Robert Hedgecock Moblog

Wednesday, August 18, 2004, 4:00 —by Joe Crawford
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Another blog find for San Diego Bloggers — this one for Roger Hedgecock Show — it’s at http://roger.textamerica.com/ — pretty nifty!

Roger is an interesting fellow. He’s actually a former Mayor of the City of San Diego. Elected in 1983, he was forced to resign in 1985. I can’t find a fuller history of Roger’s ignominious history, but it’s mentioned here and here briefly. Links to better histories of Hedgecock’s scandal are welcomed by us here at San Diego Blog.

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5 Responses to “Robert Hedgecock Moblog”

  1. jennifer said on Wednesday, August 18, 2004, 7:26

    I don’t want to sound harsh, but it’s my opinion that Roger Hedgecock is a hate monger. He likes to tell people what to do instead of encourage them to educate themselves. Though I worked with his daughter-in-law and she was very nice…but I don’t know that that says much for Roger himself.

  2. Art Bell said on Thursday, August 19, 2004, 2:12

    Hedgecock was (is?) a crook with dubious mob ties and ripped the city off. He rigged the juries of his two trials.

  3. Joe Crawford said on Thursday, August 19, 2004, 9:34

    Pretty serious charges Art — do you know of any websites with archives of articles detailing your charges?

  4. oso said on Thursday, August 19, 2004, 14:56

    These excerpts are from an August 6th 1998 edition of the San Diego Reader. More information on Hedgecock’s criminal past and mob ties can be found in Mike Davis’ book, Under the Perfect Sun: The San Diego Tourists Never See.

    As for Hedgecock, his first trial for public corruption ended in February 1985 with a hung jury after one juror refused to vote for conviction. The defense had been run by Mike Pancer, a rising young San Diego criminal defense lawyer who was a friend of Goodman.

    Rather than face a third trial, Hedgecock pled guilty to one felony conspiracy charge, agreed to pay a $5000 fine, and served three years’ probation. In January 1991, a judge, following the terms of Hedgecock’s plea bargain, reduced the felony conviction to a misdemeanor and dismissed the case. Under the deal, Hedgecock is forever required to disclose his record if he runs for office, seeks local or state licenses, or applies for a concession to sell state lottery tickets. He later paid a $30,000 civil fine to settle state corruption charges.

    Robert Laurence’s Remote Control Weblog has an interesting comment discussion about Rodger Hedgecock.

    And San Diego magazine writes that in Hedgecock’s first trial:

    As he imposed sentence, Judge William L. Todd Jr. said he had no doubt of Hedgecock’s guilt and that he had “violated the public trust in an onerous, onerous way… Your conduct … is reprehensible in every sense of the word because you violated the public trust, completely, over and over again.” Facing automatic ouster under state law, Hedgecock had resigned at 3 p.m., December 5, 1985, just minutes before being sentenced.

    Roger Hedgecock represents the very worst of San Diego’s history of corruption, conservativism, and xenophobia.

  5. petersdgo said on Saturday, September 4, 2004, 18:39

    Here’s a couple of links on Roger’s criminal case that I found on the web:

    http://www.sdreader.com/php/cityshow.php?id=C080698
    [some detail on Roger's case in the middle of the story]

    http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,1101851028-142742,00.html
    [only the opening paragraph is free, you gotta subscribe to see the whole story]

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