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  Gray Davis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Davis, a Democrat, was succeeded by Republican Arnold A. Schwarzenegger on November 17, 2003.
Davis theorized that, as a moderate, Riordan could be a more formidable challenger in the general election than a conservative candidate, and sought to eliminate him in the primaries.
On October 7, 2003, Davis was recalled with 55.4% of the votes in favoring of the recall, and Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected to replace him as governor.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gray_Davis   (1750 words)

  
 Gray Davis - dKosopedia
In 2002, Davis pushed for and signed one of the most sweeping domestic partnership bills in the nation, and signed an extension to that bill weeks before leaving office.
Davis was the victim of a right-wing funded recall campaign in 2003 in the midst of a statewide energy crisis spawned by the deregulation of the state's electrical power industry.
Davis is now taking acting lessons and has appeared on such television programs as David Letterman and the CBS sitcom, Yes, Dear.
www.dkosopedia.com /index.php/Gray_Davis   (165 words)

  
 California Governor Gray Davis Kills Proposition 187
Although Davis opposed the proposition back in '94, when he became governor this year, he swore that he would respect the will of the people, as was his job to do.
Davis then decided he would not appeal the decision back in April and said it should go to mediation even though lawyers everywhere said you can't mediate such a issue.
Davis then signed an agreement with some civil rights groups stating flat out that he would not appeal the decision by Judge Pfaelzer which means the case won't go to the Supreme Court as was originally thought.
citizensforjustice.org /gray/prop187.html   (911 words)

  
 Davis ousted; Arnold wins - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Davis was ahead by 57 percent to 43 percent.
Davis said in a speech that was interrupted twice by boos and catcalls from his supporters.
Davis was elected in 2002 with 47 percent of the vote and had registered the lowest job-approval ratings in the state´s history.
www.washtimes.com /national/20031008-125152-7198r.htm   (1470 words)

  
 Recall Gray Davis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
As he campaigned for re-election, Gray Davis lied about the size and scope of the budget crisis facing California — a crisis brought about by his own inept management.
Just two weeks prior to the election, Davis was proudly proclaiming that he had made the tough choices and the budget problem was fixed.
Gray Davis pulled a fast one on the voters of this state in an effort to save his political career and get himself re-elected.
www.ca-republican.com /3310/3310b.htm   (317 words)

  
 Search Results for 'Gray-Davis'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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www.worldhistory.com /wiki/G/Gray-Davis.htm   (1427 words)

  
 Gray Davis - SourceWatch
As Lieutenant Governor, Gray Davis focused on efforts to keep jobs in California and encourage new and fast-growing industries to locate and expand in the state.
From 1983-1987, Gray Davis served in the State Assembly from Los Angeles County and was Chief of Staff to Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr.
Gray Davis was born in New York City on December 26, 1942.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Gray_Davis   (752 words)

  
 Reason
Gray Davis has never been anybody's "progressive." In a 1998 debate before his first election, Davis singled out the caning nation of Singapore as "a good starting place in terms of law and order." When pressed on the point by stunned reporters, he replied: "They don't fool around.
Last fall, Davis incurred the wrath of the Latino caucus by vetoing a bill by East L.A. State Senator Gil Cedillo that would have allowed illegal immigrants to obtain driver's licenses.
Gray Davis is a triangulator of Clintonian proportions; in fact, he's arguably more impressive, given his utter lack of charisma.
www.reason.com /links/links080103.shtml   (769 words)

  
 Davis, Gray on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Gray Davis reconnaissant sa défaite Devant ses partisans, Gray Davis a reconnu sa défaite et salué la victoire de Schwarze.
Gray Davis reconnaissant sa défaite Le gouverneur démocrate de Californie Gray Davis a reconnu mardi soir sa défaite et la..
Gray Davis et sa femme Devant ses partisans, Gray Davis a reconnu sa défaite et salué la victoire de Schwarzenegger.
encyclopedia.infonautics.com /html/D/DavisG1r.asp   (949 words)

