LUNGREN, DAVIS DEBATE DEATH PENALTY.Byline: Scott Lindlaw Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. The death penalty was again a major topic of controversy between the Democratic and Republican gubernatorial gu·ber·na·to·ri·al adj. Of or relating to a governor. [From Latin gubern candidates as the two sparred Tuesday night in their second one-on-one debate. Democrat Gray Davis accused Republican Dan Lungren Daniel Edward (Dan) Lungren (born September 22, 1946), is a Republican of the United States House of Representatives representing California's 3rd congressional district (see map), located in the suburbs of Sacramento where he has served since 2005. of misrepresenting Davis' record on capital punishment capital punishment, imposition of a penalty of death by the state. History Capital punishment was widely applied in ancient times; it can be found (c.1750 B.C.) in the Code of Hammurabi. during their first faceoff last month. Davis, the lieutenant governor lieutenant governor n. Abbr. Lt. Gov. 1. An elected official ranking just below the governor of a state in the United States. 2. The nonelective chief of government of a Canadian province. , taunted Lungren, the attorney general, over the closing line of his new ad: ``A governor we can trust.'' ``Well, Dan, trust starts with truth,'' Davis said, accusing Lungren of distorting his record on the death penalty and offshore drilling Offshore drilling typically refers to the act of extracting resources, primarily oil, in an ocean or lake. Controversy As with all oil drilling, there has been a certain level of controversy surrounding the issue. in their first clash. Accusations about each other's records flew back and forth. ``You had fig-leaf votes for the death penalty and refused to actually support the death penalty,'' Lungren said, adding that he supported capital punishment while he was a member of the House of Representatives Member of the House of Representatives member n (US) → membre m de la Chambre des représentants . Davis responded: ``The bottom line is that you're for the death penalty and I'm for the death penalty and you are trying to deceive TO DECEIVE. To induce another either by words or actions, to take that for true which is not so. Wolff, Inst. Nat. Sec. 356. people as you seek their votes.'' The pair came to ground zero of the campaign's prime battleground, the Central Valley, for the second of their five planned debates. Polls show that Davis holds a lead statewide, but the race is up for grabs in Fresno, the heart of the agriculturally rich Central Valley. Both candidates have been advertising and stumping heavily here because they believe the valley holds a ripe harvest of swing voters. The debate touched on abortion, education, the valley's economy and agriculture. Davis said Lungren had voted numerous times against funding for abortions in the case of rape or incest but had claimed during the first debate that he was not opposed to that exception. With time running short, the candidates became less strident toward each other and sought to address major issues such as water and growth. ``We have to solve this problem about the water from the north going to the south,'' Lungren said. He also spoke to fear that the state's prized farmland is being lost to urban sprawl. ``I don't want to see the Los Angelization of the Central Valley, a ribbon of concrete from the ocean to the mountain from Bakersfield to Sacramento,'' Lungren said. Davis, mindful of the agricultural focus of his Fresno audience, advocated better soil conservation and better pesticide use. |
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