Volume 34 / Number 46 NoVember 17, 2005 TTToooppp DDDOOOGGGSSS SSSaaannn DDDiiieeegggooo’’’sss KKK999 UUUnnniiittt SSSSTTTTOOOORRRRYYYY BBBBEEEEGGGGIIIINNNNSSSS OOOONNNN PPPPAAAAGGGGEEEE 33332222 Next Issue: Wednesday, November 23 SANDIEGO NOVEMBER17, 2005 SANDIEGOREADER.COM N E W S & F E A T U R E S Top Dogs To serve, protect, and scare the hell out of crooks. By Jeannette De Wyze..................................................................Cover City Lights The word “egregious” describes Ronald D. Brouillette Jr.’s M.O.; and City Lights shorts............................................................6 Voice of San Diego less than independent.............................................7 Letters............................................................................................14 Straight From the Hip But do birds have nostrils?...................................................................16 The Sporting Box Patrick Daugherty’s in cliché heaven...................................................18 The deepest lesion in the Sheep and Goats Antiochian Orthodox gives ancestors a vote.......................................22 American psyche is race. Ask Saffron See Page 110 Awkward gifting and surreal, hellish love...........................................24 A D V E R T I S I N G Best Buys The light beer controversy goes on......................................................26 Classified Ads Back When Antiques & Collectibles.......................226 Final meals requested by inmates........................................................27 Appliances............................................226 Automotive: Cars.................................232 Crasher Automotive: Trucks/Vans/SUVs........234 Beach boogie in Cardiff........................................................................28 Automotive: Classic/Custom Cars......235 Automotive: RVs.................................235 Diary of a Diva Automotive: Parts................................235 Public speaking in a black rubber corset.............................................30 Automotive: Services...........................235 Unforgettable Bicycles.................................................225 Cloak and dagger on San Diego’s high seas. By Jeff Smith.................74 Business Opportunities.......................191 Career Training....................................188 Tobacco Dollars Classes/Lessons....................................192 The Great American Smokescreen? By Scott Barnett.........................88 Computers...........................................224 Off the Cuff...............................................................................................186 Counseling/Support............................196 Electronics............................................226 Puzzle...........................................................................................................197 Employment Agencies.........................188 Name This Place....................................................................................198 Employment Services..........................188 Furniture..............................................226 News of the Weird................................................................................223 Garage Sales.........................................226 Health & Fitness...................................194 Blog World Help Wanted........................................171 Further dispatches from Slovenia.....................................................227 Massage................................................192 It’s a Crime Matches................................................198 Illegals in TV sets and dry-ice bombs...............................................229 Miscellaneous For Sale........................230 Motorcycles..........................................231 Driven Music, Equipment/Instruments.........219 A VW Squareback in the Secret Service...........................................230 Music, Musicians Avail/Wanted.........220 Remote Control King Music, Services.....................................222 Notices..................................................197 Maybe TV does in fact suck..............................................................233 Parent Resources..................................194 T.G.I.F. Personals..............................................198 Brizzolara commemorates Jonestown, Mickey Mouse, Pet Central...........................................210 and Howard Stern.............................................................................235 Photo....................................................224 Real Estate, Condos.............................218 Real Estate, Houses..............................217 C A L E N D A R Real Estate, Miscellaneous...................219 Rentals, Commercial...........................202 Local Events................................................................................................97 Rentals, Apartments/Condos..............206 Rentals, Houses....................................202 Roam-O-Rama Rental Services.....................................202 On Corte Madera Mountain you can see forever............................100 Roommates..........................................200 Poetry Roommate Services.............................202 “To Caravaggio,” by Mark Doty.......................................................102 Services Directory................................206 Sports....................................................223 Reading Stage Notes...........................................196 Drunk, murderer, and artist of transcendent power.......................107 Tickets..................................................223 Art Review and Museum & Gallery Guide Travel & Getaways...............................198 Wanted/Trade......................................225 Photography lies with a straight face. 