If I couldn't live here, I wouldn't move any farther

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Volume 36 / NumBeR 45
NoVemBeR 8, 2007
We’ve grown up
in paradise
If I couldn’t live here, I wouldn’t move any farther
away than Orange County
Story begins on page 24
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media,is that possible to do?
BREAKING NEWS Next Firestorm — Must we raise taxes to pay for
adequate fire protection,as
Paris sojournDemocratic congressman American Community.”The group’s website,fea- Political well as replenish the plun-
Bob Filnerranks as one ofthe most liberal mem- turing links to Filner’s Paris speech and his Wash- dered pension plan and rebuild
bers ofthe House,frequently ington Times op-ed with Tancredo,does not list the aged infrastructure? Will
By Don Bauder
castigating the Bush admin- any names ofofficers or supporters.A January 2004 San Diegans stand for increased
istration about everything Denver Poststory about a Washington fund-raiser W taxes?
hen asked,“How’s your wife?”the late
from its economic policies to held by the Colorado organization identified Tim Let’s consider the big pic-
its invasion ofIraq.Yet Filner Mehdi GhaemiofColorado as its president.Tan- comedian Henny Youngman used ture first.“The development
and some ofthe Bushies have credo did not attend the fund-raiser,purport- community is salivating,but
to crack,“Compared to what?”The local
at least one cause peculiarly edly because the American Red Cross had pulled San Diegans must realize these
in common:their support for its cosponsorship.The paper quoted Ghaemi as economy is like that these days. quent and terrifying hurri- fires may be here to stay,”says
Bob Filner a group ofIranian exiles that saying that proceeds ofthe event would go to Ifsomeone asks,“How is the canes? What can we do about Murtaza Baxamusa of the
the U.S.government labeled support “regime change”in Iran.He added that San Diego economy going to a declining water supply? Given Center on Policy Initiatives.
a “Foreign Terrorist Organization”in 1997 but MEK would not be a beneficiary,though its sup- do?”you have to reply,“What’s
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that some ofBush’s conservative backers are now porters would “absolutely”be present. your frame ofreference? This H
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successor government ofAyatollah Khomeini, tor General ofthe U.S.Depart- pour in and reconstruction
setting offa series ofbombs that killed dozens ment ofHousing and Urban gets under way in earnest.But
ofhigh-ranking officials.After moving to France Development reported that Saddam Hussein San Diego faces long-term
in the early 1980s,the group hooked up with Ghaemi and Hamidullah questions:Can we still say we
Iraqi president Saddam Husseinin the mid- Sarwary,a former Littleton Housing Authority have a perfect climate when
’80s,during the Iran-Iraq War;among other (LHA) Section 8 (subsidized housing) tenant,and we are a semidesert with rocky
alleged crimes,it has been accused ofplaying a two others “allegedly conspired to assist Sarwary and steep terrain,getting even
role in Saddam’s 1991 slaughtering ofthe Kurds in obtaining an FHA-insured mortgage and con- dryer with global warming,
in northern Iraq. cealing his property ownership from LHA.HUD and periodically suffering stiff
During the 2003 invasion ofIraq,6000 MEK realized a loss of$46,988 after Sarwary defaulted Santa Ana winds that whip
fighters were reportedly captured by U.S.troops. on his FHA-insured mortgage and $3,760 in up infernos? Can we expect
Since then,however,as tensions with Iran have LHA housing assistance Sarwary obtained but more frequent and damag-
grown,a number ofAmerican politicians have was not entitled to receive.” ing fires the way New Orleans
become MEK supporters,arguing that the Clin- Reached on his cell phone and Florida face more fre-
ton-era terrorist designation,which remains in last week,Ghaemi said that the
place,was made as part ofa failed rapproche- allegations against him made Read Don Bauder’s
ment with the Iranian leadership.In addition to in the auditor general’s report Scam Diego blog every day! Harris Fire
Filner,other high-profile MEK backers in Congress were inaccurate and that he Go to SanDiegoReader.com
have included Congressman Tom Tancredoof had had no direct involvement and look in Blogs for Bauder. the fire-proneness and com- “It is important for us to reeval-
Colorado and Senator Kit BondofMissouri, in the deal.“We managed the ing water shortage,should we uate the way in which we grow.
