Bill Bradley

Turns out it’s a real war. America is coming to grips with a foe who shoots back, foolish though it may be. Enemy troops are not rolling over as if they were a cinematic collection of Schwarzeneggers and Bonds. But will the underlying cause of this war — the logic......

California Democrats moved sharply to the left in their annual state convention over the weekend in Sacramento, overwhelmingly opposing the war in Iraq even as public-opinion polls showed most Americans moving to a position of support for a U.S. attack. Assembly Speaker Herb Wesson, of L.A., spoke for most California......

Governor Gray Davis has signed on a new cast of advisers, mostly powerful insiders with deep connections to corporate California, to try to block a recall bid. "We have to assume this thing qualifies," says one source close to Davis. Longtime political guru Garry South is no longer as involved......

THE ODDS LOOK GOOD FOR CALIFORNIA getting its first recall election to unseat a governor — on one condition: that the campaign to oust Governor Gray Davis moves beyond its lunatic roots. Consider this scene in the Capitol last Saturday: Five hundred people rallied outside the statehouse in support of......

NOTHING LIKE A HUGE budget problem and an abysmally low approval rating of 24 percent to spur talk of recalling Governor Gray Davis. The latest dump-Davis campaign kicked off last week at a Capitol press conference, starring People’s Advocate head Ted Costa and controversial outgoing state Republican chairman Shawn Steel......

SACRAMENTO — Former Governor Jerry Brown, now mayor of Oakland, stopped by his old office last week with other city leaders from around the state to lobby his former chief of staff, Gray Davis, to spare local programs from the budget knife. Brown’s visit became a media event. Not only......

“How many competing budget plans do you expect to see?” the Weekly asked Governor Gray Davis late last week. The governor held up his right hand, his forefinger touching his thumb and making “zero.” What about the Latino Legislative Caucus and its plan to develop an alternative budget? he was......

America‘s worst-ever state budget crisis comes with its own circus. Gray Davis had no sooner unveiled his proposed budget last week in the Capitol’s press-conference room than critics gathered in the hallways outside in what amounted to a rugby scrum with straining reporters. The Assembly Republicans‘ budget point person, Assemblyman......

Photo by Ted Soqui The Latino Legislative Caucus, which created a large stir in last year’s gubernatorial race when it withdrew its endorsement of Gray Davis, will present an alternative budget to counter the governor’s drastic cuts, the Weekly has learned. The Davis budget is expected to include huge reductions......

Governor Gray Davis and his staff played a major role in last week‘s removal of the environment-friendly chairman of the powerful California Coastal Commission, the Weekly has learned. But once they succeeded in ousting longtime Malibu environmental activist Sara Wan, they could not get the votes needed to replace her......