Posted on 06/28/2003 10:47:38 PM PDT by TheAngryClam
Dear Bill:
Rumors are persisting that you are readying to actively campaign for governor once again.
We hope these rumors prove untrue. If you become a candidate you WILL hurt the efforts of so many who’ve worked so hard for the last year; first for yourcampaign and now to make this historic recall happen. You will hurt the Republican Party, spoiling its chances of replacing Gray Davis. By splitting the Republican vote, you will also ultimately hurt yourself, forever damaging your credibility in the Party.
We can only assume that you are getting considerable encouragement from campaign professionals to run, probably from the same campaign professionals who destroyed your chance to unseat Gray Davis last year. We cannot believe you have sought the opinions of a wide range of party leaders, donors or grassroots activists about your potential candidacy. If you had, you would have received a resounding “PLEASE BILL, DON’T RUN!”
We know of no Republican who is objectively in support of you running in the recall election, in fact quite the opposite is true. Republicans we have spoken with are mortified at the prospect of your candidacy and its effect in reshaping the recall campaign. Aside from the obvious prospect of you splitting the Republican vote in this winner take all contest, you will give Gray Davis ample ammunition to mislead the voters about the recall.
If your campaign is anything like the stumbling, clumsy performance we painfully but nonetheless enthusiastically supported last year, the Democrats could conceivably manage to elect one of their own, or Gray Davis could even survive the recall. The Simon for Governor Campaign has already once saved Gray Davis from the jaws of defeat. This performance does not need a sequel.
The conflicts of interest of those supporting your potential candidacy are very transparent. Some see their power disappearing before their eyes, some see you as little more than a welfare check, but they all share little more than a yearning for the limelight once more. Bill, we beg you to look beyond these tainted motives and seek the guidance of those who genuinely have your best interests, and the best interests of the Party, in mind. Your wife Cindy is opposed to you running again. That should tell you something.
We beg you not to file as a candidate for Governor. Please, break away from your former and current political handlers and speak with the party’s leadership, donors and activists. You will find that you are liked and respected and people are willing and eager to support you for a statewide run sometime in the future. You will also find a united group who are against your rumored candidacy.
Bill, we hope you will listen to your former supporters, and ignore those campaign professionals who served you so poorly in the past and not file as a candidate in the upcoming campaign to replace Gray Davis. Now is the time, that only together can we renew the California Dream.
Sincerely,
Team Simon Volunteers
*TEAM SIMON VOLUNTEERS are a statewide group of Republican Activists. For the past year they've spent countless thousands of hours working the grassroots leg of the campaign for Bill Simon and are now as busy as ever collecting signatures for the Recall.*
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Because that would not fit with his *SENSE OF ENTITLEMENT*.
The *FACT* of the matter is that he thought he was being *HUMBLE* by running for *GOVERNOR* instead of *PRESIDENT*.
VOTE FOR RINO RIORDAN: He wants to commit the GOP to child slaughter, help pave the way for Lance and Bruce to marry and Bertha and Gertie too! Dykes on Bikes will probably be a featured act at his inaugural. RINO Riordan advocates door-to-door warrantless searches for GUNS (lions and tigers and bears, oh my!). Squandering fortunes on "the arts" is a sacrament in his social circle and he wants to spend oceans of Other People's (read taxpayers") Money on his pet schemes. He will hire other RINOs and contract with them empowering them to have more permanent control of California GOP megadelegations to GOP National Conventions, but somehow he is a "good manager". VOTE FOR RINO RIORDAN: HE'S THE GUY WHO WILL SPEND .04% LESS OF YOUR MONEY! AND, HE IS PRO-BUSINESS (he probably favors maximum wage laws for the peons). Wow, that's a war people will want to drive to if RINO Riordan doesn't confiscate their SUV's first . .in worship of Gaia. Ya gotta hand it to the guy. He is a real inspiration. What more could conservatives want?
Why they could want RINO AHHHHNOLD! He is more than RINO Riordan because he has bigger muscles particularly between his ears. He is about ten years younger than RINO Riordan despite AHHHHHNOLD's multiple bypass surgery AND for Muffy, Skipper, Mumsy and the crew down at the yacht club, AHHHHHNOLD is married to a real live niece of St. John of Hyannisport, the patron saint of nude swim parties with cocaine at the White House pool. AHHHHHNOLD has earned his way into that family. His wife's Uncle Ted will be snickering in his Scotch that the family has acquired the California GOP. AHHHHHNOLD is so far out that Barbara Boxer will probably vote for him. She and AHHHHNOLD have no known political differences and will you look at hose biceps!
BABS BOXER: Oh AHHHHNOLD, I was so thrilled by your support of a tax-raising referendum which passed. Even Gray DAvis has had some reluctance to raise taxes, AHHHHHNOLD, but not you. And your support of abortion is understandable given your, ummmm, social life but we never expected a guy like AHHHHHHNOLD to support gay adoption but you do, AHHHHNOLD, you really do. And gun control too. Oh, AHHHHNOLD, if you become governor, I might be willing to become a Republican if you hold me tight and uhhhhh, and uhhhhhh well, you know. Do I have to draw you a picture?......
Gollee, California RINOs are so brilliant! Is it true that some of you guys are frying eggs on your foreheads to save on energy and frying other folks' eggs to earn a little cash under the table? Are we supposed to be impressed by your capitalization of RATS as in DemoRATS when you want to elect Riordan a Demonrat in RINO drag?
If RINOs MUST control the California GOP, then you have not yet learned the necessary lessons via six years of Grey Davis and the scintillating visionaries even after still more wasted years of being governed by a RINO stooge like Planned Barrenhood Pete Wilson who looks like a Bircher by comparison with this years' crop of RINOs, then I hope Gray Davis resigns just before the election and you get the opportunity to be governed by Cruz Bustamente. If California is going to be lost to Western Civilization and disappear into the ocean, let it be on the Demonrats' watch and not under RINOs who exist only to undermine the actual Republican Party with the old Rockefeller/Lindsay gloom and doom and surrendermonkeyism.
A Republican Party can do a lot for a state. California ought to try having one again. It has been too many years of amateur hour as RINOs get imposed from above. You might have won with Simon despite an apparently pathetic campaign. He came within 5% or so. McClintock came closer in his race.
RINOs walked. It may be time to return the favor, doubled and redoubled.
He is an *EMPTY SUIT* who *BETRAYED* us all with his *HOPELESS* campaign!
MESSAGE TO SIMON: *GO AWAY*!
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