Exquisite Harbor Island was cobbled together out of landfill. And on it goes, from world-famous Balboa Park to Crown Point and La Jolla. Just as Las Vegas was snatched out of the unforgiving desert and forced to bloom, foresighted San Diegans bankrolled a gargantuan boob job and tummy tuck for their snookums. It has paid off handsomely, for the small-town girl hooked one of the sweetest sugar daddies in the convention world. With a final brush, she managed to displace the estimated 6,000 homeless, the ranters and ravers, the winos and mentally ill that normally line the downtown streets.
Looks are everything.
Not inside, of course, but out here, where the abortion groups, pro and anti, face off with their own brand of theatrics. Both groups are far outnumbered by the police, who've erected themselves between the two factions. Hershaft watches the histrionics as he tries to shove leaflets into the hands of pedestrians. He admits that there's no such group as Republicans for Animal Rights. Hershaft blew in from the nation's capital to advance his agenda, but Operation Rescue and its minions are no easy sell.