[dvan]

"Gov. Gray Davis intends to solve the money woes without raising taxes."

Before or after he gets re-elected?

[goldstategop]

Before. He plans to do it in the meantime by charging everything to a credit card.

[John Jorsett]

"intends to solve " is quite the same thing as "will solve". Apres' Clinton, I've learned to parse Democratspeak very very carefully. I intend to marry Cindy Crawford. Let's see if that works out any better for me than Gray's intentions...