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
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 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.
My most important priority is to restore our schools to greatness.
We need an opportunity for the markets to stabilize so that consumers in our states don't have to bear the disproportional burden of rising natural gas prices or undue profiteering,
The answer to improving public schools is staying on the path that we are on.
who gave their lives so we could live this day and every day in freedom.
Last Friday, 50 million Americans lost power for 29 hours. In California, not a single light has gone out in the last two years,
I think we can strengthen our relationship with Mexico which, by the way, was the state's largest trading partner in the fourth quarter of 1998,
I think Arnold's off to a good start,
We believe there is a credible threat that there will be an effort made between November 2nd and November 7th to destroy one of those bridges.
utilities are going to have to write off some of their debt. We are not going to compensate them for mistakes of judgment they made; they were big proponents of deregulation back in 1996.
We need help from Washington today to reduce the extraordinary prices for power we are paying, ... I'm taking care of the rest of it. ... But price, under the law we passed in 1996, is exclusively a matter for the federal government to resolve and they've dropped the ball big time.
Despite an offer of nearly half a billion dollars, the company was unwilling to accept reasonable limits proposed by the federal and state governments on its ability to log ancient redwoods.
Dan, when are you going to get with the program? Join Pete Wilson and I and support a permanent ban on new, offshore drilling?