Posted on 10/29/2002 3:02:01 AM PST by RonDog
Tuesday, October 29, 2002
Republican challenger Bill Simon Jr., left,
holds a news conference on the beach in
Malibu. Davis, right, campaigned in
Inglewood to get out the vote.(LAT)
That's it: "Davis campaigned in Inglewood to get out the vote..."
NO MENTION of BUBBA - ANYWHERE in today's L.A. Times!
(At least none that **I* could find!)
Talk about a "low profile" event!
FReepers are used to being ignored by the mainstream media, but Bubba?
You know that something is fishy when the ultra-left L.A. Times does not even MENTION that Bill Clinton was in Los Angeles last night for a political rally!We KNOW that he was there, thanks to Reuters...Even the Associated Press buried any mention of this event DEEP within the larger story:
Mon Oct 28,12:27 AM ET
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton (R) greets incumbent California Governor
Gray Davis as they attend a 'get-out-the-vote' rally, October 28, 2002 at
Animo Leadership Charter High School in Inglewood, California near Los Angeles.
Davis faces Republican challenger Bill Simon in the his re-election bid November 5.
REUTERS/Fred Prouser
Davis fights back against fund-raising allegations
ALEXA H. BLUTH, Associated Press WriterTuesday, October 29, 2002
(10-29) 00:10 PST SACRAMENTO (AP) --
Gov. Gray Davis is striking back against newly revealed allegations made a decade ago by a convicted felon that he participated in a scheme to solicit campaign donations in exchange for political favors.
A federal judge ordered the release Monday of documents stemming from a 1992 racketeering case in which a convicted felon offered information about alleged improprieties by Davis in a failed attempt to win a lighter sentence. Prosecutors declined to pursue the offer at the time, dismissing the man as a liar.
Davis dismissed the claims Monday as tales concocted by an ex-con and lashed out at his GOP challenger, Bill Simon, who called the freshly released details "serious allegations."
"Mr. Simon should not be critical of anyone else," Davis said Monday evening during an interview with KCRW-FM public radio in Los Angeles.
Davis also quickly unleashed a new television ad attacking Simon for making a false accusation against him earlier this month that Simon was later forced to retract.
Monday's new revelations came eight days before voters go to the polls to choose between Davis and Simon, who has made attacks on the governor's fund-raising practices a centerpiece of his campaign.
Former Coastal Commissioner Mark Nathanson named Davis, then state controller, in two letters submitted by his attorneys to prosecutors in 1993 and 1994 as part of an unsuccessful attempt to cut a more favorable deal after pleading guilty to racketeering, tax fraud and soliciting bribes.
The charges against Nathanson stemmed from an investigation that began with an FBI undercover probe of alleged vote-buying in the Legislature and also resulted in convictions or guilty pleas from five sitting or former lawmakers.
Nathanson was sentenced to four years and nine months in prison and fined $200,000. Prosecutors said Nathanson solicited money from celebrities, developers and others in exchange for help getting projects approved by the powerful commission that regulates development along the coast.
The letters were unsealed Monday by Sacramento-based U.S. District Judge Lawrence Karlton.
The Sacramento Bee had sought full release of the letters for two years. Until now they've been released only in censored form. The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for the release three weeks ago when the high court refused to hear an appeal.
In 2001, Karlton said there was "absolutely no reason to believe that the accusations ... are true," that they "contain no newsworthy information" and that the letters would unjustly damage the reputation of the high public official -- now revealed as Davis -- named in them.
Nathanson's lawyers wrote twice to prosecutors, offering them information about alleged meetings with Davis, in exchange for a lighter sentence. Prosecutors dismissed Nathanson as a liar, rebuffing his offers to make a deal, and federal investigators refused to further check his claims.
In the letters, Nathanson attorneys detailed a series of meetings between Nathanson and Davis at a Beverly Hills delicatessen. Nathanson said the two agreed upon a scheme in which Davis would take credit for the coastal commission's favorable treatment of their projects when asking developers and landowners for campaign contributions.
Davis spokesman Roger Salazar released a statement Monday saying, "These baseless charges were made ... by a man who is a convicted felon, an admitted perjurer -- and ultimately a parole violator -- in an attempt to get his sentence reduced."
Davis has repeatedly brushed off the Nathanson allegations and has demanded that Simon "resign in shame" over that and other accusations.
