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Gingrich, for example, said retired gen. Colin L. Powell was a top prospect, ignoring daily protests from Buchanan because Powell supports abortion rights. Gingrich also cited Michigan Gov. John Engler and California Attorney General Dan Lungren as "perfect examples of the kind of people who I think would be terrific...
...Superior Court Judge Stuart Pollak issued a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of 187's provision that bars illegal immigrants from public schools. The judge said 187 conflicts with a 1982 U.S. Supreme Court ruling requiring states to provide a public education to all residents. State Attorney General Dan Lungren vowed to fight the judge all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. As-yet unchallenged: Prop 187 provisions to cut off health care to illegal immigrants, plus requirements that doctors and nurses turn them...
Such tales are the daily stuff of talk shows, of course, leading some prosecutors to blame Oprah and company for making jurors more sympathetic to novel defense strategies that try to excuse the accused's behavior. "I call it the Oprahization of the jury pool," says Dan Lungren, attorney general of California. "It's the idea that people have become so set on viewing things from the Oprah view, the Geraldo view or the Phil Donahue view that they bring that into the jury box with them. And I think at base much of that tends...
...weeks ago, when all appeared lost, Brooklyn Democratic Congressman Charles Schumer made a final attempt to save the bill. He met with Simpson, Democratic Congressman Peter Rodino of New Jersey, who sponsored the House version, and Republican Congressman Dan Lungren of California. Together they produced a compromise called the "California provision," which extended the amnesty to illegal aliens who harvested perishable fruits and vegetables for 90 days or longer between May 1985 and May 1986. Says Schumer: "It would have been abhorrent to let the whole bill go down over this problem...
...Sistine Chapel, but it's not a bad paint job," said Rep. Dan Lungren, R-Calif., who played a major role in writing the bill...