BUSINESS
March 13, 1995 | Times Staff and Wire Reports
Should Treasurer Be Appointed?: The San Diego County Board of Supervisors will vote tomorrow on whether to add a March 26 ballot measure asking countywide voters to change the treasurer-tax collector job from an elected to an appointed position. Paul Boland, the current county treasurer-tax collector, has come under fire for management of the county's $3.
NEWS
June 8, 1994 | TONY PERRY, TIMES STAFF WRITER
San Diego County Dist. Atty. Edwin L. Miller Jr., the dean of California prosecutors, was trailing three challengers Tuesday and apparently headed for an inglorious end to an illustrious career. Miller, 68, who was first elected in 1970, was trailing former star prosecutor Paul Pfingst, Municipal Judge Larry Stirling and Deputy City Atty. Casey Gwinn. Miller was barely ahead of a perennial candidate, Michael Schaefer, who has a quixotic history that includes a wife-beating conviction.
NEWS
December 30, 1993 | From a Times Staff Writer
Assemblyman Steve Peace (D-Chula Vista) has apparently beaten Republican businessman Joseph Ghougassian for a vacant state Senate seat from southern San Diego County. In unofficial returns from Tuesday's election, Peace had 30,487 votes and Ghougassian 28,186 in a race to fill the final year of Democrat Wadie Deddeh's third term in the 40th Senate District. Deddeh retired to return to teaching at Southwest Community College in Chula Vista.
NEWS
December 29, 1993 | TONY PERRY, TIMES STAFF WRITER
After an expensive and bitter campaign, Assemblyman Steve Peace (D-Chula Vista) apparently has defeated Republican businessman Joseph Ghougassian in a special election Tuesday for a vacant state Senate seat from southern San Diego County. With all 170 precincts counted, Peace had a 52% to 48% lead. That reflected a 2,300 vote margin, but 4,800 absentee ballots were yet to be counted.
NEWS
December 26, 1993 | TONY PERRY, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Make a new entry on the list of California political stratagems: Santa spin. Both combatants are invoking the bipartisan charisma of Old St. Nick in a high-spending and oddly timed special election set for Tuesday to fill a state Senate seat from southern San Diego County. Steve Peace, a Democratic assemblyman seeking to move up after 11 years, has Santa's cap hanging from the A in his last name on his red-and-white campaign signs.
NEWS
October 14, 1992 | BARRY M. HORSTMAN, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Two San Diego congressmen's central role in President Bush's attack on Democratic rival Bill Clinton's patriotism, a gambit that has dominated the presidential race for the last week, has begun to show signs of becoming a major issue in their own reelection bids. By having helped to orchestrate an attack that Clinton has characterized as reminiscent of McCarthyism, Republican Reps.