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Sunday night, Gray Davis was at the Boston Zoo, signing autographs. Later, he went to a party and bumped into Maria Shriver, whose celebrity husband took away Davis' job nine months ago. Monday, when the Democratic convention opened and the speeches started, the former Democratic governor was seated in the front row of the California delegation, chanting and clapping like a regular guy. ``I'm having a ball,'' Davis said in the hallway of the FleetCenter, where he breezed through as people called out encouraging words, such as ``I wish you were still governor!'' It's been a long fall from grace...

<p>The California recall has more surprises in store.</p> <p>Wednesday, August 6, 2003 12:01 a.m.</p> <p>The effort to recall California's Gov. Gray Davis has brought us one surprise after another. The next week could see yet more unexpected turns in what has become a classic political soap opera, including a possible postponement of the Oct. 7 recall vote.</p>

<p>SACRAMENTO - One of the cardinal rules of politics is to know how to count.</p> <p>A politician must be able to marshal votes to pass laws and to calculate how much cash he needs to win the next campaign.</p> <p>As the victor in five statewide elections, Gray Davis is one of the best political counters in California history. Yet as the state girds for another long budget stalemate, the Democratic governor seems to have lost the formula for success.</p>

  Several California legislators are contemplating a measure to take over a federal clean air program that was recently abandoned by the Bush administration. Legislators and a coalition of environmental and public health groups say the state must act to protect the air from industrial pollution. If enacted, it would be the second time in a year that the state has passed a law in response to what critics consider the administration's hostile stance toward the environment. Last year, Democratic Governor Gray Davis signed a law making California the first state to regulate global warming pollution from cars. At...

GOP tries to dispel its gloom By Margaret Talev -- Bee Capitol Bureau Published 2:15 a.m. PDT Friday, September 27, 2002 When Republican candidate for governor Bill Simon faced off this month in a solo debate with the Green Party candidate, Democrats declared California's Republican Party a nonentity. To spend precious time debating a candidate whose party draws 1 percent of registered voters showed just how small-time the GOP had become, said Roger Salazar, campaign spokesman for Gov. Gray Davis. "Simon," he jabbed, "has finally relegated California's Republican Party to minor-party status."Salazar was being facetious. But he'd tapped a dark...

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Gray Extremism By George Neumayr Published 4/26/02 12:02:00 AM An extremist exists in the California governor's race. But it is not Bill Simon. Unlike the low-key businessman and philanthropist, Gray Davis is a high-strung ideologue, pursuing an agenda straight out of the pages of the Nation magazine. Consider Davis's bout of extreme liberalism this week. Appearing with the racial huckster Jesse Jackson at a San Jose shake-down conference, Davis spoke about possibly extending reparations to minorities in California. "Clearly, we want to right any wrongs and do justice to people who were taken advantage of," said Davis. Playing up his...

California's Governor Gray Davis is siding with Jesse Jackson in seeking reparations for African-Americans and other minorities whose ancestors were the alleged victims of slavery era insurance policies. "Clearly, we want to right any wrongs and do justice to people who were taken advantage of," Davis told a conference in San Jose organized by Jackson's scandal ridden Rainbow/PUSH Coalition. Davis failed to explain how he plans to do justice to people who are long dead. The remarks were spurred by the coming release of a California Department of Insurance study on slave-era insurance practices which collected data on businesses...

<p>Blackouts, higher gas costs and fuel shortages may hit Arizonans, thanks to California.</p> <p>Federal energy regulators are being urged to approve a plan to reduce the amount of natural gas Arizona's largest users get from the El Paso Natural Gas pipeline.</p>

Barf alert.