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FJ6;.rrJ GOP Campaign Aims to Oust Popular Assemblywoman

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a vacant San Diego City Council seal that ultimalcly went to Gloria McColl m 1983. He also comes from a well-known San Diego famlly, Court Judge Earl Cantos Sr., while his molher, Irene Cantos, formerly Those relationships have provided both name-recogmuon and finan- c1al benefits, the latter displayed by the $6,000 raised for Cantos' cam- pa1gn at a recent tribute to his A San Diego native, Cantos was a business major at San D1 go State University and received hla law degree from lll!L\l.!1Lvers1Ly of an planning his 1:ampa1gn againijt Kil- lea, Cantos spent two years as a leg1slat1ve aide m S.icramento Seek111g to define the campaign's ideological b.ittl ground, Cantos has striven lo inJc .t th volatile death-penalty 1>su into the ue that ne rguea illua- lrates "one of the mOBt s1gnlf1cant distinction "betwt>en the two can- didates. A strong death-penalty supporter, Cantos helped draft a death penalty bill whlle in Sacra- memo and says that, if elected, he would work to strengthen capital- K11lea also says that she believes that the death penalty is "Justified in some cases," but, by Cantos' counl, has failed on five occwnons during th, past two years t.o vote for bllls to strengthen death-penal - "I've voted to tighten up other loopholes," Killea said "Bes1de1, I don't see that as the mlij()r issue m th1Sd1stnctor m lh1Scampalgn," Adopting a high - road stance and doing her best to ignore Canlo.B' charges, Killea, a 64-year-old for- mer Central Int.tlltgence Agency researcher, has made her own record the focus of her campaign In parllcular, she points with pride to her leg1slalion 1med t lncreas• ing trade with Pa 1f1c Rim na I • His father 1s retired Municipal sang with the Starlight Opera. mot})er. ~Before moving ac o n Diego early th1. ytar to b gin r e- an I pumshmenl laws. ty laws.

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had 1t for four. I don't know how much more 1t takes to convince them that it's nol a Republican dl8trtct. I guess we'll Just have lo prove 1l again this year," Somewhere between Hepubll- cans' of)ttm1st1c predictions and Killea'1 confidence hes the true nature of this year's race m the 78tb D1str1ct, which st.retches along the coast from Ocean Beach to Pacific Beach, extending inland to .•. the Miramar Naval Air Station m the north, south to downtown San Diego and east to East San Diego. In recent years, D mocrats have held a small registration edge in the 78th DJstrict-a fa<'t that. coupled with Killea's popularity among 10 • throughout her political career, enabled her to wm comfortdb!y m her lWO previous Assembly races. she defeated Republican Patrick Boarman by a more than In 198 •, m the GOP's favor 111 three years In October, 1983, the Democrats held a 77,991 -to- 61 ,355 lead m reg1strat1on over the Re- publicans. After finally overLakmg the Democrat.a this summer, the Repubhcans. as of Sepl. 13, had (85,763) of Lhe d1stnct's registered voters, com- pared to 43.1 % (84,897) for the le than 43.6% 196,821 Republicans regard that shift as evidence of aeon ervattve swmg m the 78lh District, often referred to as a ·•yuppie district" because 1t includes neighborhoods such as Hillcrest, Normal He1ghls and Kensington and has one of the lowest median ages among vat- era-31½ years old-of any !egi.s- laUve district m lhe state. "When reg1Strat1on changes that much, I think it's because the Las1c philosophical makeup of the dis- trlct is changing, too," said Cantos, a handsome 30-year-old Kensmg- ton lawyer who looks younger than hi.II age. A former mmonty consul- tant to the Assembly Public Safety Committee m Sacramento, Cantos handpicked by state Repubh- can 1trateg1.11ts to oppose Killea. K11lea partisan dlSpute the the- ory lhat the dJ tr1ct has undergone a philosophical transformation within the past several years. "I see thi as more a case of hard work by the Republicans than a r alignment of lhe voters," said w dependents and Republicans 2-to - l margin However, an aggressive reg 15 • tratton drive y th R pu llcan hu r ulted m a 17,000-plus shift Democrats.

