Word: davision
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"I suspect voters are not looking for rigid ideology when they vote for Governors," Davis told TIME one recent afternoon in his office, where he was meticulously reading every word of the 842 bills that sat in a box before him, often exasperating staff with brainiac questions about missing segments...
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...
Davis' staff members develop tics when you suggest their boss is Clinton, the triangulator, but without the action pants. They'd rather throw Tony Blair's name on the table for the way Blair moved England's Labour Party to the center. Even the Wall Street Journal made that comparison...
"I never said I would solve every problem that existed when I walked in the door," Davis responds, but his plan for have-nots is to figure out how to build better schools and keep the economy growing, and he says no two issues will get more of his attention...
Very nice, but that's more of a slogan than a vision, say killjoy Republicans like Brulte and Baugh. And even jealous Democrats suggest--anonymously--that Davis sees no further than to the bottom line of the latest poll that's dropped under his nose. Once he tests the wind...