California: Coincidence or revenge? Jobs story embarrasses Davis, bites publisher

SF Chronicle ^ | July 8, 2002

[John Jorsett]

Seven months after ordering a statewide hiring freeze, the last thing Gov. Gray Davis needed was a headline saying, "State Government Employment Reaches Record Level of 234,505 Employees."

But that's just the headline Davis got from the Capitol Weekly -- a little (10,000 subscribers) paper that caters mostly to state employees looking for new job opportunities.

[John Jorsett]

The Davis administration isn't vindictive. Or lying about state hiring freezes. Oh no no no, not them.

[mattdono]

And within days Capitol Weekly publisher Ken Mandler got something himself - - word that the governor's office was pulling all the state's job listings from his paper, effective immediately

Typical cockaroach move, which is what should be expected from this a$$ clown.

Is it just me or is this a BLATANT abuse of power?

[ElkGroveDan]

PING

[Toidylop]

By June, seven months after the job freeze went into effect, some 22,000 new jobs had been filled -- just slightly below last year's unfrozen pace.

Put it all together and -- freeze or no freeze -- you have a state payroll still growing to record levels.

Ah... Now you know how squat Davis building up his support base from..

[ElkGroveDan]

CAPTAIN QUEEG PING

[ElkGroveDan]

Davis is clearly losing it big time. Has anyone sen his strawberries?

I can't wait for him to debate. It would be great if he went bananas on network television.

[dcwusmc]

Thanks for the ping. Love to see Grayout Devious lose it live!

[ElkGroveDan]

They were all disloyal. I tried to run the ship properly by the book, but they fought me at every turn. If the crew wanted to walk around with their shirttails hanging out, that's all right, let them! Take the towline - defective equipment, no more, no less. But they encouraged the crew to go around, scoffing at me and spreading wild rumors about steaming in circles and then 'Old Yellowstain.' I was to blame for Lieutenant Maryk's incompetence and poor seamanship. Lieutenant Maryk was the perfect officer, but not Captain Queeg. Ah, but the strawberries! That's, that's where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes, but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt, and with, with geometric logic, that, that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox did exist. And I would have produced that key if they hadn't pulled the Caine out of action.

[doug from upland]

Oh, wouldn't it be great to have a Davis commercial from the back in which he is fiddling with some steel balls and blaming someone for the strawberries.

[PsyOp]

Well, he certainly has a pair of big brass ones to play with if he thinks he can pull stunts like this get away unscathed. He now has a paper that caters to 10,000 govt. employees that has every reason to trash him.

[Grampa Dave]

(Dump Gray/Vote Green link)

[Drango]

Well, he certainly has a pair of big brass ones to play with if he thinks he can pull stunts like this get away unscathed

The problem is that it will never make the front page of any major paper in the State. So yes, Davis will get away with it unless Simon pays big ad money to get the word out.

[My2Cents]

CAPTAIN QUEEG PING

ROFL!!!...I saw this story as part of the daily news clippings I receive at work. I'm glad FReepers are picking these up.

There was another story I saw this morning that said that listeners to KFI last week called the governor's office to urge him to veto the air emissions legislation, but the number they called was the press office, not the legislative or constitutent service office. Consequently, a Davis staffer said that "all the calls were in vain," meaning that the press office didn't have the decency to either refer callers to the appropriate office, or didn't inform the appropriate office of all the calls it was getting on that legislation.

[Diver Dave]

Well, Davis did manage to save the state a couple hundred grand when Chad and Cadee quit. :^)

[monkeyshine]

What a vindictive SOB Davis is. We need to toss his ars into the dustbin of history.

[monkeyshine]

The specifics don't get around, but the mood and the vibe spreads rapidly. Davis will be toast by November.

[Zack Nguyen]

What do all these references to strawberries mean? Thanks!

[seenenuf]

(Strawberrys?)

It means that Elkgrove Dan is very clever.
What Capt. Quigg(sp?) was not - in "The Caine Mutiny".

[NormsRevenge]

LOL...It means a lot of margaritas for the Celebration when GraYouT Gets Sliced, Diced and Spit Out of Public "Service" make that Public Self-Service
DUMP DAVI$ & the Den of Socialists

GO SIMON