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Mayor O'Connor, 43, -- "Mayor Mo," as she is airily addressed by her constituents -- is at the center of a powerful troika of female leadership. The other two members do not hold public office and hardly need to. One is the region's foremost publisher, Helen Copley, 67, the stately owner of the San Diego Union and Tribune and a chain of 40 other papers. The other is philanthropist Joan Kroc, 61, the vivacious majority stockholder in McDonald's and owner of the San Diego Padres...
...tone of its breezy conservatism. They generate much of its impulse for urban face lifting and instant culture. They influence, and in fact make, many of the city's major civic decisions. "Every day I get up and thank God that we have Mrs. Kroc and Mrs. Copley in San Diego," the mayor says extravagantly. "They go not just the extra mile, but the extra 100 miles. What they do for this community -- and they don't have to -- goes beyond any mayor's wildest expectations of private-public partnership...
...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...
...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 his decision and sign the hospice legislation. "Now that is how you use power," says Kroc admiringly...
...until Homer's Dressing for the Carnival, 1877 -- beyond comparison the most moving and solidly imagined painting in the show -- were the subtlety, sympathy and fullness of Copley's rendering repeated. Nevertheless, there are times when McElroy's prosecutorial zeal gets away from him. Samuel Jennings' Liberty Displaying the Arts and Sciences, 1792, may be a naive image, but no one could doubt that its heart is in the right place. It shows the Goddess of Freedom in her temple offering the emblems of civilization -- books, an artist's palette, a lyre, a globe and, most important...