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
We are entitled as a matter of law to some form of price relief,
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,
I expect these bids on long-term energy contracts should stabilize the market and drive the price of electricity down. This is a key step in our efforts to keep the lights on in California at a reasonable price.
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.
I'm taking care of the rest of it, ... We are building more plants and we are conserving, but prices under the law we passed in 1996 are exclusively a matter for the federal government to resolve -- and they've dropped the ball big time.
This year, he's on the right track, and he's trying to chart a course for California proposing investments that will control traffic, reduce pollution and build more schools. That's good, basic stuff.
We will never forget the people who stood up to Mother Nature's fury. They are standing up to the worst of Mother Nature.
Boring is back! Boring might even be beautiful!
Tonight the voters decided it was time for someone else to serve.
Well, we're trying to patch and fix and put a cast on a broken system here. You can call it what you want, but we'll continue to purchase power in a private market.
We believe you will not have to pay more than the current rate structure proposes - which is, for 50 percent of the public, nothing; for another 25 percent, only a 10 percent increase; and for the remaining 25 percent, a 34 percent increase.
Now, in the space of a year, we've spent 450 percent more for power than we did the year before, and bought essentially the same amount of power. This year, that number's likely to go up. That can't go on forever and have us continue to be the economic engine for America.
I know that Duke made a number of demands, including that the attorney general drop its investigation. We have no intention of asking the attorney general to do that.
We're not going to take this sitting down. We are fighting back.