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[GRAPHIC: Maureen O'Conner]
ANCHOR: A local developer is taking on San Diego Mayor Maureen O'Conner. Doug Manchester is suing the Port District over delays in the convention center. And he claims O'Conner delayed the development of the center for her own good. He also says she may have broken laws that govern public officials and their financial holdings. Lorraine Kimel explains.
LORRAINE KIMEL: You're probably well aware of our new convention center and you probably know it was the besieged by delays. Well Doug Manchester, who built the twin towers of the Marriott Hotel next door, is suing the Port over those delays. He says he lost a bundle because of them. Now he's charging that the mayor tried to delay the convention center to protect her interest in a hotel near the Anaheim Convention Center.
CRAIG MCCLELLAN: I don't think anyone can seriously contend that it's not a conflict of interest. There are questions that I think should be answered, that need to be answered about the extent of it.
LORRAINE KIMEL: Craig McClellan is representing Manchester.
CRAIG MCCLELLAN: The more that the San Diego Convention Center attracts from Anaheim, the less people in Anaheim to, uh, stay in her hotel and the less profits there are. So there is clearly a conflict in making decisions on competing, a competing convention center.
OSCAR IRWIN: The argument that he makes is specious. You might as well say that if there is a convention center in Nome, Alaska and she has an interest in a hotel in Nome, Alaska why probably the Eskimos won't come down to San Diego.
LORRAINE KIMEL: Oscar Irwin was speaking for the mayor on this issue. She's declined comment.
The Park Commission's attorney says Manchester is just trying to get publicity for his case. But Manchester's attorney says he's just making public what he thinks the public should know.
McClellan says in the mayor's financial disclosure statements required by law, she's never even disclosed her interest in the Anaheim hotel. Erwin says that's not so.
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LORRAINE KIMEL: The Fair Political Practices Commission says it's had no complaints and so it won't be investigating. Lorraine Kimel, News 8.