Posted on 05/19/2002 5:22:59 AM PDT by Pokey78
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:40:19 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Gov. Gray Davis is a moneymaking dynamo -- pulling in campaign donations at a rate of $1,800 an hour, 24 hours a day for the past five years, a Chronicle computer analysis shows.
A multibillion-dollar budget shortfall, threats of statewide energy blackouts, the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorism -- no crisis was so severe that Davis stopped the fund-raising efforts that have brought him an average $44,100 a day to keep his office.
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Not one "environmental organization" on those lists?
Even Barbra Streisand? Ya' think?
My thoughts exactly. People are actually paying this man? For what? Simply amazing. What do they expect in return?
The IBEW? Geez' Davis is killing those guys. Seen any transmission lines or power plants built lately? Talk about a disconnect between the union membership and the fat-cats at the top...
In reviewing the list, it does not make sense as far as the overt actions by Davis in power. Dimlights is certainly not charismatic. What is the attraction?
Snopercod, I think you have hit on the REAL scandal. These people are paying him for something, and what is it? It could be as innocuous as having the dems in power, but I seriously doubt it.
Hmmmmmm ... methinks there is a pattern.
So no, she doesn't care about the Coastal Commission because she has the influence to prevent it from bothering her.
Same with Perenchio, who is best known among us as not only a Davis supporter, but a Proposition 209 opponent. It happens that the largest basis for his fortune is Spanish language TV programming, and that's obviously threatened by Proposition 209.
But they have little connection to Malibu's middle class, those who have a net worth of under a million or two instead of hundreds of millions of dollars. Those are the people who went to the meeting I attended, the same folks the Coastal Commission wants to exclude from Malibu if at all possible.
Those nice folks are likely to think twice before voting for Davis.
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No, just a few groups with "environmental interests": #'s 2, 4, 5, 6, 12, & 16!
There's GOLD in them thar bills!
.......besides interns?........
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