RE:
"Remember the "Log Cabin questionnaire" fiasco last August, and how Sal Russo ended up taking the blame for that? I would appreciate it if you would do the same. Bill Simon ENDLESSLY took credit for that screw up. Sal was ACCUSED of that by every one in the media but Bill Simon said, hey the buck stops with me and I'm responsible." ?
Dan,
Your statement is contradicted by the documentation; per:
"Media Distorts Simon's Stand on Gay Issue
Ignoring California's Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon's top campaign aide Sal Russo's statement that he, and not his boss, sent a completed questionnaire to a gay political group, the State's liberal media is attacking Simon for allegedly caving in to pressure by that terrible conservative "religious right" and changing his position on so-called "gay rights."
Simon told reporters that he neither saw nor signed a controversial survey on gay issues that has become the latest problem for his troubled campaign and blamed his staff for sending it out without his knowledge, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
"A lot of these questionnaires go out," the GOP candidate for governor told the Chronicle. "I don't see them all before they go out. I didn't see this, I didn't review it."
Source: Newsmax 9/5/2002; at:
http://www.newsmax.com/showinside.shtml?a=2002/9/5/153748
Frankly, I don't give a damn about the subject matter, except to show that Bill is a "blamer" and not a "the buck stops here" kinda guy.
Sorry, but your arguments have lost credibility with me.
Sorry, but your arguments have lost credibility with me. Oh my gosh, really? What ever am I to do? I will have to quit FR forever now because I have no credibility with research99....please have mercy, I want to be LOVED by every self-appointed authority on California politics.
You're the only one I know who has ever cited Newsmax as a source. Pull up all the other publications and find the talkshow transcripts. You will see that Simon accepted the blame for that screw-up many, many times. A lot of people took the blame along with, and after Sal. In the long run Simon reasserted over and over again that he would take responsibility for that.
Now please leave me alone while I go somewhere to lament my lost credibility and have a good cry.
