Parks modifies mayoral campaign team
With barely two months before the city’s primary election,
Councilman Bernard Parks has replaced the management team of his
mayoral campaign, the latest sign of turmoil in his first run for
citywide office.
In his latest shake-up, Parks dropped his campaign’s most
seasoned advisors: former Clinton White House operatives Chris
Lehane and Mark Fabiani, media consultant Eric Jaye, who oversaw
Gavin Newsom’s winning run for San Francisco mayor in 2003,
and campaign manager Carol Butler, a veteran of U.S. Senate
races.
Parks’ new campaign manager, Jewett Walker, will be the
fourth to hold that job since last summer. All of those who stepped
aside in the new wave of departures did so by mutual agreement with
Parks, according to the campaign.
Parrot smugglers face 5-year prison
sentence
Two Hesperia residents pleaded guilty to smuggling hundreds of
parrots into the United States and selling the protected birds for
$500 apiece at an Ontario swap meet.
Juan Gonzalez-Villavicencio, 37, and Corrina Leanna Conn, 36,
face up to five years in prison when sentenced on April 4 by U.S.
District Court Judge Terry J. Hatter Jr.
The duo admitted Tuesday to smuggling primarily Amazon parrots
from Mexico and Central and South America. The parrots were sold at
Ontario’s Maclin Open Air Market as recently as summer 2003,
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service special agent Lisa Nichols said.
Compiled from Bruin wire services.