Posted on 09/27/2003 8:44:28 PM PDT by Enough is ENOUGH
Davis is a bonafide crook. Don't read this if you have high blood pressure.
Excerpt: "Less than two weeks before the election that could end his political career, Gov. Gray Davis is rushing to approve nearly $300 million in deals for the state to buy land from developers who have given him more than $160,000 in political contributions."
"Yet critics question whether the price for taxpayers is too high -- Davis refuses to make appraisals of the properties public -- and what role politics and campaign money are playing."
"The governor's administration has called a special meeting Tuesday of the state's Wildlife Conservation Board, a little-known Sacramento agency that buys parkland."
"Originally, the board was not set to meet until Nov. 18. But in recent days, the administration added the special meeting to fast-track three major deals whose owners have given Davis $163,100 in the past three years, including $30,000 in the past month to Davis' ``No on the Recall'' committee."
"``Politically, Davis needs this to look good to get votes against the recall,'' Francis said. ``The developers know this. The timing is incredible for them. If we were to wait until after the recall, the price would come down.''"
"Taxpayer advocate Coupal called on Davis to release the appraisals so the public can see how the prices were computed. But Nichols said they would not be released until after escrow closes later this year."
"Last month, Davis vetoed a bill by Sen. Byron Sher, D-San Jose, that would have required the state to make more documents public in land deals over $25 million, including purchase contracts, toxic studies and appraisals. Sher introduced it after Mercury News reports showed the state may have overpaid by as much as $50 million in March when it bought 16,500 acres of San Francisco Bay salt ponds from Cargill Salt because it used outdated appraisals."
Davis is definitely a corrupt politician
For those who haven't seen it, this is how jackass looking Davis the crook is flipping off the people of California and stil spending our tax money like it's going out of style.
The source and author should both be CRP, not CRA.
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