THOUSAND OAKS : North to Speak at McClintock Event

Oliver North, who gained national fame for his role in the Iran-Contra affair, is scheduled as the guest speaker at a $125-a-plate fund-raising luncheon for Assemblyman Tom McClintock (R-Thousand Oaks).

The Sept. 29 event will be the second time North has campaigned for McClintock. His last appearance in 1988 sold out two weeks in advance.

North, who launched a speaking career after his 1987 televised appearance before Congress, has agreed to give four speeches, allowing McClintock and three other Republican legislators to split his customary $25,000 speaking fee, said Greg Maw, McClintock’s campaign manager.

North will make his first appearance at a fund-raiser for a legislator in Northern California Friday night, another Saturday morning, noon with McClintock and finish Saturday night with an engagement in Newport Beach.

McClintock’s luncheon will be held at the Doubletree Hotel in Ventura, which seats 500 people, Maw said.

Through June, the McClintock campaign had raised $91,265 this year and had $43,153 available cash for the assemblyman’s reelection efforts. His Democratic challenger, Ginny Connell of Thousand Oaks, said she has raised $25,000 this year and has $5,000 cash to mount her campaign.