{"id":911,"date":"2002-08-29T09:54:47","date_gmt":"2002-08-29T16:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/08\/our-ethical-governor\/"},"modified":"2002-08-29T09:54:47","modified_gmt":"2002-08-29T16:54:47","slug":"our-ethical-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/08\/29\/our-ethical-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Our ethical governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tVia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rtumble.com\/\">Rough&#038;Tumble<\/a>, a new PPIC poll shows Davis widening his lead:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>When Davis outpolls Simon on ethics, you know GOP is in a jam &#8212; Score the summer round for Gov. Gray Davis. A new poll shows just how one-sided this contest has been. It&#8217;s not merely that Davis leads Bill Simon by 11 percentage points among likely voters, 41% to 30%, in the survey by pollster Mark Baldassare for the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California. It&#8217;s worse than that for Simon: Voters think Davis is the more ethical. George Skelton in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-cap29aug29.column?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dcalifornia\">Los Angeles Times<\/a> &#8212; 8\/29\/02 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ppic.org\/#survey29\">Link to the poll here <\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Remember the folks who said they had to vote for Simon over Riordan because Simon was the Man of Principle? Ha.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Rough&#038;Tumble, a new PPIC poll shows Davis widening his lead: When Davis outpolls Simon on ethics, you know GOP is in a jam &#8212; Score the summer round for Gov. Gray Davis. A new poll shows just how one-sided this contest has been. It&#8217;s not merely that Davis leads Bill Simon by 11 percentage &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/08\/29\/our-ethical-governor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Our ethical governor&#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-911","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-eH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911","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=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}