both Republicans. property for 60 days after the Contact Don Bauder curtail residential construc- We have to rethink the speed
This past June,Filner and Tancredo coau- Condoleezza Rice transaction, and then we at 619-546-8529 or tion? With real estate developers ofgrowth and also the qual-
thored an op-ed piece in the ultraconservative dropped it after we learned of [email protected] controlling the politicians, ity ofgrowth.Are we provid-
Washington Timesarguing that Secretary ofState the fraud.”The state real estate commission has bureaucrats,and mainstream continued on page 8
Condoleezza Riceshould lift the terrorist label cleared him,and his attorney is seeking a cor-
from the MEK.“From its base in Iraq,where rection from HUD,he said.Regarding the source Neal Obermeyer
3,800 MEK members live under the protection offunds for Filner’s trip,Ghaemi said that the money
ofcoalition forces,the organization has pro- had come from “Iranian-American community
vided intelligence on Iran’s support for terror- members in Colorado.”He added his group is
ism in Iraq,”the pair wrote.“Listing the MEK as not incorporated but has registered as a political
‘terrorists’is both an injustice organization with the State ofColorado since
and manifestly contrary to 2001;it is not required to disclose its donor list,
U.S.interests.” he said.(Filner did not respond to a query about
That same month,Filner the trip and its finances.)
flew to Paris to address a gath- The organization,which has a “few hundred”
ering billed as the “Rally for Ira- members,Ghaemi said,is dedicated to a “third
nian Human Rights.”“The Ira- way”between what he called the current “appease-
nian Resistance has brought ment”ofIran and an all-out U.S.attack on the
Tom Tancredo the world to a true understanding country.“Iranians are more than capable of
7 ofthe Iranian regime,”Filner told regime change on their own,”with MEK help,
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istake. As soon as I mentioned the
storyline, the Chinese lady waiting
tables in the Gaslamp Quarter’s Moon Cafe
clammed up.“We don’t talk other dishes.
to the newspapers,”she said. The narrow restaurant ran
That was that.Ofcourse,she’d deep into a building on Fourth
let me stay to eat the bok choy Avenue’s east side,two doors
and chicken I’d ordered.And north ofG Street.Customers
nothing prevented me from sat mostly at long picnic-style
looking around.It was Wednes- furniture,though a few smaller
day,the week ofthe fires,and tables inhabited an alcove near
I’d already noticed the unhappy the front entrance.Chinese-
sign.“On Friday,October 26, language newspapers were
at 7 pm,we are closing after strewn on the long table clos-
26 years in business.Thanks est to the cash register counter
to our many valued customers. in the back.Paintings ofChi-
The Liang family.” nese buildings adorned plain
You got a low-priced meal walls.Others appeared to be the San Diego County floors.“Sing has been with “Four ofus girls would stop plained about the staffbeing
in the Moon Cafe.Even the cof- classic Chinese flower paint- Recorder’s Office web page,I me for 16 years.I started doing here every day on our way to rude.And one wrote,“It’s
fee I drank with my food was ings behind glass.Stylized rep- found neither a fictitious busi- business here in 1988.We have work up the street,”she told cheap but you get what you
only 65 cents.Not much on resentations of Confucius, ness name ofMoon Cafe nor two and a half years left on me.“Eighty-five cents for cof- pay for.”At my own inquiry
the menu cost more than five Lao-tzu,and Buddha hung a business owner named Moon our contract,but the new fee.They had sandwiches too. into prices,a desk clerk quoted
and a halfdollars.The high- on a back wall near the counter. Liang.The office did show, owner is almost doubling the My favorite was the turkey. $170 as the weekly rate and
est price I saw was $6.99 for Two elevated minitrays of however,nearly 30 business rent from the $3000 I was pay- And these are the friendliest $470 as the monthly.He acted
sirloin steak.Two pork chops oranges had been placed on owners in the county named ing.I’m going to work for my people you’ll ever meet.” as though I were nuts for ask-
went for $5.50,chicken-fried a platform before them. Liang. brother-in-law— today,as The atmosphere around ing about a nightly rate.“There
steak for $4.25.One side of The waitress would go On my way out,I saw that soon as I finish here and get Fourth and G wasn’t quite as aren’t any vacancies anyway,”
the laminated menu was for behind the counter to hand KD Donuts,one door south out.He has a pool-service chipper as my meeting with he said.
