Moving deliberately to fill his cabinet, Governor-Elect Gray Davis named former California State Employees Association lobbyist Steve Smith as director of the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) last week.Smith, 44, was also political director for the state Democratic Party and served since 1997 on Davis' staff in the lieutenant governor's office. After Davis was elected to the governor's seat and before the DIR appointment, Smith was screening cabinet can-didates for the new gover
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