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.
As governor, I am enormously grateful to every firefighter who put themselves in harm's way to protect us and protect our structures.
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.
We're going to march on Washington with a host of Republicans, Democrats, business leaders, legislators.
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.
As the governor of this state, I obviously see the issue quite differently.