------------------------------------------Gerry Braun STAFF WRITER 11-Oct-1998 Sunday

John Moores

When Padres Chairman John Moores moved to San Diego a few years ago, theTexas-born computer software tycoon immediately ranked among the city'swealthiest and most influential Democrats.

True, there was not much in the way of competition. But it was adistinction Moores had earned by contributing hundreds of thousands ofdollars 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 ashis residence so he can punch his ballot for Proposition C, the Padresballpark measure.

And in so doing, Moores did not register with the party of Jefferson andJackson, 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 aheadin a key statewide poll, and the Padres had just won the second game of theNational League Championship Series -- the event grew into the hottestticket in town. More than 300 people attended, twice the original estimate,and Fong fund-raiser Lacee Beaulieu said a dozen more had to be turnedaway.

"It's amazing when you do something in his house how many people will comeout," said one of the attendees, Ted Roth, the Alliance PharmaceuticalCorp. president who is active in the Democratic Leadership Council.

Without question, the Padres majority owner was as large a draw as theSenate 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 outnumberRepublicans 5-to-1, found inspiration in Moores' approach to politics, evenas he predicted the Yankees would beat the Padres in a World Series.

"John is absolutely right," Giuliani told the crowd. "Sometimes Republicansare better than Democrats, sometimes Democrats are better than Republicans. It just happens that way. It isn't always the case that Republicans arealways better or Democrats are always better.

"Life is more complicated than that," Giuliani said. "And except for themost partisan politicians, you'd almost be ignorant not to recognize it."

It was the sort of sentiment not ordinarily heard at a Republicanfund-raiser just weeks before a November election. But it was music to theears of the host.

Moores, in a later interview, said his decision to re-register was not apolitical calculation for the November election, but the culmination ofvarious frustrations with the Democratic Party.

Among them is its failure to give President Clinton fast-track authority onfree-trade matters. He previously has cited Fong's pro-NAFTA stance as akey reason he supports the state treasurer over Democratic Sen. BarbaraBoxer, 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 wouldhave been achieved by now if it wasn't for Clinton's inability to controlhis own party," he said.

Still, Moores is strongly supporting Democrat Gray Davis for governor. Hehas contributed about $200,000 to the Davis campaign, and he even invitedthe lieutenant governor to throw out the first pitch at the Padres game onLabor Day. (Fong, meanwhile, has been invited to sit in the owner's box ifthe Padres make it to the World Series.)

The Oval Office exploits of Clinton and then-White House intern MonicaLewinsky may have contributed to Moores' estrangement from the DemocraticParty, he said.

Moores was an early and "passionate" supporter of Clinton, contributingmoney to his 1992 campaign and to party efforts to register minority votersin Texas that year.

He said he soured on Clinton fairly quickly, though -- finding, forexample, the attempt at health-care reform to be poorly conceived. Andafter the Starr report was released last summer, he told a reporter thatClinton should resign as president if for no other reason than for lying inpublic.

"It's not a misbehavior issue so much as it is lying," Moores said inAugust, referring to Clinton's speeches to the country more than histestimony to the grand jury. "There's a theory that the president of theUnited States is always under oath."

Whatever his qualms with the Democratic Party may be, however, Moores maybe even more leery of the Republican Party, which he believes is dominatedby social conservatives with whom he finds little common ground.

"Newt Gingrich? He's a leader of the Republican Party? I wouldn't want himin my house," Moores said. "And Trent Lott?" He shook his head.

Wondering "whatever happened to Eisenhower Republicans?" Moores said hehoped 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 momentaway 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 betweencomprehension 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 theinvitations clearly stated "business attire."

"I didn't read the invitation," he explained to an attorney who hadgrumbled about having to wear a suit.

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Yet another battle of egos in San Diego

----------------------------------------------------------------------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 buildtheir own separate little wall rather than one big one. That is, if theydidn't start flinging the bricks at each other.

Working together seems impossible in this town, and this loopy controversyover 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. Remembera couple of years ago, when the city, Port District, Centre CityDevelopment Corp., and John Moores all got together and hammered out anelaborate 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 topay 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 1998Padres ballpark ballot measure -- and members of the Greater San DiegoChamber of Commerce and the San Diego County Taxpayers Association, abusiness consortium that takes positions on local tax policy.

