California IN BRIEF : SAN FRANCISCO : Giants Executive Assails Sen. Kopp

A San Francisco Giants executive assailed state Sen. Quentin Kopp after a ballot proposal that would have financed a new ballpark was defeated. “We pleaded with him several times early on in this process to sit down with us and to look at all the documents and to ask whatever questions he had about Proposition P,” Giants Executive Vice President Corey Busch said. “He refused to do it.” Busch criticized Kopp for remaining silent on the ballpark issue, which lost by only about 1,800 votes. The measure’s supporters have said that Kopp’s support could have made the difference, and Busch said he believes Kopp sat out the election because he refused to endorse anything supported by San Francisco Mayor Art Agnos. “I’m a leader when they want to cast blame,” said Kopp. “But I wasn’t a leader when they were putting together this jury-rigged scheme. They didn’t give two hoots about me. And they probably still don’t.”