Earlier this month, Simon accused Davis of illegally taking a campaign check in the state Capitol. He was forced to retract the claim when the photo he was using as evidence turned out to have been taken at a private home in Santa Monica.
The blunder is the topic of a new Davis ad launched Monday that asks, "Can we trust anything Bill Simon says?"
Simon attacked Davis Monday over the Nathanson revelations and what he has repeatedly called a "pay-to-play" atmosphere in the Davis administration.
"These are very serious allegations and yes, of course, we need to consider the source, but one should also consider the well-documented record of Davis' pay-to-play politics," Simon told a news conference.
On the campaign trail, Davis appeared Monday evening with former President Clinton, actor Martin Sheen and a host of elected officials for a get-out-the-vote rally on an outdoor stage in Inglewood.
"If you look at the difference in what Governor Davis and the Democrats in the California Legislature have done, as compared with America, you will see the difference between our party and theirs," Clinton told the crowd of more than 1,000.
Associated Press Writer Erica Werner contributed to this report.
The funny thing is, most of the people attending, thinking that someone like Sheen actually matters or know anything at all, will think that he is running as "president Bartlett" and will get all confused in the voting booth!!LOL!!
In order to avoid our signs, our TRUTH TELLING, our disgust and our fervor out on the streets--these two creeps have had to keep their venues SILENT.....have had to SNEAK in and OUT of appearances.....and have had to remain frozen out at many terrific American events--ie senator hitlery cannot even attend a ball game in her own so called state without being BOOED.
They know they are dispised.
And no two communists have EVER deserved it more.
WHY do voters elect convicted criminals?
THIS crap, combined with the news that deceased Senator Wellstone's family is classless and partisan enough to BAR Vice President Dick Cheny from the funeral is NOT the best way to digest an egg salad sandwich.
ROTF!!! I've been sitting here all morning trying to not describe that look on Sheen's face!
To all: I heard on Bill Handel's show that Eisner invited Davis to stand next to him during the Angels' victory parade. Unfortunately the parade is going to start soon. Can you picture the look on Davis' face if protesters showed up?????
To all: I heard on Bill Handel's show that Eisner invited Davis to stand next to him during the Angels' victory parade. Unfortunately the parade is going to start soon.FYI, from MLB.com:Can you picture the look on Davis' face if protesters showed up?????
10/29/2002 09:54 am ETAngels celebration set for todayBy Alyson Footer / MLB.comANAHEIM, Calif. -- You've just won the World Series ... now what are you going to do?For the 2002 world champion Angels, they're going to Disneyland ... which is right in their backyard.
The Angels have a number of festivities planned to celebrate the first World Series title in club history, many of which will take place at the "Happiest Place on Earth," Disneyland.
Fans are invited to gather at the Disneyland Resort and at several locations in the city of Anaheim today for a day-long celebration. The fanfare kicks off at the Disneyland Park at 10 a.m. PT with an Angels hometown heroes welcome cavalcade down Main Street. The parade will make its way through Disneyland, where Angels players, coaches, managers and their families, along with Anaheim mayor Tom Daly and Jackie Autry will participate in the festivities.
The Angels' celebration continues in front of the Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim, where the official Angels victory parade begins at 11 a.m.
The parade will travel from the corner of Katella down Douglas to Sportstown Drive and concludes at Edison International Field, where the Angels will host a fan appreciation party in the parking lot beginning at noon.
Fans will have the opportunity to salute the team, which will be assembled on a stage positioned between the two oversided baseball caps at Edison Field. The ceremony will include live music and confetti. Jumbotrons will be set up so fans can view the festivities.
Disney's California Adventure park will also pay tribute to the Angels with a celebration later that day. Beginning at 3:30 p.m., the Angels will ride in a victory parade. Angels players will then be available for a Q&A session at Golden State Stadium from 4:30 to 6:30.
Baseball trivia buffs will be able to play "Who Wants to be a Millionaire? -- Play It!" special baseball edition. Face painters, chalk murals and player and Rally Monkey photo locations will also be a available.
The evening will conclude with a live music concert and fireworks display at the Golden State Stadium beginning at 7:30.
Alyson Footer is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.
They know they are dispised.See also, from www.chronwatch.com:And no two communists have EVER deserved it more.
