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<p>Richard J. Riordan tried to escape a tough question the other day. But his wife and most trusted adviser, Nancy Daly Riordan, was having none of it.</p> <p>The GOP gubernatorial candidate, sitting with reporters, was asked: Does he support funding for contraceptive programs and sex education for teenagers?</p>

<p>Sacramento -- Gov. Gray Davis wants to give state and local police broad new powers to obtain wiretaps and monitor e-mail, a proposal likely to inflame civil libertarians and set up a showdown with members of his own party in the Legislature.</p>

In California, Gov. Gray Davis is fighting to broaden his authority By David Kravets, Associated Press, 1/2/2002 13:48 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) As he enters a tough re-election campaign, Gov. Gray Davis is assuming unprecedented powers that have landed him in court with key legislators and civil libertarians. Davis, a Democrat in the final year of his first term, has exercised emergency powers to cope with the electricity crisis, pushed to keep some criminals locked up indefinitely past their release dates, and tangled with the Legislature over his veto authority. ''He's certainly flexing political muscle,'' Santa Clara Law School scholar Gerald ...

Bill Simon, the GOP candidate for governor in CA, is on Hannity right now. He's just now finished the first scheduled segment, but he's agreed to stay on for the next segment. They've been talking about the bill that would give driver's licenses to illegal immigrants and the tossed fraud verdict.