Like Nixon with Watergate, Davis focused on money

Sacramento Bee ^ | Sunday, June 30, 2002 | Tony Quinn

[Dog Gone]

Scandal is always fun, and political scandal is like frosting on a cream puff. With rumors of FBI agents roaming state Capitol hallways, and questions about Gov. Gray Davis' fundraising, this could be a hot summer in more ways than one.

[Free the USA]

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[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

That's why Oracle presents such a danger to Davis, even if he, as Nixon in 1972, achieves re-election despite the budding scandal. As Nixon found later, it is not the original crime that is your undoing, but what it leads to. And where this one goes, no one quite yet knows for sure.

Is this moral equivalence between Nixon and Davis?

I object, I think Nixon was morally more ethical !

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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[meenie]

Gray-out was just following the career path of his mentor, Willie Jeff. Why anyone would need the Oracle scandal to make up its mind to sratch Davis is beyond my imagination. The hole he left Califoria in over the power problems should have sealed his fate and encouraged some other Dem to take over the primary.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The hole he left Califoria in over the power problems should have sealed his fate and encouraged some other Dem to take over the primary.

I agree, absolutely!
I guess that those on the left will tolerate any kind of a Governor,no matter how incompetent or corrupt, so they can keep their favorite programs running!

[NormsRevenge]

why we don't need anymore govt welfare/charity programs AND need to re-evaluate all the rest of the programs... Too much potential for greed and corruption when a snake like Davi$ is in power
DUMP DAVI$ & the Den of Socialists



GO SIMON

[Coop]

Davis' ability of rid himself of former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan, the opponent he most feared, with a $10 million expenditure in the Republican primary suggests this thinking may be correct.

[yawn] Yeah, it was all Gray Davis that did Riordan in. Mmmm hmmmm. Simon's better message, and the GOP's complete disgust with Riordan's extended middle finger directed toward Republicans had nothing to do with it. Nor the backlash at the White House meddling.