BTW, thanks for YOUR plug of this thread, Jim! :o)Davis answers Nobel Prize Winner with obscenities
Posted by the ChronWatch Founder, Jim Sparkman
Tuesday, October 29, 2002
John Fund, writing in the Wall Street Journal, gives us an analysis of the California power mess, as seen by a Nobel prize winner in economics. He also describes the incidents in which Governor Davis responded to queries about the article with obscenities. It is a column that quite obviously was not written by the Chron's Davis-adoring Carla Marinucci.
California's governor answers a Nobel Prize winner with obscenities.
All Ely Dahan wanted was a brief conversation with California's Gov. Gray Davis of California about an exciting article by a Nobel Prize winner that had just appeared in The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Dahan, a UCLA business professor, thought the article had valuable insights into California's electricity problems. What he got instead was a highly agitated governor ignoring the policy points, cursing the Journal as "f---ing a--h---s," and declaring: "They don't see the world realistically." End of conversation.Gov. Davis's outbursts aren't unusual. Just this Sunday, a profile in the San Francisco Chronicle noted that "his temper and foul language are legendary." A 1997 profile by the liberal columnist Jill Stewart of the weekly New Times Los Angeles recounted several instances of Mr. Davis "hurling phones and ashtrays at quaking government employees." She concluded that "his incidents of personally shoving and shaking horrified workers" marked him as "a man who cannot be trusted with power."
As governor, Mr. Davis has become legendary for his ability to separate cash from potential contributors. He has raised the astonishing sum of $65 million in order to saturate all of California with his TV ads; on some days they air up to 200 times up and down the state. Critics claim his interest in policy outcomes is in direct proportion to the interest contributors have shown in filling his campaign war chest. Yesterday a federal judge released decade-old documents that contain allegations from former California Coastal Commission member Mark Nathanson that Mr. Davis, the state's controller at the time, had asked Mr. Nathanson to give special consideration to Davis campaign contributors. Mr. Nathanson, who was later convicted of bribery, asked at the time that his allegations "remain under seal because he fears that those against whom he provided information will retaliate against him or that he will be the target of physical violence."
Mr. Davis's campaign dismisses the Nathanson documents as "baseless charges made by a man who is a convicted felon, admitted perjurer--in an attempt to get his sentence reduced." Nonetheless, the campaign took the precaution last week of having its lawyer send a letter to California TV stations warning them not to air the charges in campaign commercials for Bill Simon, Mr. Davis's GOP opponent.
Mr. Davis's lack of interest in the public-policy process that Prof. Dahan wanted to talk with him about helps explain how the governor muffed California's energy crisis in 2000. By not raising electricity rates enough to bring down demand, he forced the state to commit to horrendously expensive long-term energy contracts that are weighing down its economic recovery.
Mr. Dahan's encounter with Mr. Davis came on Friday, Oct. 18, after the governor had finished a taping of CNN's "Moneyline," hosted by Lou Dobbs. Prof. Dahan approached the governor along with several students. Mr. Dahan wanted to discuss an article he had just read in the Oct. 16 Wall Street Journal by Vernon Smith, a George Mason University professor who the week before had been one of two winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics. The article, "Power to the People," explained how California could take advantage of the fact that the cost of producing electricity can vary along with its pricing. California's energy crisis was born because of a state rule imposing on utilities an "obligation to serve" all customers "could not be met at times of severe stress because the unresponsive demand exceeded energy supply, and the shortfall was met by rolling blackouts." California utilities lost some $14 billion trying to avoid those blackouts. A small fraction of that would have solved the problem if utilities had been allowed to "sell less to consumers by offering a discount if they consumed less."
Mr. Dahan doesn't recall the specific words Mr. Davis used to trash the Journal, but he agrees "the cursing wasn't helpful." "I was disappointed that he didn't want to engage me on what a very smart Nobel Prize winner had written," he told me.
Jonathan Young, a junior at UCLA who was present for the governor's comments, said he was surprised at the vehemence with which the governor reacted to Prof. Dahan's question. A self-described "leftist," Mr. Young says other students who were present were also taken aback by the governor's obscenities. Ben Shapiro, a UCLA student and columnist with Creators Syndicate, said that when he called the governor's office for comment, spokesman Gabriel Sanchez told him: "I'd be very careful not to use unverified info. That could be slanderous. You weren't there, I wasn't there, you didn't hear it." Mr. Shapiro says "the implicit threat to sue was obvious." My own conversation with Roger Salazar, the governor's campaign press secretary, was much more cordial. "I don't remember the governor using that language," he told me. "He said something about the Journal wanting him to give the energy companies a 400% increase in rates, and that was a crock."
