[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!

[RightWhale]

"I kept the lights on."

Some days are like that. But other days he didn't keep all the lights on. Weren't there a few musical chairs blackouts?

[Thorondir]

Gad zukes! This Demoncrat is in a blind panic. It sounds like he is suffering his loss long before it falls upon him.

Hmmm...

Wonderful! I am enjoying this very much.



Liberalism must be crushed!
The idea is catching on.

[rockfish59]

ok californians....'lights out for davis' in november!

[socal_parrot]

'I kept the lights on,'

He also broke the bank by selling out the next 10 years of California's future. Most Californians should get a monthly reminder of why they shouldn't re-elect Gray Davis, their electric bill. Mine is up 50% over last year.

[Psycho_Bunny]

"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."

Priceless...on so many levels.

Where would the world get Idiot Quotes if there were no liberals?

[mac_truck]

"Surprisingly, Davis offered a pat on the back to Enron, the bankrupt Houston power trader accused of fraud. "Enron was the best of the lot," he said. "They dealt with us more honestly."

Translation: 'Enron gave me more money'...

[nicepaco]

Davis might be right. I doubt Simon has the experience needed to parlay a mere problem into a catastrophe and then get paid for it big time. It's very hard to find this experience at the State level.

[TheDon]

Davis rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

[shadowman99]

"If I didn't panic, you wouldn't be able to put out your paper," he said, visibly agitated. " . . . I kept the lights on in this state, do you understand that? I kept the lights on! (Critics) don't know what they're talking about."

When I reached this quote I scrolled back to the top on the page to make sure I wasn't reading a Onion article. This is almost self-parody.

Gray-Out is loosing it.

[FairWitness]

"I didn't think seizing a power plant that is 30 to 40 years old would be a good expenditure of money," Davis said, referring to the state's aging power plants.

Nice to know he based his decision based on economics rather than on respect for private property and free enterprise < /sarcasm >.

[Sloth]

LOL, he's going to RUN on the blackouts? Mrs. Simon might as well start picking out new wallpaper for the gov's mansion.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for the post and the ping!

I'm sure that a little fascist in Italy just before he was shot and hung or hung and shot, said the same type of nonsense, "Hey, I kept the Trains on Time!"

Davis looked like he is about to lose his hold on sanity during the little I watched him after he was declared the winner.

He is a vicious and control oriented freak/thug, who needs to be defeated. Then investigate him for criminal actions, and then a Grand Jury indicts him for criminal behavior.

I would like to see he and Condidit share a cell starting in 2003! They deserve each other!

We need to treat this creep like the Da$$hole creep and target him with reality each day to see him explode each day!

[lafroste]

I got nearly to the end of the comments without seeing any other freeper zero in on the salient point, to wit:

when the electricity price caps expire, which is scheduled for Sept. 30.

Folks, that is only FIVE weeks before the election! What perfect timing to remind the electorate of what a clown this jerk is. What can freepers do to insure that the price caps are NOT extended, and INSURING a Simon victory?!

[snopercod]

Memo to the Gray-Out Davis, the "Prince of Darkness":

You didn't keep the lights on. It was the utility workers who did that. All you did was make it harder for them to do their jobs. You forced the world's largest Investor-Owned Utility into bankruptcy, effectively making the retirement savings of 100,000 [+/-] utility workers worthless.

You are just a small-time con-man who has saddled California with ten more years of fiscal problems. Now get the hell out of office before you do any more damage.

[snopercod]

"There's no advantage for us in joining a regional (transmission grid)," [Davis] said.

Gee, that's funny. Last April 30th, Davis told FERC that the Cal-ISP was an RTO.

On April 25, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, also established in 1935, made a decision that echoed the centralizing philosophy of the Senate. FERC agreed to impose modest wholesale price caps on electricity sold in California this summer, but only if California submitted a proposal by June 1 to join a new 8-state regional transmission operator (RTO).

[randita]

Davis also reported that he has received "private assurances" from Patrick Wood III, the chairman of the FERC, that rules will be put in place to prevent "disruption" of the California electricity markets, when the electricity price caps expire, which is scheduled for Sept. 30. State officials are asking for extensions of the caps.

If I were Bush, I would ask FERC to extend the price caps until after the election. You can bet the Davis and the Democrats at large are just itching to use this issue to bang the GOP over the head with. Their banging is what got the stupid price caps instituted in the first place. now that they're in place, what would it hurt to keep them in place for another couple of months? It would gall the Dems to high heaven to be deprived of this issue.

[paul51]

If he kept the lights on those infamous California rolling blackouts, which I thought I personally experienced, must have been some kind of hallucination. I suppose the 150% increase in my utility bill was imaginary as well. What a putz.