Word: connors
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...teamwork can produce useful political results. O'Connor, a Democrat, has for years enjoyed the regular support of Copley's conservative Republican papers. So have other candidates for county and state office after O'Connor introduced them to her powerful friend. One recent beneficiary was newly elected State Senator Lucy Killea, a Democrat famed for having been banned from Catholic Communion for her pro-choice abortion stand...
...teamwork can produce even more impressive civic results. When Kroc in 1988 decided to donate $18 million, to start a hospice for AIDS and other terminally ill patients, O'Connor enlisted Killea, then an assemblywoman, to sponsor the regulatory legislation needed from the state. Just when everything seemed to be in place, Republican Governor George Deukmejian vetoed the bill. The team closed ranks once more. Copley and her editor in chief, former Nixon aide Herb Klein, agreed to turn some Republican heat on the capital by dispatching a ringing letter to Deukmejian. The Governor was sufficiently impressed to reverse...
Another prominent O'Connor to Copley to Kroc triple play made possible San Diego's recent Soviet Arts Festival. The mayor first dreamed up the idea of a big 22-event festival with a flashy Faberge show couched among operas and ballets. But it took the money and clout of her two friends to surmount vehement opposition to it. Copley and Kroc covered half the festival's budgeted cost by anteing up $500,000 and $1 million respectively. Then Copley's opinion-making dailies swung behind it. To clinch the deal, Kroc kicked in with a $2.8 million Faberge...
...Diego's three leading ladies did not always live in mansions in Point Loma and Rancho Santa Fe. O'Connor, one of 13 children of a local boxer named Kid Jerome, once worked after school as a chambermaid in the Westgate Hotel next to the City Hall she now occupies as mayor. She was a phys-ed teacher with a shoestring campaign budget when, at 24, she became the youngest-ever member of the city council. In 1986 O'Connor handily won the mayoral race, after the incumbent mayor was convicted of perjury. By then financing a campaign was less...
...their close personal and social ties, the three women hold very different political views. Democrat O'Connor and conservative Republican Copley like to kid about their inability to convert each other. "I haven't given up, but she never takes my advice," says Copley, smiling, about O'Connor. Neither does the liberal Kroc. What binds them, according to O'Connor, is camaraderie and a shared boosterism in regard to San Diego. Yet why do they do it? Part of the answer lies in old-fashioned values that Kroc and Copley attribute to their Midwestern upbringing, and O'Connor...