Bill Bradley

High anxiety gripped California this week as the state’s politics and finances showed unprecedented signs of dangerous fraying. By midweek, neither major political party was set on who its leading candidate would be, despite persistent assurances from Democratic Party leaders that they would not challenge embattled Gray Davis and persistent......

It’s Arnold Schwarzenegger calling on the cell phone. The Weekly tells the action superstar, “I’m driving by the state Capitol now and it’s 108 degrees. Is that too hot for you?” “No,” the Terminator shoots back, laughing at the double meaning. “It was much hotter in Baghdad, 130 degrees. Our......

Governor Gray Davis’ campaign to save his career is off to a negative, stumbling start. With the recall on the verge of qualifying for a fall ballot, and super-rich superstar Arnold Schwarzenegger on the verge of running, Davis needs better news than last weekend’s lightly attended kickoff rally in San......

With only last-minute legal machinations standing between him and an unprecedented recall election, trailing in the polls, his once-brimming treasury depleted and fund-raising harder than before, Governor Gray Davis must turn to less traditional money sources. So it was that, out of public view, Davis invited himself to a private......

With strategy after strategy having failed for Governor Gray Davis, judgment day is fast approaching. Now claiming 1.3 million signatures, recall organizers should have enough to force a special election this fall — a prospect made all the more ominous by the rousing opening of Terminator 3, the thriller starring......

Photo by Ted Soqui The announcements by top Democrats that they will not run for governor in a recall election could backfire for Gray Davis. Any advantage offered by his party’s united front could be washed away by the embattled governor’s raising of the vehicle-license fee and more signs that......

Poor Gray Davis. California’s constitutional deadline to pass a new budget came and went over the weekend, and there our embattled governor was, alone in the state Capitol with no legislators in sight, contemplating not success but disaster in the form of the seeming collapse of his budget strategy, a......

Embattled Governor Gray Davis’ political operation is in full swing against the accelerating drive to recall him. But his effort is rife with contradictions and a troubling surrendering to Indian casino interests that the governor had previously been counting on to help solve the state’s historic budget crisis. Last week,......

With a recharged recall effort rapidly bearing down on him and California’s record state-budget deficit getting even worse, embattled Governor Gray Davis is on red alert. He’s conjuring political moves and contemplating budget maneuvers that to many are as “unthinkable” as rolling over much of the deficit to future years......

Congressman Darrell Issa has turned the sputtering drive to recall embattled Governor Gray Davis into a real thing. But the very rich Republican car-alarm-business owner from San Diego also has enough personal baggage to keep him from becoming the next governor. Issa (Ice-uh), who’s of Lebanese descent and recently visited......