Posted on 05/04/2002 12:08:23 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
"Email Traffic Would Indicate the Governor Himself May Have Been Aware of the Oracle Coutract"
SANTA MONICA - This morning Republican gubernatorial nominee Bill Simon made the following statements concerning the Oracle scandal currently engulfing the governor's office:
"Yesterday, I voiced my grave concern about published reports that Governor Gray Davis' Administration was actively attempting to suppress a legislative investigation of the $95 million Oracle software scandal.
"After reading this morning's Los Angeles Times, Sacramento Bee, and virtually every newspaper in the state, my concern has turned to shock. I am greatly saddened at the revelations that a high-ranking Davis Administration official, Arun Baheti, accepted a $25,000 contribution from Oracle on the governor's behalf after personally shepherding the Oracle contract through the administration.
"Even more incredibly, it appears from the morning's Sacramento Bee, that email traffic would indicate the governor himself may have been aware of the Oracle contract, flying in the face of weeks of denial and deflection from the governor's office about his role.
"The scent of scandal surrounding this administration is growing. Already, three top officials have quit, been forced to resign, or have been placed on leave. Only a full and broad-based investigation can determine the truth.
"Since this scandal began - and repeatedly over the past three years - the governor's staff has insisted that campaign contributions play no role in official state business.
"In fact, the governor's press secretary told the Los Angeles Times one week ago that:
"The people responsible for the contracts would be in no position to know about contributions to the governor, nor should they be. There are no dots to connect."
"We now know that the governor's office has not been telling the truth. In fact at least one of the persons responsible for the contracts, while on government payroll, received a contribution for the governor's reelection campaign. And the governor's top campaign and government advisors knew this for ten months.
"This governor is legendary for his micromanagement. He insists on knowing in detail what every cabinet secretary, and assistant and deputy, are doing. It flies in the face of credibility that the Governor did not know of this contract, and the email reported in the Sacramento Bee points to the truth.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the dots are starting to be connected, and they paint a very troubling picture. The taxpayers need to know whether the dots lead all the way to the governor's office.
"Mr. Baheti is a close confidante of the governor. He served until last night as the governor's personal director of e-government. He was the number two man at the scandal-ridden Department of Information Technology. He worked for the governor's chief campaign strategist, Garry South, on the governor's election campaign in 1998.
"The Joint Legislative Audit Committee is scheduled to convene Monday to continue their investigation of this matter. I encourage the committee to pursue their investigation aggressively.
"Californians have a right and a need to know, and to know quickly, if their tax dollars are being wasted through gross incompetence, or worse, being used to facilitate corruption.
"To aggressively press ahead to find the truth, it is critical the committee on Monday undertake the following:
"Finally let me say this.
"I am greatly saddened by these startling revelations. This type of scandal wounds our system and prevents government from serving our people.
"The state is facing a $22 billion deficit, and every tax dollar is precious. We have seen accounts that school districts may have to end class size reduction due to funding shortages. The money wasted on this Oracle contract could have paid for thousands of teachers, textbooks, or lunches for needy children.
"Moreover, we have learned the painful lesson that scandals like this only destroy citizens' trust and confidence in their government. The only way to restore trust is for the truth to come out and for those responsible to pay a price prescribed by law.
"The sooner we know the full truth behind this scandal, and the sooner those responsible for it are held accountable by the authorities, the sooner we can restore our government as legitimate and worthy of the people's trust and confidence.
"I urge the Joint Legislative Audit Committee and the Attorney General to press ahead aggressively, quickly and thoroughly with their investigations."
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BILL SIMON FOR GOVERNOR
770 L Street, Suite 950
Sacramento, CA 95827
Website: http://www.SimonForGovernor.Com
Sure hope so. Wonder what can be done to fan the flames.
Makes you wonder how much money Enron would have made off of piping natural gas into Kali to make electricity in the new plants that can only use natural gas as per our enviral nazis who are best buddies with Davis.
Old fascist governor political trick: You bitch and moan about a major corporation re what they are doing in x. In the meantime they are giving you big money to make sure that they are like a monoply in the new Y business. The sheeple never figure it out. Then, as they become the Fascist monoply in the Y business, they and the Fascist Governor really cleanup! Then you run for re election as a friend of the people because you publicly trashed this corporation. Behind the curtain you were in bed with them for mutual gains.
Probably pretty good. Davis will use the resources of the State as well as the Cal Democratic Council to protect himself. Aids will be expected to fall on their swords for Davis, as the AG, Lockyear, will be certain to obstruct any useful investigation at the state level.
I think Davis is worried, but not about being caught doing something stupid. I think he is more concerned about just how stupid are California voters to give him a walk on any corruption, just as long as CA has abortion.
Apt use of the label "fascist", Dave. Davis is certainly proving himself adept at crawling into bed with private business for their mutual benefit at the expense of the publics interest.
When I ponder on the union of Larry Ellison at Oracle and Gray Davis, my blood runs cold at the thought of these two Nazi's succeeding with their plot.
I wonder witch one gets PMS the worst.
I hope it doesn't work that way, but haven't we seen it happen enough times?
Good point -- I'd humbly suggest that each of us write a pithy, scathing, and (of course) laceratingly funny letter to the editor of our respective local papers. It doesn't seem like much, but this is one way to keep the issue in the public eye. Don't let Governor Clousseau and his pals at the LA Times bury this!!!
Since i'm a lousy writer, I'll have to make do with my usual opaque and prolix prose, but even a bad letter is better than none at all...
16 months later as all of these messes unfold, it is obvious that Davis has advanced from socialist to pure Fascist to enrich himself and gain incredible power from the chosen corporations re money and their skills.
You posted this: When I ponder on the union of Larry Ellison at Oracle and Gray Davis, my blood runs cold at the thought of these two Nazi's succeeding with their plot.
What if Goron had been president when Davis started his Fascist attempt to control all electrical power product and transmission of power in and to and from Kali.?
Then add Goron to your statement. My blood runs even colder thinking of an unchecked Ellison/Whoreacle/Davis and a Goron as president with a Jake Reno type of attorney general if not Jake, itself!
I am greatly saddened too - NOT! HA HA HA HA HA!
Where the heck are Woodward and Bernstein when you need them?
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