You guys left too early. After the protest my daughter and I walked over to the Bubba/Davis rally and we were let in because attendance was low. The yard where the rally was being held was only half full with people. On stage were democratic treasures Art Torres, Gloria Allred, Maxine Waters, Loretta Sanchez, Herb Wesson and other dem. forgetables. Then Martin Scheen,Clinton and Davis arrived. The applause didn't last long. Herb Wesson (speaker of the legislature) told the crowd to watch out for republican dirty tricks and voter fraud, which he said was already happening and which Atty. Gen. Lockyear was already investigating. Davis was introduced and received a very tepid response. He gave his typical,"Look what I have done for you" speech. Behind him while he was speaking Clinton and Sanchez had a little thing going. They were laughing and talking, she was rubbing his arm. He was eating it up. Clinton received the most applause when Wesson introduced him as the best and greatest president of our time. Some of the women near us were on the verge of swooning over this man...... something like you'd see at a Tom Jones concert. We left shortly after. It was not an enthusiastic group.
Hey, we had our own "Monica" who was doing a pretty good job of fake swoons. Hope you saw the video; if you didn't yet, give it a look - it's good for plenty of laughs! Your account mirrors a couple of news stories I've seen posted on Free Republic. They give you the impression that Davis got nothing, and Clinton got all the applause. I guess he's still a highly charismatic man.
I really wonder how many people will bother showing up for Davis. The number of publications that have endorsed "None of the Above" for governor can't make him very confident in the outcome.
I'm disappointed in the media for not looking closer at Simon.
I must single out the Malibu Times for particular disappointment. Despite being part of a city virtually under seige by unfair Coastal Commission mandates, they refused to support a candidate for governor who would support them against the current Coastal Commission.
If there's one thing that should be clear from this campaign, it's that Davis has had a long history of using the Coastal Commission as his own private fund-raising bank. Anyone who owns property on the coast, or who (like me) has a distant dream of one day building a house there, should get informed about this issue.
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