But those were the halcyon days of the Internet bubble, cheap energy and a state budget that hadn't yet soared out of sight. Now California faces mammoth problems, including a $25 billion deficit that the Legislature has papered over in an election year. So far no one--Mr. Davis, the Legislature, or his Republican opponent--has adequately explained how it will be handled next year. Ditto with the state's structural problems with its energy market. "I guess I just hoped the governor would be more interested in learning about possible solutions to the energy problem," says Prof. Dahan. So did we.
Mr. Davis is favored to win re-election next week, so he will likely have four more years in office before the state's two-term limit eases him out the door. ........ perhaps there is hope the governor will return to the spirit of his 1999 inaugural address. In it he pledged to "govern neither from the right nor the left, but from the center, propelled not by ideology, but by common sense." There hasn't been enough common sense in California lately, but next year will represent a new term and a fresh beginning for whomever is elected governor next week.
For the full John Fund column:
http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110002541.
Other Info & Links:
• Posted by: the ChronWatch Founder, Jim Sparkman
• Category: Not in the Chron -- Featured Links & Articles
GO ANGELS!!! Go Davis...go far, far away
Memories:
California Power Crisis animations featuring Governor Gray Davis
AND......................
...to see what bad, bad things Davis has done... - CLICK HERE
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I had a lot of fun as Monica screaming after the people straggling into the event "Say Hi to Bill for me - I brought my kneepads!"One of the BEST parts was seeing so many people take you SERIOUSLY, not getting the joke...
For MANY Clintonistas, sarcasm and parody are foreign concepts. :o)The need to EXPLAIN your act so often must have discouraging...
Plus, it was a good thing that BUBBA did not see you, as you are MUCH PRETTIER than the real Monica. :)
Mr. Nathanson, who was later convicted of bribery, asked at the time that his allegations "remain under seal because he fears that those against whom he provided information will retaliate against him or that he will be the target of physical violence."
Looks like Davis has read the Clinton playbook. If he lost it in public and behaved like this, his goose would be cooked.
Ben Shapiro, a UCLA student and columnist with Creators Syndicate, said that when he called the governor's office for comment, spokesman Gabriel Sanchez told him:"I'd be very careful not to use unverified info. That could be slanderous. You weren't there, I wasn't there, you didn't hear it." Mr. Shapiro says "the implicit threat to sue was obvious."
From www.creators.com:
About Ben Shapiro
Benjamin Shapiro was born in 1984, in Burbank, Calif. Brought up in the home of two Reagan Republicans, where intelligent conversation about politics and philosophy was encouraged, Shapiro quickly developed into a reasoned political thinker and a powerful writer.
He entered UCLA at the age of 16 and is currently a sophomore majoring in political science. Never afraid to antagonize his political opposition, he was the only counter-protester at an Affirmative Action Rally that drew over 1,500 people on UCLA's campus, and he has repeatedly challenged liberal professors and faculty.
He was hired in the summer of 2001 by the advertising team that had run George W. Bush's presidential campaign, writing copy for its planned ad campaign in support of Israel. His controversial columns in the UCLA Daily Bruin have been reprinted nationwide on many major websites, and he has been the featured guest on the Larry Elder Show (KABC, Los Angeles).
As a staunch conservative on the modern politically correct campus, Shapiro faces the political liberals head-on. From exposing the leftist tilt of the professoriate on college campuses to addressing the conflict in the Middle East, Shapiro's confrontational approach always draws a hailstorm of response.
He was one of six winners of the worldwide Princeton University Ten-Minute Play Contest for High School Juniors in 1998-99. Shapiro is also a virtuoso violinist, having begun his training at age 5. He has played at numerous political events in his home city of Los Angeles.
What was Slick's "favorable" numbers when he looted the White House? Aren't the ratings of "West Wing" falling?
Typical Mercury News article...
``When you clear away all the ads and all the arguments and all the attacks, when all the dust settles, the facts remain: Since Gray Davis has been in office, education has improved, the economic policies of the state are better, you've done more for working families,'' Clinton said.
Clinton's mouth is moving again....
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