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Third time is charm for candidates nDEBATE: Politicians question each other’s party loyalty and make issues of everything from abortion to Enron By Andrew Burns
Daily Titan Staff Writer The third debate between the three major republican candidates running for governor of California took place Wednesday at Cal State Long Beach. The debate between former mayor of Los Angeles Richard Riordan, Secretary of State Bill Jones and businessman Bill Simon Jr. will be the last before the March 5 prima-
ries. The candidates had different strategies in showing how they were each the best candidate for the Republican Party. Riordan spent most of his time attacking Davis. “Gray Davis ought to be in Salt Lake City because he’s going downhill faster than any of the other skiers,” he said. He also focused on Davis receiving $119,000 from Enron, more than any other elected official in the United States. He dubbed Davis as the “Enron governor.” He even went so far as to mention what Enron received for its contributions to Davis. He noted that Enron received the
right to drill in Solano County along with approvals for two power plants to be built while Davis was governor. Jones focused his attack on Riordan. “[Riordan] has given money and support to democrats like [Sen.] Diane Feinstein and [Congresswoman] Maxine Waters,” he said. “The real question here is consistency.” Jones emphasized that the real issues at stake are trust and whether or not republicans could trust Riordan. “[Riordan is] coming down on all sides of the issues,” he said. “Riordan is the one who has something to prove to the Republican Party.”
Simon spent time defending his pro-life stance on abortion, as well as making it clear that he would not raise taxes. He responded to a question regarding Medi-Cal spending on abortions at certain hospitals. “I’ve had many years of experience as a federal prosecutor, and although sometimes I may not agree with the law, I was sworn to uphold the law, and that’s what I’ll do as governor,” Simon said. “We can’t use one issue as a litmus test. We have to consider all of the issues facing California.” Simon took opportunities to present himself as the best candidate on the issue of taxes. “I’m the only
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Too close to home When wild fire strikes 4 Listen to a battery operated radio for reports and evacuation information.
Cheney to visit Nixon landmark
nPOLITICS: The first Vice President to ever visit the Yorba Linda library receives ‘Architect of Peace’ award
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Daily Titan Opinion Editor
in an open space facing the direction of escape.
4 Make plans to care for pets in case of evacuation.
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temporary housing at a home outside the threatened area.
4Choose a route away from fire hazards.
4 Watch for
changes in directions of speed and direction of fire
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Former Los Angeles mayor Richard Riordan (left) used most of his debate time to attack current California Governor Gray Davis.
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Officially fire season is declare around the middle of May, but late night on Feb. 9, a raging brush fire broke out in Anaheim Hills between Green River and Coal Canyon Roads. Fallen power lines were to blame for the fire and 2,400 acres were destroyed. No structures were harmed, although a miniature forest of Tecate Cypress trees burned to the ground, taking with it 30-foot-tall Big Mo, one of the largest and oldest Tecates in the state. Big Mo was split into several pieces.
Vice President Dick Cheney isn’t in Washington DC, Wyoming, Kansas or any other state of the union for that matter. California, here he comes. Second in command to President George W. Bush, Cheney and his wife, Lynne, will be at the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace today to accept the Library’s “Architect of Peace” award. Tickets to the award luncheon at noon cost $2,500 and guarantees a personal photo with the vice president and Mrs. Cheney. With 200 seats available, the event could raise $500,000 for the library, the only presidential library operating without taxpayer funds. Dick Cheney Executives at the library decided a year ago to honor the Cheneys, but circumstances delayed the award presentation. “He had some health problems, then Sept. 11 – we were not sure when he would be available to accept the invitation,” said Kathy O’ Conner, the assistant executive director. After the last fundraiser in early January, the vice president’s office called to tell Nixon library executives that Cheney would be in town Feb. 19. “We didn’t expect [these fundraising events] to happen one right after another,” O’ Conner said. The library has been busy ever since preparing for the event and answering the requests of an overwhelming number of people interested in attending the awards luncheon, O’Conner said. The secret service will do a sweep of the building and metal detectors will be placed at the doors, the library’s Communications Director Arianna Barrios said. “[Metal detectors] would be here regardless - pre or post Sept. 11,” she said.
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Keys unlock campus personalnPARKING: AMPCO attendants get to know student quirks by their cars, keychains and decorations By Katie Cumper
Daily Titan Asst. Photo Editor
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CSUF student Jason Allen hands his keys over to AMPCO keybox attendant Brian Alvarado.
Most people have just one set of car keys. This is not the case for Brian Alvarado. On any given weekday, he might be in possession of more than 200 sets of keys – all of them belonging to Cal State Fullerton students. “I’m the keybox person,” Alvarado says. “I make sure all the keys are safe and organized.” Alvarado, who works in parking lot A, is just one of the employee’s of AMPCO System Parking, the company that provides the “stacking” service for the overcrowded CSUF parking lots. He helps students unable to find a place to
park when they arrive at school, by “stacking” their cars behind an already parked car of a student who arrived earlier. Once a students car is parked, an AMPCO attendant gives them a claim check. They in turn give their keys to Alvarado who hangs them in the cabinet he guards. He only takes them out if a car needs to be moved to allow someone who is blocked in to leave, or if the student returns with their claim ticket. This jobs sounds easy enough, but according to Alvarado sometimes “it can get a bit crazy.” Just last week one of those “crazy” days happened when a female student spotted a scratch on her car. “Whoa she was mad,” Alvarado said. “She tried to blame it on us – that we had scratched her car when we moved another car,” Alvarado said. “The police were called out and we found out there was already a report on the same scratch.” The officer also looked at the car one of the AMPCO employees had moved, which the
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female student had said was the vehicle that must have hit her car. It also had a scratch on it., Alvarado said. According to Alvarado and three of the five employee’s that work with him, after the policeman measured the two scratches he reported to them that not only did the two scratches not match in height – one was higher than the other. It was a physical impossibility for the two cars to collide, since one car had its scratch in the front and one was scratched in the back. “We already knew it wasn’t any of us,” Alvarado said. “Every employee knows that we have report slips if we damage anything, we just have to tell the supervisor. No one gets in trouble. It’s rare that it happens.” Problems in any of the CSUF parking lots that have “stacking” attendants usually arise after students arrive late for a class. For instance, if they have a class at 12:30 p.m. and arrive at
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