Money quote from an old New Times L.A. article, now floating around the web:
Perhaps you are among the millions never told of Lieutenant Governor Davis’s widely known – but long unreported – penchant for physically attacking members of his own staff. His violent tantrums have occurred throughout his career, from his days as Chief of Staff for Jerry Brown to his long stint as State Controller to his current job. Davis’s hurling of phones and ashtrays at quaking government employees and his numerous incidents of personally shoving and shaking horrified workers – usually while screaming the f-word “with more venom than Nixon” as one former staffer recently reminded me – bespeak a man who cannot be trust with power. Since his attacks on subservients are not exactly “domestic violence,” they suggest to me the need for new lexicon that is sufficiently Dilbertesque. I would therefore like to suggest “office batterer” for consideration as you observe Davis in his race for governor.
Go read the rest. It makes Arnold look restrained in comparison. It was published six years ago. Funny how the L.A. Times didn’t wait till five days before the election to run with it.
The Dish 