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uiar Killea Face Major GOP Drive to Oust Her 1 ti-~ By B\RR Y HORSTMAN Times 'taff Wnter · When Republicans look at an Dieio's 78th late A embly DLSlnct, they see 11 R publican 1strict represented by a Dem- ocr t. In fact, the 7 th Distnct LS the most h av1Jy Repubhcan Assembly dislncl in the t te held by the Democrats. Chagrined COP le ders, encouraged by a dramatic nse in Republican voters' registration, hope to change that this fall. "That d1stnct already 1s a Republican d1stnct m its compos1Uon," San Diego Repubhcan Party Chairman Bob Schuman !!aid. " ·ow, we plan on making 1t a Republican eat in cramento." Rather than react with trepidal!on to uch talk, 78th D1sinct Assemhlvwoman Lw K ' ( O-San Diego) only cnuckJe3 "' en ne ne rs Republican leaders boa.st about GOP challenger Eari Cantos Jr.'s prospects for victory in November "For y ars. the Republicans h~ve been calling this their dmnct," said Killea. who w elected to the Assembly m 1982 after erv1ng four years on lhe San Dieg~City Council. "But (l)('mocrat) Larry K'l;llloff repr nted 1t for 10 years and now I've

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Lucas faces trial on triple murder ch~r_g~J)ct. 23 ThTfilst o~wo trials of David Allen Lucas, each on triple murder {:harges, has been scheduled to begin Oct. 23. Superior Court Judge Franklin B. Orficld set the date yesterday m ac- cord with a decision made two weeks ago by the 4th District Court of Ap· peal. The higher court directed Or- field to have the trial begin within 60 days of Aug. 25, when defense attor- ney Steven Feldman demanded a speedy trial. In the Ort. 23 trial, Lucas will face charges of murdering Suzanne Jacobs, 31, and her son, Colin, 3, on May 4, 1979, in their Normal Heights home; and Gayle Garcia, 29, a real estate saleswoman, on Dec.11.1981, in a Spring Valley home she was show- ing to prospective renters. Lucas faces trial Nov. 3 on charges of murdering Rhonda Strang, 24, and a child she was baby-sitting, Amber Fisher, 3, on Oct 23, 1984, in Strang's Lakeside home; of murdering Uni- verliilt,y of San Diego studenC"":itnm! Catherine Swanke, 22, who was last een alive Nov. 20, 1984, walking toward her car with a can of gasoline on Parkway Drive in La Mesa; and of kidnapping and attempting to mur- der Jody Santiago, 34, a Seattle woman who survived a throat slash- ing, a skull fracture and st Ii wounds June 9, 1984.

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to ca:;t the race rn a conservative- versus-liberal mold. His absence of a re<:ord m public office, however, has forced Cantos to rely more on rhetoncal generahues than specific examples m an altempt to expand "Many limes. voters have to pick between two shades of gray," Can- tos said during a debate before the last week, "I think we offer a real choice. The d1slr1ct 1s becommg more conservative and Mrs. Kil- lea's voting record is very, very liberal. I think she's out of step with In his pul.Jllc appearances, Cantos takes pams to note that Killea received a 90% favorable ratmg liberal Americans for Democratic Action, while a conser- vative organ11.3t1on, the Free En- Lerprise Polltical Action Commit- tee, approved of only 9% of Klllea's from the "All those rankings prove 1s that I have a record and he doesn't," K1llea argues. "I've tried to take a pragmal1c approach to problems, while his approach Is more ideolog- 1cal. One of the things you learn when you get in office is that there's no way lo always please everybody. Of course, my opponent hasn't had that experience." Although he has never before run for elective office, Cantos did unsuccessfully seek appnintment lo on Lhal theme. Lhed1str1ct." voles

olds. "You've got LO give the. R _ publicans credit, though. In a close election, nolhmg's more importanl than reg1Stration, because no one plays in the game wllhout a tickel." Concerned about the need t.o, in the words or Killea campaign man - ager Jim Cunningham, "stop the tide," Democrats recenUy launched Lheir own registration drive. Over largely underwntten by Rep . Jim Bates (D-San Diego) , has added more than 5,000 Democrats to reg- 1strauon lists m lhe 78th Districl. Democrats also are comforted by strenglh at the polls traditionally has cut across party Imes. In 1984, amid President Reagan's landslide victory, Killea ,;;Yen outpolled Rea- future. but not Lucy Killea," said Blll Cavala, a key state Democratic strategist on the staff of Assembly Speaker W,.lllle Brown ( D-San Francisco) . ~l'l'-llon'l weigh her on the same scale as they perhaps do other politicians. She has a special personality that translates through to the dJslncl and tends t.o be a centrist in her policies. People don't see her in Regardless, Cantos, who de- scribes himself as "fiscally conser- vatJve and socially moderate," the knowledge that Klllea's gan m her district. "Another Democral might have problems m that district in the partisan terms."

