Bobbi Fiedler

Former San Fernando Valley lawmaker Bobbi Fiedler was recently appointed to the seven-member governing board of the powerful and controversial Community Redevelopment Agency. The CRA is charged with revitalizing depressed neighborhoods and rejuvenating dilapidated housing and has many tools at its disposal. Some of these tools, such as its power of eminent domain, frighten some community leaders who consider the CRA deaf to their concerns.

At a time when cappuccino was still exotic, avocado was a desirable color and ranch-style homes were sprouting up throughout the San Fernando Valley, a handful of greenhorn political activists huddled in a restaurant on Ventura Boulevard to hatch a plot against the city of Los Angeles. Their mission: uncoupling the Valley from Los Angeles to form a separate, independent city. The year: 1975.

A press conference is about to begin and a woman rearranges furniture to provide a better camera angle for television. She directs a camera crew where to place equipment. She explains when and how a visual prop will be introduced. And then she relaxes and joins in some newsroom gossip about the TV business in Los Angeles. Bobbi Fiedler, Northridge congresswoman and Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, is comfortably at work in the final weeks before the June 3 primary.

At a time when cappuccino was still exotic, avocado was a desirable color and ranch-style homes were sprouting up throughout the San Fernando Valley, a handful of greenhorn political activists huddled in a restaurant on Ventura Boulevard to hatch a plot against the city of Los Angeles. Their mission: uncoupling the Valley from L.A. to form a separate, independent city. The year: 1975.

The state law that made it virtually impossible to secede from Los Angeles has been changed. The next move, if there is to be one, is up to residents of the San Fernando Valley. In an interview with The Times, former U.S. Rep. Bobbi Fiedler talks about what that move should be. * * * * Question: To paraphrase the last line of a famous novel, now you can begin. Where do things stand now that the law has been changed and secession is possible? Answer: Right now, we are in flux.

Despite a 20-year congressional career marked by a wide range of civil rights initiatives and social reforms, James Corman will be forever linked in most San Fernando Valley minds with Bobbi Fiedler and busing. Corman, a pro-busing Van Nuys Democrat, had faced little opposition before the Republican Fiedler, riding a wave of Valley resentment of a court-ordered desegregation plan, upset him in 1980 by just 752 votes out of 153,770 cast.

Rep. Bobbi Fiedler (R-Northridge) announced that she will formally enter the race for the U.S. Senate Monday with a tour of California cities. She said she will join the field of candidates seeking the seat of Democratic Sen. Alan Cranston by holding news conferences in Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco and Sacramento. Fiedler was elected to Congress in 1980.

Former Rep. Bobbi Fiedler is seeking to replace Elizabeth Hanford Dole as U.S. Secretary of Transportation. Fiedler, a Northridge Republican who left Congress last January, has enlisted the aid of former Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis and Rep. Elton Gallegly (R-Simi Valley), her successor. Fiedler, 50, was not among the three women named as top contenders last week by the Administration and congressional sources, but she has a personal relationship with both President and Nancy Reagan.

The state law that made it virtually impossible to secede from Los Angeles has been changed. The next move, if there is to be one, is up to residents of the San Fernando Valley. In an interview with The Times, former U.S. Rep. Bobbi Fiedler talks about what that move should be. * * * * Question: To paraphrase the last line of a famous novel, now you can begin. Where do things stand now that the law has been changed and secession is possible? Answer: Right now, we are in flux.

Despite a 20-year congressional career marked by a wide range of civil rights initiatives and social reforms, James Corman will be forever linked in most San Fernando Valley minds with Bobbi Fiedler and busing. Corman, a pro-busing Van Nuys Democrat, had faced little opposition before the Republican Fiedler, riding a wave of Valley resentment of a court-ordered desegregation plan, upset him in 1980 by just 752 votes out of 153,770 cast.

She was the San Fernando Valley's version of Everywoman--a suburban housewife who built a national political career by challenging the status quo. In the process, Bobbi Fiedler helped change the course of local education, toppled some of the Valley's most venerable elected officials and paved the way for a host of other Valley matrons to enter the political fray. She catapulted into the public spotlight in 1977 when she won her first political race.

To explore the causes of poverty in the San Fernando Valley and what the future may hold, The Times asked several community and political leaders and social service officials to explore the subject in a round-table discussion. The participants: Jack Kyser, chief economist with the Economic Development Corp. of Los Angeles County; Lew Hollman, senior attorney with San Fernando Valley Neighborhood Legal Services Inc; Bobbi Fiedler, former U.S. representative and a Northridge resident; U.S. Rep.

Former San Fernando Valley congresswoman Bobbi Fiedler, the only Valley representative on the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency, resigned Friday from the powerful panel for personal reasons. Although Fiedler has declined to comment on the resignation, City Hall sources said Fiedler is suffering health problems. Her resignation is effective immediately.

The City Council on Wednesday will consider the reappointment of Bobbi Fiedler to the Community Redevelopment Agency board for a new term. Fiedler, a former San Fernando Valley congresswoman, would serve a term that will end on Nov. 4, 1999. Fiedler served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1981 to 1987 before running unsuccessfully for the Senate.

Exclaiming that she is ecstatic, former Rep. Bobbi Fiedler, 49, married her longtime aide, Paul Clarke, in a brief private ceremony attended by family and friends at the Sportsmen's Lodge in Studio City. "When it's time, it's time," said Clarke, 40, who has known Fiedler for about 10 years. She had given up her congressional seat to run unsuccessfully in the Republican primary for the U.S. Senate last year. Fiedler now is a commentator at KABC-TV and Clarke is a political consultant.

Rep. Bobbi Fiedler "is the victim of a serious injustice" in her indictment on charges of offering $100,000 to state Sen. Ed Davis of Valencia to lure him out of the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, the Washington Post said in an editorial today. The Post said transcripts of the grand jury that indicted Fiedler and the secretly recorded tapes it relied on "strengthens our opinion that this is a prosecution that should never have been brought." The editorial questioned, "How can Dist. Atty.

Gov. Pete Wilson on Friday announced the appointment of former U.S. Rep. Bobbi Fiedler to the state lottery commission in a move designed to strengthen the five-member oversight panel. Fiedler's appointment comes at a time when the California lottery is at a crossroads and the governor's office is attempting to remake the commission into a more aggressive and active body.

Gov. Pete Wilson on Friday announced the appointment of former Republican Rep. Bobbi Fiedler to the California State Lottery Commission in a move that is designed to beef up the five-member oversight panel. Fiedler's appointment comes at a time when the California lottery is at a crossroads and the governor's office is attempting to remake the commission into a more aggressive and active body.