{"id":130,"date":"2002-02-11T12:35:30","date_gmt":"2002-02-11T19:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/02\/the-sacramento-bee-sacbeecom\/"},"modified":"2002-02-11T12:35:30","modified_gmt":"2002-02-11T19:35:30","slug":"the-sacramento-bee-sacbeecom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/02\/11\/the-sacramento-bee-sacbeecom\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sacramento Bee &#8212; sacbee.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/content\/politics\/story\/1617876p-1694006c.html\">The Sacramento Bee &#8212; sacbee.com &#8212; Dan Walters: Do we want our politicians to be genuine or to be flawless actors?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nNo weasel words for George Deukmejian. The former California governor&#8217;s personal animus was plainly evident as he described Richard Riordan as &#8220;a person I have no respect for and in no way I could vote for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nNor did Riordan, the former mayor of Los Angeles and leading Republican contender for governor, conceal his annoyance with Deukmejian, when the remark was raised in a gubernatorial debate an hour later at a GOP state convention.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;George Deukmejian has a bad memory,&#8221; Riordan snapped. &#8220;The only things he remembers are his grudges.&#8221; Deukmejian, sitting nearby, was visibly jolted by the rejoinder.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds like the old Jerry Springer Show, doesn&#8217;t it? No matter who wins the Republican gubernatorial primary, in November California voters will have a choice between a real human, with warts and all, and mechanoid fundraiser Gray Davis. This is shaping up as the most interesting political contest this state has seen in a very long time.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sacramento Bee &#8212; sacbee.com &#8212; Dan Walters: Do we want our politicians to be genuine or to be flawless actors? No weasel words for George Deukmejian. The former California governor&#8217;s personal animus was plainly evident as he described Richard Riordan as &#8220;a person I have no respect for and in no way I could &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/02\/11\/the-sacramento-bee-sacbeecom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Sacramento Bee &#8212; sacbee.com&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-26","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}