California Insurance

The very hotly disputed, but more often politely race for Democratic nominations for governor of California has finally applied in the bad days of the last campaign.

The very hotly disputed, but more often politely race for Democratic nominations for governor of California has finally applied in the bad days of the last campaign.

He started Wednesday, if the State Attorney General John K. Van de Kamp, Unterlegene for several months now, began with advertisements on television has asked his opponent, former Mayor Dianne Feinstein of San Francisco, as a tool of the insurance sector and a Republican in the Democratic” ‘clothing.”

The reserve Feinstein reacted today the formation of bubbles, two advertisements on national television shows that voters remember, as Los Angeles County Public Prosecutor’s Office nine years ago, Mr. Van de Kamp to move the murder charge against Angelo Buono, was subsequently condemned the massacre of 10 women as Hillside Würger”.”

The exchange planned uncharacteristic sparks in a campaign, he seems to have little impression in California Democrats. This is a campaign on the eve of the election on June 5, is now faced with the prospect that bekleckert by the planned visit of President Mikhail S. Gorbachev of the Soviet Union, in California the day before primary school.

Nader press conference

The Van de Kamp commercial tried to capitalize on Californians’ resentment of insurance companies. It is based on a press conference in Washington on Tuesday of the consumer advocate Ralph Nader, ensured the successful California ballot measure in 1988 to reduce the automobile and insurance and other Establishment of new controls difficult in the insurance sector.

In trade, Mr. Nader, state intervention “said Attorney General hat”waren very, very critical vis-à-vis Assekuranz excess insurance and defended the rights of consumers.”He also noted that Ms. Feinstein takes charge a competitor to the creation of a no-fault insurance system, which was die”Nr. 1 priority of the insurance industry.”

If Ms. Feinstein were elected, Van de Kamp advertising said:”You can also send a cheque to Aetna and State Farm, add”,” because it is really a Republican in Democratic clothing. ” ‘

With that Ms. Feinstein, campaign manager, Bill Carrick, two have 30 seconds of commercials, he had prepared some time ago to undermine the Attorney General on the issue of crime emotional. Last year, in an attempt to defuse the problem, Mr Van de Kamp acknowledged that fact hatte”ein error in the Hillside Urteil”in Würger.

A picture of the Killer

The first ad opens new Footage of M. Van de Kamp, he announced there was insufficient evidence to file murder charges against Mr. Buono. On an image of the killer, a voice says:”The man who raped and murdered 10 women and terrorizing Los Angeles. And today, almost a decade later, amid a political campaign by John Van de Kamp, nor against the death penalty and notes the contributions of the Hillside Würger lawyers finally admits he made a mistake .”

A judge rejected Mr. Van de Kamp movement to reduce the murder charge against Mr. Buono and the fall of the State was Attorney General at the time, George Deukmejian, a Republican, became governor. He obtained the conviction.

Mr. Van de Kamp-campaign manager, Barbara J. Johnson, disputed suggestions that commercial insurance has been negative. ”This ad is an ad comparing what John van de Kamp did for consumers and Dianne Feinstein is one-sided with insurance companies,’’she said Wednesday.

Ms. Feinstein was the assumption has no plan for the debt, it was like to say that the success was the reduction in insurance rates in New York. Mr. Van de Kamp care of another insurance measure on the 1988 coupe ballots, a process of lawyers and some consumer groups. But once more the strong Nader-backed measure past, it has expressed its application in the courts.