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RICH PEDRONCELLI AP but leadership of the Hall of Champions, which honors the legacy of San Diego’s sports legends, announced Wednesday that it has been in talks the last year with Comic-Con International about locating a museum there. So far it’s undecided Comic-Con’s presence in San Diego could be more firmly cemented with a spe- cial comic-centric museum that is currently being dis- cussed for development in Balboa Park. Details remain sketchy, whether such an attraction would simply share space with the Hall of Champions or occupy nearly all of the 68,000-square-foot, memo- rabilia-filled venue next to the Starlight Bowl. “I heard they might be in- terested in doing something, so I made contact and began a conversation, and it’s been going on for awhile,” said Hall of Champions board member Dan Shea. “We have a space that could be consid- ered under-utilized for what we have. Comic-Con is an iconic community group, and we BALBOA PARK COULD BECOME HOME TO NEW COMIC-CON MUSEUM BY LORI WEISBERG “ Comic-Con is an iconic community group ... wouldn’t it be great to have a museum for them?” Dan Shea • Hall of Champions board SEE COMIC-CON • A10 Republican Mayor Kevin Faulconer easily won re-election Tuesday despite a surge in Demo- cratic voters thanks to his inclusive governing style, likability and focus on bolstering neighborhoods wealthy and poor, his pollster said Wednesday. “You have this personal likability factor, you have a good job being done and you have his brand being well- known as an authentic problem solv- er, and that all adds up to not being your typical Republican,” said the pollster, John Neinstedt. “We call that in the business ‘crossover appeal,’ and he’s got that in spades.” Faulconer, who got 58 percent of the vote even though he faced two credible rivals, also benefited from more formidable potential opponents shying away from challenging the popular San Diego mayor, Nienstedt said. Critics say Faulconer owes much of his popularity to the good fortune of being mayor when tax revenues are spiking, which has allowed him to ex- pand library hours, upgrade parks in many neighborhoods and boost other services to attract votes. They say San Diego should de- mand better from the city’s top elected official. “I think we in San Diego could do so much more,” said Francine Busby, chairwoman of the San Diego County Democratic Party. “Mayor Faulconer is just maintaining the status quo and FAULCONER BUOYED BY LIKABILITY, MODERATE APPROACH Re-election reflects support for agenda, mayor says BY DAVID GARRICK SEE MAYOR • A6 Now that San Diego voters have directed all employers to pay many workers more money for less work, will some of the rest of us lose a few days of vacation? That’s just a starter question, a hint at the unknowable cascade of conse- quences (presumably unintended) flowing from Proposition I, the measure to raise the minimum wage and mandate paid sick leave, which 63 percent of city voters approved Tues- day. “When California passed the law that everyone would get three days of sick leave, we were thrilled. My hus- band has never had sick leave in 45 years of working,” a reader told me via email Wednesday morning. “But that was quickly dashed when (his employ- er) bypassed the intent of the law by taking away three vacation days to cover the sick days. Now we have passed a law for 40 hours, there goes away more of his vacation. So wrong in so many ways.” So it goes in the real world. This astute reader’s frustration may be rightly directed at an employer, yet business dances to government’s fiddle in California, a jig the San Diego public appears increasingly willing to join Cranking up the wage experiment Minimum-wage workers in San Diego, such as Benjamin Guerrero at Filippi’s Pizza Grotto in Little Italy, will soon get an in- crease from $10 to $10.50 an hour, and then to $11.50 on New Year’s Day, as mandated by Proposition I. HOWARD LIPIN U-T Mandated pay increases, sick leave as with city’s Proposition I are rarely free DAN MC SWAIN SEE MCSWAIN • A9 As a bruising primary season winds down, Demo- crats worked on Wednesday to unite the party after Hilla- ry Clinton’s commanding victories over Sen. Bernie Sanders, who was headed to Vermont to determine the future of his candidacy. Clinton’s primary suc- cesses on Tuesday — she won big in California and New Jersey and by lesser margins in New Mexico and South Dakota — muted the lingering argument for Sanders, her rival for the Democratic nomination, to stay in the race. Despite his pledge to compete in a primary con- test in Washington, D.C., next week and fight to the convention July 25-28 in Phil- adelphia, the deliberations in Vermont, significant lay- offs of his staff members, and a planned meeting with President Barack Obama to- day signaled that the end could be approaching. DEMOCRATS FOCUS ON PARTY UNITY Pressure mounts on Sanders to throw support to Clinton BY ALAN RAPPEPORT SEE DEMOCRATS • A5 As Donald Trump pre- pares a major speech next week attacking Hillary and Bill Clinton, a videotaped deposition from a class-ac- tion lawsuit against him in San Diego could put the pre- sumptive Republican pres- idential nominee in an awk- ward spot. The testimony shows Trump trying to explain away past statements such as “I know Hillary, and I think she would make a great president or vice president” and “Bill Clinton was a great president.” The depositions were tak- en this past December and January as part of the Trump University case in federal court here, in which ex-stu- dents allege they paid thou- sands of dollars for increas- ingly expensive seminars of- fering real estate investment advice that wasn’t worth it. Lawyers for the plaintiffs dragged up statements Trump had made years earli- TAPE COULD UNDERMINE TRUMP ATTACK Deposition reveals explanation of earlier support of Clintons BY GREG MORAN SEE TRUMP • A8