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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...work with him, oh, absolutely," says Republican state senator Jim Brulte. "On fiscal issues, he's closer to us than to the Democrats." And considering that Democrats now monopolize state government, it could have been worse, says assembly minority leader Scott Baugh. "He has tempered the insatiable appetite of the liberals...
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'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...
...that is true, Proposition 187 might be Exhibit A. The intent of the voter-approved 1994 ballot measure was to deny state aid to illegal immigrants. Davis opposed it as lieutenant governor, and it was declared largely unconstitutional by federal courts. But its backers appealed, and this spring, Davis kept 187 alive by asking a federal court to send it to a mediator. "The obvious interpretation," Pete Wilson, head cheerleader for 187, told the Los Angeles Times, "is that he is trying to have it both ways...