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To: LindyBill who wrote (4625)	8/10/2003 12:54:10 AM
From: MSI	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793731

Davis took a $25,000 "campaign contribution" from Oracle one week before he handed them a computer contract that has turned into a disaster Sounds like small potatoes, insignificant compared to federal bribery on an Enron scale, giving millions to Bush and costing billions to the public. Or even other states and cities' Not that its good in any sense, just insignificant by any comparison. He has taken so much money from the Prison Guards that they can now retire at 50 A non-sequitor. You must mean he's done so much for them they can retire at 50, and therefore that means, by reverse calculation, they must have bribed him heavily? Working for 25 years from age 25 isn't a big deal, maybe there's more to that story. Maybe so, but its even worse with the teachers and other state employees, as far as overextending pay and benefits. But again by federal standards its chickenfeed. We're in big trouble nationally, on a scale that makes Calif look like a day on the beach. Two or three orders of magnitude worse, which is where attention should be directed imo. I haven't seen confirmation of Davis' bribery, but lots of anecdotes, like my son-in-law who is a workman's comp claims manager for a large co., who has stories of an infamous limousine doctor who carries money to Sacramento to keep his thriving extortion racket protected. I don't know "smoking gun" type facts, but its clear he hasnt' got what it takes, call it "gravitas" or etc., to maintain the credibility to govern. The fact that Isa was able to scam the recall is one indication that it was needed.