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
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.
If that initiative were to pass, investment would be withheld, and it would take years and years longer before we had a surplus of power.
In some parts of California, people are going without power, ... I would love to keep the lights on. But it's important that we all pull together to reduce the strain on the grid.
It's not a bailout, ... It accomplishes two purposes: It provides the funding to revitalize the utilities, but it lets ratepayers know they will gain as the utilities gain.
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.
California drove the economic boom of the last eight years, and it could drive it down just as easily,
As governor, I am enormously grateful to every firefighter who put themselves in harm's way to protect us and protect our structures.
I think we can strengthen our relationship with Mexico which, by the way, was the state's largest trading partner in the fourth quarter of 1998,
Last Friday, 50 million Americans lost power for 29 hours. In California, not a single light has gone out in the last two years,
My friends, this was a massive effort ranging over 180 miles in six counties, probably the worst fires in California history,
I am mandating that by March 15th every retail establishment in this state substantially reduce their outdoor lighting,
If we get enough 'no' votes on the first question, then whatever Arnold Schwarzenegger does on the second question is of no significance,
This is an unspeakably barbarous act. These investigators were working hard, doing their jobs, protecting California consumers. I am sure that law enforcement will do everything in its power to bring those responsible to justice.
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.