Bill Bradley

IN ANCIENT MYTH, AN ORACLE CAN FORESEE THE future. But this particular oracle obscures it, threatening to drag down Governor Gray Davis because of actions in the recent past. It could have been a much better week for Davis. He could have listened to his environmental muses and touted his......

Call it the Gray Davis technique. It has enabled him to shoot down his most dangerous Republican rival, former L.A. Mayor Dick Riordan, and move out to a double-digit lead in a new Field Poll over Republican nominee Bill Simon Jr. All the while, of course, without Davis overcoming his......

As high-stakes maneuvering heats up over California‘s massive portfolio of long-term power contracts and a state bill to start controlling global warming, the song remains mostly the same for Republican gubernatorial nominee Bill Simon Jr. Nor is incumbent Gray Davis going out of his way to lead on environmental issues,......

As high-stakes maneuvering heats up over California‘s massive portfolio of long-term power contracts and a state bill to start controlling global warming, the song remains mostly the same for Republican gubernatorial nominee Bill Simon Jr. Nor is incumbent Gray Davis going out of his way to lead on environmental issues,......

Democratic Governor Gray Davis is building a box around Republican challenger Bill Simon Jr. It‘s the box Davis and his consultants promised to place him in during a freewheeling election-night discussion last month at the Biltmore. Choice on abortion, which Simon won’t discuss, is the first wall. Energy, on which......

We can add energy deregulation to abortion as topics Republican gubernatorial nominee Bill Simon Jr. doesn’t want to talk about. Appearing at a Republican unity event last week in the capital, Simon and Republican national chairman Marc Racicot, a former Montana governor, began by complaining about the attention being paid......

The Republicans‘ surprise nominee for governor, conservative investor Bill Simon Jr., has four major goals on his to-do list: show some support from women, reach out to Latino voters, consolidate his fractious party base and raise money. The guy is certainly energetic enough, having crisscrossed the state several times since......

Flying high above central California in his labor-chartered Gulfstream jet on the morning after the California primary, Governor Gray Davis talked of his vanquished foe, former L.A. Mayor Dick Riordan. Davis, the Democrat, had dispatched Riordan, once the leading Republican, with a devastating multimillion-dollar barrage of attack ads. “As you......

The real winner of the Republican primary for governor looked very much at home onstage at the Democrats‘ election-night party. As well he should have. Democratic Governor Gray Davis had just pulled off one of the great coups in political history. When he and his veteran campaign team launched their......

The not-so-hidden author of this year’s Republican gubernatorial primary was his generally cool, collected self as he discussed the race. We are talking here, of course, about Gray Davis, the incumbent Democrat. Political neophyte Bill Simon Jr. had just pulled ahead of heavily favored former Los Angeles Mayor Dick Riordan......