SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — With victory under her belt, San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis plans to focus more resources in her fourth term on the following areas, according to the U-T’s Kristina Davis: human trafficking, elder abuse and cyber crime.
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U.S. Senators Bernie Sanders, (Independent-Vermont) and John McCain (R-Arizona) have been attempting to work out the details on a bill that would permit veterans to be reimbursed for other medical care if waiting times at Veteran’s Administration hospitals are too long. One stumbling block, according to the Associated Press, is how long a wait is too long? Another might be: do all ailments qualify or just some?
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In the U-T’s “People” column, we learn that comedian Jonah Hill apologized on the Howard Stern Show four using a gay slur when he was trying to ward off a paparazzo. It was “a disgusting word,” Hill said.
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Art Sherman, trainer of Triple Crown hopeful California Chrome, lent his home in Rancho Bernardo last weekend to Chrome’s owners Steve and Carolyn Coburn, visiting from Topaz Lake, Nevada, according to U-T columnist Diane Bell. But now the Coburns are in New York, as is Sherman, getting ready for Saturday’s running of the Belmont Stakes, the final jewel in the triple crown… Bell also quoted Sherman as saying that Chrome will be wearing a new pair of horseshoes on Saturday. … Another story about the wonder horse was in the U-T sports section, written by Ed Zieralski from Belmont, New York. In that one Sherman said having Chrome break from the number 2 post is favorable. “I think going a mile and a half, it’s a good post position. We’ll save some ground leaving there. It’s going to be a jockey’s race anyhow. And it will give us a chance to see who’s going to have the speed and where we stand on the first turn.”
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Brad Weinreb who came in with the highest percentage of votes for Superior Court Office No. 25, is a deputy attorney general, who has been involved mainly in appeals work. The U-T’s Dana Littlefield reported that Weinreb had filed suit before the June 3 primary to force his runoff opponent Ken Gosselin to change his ballot statement which might have misled some people to believe he is a judge, instead of an attorney who occasionally volunteers to hear cases. Gosselin denied Weinreb’s charges but changed his ballot designation.
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The name of resigned, former mayor Bob Filner keeps popping up. In a Union-Tribune editorial, editors suggest that Filner’s being forced out of office by a sexual harassment scandal was the beginning of a Repubican comeback in San Diego. Kevin Faulconer won the special election to succeed Filner, and Laurie Zapf, another Republican, has won Faulconer’s old City Council seat, defeating Democrat Sarah Boot. {But we at SDJW should note that the 2nd Council District, including Point Loma, has long been a Republican stronghold.)
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Retired Culture Critic Welton Jones, a former U-T regular, in a column on the San Diego Opera’s recovery writes that the former general director Ian Campbell “desired a Viking funeral for his San Diego Opera career. He wanted to spread his portfolio out on the deck and set the company ship afire, shoving it off toward Valhalla.” Pretty colorful writing; it’s nice to see Welton Jones back, if only occasionally.
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Investor Bruce Karsh of Oaktree Capital Management is pushing for the ouster of Peter Leparulo as CEO of Novatel Wireless. According to the U-T’s Mike Freeman, Karsh said in a filing with U.S. Security an Exchange regulators “The company’s chief executive officer has had ample time to reverse the company’s disappointing financial performance and has failed to do so.”
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Catching Up:
California Highway Patrol Officer Kevin Pearlstein reported, in a June 2 story by the U-T’s Susan Shroder, that suicide was the object of Trista Lynn Stier, the wrong-way driver who smashed her car into a truck driven by Douglas M. Menegos of Alpine on Highway 67 on Friday, May 30. Pearlstein said Stier apparently picked out the biggest vehicle she could find and plowed into it, killing herself and Menegos.
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Preceding collated by San Diego Jewish World staff.