The State - News from Sept. 12, 1989

Sen. Bill Greene (D-Los Angeles), a patient at the Betty Ford Center where he is undergoing treatment for alcoholism, is organizing a $1,000-per-plate political fund-raising dinner that will avoid all alcoholic beverages. Greene, who checked himself into the Rancho Mirage hospital last month, issued the invitation in a letter to Sacramento lobbyists. Indicating that he is close to completing the treatment program and plans to attend the fund-raiser at a Manhattan Beach hotel on Sept. 22, the veteran lawmaker told the lobbyists, “There will be plenty of liquids of all types, but there will be no alcohol served with dinner.” A predinner reception, however, “will be open to anyone’s preference,” he said. “As a footnote, I am going to use a portion of the funds from this dinner to establish a recovery program in my Senate district, where it is sorely needed and so much can be accomplished through such a program.”