CA: Governor looks to taint recall as a costly ploy by the right

Mercury News ^ | 7/26/03 | Laura Kurtzman

[NormsRevenge]

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis is so unpopular that his advisers don't plan to persuade voters to like him. And he may face so many rivals in the Oct. 7 recall election that he won't be able to win the way he's always won before, by attacking his opponent.

[NormsRevenge]

Ping

[glaux]

Davis is a small, treacherous little cuss who will claw the eyes and snatch out the hair of anyone who gets too close. The Repubs better deploy counter measures quickly.

[Moonmad27]

Every soundbite from him features the words "35 million dollars", "right wing" and "pro choice". Of course he never says anything worth listening to, so he has to really repeat those particular words endlessly to get people to hear him. He has got to be kicked out of office. Go Arnold!

[upchuck]

Davis is the Peter Principle Personified.

[RichInOC]

Davis is also hoping to stir up outrage over the estimated $35 million cost of a special election at a time when the state is facing a $38.2 billion financial crisis.

Grey Davis' expenditures in the 2002 campaign...78 million dollars

Grey Davis' attack ads on Dick Riordan...approximately 12 million dollars of that

Spending all that money and almost getting beat by a political rookie who didn't even run a flawless campaign...priceless

[Lizavetta]

``The Republican right, in trying to impose their agenda on California, is costing the taxpayers millions and millions of dollars to satisfy their own political ambitions,'' Davis spokesman Roger Salazar said.

What was Gray Davis satisfying when he forgave the Los Angeles School District for bilking the taxpayers out of $120 million of daily attendance money for students who didn't exist? He forgave them, never prosecuted anyone, never did nothing. If $120 mill didn't bother him then, millions for an election shouldn't bother him now.

[ZOOKER]

Davis is also hoping to stir up outrage over the estimated $35 million cost of a special election at a time when the state is facing a $38.2 billion financial crisis.

If Davis is blaming the R's for $35 million, then who gets the credit for the other $38,165 million in red ink? DAVIS!

This may not be a very sound strategy, they must be very desperate.

Even I can think of a comeback for this --- if your house is being destroyed by termites, would you spend a few hundred for an exterminator?

[Bullish]

Yeah, you blow 40 billion of somebody else's money and then try to blame it all on someone else. Typical, cowardly liberal never to blame for anything.

The minute he's recalled he should be indicted for corruption, and led away in handcuffs.

[SteveH]

Although Davis received the Sierra Club's endorsement twice, Californians gave him lower marks on the environment than President Bush, ...

Four letters: M T B E ...

[daviddennis]

People don't understand the scale of the state budget. To them, $35m is a lot of money.

Whenever I hear this argument, I point out that $35m is less than $1 for every resident of the state. And then I note that $38b is over $1,000 for every resident. Would you pay $1 to save $1,000?

You be the judge :-).

D