Posted on 04/30/2002 7:58:54 AM PDT by John Jorsett
Edited on 04/12/2004 5:35:23 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
It's amusing, in an appalling sort of way, to watch Gov. Gray Davis and his top aides scramble to shun responsibility for the Oracle Corp. computer software scandal.
This is, after all, a governor who has boasted that he controls virtually every decision made in his administration -- who, in fact, has profanely berated underlings who did something without his approval.
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Yes, we are.
Running a protection racket, huh? These DummoRats are worse than the mob.
But it is big, and I don't see Davis returning the $25,000 contribution that came his way a few days after the signing of the contract. Do you?
Dump Davis!
It seems to me that Davis can claim incompetence and point out that the loss is at most $95 million or so. The incompetence already displayed by Davis in his heavy-handed interference with energy in Kalifornia is estimated at $15 billion or more. Unless someone can present the "smoking gun" tape with Davis' voice congratulating others on having taken the taxpayers to the cleaners, I don't see this getting much traction.
Remember, this is Kalifornia. Didn't we already see a similar amount wasted not too long ago on a DMV computer system which never operated properly? The Dems don't care how much of my money they steal and waste.
I'll give you that. However, the Oracle thing has a money component -- and I'm not talking about the cost to the taxpayers! The contribution ... coupled with Davis' other ethics problems ... makes it a story to be re-told. I think people "get it", the quid pro quo political enviro of our megalomanic governor.
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