Group seeks revision of City Charter | Strong mayor, no manager is aim ----------------------------------------------------------------------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 cringeprivately at the appearance of political self-interest. And there arelawyers, Padres owner John Moores (who was not present that Thursday) andMoores' new business partner, real-estate mogul Malin Burnham. And twouniversity professors thrown in to provide the theoretical underpinnings ofthe discussion.

For nearly four hours the committee haggled over minutia such as who wouldsit on the Retirement Board in the new municipal order. Agreement is anelusive target, rarely nailed, say those who have attended meetings sincethe beginning.

But while they diverge over the eye-straining details, they are of asingular mind on one point: San Diego's city government, like a tired oldengine, 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 willone day vote on whether to endorse the proposal. What, exactly, is wrong?

"Simple," Barnett said. "There's no financial accountability of our electedofficials 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 Morgan’s 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: “It’s 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. It’s 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

http://www.uniontrib.com/news/utarchives/cgi/idoc.cgi?594785+unix++www.uniontrib.com..80+Union-Tribune+Union-Tribune+Library+Library++%28%28%28John------------------------------------------------------------------------Caitlin Rother STAFF WRITER 7-Sep-2000 Thursday Padres owner John Moores' development company has obtained a $104 millionfinancing package for a downtown hotel, one of three it plans to buildwithin the ballpark district.

JMI Realty will put an additional $44.5 million into construction of the512-room hotel, which will be the first and largest of the three.

Padres owners John Moores and Larry Lucchino are at the helm of thelargest redevelopment project in city history, thanks to passage ofProposition C, the ballpark measure. They're smart, rich and powerful, andtheir favors are courted in business and political circles.

Both men have lengthy ties to the party and Moores qualifies as a majordonor. While he recently registered as a nonpartisan, he remainsideologically remote from the GOP and a strong ally of Davis, whosecampaign received $200,000 from Moores.

"Moores and Lucchino represent a shift in the power structure at a levelthe Democrats have never been able to operate at. They bring a level ofsophistication, with resources, we haven't seen in San Diego before," saidattorney 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 toProposition MM, a measure that will pump $1.5 billion into schoolconstruction and renovation.

Bersin, who came to San Diego as a U.S. attorney with White Houseconnections, is an ally of Schenk's and an education adviser to Davis. Hiscredentials as a crime-fighter and educator make him a formidable candidatein a likely future campaign for office.

"If you tie it all together, it does represent a lot of power in and forSan Diego," Alpert said. Padres boss gives $6.6 million to zoo | Moores' record gift will be devoted to endangered species

------------------------------------------------------------------------James Steinberg STAFF WRITER 29-Aug-2000 Tuesday San Diego Padres majority owner John Moores has donated $6.6 million to theZoological Society of San Diego, the largest gift ever by an individual, tobe 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 researcharm, the Center for Reproduction of Endangered Species, at the Wild AnimalPark in San Pasqual.

DIANE BELL

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SDSU's Weber to have home, at $1.2 million

------------------------------------------------------------------------DIANE BELL 24-Aug-2000 Thursday A group of civic-minded San Diegans has banded together to buy a $1.2million home to serve as the official residence of the president of SanDiego State University. The group, which includes S.D. businessmen MalinBurnham, John Moores, Bob Payne and others, purchased the four-bedroom,four-bath home and is donating it to The Campanile Foundation at SDSU. Thehome, formerly owned by John and Betty Mabee, is in Alvarado Estates nextdoor to the campus. An additional $300,000 has been donated towardrenovating the home.

Moores entity seals deal in ballpark area

------------------------------------------------------------------------Anthony Millican STAFF WRITER 23-Aug-2000 Wednesday An affiliate of JMI Realty has closed escrow on the purchase of eightblocks 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 itfor construction even as it sat in escrow.

The land, sold by San Diego Gas & Electric Co. for $24.3 million, long hasbeen included in the planning for the 26-block redevelopment area on theeastern edge of downtown.