breakfast,standard fare over orders to the cook through a ofthe Moon,was closing its business,and with the fires Navarro might suggest.Many, The remarks ofa resident
at 10:00 a.m.,and the other for shoulder-high opening. I doors that day.Another mes- starting,we’re going to get ifnot most,ofboth KD’s and standing out front ofthe hotel
dinner.The supper menu had judged the grinning man in the sage ofthanks to customers had busy right away.” the Moon’s patrons were alco- reminded me ofelements in
two halves,American meals chef’s hat to be her husband. been taped to the window. “The same thing must be holic,mentally ill,down-and- Hemingway’s story “A Clean,
out,or elderly with meager Well-Lighted Place,”sans the
incomes.The 14-story low- suicide.In the story,a little
rent Horton House for seniors café is a temporary refuge for
is located on the intersection’s a man in despair.My Golden
southwest corner.Constructed West resident told me he used
in 1981,the building has 153 to “have at least a little some-
residences. thing”at the Moon Cafe every
On Fourth and G’s north- day.“I liked to hang out there.
west corner sits the single- The owners were especially
room-occupancy Golden West nice to us guys who came all
Hotel,built in the early part the time,”he said.“And you
ofthe last century by city father couldn’t beat the prices.”
John D.Spreckels.A friend The man probably wouldn’t
who worked in the F Street transfer his loyalty to the restau-
card rooms ofthe 1970s told rant two doors north ofthe
me that the “bust outs,”who Moon. He might not be
lost most oftheir checks by the allowed into the fancier place
Chhay Tea fifth day ofthe month,used anyway.The restaurant is called
to stay there then.Today the Blue Ginger:Fine Chinese
above and Chinese below.At The two often had short,pleas- Inside,an Asian couple was happening next door,”I said. hotel has achieved a new noto- Cuisine.To get the edge on
the menu’s top,a note read ant-sounding conversations cleaning the place.I remem- “They say they’ve been in busi- riety among some visitors, its competitors in the neigh-
that all full entrées came with in Chinese before returning to bered them from as far back ness there 26 years.” who’ve left their comments borhood,Blue Ginger had aS
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He points to Proposition 13, ilies will be able to afford them?
firestorm the 1978 measure mandating People who lost their homes
that the property tax on a par- may not get insurance pay-
continued from page 6 cel be limited to 1 percent of ments sufficient to permit
ing the services that residents assessed valuation,which can them to build fire-resistant
need?” go up only 2 percent a year.“We structures.
Baxamusa believes that put the burden of taxes on What,then,about the near
developers are not funding new housing because ofProp term? Before the fires,the San
the infrastructure that they 13,”says Cunningham.“New Diego economy was on its
should be required to pro- housing is really expensive. way down— perhaps in or
vide.“In the current general It’s the biggest detriment to headed for a recession.Alan
plan,the developers are not regional prosperity.It’s not Gin,economist at the Uni-
asked to do as much”as gov- that people can’t find a job;it’s versity of San Diego,keeps
ernments require to stabilize that they can’t afford to live monthly lead indicators on
finances and keep up with here.”The population has the local economy.For many
necessary infrastructure barely risen in two years,and months,the trend in build-
improvement. “The City jobs are rising less than 1 per- ing permits,initial claims for
Intensive English Language Program
addresses this in a meek man- cent a year. unemployment,and consumer
Afternoon
ESL/TOEFL $350 a month & evening ner,”he says.Whether or not The war is on.One side mood have been consistently
classes the City has to raise taxes,“We wants to shift more burden poor,indicating “a big loss of
*W/ this ad. New students only. Not valid w/ any other offer. Exp. 11/30/07.
have to negotiate better deals to builders,who will pass on jobs but not a recession—
on new projects.Real estate much or all of it to buyers. what I call the San Diego equiv-
Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Ph.D. degree in Psychology!
developers are not doing their The other side says San Diego’s alent ofa recession,”says Gin.
(Certificates also available) part.” pressing problem is that peo- The fire took money out
Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Kelly Cunningham, ple can’t afford homes— par- ofthe economy— retail sales,
economistfor the San Diego ticularly new ones. Some productivity,buildings,etc.
Business Administration for $390-$400a month Institute for Policy Research, experts tout new homes that Cunningham estimates that the
Classes also available online! looks at the long-term woes are especially constructed to damage is $2.1 billion,includ-
from a different perspective. resist fire.But how many fam- continued on page 10
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