Daniel E Lungren

A coalition of Los Angeles political and civic leaders Monday called on the Legislature to reject the nomination of Rep. Daniel E. Lungren (R-Long Beach) as state treasurer. Mayor Tom Bradley, Assemblyman Terry Friedman (D-Los Angeles) and leaders of the Asian communities were among those at a press conference held at the Airport Hyatt to oppose Gov. George Deukmejian's nomination.

Rep. Dan Lungren (R-Gold River), a former California attorney general, launched a campaign Friday to replace an Ohio congressman as leader of the House Republicans, seeking the tough job of rebuilding a party that lost more ground to Democrats in last week's election. "Our party is in trouble," Lungren said in a letter to GOP colleagues announcing his challenge to House Minority Leader John A. Boehner.

Gambling his political future on his legal fight to assume the office of state treasurer, Rep. Daniel E. Lungren announced Wednesday that he will not seek reelection to his Long Beach congressional seat.

In a clash of prominent conservatives, veteran Rep. Dana Rohrabacher held a commanding lead over former Rep. Robert K. Dornan on Tuesday night in early primary returns for Rohrabacher's congressional seat in coastal Orange County. The entrenched Huntington Beach Republican was ahead by an 8-1 margin in the contest against Dornan, an outspoken, often bombastic politician whose ardent support of military spending and the aerospace industry earned him the nickname "B-1 Bob."

Daniel E. Lungren, the Republican congressman who was Gov. George Deukmejian's unsuccessful first choice for state treasurer, has joined the law firm of Diepenbrock, Wulff, Plant & Hannegan. The firm said Saturday it hired Lungren because he is "uniquely qualified to practice governmental and political law on local, state and national levels."

Daniel E. Lungren, former state attorney general and congressman, will join the faculty of Chapman University next spring. According to university President James L. Doti, Lungren will teach one course at Chapman's School of Law and another in its political science department. In addition, Doti said, Lungren will be a guest lecturer for other courses, speak before community groups and expand the political science department's internship programs.

The California Supreme Court has decided not to transfer to a lower court the suit by Rep. Daniel E. Lungren over his confirmation as state treasurer but will not decide for several weeks whether to dismiss the case, a court spokeswoman said Tuesday. The Long Beach Republican has sued state officials, claiming that he is entitled to be sworn in as treasurer because the state Assembly approved his nomination last month.

State Atty. Gen. Daniel E. Lungren Tuesday repeated his support for a proposed "three strikes" initiative aimed at locking up habitual criminals, and criticized the mass media for inundating children with violent television shows, music and video games.

Senate Democratic Leader Barry Keene on Friday charged that Gov. George Deukmejian's nomination of Rep. Daniel E. Lungren (R-Long Beach) to be state treasurer was "unnecessarily politically motivated and divisive." "A person whose voting patterns consistently reflect the views of a few people at one end of the political spectrum is probably not sufficiently mainstream," Keene (D-Benicia) said of the conservative Lungren.

San Francisco Dist. Atty. Arlo Smith, a candidate for the Democratic nomination for attorney general, said Monday that he does not view the Legislature as corrupt and sees no need to create a state special prosecutor to uncover political crimes in the Capitol. Instead, Smith said, the state should increase its financial support for the Sacramento County district attorney's office and lend its expertise to help local authorities prosecute legislative wrongdoing. Smith's opinion that political corruption is essentially a matter for local law enforcement agencies separates him from two other candidates for statewide office--former Rep. Daniel E. Lungren and former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein--who last week made the corruption issue a central theme of their campaigns.

Daniel E. Lungren, former state attorney general and congressman, will join the faculty of Chapman University next spring. According to university President James L. Doti, Lungren will teach one course at Chapman's School of Law and another in its political science department. In addition, Doti said, Lungren will be a guest lecturer for other courses, speak before community groups and expand the political science department's internship programs.

Dan Lungren, former state attorney general and U.S. congressman, will join the faculty of Chapman University in Orange next spring. According to university President James Doti, Lungren--who spent two terms as attorney general and is lecturing at Harvard--will teach one course at Chapman's School of Law and another in its political science department.

On a misty weekend in an ivory tower, confessions flowed. Recriminations echoed. There was braggadocio from the victors, humility among the vanquished. Political warriors jotted down mental notes for future campaigns, sizing up their enemies' strategic thinking processes. There especially was a morbid curiosity about the political dead. Just how did they die, exactly? This was a post-mortem, a dissecting--ugly innards and all--of the 1998 California governor's election.

An opinion on abortion and birth control counseling issued by Dan Lungren on his final workday as attorney general was withdrawn Wednesday by new Atty. Gen. Bill Lockyer. Lungren's opinion, issued last Thursday, said that a public school district may operate a health clinic that does not allow pregnancy and abortion counseling or referrals to minors.

After 20 years in politics--experiencing the highs, the lows, the in-betweens--there is still something monumentally awful about falling on your face in front of 33 million people. Ask Dan Lungren. "In other lines of work, you lose or something doesn't work out . . . obviously you're very disappointed. But it's not like it's public"--and here he laughs ruefully--"it's not like everywhere you walk people come up to you."

California Atty. Gen. Dan Lungren on Wednesday denounced private anti-tobacco lawyers for complaining that they will be inadequately compensated under the giant tobacco settlement, arguing that they stand to make as much as $1.95 billion in fees. At a press conference in downtown Los Angeles, Lungren defended the $206-billion settlement between cigarette makers and the states, saying the deal's public health provisions and the $25 billion it will bring California are "more . . .

Even though he is the right age, Republican state attorney general candidate Daniel E. Lungren made it clear Wednesday that he does not identify with the "Woodstock generation." During a tough anti-drug speech, Lungren lamented the attention given recently to the 20th anniversary of the Woodstock rock festival, saying media coverage ignored the many people involved in it who "got messed up" by drugs.

In a legal opinion released this week, the state attorney general's office has ruled that Burbank City Council members may also serve as Burbank Airport commissioners without violating the law of incompatible offices. The opinion issued by state Atty. Gen. Daniel E. Lungren was sought on behalf of the Burbank City Council to settle a public debate over whether Councilmen Robert Bowne and George Battey Jr. could serve on both bodies.

Add Gov. Pete Wilson to the long list of Republicans who think that Dan Lungren ran an inexcusably inept race for governor. The party's nominee exhibited a weird mix of naivete and arrogance, Wilson and other GOP pols are complaining privately. The attorney general was naive about how to run a big-time race, they assert, and too arrogant to accept advice. In fact, Wilson firmly believes he could have whipped Democrat Gray Davis, were he not barred by term limits from running.

Putting a definitive end to 16 years of GOP rule in Sacramento, Democrat Gray Davis won a decisive victory Tuesday over Republican Dan Lungren in the race for California governor, while Democratic U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer unexpectedly romped to reelection. Davis, once considered a longshot at best, made history as only the fourth Democratic governor elected in California this century--and only the second without the last name Brown.