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To: D. Long who wrote (11310)	10/8/2003 6:42:23 AM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793799

What's interesting about the election is with 95% of the votes counted, Republicans received nearly 60% of the vote. This little tidbit is not something we're likey to see reported in the mainstream news. Bottom line, the election was a complete repudiation on Democrats running California and bodes well for Bush in 04. Also, check out the ballot measure results. vote2003.ss.ca.gov Proposition 53 Infrastructure: Finance. Yes 2,428,814 35.7 No 4,360,351 64.3 Proposition 54 Classification by Race, ... Color or Origin. Yes 2,530,590 35.8 No 4,537,223 64.2

To: D. Long who wrote (11310)	10/8/2003 7:07:42 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793799

Weintraub is another one who understands what really happened. CALIFORNIA INSIDER __________________________________ Concede -- and conceit I’ve just finished watching Gov. Gray Davis’ concession speech at the Biltmore Hotel, and I have mixed feelings about what has transpired tonight. Even though I knew in my bones that this was coming, even though it seemed inevitable from the time the petitions were certified, if not before then, it still was a shock to the system to see it happen. It is sad, in a way, that the state’s public affairs are in such terrible shape that it has come to this. Despite my feelings about the job Davis did as governor, and my role in documenting his failures, I have little joy in my heart tonight. It is almost as if the state’s voters have fired an employee for whom they once had high hopes, someone who didn’t work out the way we thought he would. That’s nothing to celebrate, when you think about it. Davis in his concession speech showed class, congratulating Schwarzenegger and promising to cooperate with him during the transition. But his supporters were angry and nasty and in no mood to concede anything. I understand the bitterness, but I’m disturbed by its depth. Several of the Democrats I spoke to were in strong denial about the message sent by the voters, the message being that they, and Davis, have been poor stewards of state government. They see this is an isolated event, a venting, that will quickly pass while they fight to maintain everything they have done the past five years. My gut tells me they are wrong, that there is something deeper here, a desire for fundamental change in the way the state does business and in the way politics works, or doesn’t work, in California. They also seem to misunderstand Gov.-elect Schwarzenegger, and what he is all about. His rhetoric is harsh and often shallow, to be sure, but he has laid out a broad vision for the state that the people have accepted. Legislators will ignore that reality at their peril. Posted by dweintraub at October 7, 2003 10:49 PM sacbee.com