California's governor answers a Nobel Prize winner with obscenities.

Wall Street Journal, Opinion Journal ^ | 10/29/02 | John Fund

[zook]

Blue Gray

California's governor answers a Nobel Prize winner with obscenities.

Tuesday, October 29, 2002 12:01 a.m. EST

All Ely Dahan wanted was a brief conversation with California's Gov. Gray Davis of California about an exciting article by a Nobel Prize winner that had just appeared in The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Dahan, a UCLA business professor, thought the article had valuable insights into California's electricity problems. What he got instead was a highly agitated governor ignoring the policy points, cursing the Journal as "f---ing a--h---s," and declaring: "They don't see the world realistically." End of conversation.

Gov. Davis's outbursts aren't unusual. Just this Sunday, a profile in the San Francisco Chronicle noted that "his temper and foul language are legendary." A 1997 profile by the liberal columnist Jill Stewart of the weekly New Times Los Angeles recounted several instances of Mr. Davis "hurling phones and ashtrays at quaking government employees." She concluded that "his incidents of personally shoving and shaking horrified workers" marked him as "a man who cannot be trusted with power."

As governor, Mr. Davis has become legendary for his ability to separate cash from potential contributors. He has raised the astonishing sum of $65 million in order to saturate all of California with his TV ads; on some days they air up to 200 times up and down the state. Critics claim his interest in policy outcomes is in direct proportion to the interest contributors have shown in filling his campaign war chest. Yesterday a federal judge released decade-old documents that contain allegations from former California Coastal Commission member Mark Nathanson that Mr. Davis, the state's controller at the time, had asked Mr. Nathanson to give special consideration to Davis campaign contributors. Mr. Nathanson, who was later convicted of bribery, asked at the time that his allegations "remain under seal because he fears that those against whom he provided information will retaliate against him or that he will be the target of physical violence."

Mr. Davis's campaign dismisses the Nathanson documents as "baseless charges made by a man who is a convicted felon, admitted perjurer--in an attempt to get his sentence reduced." Nonetheless, the campaign took the precaution last week of having its lawyer send a letter to California TV stations warning them not to air the charges in campaign commercials for Bill Simon, Mr. Davis's GOP opponent.

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[zook]

Ah, if only someone had had a tape recorder!

[Free the USA]

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[DoughtyOne]

This is just choice. Davis has been high up in California politics for thirty years. This is the first we've been introduced to his legendary temper in the public arena. Could there be a less genuine press in the world, than ours?

[evolved_rage]

I guess I share a value with Gray Davis; I use the same language when talking about Gray Davis. "Values we share"... He's a "f---ing a--h---s," runt.

[Dan Day]

cursing the Journal as "f---ing a--h---s," and declaring: "They don't see the world realistically."

Translation: They insist on dealing with facts, not starry-eyed liberal "we can wish the world a better place" fantasies.

You know, like thinking you can halt power plant production for a decade and still keep up with rising demands.

[Irish Eyes]

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[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Good one!

I'll ping the list.

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[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

Click here to download the California Republican Liberty Caucus' tri-fold pamphlet on the governor's race!

It's a .pdf file, so you'll need Acrobat Reader... it's free, and chances are good you already have it on your computer. Try the link and see.

Print it using the printer-icon button in the Acrobat toolbar in your browser (not File|Print in your browser's menu). It's intended for double-sided printing using single pieces of paper-- no stapling needed if you do it that way, and saves trees! ;-) Print one side, then invert the paper and feed it through a second time for the second side. Fold, and sally forth to get out the vote!

Give this to friends, walk your neighborhood, take it to stores, give a wad of 'em to your school, hand some out at your house of worship, at clubs, at stores and small businesses...

Let's retire Gray Davis!

Let's show the media and RINOs that "It's the base, stupid!"

Let's show Gray Davis that money can't buy him love ...or re-election!

Freepers and RLC activists can claim considerable credit for nominating Bill Simon, so now let's elect him!

[HHFi]

I find it interesting that Davis' campaign goons are threatening TV stations if they play any hypothetical Simon commercials that even mention this news story. If a Republican tried that, liberals would be howling about prior restraint of their freedom of speech and screaming "Censorship!!" Besides, since when do charges in political ads have to be proven true? Wasn't it a Democratic Congress that exempted political ads from truth-in-advertising laws?

[okie01]

"As governor, Mr. Davis has become legendary for his ability to separate cash from potential contributors."

In civilized society, this action is referred to as "extortion".

[B4Ranch]

ping

[patriciaruth]

Thanks for the pamphlet!

[aruanan]

A 1997 profile by the liberal columnist Jill Stewart of the weekly New Times Los Angeles recounted several instances of Mr. Davis "hurling phones and ashtrays at quaking government employees."

A Davis by any other name is a Hillary.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Oh... and here I thought he had cussed out Jimmy Carter.

[monocle]

Aren't many liberals driven by emotions and immunized against reason?

[aruanan]

Aren't many liberals driven by emotions and immunized against reason?

I just think they've never gotten past the stage of approaching reality characterized by the three-year-old's statement, "Mommy, the moon is following me."

[lepton]

I just think they've never gotten past the stage of approaching reality characterized by the three-year-old's statement, "Mommy, the moon is following me."

This sure sounded like one of your comments. :)

[Alex Murphy]

This sure sounded like one of your comments. :)

Might be! I've been very busy starting up a whole chain of franchises. Chances are this fellow is operating one of my new outlets. If it's not, I'll see him in court for copyright infringement!

[Gophack]

Gov. Davis's outbursts aren't unusual. Just this Sunday, a profile in the San Francisco Chronicle noted that "his temper and foul language are legendary." A 1997 profile by the liberal columnist Jill Stewart of the weekly New Times Los Angeles recounted several instances of Mr. Davis "hurling phones and ashtrays at quaking government employees." She concluded that "his incidents of personally shoving and shaking horrified workers" marked him as "a man who cannot be trusted with power."

Says it all. Dump Davis!

[Gophack]

Let's add two more character traits to Davis and his cohorts: threats and intimidation. Lies we've already covered.

Ben Shapiro, a UCLA student and columnist with Creators Syndicate, said that when he called the governor's office for comment, spokesman Gabriel Sanchez told him: "I'd be very careful not to use unverified info. That could be slanderous. You weren't there, I wasn't there, you didn't hear it." Mr. Shapiro says "the implicit threat to sue was obvious." My own conversation with Roger Salazar, the governor's campaign press secretary, was much more cordial. "I don't remember the governor using that language," he told me. "He said something about the Journal wanting him to give the energy companies a 400% increase in rates, and that was a crock."