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...Gov. Gray Davis is popping up at every public event he can find in California to show that he's doing his job. And it's beginning to bear a little fruit: some polls show the number of voters who favor his recall slightly down, to about half. Still, you have to wonder why Davis, faced with budget shortfalls and an anti-tax electorate, is working so hard to hang on to the job in the first place...
...staring at budget shortfalls this fiscal year totaling $80 billion, forcing them to slash popular programs or raise taxes. None so far is threatened with being ousted by a recall like the one Davis faces. But for many a pink slip might be a blessing in disguise. Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who's been in the pressure cooker seven years, likes to give this advice to new governors, only half jokingly: "demand a recount and hope you've lost." Four states where the post is losing its luster...
...This summer Connecticut faced a $2 billion deficit over the next fiscal year (a whopping amount considering the state budget for that period is only $13.5 billion), which put Rowland in an ugly fight with his legislature. Taking his cue from Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who dispatched his Texas Rangers to hunt for Democratic lawmakers in a redistricting battle, Rowland at one point sent out state troopers armed with subpoenas to round up Connecticut legislators slow in reaching a compromise. As it was, Connecticut was one of six states to miss its deadline for producing a budget. When...
...overused cliche that California is known for seismic tremors, but there's no getting around the fact that yesterday?s dramatic upheavals in the recall campaign against Gov. Gray Davis were, well, earthshaking. Voters woke up Thursday morning to a completely different race. Arnold Schwarzenegger?s shock-and-awe style announcement on The Tonight Show that he would run was the top headline, but Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante?s decision to jump into the race was just as big. It gave the signal that the Democrats have abandoned Davis, deciding it?s better to cut the Governor loose...
...Christine Todd Whitman did, and announced last month that she will leave her post as EPA administrator on June 27. The short list of prospective replacements, confirmed by a White House official speaking on condition of anonymity, consists of Tom Skinner, the head of an EPA regional office; Idaho Gov. and former Sen. Dirk Kempthorne; and Deputy EPA administrator Linda Fisher...