And Davis still leads in the polls?!?!?!?

The Sacramento Bee -- sacbee.com -- Oracle-pact scandal grows

Gov. Gray Davis' director of e-government personally accepted a $25,000 political contribution from a lobbyist for the Oracle Corp. last year, shortly after the state signed a controversial long-term software contract with the company, The Bee learned Thursday.

E-mail communications from the administration obtained Thursday, meanwhile, provide the strongest indication yet that Davis may have known about the contract after all. Davis aides have maintained the governor himself knew nothing about the contribution or the contract at the time.

As the scandal gripping the Davis administration's ill-fated deal with Oracle continued to escalate Thursday, California Highway Patrol officers descended on the state's technology offices to prevent document shredding, while Oracle officials and Davis aides said they were moving to rescind the deal.Ah, California politics....

Second story is Offices raided to prevent any shredding:

State law enforcement officials raided the offices of the California Department of Information Technology on Thursday to prevent the destruction of documents related to the state's botched software contract with Oracle Corp.

California Highway Patrol officers and state Department of Justice officials descended on the downtown offices shortly after noon, where they supervised the collection of office paper shredders, removed a huge garbage bin from the back alley, interviewed employees and sequestered two computer hard drives for inspection.

Not that Davis had much use for DOIT anyway. He created his own technology counsel, made his own technology dictates, etc. DOIT, or him, is more in the way than an asset.