  
 Gray ‘Skies’ Davis
It is no exaggeration to say that if Gray Skies spent as much time during his first term as governor attending to the state’s looming budget disaster and the energy mess as he did in raising the $78 million for his 2002 re-election, there probably would never have been a recall.
Davis is instead reverting to the slash-and-burn style of campaigning that has won him election to state wide office five times.
Davis and his aides claw to remain in power, painting the recall organizers as “a band of right wing nuts,” things in the state keep deteriorating.
daily.nysun.com /Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:ArticleToMail&Type=text/html&Path=NYS/2003/07/30&ID=Ar00700   (781 words)

  
 GRAY DAVIS.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Gray Davis was in Chicago asking the AFLCIO for a 10 million contribution to help pay to fight the recall.
DAVIS TOLD NBC’s “Today” show that “I don’t like this but I am trying to suppress those negative feelings and channel my energies into doing something positive for the people I work for, the people of this great state.” We will see how Davis suppresses his child tendencies to throw mud at his competition.
Gray Davis may have nearly 300,000 California state employees could be forced to work for minimum wage if lawmakers do not pass a budget by June 30 or approve emergency salary legislation.
www.political-comedy-central.com /graydavis.html   (5575 words)

  
 Gray Davis,
Davis faced mounting troubles over the summer as the state's deficit ballooned to a record-setting $38 billion, his approval ratings plummeted, and credit-rating agencies lowered the state's credit rating.
Gray Davis - Davis, Gray (Joseph Graham Davis, Jr.), 1942–, U.S. politician, b.
Gray Davis and the rise of the staffer mentality.
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0908640.html   (273 words)

  
 Gray Davis - Mr. None of the Above. By Chris Suellentrop
Gray Davis has made a career out of being the incarnation of None of the Above, a ballot option made flesh.
Davis' political success—including his ability to survive a recall election this fall (or next spring), should the petition drive pick up enough signatures to call one—hinges on his ability to convince voters to Throw the Bum In.
Davis managed only 47 percent of the vote, and he garnered 1.7 million fewer votes than he had four years earlier.
www.slate.com /id/2084612   (727 words)

  
 frontline: blackout: interviews: governor gray davis | PBS
Davis, a Democrat, was elected governor of California in 1998.
While he says he is suspending judgment on the merits of deregulation, Davis thinks that California's plan was deeply flawed.
At the time of this interview, Davis' advisors were negotiating settlement alternatives with some of those power companies.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/blackout/interviews/davis.html   (3829 words)

  
 Draft Gray Davis for DNC Chair   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Dignified Democrats effort to Draft Gray Davis for DNC Chair now has the big Mo' with coverage from the Hotline (if you don't have a subscription you shouldn't be concerning yourself with inside-the-beltway issues like choosing Party leadership).
Davis would still be in office today were it not for the recall provision in California's Constitution (since this was written by progressives it is only further evidence of the harm done by those too afraid to governor from the center).
Draft Gray Davis is a project of the Democrat Blog Swarm.
www.draftgray.blogspot.com   (591 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Recall just gets odder from here   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Gov. Gray Davis has officially validated the view in parts of the USA that the Golden State is far-out.
Davis this week led a parade of Democratic heavyweights — Al Gore's turn today — in bashing the recall as part of a Republican plot to steal what the party fails to win at the polls.
Davis used rallies at fl churches here and in Los Angeles to fire up his core voters, preaching no on recall and no on Proposition 54, a measure that would prohibit the state from collecting race data.
www.usatoday.com /news/politicselections/state/2003-09-18-calif-recall_x.htm   (1364 words)

  
 Davis concedes he had lost touch with voters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Davis' has been touring the state, answering questions from voters at forums arranged by special-interest groups and media outlets.
Davis' stumbling on this question may have come from fatigue, after dealing over the past few days with the end of the legislative session, a visit from former President Bill Clinton and other top Democrats, and a surprising federal court ruling Monday that could delay the Oct. 7 election.
Davis was joined in Los Angeles Wednesday morning by Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, a Democratic presidential candidate, to tour a job-training center for homeless veterans.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/09/18/MN253560.DTL   (865 words)

