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LA Times Tearsheet MN_A_1_A1_LA_1_01-08-06_su_2_CMYK 2006:01:07:22:47:27_ SUNDAY FINAL On The Internet: WWW.LATIMES.COM Q SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 2006 COPYRIGHT 2006/706 PAGES/QCC SG IE $1.50 Designated Areas Higher UFW: A BROKEN CONTRACT DeLay Ends His Drive to Regain Post Facing charges in Texas and in the glare of a lobbyist scandal, he says the GOP needs a new majority leader. He plans to seek reelection. By Mary Curtius and Richard Simon Times Staff Writers WASHINGTON — Former House Majority Leader Tom De- David J. Phillip Associated Press Lay, indicted in Texas last fall REP. TOM DELAY: “The and under scrutiny in a blossom- job of majority leader is too ing political scandal on Capitol important to be hamstrung by Hill, abandoned on Saturday his personal distractions,” he said. Photographs by Don Bartletti Los Angeles Times effort to regain his leadership HARD WORK: At the end of the strawberry picking season, Isai Rios, 17, lugs muddy plastic out of a field in Carlsbad. He and his post. father were living in a camp with no water or electricity. Like many young farmworkers, he’d never heard of Cesar Chavez. His decision touched off a RELATED STORY race to succeed him in a Republi- Analysis: The solution may can Party beset by ethics prob- cause more GOP problems. A23 lems. And it followed days of po- litical turmoil and Farmworkers Reap Little as soul-searching within the GOP, naming a permanent successor sparked by Tuesday’s guilty in September, they appointed pleas to corruption-related Rep. Roy Blunt of Missouri to be charges by lobbyist Jack Abra- temporary majority leader. moff, once a close DeLay associ- One reason the party so sup- Union Strays From Its Roots ate. ported him was his work over the In a letter released Saturday, last decade to increase cam- DeLay said he agreed with grow- paign contributions to Republi- The movement built by Cesar aisles are gone, their righteous pleas re- ing calls among Republicans for can coffers. Key to that was the duced to plaintive laments. a new, permanent majority “K Street Project,” an initiative Chavez has failed to expand on its What remains is the name, the eagle leader to be chosen soon. through which Washington’s lob- and the trademark chant of “Sí se puede” “The job of majority leader is bying community was per- early successes organizing rural (“Yes, it can be done”) — a slogan that too important to be hamstrung suaded to increase their dona- laborers. As their plight is used to rings hollow as UFW leaders make excuses by personal distractions,” a tions to the GOP. for their failure to organize California farm- tired-looking DeLay said later in Another reason was his abil- attract donations that benefit workers. the day during a public appear- [See DeLay, Page A22] others, services for those in the Today, a Times investigation has found, ance in his hometown of Sugar Chavez’s heirs run a web of tax-exempt or- Land, Texas. fields are left to languish. ganizations that exploit his legacy and in- He also pledged to stay in voke the harsh lives of farmworkers to raise Congress and run a “vigorous” By Miriam Pawel millions of dollars in public and private campaign for reelection in No- Times Staff Writer money. vember for the Houston-area A Donor First of four parts The money does little to improve the seat he has held since 1984. ed letters flash inside the fa- lives of California farmworkers, who still DeLay, for years widely mous black eagle, symbol of the struggle with the most basic health and viewed as Congress’ most influ- United Farm Workers: “Do- housing needs and try to get by on sea- ential Republican, stepped down Who Had nate,” the blinking message sonal, minimum-wage jobs. as majority leader after he was urges, to carry on the dreams of Most of the funds go to burnish the Cha- charged in September with vio- RCesar Chavez. vez image and expand the family business, lating campaign finance laws in Big Allies Bannered on websites and spread by e- a multimillion-dollar enterprise with an Texas. Insisting he expected to mail, the insistent appeals resonate with a annual payroll of $12 million that includes a be found not guilty early this DeLay and two others generation that grew up boycotting dozen Chavez relatives. year, DeLay said he would then grapes, swept up in Chavez’s populist cru- The UFW is the linchpin of the Farm seek to reclaim the post. helped put the brakes on sade to bring dignity and higher wages to Worker Movement, a network of a dozen House Republicans — many farmworkers. tax-exempt organizations that do business of whom agreed with DeLay’s as- a federal probe of a Thirty-five years after Chavez riveted NEW DIRECTION: The UFW’s focus with one another, enrich friends and fam- sertion that the