Commentary
It would be the last time I would enjoy a meal at Mr. Stox, the former landmark Anaheim, Calif., restaurant which has since closed. It was sentimentally special, as I had dinner there in high school for a prom night double date.
I was there more than ten years ago to have lunch with The Walt Disney Company’s vice president of government relations and a senior executive to discuss cable negotiations. Would the cable provider drop Disney’s channel, or would it accept its increase in charges? The leverage game is serious stuff, and they figured the county supervisor, the position I held at the time, needed to know their side of the story….