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CLINTON LOBBIES FOR THIRD TERM LIE-BRARY A MIXED (-UP) METAPHOR BY MIA T, 12.29.02   DISCUSSION Get Interactive! What Do You Think of the Clinton Presidency? Discuss in the forum! Not yet a member?Then join us! Sunday's ProgramDecember 29th on C-SPAN at 6:30pm & 9:30pm ET A conversation with fmr. President Bill Clinton on his presidency, followed by a tour of the construction site for his presidential library in Little Rock, AR. Also, a tour of the Clinton papers and materials with Skip Rutherford, long time Clinton friend and President of the Clinton Foundation. "American Politics" is C-SPAN's weekly...

Davis Excuse in Pledge Case Proves Outright False Simon Provides Certified Mail Receipts Showing Davis Ignorance Claims Unfounded RIVERSIDE - Governor Gray Davis' excuse regarding his failure to entered a defense in the recent Pledge of Allegiance lawsuit has proved outright false, gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon told a gathering of business leaders today. On Thursday, after Simon blasted the governor for his failure to submit a legal defense on behalf of the state, Davis responded by saying he had not entered a defense because neither he nor Attorney General Bill Lockyer had been notified that the state was a defendant...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Law enforcement group cites rising crime, decreased funding, switches backing from Davis to former prosecutor Simon. SACRAMENTO - Gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon today won a major endorsement from the California Organization of Police and Sheriffs [COPS], an organization which had previously endorsed Gray Davis in his 1998 campaign. The endorsement letter COPS sent to its membership reads in part: "Four years ago we supported Gray Davis, but upon careful review of his record, we have become totally disenchanted with him and his policies. We feel Gray Davis has shown a lack of leadership." The following are Bill...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SANTA BARBARA - Gubernatorial nominee Bill Simon today delivered the following remarks to reporters during a media availability in Santa Barbara: "Thank you all for coming. I am traveling in Santa Barbara today on my campaign to unseat Gray Davis, and to restore leadership and integrity to the office of the Chief Executive of California. The needs of working Californians require that the incompetent and possibly corrupt administration of Gray Davis be voted out of office. "The quality of our schools, roads, and cities has not kept pace with the economic boom that occurred in the mid...

Remember last fall, when Sacramento predicted that the state budget deficit might hit $10 billion? In January, state officials revised their estimate upward to $12 billion, and then to $17 billion in March. Upon further investigation, Gov. Gray Davis and his accounting wizards have had to readjust those figures once again. This time, they say, the budget hole will probably fall in the $20 billion to $22 billion range. Or something like that. The final damage is hard to estimate because Davis, instead of getting serious about scaling back state spending (which has swelled by 36 percent under his watch),...

<p>When Gov. Gray Davis suggested that he supports reparations to minorities for slave-era business practices, he took a risky position that could prove unpopular with many voters as he seeks re-election.</p> <p>Davis made the statements this week as the state Department of Insurance prepared to release a study detailing slave-era insurance-policy practices in California.</p>

It wasn't difficult to read between the lines when Gov. Gray Davis pledged in his State of the State Address last January not to "advocate" for a tax increase. The governor's crafty election-year rhetoric provided the perfect escape: he wouldn't advocate for a tax hike, but he wouldn't veto one either. Taking their cues from the governor like nervous freshmen in a high school theater production, Davis' fellow Democrats in the Legislature stepped in to do the one thing they're really good at: finding creative, new ways to soak taxpayers. Not only were they creative, they were amazingly thorough. Since...

April 4, 2002 SACRAMENTO (AP) -- Former first lady and New York Sen. Hillary Clinton will swing through California today and Friday to endorse Democratic Gov. Gray Davis. Clinton will help kick off a "women for Davis" campaign Thursday afternoon at San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel and in Los Angeles on Friday. The Democratic senator also will headline fund-raisers for Davis and other Democrats, according to the Davis campaign. Davis, who is seeking a second term, will face Republican businessman Bill Simon in November.