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Di Piero..................110 Wedding/Party Guide.........................194 Classical Music Guide.............................................................112 Display Ads Pop Music Apartment Rentals...............................211 Blurt....................................................................................................113 Automotive..........................................220 S A grizzly interlude at a classic joint..................................................116 Career Training....................................186 an Getaways................................................96 D Restaurant Reviews and Guide ie Great Escapes.........................................98 g Naomi’s restaurant roundup for Thanksgiving...............................142 Health and Beauty.................................65 o R Bedford tries to beat the House at menu game................................145 Help Wanted........................................172 ead Home and Garden.................................52 er A closer look at Georgian wine.........................................................146 N Instruction...........................................197 o v Theater Review and Guide Music....................................................218 em Some actors enjoy auditions.............................................................158 Real Estate............................................217 be Movie MRoerev iPeriwde aanndd P rGejuudidicee...................................................................162 RWSeeresvdeiadcreicnshg.. .SG..t.uu..di.d.i.e.e.s...........................................................................................................21.500402 r 17, 20 0 5 1 5 0 0 2 7, 1 er b m e v o N der a Re o g e Di n a S 2 S a n D ie g o R ea d e r N o v e m b e r 1 7 , 2 0 0 5 3 EDITOR Jim Holman Drunk Driving? 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workers,Arnold Schwarzeneggeris facing an un- attorney’s office put Brouillette The word “egregious”accu- developer McMillin Management Services ($15,000); certain political future,a condition that may spill over away before the federal securi- rately describes Brouillette’s Ace Parking ($5000);ChevronTexaco ($5000);and to ex–San Diego school superintendent Alan Bersin, ties agency could hit him with modus operandi in herding hotel mogul Douglas Manchester’s Manchester Re- the governor’s appointment to the state Board ofEd- a penalty of$1 million and dis- investors to their slaughter.Suf- sorts ($21,000).… McMillin ucation.Bersin,regarded as an enemy by the teach- gorgement ofill-gotten gains of fice it to say that Brouillette was Capital,another arm ofthe ers union,was named to the board on May 6 ofthis $84,000. fired by two ofthe most disor- late Corky McMillin’s real- year and must be confirmed by the state senate by As the district attorney’s office Ronald Brouillette Jr. derly houses in the brokerage estate-development empire, May ofnext year or step down.Senate Democrats was putting on its case last year, business, now mercifully has announced it’s raised aren’t in a hurry:a date for a hearing before the Rules Brouillette,in jail at the time, had just gone to a website and deceased:Pacific Cortez,née La $47.6 million in new devel- Committee isn’t expected to be set until January. claimed he had loot secreted in downloaded the logo ofthe bank Jolla Capital,and Centex Secu- opment money “from high Bersin also serves as Schwarzenegger’s secretary of a bank on the offshore tax haven and just forged the document rities,née La Jolla Securities. net-worth individuals and in- education,which does not require confirmation.… ofthe Cayman Islands.He told showing that he had a couple of Getting fired by them is like get- stitutional investors from the Schwarzenegger has been taking his lumps from po- a superior court judge that ifhe million there.” ting booted out ofthe Ku Klux Corky McMillin U.S.and Asia.”According to a litical pundits for paying his political consultants so could just get out ofjail,he would So the federal securities agency continued on page 8 press release,a big chunk of much to lose so big in last return the money to his victims. won’t get its money.But,shrugs the money is going into Point week’s statewide elections.Fi- “He kept telling the judge Michael Lowman,assistant chief Contact Don Bauder Loma’s controversy-plagued nancial disclosure statements and me that he had money in an litigation counsel for the agency at 619-881-2395 or Liberty Station project.“In- show that since the beginning offshore account,”recalls Steve in Washington,D.C.,“Who [email protected] vestors chose to increase their ofthe year,some ofhis cam- Davis,the deputy district attor- knows? The judgments are good capital commitments to build paign cash has gone to San and hold five additional office Diegans,current and former, Neal Obermeyer buildings at Liberty Station including $68,296 to Kintera, and transform the venture Inc.,the controversial online Douglas Manchester into an investment fund. Arnold Schwarzenegger fund-raising outfit founded Thus far,this venture has by Rancho Santa Fe’s Harry funded $23 million ofthe $33 million required for Gruber.One hundred forty-seven thousand dollars these buildings.” was paid to Marty Wilson,long a political operative for ex-governor Pete Wilson,the former San Diego Mortal friends Democratic political guru mayor.