FREEP REPORT: Gray Davis Pasadena Freep 10/26/2002 a ROARING success!

Sorry this took so long - I was checking out the video footage while I wrote it and actually have most of the video completed. Look for it in a day or two.

In the mean time, enjoy! Feel free to add your own observations, thoughts and views to this thread.

1 posted on 10/27/2002 1:35:01 PM PST by daviddennis

To: daviddennis; paola; RonDog; Tony in Hawaii; Outraged

I'm sure there are about a million people I left out; my apologies to those who are missing in action.

Also, my thanks to Outraged for all photos on this page except for Garry South, which was part of the video. Enjoy!

2 posted on 10/27/2002 1:37:00 PM PST by daviddennis

To: daviddennis; Mercuria; AnnaZ; feinswinesuksass

Hey, what happened to my friends the Second Amendment Sisters this time around?

3 posted on 10/27/2002 1:37:46 PM PST by daviddennis

Obviously he had seen the red light on the video camera and was, as politicians naturally do, playing to the only video camera present. No wonder they were so careful not to obscure my view of the stage - they thought I was the media!

BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!! Priceless!!

4 posted on 10/27/2002 1:50:28 PM PST by stands2reason

I knew I'd forgotten an important detail!

Bill Simon himself called the ChickenMan on behalf of all of us about 3/4 of the way into the event, while we were heckling Gray Davis. His entire campaign staff could hear it through the speakerphone! He congratulated us all on a job VERY well done!

You're welcome, Bill :-).

D

5 posted on 10/27/2002 1:51:00 PM PST by daviddennis

In the mean time, enjoy!

I actually did enjoy the sensation of leaning my head all the way over to the side to look at the pictures. Don't ask me why, but I did. :D

Great job, and I can't wait to see the video.

6 posted on 10/27/2002 1:55:04 PM PST by hellinahandcart

To: hellinahandcart

7 posted on 10/27/2002 1:56:35 PM PST by hellinahandcart

Bill Simon, Republican candidate for Governor, actually congratulated you for HECKLING Governor Gray Davis?!!

Is this true?

8 posted on 10/27/2002 1:58:33 PM PST by navigator

9 posted on 10/27/2002 2:04:11 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%

10 posted on 10/27/2002 2:16:24 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity

hey, turn the pictures, my kneck can't handle the angle.

11 posted on 10/27/2002 2:23:56 PM PST by 2timothy3.16

Kudos to you all; gray-out bump!

12 posted on 10/27/2002 2:27:13 PM PST by nicmarlo

To: 2timothy3.16

Thanks to ACDSee, I am once again an upright citizen.

13 posted on 10/27/2002 2:31:11 PM PST by Tony in Hawaii

To: daviddennis; Jim Robinson; AnnaZ; Mercuria; feinswinesuksass; DoughtyOne; Bob J; diotima; ...

It started, though, with a mistake and a SWAT team.
Our core people were standing across from their Campaign HQ. The campaign HQ people were glaring at us. We were glaring at them. Everything was normal.
But then a baffled security guy walked across the street, in an almost unprecedented violation of our space! And he was asking about one of those "freepers" with the trepedation he might have expressed if we were death ray totin' space aliens.
It turns out they had seen one of our threads where we reminded people not to take their guns from the Second Amendment Sisters event, and someone had made a joke, something like "Why not?"
This put them on red alert and sent out the SWAT team, prepared to take us down if we even thought about assassination.
I have to say that I thought it was all a little overblown...
It was a LOT overblown. :(

Fortunately, the Chicken Man knew the head of security, and I had called the Pasadena police department much earlier in the day - as is our standard opration procedure - giving them my name and cell phone number, with a courtesy call that ten to fifteen members of the conservative Internet news forum Free Republic would be peacefully protesting the Governor's appearance at the barbeque. So when I identified myself as the author of the thread, and reassured them of our peaceful intent, the SWAT team was sent away.

On the PLUS side, it was pretty impressive to see the head of security for this event holding in his hands a printout of THIS thread:

FREEP ALERT! GRAY DAVIS IN PASADENA WITH THE HOOKER & CHICKEN, Saturday 10/26
Debate Chicken Email | 10/23/2002 | David H Dennis
Posted on 10/23/2002 9:45 AM PDT by daviddennis

Southern California freepers, here's your chance to tell Gray Davis exactly what we think of him! We need a ROARING CROWD to tell everyone we need to DUMP DAVIS NOW!

Since this is a union hall, we will be facing opposition aplenty, but that doesn't mean we give up. Join our forces, including the Debate Chicken, eGray Hooker and me for what promises to be one of our most dramatic freeps ever!

-- snip --

To: AnnaZ; Mercuria; feinswinesuksass; DoughtyOne; Bob J; diotima; Cinnamon Girl; HangFire; gc4nra; ...

