Long Beach Press Telegram Recall Davis, elect Arnold Oct. 7: Schwarzenegger has the right ideas to begin repairing California. Saturday, September 27, 2003 - Gov. Gray Davis is a career government bureaucrat who ascended too high. His shameless pandering to campaign contributors, obsessive micromanagement and extreme timidity toward any type of risk- taking served him well on his rise to the top, in various No. 2 positions, but those same qualities proved disastrous once Davis was elected to govern, a job that requires leadership. His tenure in office has been marked with one leadership failure after another. First there...
