EPA CHIEF SET MEETING BEFORE TOSCO'S GIFT TO DAVIS CAMPAIGN

The San Jose Mercury News ^ | 10/6/2002 | Paul Rogers

[SteveH]

An oil company that won state permission to increase toxic pollution into San Francisco Bay by nearly 400 percent -- just four months after donating $55,500 to Gov. Gray Davis -- apparently met with Davis' top environmental adviser the week before the donation, the Mercury News has learned.

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[Congressman Billybob]

This sort of garbage about Davis selling out the government of California like a crazed auctioneer, has been in the state's papers for months. Everywhere you turn, there's another fat contribution to Davis and another valuable regulatory or legislative favor granted in return.

In plain English, that's called bribery. Though proving bribery in a criminal court requires either direct testimony of one of the participants, or taped evidence (which is usually obtained with the cooperation of one participant). Obviously the Davis Gang, like the Clinton Gang, has run a tight ship and has not had a "security breach," or a sudden attack of honesty by any of its soldiers.

What I don't get is why this garbage has not translated to a Torricelli situation for Davis, that he's just too rotten for any reasonable voter to stomach -- which includes a large number of the independents and a small number of the Democrats. In short, the same sort of people who gave Torricelli a 13 point deficit and dropping before the Democrats decided to engage in candidate-swapping in New Jersey.

'Splain me that, Lucy.

Congressman Billybob

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[randita]

But Hickox's schedule book lists a meeting as taking place in his Sacramento office on Feb. 7, 2000. The topic: chemical releases from Tosco's Avon refinery near Martinez.

Appointment books have been known to lie. It was a common occurrence with people who worked in the Clinton Administration.

[SteveH]

Part of the "news" as I see it is the Mercury News actually started to publish such articles. Usually it is pro-liberal.

As for corruption, I would guess that Calif. is still in the amateur league with regard to the east coast.

Perhaps part of the equation is the degree to which the state judiciary has been corrupted. Calif. state judges tend to be liberal, but at least not overtly corrupt (eg Rose Bird) (?).

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for posting this article!

Be sure and see the other articles on the Calgov2002 list regarding the debate!

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks Steve for posting this great find:

These sentences just reek of criminal behavior by the California EPA head:

California Environmental Protection Agency Secretary Winston Hickox has no recollection of a meeting with Tosco oil company officials, his spokesman said Friday.

But Hickox's schedule book lists a meeting as taking place in his Sacramento office on Feb. 7, 2000. The topic: chemical releases from Tosco's Avon refinery near Martinez.

Two hours after the meeting, an aide to Hickox sent e-mails to staff members of the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board in Oakland, state records show. He asked how they might act on Tosco's request to increase releases of dioxin, a chemical that can accumulate in fish and lead to cancer and birth defects in people.

It is time for all good enviralmento whackos to vote for the Green Candidate!

If we had a real attorney general in Kali, this pervert, Hickox, would be arrested and charged with crimes against the environment and the people of Kalifornia. Time for him and the former ceo of Tosco to go to jail.

[Gophack]

What I don't get is why this garbage has not translated to a Torricelli situation for Davis, that he's just too rotten for any reasonable voter to stomach -- which includes a large number of the independents and a small number of the Democrats. In short, the same sort of people who gave Torricelli a 13 point deficit and dropping before the Democrats decided to engage in candidate-swapping in New Jersey.

I think that it IS having an impact on Davis. Putting the flawed LA Times poll aside, Davis hasn't received more than 40% in any other poll, and his disapproval ratings are consistently above 50%.

Turnout, turnout, turnout.

[SierraWasp]

"Turnout, turnout, turnout."

FLEX YOUR POWER...

TURNOUT GRAY DAVIS!!!

[heleny]

Bill Simon, called on California Attorney General Bill Lockyer to investigate the Tosco case as a potential violation of state law.

No way is corrupt Lockyer going to investigate Davis, just like Reno wouldn't investigate Clinton. Half a year ago, Lockyer said he would investigate the Oracle scandal. What's the result? Nothing so far, even though Dean Florez and the liberal state legislature had already done enough questioning to scare Davis and speaker Herb Wesson to remove Florez from his committee chairmanship. Lockyer has no incentive to investigate Davis. Clean house! Dump Davis!