Davis campaign strategy is to run outside recall circus
TOM CHORNEAU, Associated Press Writer Tuesday, August 12, 2003
(08-12) 23:38 PDT SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) --
Although past races have earned Gov. Gray Davis his reputation as an aggressive campaigner, advisers say he'll fight the recall election with a strategy based on trying to fly above the circus swirling below.
If he is to survive the first recall election in California history, his advisers say, he must also show voters the Republican-led recall on Oct. 7 will not solve California's problems.
It will, they say, merely aggravate those woes by costing $66 million dollars and possibly leaving a small, fringe group in control of nation's most populous state and the world's fifth-largest economy.
"He's the only guy in the campaign that has the office and the only one who really understands how destabilizing this is," said Davis media consultant David Doak. "He's determined to project an image of stability, that things are under control and at the same time, fight for his job." (snip/...)
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