[Gophack]

"You hired me to get a job done, I got the job done and I'm plenty tired of people sitting on the fence saying, 'Oh, we should have done this, and should have done that.' Let them run for governor."

BOY oh BOY, Davis is really vulnerable.

Someone who did think Davis made major mistakes DID run for governor, won the primary, and is ready, willing and able to take on the corrupt Davis Administration and his failed policies.

Go Super Simon!

[Gophack]

Simon Ping

[spqrzilla9]

Comparing Davis' many varied versions of the electricity crisis is most interesting. He invents a new lie each time.

[eureka!]

Good job Grayout. Remind the voters over and over..

[counterrevolutionary]

"I kept the lights on," Davis said in an interview with editors at The San Diego Union-Tribune. "It just sounds a little presumptuous, but I think I should at least get a round of applause. I don't get squat."

OK, Gray. I'm feeling generous. You may have squat.

[My2Cents]

Gray Davis has always been a man on the edge...the edge of sanity. He's a loon; an "office abuser", berating staff at times in violent rages; a sociopath that makes Bill Clinton look positively normal. If he trails in the polls for long, he will self-destruct.

[Destructor]

No, Gray. Mother nature kept the lights on! You lucked out and had a mild Summer last year.

[Uncle George]

"I kept the lights on", right out of the famous CLINTON PLAY BOOK. "I saved the Constitution by being impeached". Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha. What RATs!!!!!!!!!

[linn37]

Simon needs to debate Davis and make Davis cry on camera.

[daviddennis]

He sounds at the ragged edge of desperation, especially since what he should have done was obvious, as proposed by many freepers: As soon as the crisis hit, allow rate increases to be passed on to consumers. If he'd done that, there would be no half-bankrupt utilities, and the rate increases would have most likely been in place for only a few months. By now they would have been long forgotten.

Instead, he decided to try and slip things under the rug with subsidies until it got too much for even the government to face. The real problem was that adding government money to the equation made it clear that the utilities could get any price they wanted. The result was the lunatic price spiral of 2001.

If he gets into a debate with Simon, he's toast, because even the mildest rebukes about the energy mess are going to set him off. He shouldn't run for re-election if he can't take the heat.

Finally, did anyone notice that Enron was the nicest of the energy companies? Is it a coincidence they gave him massive contributions?

D

[ServesURight]

Davis has got to be the worst governor in CA history, one of worst governors of all time.

Listen to this twit babble on, he's not an intelligent problem-solving politician, he's an incompetent boob with an IQ on par with bread mold.

[blau993]

"I kept the lights on," Davis said in an interview with editors at The San Diego Union-Tribune. "It just sounds a little presumptuous, but I think I should at least get a round of applause. I don't get squat."

Last time I checked, the governors of 49 other states had kept the lights on too. The only difference was that they had not taken their states to the brink of having those lights go out.

This guy is starting to sound pretty loony, which is good. Encourage him to keep it up.

[BoilermakerCAengineerguy]

"I kept the lights on," Davis said...

I think what he was really trying to say was, "Waaaah, Mr. Hugh Hewitt, (sniff), pwease stop calling me LIGHTS OUT Gray Davis, cuz it hurts my widdle feewings..." ;-)

GO SIMON!!!

[Not now, Not ever!]

No, Actually Gov. grayout doofus almost turned the lights OUT by refusing to call the legislature back into session during 2001 when the extent of this problem started to become apparent.

Instead he waited, hoping for owlgore to steal the presidency and bail his incompetent @rse out.

All this bleating is just an attempt to hide the mess this mental midget made of a 6 Billion dollar surplus, which he has managed to turn into a 12 billion+ deficit.

Black-outs in 2001? Now think gray out in 2002!

[17th Miss Regt]

"Only about 25 percent of the generators are talking," Davis said. "Another 25 percent are going through the motions and the other 50 percent have told us to take a flying leap."

Grayout Davis was so proud when he signed these agreements last year. But now he wants to renegotiate the agreements. What this tells me is that he is a bandaid fix type of governor going for the sound bite and not the long term solution. Although a lot of politicians do this on both sides of the aisle, he is more blatant than most.

The 50% telling him to take a flying leap are simply pointing out that he signed a contract and he will have to live up to that contract. The utilities may make handsome profits which they will pass on to their investors. Look in the portfolio of most managed retirement accounts. What do we see? Some utilities investments! So Davis wants to reduce the returns on our retirement accounts to make himself look good. He is truly a Gray Clinton!

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Sure Gray.

The lights were on...
and nobody was home.

[RANGERAIRBORNE]

Davis is doomed. If this is the best he can come up with, it is hard to see how he ever got elected Governor in the first place!

Whoever is the next Governor of California (Mr Simon, I hope) is going to have a full-time job just trying to clean up the fiscal mess Davis has created.

It's not easy to bankrupt the richest State in the richest nation in the world- but Davis and his malignant cronies came very close...

[Redcloak]

This is one of Davis' weaknesses. He has a terrible temper. He's been known to explode at subordinates for the slightest offenses. One described a cursing tirade from Davis as "usually while screaming the f-word with more venom than Nixon". He's even assaulted workers! This also extends to his dealings with legislators. One Republican who attended a meeting with the Governor during the power crisis described a Davis outburst as a "symphony of obscenities". Lungren's team never attempted to exploit this weakness. I hope that Simon's team isn't nearly so polite.

A blast from the past: Closet Wacko
Another blast from the past: A Symphony of Obscenities

[Hat-Trick]

"I kept the lights on," Davis said in an interview with editors at The San Diego Union-Tribune. "It just sounds a little presumptuous, but I think I should at least get a round of applause. I don't get squat."

Yeah, thanks for not plunging your state's economy into full-on depression. You call that an accomplishment?

"Dad, I brought the car home without totaling it and ending up dead in the morgue. Aren't you proud of me? What are you going to give me for my accomplishment"

I'll be having a lactose intolerant, Tom "Bottom-Line" Bodette squat for Grayout just as soon as I return from lunch.

Hat-Trick

[MickMan51]

Thanks for the post. This guy is a flipping idiot. I love this stuff. We ought to be able to trounce this clown. Predicting a 10-point victory. I love the arrogance. GO SIMON ! !

[DaveCooper]

the 1996 legislation that ended regulation of much of the state's electricity supply.

No, it didn't. The authors of this piece are either lying or very ignorant