[Commander8]

The issue of this race will not be environment(though Davis will make a big deal of his efforts to ban offshore drilling.) It will be fiscal responsibility.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Posted this because it had this item regarding Calpine:

Meanwhile, the Davis administration's efforts to renegotiate the contracts continue, with an unfortunately familiar flavor of conflict of interest. The most important lobbyist for the state's backdoor bailout of Calpine, the San Jose power company, is actually a top state official -- Jeremiah Hallisey, a high-powered San Francisco lawyer (Standard Oil et al.) and longtime associate of Davis' from the Jerry Brown days, who now serves on the state Transportation Commission.

The two chief negotiators for the state are former L.A. Assemblyman Richard Katz, who had virtually no involvement with energy issues until last year and knows that the governor referred to the company as a "white-hat power generator," and Michael Kahn, another San Francisco lawyer, who represented the polluters in the infamous Stringfellow toxic-waste-dumping case.

Calpine is in danger of bankruptcy after the latest downgrade in its junk-bond-class credit rating and the canceling or delay of billions in power-turbine purchases.

[let freedom sing]

If BB believes the environment is the big issue, he ought to come to California and see for himself, instead of relying on hearsay and leaks from Bush-whackers. Bill Simon got on the Novermber ballot, without the help of the Bush Boys, and God-willing, he can make it in November without out caving into Rino demands, and sucking up to Parsky.

Simon can run a stealth campaign to defeat "Big Mouth Davis", and RINO reporters can "eat rocks."

[Grampa Dave]

Is this writer, the infamous Balls Bill Bradley, the bad luck symbol of the Rats in the 2000 elections?

[NormsRevenge]

Senate President John Burton, who backs it, said last week that the global-warming bill needs to move fast because the car manufacturers are coming after it.

Burton is another VerMin Fir DaVi$
DUMP DAVI$



GO SIMON

[tubebender]

Which Bill Bradley is this ?

[Beeline40@aol.com]

Simon is just not letting the press define the campaign and good for him. Abortion is not an issue. Its here and we all have to live with it. It is legal. Now, I am against abortion, but now is not the time to be hanging on to that issue. He is a good man. He will be a great governor for CAlifornia.

[daviddennis]

I don't know who he is, but I'm going to go out on a limb and assume he's a staff writer for the Weekly. As I have said before, the Weekly is somewhere left of Ralph Nader, and demonizes pretty much everyone who isn't, very much including Gray Davis. I don't think they will go so far as to endorse the Green, but they'll stop right on the borderline of doing so. Note that this article is only slightly kinder to Davis than Simon.

I'm sure glad we have the web to look up sources. Robert Novak's column sounds bad, when put into the context the Weekly uses. But read the column, and it doesn't look like a big deal at all. Note especially the last sentence of the section on the Governor's race:

Parsky has strongly endorsed Simon, and Bush will visit California later this month to campaign for the GOP nominee.

So much for the idea of a seriously divided GOP.

In terms of the fundraising and other issues, this is of course an ancient article. Looks to me that Simon has found a voice in criticizing the Oracle scandal and similar problems that are erupting.

Finally, note in the last paragraph that Davis is getting ready to kowtow to those nice people who contribute money to him. Maybe we should be glad he's corrupt, for that global warming bill really would be a disaster, and I'm betting that on principle, he would love to support it.

D