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California: Davis, top aides scramble to avoid onus for Oracle contract debacle
Sacramento Bee ^
| APril 30, 2002
| Dan Walters
Posted on 04/30/2002 7:58:54 AM PDT by John Jorsett
Edited on 04/12/2004 5:35:23 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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To: William Tell
Why? Are independent voters stupid? Yes, we are.
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posted on
04/30/2002 12:25:40 PM PDT
by
Coop
To: Grampa Dave
...the criminal Kali State Attorney General will never do anything to investigate the Rat criminals in Kali..... Running a protection racket, huh? These DummoRats are worse than the mob.
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posted on
04/30/2002 1:02:59 PM PDT
by
Liz
To: William Tell
The Oracle thing is big. That's why Davis is trying to distance himself. "I didn't know"; "It's not my fault"; and the resignation of his scapegoat, Barry Keene.
But it is big, and I don't see Davis returning the $25,000 contribution that came his way a few days after the signing of the contract. Do you?
Dump Davis!
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posted on
04/30/2002 1:17:24 PM PDT
by
Gophack
To: Gophack
Gophack said: "The Oracle thing is big. That's why Davis is trying to distance himself. "
It seems to me that Davis can claim incompetence and point out that the loss is at most $95 million or so. The incompetence already displayed by Davis in his heavy-handed interference with energy in Kalifornia is estimated at $15 billion or more. Unless someone can present the "smoking gun" tape with Davis' voice congratulating others on having taken the taxpayers to the cleaners, I don't see this getting much traction.
Remember, this is Kalifornia. Didn't we already see a similar amount wasted not too long ago on a DMV computer system which never operated properly? The Dems don't care how much of my money they steal and waste.
To: William Tell
The Dems don't care how much of my money they steal and waste.I'll give you that. However, the Oracle thing has a money component -- and I'm not talking about the cost to the taxpayers! The contribution ... coupled with Davis' other ethics problems ... makes it a story to be re-told. I think people "get it", the quid pro quo political enviro of our megalomanic governor.
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posted on
04/30/2002 1:39:31 PM PDT
by
Gophack
To: John Jorsett
Wasn't Oracle's CEO trying to push a National ID card? It must suck to only rip off the taxpayers of one state when you'd hoped to rip off the whole country!
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posted on
05/02/2002 4:50:35 PM PDT
by
steve-b
To: steve-b
Yep, that was him. He was going to do it for 'free'. Meaning he'd develop it for nothing, but there would have had to be many many copies of his software purchased to put it into effect. What magnanimity.
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