The key is, I think, the 6-foot by 2-foot modern art painting on the wall behind Angele. That puppy probably cost about $6,000 and is one-of-a-kind. There have to be PR photos of Girl Scouts and such with then-Lt. Gov. (and Gov. candidate) Davis in his office AS IT WAS THEN, which are still available.
If those photos, taken in 1998, show that artwork, then the photo is real. That artwork is not the sort of thing that any politician is likely to remove from the 24-hour security of his official office, and put up on the wall of his downtown campaign office in L.A., which is where Davis and Angele (who now holds a Davis appointment) claim the photo was taken.
And if the photo holds up, Davis not only lied in person and lied through his press spokeman, he is also lying through his official logs of where he was.
To demonstrate the incompetence of the Chronicle's reporters, one should ask them if their own offices look the same now as they did when the previous person was working there -- same pictures, same furniture, etc.
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One of the other articles posted on FR today says that the Lt. Governor's office has floor-to-ceiling windows, which the office in this photo doesn't. Sad to say, this looks like more incompetence from the Simon campaign.