FReep Alert: LIVE at Simon/Davis DEBATE (L.A. Times bldg) Monday (10/7) 11am (TV party at New Otani)

ADVISORY/Los Angeles Gubernatorial Debate Oct. 7 (via Yahoo! Finance news) ^ | October 4, 2002 | RonDog

[RonDog]

"Dump DAVIS!" FReep ALERT!!!

Please JOIN US on MONDAY (10/7) at 11 am
in front of the
Los Angeles Times building
202 West 1st Street (at Spring Street)
downtown Los Angeles


from
Expedia maps



from FReeper Howie's "Dump DAVIS" collection


And, immediately following the FReep,
you are cordially invited to join us at a
DEBATE Watching PARTY
from noon to 1 pm

on the BIG SCREEN TV
in the Lobby Bar of the
New Otani Hotel
120 South Los Angeles Street

(two blocks east of the L.A. Times building)
on the corner of 1st Street and Los Angeles Street

They are opening this room, and serving lunch - just for US!

[RonDog]

Come and see the "eGray Hooker" LIVE!
plus
SPECIAL GUEST appearances by:
the "debate CHICKEN"
the "GRAY Reaper" (dumping dioxin)
"Superman SIMON" ("the S is for SIMON")

...and YOU!!!

[RonDog]

And for thise who CANNOT attend, it will be broadcast LIVE on TV.
From http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/021002/20449_1.html:

Press Release

Source: Los Angeles Times

ADVISORY/Los Angeles Gubernatorial Debate Oct. 7
Media Registration Deadline Oct. 4; Updated Broadcast Feed Information
Wednesday October 2, 7:39 pm ET

• (BUSINESS WIRE)--

  WHAT: Gubernatorial debate between Gov. Gray Davis and Republican
        candidate Bill Simon Jr. Sponsored by Los Angeles Times and
        Tribune Broadcasting.
  
  WHEN: Monday, Oct. 7   12-1 p.m.  Debate
                         1:15 p.m.  Post-debate media briefing
                                    (depending on candidate
                                    availability)
  
  WHERE: Times Building, 202 W. 1st St., downtown Los Angeles
         - Media check-in: Globe Lobby
         - Media room: 5th floor, Times Building
         - Debate: Chandler Auditorium
  
  DEBATE CREDENTIALS: -- Registration deadline: Friday, Oct. 4
                      -- Credentials granted on first-come basis.
                         Seating is limited.
  
                      -- Register: - Voice-mail: 213-237-2600
                                   - Fax: 213-346-8451
                                   - Email: david.garcia@latimes.com
  
                      -- Required information:
                         - Name
                         - Title/position
                         - Organization
                         - Business telephone and email address
  
                      -- Freelance/online media: Letter of assignment
                         also required
                      -- Current media photo ID required for admission
                      -- Media attendees must pick up their own
                         credentials
  
  MEDIA PARKING:      -- No-host parking is available on a first-come
                         basis at 220 S. Spring St.
                      -- Limited parking for microwave trucks only is
                         available on a first-come basis in the
                         open parking lot at the corner of 2nd St. and
                         Broadway. No large satellite trucks.
                      -- Current media photo ID must be presented.
  
  MEDIA ROOM:         -- Seating and phone/modem lines are limited and
                         on first-come basis
                      -- KTLA broadcast feed: Video/audio mult-box
                         connections on first-come basis
                      -- Working journalists only. No guests.
                      -- House TV feed of the debate will be provided
  
  PANELISTS:          Moderator
                      -- Hal Fishman, anchor and managing editor, KTLA
                         TV News @ Ten (Tribune Broadcasting,
                         Los Angeles)
  
                      Panelists
                      -- Janet Clayton, Editorial Page editor, Los
                         Angeles Times
                      -- George Skelton, political columnist, Los
                         Angeles Times (Sacramento)
                      -- Randy Shandobil, political editor, KTVU TV
                         (Fox/Oakland)
  
  POOL COVERAGE:      -- Only media pool representatives will be allowed
                         into the Chandler Auditorium where the debates
                         will be held
                      -- Newspapers: Los Angeles Times, La Opinion,
                         Sacramento Bee, San Diego Union-Tribune,
                         San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News,
                         Grupo Reforma (Mexico)
                      -- Photo: Los Angeles Times (Robert St. John,
                         213-237-7020)
                      -- Wires: Associated Press, Reuters
  
  TELEVISION FEED:    -- Live broadcast of the debate is exclusive to
                         Tribune stations and partners in these
                         markets:
                         Los Angeles: KTLA TV    San Diego: KSWB TV
                         Sacramento: KTXL TV     San Francisco: KTVU TV
  
                      -- Other stations within these four markets may
                         tape the broadcast for replay at any time after
                         the original telecast.
  
