Gray Davis
Gray Davis
Joseph Graham "Gray" Davis, Jr.is an American politician who served as the 37th Governor of California from 1999 to 2003. A member of the Democratic Party, only months into his second term, in 2003 Davis was recalled and removed from office, the second state governor successfully recalled in U.S. history. Prior to serving as governor, Davis was chief of staff to Governor Jerry Brown, a California State Assemblyman, California State Controllerand the 44th Lieutenant Governor of California. Davis holds a...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth26 December 1942
CityBronx, NY
Meanwhile, people have to join us and fight back against the federal government that has dropped the ball, that is in bed with these energy companies, that wants them to make more money than they've made before.
Here is my general approach to the energy companies. You have already charged the utilities a 50 percent credit penalty for the power they were buying from you. You're charging us a penalty. You're not going to get two bites of the apple here.
They're the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and they will not do that. They will not pull the trigger.
We'll have a public power authority, which will also have the ability to build power or finance power. And more importantly, we'll have more power than our economy provides. All of that will give us leverage we don't have today.
I don't know why they're doing it. I have to assume that their motives are positive, not negative. But they don't understand the severity of the problem in this state.
We need help from Washington today to reduce the extraordinary prices for power we are paying, ... I'm taking care of the rest of it. ... But price, under the law we passed in 1996, is exclusively a matter for the federal government to resolve and they've dropped the ball big time.
utilities are going to have to write off some of their debt. We are not going to compensate them for mistakes of judgment they made; they were big proponents of deregulation back in 1996.
We have National Guard there. We have Highway Patrol there. We're working with the Coast Guard -- they have increased their presence, ... So we believe it is perfectly safe.
I expect these bids on long-term energy contracts should stabilize the market and drive the price of electricity down. This is a key step in our efforts to keep the lights on in California at a reasonable price.
If it could happen, Davis would look forward to such an opportunity. It's just very difficult to listen to inaccurate facts that went unchallenged.
He should have spent a year as a substance governor, dealing with what people care about,'' he said.
We made progress, particularly on issues of long-term contracting, to bring down the rates and ensure reliable power.
he has precisely the right experience to be president.
Whatever is done has to be done in a fair and objective manner,