Dan McAllister
“We treat everybody equally when we send out late notices, default notices or time-to-pay-up notices. In this case, we relentlessly sent out notices to the McCains over the past year to pay up. No response.”
San Diego County treasurer-tax collector on efforts to resolve unpaid property taxes on a La Jolla condominium, above, owned by a trust controlled by Cindy McCain, wife of presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain
Jeff Schwilk
“We were hoping that the fight would be worth it. It really comes down to free speech. We're thrilled.”
leader of the San Diego Minutemen on a federal judge's ruling that Caltrans must reinstate an Adopt-A-Highway permit allowing the group to do clean-up along Interstate 5 near the Border Patrol's San Clemente checkpoint
Bill Flores
“Although I understand it, we remain with the opinion that the Minuteman organization is using the Adopt-A-Highway program as a method of advertising their extremist agenda.”
retired San Diego County assistant sheriff who is now a spokesman for El Grupo, a North County coalition that includes local chapters of the League of United Latin American Citizens, the NAACP and others, on the same ruling
Angel Sanchez Perez
“I think the people who took my son made a mistake. We don't have any money.”
Hotel del Coronado worker whose 19-year-old son has not been seen since he was kidnapped in Tijuana in April, about six miles from where the family lived before moving to North County for their safety
John Strait
“He was just a really, really fine young man, doing what he wanted to do.”
retired Navy master chief speaking tearfully of Army Sgt. James Treber, a Green Beret, who died in Afghanistan. Strait was the 24-year-old Treber's junior ROTC instructor at Mar Vista High School in Imperial Beach.