It is the largest private land acquisition yet in the district, andcompleting the deal is a major milestone, JMI Realty executives saidyesterday.

It "really kicks off, as a big first step, the private development" of theballpark 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

------------------------------------------------------------------------Jeff Ristine STAFF WRITER 21-Aug-2000 Monday Think of San Diego as an epicenter for research and innovation intelecommunications and information technology.

Think of $300 million in state, federal and private investments between2001 and 2004 alone. Then imagine that the odds this scenario will becomereality are no worse than 50-50, and you'll have some idea of theexcitement at UC San Diego.

Around the end of November, the university will learn whether it mayestablish its proposed telecommunications and information technologyinstitute, a center aimed at turning technological advances into thingsthat will help the state economy.

"You've got to have these ideas coming along," said Robert Conn, dean ofUCSD's School of Engineering. "If you don't have discovery and you don'thave invention, in the end you lose your technological edge."...The idea of creating three major UC-sponsored institutes arose from adinner discussion of California's scientific and technological needs heldby Davis, chief of staff Lynn Schenk, Scripps Research Institute PresidentRichard Lerner and John Moores, a UC regent, philanthropist and principalowner 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-privatepartnerships that would promote research with commercial applications.

Huttner, director of a systemwide Biotechnology Research and EducationProgram for UC, said Davis recognized that California emerged from the

recession of the early 1990s partly because of "the link between theresearch universities in the state and the entrepreneurial businesscommunity, and how rapidly they were able to work together and get newknowledge into the economy."

The partnerships "created all those jobs that replaced the jobs that welost, and those companies still keep being born every year," Huttner said.

Details kept secret

Because the selection process is a competition, most campuses are keepingdetails of their proposals and sources of financial support fairly close tothe vest. More should be known in November.

UCSD's proposal promises to "conduct research in core technologies neededto expand the reach and capacity" of the wireless Internet.

If approved, the institute would serve all of California, not just the SanDiego-Irvine region.

But Conn said there would undoubtedly be new spinoff and start-up companiesemerging from the institute's work, built on the future oftelecommunications and information technology.

UC Berkeley is collaborating with UC Davis, UC Santa Cruz and the as-yetnonexistent Merced campus for a share of the institute funds.

Berkeley said its proposal would "expand the study of large-scaleinformation systems" and take on "broad impact challenges such as urbanplanning, disaster mitigation and education."

Professor James Demmel, chief scientist on the Berkeley project, saidthat's about all the university wants to say for now.

Noting UCSD's similarly generic project outline, Demmel said, "They'remeant to sort of raise awareness of what's going on, but not give ourcompetitors a great deal of information about what we're doing."

Without knowing more details, it's impossible to handicap San Diego'schances in the competition. But UCSD generally has a very good reputationin the sciences and what Smarr calls a "culture of collaboration," alsoseen at Irvine.

Each of the six project candidates is shoring up financial commitments andrefining its proposal. The proposals will be submitted to UC scientists andindustry specialists for scientific peer review while a separate financeteam looks at the budgetary side.

The proposals then face a final decision by an international, five-personpanel headed by Lerner of The Scripps Research Institute. Lerner declined arequest 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 institutesrise above "business as usual."

"There's some awfully wonderful stuff in the University of Californiasystem," he said. "Anything that can be done to make that better is great."

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MOORES TIJUANA BALL PARK

READER ARTICLE MOORES 5 MILLION IN CONCESSIONS

SDSU is building in more ways than one

------------------------------------------------------------------------TOM CUSHMAN 10-Aug-2000 Thursday It's been said that this is a building year at San Diego State, and after avisit to the campus yesterday I can confirm it as fact.

Any direction one looks, they're building. The parking lot for which I havea permit has disappeared. The football operations center is fenced in,surrounded by construction. Even on the football team's media day, morehard hats than helmets are visible. John Moores' dollars are at work.

Neil Morgan

------------------------------------------------------------------------Behind a fence at 10th and K: Field of dreams, civic squabbles

------------------------------------------------------------------------NEIL MORGAN 30-Jul-2000 Sunday In a hard hat, on base at this city's newest field of dreams, I felt thesame sudden glee I had as a Carolina kid, set free on an empty high schoolfield with my first ball and bat.