Texas charges businessman. Evidence the nation, the strikes and fasts are just has shifted under President Arturo ily, and focus on projects far from the fields: were politically motivated — had history, the organizers who packed jails Rodriguez, who keeps a portrait of Cesar They build affordable housing in San Fran- been willing to give him time to was published in the and prayed over produce in supermarket Chavez, his father-in-law, in his office. [See UFW, Page A28] resolve that case. Instead of Congressional Record. By Richard A. Serrano and Stephen Braun Times Staff Writers The Suits Are All Wet Guns Flow Easily Into WASHINGTON — In a case that echoes the Jack Abramoff influence-peddling scandal, two Northern California Republican at These Board Meetings Mexico From the U.S. congressmen used their official Forget golf, biotech San Diego’s biotech industry By Héctor Tobar Mexico — 9-millimeter pistols, positions to try to stop a federal — surpassed only by research Times Staff Writer shotguns, AK-47s, grenade investigation of a wealthy Texas executives and scientists hubs in San Francisco and Bos- launchers. An estimated 95% of businessman who provided ton — was born near the beach in NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico — weapons confiscated from sus- them with political contribu- go surfing to network La Jolla, where a critical mass of The most popular instruments pected criminals in Mexico were tions. and strike deals. world-renowned research insti- of robbery, torture, homicide and first sold legally in the United Reps. John T. Doolittle and tutions are clustered — Salk In- assassination in this violence- States, officials in both countries Richard W. Pombo joined forces By Denise Gellene stitute, Scripps Research Insti- racked border city are imported say. with former House Majority Times Staff Writer tute and Burnham Institute, from the United States. Guns are the essential tools of Leader Tom DeLay of Texas to along with UC San Diego. “Warning,” reads the sign a war among underworld crime oppose an investigation by fed- DEL MAR, Calif. — Rising be- It makes sense that people in greeting motorists on the U.S. syndicates that claimed between eral banking regulators into the fore dawn, the head of Pfizer the industry would discover surf- side as they approach the Rio 1,400 and 2,500 lives in 2005, ac- affairs of Houston millionaire Inc.’s research lab in San Diego ing in a place with a mild climate Grande that separates the two cording to tallies by various Charles Hurwitz, documents re- fills her thermos with coffee and and miles of pristine beaches. countries here. “Illegal to carry newspapers and magazines. cently obtained by The Times follows the headlights of her But the sport also seems suited firearms/ammunition into Mexi- The biggest criminals in show. The Federal Deposit In- Honda Element to the foot of to an unpredictable business co. Penalty, prison.” Mexico are engaged in an arms surance Corp. was seeking $300 15th Street, where a beach park- marked by stunning highs and Allen J. Schaben L.A. Times The signs have done little to race, with an armor-piercing ma- million from Hurwitz for his role ing lot is already filling up. crashing lows. NETWORKING: Polly stop what U.S. and Mexican offi- chine gun as the new must-have in the collapse of a Texas savings Catherine Mackey, 50, The industry’s passion for Murphy and Laura Hershey cials say is a steady and growing weapon for the cartels fighting and loan that cost taxpayers $1.6 trudges in her wetsuit across the [See Surfing, Page A31] head out to surf in Del Mar. commerce of illicit firearms in [See Mexico, Page A13] billion. sand beneath a murky gray sky, a The investigation was ulti- new surfboard under her arm. A mately dropped. few other surfers are already in The effort to help Hurwitz be- the water, hoping to ride the 4- gan in 1999 when DeLay wrote a foot breakers to shore — and to In Alito Battle, Issues of Presidential Power Thrust to Forefront letter to the chairman of the network with people like Mackey. FDIC denouncing the investiga- In San Diego’s booming bio- By David G. Savage important as that of Congress,” degrading treatment of prison- the measure would preclude fed- tion of Hurwitz as a “form of har- medical industry, opportunity Times Staff Writer wrote Samuel A. Alito Jr. in a ers here and abroad. eral courts from hearing all assment and deceit on the part tends to come in waves — the 1986 memo. Spelling out those His words appeared to turn a claims of mistreatment from of government employees.” kind found at La Jolla Shores or WASHINGTON — Twenty thoughts “would increase the legislative defeat into a White prisoners abroad, a point dis- When the FDIC persisted, Doo- Black’s Beach or Scripps Pier.
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