George Deukmejian was a role model for the type of officeholder we desperately need in today’s hyperventilated, polarized politics. He was a quiet leader who didn’t continually need to hear his own voice. He was committed to his conservative causes but flexible enough when circumstances changed...
During the winter of 1989-90, anti-immigration protesters started parking their vehicles near the United States-Mexico border and shining headlights into Mexico. Following one large so-called Light Up the Border protest, writer Patrick McDonnell reported in the May 26, 1990, Los Angeles Times: ...