[TheAngryClam]

If anyone's interested, here's the "Team Simon" email:

Subject: An Open Letter to Bill Simon

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 your campaign 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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[TheAngryClam]

ping

[nickcarraway]

Probably more of the ``Republicans for Davis''-type crowd. Some people won't be happy until the chase every conservative out of California.

[research99]

Thanks for posting this letter!

[research99]

Just to make sure everyone gets it:

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. <

[The Old Hoosier]

If Simon stays out, we could have a conservative governor of Calif. If not, it's going to be Arnold.

[Kuksool]

After looking at the list of potential candidates running for Governor, the recall election is going to be about which candidate CA voters dislike the least. With a crowded field, there is no guarantee that a Pubbie will be elected to replace Gray Davis.

[xm177e2]

Who might be behind such a dismissive missive?

I'll bet Team Simon sent it to drum up some sympathy for themselves (get their guy's name back in the paper with a dumb stunt).

I mean, Simon's team claimed they had photo evidence of Gray Davis accepting illegal contributions... which turned out to be FALSE. Some would say... A LIE. These goofballs will stoop to pretty much anything.