Posted on 10/20/2002 9:44:55 PM PDT by RonDog
Once again, we have proven that eGray Davis can RUN, but the cannot HIDE from FReepers, and their FRiends and...Over a DOZEN FReepers and our (soon-to-be-FReeper) FRiends joined with the ever-present "DEBATE Chicken" to FReep the elusive soon-to-be-EX-Governor of California as he tried to sneak into a United Farm Workers (UFW) rally at the Coachella Valley High School this afternoon....the "Chicken Man!"
Once again there were MANY more not-yet-officially-registered-FReepers than there were actual FReepers.
This is a GOOD thing!Pro-Simon "grassroots activism" is EXPLODING all across California, as MANY concerned citizens are responding to ANY notice - by e-mail or telephone - that Gray Davis will soon be darkening their community, and they are arriving in large numbers EVERYWHERE to protest him - often on very short notice - with VERY creative, original anti-Davis/pro-Simon signs, banners...
...and occasionally COSTUMES:
FReeper Tony in Hawaii (center - NOT in a suit - in the Hawaiian shirt, with hat) and the "DEBATE Chicken"
are joined by MANY other as-yet-non-FReepers acting as if they really WERE FReepers!
RonDog joins the "Chicken Man" with an "eGray Hooker" MASK, but no fishnets and garters THIS time!
Local (non-FReeper-yet!) Simon supporters show off Howie's "Simon-ized Gray Davis" sign
as well as holding up our well-travelled www.FreeRepublic.com "DUMP DAVIS" banner (sort of) -
and blasting local RAT candidate Joey Acuna for never having had a REAL (non-government) job!
You can view ALL of the images from this FReep on a webpage hosted by FReeper Howie at: http://www.burgesses.com/cvhs.htmThanks Howie, and THANK YOU also for the use of your digital camera, and for creating these WONDERFUL Styrofoam "Dump DAVIS!" cutouts, which greeted EVERYONE who attended this rally, as MY car was the first car that they encountered, and THIS is how it was decorated:
I'll ping the list.
Memories:
California Power Crisis animations featuring Governor Gray Davis
AND......................
...to see what bad, bad things Davis has done... - CLICK HERE
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NO mention of our protesters in the Associated Press story:Davis woos farmers in two-day swing through stateCOACHELLA
Gov. Gray Davis began a two-day swing through the state's rural reaches to rally farmworkers and voters in the southern deserts and coastal farmlands.
"I am putting my faith ... in your hands," Davis told about 500 students and farmworkers at an afternoon rally held Sunday at the Coachella Valley High School gymnasium. "I am asking you to work hard between now and Nov. 5, to walk precincts, to tell your neighbors to vote."
The statewide tour is part of two busy final weeks of campaigning for Davis and GOP challenger Bill Simon, who spent Sunday lunching with Central Coast Republicans and seeking support in San Jose, the heart of high-tech Silicon Valley.
During a brief news conference in San Jose, Simon urged Davis to defend his fund-raising tactics. Simon has made Davis' prolific fund-raising a key issue in his campaign, frequently calling Davis the "coin-operated governor."
Simon said his concerns included a report in the San Francisco Chronicle on Sunday that linked campaign donations by wealthy Californians to requests some had pending before the California Coastal Commission.
"I think that the governor should provide explanations for some of the situations that have appeared in the press," Simon told reporters at the San Jose Jet Center.
Simon deflected criticism that his is the worst run GOP campaign in the country, and jovially maintained that he would win the Nov. 5 election.
At a central coast stop at the Avila Beach Golf Resort, Simon told about 200 people that the governor has his eye on the White House.
"If Gray Davis wins, his transition team is going to be focused on Washington, D.C., and getting elected President of the United States," Simon said. "My transition team, if I'm lucky enough to be elected, is going to be focused on all of you."
Davis has said he has no plans to run for the presidency while in the governor's office.
For Davis, Sunday's rallies had dual purposes: Attracting voters from rural, traditionally conservative areas and rallying support from a passionate farmworkers lobby that won a key victory last month when Davis signed an arbitration bill.
He was whisked away on a small jet paid for by his campaign to rallies where he appeared by the side of labor leaders including United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta.
"Now they have the opportunity to see face-to-face the governor who's supported them on a lot of their issues," said UFW president Arturo Rodriguez. Davis last month signed a measure requiring binding arbitration between farmworker unions and growers when they reach an impasse.
