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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (418064)	6/24/2003 12:23:28 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

The Enron-GOP-right has been lying to us about Davis for years now. As a cover-up for their own masive fraud and gouging scheme which cot Californians 20 billion. The orchestrated smear campaign afterwards (trying to blame their own crimes on Davis) didn't quite work in the 2002 election but it brought Davis's approval ratings way down and shot his negatives up. 6 million in negative TV ads will do that. But the ads were pure BS. Didn't help that Davis waged a negative campaign against Simon. Voters were disgusted with both of them. But Davis won fair and square. Now you have a situation where, like most states, the governor and state assembly are faced with an awful choice. Either cut police, firemen, schools, health care or raise taxes. Davis is cutting as much as he feels be can without endangering public safety. Also, California has been hit hard by the federal government which sucks out much more money than it gives back. And of course the high-tech boom and bust hit California particularly hard. But mainly the crisis was perped by the Enron-GOP types. That was a pure 20 billion ripoff for which California was never reimbursed. And you can bet the White House is trying their best to protect buddies Ken Lay and James Baker in the process. One of Davis's greatest mistakes was when he went to Ken Lay for "advice" and believed him when Lay told him to just let the market take care of things. Then Davis had a choice, either pass along 500% rate increases to Californians or cut a deal for something not quite as bad in the short term. Davis didn't realize that Enron and the Houston boys had him crushed in the middle of a massive flimflam, and that there was no way out without handing over billions to the crooks.