… Now that the special election is out ofthe Larry Remerwas briefly in his element during the way,the real politicking can begin.Case in point:the run-up to the election,being asked by TV and print Chula Vista City Council campaign kickoffthis Sat- reporters to pontificate on all manner ofthings po- urday for Jesse Navarro,public relations man for litical.But now that the election is over,it will soon district attorney Bonnie Dumanis,a Republican. 05 be back to court for the indicted Remer.Federal pros- She’s set to be there,along with Assemblyman Juan 0 2 ecutors accuse him and codefendant and onetime Vargas,who’s running for Congress,and onetime 7, er 1 client Serafin Zasueta,ex-president ofSouthwest- Jimmy Carterhoncho Midge Costanza,both of mb ern College,ofmisappropriating $5890 ofpublic whom are Democrats. ve funds to promote a school bond measure.Remer — Matt Potter o N der has pled not guilty and called the charges the prod- a uct ofa political vendetta by the GOP-run Justice The Readeroffers $25 for news tips published in Re o Department. this column.Call our voice mail at 619-235-3000, g Die He’s not too fond ofhis codefendant,either.In ext.440,or fax your tip to 619-231-0489. n a court filing two weeks ago,Remer’s lawyer,Michael a S 6 C I T Y L I G H T S C I T Y L I G H T S C I T Y L I G H T S rations or individuals,is a non- P H O Small-Town profit,tax-exempt corporation. TO G It is precluded from political R A P Hypocrisy advocacy or endorsing candi- HS B dates or ballot measures. Y JO By Scott Barnett he sWayoso,blleecya fuosuen “dthedis tthoew Vno hicaes, E KLEIN T had relatively little competition he Voice of San Diego is the cleanest in news and breadth ofopinion, play I have ever participated in. Pure especially in investigative views.” After Neil Morgan left the Union- news reporting.No sponsor,no advertising, Tribunein April 2004,he recalls no boardmembers who want to dic- Voicewill no longer run that Woolley mentioned his con- tate anything to anybody. your column every Mon- cerns about local journalism, — Neil Morgan, day.Thank you for your saying the “old U-Tdoomed San senior editor,columnist,and efforts on Voice’s behalf. Diego to a provincial status.” boardmember, Glenn Rabinowitz The Voicewebsite says that “the Voice ofSan Diego Editor in Chief impelling need for more insight- Voice ofSan Diego ful and honest news and infor- When the Voice ofSan Diego mation in San Diego inspired (www.voiceofsandiego.org),a daily Birdsall says he suspects that he Buzz to provide startup fund- online newspaper,was launched rubbed the Voice’s wealthy under- ing for Voice ofSan Diegoand to in February,many local news writer the wrong way.Woolley enlist the help ofNeil Morgan and junkies believed it would pro- has long had an interest in edu- the rest ofthe team.”The start- vide a balance to the Union- cation,donating,through his up funding,according to Wool- Tribune’s reporting,which some Girard Foundation,several hun- ley, was “slightly less than” critics contend has been influ- dred thousand dollars annually $400,000. enced by heavy-handed edito- to reform-based education pro- Working out ofshabby offices rial oversight.But the recent dis- grams.Woolley confirms that on the fringes ofdowntown,the missal ofan education colum- he wanted Birdsall out,saying Voice’s handful oftwentysome- nist at the behest ofthe Voice’s his columns demonstrated a thing reporters have supplied board chairman and major under- “lack ofunderstanding ofedu- remarkably in-depth coverage writer,Buzz Woolley,has raised cation issues.” ofcity hall.While the Voicehas Les “Topper”Birdsall questions about how indepen- “There is too much woolly- a few salaried employees,Wool- dent the Voicereally is. headed thinking at the Voice of ley says most ofits contributing for disadvantaged kids in Los by process ofelimination and his columnist,but it was clear Les “Topper” Birdsall, San Diego,”quips Steve Erie,pro- columnists,including Birdsall, Angeles.” by “talking to other superinten- there was an inverse power described by the Voiceas “an fessor ofpolitical science and are unpaid. Birdsall began writing for the dents”he knows.His July 22 arti- relationship.” education expert who has been director ofthe Urban Studies Is Birdsall qualified to write Voice ofSan Diegonot long after cle announced Cohn’s hiring The day they met,the Voice involved in federal,state and and Planning Program at UC about education issues? The Los it was established.He says he before any other news organi- ran two columns critical ofPres- Angeles Timeshas printed his approached its first editor in zation reported it. ident Bush.Woolley confirms commentary on education five chief,Barbara Bry,sending her At the beginning ofAugust, that he called Rabinowitz about times,most recently in 2001. “a series ofcolumns”and asking former San Bernardino Sunedi- the anti-Bush columns but said, Four ofthose articles ran on the ifshe would be interested in his tor Glenn Rabinowitz replaced “Glenn and I talked about that front page ofthe paper’s Sun- contributing regularly.