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...enforcement agencies are in a quandary over what to do about clubs like Peron's. A few cities, such as Concord and Palo Alto, have instituted moratoriums on pot clubs. California attorney general Dan Lungren, a law-and-order Republican, is pursuing civil and criminal litigation against Peron's club; he says undercover cops have bought marijuana there without a doctor's recommendation and that videotapes have shown minors on the premises...
...obtained in nearby Alameda County. Events had already brought Doonesbury into the picture. For a week Zonker, the comic strip's aging soul-at-large, lamented the bust on Peron's club and went desperately in search of alternative sources for the patients it left stranded. Unfair, said Dan Lungren, California's politically ambitious attorney general, who was criticized by name in the strip for ordering the bust. He called on California newspapers to pull the offending strips. (None did.) "We simply have to tell people the basic facts about what this initiative does," says Lungren...
...LUNGREN CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY GENERAL...
...brash style has endeared him to the Newt Gingrich wing of the party. During his campaign for attorney general, Lungren chased his Democratic opponent into an elevator, shouting his demand that the two hold a debate on the spot. And at the 1992 convention, he urged Republicans not to be "shamed into silence" over the party's controversial 1988 Willie Horton ad. Said he: "This is one Republican who won't be cowed." The son of Richard Nixon's physician, he served 10 years in the House, forging ties with Gingrich, Senate majority leader Trent Lott and other conservatives...
...Trojan Horse. Wilson's implosion has helped the cause of California attorney general Dan Lungren, a 49-year-old Irish Catholic who is tough on crime and favors restricting immigration. Besides his young age, conservative credentials and statewide popularity, Lungren's main asset to the Dole campaign would be his potential to force Clinton to spend $10 million or so defending the state's 54 electoral votes instead of lavishing the money on the crucial Midwest. Some in the Dole camp are talking about sending Lungren up and down the Central Valley of California for a 10-week whistle-stop...