Put aside, for the moment, the tortured squabbling that clouds thisballpark and the squalor that abuts it. About $150 million has been spenthere and in adjacent East Village: About half is John Moores' money andhalf from Centre City Development Corp. and the city.

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Moores resigns as chairman of Peregrine

------------------------------------------------------------------------Thomas Kupper STAFF WRITER 20-Jul-2000 Thursday

John Moores

Padres owner John Moores has stepped aside as chairman of San Diego'sPeregrine Systems, a company in which his early investments yieldedhundreds of millions of dollars as the company grew and its stock soared.

In announcing the resignation yesterday, Peregrine said Moores had decidedit 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 Gardnersaid. "He's very much a builder. He tends to be more involved in theearlier 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 ascomputers, phones and trucks.

Moores, who first invested in Peregrine during 1989 and owned 74 percent ofthe company as recently as 1997, has been selling stock in recent yearswhile turning his attention to the Padres and Neon Systems -- the Texascompany he heads that is at the center of the Valerie Stallingsstock-trading investigation. The financial association between San DiegoCity Councilwoman Stallings and Moores, who are close friends, is thesubject 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 Peregrinestock while giving away shares worth more than $30 million, according todata from the research firm First Call. He remains one of Peregrine'sbiggest shareholders, with stock worth some $200 million, though hisholdings were down to 4 percent of the company's outstanding shares as ofMay 15.

The company said he will remain on its board.

In addition to expanding Gardner's responsibility, the company promotedformer Arthur Andersen managing partner Gary Lenz to president and chiefoperating officer. Lenz joined Peregrine about a month ago as a vicepresident.

Peregrine also announced fiscal second-quarter results slightly ahead of

Wall Street's expectations. The company said net income excludingacquisition costs and related charges was $12.2 million, or 10 cents ashare, as revenue grew 83 percent to $94.3 million.

Gardner said in a conference call with analysts that, after closing itsacquisition of the e-commerce company Harbinger last month, Peregrinealready had acquired three new customers that bought products from both thePeregrine and Harbinger product lines.

Peregrine shares, which have fallen 40 percent since the Harbinger deal wasannounced, closed yesterday down 25 cents at $34.56 1/4 before theannouncement.

When Moores became involved with Peregrine, he had already made his fortunewith Texas-based BMC Software, a company he started in 1980 with $1,000 andwhose stock today is worth more than $4 billion. He started selling BMCstock in the late '80s and looking for new investments.

At the time, Peregrine was already almost a decade old but was strugglingto build momentum. Moores invested and became chairman and then oversaw adecade of growth that saw Peregrine reach $253 million in revenue lastyear.

The company went public in 1997 and has since grown from 140 employees toabout 2,400, including employees of Harbinger. Gardner said growth was afactor in the decision to reorganize the management team.

"We've just grown to the point where we needed to broaden the managementteam," Gardner said.

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USINESS BRIEFING

------------------------------------------------------------------------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 ofabsence after suffering a heart attack early yesterday. Matthew C. Gless,who has been second-in-command in Peregrine's finance department since1998, will assume Farley's duties, the company said in a statement. Glesshas been with the company since April 1996. Gless told Bloomberg News thatFarley was in critical but stable condition. Shares of San Diego-basedPeregrine 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

------------------------------------------------------------------------Kevin Acee STAFF WRITER 28-May-2000 Sunday A movement nine years in the making yet hardly noticed by anyone is in itsfinal stages near the cliffs of La Jolla.

UC San Diego will rise this fall from the NCAA's Division III, where it won25 national championships, to Division II, where it will be somewhatunderfunded and perhaps even more undermanned.

It is, at the very least, an intriguing move by San Diego's second-largestuniversity, even if many folks on campus and in the community are unsurewhat 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, basicallydon't care," said Lea Rudee, an engineering professor who also serves asthe athletic department's faculty liaison.

"Our faculty, because it is a major research university, is much moreworried 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 twosupercomputing centers. Five Nobel laureates teach at the school.

