Word: california
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Well, not quite. California wouldn't be California without someone like state senator Tom Hayden, the aging radical, pointing out that Silicon Valley zillionaires make in 15 minutes on the stock market what they pay their housekeepers in a year. The problem with Democrats moving to the center, says Hayden, is that the equity issue is off the radar screen...
...California has the highest and lowest elevations in the Lower 48, more rich people than anywhere else and more poor people too. Physically and cosmically, it is the fringe. So it was only natural that some natives were skeptical down to their thongs about a plodding career politician who claimed to be a moderate. But nine months into his first term, it appears that the New York City native wasn't lying...
...California's lefty Democrats whined that Davis abandoned them just when they could have steamrolled Republicans, with a majority in both houses along with the top job in the state for the first time in 16 years. Republicans carp about his grabbing headlines for initiatives set in motion by Republican predecessor Pete Wilson. Ticking off both parties while at the same time shaming them into action is the triple crown of nonpartisan, post-impeachment politics. But being in the middle isn't necessarily easy. It's like standing on a highway median strip--every time you step into traffic, someone...
...controversial compact with 59 California Indian tribes restoring some casino-gaming rights that had been lost in a state supreme court decision? Done...
Davis and the California legislature are putting on a clinic for the D.C. class, which can't agree on the time of day. Says Californian Leon Panetta, President Clinton's former chief of staff: "The public right now looks at Congress and sees a lot of meanness and partisanship and people behaving more like it's West Side Story than government by and for the people. So if a Governor comes along who looks as if he's trying to walk down the middle and get things done, that's something they could grow very comfortable with...