1. Roger Allan Hedgecock was born on May 2,1946 and is an American politician and conservative talk radio host, who served as 30th mayor of San Diego between May 1983 and December 1985.
22 Facts About Roger Hedgecock
1. 2.
When Hedgecock was 10 years old, his family moved to the Loma Portal area of San Diego.
3.
Roger Hedgecock's father was unable to work because of illness.
4.
The family faced tough times, and the younger Roger Hedgecock worked various jobs in his youth.
5.
Roger Hedgecock received a bachelor's degree from University of California, Santa Barbara in 1968 and a Juris Doctor degree from University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 1971.
6.
Roger Hedgecock practiced law and became city attorney for Del Mar, California, in 1974.
7.
Roger Hedgecock was not qualified for military service during the Vietnam War for medical reasons.
8.
Roger Hedgecock became politically active at an early age, volunteering to work in US Senator Barry Goldwater's 1964 presidential campaign.
9.
Roger Hedgecock campaigned to stop the "Los Angelization" of San Diego, a term in San Diego that is synonymous with the uncontrolled urban and suburban development, overcrowding and pollution of Los Angeles.
10.
In 1985, Roger Hedgecock was charged with felonies related to receiving over $350,000 in illegal campaign funds and was forced from office because of the scandal.
11.
Roger Hedgecock was denied access to the documents for two more years until he appealed to the California Supreme Court, which ordered the transcripts released.
12.
Roger Hedgecock started four days after resigning from the mayoralty, with his first show on January 20,1986.
13.
Roger Hedgecock's show eventually moved to the 3 pm to 6 pm time slot.
14.
In November 2011, it was announced that Roger Hedgecock would be leaving his local flagship station, KOGO, and would move his nationally syndicated show to a new flagship home, radio station AM 760 KFMB, San Diego's CBS radio and television network affiliate.
15.
Roger Hedgecock has done simulcasts with talk hosts from other areas of the country, such as Lars Larson of AM 750 KXL in Portland, Oregon, and he often does transatlantic simulcasts with James Whale, on UK station, talkSPORT.
16.
Roger Hedgecock appeared as a guest on HBO's Real Time With Bill Maher in September 2012 and was joined on the panel by MSNBC's Chris Matthews and Time magazine reporter Rana Foroohar.
17.
On February 23,2015, during the opening of his radio program, Roger Hedgecock announced that he would be leaving his show on March 27,2015.
18.
Roger Hedgecock made clear he would continue to do correspondence and interviews, but it would be the end of his radio show that he started in 1986, "before Rush and before Hannity," when people told him that talking politics on the radio was taboo.
19.
In 1994, Roger Hedgecock organized a group of protesters calling themselves "The Normal People".
20.
Roger Hedgecock drew the attention of civil rights groups in 2006 when he invited white nationalists and other extremists to an anti-immigrant conference that he organized.
21.
Roger Hedgecock was criticized for inviting one of the white nationalists, Peter Brimelow, onto a radio program Hedgecock hosted in 2008.
22.
Security was provided by the local Hells Angels motorcycle club to whom Roger Hedgecock paid a signing bonus of a case of Jack Daniel's.