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who says she is "mYlgorated by person-to-person contact," Killea, whose infect1ow smile, low-key demeanor and simple. unadorned oratory frequently IVUl over audi- ences, attends hundreds of commu- ruty events annually. Citing her self-descnbed "prag- mauc rather than partisan style," Killea adds lhat she does "not feel parucularly threate ed" by the increase m GOP re · lion in her distnct. Her confiden e-as well as that of state Dem tic strate- gists-was bol.1ter by the fact that. in theJ.r respec e unopposed pnmanes last June, Killea out- polled Cantos by about 6.300 votes. That result IS even e telling m light of Republicans traditionally higher voter turnout and the fact that the GOP's sptnt U.S. Senate pnmary gave local Republicans added incenl!ve i.o go the polls. A significant 1ndi

Both Cantos and Killea said that the final price tag of the!l' respec. live campaigns could be more than $300,000 each. Two mmor candidates-Ameri- can Independent candidate Charles Ulmschne1der and L1bertanan Jo- seph Shea-also will appear on lhe Nov. 4 ballot in the 78th Dislnct race. State Democratic leaders, mean- while, once thought that Killea also might need a heavy infusion of party.funneled money from Sacra- mento to turn back the GOP's challenge, but now have changed theJ.r mind. "Mrs. Killea has gone 1t on her own and doesn't really seem to need much help from the [Demo- cratic) caucus," said Richie Ross, who has taken a leave from Assem- bly Speaker Brown's staff to help coordinate the Democrats' state- wide strategy. local Republicans pnvately question whether a polit- ical novice was the party's best choice to try to parlay voter regis- tration gairLS into a seat m Sacra- mento. "It's hard to believe this was the best horse available to saddle up," one GOP consultant said. Indeed, despite his family's background, Cantos IS hardly a household name in San Diego. In addition, with Election Day only six weeks away, Cantos still has some rough edges as a candidate-nota- bly, campaign oratory character- lZed more by platitudes and a kmd of gee-whiz-aw-shucks enthusi- asm than detailed discussion of issues. While Cantos seems well bnefed on Killea's record, his comments on his own policies or legislative goal! are often lirruted to general1l!es about the prospect of "working • Even some

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and her role Diego's "workfare·• which welfare rec1 ien are re- quJred to perform p blic serY1ce- whlle enacting s tewide welfare reforms. One of K1llea· maJQr setbac.b th.is seSIJ.on occurred when he lost a battle over devel meot curbs on Famosa Slough. a.lo g West Point Loma Boulevard near Ocean Beach. Over Killea' ob tions, the 1...egislature stnp away C C:omm Junsdiction overilie Wt! ands. cleanng e way for a po11~1ble waterfront condomiruum proiect. That issue may be difficult for Cantos to exploit, however, because env!l'onment..alist postur- mJ would contradict his efforts to ~1tion himself to the nght of Killea. I! reelected to a thll'd two- year term. her pnontJes would include insurance reform, expansion of child-care programs, additional aid to local governments to combat drug abuse and increased emphasis on lo:iac waste cleanup, Killea said. An impressive legislallve track record-14 of the 31 bills lhat she m~uced last year became law, and several others were withdrawn at her request-lends credence to her clium that those goal!l are realistic ones. Chafing under Cantos· oft-stated charge that she has "lost touch", with her district, Killea. a San Antoruo, Tex., native who moved here 19 years ago, notes that she has returned to San Diego all but three weekends whlle the Legisla- ture was in sess10n during lhe past four yean. A llreleS3 campaigner in ending San rogram-m

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closely with the governor and the district" on vai,ous programs. Nevertheless, Cantos argues that he LS malung graduai progress m her goal of convmcing voters that 'Tm more in sync wilh the district" than K.illea. "I truly believe that all I have to do to win 1s get her voting record out," Cantos said. "Once voters compare rny positions to her re- cord; I'll be the victor." Cantos paused. then added, "But maybe all candidates feel that way.·

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