— Columnists Matier and Ross have their finger on the pulse of California politics like nobody else (except Dan Walters – he’s in a class by himself). They summarize the Davis strategy today (Big political fallout in S.F. regardless of election results)
CAT’S MEOW: No matter who wins tomorrow’s GOP gubernatorial primary, there’s one person who will be wearing a big smile:
Gray Davis.
“The primary went just as we’d hoped,” was how one top Davis operative summed up the governor’s mood.
“Either we come out of this facing a very badly damaged Richard Riordan or we face Bill Simon — a guy who is just too conservative for today’s California,” the operative said.
Even Gray probably didn’t count on the help he got from Deukmejian, the biggest and loudest of the Riordan-bashers. But this is democracy at its worst – single-issue voters who’d rather make a point than win elections and govern. Whatever their point was, the only thing anyone will remember about this election is the stupidity of it.