News Scrapbook 1984

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as_u .. puon• and then stirk to 11.·· r to n,e General plan·· She al o belie ·e. that residents n the Sa: Dieguito area are ec 1\ing less han their sha ( of count) .ernce~ for the taxes the) pay. and propose, to opu, a :--:orth County offic tha v.ould .er,e her Third District cor.stitu• 1, 1. r11< area · I h1nk 1t'< more t!san .ymbolic that a pf r.on 1r. tJ-.j, area has t o pa) toll charges to reach their pub:1c official ,' she said "I v. ant to ha\e ar office that 1s full) s:aff d by a high-level person and an office J v. ould spend Jrr,P in • And not or.eon Mirama:- Ro;,d or l'TC bu right h r · Schenk early in th campaign also pledged to u;:,grade the Sheriff~ Depar'ment in the area , ;,.dd:n~ more pa rol ur.Jt~ In conjunct1on v.1 t, h r ,tron ly v. orded "1iilement in v.h1ch sht called local re.,µon,t· time, "unacce · table··. h • pie dupth ndor ene tof h riff'Johr,DulT\ a Repu lic·an. · o;: ::,o.ed to the5E:- wholcsc1le amer.dm nt

~7 think it's more t.ban symbolic that a per o.o in this ar a hers to pay toll charges to reach their lie officials. I t11.•ant to have an ice tbat is i~lly staffed by a ·gn-J V I person and an OffiCf!J I wd spend time in ... Alld not on Miramar Road or UTC, but

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ta:,e a route clo ·er to the coast. Furthermore "' a e ! .. stu .' "'lo,,!1· .. lltte, in 'he, ate. the 1'.:g1slat re ,topped her by in,ertir. 5 'ar. 5 ua 5 e into her trans• portatton bud~et fort ding Ca'trans from ·pending any mone:, or -•afft1me to do ~uch as uc!y T,J be ,ure r met w1•h \mer:can High Speed Rail, hey had a pro. ect. we talked abou :ta .;reat deal," Sc ..enk said.· We. mean ng the administration were gener- ally supportive of the concept, but we d1dn·t have a lot of spec iic information. "The only thing we had in the early days wa- 'he notion that it wo !d go be• t\A.'een San Diego and Los Ar,geles, plus that hey were ~eekin:< a bonding at:thor- ity, plus that they wanted some sor of ·tream:1ning of the er.,ironmental pro• cess because they dtdn' '.I.ant to have to go through the same review with every comm nity along the route" She was concerned herself, she said, . because "here I am with a proposal to put • a big train project on the inte~state but I am shack!ed from using my engineers at Caltrans. my technical people from ,tudyi g this proJect because of that budget control language. '·The point is that specific piece ofleg. islation dt n·t mention the route . In the scheme of everything that w¥ going Pfec.se tur,i t~ page 3 he ,a~-- 1,1,hen she had

See page 6 for our endorse- 1.!1~11, .-LJ .~e , 4 ce ,:...,.- :-Ji•• d Di::t .. trict supei·vLor. the one •hat •ook .\.rer on H1.:;h Speed Ra• aroun I and rnt-o:-ced •hem toe•,. ~:,body ' ',\.·nat happened on the floor of the Le~1;la u:-e :n 1982 that allov. ed :\HSR to gain public bon 1 financing and elimin- ated some em1ronmental steps 1s fairly well known AHSR officials, operating throu;h powerful Assembly Transporta- 1on Commit ee Chairman B-·1ce 'i,111r.g, D· .. or ·,1, 3 i k. bro c1 sh t up the i m- plemen mg b:ll durir • the final hectic days of the leg:s at.•,E ~es31on anc! :egis- la ors. anx10 1 1s to go home passed ti eas!!y There ;.as or.!y a cu~sor; public hear- ing on the matte:- and many le;;islators satd ,ater they ::ad no idea of the :mplica- tions of the measu,e when they voted for It. Schenk's exp!anatwn of her early sup- port 1.s alilng those same lines. She ;aid sne was al;. a~• "under the genen! impression that the train .1.ould run along lnte- tate 5 through San Otego County and therefore saw none of the en- vironmental pitfalls hat were brought up when i was !earned the train would

tempt o a je~ree as well o fa candidate for office here pl.;~ed a r le in a.lowing the bullet train to stde ep cer+am reguhtic,ns so the proJ• ec'. could be sped up 11 hat kind of cha::ces would that candidate ha\·e" [ts easy to see the obstacle Third D s- trict superlii ·aria! candidate Lynn ,:ere~'., 'l..is to hurdle to win 01,er coast.11 \O'er; ..\l'h1Ju,h she oppo es the pro·ec r.uv. .Scher,~ as Gov Jerry Bro· .. n s secretary oi B s1~e-;s Transporta 10r and Hou~- 1ng. appeared o be an enthusiast•c sup- porter of•he bullet train hen it...,, as first pro~osed b; American High Speed Rail callH' 5 1t 'breath-takin1f' and ·re\ob 10nary ·· Both of her opponents in the race. Deo- ut;, Di,tric Attorney '.\1ichael Pent and former Deputy Secretary of Bus1n,:,ss Tra'.lspor·atwn and Hol!:; ing Susa:-. Gold- ing, don't hesitate to point out this fact as they try o '-"OO voters here. Golding last week said · She v.,as the person that shepherded it throl!gh the Legislature behind closed doors Sne·s

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