From the Downtown News Online Archives
Much like the Bush Administration's response to the Enron fiasco, Davis supporters insist that the governor's appetite for campaign contributions only affects politics, not policy. Yet, in 2001, a $115,000 donation from a development company led to approval of a hotly contested reservoir project in the Sacramento Delta. The governor's office successfully killed a bill that would have protected bank depositor privacy after top-drawer financial firms poured over a half million into the Davis campaign. Late last year, Davis refused to support a key teachers union bill after the group rebuffed his repeated demands for a $1 million campaign contribution.
I'm saddened that no one on the Democratic side of the aisle has the nerve to stand up to this. I'm even more saddened that the statewide media have laid down their Good Government ideals enough to give Davis a free ride on this.
Out of this kind of insane corruption, one hopes, comes reform.