'Gov. Davis's outbursts aren't unusual. Just this Sunday, a profile in the San Francisco Chronicle noted that "his temper and foul language are legendary." A 1997 profile by the liberal columnist Jill Stewart of the weekly New Times Los Angeles recounted several instances of Mr. Davis "hurling phones and ashtrays at quaking government employees." She concluded that "his incidents of personally shoving and shaking horrified workers" marked him as "a man who cannot be trusted with power." '

LOL. Sounds like Goldin.

"Jonathan Young, a junior at UCLA who was present for the governor's comments, said he was surprised at the vehemence with which the governor reacted to Prof. Dahan's question. A self-described "leftist," Mr. Young says other students who were present were also taken aback by the governor's obscenities. A CNN staffer says students told her they couldn't believe this was the same man who had minutes before calmly answered questions on television. "

"The issue here isn't how often Gov. Davis loses his temper or what he says about the Wall Street Journal. Before his office began to resemble a political favor factory, I used to praise Mr. Davis for breaking with much of his party on economic issues. In late 1999, I wrote an editorial for the Journal hailing him as "California's Tony Blair."
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Mr. Davis is favored to win re-election next week, so he will likely have four more years in office before the state's two-term limit eases him out the door. With no more campaigning in sight, and no need to raise campaign cash, perhaps there is hope the governor will return to the spirit of his 1999 inaugural address."

I agree that Davis will probably win, the Republican opponent is pretty weak. This despite Davis poor job at governing California. But I don't see things improving- he's just going to feather his nest some more.