  
 SHOULD WE RECALL DAVIS?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Our effort to recall Gray Davis fell short due mainly to a lack of money, but also because of a complete news flout and massive behind-the-scenes sabotage by liberals.
When we filed the Notice of Intent to Recall Gray Davis, he answered by saying that "The proponents of this initiative are trying to deceive the voters into believing that illegal aliens are receiving taxpayer paid benefits.
Gray Davis is a traitor to the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of California.
www.americanpatrol.com /FEATURES/030210-RECALL-DAVIS-2/ShouldWeRecall.html   (393 words)

  
 sfbg.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Davis has turned the governor's office into little more than a money machine, shamelessly demanding campaign money from wealthy interests as the price of favorable public policy.
We endorsed Davis four years ago, fearing that Dan Lundgren – the former state attorney general whose politics were so far to the right that even many Republicans were afraid of him – could win a close election.
His critique of Davis goes beyond the obvious: Davis, he says, is not only corrupt but also incompetent – he bungled the state's long-term energy contracts by failing to hedge the costs, something Camejo says any decent finance professional would have done automatically.
www.sfbg.com /endorsements/endorsements_ca_races.html   (2601 words)

  
 California Governor's Race: Simon Survives Attacks, Davis Cons for Cash   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Davis and his profane campaign manager, Garry South, cannot wait to sink their fangs into Simon and pull him down into the gutter.
Davis worked a lawsuit to ensure that 187 would never be enforced, and he's prepared to exploit the issue to deceitfully characterize any Republican, including Simon, as a racist, using the same broad tar brush that coated former governor Pete Wilson.
Davis deems immigrants' rights as his ace in the hole and will pounce with full force, backed by an enthusiastic and only-too-happy leftist press, if Simon missteps and blows the issue.
www.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2002/7/25/211604.shtml   (1847 words)

  
 Gray Davis
Gray Davis, - Gray Davis, California politician, was ousted as governor in October, when he lost a recall...
California's gray politics: Governor Davis may win re-election only because the GOP's Simon is such a loser.
Analysis: Gray Davis' campaign in the California gubernatorial recall election pits the governor against the old, aloof and inaccessible image some voters have of him
www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0814793.html   (316 words)

  
 Gray Davis Gets Religion
Since he came to the realization that he was in the fight of his political life, Davis finally admits that he once sinned: yes, too slow to react to the state's electricity crisis; yes, too out of touch with the citizenry; but still entirely deserving of a second chance.
Davis, a Roman Catholic, sat in the front row, and listened intently as Bishop Gavino Zavala may or may not have insulted him.
That was followed by an interview with NBC anchor Tom Brokaw, where Davis and his wife, Sharon, neatly steered the conversation to their spirituality.
weeklystandard.com /Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/062exlpp.asp   (571 words)

  
 CA residents: recall Democrat Governor Gray Davis - ResellerRatings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Gray Davis has raised millions of dollars from his liberal friends and special interest groups all throughout the United States.
Right now Gray Davis is proposing the taxation of the Internet, in addition to a string of other tax increases to bail himself out of California’s budget crisis.
Gray Davis thinks your taxes are too low and that the best way to pay for his out of control spending is for YOU to pay for it all with higher taxes.
www.resellerratings.com /forum/t51863.html   (2190 words)

  
 RecallGrayDavis.Com Five Reasons to Recall Gray Davis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Gray Davis has now proposed implementing a tax on Internet commerce for any company with a retail outlet in California.
This has hurt other states as well as the notoriety of the California Energy Crisis created a disincentive for other states to explore reforms to public power agencies as the means of providing affordable electricity to the public.
In the past year, numerous allegations have emerged concerning the role of fundraising in the administration of Gray Davis’ duties as Governor.
www.recallgraydavis.com /FiveReasons.asp   (384 words)

  
 Gray Davis at opensource encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Davis returned to California and entered politics, serving as Executive Secretary and Chief of Staff to Governor Jerry Brown from 1974 to 1981, as Assemblyman from the 43rd district (Los Angeles County) from 1983 to 1987, then as State Controller until 1995.
An electricity shortage and rolling flouts in the summer of 2001 contributed to massive state debt — and widespread grumbling about Davis' administration — as California chose to negotiate unfavorable long-term contracts with power suppliers in neighboring states.
Davis has tried to maintain a middle-of-the-road approach, but he has ultimately alienated many of the state's liberals who view him as too conservative, and many conservatives who view him as too liberal.
www.wiki.tatet.com /Gray_Davis.html   (1086 words)

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