Just take note of all the organizations and players who do NOT call for Davis to resign. Then replay this incident and their reactions (or lack thereof) to them the next time that there is a whiff of a potential Republican scandal, as those same non-players today will be screaming non-stop for a Republican to resign under far more benign scenarios...
Reports of document shredding at the California Department of Information Technology prompted a California Highway Patrol investigation and the seizure of a large trash receptacle by Department of Justice agents, adding new intrigue to a growing Capitol scandal over a software contract with the Oracle Corp.
Psssst...Look in Hilary's office!
Assemblyman Cox did not insult the integrity of the 5000. He did fairly point out that AJ Lockjaw received a butt-load of cash from Oracle and that maybe, just maybe, he ought to avoid the impropriety of looking like a typical corrupt politician.
Spokesmouth Barankan is just playing PR games which is all us little tax-payers can really expect anymore.
"I think the administration, thus far, has produced every single person the committee wants to produce and talk to," Florez said.
Interesting statements in light of this:
Officials in the governor's administration are pressuring the Legislature to cut short its investigation into who is responsible for a botched software deal with Oracle that could cost state taxpayers millions, the lawmaker leading the inquiry charged Wednesday. ``There's a lot of pressure to stop the music,'' said Assemblyman Dean Florez, a Bakersfield Democrat who heads the Joint Legislative Audit Committee. He said lawmakers and lobbyists are also urging him to end his probe, but he declined to name any of those he said are leaning on him.
Dean doesn't want to own up to what the Mercury News is reporting he said.
This whole thing is really starting to smell bad. Davis is nortoriously thin-skinned. It's not going to take much more in the middle of his campaign to get him to reach melt-down, I predict. He's already made some bizarre statements to the San Diego Union Tribune.
Uh...no, Mr. Barankan...he was insulting the integrity of Bill Lockyer.
HehHeh...LOL
Couldn't happen to a more deserving sc*mb*g.
Well Nathan, probably 5250 out of 5000 of those wonderful Dept. of Justice or better yet Dept of Kali Injustice, are all card carrying Rats, who vote in Rat lockstep, contribute in Rat Lockstep and wouldn't investigate a Rat regardless of the Crime that he committed. It is impossible to insult those who allowed the Rat criminals to destroy this state since Benito II Davis was sworn in.
Your clowns did not investigate the insider trading and the other crimes committed by Davis's pimps during our electrical crisis last year.
Your entire worthless staff just sits and waits for a republican to do something wrong or tries to screw MS in another way for making an honest buck.
How Oracle screwed California
By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
Posted: 29/04/2002 at 07:25 GMTCalifornian taxpayers paid millions of dollars too much for Oracle database software and support, thanks to a former Oracle employee, and his assistant, who now works for Oracle's law company. Normal competitive tendering rules were not followed, and the pair were pressured by staff from Governor Gray Davis office to sign an Enterprise Licensing Agreement covering far more users than the state actually employees in a deal worth $93 million.
Governor Davis' office received $25,000 in campaign contributions gift five days after the deal was signed.
