He was standing in one of those clutches of immigrants that sprout on street corners, hoping to snag a day's work from a passing contractor.
If the county ballot initiative passes, nonunion contractors plan to push for similar bans across the state, and eventually the nation, said Scott Crosby, president of the San Diego chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors, a group of nonunion builders.
Assange told me that a key reason to release the tools was that they were already out of the C.I.A.'s control, and were being passed among contractors, who were deploying them for personal use.
But some states have tried to blunt motorists' ability to sue, passing laws protecting contractors from liability if they were following state-approved plans.
The tape, filmed by a camera hidden inside a briefcase, showed the informant, Antonio Freitas, a local heating and air-conditioning contractor, passing a thousand-dollar cash bribe to Cianci's longtime director of administration and chief fund-raiser, Frank Corrente, at City Hall.
With each passing day without concrete, contractors will be more inclined to send workers home as the cost of delays eats into their potential profits, said Ms. Richardson, of the contractors association.
"The contract should provide for passing through to the contractor any penalties assessed against the owner," Mr. Greenstein said.
John F. Sopko, who heads the agency, known as SIGAR, said the incident shows a failure by the U.S. military to block contractors suspected of helping insurgents -- and highlights communication breakdowns in passing the word about blacklisted contractors.
Various contractors pass through the site and are rechristened according to her needs as "Mr Floorfix" or "Mr Solar".
At midnight, March 31st, control and legal responsibility for the building passed from the contractors, Barre, Irons & Lane, to the Rockefellers Gardner Advertising Co. moved in right after midnight.
