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
California drove the economic boom of the last eight years, and it could drive it down just as easily,
If the news events over the last couple days have raised any doubts in your mind about the wisdom of electing Arnold Schwarzenegger, I say to you, 'Come home, vote no on the recall.'
George Bush, whatever his skills and accomplishments, will not carry California. You can take to that to the bank,
I am working as hard as I can to make this state better,
I am mandating that by March 15th every retail establishment in this state substantially reduce their outdoor lighting,
Despite an offer of nearly half a billion dollars, the company was unwilling to accept reasonable limits proposed by the federal and state governments on its ability to log ancient redwoods.
Dan, when are you going to get with the program? Join Pete Wilson and I and support a permanent ban on new, offshore drilling?
The odds of something happening are very remote.
They want to get rid of me to get rid of the progress, ... terminate the 'Terminator'.
The great thing about California is, in every natural disaster we all work together ... we're all pulling in the same direction, trying to get people through the day,
a huge miscalculation. They did not anticipate the recovery that California experienced and the particular needs of the tech-based economy here in California. Secondly, there was no effort to build more (power) plants to meet that demand.
One thing that has become clear over the last several days is that we no longer have 135 choices to make, .. It's really one choice likely to emerge from question number two, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and that leaves the voters with a clear choice. They can retain Gray Davis as governor, or they can elect Arnold Schwarzenegger and his crew from Pete Wilson to run the governor's office.
We're going to march on Washington with a host of Republicans, Democrats, business leaders, legislators.
Why? Because we're very well down this process as it is - flawed as it is - and we're counting on getting more power plants on line by the end of 2003 so we have a surplus of power.