CA: Davis again needs help from liberals he once shunned

Sac Bee ^ | 7/21/03 | Dan Walters

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Gray Davis was a centrist triangulator during the first three years of his governorship, interposing himself as the decisive factor between business and professional groups and an increasingly liberal Legislature.

Davis collected millions of dollars in campaign funds from business executives and tilted their way on issues large and small, from modifying environmental regulations issued by state agencies to vetoing expensive worker benefit bills backed by labor unions and granting corporate tax breaks.

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[nwrep]

When did this Sonofabitch become a moderate? I must have missed his sex change operation.

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[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

HA!

[Davis accepted the trade-off and in 2002 shifted markedly to the left, reversing position on a number of major issues. The shift was signaled early in the year when he signed a multibillion-dollar increase in workers' compensation benefits that he had vetoed three times,]

And this, my FRiend, is currently driving HUNDREDS of businesses out of the state at the same time that oppressive taxation is driving the most capable income producers away as well. Of course, the economics behind such decisions are beyond the 8th grade comprension level targeted by the liberal media, but as an executive responsible for a technology based California business I can affim this is ths situation, and that IMO we are beyond the point of a recovery that would have avoided great pain for the state. The golden goose has been strangled to death. Sorry for the grim commentary.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

You would be in a position to see it. It seems to me that the policies pushed on the left would do exactly that! (Move companies to expand out of state )