Like this:
I would really like to see an article with a few of the proposals that exist - "Cut the schools by 25% and make the teachers' unions want to kill Davis", etc.
Where did Davis' idea that he was expanding spending on things that could be easily contracted go? For instance, he put a lot into the roads, maybe he can pull that back during this desperate emergency. Of course now we have a proposition that forbids that, so never mind.
What would you do if you were Davis? He certainly seems to be in an unthinkable mess that voters will find hard to forgive if it's presented to them with any flair.
Seems to me that Simon's a lot better off than the pessimists think - although I agree with Dog Gone that he faces a very tough challenge if elected.
D
The deficit is $20 billion or so.
The proposed budget for 02-03 is $100 billion ... you do the math.
Dump Davis!
Raising taxes is always appealing to a Democrat, except in an election year, because doing so tends to anger everybody except his core constituency.
The third alternative is to have somebody loan him $20 billion or so, and worry about how to repay it next year.
I don't know how feasible that third alternative is, but it's the only one that can keep Davis in the Governor's chair. I think the odds of lining up that kind of loan in two months is pretty slim, when he has been trying for over a year to borrow $12 billion for the power purchases.
It's going to be awfully entertaining to watch, especially to those of us who live outside of California who aren't paying the bill.