THANK YOU for posting this thread, daviddennis!
We expect AP photographers to be in Pasadena for this one!
See also an EXCELLENT warm-up for the eGray FReep:
Liberty-Belles Halloween Celebrity Shoot
also on Saturday, October 26 - but EARLIER in the day...
Details, anyone?
It would be WONDERFUL if MANY FReepers could go to BOTH events, but please do NOT bring your firearms to the event in Pasadena. :o)

7 posted on 10/23/2002 10:42 AM PDT by RonDog
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To: RonDog

It would be WONDERFUL if MANY FReepers could go to BOTH events, but please do NOT bring your firearms to the event in Pasadena. :o)
Hehe, that would be a big no-no :)

8 posted on 10/23/2002 1:27 PM PDT by TheSpottedOwl

Bottom line: You never know WHO will be lurking on Free Republic, so be CAREFUL what you post!

(FWIW, it was a Liberty Belles event, not their "sister" organization, the SAS.)

14 posted on 10/27/2002 2:37:36 PM PST by RonDog

My observation is that you folks are absolutely terrific.

15 posted on 10/27/2002 2:53:58 PM PST by Bahbah

Bill Simon, Republican candidate for Governor, actually congratulated you for HECKLING Governor Gray Davis?!!
Sort of.

The NEXT Governor of California DID call us to thank us for mounting a counter-protest outside the Gray Davis event, but it is not clear that he knew that we were practically ON TOP OF the soon-to-be-EX-Governor when we were chanting...

There have "union thugs" out front of virtually EVERY ONE of Bill Simon's public appearances throughout this campaign, chanting and "picketing" - FAR more intrusively than WE generally are - to the point where they (the "union thugs") even BLOCKED THE ENTRANCE to the parking lot of the Burbank Hilton a few weeks ago, when Rudy Guiliani appeared with Bill Simon there. (Until the FReepers arrived.)

As it happens, we were PARTICULARLY close to the speaker's podium for this event - which was held OUTSIDE, very close to the public street, and we were PARTICULARLY loud this time - with the pent-up passions from our previously unsuccessful attempts to get this close to the elusive eGray.

I will admit to being uncomfortable with the intensity of our chants - at times, but we did NOT chant continuously, and the soon-to-be-EX-governor COULD be heard over the LOUDEST of our un-amplified jeers from about a block away.

16 posted on 10/27/2002 2:54:47 PM PST by RonDog

There were numerous others, and if I've left you out, I apologise; I am not great with names.
From my post on the pre-FReep UPDATE thread:

UPDATE: "FIRE Gray Davis" FReep at Firefighter's BBQ in Pasadena SATURDAY (10/26)
FREEP ALERT! GRAY DAVIS IN PASADENA WITH THE HOOKER & CHICKEN, Saturday 10/26 ^ | October 25, 2002 | RonDog, daviddennis and the "DEBATE Chicken"
Posted on 10/25/2002 11:13 PM PDT by RonDog

"eGray in Pasadena" FReep UPDATE!

-- snip --

"FIRE Davis! in Pasadena" honor roll:
RonDog;
daviddennis;
Outraged;
Tony in Hawaii;
paola;
gubamyster
Also present at our FReep were the following not-yet-FReepers:

the "DEBATE Chicken!"
Jill from Simon HQ
Marilyn from Simon HQ

paola's mother
paola's grandmother!

a guy I met in Santa Monica at a previous Simon event

the young black woman with her "No Davis!" sign

the older guy from a local GOP office (wearing a U.S. ARMY" cap)
his (very VOCAL) wife

the young woman with the lighted CANDLES - to represent our future lack of electricity, if Davis is re-elected

the local guy who lived nearby, and came out to see what all of our NOISE was about, and asked to be in our post-FReep group picture
And perhaps even a few MORE...

Once again, there were MANY grassroots activists who came WITHOUT EVEN BEING FReepers!

17 posted on 10/27/2002 3:02:16 PM PST by RonDog

I love your enthusiasm. It's great to see people out giving Davis some heat. Nobody deserves it more than the Governor.

But it will backfire if people, in their excitement, make it seem like Simon was behind it all. His campaign is shaky enough as it is.

18 posted on 10/27/2002 3:05:17 PM PST by navigator

To: daviddennis; Howie

Our intrepid freeper Tony from Hawaii was here - I don't think he's missed an event yet! As you can see in the picture, he was the custodian of Leon's great signs...
The creator of those MARVELOUS (and ubiquitous!) individually hand-crafted "DUMP DAVIS" Styrofoam cutouts...

...is FReeper Howie, not Leon!

19 posted on 10/27/2002 3:17:32 PM PST by RonDog

But it will backfire if people, in their excitement, make it seem like Simon was behind it all.
You are CORRECT about THIS part.

The only real personal contact that I have had with Bill Simon was at his speech at the Nixon Library on 9/30/02.
I told him briefly what we were doing, and HE said:
"Keep it clean."
I was initially offended that he would think that we would do anything ELSE, but he does not know us - yet.

But FOR THIS RECORD, our FReep was an INDEPENDENT "grassroots" activity which was NOT sponsored by (or APPROVED by) Bill Simon, although members of the GOP were present to monitor our activities, and THEY reported in to him, prompting his congratulations to us... His campaign is shaky enough as it is.
THIS part is FLAT-OUT WRONG - YESTERDAY'S "conventional wisdom."

