'I kept the lights on,' Davis says in a rail against critics

San Diego Union Tribune ^ | March 8, 2002 | By Philip J. LaVelle and Craig D. Rose

[Gophack]

"You hired me to get a job done, I got the job done and I'm plenty tired of people sitting on the fence saying, 'Oh, we should have done this, and should have done that.' Let them run for governor."

BOY oh BOY, Davis is really vulnerable.

Someone who did think Davis made major mistakes DID run for governor, won the primary, and is ready, willing and able to take on the corrupt Davis Administration and his failed policies.

Go Super Simon!

[Gophack]

Simon Ping

[Diddle E. Squat]

Gray "Motel 6" Davis?

[spqrzilla9]

Comparing Davis' many varied versions of the electricity crisis is most interesting. He invents a new lie each time.

[eureka!]

Good job Grayout. Remind the voters over and over..

[Diddle E. Squat]

[Davis said] "I don't get squat."

And you never will, bud.

[counterrevolutionary]

"I kept the lights on," Davis said in an interview with editors at The San Diego Union-Tribune. "It just sounds a little presumptuous, but I think I should at least get a round of applause. I don't get squat."

OK, Gray. I'm feeling generous. You may have squat.

[Wphile]

MOTEL 6 Davis!!! I love it.

Sounds like Grey is crumbling a bit here. Talk about an arrogant fool. Hope he keeps it up.

[My2Cents]

Gray Davis has always been a man on the edge...the edge of sanity. He's a loon; an "office abuser", berating staff at times in violent rages; a sociopath that makes Bill Clinton look positively normal. If he trails in the polls for long, he will self-destruct.

[Destructor]

No, Gray. Mother nature kept the lights on! You lucked out and had a mild Summer last year.

[Slip18]

Bump for the squatter.

"I don't get squat." Maybe he should get a female dog.

[princess leah]

Simon needs to bring out clips of Davis announcing terrorist attacks imminent on 4 main bridges in CA and shutting them all down! Remind those voters just how loony Davis really is!

[Uncle George]

"I kept the lights on", right out of the famous CLINTON PLAY BOOK. "I saved the Constitution by being impeached". Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha. What RATs!!!!!!!!!

[linn37]

Simon needs to debate Davis and make Davis cry on camera.

[daviddennis]

He sounds at the ragged edge of desperation, especially since what he should have done was obvious, as proposed by many freepers: As soon as the crisis hit, allow rate increases to be passed on to consumers. If he'd done that, there would be no half-bankrupt utilities, and the rate increases would have most likely been in place for only a few months. By now they would have been long forgotten.

Instead, he decided to try and slip things under the rug with subsidies until it got too much for even the government to face. The real problem was that adding government money to the equation made it clear that the utilities could get any price they wanted. The result was the lunatic price spiral of 2001.

If he gets into a debate with Simon, he's toast, because even the mildest rebukes about the energy mess are going to set him off. He shouldn't run for re-election if he can't take the heat.

Finally, did anyone notice that Enron was the nicest of the energy companies? Is it a coincidence they gave him massive contributions?

D

[ServesURight]

Davis has got to be the worst governor in CA history, one of worst governors of all time.

Listen to this twit babble on, he's not an intelligent problem-solving politician, he's an incompetent boob with an IQ on par with bread mold.

[ServesURight]

Simon needs to bring out clips of Davis announcing terrorist attacks imminent on 4 main bridges in CA and shutting them all down! Remind those voters just how loony Davis really is!

No, Simon should just stay the quiet conservative path, tell CA voters what he will do for them and explain why these steps are necessary.

No need to attack Davis, Davis will take care of himself.

[blau993]

"I kept the lights on," Davis said in an interview with editors at The San Diego Union-Tribune. "It just sounds a little presumptuous, but I think I should at least get a round of applause. I don't get squat."

Last time I checked, the governors of 49 other states had kept the lights on too. The only difference was that they had not taken their states to the brink of having those lights go out.

This guy is starting to sound pretty loony, which is good. Encourage him to keep it up.

[BoilermakerCAengineerguy]

"I kept the lights on," Davis said...

I think what he was really trying to say was, "Waaaah, Mr. Hugh Hewitt, (sniff), pwease stop calling me LIGHTS OUT Gray Davis, cuz it hurts my widdle feewings..." ;-)

GO SIMON!!!

[Not now, Not ever!]

No, Actually Gov. grayout doofus almost turned the lights OUT by refusing to call the legislature back into session during 2001 when the extent of this problem started to become apparent.

Instead he waited, hoping for owlgore to steal the presidency and bail his incompetent @rse out.

All this bleating is just an attempt to hide the mess this mental midget made of a 6 Billion dollar surplus, which he has managed to turn into a 12 billion+ deficit.

Black-outs in 2001? Now think gray out in 2002!