My god, is everyone in kalifornia taking too much advantage of prop. 215?
Every time gray davis opens his mouth he sounds more and more like some 2 bit dictator.
"It was my vision that commanded a 20-point victory, the
largest victory in 40 years. People expect government to reflect
the vision that I suggested. Nobody else in the legislature ran
statewide. Their job is to implement my vision. That is their job."
---Gray Davis in a San Francisco Chronicle interview, July 1999
"I've let every judge know that, while they have to follow the law . . . they're there because I appointed them,
and they need to keep faith with my electoral mandate," said Davis, who
was in Washington for the National Governor's Association conference.
If judges have contrary views, the governor said, "they shouldn't be a judge; they should resign."
"All my appointees, including judges, have to, more or less, reflect the views I've expressed in my election,"
he said. "Otherwise, democracy doesn't work..."
--- Gray Davis in a San Diego Union Tribune article March 1, 2000
"I'm not into ideology. I want to solve this problem. In California,
people are probably the least ideological they are in America [sic].
They just want their elected officials to come to their rescue if
they have a problem and I'm trying to do that."
--- Gray Davis on H&C 5/17/2001