Where Padres owners John and Becky Moores have donated $28.6 million to SanDiego State's athletic department, the benevolent couple recently gave $20million to help fund a cancer center at UCSD. Among all public universitiesin the United States, UCSD last year was ranked seventh academically byU.S. News and World Report.

From athletics' viewpoint, those things are great, but they also causesomething of a perception problem.

"A lot of people don't know a whole lot about UCSD athletics," notedathletic director Earl Edwards, the man who succeeded longtime AD JudySweet and quickly decided his first priority was to get the word out thathis 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 bettercompetition. The Tritons will be part of a conference for the first time. They hope to attract more people to games against Cal State Los Angelesthan they did when playing Division III foes such as the Savannah Collegeof Art and Design.

Tijuana children's clinic adds space and services

------------------------------------------------------------------------Anna Cearley STAFF WRITER 24-Jun-2000 Saturday TIJUANA -- Doctors in white lab coats, San Diego Padres mascots and theTijuana mayor were on hand yesterday to mark the expansion of a medicalfacility 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-footpediatric 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 beenseeing triple that amount. About 125 U.S. and Mexican physicians work thereas volunteers.

"The waiting room is terribly overcrowded and people wait outside anddoctors do the best they can," said Pam Torlone, executive director of theFoundation for the Children of the Californias.

The foundation works in tandem with a similar Mexican foundation to raisemoney 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 anemergency department and 82 more beds.

Funds for the latest project phase came from mostly private donors on bothsides of the border, including the Mattel Children's Foundation, Qualcommand 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

------------------------------------------------------------------------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 theirsprawling urban area a stronger sense of community.

But before anything can happen, the Padres say, Tijuana needs to build anew ballpark. The current 15,000-seat park, at the city's southern edge, ishard to reach, in poor condition and is used by a soccer team almostyear-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 isto be included in the (Padres' growth), is they need a ballpark," saidEnrique Morones, vice president in charge of Latino marketing for thePadres.

The city has already set aside 33.3 acres for a ballpark and parking about20 minutes from the border, near a planned highway extension.

The project would be one of the most ambitious in Tijuana's history. Usinga formula provided by the Padres, the city estimates a facility seating12,000 to 20,000 would cost about $4 million. The city is trying to raisethe money from private investors on both sides of the border.

Padres officials say they won't put any cash into the project. But they arewilling 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'tbegin intensifying their efforts until after they got support for their ownnew ballpark in downtown San Diego, expected to be completed in 2002.

Significant hurdles still remain for the unusual cross-border venture, suchas finding investors and determining whether Major League Baseball wouldapprove of the Padres' plans. Officials with the league office in New Yorkcouldn't be reached for comment.

In the most dramatic scenario, the Padres would become the first Americanbaseball team to buy or co-own a franchise in the Mexican Pacific League,which operates in the winter. The name "Tijuana Padres" is already beingfloated 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 thePadres could send players there to play in the winter league. Or, thePadres 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 themachieve something that has been a goal of John Moores and Larry Lucchinosince they bought the team in 1994: to make the Padres the first trulyinternational baseball team.

"We have a lot of interest in continuing to cement our relationship withTijuana," said Padres Executive Vice President Jack McGrory. "We believethe two cities share a common regional base, and we want to develop a veryactive role and voice in Tijuana." Tijuana's current ballpark once housed aMexican league team, but Los Potros, or "The Ponies," folded in 1991 due tofinancial problems.

Gifts help Center for Children to expand | Moores and Jacobs families among donors

------------------------------------------------------------------------Clark Brooks STAFF WRITER 28-Apr-2000 Friday With the help of donations from local business leaders, the San DiegoCenter for Children is replacing decrepit buildings and expanding itsservices 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 chiefexecutive officer of Qualcomm. The Serenity Fund is sponsored by SanDiegans who desire anonymity.

Together, they are paying for construction of three cottages at thecenter's Kearny Mesa campus. Two will be for residential care. The thirdwill 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 thecounty and by insurance companies for civilian and military families, saidEdwin Kofler, the center's chief executive officer.

The center provides services for about 150 children, including 35 inresidential 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 bebuilt in six months. It will be 6,967 square feet with room for 16children. It will also have two shared living areas and two kitchens.

