The State - News from April 14, 1985

Geoffrey Wong has won his battle to live in the modest Sacramento apartment across from the state Capitol that former Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. made his “mansion” for eight years. When Brown moved out in 1983, the state leased it to Assembly Speaker Willie L. Brown, to the annoyance of Wong, an attorney whose name was on a waiting list of applicants to live there. When the building later was turned over to the Capitol Area Development Authority, a city-state agency, Wong sued the Authority, charging that it has no legal mandate to house assemblymen. Willie Brown did not contest the case, agreeing to have his own name put on the waiting list so the state could do right by Wong.