Gray Davis, Lockyer, Caught Off-Guard: Failed to defend Pledge of Allegiance in court

Simon for Governor | 6/27/02 announcement

[Liz]

Simon for Governor Statement on Pledge of Allegiance:

The people of California, who care about their nation's grand traditions such as the Pledge of Allegiance, did not have their voices heard as the Pledge of Allegiance came under assault.

Gray Davis and Attorney General Bill Lockyer failed to defend the Pledge of Allegiance in court.

· "The State of California did not join in the motion to dismiss or otherwise participate in the District Court proceedings. [from Ninth Circuit opinion.]

The state of California was the only major defendant to refuse to defend the Pledge of Allegiance at either the trial court or the appellate court. The other two major defendants - Elk Grove Unified and the United States of America - defended the Pledge of Allegiance, as evidenced by counsel.

· FEDERAL GOVERNMENT: "Kristin Door, Assistant United States Attorney, Sacramento, California, Lowell V. Sturgill, Jr., Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. for federal government defendants'appellees. [from Ninth Circuit opinion.]

· SCHOOL DISTRICT: Irving Scott, Terence J. Cassidy, Porter, Scott, Weiberg & Delehant, Sacramento, California, for school district defendants-appellees. [from Ninth Circuit opinion.]

· CALIFORNIA: "The State of California did not join in the motion to dismiss or otherwise participate in the District Court proceedings. [from Ninth Circuit opinion.]

The court states in its opinion that State of California's statute validating the Pledge was implicated by the suit and that California benefited from the dismissal.

· "It [California] did, however, sub silentio, receive the benefit of the district court's ruling dismissing the complaint. Accordingly, a reversal of the order would result in the reinstatement of the complaint against the state. [from Ninth Circuit opinion.]

· "The California Education Code [52720] requires that public schools begin each school day with 'appropriate patriotic exercises' and the 'the giving of the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States shall satisfy' this requirement." [from Ninth Circuit opinion.]

Gray Davis had every opportunity to call on Attorney General Bill Lockyer to defend the Pledge of Allegiance. In fact, yesterday he called on the Attorney General to file a brief.

If he can do it now, why couldn't he have done it then?

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[Grampa Dave]

You posted, That 12 billion dollar surplus he squandered sure would come in handy now, eh?

Notice how none of the left wing fish wraps ever mention that 12 billion surplus if they do mention the run away deficit spending of Herr Davis and his commie rat buds in charge of the California Assembly!

I have a couple of sources that say this deficit will be over 30 billion by the time the election hits. We just won't be told about it until January.

Add the 12 billion surplus that is history to 30+billion in the new deficit, and you can see what uncontrolled Rat/socialist/communist spending can do.

DAVIS IS THE MISSING $40 BILLION GUY. WHERE IS THE MISSING $40 BILLION DAVIS?

[Liz]

Has Gray Davis issued a public statement on the Pledge decision yet?

Yesterday, the day of the court decision, one of the nets aired his smirky gray face uttering some kind of inanity (frankly I don't remember what the conniver said, and I really don't care b/c it was so blatantly phony).