Davis Promises All-Out Fight for Re-Election

FOX ^ | 2/16/02

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LOS ANGELES

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The guy who owes CA billions. The Rats must envy his term!

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"You might think it's fun to castigate the governor, guys," Davis declared at the state Democratic Convention. "But you can't govern the fifth-largest economy of the world with warmed-over platitudes."

Guv'ner Davis, you can't govern the fifth-largest economy in the world with empty photo-ops and finger pointing like you have been doing the last four years. It's time for a change before you bankrupt California into oblivion.

[okie01]

. "But you can't govern the fifth-largest economy of the world with warmed-over platitudes."

"I could solve the problem in twenty minutes, if I wanted to raise rates."

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DemoncRATs (TaxocRATS) love their sneaky, criminal types. They wouldn't have their rats any other way.

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Governing the economy on an empty tank in huge debt. Rats have to love it.

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I hope someone brings up the Davis China money connection.

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Solutions are to employ energy consevation, NO offshore drilling, regulate energy, and higher taxes.

[gaspar]

Davis is the perfect California politician; he is no orator, lacks intellectual depth and is personally cold. In other words, he is Hollywood's beau ideal.

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I don't know anything about it.

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From the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin:

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A confident Gov. Gray Davis predicted Saturday that he will score a double-digit victory this November over any of the Republican candidates seeking to challenge him.

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Later, at a news conference, Davis said internal polls by his campaign show him moving ahead of Riordan.

Riordan has led Davis and the other Republican candidates in the polls for the better part of the past year.

Davis and his campaign advisors said they believe that Riordan will fade in the final weeks leading up to the March 5 election to be supplanted by the more conservative Simon as the Republican choice.

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From the San Diego Union Tribune

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Davis' speech to the convention, his first overtly political public speech of the 2002 campaign, and an accompanying video offered a preview of the themes of his campaign for a second term: Education, health care, gun control, abortion rights, the environment, gay rights.

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He's such an IDIOT!!! The taxes here are DISGUSTING!!!! WHY do we pay 8½ PERCENT tax on almost everything! Then if you own a HOME you pay those taxes (I do not because I can't afford the home prices). Then we pay STATE TAXES!!!

AND most of our TAXES go to WELFARE and FUNDING THE LEFT!!!! I'm so angry!!!

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Pinging the usual suspects...

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"You might think it's fun to castigate the governor, guys," Davis declared at the state Democratic Convention.

Someone needs a thicker skin more than he needs to be re-elected.

[snakebitevoter]

The real question here is whether Davis can be beaten. With Bush apparently supporting the moderate Riordan, he will almost certainly be the nominee. And a lot of conservatives won't vote for Riordan.

So where does that leave us?

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Don't hold back. Tell us how angry you really are. :^)

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From the Sacramento Bee

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(John) Kerry provided the most humorous response. Referring to the 2000 presidential voting controversy, he said he tells those who ask if he will seek the most powerful position in the United States that "I have no interest at all in being the secretary of state of Florida."

Hardy-har-har!

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From the San Francisco Chronicle

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He talked about domestic partnership laws, expanded health care for needy children, new college scholarships and a higher minimum wage. Government has an important role to play in improving people's lives, he said.

"A governor can't fix every school or cure every disease or prevent every crime or ease every traffic jam," Davis said. "But he should try."

Aw, c'mon, government can do ANYTHING! They're magic! They make money appear out of nowhere and can solve all of society's ills < /SARCASM >

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From the Los Angeles Times (bring barf bag)...

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"It is time," (John Kerry) said, "to remind our Republican friends that the firefighters and the police officers they are so quick to make speeches about--the ones who climbed those stairs of the World Trade Center in order to give their lives so that others may live--were all members of a union, and they all believed in the right of workers to organize."

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Terry McAuliffe, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, played off the president's reference in his State of the Union speech to Iran, Iraq and North Korea as "an axis of evil."

"What he didn't talk about is the 'access of evil,'" McAuliffe said. "The unprecedented access he's given to corporate special interests."

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"Solutions are to employ energy consevation, NO offshore drilling, regulate energy, and higher taxes."

You forgot cleaner air and cleaner water. Plus, higher fines for polluters, so as to further enrich the enviros.