A second cottage, the one paid for by the Jacobses, will be completed inabout one year. It is identical to the first.

Irwin Jacobs said he was impressed by the center's work and wanted to helptroubled 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 builtwithin two years. It will be the same size as the others but designed fortherapy. It will have two treatment rooms, six consultation rooms, amultipurpose 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?600325Only a few months ago, owner John Moores had earned a place as one of themost respected men in San Diego. He is recognized nationally as one of themost community-minded owners in Major League Baseball. Now he faces afederal grand jury probe of his ties to Councilwoman Valerie Stallings, andboth Roberts and Murphy are under fire politically for their pastassociations with Moores. Although neither Moores nor Stallings has beencharged with a crime, their mutual dealings in Neon Systems have derailedthe 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 payrollLa Bella, Coughlan had big role in judicial corruption caseBy 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 BURNHAMBehind MMBehind buying out Zimmerman’s seat

Burnham postpones meeting

San Diego's ailing Burnham Pacific Properties Inc. (NYSE: BPP), whichdecided to begin liquidation last month, indefinitely postponed its annualmeeting of stockholders until the Securities and Exchange Commissioncompletes a review of the company's preliminary proxy materials filed inlate September. The annual meeting is normally held in May, but waspostponed to Oct. 18 as the company warded off a takeover bid by Ohio'sSchottenstein 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 aschairman of the search committee.http://www.uniontrib.com/news/utarchives/cgi/idoc.cgi?596152

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 SanDiego chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. And all thingsconsidered, confided a committee member, it wasn't a hard sell.

The MS Society is indeed a worthy foe for the scourge of MS, anoft-crippling disease that affects the central nervous system. As for theguest of honor, "If you went to central casting for a person who

exemplifies San Diego . . . you would think of Malin Burnham," noted dinnercommittee member Herb Klein.

So 450 people thronged the ballroom of downtown's Hyatt Regency for thisseventh annual dinner, happy to toast rather than roast the honoree, who'smade his mark not only in business but yacht-racing, as a trustee ofStanford University and in a clutch of civic enterprises.

Burnham Pacific suitor gets co-chair -----Thomas Kupper STAFF WRITER 13-Sep-2000 Wednesday The saga of San Diego's Burnham Pacific Properties took an unexpected twistyesterday when the company said it has appointed retailer Jay Schottensteinto 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, bringinga disappointing end to a real estate investment trust founded 37 years agoby Malin Burnham, one of San Diego's leading corporate citizens.http://www.uniontrib.com/news/utarchives/cgi/idoc.cgi?589802

Bersin sent a similar signal in retaining Charles La Bella to lead theprobe. As San Diego's acting U.S. attorney, La Bella was passed over byAttorney General Janet Reno after his task force and the FBI urged Reno toprobe campaign contributions to Clinton and Gore.

Bersin knows he can be as hard to take as castor oil. He reels off nameshe's been called to his face: "Tough. Overbearing. Uncompromising."

Yet as U.S. attorney, he negotiated crucial links of law enforcementcooperation across this border during years when two reform-minded federalattorneys were assassinated in Tijuana.

Malin Burnham, a citizen sponsor of a $1.5 billion San Diego school bondpassage, says its 78.5 percent plurality was a mandate "not only to fixbricks and mortar but increase teaching skills and student performance. Bersin is architect and contractor for these changes. He said then it wouldtake up to five years to fully set that course. He's on schedule."http://www.uniontrib.com/news/utarchives/cgi/idoc.cgi?587825

Torrey Pines nearly SRO with research like Burnham -------------------------------------------------------------------NEIL MORGAN 11-Apr-2000 Tuesday The much-discussed current breakouts in DNA and gene cloning areaccelerating basic research at Burnham, which seeks to pursue causes andcures of cancer. The scientists develop strategies that aid pharmaceuticalcompanies in creating cancer diagnoses, which in turn may lead to

prevention.

One Dialogue member in yesterday's audience was Malin Burnham, who, withhis wife, Roberta, has been major benefactor of this laboratory.