                      -- Stations located outside of these markets may
                         broadcast the debate live or record the debate
                         for broadcast at a later time.
                      -- Mandatory :05 credit: "Los Angeles Times/
                         Tribune Broadcasting"
                      -- Logo/composite bug may not be obscured
                      -- Satellite:
                         - Total running time: 59:30, no
                           commercial units
                         - Program will be fed on C Band from 4MC as
                           follows:
                              Date/ Time:  10/07/2002, 1200-1300 PDT
                              Transponder: TELSTAR 4 / 10
                              Downlink frequency: 3900 MHz (H)
                               Horizontal Polarization
                              Satellite audio: 5.8MHz Left / 6.2MHz
                               Right / 6.8MHz SAP-Spanish
                         - Trouble Number: (818)840-7159 Cal Pflugrath
                           or Laura Comer
                         - Broadcast will be close-captioned and carry V
                           chip encoding
                         - Spanish-language SAP/closed-captioning will
                           be provided
                      -- TV technical support
                         - KTLA Engineering: Emil Kravotil or Darell
                           Kuenzler
                         - KTLA Trouble Number: 323-460-5809
  
                     Radio
                     -- Audio feed available for live broadcast without
                        restriction
                     -- Mandatory credit: "Los Angeles Times/Tribune
                        Broadcasting"
                     -- Satellite:
                        - Date/ Time:  10/07/2002, 1200-1300 PDT
                        - Transponder:  Telstar 4/C10
                        - Audio: 5.8 L / 6.2 R / 6.8 SAP
                        - Downlink frequency: 3900 MHz (H) Horizontal
                          Polarization
  
                     Online Media
                     -- No excerpt usage until after 1 p.m. or
                        conclusion of broadcast
                     -- Mandatory credit: "Los Angeles Times/Tribune
                        Broadcasting"
                     -- Logo/composite bug may not be obscured
  
  

  
  

  ---

  Contact:

       Los Angeles Times
       David Garcia, 213-237-4715
       david.garcia@latimes.com

---

Source: Los Angeles Times

[RonDog]

You can also LISTEN LIVE over the Internet at KQED 88.5 FM:

Press Release
Source: KQED

KQED Public Radio to Present
First Statewide Gubernatorial Debate Between Davis and Simon
The California Report's Scott Shafer to Lead Post-Debate Analysis;
--Race Receiving Record-Low in Voter Support--
Wednesday October 2, 6:37 pm ET

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 2, 2002-- On Monday, Oct. 7 at 12 noon, KQED Public Radio 88.5 FM will broadcast the first gubernatorial debate between Governor Gray Davis and Republican challenger Bill Simon in the 2002 election campaign season.
Sponsored by the Los Angeles Times and presented statewide by KQED, this hour-long debate will air statewide on public radio as a special presentation of The California Report...

From: www.KQED.org

[RonDog]

Please help us PUSH

this EMOTIONALLY UNSTABLE freak...

California Governor Gray Davis

...OVER THE EDGE!!!

From:

Calif. GOP: WARNING TO ALL DAVIS STAFF!
Working for Gray may be hazardous to your health.
Calif. Republican Party web site (Adobe Acrobat Reader required) ^ | Septemnber 26, 2002
Posted on 09/27/2002 8:37 AM Pacific by John Jorsett

From www.TechCentralStation.com:

The Colorful Candidate

By C.C. Kraemer

Does anyone want to be governor of California? Or, with the Democratic incumbent suffering high disapproval ratings and choking on his poor approval numbers and his Republican challenger running as the Unknown Candidate, maybe the better question is: Does anyone want either of these guys to be governor?

California Gov. Gray Davis should be running away with the race. Spending up to 12 hours a day raising money, he's pumped more than $32 million into his campaign. (That includes $70,500 from Tosco Avon in an alleged deal where Davis permitted the oil company to increase by a factor of five its discharges of dioxin, a toxic chemical thought to cause cancer, in the San Francisco Bay.) Yet he can't pull away from his GOP opponent, Bill Simon, who is reportedly short on cash - he's raised about a third of what Davis has - and is hardly making a ripple with his campaign.

