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Politics : IMPEACH GRAY DAVIS! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (1345)	10/2/2003 11:56:22 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1641

Corruption is Gray Davis and Gray Davis is corruption. A $25,000 campaign contribution from a hi-tech company resulted in a multi-million no-bid contract. When the legislature smelled something wrong and announced investigative hearings on the deal, Davis allies in the state Assembly fired the committee chairman and called back the hearings. What we have is a cover-up. voznuestra.com Decade-old accusations of corruption against Gov. Gray Davis came to light yesterday when a federal judge unsealed claims from a convicted felon that Davis traded favors for campaign contributions. signonsandiego.com News reports detail letters submitted to prosecutors in 1993, kept under wraps until this week, containing allegations that implicate then-State Controller Gray Davis in multiple schemes to trade official favors for campaign cash. newsmax.com Democrats from Governor Gray Davis to state Attorney General Bill Lockyer were given hundreds of thousands of dollars in “campaign contributions” by Oracle before the $95 million contract was signed. 216.26.163.62 But television costs can't entirely explain the vast sums going into California's political races this year, said Steve Weiss at Center for Responsive Politics in Washington, D.C. "Davis appears to be paving new ground with regard to fund-raising at the gubernatorial level," consumerwatchdog.org GOV. GRAY DAVIS TELLS PUBLIC TO “GET LOST” ON ENERGY CRISIS DOCUMENTS judicialwatch.org It is that sort of blatant corruption that Gray Davis symbolizes, someone who is up for bid and doesn’t care about his constituents as much as the special interests, and unfortunately I can’t say that its only the Democrats or the Republicans because its all of them. Gray Davis too got campaign contributions from Enron the first time around in 1998. severeboredom.com And a brand-new list of Gray Davis horrors at StraightTalkPolitics.org: straighttalkpolitics.org Want more? I got 'em.