After his visit in Coachella Valley, Davis headed to Oxnard, along the fertile coast between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, where mushroom, lettuce and strawberry farms abound.
After the full day of campaigning, Davis jetted to the World Series in Anaheim arriving by the fifth inning, where he joined a star studded group of fans in the private suite of Angels general manager Michael Eisner, chairman of the Walt Disney Co.
Davis and his wife, Sharon, munched on tortilla chips and salsa. The governor did not reveal which team he was behind, even as the Giants scored two runs to tie the game.
"He's secretly rooting for the Angels," Eisner said smiling, as he paced across his suite wearing a Mickey Mouse T-shirt and red Angels hat and jacket. Actors Dylan McDermott from the television series, "The Practice," Dennis Quaid, Jim Belushi and his wife, Jenny, also were in Eisner's suite.
Simon didn't attend the World Series, but an airplane flew over Edison Field towing a banner that said: "Vote Bill Simon for Gov.! Go Angels!"
On Monday, the second day of his fly-around, Davis will visit Chico, a college and farm town in Northern California's Central Valley and the north coast's Eureka.
Published: Sunday, October 20, 2002 19:48 PDT
Would that be an Indian casino? Doesn't the law forbid politicians taking gifts from foreign powers?
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Letter to the Editor-in The Stockton Record
Posted on Sat, May 4, 2002
Now that the excitement of the California primaries is over and taxpayers have sent in their returns, voters ought to sit down and compare the front-runners for the office of governor: Gray Davis and Bill Simon.
Davis is a tax-and-spend liberal who has single-handedly turned the state's energy problem into a disaster, dumping a huge future debt onto our kids, all the while saying he "kept the lights on." But we shouldn't look at one huge mistake and judge a man.
Davis deserves to have his energy boo-boo weighed against his other accomplishments -- like shutting down five private prisons and boosting the benefits of state prison guards. Is it coincidence that the state prison-guard unions handed Davis checks totaling $2 million? Maybe. Let's weigh one more. Builders of homes and the makers of a type of plastic water pipe have tried for years to get California's OK to use it in our state, shaving hundreds of dollars off the cost of building a home. The plumbers unions don't want that, and the agency that OKs changes is backing away. Could it have something to do with the fact that plumbing unions have contributed $1.4 million to Davis' political treasury? Maybe.
Let's look at one more item. Gov. Davis has released a $5.3 billion "congestion relief" plan over which he has great control in how the funds are spent. One chunk of cash ($30 million) built a freeway interchange running straight to the casino owned by the Morongo Indians, one of the state's largest gaming tribes. The Morongos participated in a political action committee that spent more than $500,000 on Davis' behalf during the 1998 election. Quid pro quo? Maybe.
Now, let's weigh Simon's deeds:
* A successful businessman who knows how to balance a budget and a payroll.
* A tough prosecutor working under New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
* A leader of charitable organizations doing good work for many needy people.
* A Republican who is for smaller government, fewer taxes, fixing our failing public-school system and taking California into a brighter future!
The scales tip overwhelmingly in favor of Simon. California voters must do the right thing in November and dump Davis.
David Kerst
Tracy
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The "Casino Morongo" isn't very far from the Coachella Valley High School, come to think of it.
How could Gray Davis show up at a high school that celebrates such racist stereo-types as this mascot?
Simply shocking! Where is our PC press?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,52471,00.html
The Liberal Bias on College Campuses
... Rah, Rah, Rah for the Cooperative Ferns
...
The Los Angeles Times reports:
Coachella Valley High School picked the Arabs because the area is rich with date trees imported from the Middle East.
I get a laugh when I see the rats try to portray Freepers as an intolerant hate group. It's like writing bad press for their Grandma.
Some people have a knack for rearranging the letters on school marquees. I don't have this gift, but the "CVHS welcomes governor gray davis" reminded me of those pranks. All I could think of is:
GRAY EVADES CHIC ENS, but I have too many leftover letters: GLMOOORRSVVW. Or,
MR GRAY EVADES CHIC ENS, leftover GLOOORSVVW
LOOSR GRAY EVADES CHIC ENS, leftover GMRVVWO
CHIC EN GLOMS EVADER GRAY, leftover OORSSVVW
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