California: Davis flipping his stance on key bills

Orange County Register (user:californiainside password:insider) ^ | Aug 23, 2003 | Kimberly Kindy

[John Jorsett]

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[John Jorsett]

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[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

What will keep him from flipping back if he wins the recall?

My wife's sister lives in LA and she says everyone knows that Bustamante is just as corrupt as Davis

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I wonder if the Red Chinese need something from California...
It worked with the Clintons.

[DoctorZIn]

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[WilliamofCarmichael]

Davis' reputation for linking politics and fund raising to policy decisions has vexed Californians and helped his foes secure the recall election.

The most egregious example IMO was not mentioned. To wit, in a meeting on official state business and on state property with a teachers' union Davis casually told the union reps he'd need another million dollars from them. Even the union was aghast and told about it publically. To be fair this news article was about flip-flops.

A caller to a local Sacramento radio show said he wrote U.S. DOJ complaining about Davis' well-known abuses such as this. He received a letter and a phone call, he said, telling him that DOJ was looking at Davis. We'll see. I doubt it.

[Richard-SIA]

DOJ cannot do a thing about him so long as a republican president is in office.
If they even hint at investigating Davis it would revive Hitlery's "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy" claims.

Perception is so much more important than the facts in today's twisted politics.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

"Perception is so much more important than the facts in today's twisted politics."

That's a great point. It likely explains a puzzle. During Spring 2002 the Democrat "newspapers" cleared their spikes of Davis corruption stories. They all expressed the proper amount of "disappointment" with Davis -- the best and brightest Sacramento Bee brains even went so far as to ask for Washington's help since all the state investigators were Democrats. I still remember the odd smell of the paper.

Perception. That's it! It would have given the Bee front page stories through election day: "Bush plays partisan politics going after our Governor!"

By summer, all the Davis stories were old news and it was on to exposing Simon through election day.

They really were old news in the Spring. The free press of the Internet and talk radio had been talking about them all for months and months. Some of the stories we knew about remained on the spike.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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