Posted on 11/02/2002 4:11:37 PM PST by CounterCounterCulture
Feel free to post your comments on today's rallies for our California statewide candidates...
Freepers NormsRevenge, Mediaqueen, and yours truly, along with many more, welcomed the GOP statewide ticket to the San Jose area headed by (hopefully) our next governor, Bill Simon.
Many camps were at the San Jose Hyatt north of downtown for their candidates as well as many local races such as Linda Rae Hermann (to unseat Congresscritter Mike Honda) and Douglas McNea (to unseat Congresscritter Zoe Lofgren). Signs, stickers, and buttons were in abundance for everybody, especially for Simon. I brought out my FOR SALE: eGray Davi$ sign as well as my Gray Davis mask (Beavis with hair spray-painted metallic silver) which everybody got a kick out of, including the media. Most local television stations seemed to be in attendance and recording the events.
As we awaited the arrival of team GOP from their trek to Monterey, we socialized outside before going inside a packed room for the rally and speeches. Hermann and McNea addressed the enthusiastic crowd. Our local “Simon-ettes” did their most excellent version of “I’m gonna wash that Gray right outta my hair.” I managed to get in a few good chants of “help is on the way” and “Dump Davis.” All those years of Freepin’ paid off, I suppose. ;-)
Bill Simon would come along with candidates Bruce McPherson (for Lt. Gov), Keith Olberg (for Sec of State), Dick Ackerman (for Attorney General), Tom McClintock (for Controller), Greg Conlon (for Treasurer), Gary Mendoza (for Insurance Commish), and Katherine Smith (for State School Superintendent of Public Instruction). Shawn Steele was also there to pep up the group, as were a few others whose names I didn’t have a chance to write down. Most spoke, but Bill, alongside his lovely wife, was the main event.
Now that we were all jazzed up, we are ready to take back our state. Let’s win one more for the Gipper!
I'll ping the list.
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The pictures are still in my video camera, but I can report an impressive turnout (looks like about 100 people) and excellent crowd reactions to a pumped-up Bill Simon and friends.
Of course as an aviation fan, I was impressed by the campaign jet, which looked like a converted Boeing 737. It was huge. I missed most of it landing, and it was mysteriously delayed in takeoff, so I'm afraid my ambition of getting nice jet pictures was sadly demolished.
I told Cindy Simon about some of my plans, and I found her to be charming, warm and friendly. Her husband was very much in attendance, shaking everyone's hand and being his cordial self.
I'm glad they're on our team, and I look forward to seeing them again tomorrow, when I go to the Olvera Street rally!
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I'm glad they're on our team, and I look forward to seeing them again tomorrow, when I go to the Olvera Street rally!That would be THIS event:
Bill Simon in L.A. (Olvera Street) SUNDAY (11/3) at 1 pm -
as part of final Campaign Fly-Around!
SIMON RALLIES - NOVEMBER 2 and 3, 2002 - "Get Out The Vote" (GOTV) - final Campaign Fly-Around! ^ | November 3, 2002 | RonDog
Posted on 11/02/2002 7:26 AM PST by RonDog
Bill Simon – Governor
Bruce McPherson – Lt. Governor
Keith Olberg – Secretary of State
Tom McClintock – Controller
Greg Conlon - Treasurer
Dick Ackerman – Attorney General
Gary Mendoza – Insurance Commissioner
Katherine Smith – Superintendent of Public Instruction
Cordially invite you and your family to a Victory Rally
SUNDAY, November 3, 2002 in LOS ANGELES
1:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.
(Meet at 1:15 p.m.)
El Pueblo de Los Angeles – Plaza Dolores
OLVERA STREET
(old downtown - by Union Station)
125 Paseo de la Plaza 400
Los Angeles, CABring Signs in support of Bill!
Wear your campaign colors! (blue and gold)See you there!more
Not bad for a campaign contribution that cost me less than $200.
They oughta hire me. I'd fix it fur sure! :-P
VIDEO: Sacramento Freep 10/19/2002 featuring eGray, ChickenMan and Jim Robinson!
amazing.com (my web site) ^ | 11/02/2002 | David H Dennis
Posted on 11/02/2002 4:16 PM PST by daviddennis
Our Sacramento "Dump Davis" freep was a great success, attracing over 100 committed activists, including freepers and their friends!
Video highlights include chants, speeches and some great visuals of the Dump Davis dump truck RonDog rented for the occasion! And who can resist seeing the eGray Hooker strut his stuff? I hear no price is too high ...
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SAN JOSE, Calif. - Bill Simon and his Republican ticket-mates chartered a jet and hopscotched through the state Saturday in a final push to block a potential Democratic sweep on Tuesday.
Simon also unleashed a final attack ad targeting Democratic Gov. Gray Davis' fund-raising practices, as he sought to keep the focus on the governor's ethics in the campaign's waning hours.
"We can win this on Tuesday if we get the people out," Simon urged sign-waving supporters on an airfield tarmac near Santa Barbara, the first in a series of small but lively rallies.
"This election for many of us is going to come down to one or two percentage points, just as it did for President Bush," he predicted.
In the Bay Area's Pittsburg, Davis drew on his union support, telling volunteers in a working-class neighborhood that he's helped improve the lives of workers.
"For 16 years you did not have a friend in the governor's office, but I'm here to tell you you have a friend today," he told about 200 machinists, ironworkers and other union members who were walking precincts for him. Davis was setting out on his own statewide flyaround with the Democratic ticket Sunday.
Secretary of State Bill Jones, the Republicans' lone statewide officeholder, is being forced from office by term limits. Simon lags Davis in polls by 7 to 10 percentage points, and Democrats lead in all the down-ballot races.
That raises the prospect of a Democratic sweep of statewide offices for the first time in recorded state history. The contests for secretary of state and controller remain competitive, according to a Field Poll released Saturday.
Facing the possibility of another setback in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans 45 to 35 percent and control both houses of the Legislature, the Republican candidates piled into a 727 and barnstormed from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, Monterey, San Jose, Modesto and Fresno on a "Fire Davis Tour."
"It all comes down to this - do you really want to go another four years down this road?" controller candidate state Sen. Tom McClintock, R-Thousand Oaks, asked as a San Jose crowd erupted into chants of "Dump Davis!"
Both candidates were ending the campaign with a final burst of television attacks, with Davis spending $4.5 million on ads during the campaign's final week, as well as $500,000 on Monday and Tuesday alone.
On Saturday Simon unleashed his most direct attack yet on Davis' fund-raising, with a new statewide ad that cites controversies surrounding Davis' collection of some $68 million for his campaign, including from donors with state business.
The spot also uses newspaper headlines to refer to two allegations of fund-raising improprieties by Davis that Republicans and Simon's campaign have sought to publicize in recent weeks.
One case involves decade-old allegations of impropriety made by a convicted felon, which were unsealed last week by a federal judge. Prosecutors decided at the time not to pursue the allegations.
The second reference is to 14-year-old allegations of campaign improprieties that a former state deputy attorney general made against Davis when he was state controller. The deputy's higher-ups decided not to prosecute for lack of evidence.
"If Gray Davis is this corrupt, this incompetent before an election, how bad will Gray Davis be if he gets re-elected?" the ad asks, showing Davis over a background of $100 bills.
Davis aides dismissed the ad's claims as false and the governor brushed them aside.
"This is sad, this is just sad. I mean, his whole campaign is an utter embarrassment. He's sinking farther and farther into the mud," Davis said.
"People are not interested in what happened 16 years ago, they want to know what's going to happen tomorrow," he said.
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Associated Press Writers Alexa H. Bluth and Jim Wasserman contributed to this report.
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