IVIV (1) From The Desert To The Sea (And All Of Southern California)

[Keith]

"....with her phenomenal lot-by-lot grasp of land use from the desert  
to the sea, as they liked to say on the evening news" (p. 6)

they = Jerry Dunphy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Dunphy

There's no footage of him uttering the words from a newscast - however:

Here he is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiB6-4C6LvI

And he wrote the lyrics to this:

http://tinyurl.com/nnvscm