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<p>One of the most powerful campaign mailings against Gov. Gray Davis is now being sent out by the state Department of Motor Vehicles.</p> <p>About 600,000 license renewal notices a week are arriving in homes with fees nearly triple last year's - and many recipients are blaming Davis.</p>

CALIFORNIA BUSINESS Postcards From the Edge What message is California sending to companies? Get lost! FORTUNE Monday, July 21, 2003 By Shawn Tully California has a long tradition of bombarding businesses with regulations, from rules that give Native Americans wide latitude to veto construction projects to environmental laws that favor exotic plants over power plants. But the Golden State's sumptuous assets—its climate, its appeal to immigrants, and its splendid universities—always trumped the business bashing. At least until now. The state government under embattled Democratic Governor Gray Davis is turning so stridently antibusiness that it threatens to inflict permanent structural damage....

Nudity, Crassness, Perversion on Display as San Francisco Celebrates Legal Sodomy 7/2/2003 By Allyson Smith Anti-Catholic 'Sisters' group takes shot at Vice President Cheney SAN FRANCISCO—Homosexuals were jubilant—and some naked—Sunday, June 29, as they celebrated last week’s Supreme Court ruling overturning Texas’ sodomy law during this city’s 33rd annual “gay pride” parade. This writer witnessed no attempt by city police to arrest those who were publicly nude, and no attempts to urge revelers to cover their private parts. The San Francisco "gay" celebration occurred just two days after President George W. Bush visited the city on a campaign stop to...

Our friends on the Left Coast need our help. According to the Campaign for California Families (savecalifornia.com), the Democrat-controlled California State Legislature doesn't like the "no new taxes" messages that activists have been sending them through their website, so they're blocking the people from petitioning their government. The State of California's Legislative Data Center has been blocking all email messages sent by citizens opposed to tax increases who sent their messages through this pro-family organization's web site. But the people are fighting back with immediate legal action and more "no new taxes" messages. This week, CCF took legal action to...

<p>To Lisa Kavanaugh, there's something about Gov. Gray Davis that isn't quite right.</p> <p>She's a Democrat, and she'll probably vote to re-elect him Nov. 5, but largely because she thinks Republican Bill Simon's positions are unacceptable. She's "suspicious" of Davis and "probably couldn't name a specific thing he's done that I could point to and say, 'Yea, Gray!' "</p>

In mid-August, as kids counted down the remaining days of summer, Janine Tomlin discovered in her mailbox a letter from the San Diego County Office of Education. Mrs. Tomlin, a homeschooler and mother of four, opened the letter and read it three times, just to be sure she understood what it said. She did: The county education office was writing to say that it is now illegal for Golden State parents to homeschool their children independently of public schools. "Enclosed you will find a list of district and county office homeschool programs," the letter stated. "...Please contact one of them...

Gov. Davis was invited to discuss state taxes by Fox News with Colorado Gov. Bill Owens. Davis said no, he is too busy!