Word: kroc
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...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...
...everyone is enamored of the reigning matriarchy. Copley has been embroiled in a prolonged dispute at the newspapers in which labor accuses her of intransigence. Kroc, as a woman, finds herself even more maligned than other baseball owners in the current players' dispute -- the dugout being one of the last all-masculine bastions, even in San Diego -- and has been seeking to sell the team. As mayor, O'Connor gets most of the flak. Councilman Bob Filner, a fellow Democrat, accuses her of dodging systematic dialogue and instead "bullying people, one issue at a time." Some political regulars charge that...
...from Iowa who married her boss, James Copley, and at his death in 1973 hesitantly took over his press fiefdom. Surprisingly, for a reticent, private figure, she proved to be a hands-on publisher who expanded the Copley newspaper chain and quadrupled its worth to more than $800 million. Kroc, whose personal fortune is estimated at $950 million, was a music teacher and supper-club organist from Minnesota who married McDonald's founder Ray Kroc in 1969 and moved to San Diego with him in 1976 to run his newly acquired Padres. After Kroc's death in 1984, she turned...
...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 to a strict Catholic girlhood that...