“We would some ofthe columnists write day opinion section. love to run your stuff,”he says she more about national affairs,and Erie says that Birdsall is told him. we are not a national-affairs site.” “nationally known”in educa- But Birdsall soon started to A review ofthe Voicearchives tion reform circles.Birdsall,who’s receive questions,such as whether shows it has run pieces by other 66 and was nicknamed “Top- he was “for or against [Alan] columnists discussing national per”as an infant after ventrilo- Bersin.”Birdsall says he replied, politics and even one on Mid- quist Edgar Bergen gave his father “I am neither for nor against dle East peace issues. a Charlie McCarthy (Bergen’s him,although I think he was Once Woolley finished bend- dummy) top hat that fit the baby very committed to reform but was ing Rabinowitz’s ear,Rabinowitz, perfectly,first got involved in not successful.”Bersin was the con- according to Birdsall,“offered California education issues when troversial superintendent ofSan for me to write a weekly column. he advocated for the Elemen- Diego City Schools until July, After what I had just heard,” Website home page tary and Secondary Education Act when he left to become Gover- Neil Morgan Birdsall had some concerns.But of1965.His four decades ofwork nor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s he said Rabinowitz told him, local (district and school) San Diego.Erie has known Bird- in education were capped by education secretary. Bry as the editor in chief,and “You write what you want to improvement initiatives for 40 sall for almost four decades and serving as an advisor to Genethia Birdsall wrote three stories later that month the Voicepub- write about.” years,”was informed on Octo- calls him “one ofthe top edu- Hudley-Hayes,boardmember for the Voicein February.But lished a follow-up article by Bird- Birdsall’s first Monday column ber 26 that his weekly education cational consultants and advi- ofthe Los Angeles Unified School when he submitted a piece on sall on Cohn.Rabinowitz invited appeared on September 12.On columns were no longer desired: sors in California.”Erie and Bird- District from 1998 to 2002. charter schools,it was rejected. Birdsall to his office to talk about September 19,he penned “TheSa n sall went to graduate school According to his résumé,Bird- “Barbara said she did not want writing more columns.On the School Board:An Eight Month D ie Les, together.“Les’s writing ratch- sall has lectured on education me to write about charter schools” day they met,September 8,Bird- Status Report,”an article mildlyg o We have decided to seek eted up the quality ofthe edu- issues at UCSD,UCLA,UC Davis, because Voiceeducation colum- sall witnessed an incident that pre- critical ofthe Bersin era. Rea d and feature other columnists cation debate in San Diego,”says Stanford,and UC Berkeley.He nist Marsha Sutton already did. saged his own experience.“Glenn The next day Rabinowitz sente r N in an attempt to broaden our Erie.Woolley’s role in axing Bird- moved to San Diego in 2004. At that point,Birdsall stopped gets a phone call— I think it Birdsall this e-mail: o v content and audience.While sall demonstrates that “San Diego’s Erie notes that Birdsall,who has writing for the Voice.But in July, was from Woolley— and gets his continued on page 12em b you are welcome to sub- disease is small-town,small- worked in more than 100 schools he offered Bry a scoop on San ass reamed for 25 minutes about e r 1 mit occasional items to minded hypocrisy.” aiding principals,faculty,and Diego Unified’s new superin- a column which ran that day Contact Scott Barnett at 7, 2 Voice,they will be published The Voice ofSan Diego,unlike parents,also “ran a prep school tendent.Birdsall said he figured criticizing President Bush,”Bird- [email protected] 00 5 on a case-by-case basis. news outlets owned by corpo- [Westside Preparatory School] out that it would be Carl Cohn sall said.“Glenn was defending 7 C I T Y L I G H T S C I T Y L I G H T S C I T Y L I G H T S C I T Y L I G H T S C I T Y L I G H T S Shell-game Creditors got 2.5 cents on the tion ofSecurities Dealers in 2001 mutual fund to buy a stock he named Pay Pop.Some Cana- paid for. master dollar.Two years ago,the chief for failing to pay fees in 23 arbi- was pushing.He was sentenced dian penny-stock touts had fal- Working from San Diego, executive,Harold Bailey (B.J.) trations.Its chiefexecutive,Bruce to four months in the hoosegow sified the accounting and sent out Brouillette served as a conduit for continued from page 6 Gallison,was sentenced to five Biddick,was charged in 2003 plus three years ofsupervised news releases claiming that the the falsehoods and added some Klan for being a bigot. years in the slammer for defraud- with paying undisclosed kick- release. company was growing at 125 ofhis own.He told clients that Pacific Cortez was closed ing investors. backs to an undercover federal The federal securities agency percent a year,when in fact it the stock was going to go pub- down by the California Depart- Centex Securities was shut- agent in a sting operation;Bid- spanked Brouillette for his role was contracting,and that it lic and Wall Street’s Bear Stearns ment ofCorporations in 1999. tered by the National Associa- dick thought he was bribing a in hawking a telecom stock owned a posh resort that it hadn’t was going to run it up at the rate of50 cents a week.He told cus- f l g tomers he had his own money in Pay Pop stock.That was not ree egal uide true,says the agency;he was paid ■extension 1012■ medical malpractice for his efforts with 1.7 million Sponsored by shares ofstock,most ofwhich call 619-233-9797 night or day 7 days a week Julia Haus, Esq. he put in the name ofhis then- Haus & Associates wife. at the prompt press the 4-digit extension of the category that interests you. 402 West Broadway To make it appear that there or visit our web site: sandiegoreader.com⁄legal Suite 1230, San Diego was lots ofactivity in the stock, 619-234-1100 Brouillette would have one of his accounts buying and another ■extension 1000■ ■extension 1001■ ■extension 1005■ personal injury criminal law family law 40 failure to diagnose properly selling.He bought the stock for 41 ob-gyn negligence Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by 42 psych⁄sexual abuse customers without their autho- Julia Haus, Esq. 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