Somehow, the gray Davis has emerged as the colorful candidate. But that's only because he has acquired a number of fitting nicknames during his three-plus years in office. As a protégé of Gov. Moonbeam, Jerry Brown, and a less-than-impressive repairman during the dark - literally - days of the state's energy crisis, Davis was labeled Gov. Lowbeam. Variations have included Gov. Blackout, Gov. Dimbulb, the Ungovernor and Squat Davis.

While Davis provides court-jester entertainment, his opponent in the fall general election is quietly moving around California claiming to have saved nothing but nevertheless making some progress in a Democratic state. His own polling showed him to be seven points (48% to 41%) ahead of the short-circuited incumbent in the middle of March. At the end of July, a USA Today poll had Simon ahead 47% to 45%, even after Davis spent millions on television ads portraying (falsely) Simon as a business crook.

Recent results of The Field Poll have Davis ahead by seven percentage points but unable to bury Simon. Maybe that's because voters get a chill from the governor: The Field Poll has also found that his disapproval ratings have topped his approval ratings.

With one candidate running a dignified - though nearly invisible - campaign, and the other running from a well-known energy problem, his once close association with Rep. Gary Condit and a host of questions about the way he's financed his campaign, the last weeks of the California gubernatorial race should prove to be worth watching.

Making It Worse, And Cracking Up

To his credit, Davis didn't create the state's power problem that began in the winter of 2000 and haunts him still. The botched attempt at deregulation was a stale leftover from his Republican predecessor in the governor's office, Pete Wilson, and a Democratic state legislature. But blame Davis with not only failing to fix it but also for making it worse.

And blame him for cracking up so completely over the power problem that he wasn't able to recover enough to speak coherently with the San Diego Union-Tribune editorial board.

"I saved this friggin' paper. I kept the lights on in this state. Do you understand that? I kept the lights on," the tetchy governor insisted at that meeting.

It's hard to decide which is more breathtaking: the Capt. Queeg-break with reality or the statement that preceded that rant where he admits he panicked in handling the crisis.

Apparently having temporarily escaped from his political handlers, Davis displayed for the Union-Tribune an astonishing Nixonian paranoia: "I kept the lights on. And this sounds a little presumptuous, but I think I should at least get a round of applause. I don't get squat.

"People just roundly criticize me."

Davis also talked about "a full-out war against me," which he said was "worse than being in Vietnam."

Yikes. Somebody must be out to get the guy. Does he also worry that his food has been poisoned?

All the more perplexing is the fact that some of his unexpected remarks poured out during his introductory statement. He had not even been asked a question.

When Davis isn't seeing critics around every corner or worrying that there are political enemies and Texans under his bed, he's giving Simon a verbal wringing out to save himself from the Sacramento mutiny.

"This state is not going to elect someone who has never held office, rarely voted and is out of step with the state on most major social issues, including women's right to choose, sensible gun control, energy deregulation…. He is pro-voucher and pro-privatization," Davis said of Simon. "You need to bring something to the table. You need to pay your dues. You need to serve on some board or commission. Run for some office. Do something that shows your civic contribution before you ask people to vote for you."

Clearly, Davis doesn't recognize those are precisely the reasons Simon has the support he does. There are savvy voters who understand just what political climbers who start on some board or commission are all about. And it isn't public service or a "civic contribution." It's blind, naked political ambition, the desire by small people who don't feel comfortable with the competition of the private sector to use the power of the state to insulate themselves and manage the lives of others.

Then there is the issue of congeniality - and Davis' lack of it. Voters see a sour, somewhat loopy politician whose best work has been to raise money for re-election.

"A lot of Californians just don't like the guy," is the simple observation of San Francisco Chronicle political writer Carla Marinucci.

The arrival of November will be a blessing to California voters weary with an obviously rattled yet still politically ambitious and quite desperate governor. They can throw out the rascal who gave them rolling blackouts and bring in someone who's not so concerned with political power for the sake of perpetuating it. In the meantime, there's always the chance that cheap entertainment will break out anytime Gray Davis opens his mouth.