Check out the NEW conventional wisdom, which is now EVERYWHERE (via the Associated Press) - from a Google News search for "Gray Davis" "shaky lead":

House edge for Republicans
Athens Banner-Herald, GA - 1 hour ago
... The president's brother, Jeb Bush, is in a close race for re-election in Florida.
Democratic Gov. Gray Davis holds a shaky lead in polls in California. ...

Close Races to Decide Senate Control
Guardian, UK - 1 hour ago
... The president's brother, Jeb Bush, is in a close race for re-election in Florida.
Democratic Gov. Gray Davis holds a shaky lead in polls in California. ...

Close Races to Decide Senate Control
ABC News - 1 hour ago
... The president's brother, Jeb Bush, is in a close race for re-election in Florida.
Democratic Gov. Gray Davis holds a shaky lead in polls in California. ...

Close Races to Decide Senate Control
Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL - 2 hours ago
... The president's brother, Jeb Bush, is in a close race for re-election in Florida.
Democratic Gov. Gray Davis holds a shaky lead in polls in California. ...

Close Races to Decide Senate Control
ABC News - 9 hours ago
... The president's brother, Jeb Bush, is in a close race for re-election in Florida.
Democratic Gov. Gray Davis holds a shaky lead in polls in California. ...

Close Races to Decide Senate Control
Guardian, UK - 9 hours ago
... The president's brother, Jeb Bush, is in a close race for re-election in Florida.
Democratic Gov. Gray Davis holds a shaky lead in polls in California. ...

Election preview: House control is steep challenge for Democrats ...
San Francisco Chronicle, CA - 9 hours ago
... The president's brother, Jeb Bush, is in a close race for re-election in Florida.
Democratic Gov. Gray Davis holds a shaky lead in polls in California. ...

Election preview: House control is steep challenge for Democrats ...
Newsday - 10 hours ago
... The president's brother, Jeb Bush, is in a close race for re-election in Florida.
Democratic Gov. Gray Davis holds a shaky lead in polls in California. ...

Close Races to Decide Senate Control
Newsday - 10 hours ago
... The president's brother, Jeb Bush, is in a close race for re-election in Florida.
Democratic Gov. Gray Davis holds a shaky lead in polls in California. ...

AP Survey Indicates House Control Is Steep Challenge for Dems; ...
Rapid City Journal, SD - 11 hours ago
... The president's brother, Jeb Bush, is in a close race for re-election in Florida.
Democratic Gov. Gray Davis holds a shaky lead in polls in California. ...

Close Races to Decide Senate Control
Guardian, UK - 12 hours ago
... The president's brother, Jeb Bush, is in a close race for re-election in Florida.
Democratic Gov. Gray Davis holds a shaky lead in polls in California. ...

Close Races to Decide Senate Control
Fredericksburg.com, VA - 12 hours ago
... The president's brother, Jeb Bush, is in a close race for re-election in Florida.
Democratic Gov. Gray Davis holds a shaky lead in polls in California. ...

Close Races to Decide Senate Control
ABC News - 12 hours ago
... The president's brother, Jeb Bush, is in a close race for re-election in Florida.
Democratic Gov. Gray Davis holds a shaky lead in polls in California. ...

Survey: GOP Has Edge in House Races
Guardian, UK - 13 hours ago
... The president's brother, Jeb Bush, is in a close race for re-election in Florida.
Democratic Gov. Gray Davis holds a shaky lead in polls in California. ...

Survey: GOP Has Edge in House Races
ABC News - 13 hours ago
... The president's brother, Jeb Bush, is in a close race for re-election in Florida.
Democratic Gov. Gray Davis holds a shaky lead in polls in California. ...

Survey: GOP Holds Edge in House Race
Guardian, UK - 13 hours ago
... The president's brother, Jeb Bush, is in a close race for re-election in Florida.
Democratic Gov. Gray Davis holds a shaky lead in polls in California. ...

Survey: GOP Holds Edge in House Race
ABC News - 13 hours ago
... The president's brother, Jeb Bush, is in a close race for re-election in Florida.
Democratic Gov. Gray Davis holds a shaky lead in polls in California. ...

Survey: GOP Holds Edge in House Race
Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL - 13 hours ago
... The president's brother, Jeb Bush, is in a close race for re-election in Florida.
Democratic Gov. Gray Davis holds a shaky lead in polls in California. ...

From www.guardian.co.uk:

"...In gubernatorial contests, Republicans appear poised to win in Hawaii for the first time since 1962, three years after statehood. GOP candidates are also mounting strong challenges to Democratic incumbents in South Carolina and Alabama.
On the other hand, Democrats are well ahead in three industrial states, and have hopes of capturing the statehouse in Kansas. The president's brother, Jeb Bush, is in a close race for re-election in Florida. Democratic Gov. Gray Davis holds a shaky lead in polls in California..."

It is now eGray whose campaign is in trouble. :o)

And wait until you see what happens after MONDAY'S FReep!

20 posted on 10/27/2002 3:34:54 PM PST by RonDog

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