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New Times Los Angeles columnist Jill Stewart penned an expose about Davis in November 1997 in which she described him as an "office batterer." "Long protected by the news media, the baby-faced Davis has been allowed to move higher and higher in public office despite his history of physical violence, unhinged hysteria, and gross profanity," Stewart wrote. "Davis' hurling of phones and ashtrays at quaking government employees and his incidents of personally shoving and shaking horrified workers 'usually while screaming the f-word with more venom than Nixon,' as one former staffer reminds me, bespeak a man who cannot be trusted with power." (Jill Stewart, "Closet Wacko vs. Mega-fibber," New Times Los Angeles, Nov. 27, 1997)
On April 18, 2001, the Sacramento Bee reported that Davis launched into an obscenity-laced tirade before California Senate Republicans, frustrated at his inability to convince them to buy Southern California Edison's transmission lines. Sen. Tom McClintock (R-Simi Valley) told reporters that Davis "completely lost control of himself." "The f-word was prominent and repeated," stated Sen. Robert Morrow (R-Oceanside). (Emily Bazar and Kevin Yamamura, "Grid Deal Session Spurs Davis Tirade," Sacramento Bee, April 18, 2001)
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