Yet the proliferation of cancer research laboratories in San Diego has beencause for concern at national scientific levels. UCSD also holds a NationalCancer Institute regional rank for its work, but as a clinical cancercenter dealing with patients. Scripps Health's cancer centers could soon bemerged.

There remains a glut of hospital beds and overlapping clinical cancercenters in the region, vying for research grants. Yet, unusually for aregion this populous and health-oriented, none is qualified by the NCI as acomprehensive basic research and clinical center. Some lack the size toprovide sufficient physicians in certain specialties to meet NCI standards.

The NCI has urged consolidation among San Diego cancer centers. SupervisorsRon Roberts and Dianne Jacob have encouraged it by proposing that tobaccoindustry damage payments be used in regional cancer research.

City's broken, but citizens can vote tools to fix charter -----NEIL MORGAN 08-Jul-1999 Thursday Since last November, a group of as many as 35 San Diegans have given up twoSaturday mornings each month to the study of city charter reform, both hereand 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 ofJohn Burnham & Co. and Burnham Pacific Properties Inc.

Introduced by Pete Wilson, a longtime friend, Malin was cited for his manycontributions to the community, including key roles in the Centre CityDevelopment Corp., the Metropolitan Transit Development Board, the SanDiego International Sports Council, the Hall of Champions, America's Cup,and the La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation.

VALERIE STALLINGS

Breast cancer surgery for Stallings ----PHILIP J. LaVELLE Staff Writer 20-Apr-1996 Saturday

Valerie Stallings

Valerie Stallings, more used to fighting political battles at City Hall, isfacing a different struggle today -- against breast cancer.

The San Diego councilwoman is scheduled for surgery Wednesday at UCSD'sThornton Hospital in La Jolla.

Stallings, 56, is approaching this latest fight with the same brand oftenacity that got her elected twice to the City Council. ...She was elected to the council in 1991, easily defeating incumbent BruceHenderson in a runoff election. Seven weeks earlier, the underfundedStallings stunned many in the political community by forcing a runoff withHenderson, campaigning with an energy and optimism that defied theconventional wisdom that she had little chance.

"I can feel it," she often said.

Six months earlier, Stallings, then a cancer researcher at the SalkInstitute in La Jolla, was a political unknown.

Stallings won re-election in last September's primary, easily defeatingthree challengers. She captured 52 percent of the vote to just under 39percent for her closest challenger, land surveyor Michael Pallamary.

This year, Stallings serves as deputy mayor and presides over City Councilmeetings in Mayor Susan Golding's absence.

Stallings is single with two grown children. She lives in Bay Park with herdog, 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 wasscheduled to join other local dignitaries in welcoming first lady HillaryRodham Clinton to San Diego.

When her turn at the Hyatt Islandia lectern came, Stallings said: "Thisdefinitely 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 aself-pitying casualty to a self-assured champion in the battle againstcancer.

Two weeks after her mastectomy last April, the 57-year-old councilwomanfrom Bay Park was in the office of plastic surgeon Anne Wallace. Accompanied by Jane Potter, her faithful chief of staff, Stallings wasthere to see about getting an artificial breast implanted.

Stallings finds spotlight can be harsh

http://www.uniontribune.com/news/uniontrib/sun/index.htmlBut 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.uniontrib.com..80+Union-Tribune+Union-Tribune+Library+Library++%28Stallings

Both council members told investigators about one incident, rumored formonths at City Hall, in which Stallings was suspected of tipping off Mooresby telephone in the midst of a closed-session meeting. Neither officialcould pin down precisely when the alleged event occurred, other than to sayit took place during the period in which the city was in talks with thePadres, most likely in the summer of 1998.

According to accounts provided by several sources, Stallings got up at onepoint during the private meeting and placed a call from a telephone locatedon the periphery of the room, dominated by a large conference table andlocated on the 12th floor of City Hall next to the council's open chambers.

One council member became suspicious and alerted Golding, who reportedlygot 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 theCalifornia Public Records Act, Stallings used city phones to place 16 callsto Moores between 1998 and this year. Four of these came in the two monthsbefore her initial purchase of Neon stock, including two calls to NeonSystems 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 Dansahw’s, 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.