Davis is told: No trash talk

[Freddie Stubbs]

Attorney General Bill Lockyer issued a stern warning to fellow Democrat Gov. Gray Davis on Thursday: Run the kind of "trashy ... puke" campaign you did last year and a lot of prominent Democrats will vote to recall you and give the job to Republican Richard Riordan.

Lockyer acknowledged in a 90-minute breakfast interview with The Bee Capitol Bureau that Riordan has not yet declared his candidacy.

But he said he expects the former Los Angeles mayor to run and that he's been "counseling" and "warning" Democratic campaign consultants that they'd better steer clear of the type of personal attacks Davis has made in past campaigns.

"If they do the trashy campaign on Dick Riordan ... I think there are going to be prominent Democrats that will defect and just say, 'We're tired of that puke politics. Don't you dare do it again or we're just going to help pull the plug.'
"There is a growing list of prominent Democrats that, if that's how it evolves, are going to jump ship."

more: http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/7141190p-8088520c.html

[displacedtexan]

1. yeah, gray! don't do what it takes to win...

like you did last time!
that would be terrible!
whatever you do, don't say bad things about repukes!
whatever you do, don't run to win!
how dare you, gray?

[mitchtv]

2. turn the other cheek, just like Kevin shelley is bending

the rules to allow chimp on the Calif ballot after the deadline. Wouldn't want the whitewter crowd to think we're petty. Oh yeah and make sure you don't tell the Women of the state that Riordan can't be trusted to defend their right of reproductive choice.

[dfong63]

4. that shelley burns me

rules is rules. if the repubs want chimp to be on the ballot in calif, then they should obey calif's laws and its statutory deadlines. does anyone seriously think that a GOP state would change their laws to let Al Gore or any dem nominee, on the ballot? don't make me laugh. just look at the redistricting fight in Texas to see how fair the repubs play, or the FL election 2000 fiasco.

no wonder the repubs win, they know how to play hardball, the dems don't.

[mitchtv]

7. you said it better than I

.:toast:

[dfong63]

3. what planet did lockyer just drop in from?

sheesh. what the hell is this whole recall effort, if not a personal attack on davis? it's been going on for months now, and lockyer is telling davis not to resort to "personal attacks"??? it seems lockyer is has a bit of a blind spot...

[Jim Sagle]

5. Translation: Bend over for the Republicans.

[Thomas Jefferson]

6. Davis didn't trash Riordan. He made him look like a Democrat

to the Republicans. His goal was to get the conservatives within the Republican Party to back away from Riordan. Right after the election Riordan turned arounda and endorsed Simon. He later got wishy-washy on his endorsement with the fraud calaims popped up. This tells me that Riordan is much more conservative than Davis painted him out to be.