[NormsRevenge]

GO SIMON

DUMP DAVI$ & the Den of Socialists

[NormsRevenge]

"I confess, I have not spent my entire life running for political office. I’ve spent it building businesses, creating jobs, leading charities and helping people in the private sector. And working with Rudy Giuliani as an assistant U.S. attorney, I prosecuted criminals and protected the people’s rights. As a businessman and prosecutor, accountability has always been my number one priority."

Bill Simon

[RonDog]

Please BUMP THIS THREAD!

We need to BUILD on the MOMENTUM that we got YESTERDAY, from:

KFI-640's "John and Ken" at Gray Davis campaign HQ in L.A. (10/3) 3pm, with debate CHICKEN!
email ^ | October 2, 2002 | John & Ken (KFI 640-AM)
Posted on 10/02/2002 4:41 PM Pacific by RonDog

and
KFI-AM and John & Ken are offering Davis $84,000 to debate Bill Simon.
John & Ken Show on KFI, AM 649 in Los Angeles ^ | 3 October 2002 | Thiinktwice
Posted on 10/03/2002 3:51 PM Pacific by thinktwice

From the "Baghdad Barb" FReep video, RonDog, as the "eGray Hooker"

We WILL "Dump DAVIS!"

[RonDog]

"Dump DAVIS!"
Get the FACTS
about our "Pay for Play" governor at:
www.eGray.org

The state-wide "DumpDAVIS" FReep is currently scheduled for:

Saturday (10/19) - 1 pm to 3 pm - Capitol building in Sacramento - confirmed
(note the NEW times)
state-wide "DumpDAVIS" FReep in SACRAMENTO!
FReepers from all across Cailfornia will gather on the Capitol Steps
Jim Robinson is scheduled to be there.
Sacramento radio station KTKZ (1380-AM) is scheduled to broadcast LIVE from the FReep!
theme: "Dump DAVIS"
(possible GIANT dump truck, dumpsters - use your imagination...)

And, check out the NEW SECRET FReep - TOMORROW (10/5)!!!

Please FReep-mail me about details of an AMAZING "secret" Dump DAVIS! FReep that is so HOT that we cannot talk about in on the PUBLIC forum.
(FReep-mail only!)

[RonDog]

(political cartoon courtesy of Mike Ramirez, originally published August 20, 2002)
Copyright 2002 Los Angeles Times

See also the EXTRAORDINARILY effective "eBay parody" website at:

www.eGray.org

[RonDog]

See also, from http://www.simonforgovernor.com/campaignads.php:

Click below for the audio, video, or text of Bill Simon's most recent campaign ads.

		"Do You Know Me"
		video stream (RealVideo)
		video download (mpeg)  |  pdf  |  text

[DoughtyOne]

Heh heh heh, go Ron.

[PhiKapMom]

This is a fantastic thread. Will be there in spirit with you guys!

Give it to Davis big time!

[Saundra Duffy]

Big freepin' BUMP!!!!!!!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Way to go RonDog!

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[Gophack]

Simon BUMP!!!!! Wish I could join the L.A. crowd, should be fun! (But I'm up here in the beautiful north ...)

[MeekOneGOP]

[NEWwoman]

How much did eGray get bribed, er ... paid to debate?

[NEWwoman]

Experience we trust. Values we share.

Who is "we", kimosabe?

BTW: I've heard that the Tonto's pet name for the Lone Ranger "kimosabe" means - knows very little.

[RonDog]

Simon BUMP!!!!! Wish I could join the L.A. crowd, should be fun! (But I'm up here in the beautiful north ...)

That's O.K.

We're taking the "eGary Hooker" show ON THE ROAD!

Can you make it to the SACRAMENTO FReep on 10/19?

The state-wide "DumpDAVIS" FReep:

Saturday (10/19) - 1 pm to 3 pm - Capitol building in Sacramento - confirmed
(note the NEW times)

state-wide "DumpDAVIS" FReep in SACRAMENTO!
FReepers from all across Cailfornia will gather on the South Steps of the Capitol

Jim Robinson is scheduled to be there.
Sacramento radio station KTKZ (1380-AM) is scheduled to broadcast LIVE from the FReep!
theme: "Dump DAVIS"
(possible GIANT dump truck, dumpsters - use your imagination...)

[Gophack]

I'll try ... I have three and a half children and politicial activities usually take a back seat ... but I'll put it on my calendar.