Litigating for Dollars By Dan Morain Los Angeles Times, Sacramento bureau Work may expand to fill time. But the opposite is more often true for newspaper reporters.
Deadlines squeeze our work.
So it was when I was assigned to pick through the campaign finances of the Republican candidate for governor in California, Attorney General Dan Lungren. I was to start the project in June and have the piece ready for publication by the first week in October. That was plenty of time, I thought. There would even be time to take a family camping trip. Outgoing Gov. Pete Wilson and the state Legislature had other ideas.