CA: Davis' popularity nose-dived as his media coverage soured

Sac Bee ^ | 7/14/03 | Dan Walters

[NormsRevenge]

California has at least 35 million human beings residing inside its borders, nearly two-thirds of them potential voters.

Gray Davis has been a California politician for three decades and the state's governor for the last 4 1/2 years, but has engaged in personal conversation with, at most, a few thousand of his constituents.

[NormsRevenge]

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[Henchster]

Jeez, now the liberal media is trying to blame the energy and budget crisis on the liberal media creating "bad weather" for Davis.

Davis is unpopular because his lack of policy initiative and liberal (read: anti-capitalistic) beliefs CAUSED the energy crisis, and his pork spending for his big-dollar-donor friends that raised overall spending by 38% CREATED the budget crisis.

[South40]

Excellent commentary.

You know he has problems when he's lost the support of the liberal media.

[daviddennis]

All the media appears to have done is report the truth about Davis accurately, and this is "media weather"?

Sounds like the media is doing its job, for a change.

It's a pity the media wasn't doing its job before the election. Unbelievably, many publications that knew better (from their own articles!) endorsed Davis.

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[omega4412]

The Sac Bee is certainly "liberal media" but Dan Walters is an outpost of good sense there.

Remember his line, roughly "People sometimes ask me if I want to become a politician. Does an entomologist want to become a bug?"

[Cicero]

Liars.

If the media hadn't demonized Simon and helped Davis cover up his messes, Davis never would have gotten reelected. What a coincidence that they only noticed those massive deficits a week after the election! Who'd've guessed it?

The liberal media are as responsible for the Davis mess as anyone else. They were the enablers.

[research99]

Selected, unsolicited FR Quotes on Bill Simon
(in order of their appearance):

"I voted for Simon, and signed the recall petition, but I think a rerun by Simon looks like sourgrapes."
2 posted on 06/20/2003 9:56 AM PDT by My2Cents

"The only guy who ran a worse campaing was when Matt Fong ran against Boxer. Wait a minute. I take that back. As boring as he was, Fong ran a better campaign. Simon was well beyond horrible."
22 posted on 06/20/2003 3:13 PM PDT by CdMGuy

"Interestingly, Simon's advisors (BEFORE Parsky, et al. for those of you in denial about Simon's suck) are the same ones who ran Fong. Anyone who calls for Parsky's head should call for Sal Russo's too."
23 posted on 06/20/2003 3:40 PM PDT by TheAngryClam
Source of above: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/932657/posts

"Oh no, the CA Republicans are going to blow it again. With all due respect to the Simon supporters, he lost and that makes him as stale as a bag of month old bagels."
2 posted on 06/22/2003 5:58 PM PDT by JoeFromCA

"Dear Bill Simon, I voted for you in November. You didn't win so PLEASE, for all of Californias' sake, stay out of this! You couldn't beat a corrupt, disliked, worthless governor like Davis so just let us handle it, will ya?"
5 posted on 06/22/2003 6:33 PM PDT by Bullish

"Hey Bill, you fooled us once! - Sure, support the recall. But, California has enough problems, we don't need any more B.S. in an important election. This time, NO B.S. on the ballot!"
7 posted on 06/22/2003 7:04 PM PDT by Golden Gate
Source of above: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/933785/posts

"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."
1 posted on 06/28/2003 10:47 PM PDT by TheAngryClam

"Mistakes like Bill Simon’s cannot be tolerated this time around. We have GOT to have someone who knows what they’re doing."
31 posted on 06/29/2003 12:04 AM PDT by Owens08

"Bill Simon is the biggest *EMBARRASSMENT* to the Republican Party in California *HISTORY*! He is an *EMPTY SUIT* who *BETRAYED* us all with his *HOPELESS* campaign! MESSAGE TO SIMON: *GO AWAY*!"
58 posted on 06/29/2003 11:21 AM PDT by Sir Valentino
Source of above: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/937489/posts

"Simon lost for a reason. HE SUCKS. He should take a hike."
32 posted on 07/10/2003 5:26 PM PDT by xm177e2

"Simon blew it in 2002. CA rejected him."
34 posted on 07/10/2003 5:59 PM PDT by jagrmeister

"I do NOT want him to run again. And for the sake of the party, I hope he doesn't." "I am so pissed with Bill Simon right now I could spit nails!"
14 posted on 07/10/2003 2:45 PM PDT by Saundra Duffy

"He can get in if he wants, but he won't win. He's the GOP's AlGore (meaning he lost, already)."
6 posted on 07/10/2003 1:40 PM PDT by truth_seeker
Source of above : http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/943856/posts

"Simon should go away and not run for office again.

The real reason he lost is that he is an empty suit with no real beliefs. If he had a clear vision to present to the voters and if he had really taken it to Davis on things like the energy crisis he would have won. No incumbent Governor in the modern history of California has ever been nearly as unpopular as Davis. Running Riordan though would have been even worse. As would running Arnold next time."
9 posted on 12/07/2002 5:50 AM PST by Princeliberty
Source of above: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/802118/posts

Suggested Recall Slogan: If Simon can't manage a campaign, how can he manage the state ???"

I've compiled this, as a service to those who want to see Davis recalled.

[NormsRevenge]

Now..Now..The pre$$ and media are our FRiends ;-)

Without bias and agenda factored in, news would be so dull. I kinda like dull, myself.. sometimes.

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[HitmanLV]

Can't Davis short circuit all of this by resigning and keeping his political party in power?

[Grampa Dave]

Wait until the state goes bankrupt in a few weeks. Then Herr Davis will really get some bad press.

Here is Dan trying to blame Davis for his peers and himself not doing some simple reporting during the election of 2000. It was obvious that the tax and spend fascists at the state capitol were spending more than they were bringing by a vast amount.

Yet Walters and the other left wing maggots of the media ignored everything that Davis did and made mountains out of molehills of anything Simon did or didn't do.

I see the comments below of Walters as his usual weaseling out of not doing what he should have done as the chief political reporter of the Sac Bee. If we know that the debt load was outrageous miles from Sacramento, why didn't Walters and his left wing editors and publisher not know that. They did, and they ignored that reality during the 2002 election.

"When the history of this recall drive is written, no matter how it turns out, a very large chapter should be devoted to Davis' mutually disdainful relationship with the political media. It should be a case study in how not to govern in the media age: feeding journalists a steady diet of cheesy media events, mindless, fact-free cheerleading by sycophants and Davis' own pre-digested sloganeering, and expecting that they and their readers would be fooled. Davis' dealings with the media have been as content-free as the rest of his administration, and he's paying a very big price."

Nice try Danny Boy! Don't blame Davis! You knew that he was a liar and was lying to you and us. You enabled him.

[NormsRevenge]

Nope. Too late. His cohorts would stay on , but the fuse is lit on the Recall. He has to either ride this one out and try and beat it or try and get the Recall tossed or step aside for Cruz Bustamante. Not likely he would give up reins of power to anyone, willingly,in any case.

[HitmanLV]

So the answer is that he can resign and stop this, but it's just that he never would.

[schaketo]

The leader of Iran has offered to resign because so many citizens are angry with his government. He told the people "if you don’t want me, than I will just go.” And today Governor Gray Davis said, "shut up. Quit saying that.”