Bill Simon- the "I Told You So" Candidate

TEAM Simon Email List | 7/22/03 | Team Simon Email List

[TheAngryClam]

Issa and McClintock are two candidates/potential candidates that come readily to mind.

[EternalVigilance]

Issa's a RINO.

Tell me who McClintock is.

[TheAngryClam]

How is Issa a RINO? He's got a 94 life rating from the American Conservative Union.

Tom McClintock is a state senator and was very nearly our state controller in 2002. He's a great, conservative, man.

[dpwiener]

Tell me who McClintock is.

State Senator Tom McClintock is far and away the best, most principled Republican in California. I'm proud to be one of his constituents. I hope he runs for governor and I hope he wins (although he unfortunately does not have the name recognition or money of a Riordan or Schwarzenegger). Tom did come within eighteen thousand votes (a small fraction of 1%) of beating multi-millionaire Steve Westly for the position of State Controller last November.

Tom was responsible for the partial repeal of the Car Tax (now restored by Davis' fiat), and is pushing initiatives to totally repeal the Car Tax. Tom has saved Californians billions of tax dollars, and he is the only politician around who I truly believe could pull the state out of its current disastrous budget mess.

[goldstategop]

He could run on the populist issue of repealing the car tax. Heck I'd love to see Davis defend the car tax increase he just imposed on every Californian to make up for his fiscal mismanagement.

[RonDog]

See also MY new thread:

Why Bill Simon should do the RIGHT thing, and endorse Darrell Issa:
CA GOP's "shock and awe" option
An Open Letter to Bill Simon (continued...) ^ | July 22, 2003 | RonDog
Posted on 07/22/2003 9:58 PM PDT by RonDog

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"The needs of the Many outweigh the needs of the Few - or the One" - Spock (from "Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan")

. . . . Dear Bill,

. . . . Tomorrow you will face the most important decision in your political life: to run, or NOT to run in the recall election to replace Gray Davis.

. . . . Please do NOT run.

. . . . In fact, I contend that your duty to your Party and your duty to your State demand MUCH STRONGER action from you. I sincerely believe that you need to act BOLDLY (amazing your friends, and confounding your enemies) by endorsing Darrell Issa for Governor of California - NOW, before the recall election even begins...

CLICK HERE for the rest of that thread

[EternalVigilance]

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Will radical Muslims sue you?

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If anyone will improperly benefit from the terrorist attacks, it's the usual culprits – trial lawyers – and a new one: radical Islamicists. Lawyers and America's organized radical Muslims have developed a whole new litigation racket to clog the courts.

First, there is Arab-American Congressman Darrell Issa, R-Calif. Issa plans to introduce legislation to allow Arabs and Muslims who are "victims of racial profiling" to file discrimination lawsuits and collect monetary damages, "if profiling is not done properly." This is ridiculous. Basically, Issa is telling law enforcement: Don't do your job at airports and borders, or I'll help everyone sue you out of a job and a bank account.

A reason we have so many terrorists within our borders, right now, is that law enforcement officials were restrained from examining enough individuals that fit an ethnic profile, due to political grandstanding like Issa's. To this day, U.S. Customs officials are required to give complaint forms to all people stopped at the border and/or frisked. This guarantees that too many criminals and terrorists won't be stopped and will pass over our borders, legally. Issa will make it even worse.

When, according to Issa, is profiling not done properly? Apparently, it's when you are a congressman, an hour late for a flight and not allowed on the plane, as happened to Issa recently. He arrived for an Air France flight on Oct. 4, after the time required to conduct an adequate security check. He had all the signs of a suspicious passenger – a one-way ticket to Saudi Arabia via Paris, an Arabic surname, and a late, harried arrival. The airline told him he'd have to return for the next flight, like any non-congressman in the same position.

But instead of playing by the rules set for us regular people in this time of heightened security, Issa had a tantrum and demanded to board, accusing Air France of profiling. Issa has a history of whining about "profiling". As head of a California Arab-American group, he signed a proclamation decrying the "profiling" of alleged Asian spy Wen Ho Lee. At a June House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on the Justice Dept., he raised pointed questions with Attorney General Ashcroft, decrying the use of profiling and secret evidence against potential terrorists.

Though he is a Christian-Arab, Issa is the congressional sycophant for Salam Al-Marayati, head of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, who compared Islamic terrorists to Patrick Henry. Issa and Al-Marayati must have confused, "Give me liberty or give me death," with "Give them Islam or give them death."

Then there are AP reports that the Council on American Islamic Relations – a self-styled Muslim civil rights group that the FBI identified as a front-group for the Hamas terrorist organization – is gathering a list of hate crimes and referring "victims" to trial lawyers. But, just like slip-and-fall fakeries, there are few meritorious cases among the alleged "incidents of hate" and a lot of exaggerated opportunities for ambulance-chasing trial lawyers. In the past, CAIR's examples of alleged discrimination and hate-crimes consisted of arrests and deaths of known terrorist leaders and articles exposing radical Islam in publications like Reader's Digest, the Dallas Morning News, and the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Then there is CAIR's own hate-crime against Islamic scholar Khalid Duran. A heroic Muslim-American scholar who has for years dared to speak out against radical Islam and its support for terrorist groups, CAIR and other "mainstream" American Islamic groups hate him. And Duran committed the additional "crime" of serving as translator and senior adviser for the 1994 documentary "Jihad in America," which exposes Muslim terrorist elements that flourish throughout America, including CAIR's antecedent organization, the Islamic Association for Palestine.

Recently, Duran sinned again, writing a children's book promoting understanding of Islam, "Children of Abraham: An Introduction to Islam for Jews." He committed the cardinal sin of enlisting the American Jewish Committee to publish it. That earned him a fatwah (religious decree) from Lebanese Muslim cleric, Abd al-Mun'im Abu Zant, to kill Duran. CAIR defended Abu Zant. Shouldn't that make CAIR a defendant in a hate-crime lawsuit?

The Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee is another group. AP reports it is busy compiling trumped-up "hate-crimes," rounding up trial lawyers and engaging in its own frivolous litigation explosion. The AAADC opposes profiling terrorists – not surprising, since its key Michigan regional official, Imad Hamad, was a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist, according to the INS which opposed his U.S. citizenship.

But AAADC has no problem profiling other Americans, who are not Muslims or Arabs. Manny Cetner knows about AAADC's profiling and fabricated hate-crimes. In Cetner's West Bloomfield Township, Mich., neighborhood, where most residents are Jews and Christian Arabs and get along peacefully, a Muslim resident, Ben Nouri – with the help of the AAADC, brought a $10 million dollar discrimination lawsuit against Cetner and the two other Jews (but none of the non-Jews) who sit on his neighborhood association board. Their "hate-crime" against the Muslim: enforcing Township grading and structural codes to prevent flooding damage to neighboring homes. The phony lawsuit is draining Cetner and co-defendants financially.

With radical Muslim groups' litigious maws in full force, every American should watch his pocket book and worry about his security.

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Debbie Schlussel is a political commentator and attorney. She is a frequent guest on ABC's "Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher" and Fox News Channel.

[EternalVigilance]

He sounds like the man to support.

[dpwiener]

Hey, Bill! We already *KNEW* Davis was a *DISASTER*. The reason *YOU LOST* is because *YOU* are *ALSO* a *DISASTER*! That's why a *SEEMINGLY UNELECTABLE LOSER* like Davis got *REELECTED*! Please *STEP ASIDE* and let a *REAL* Republican run!

Please stop soft-pedalling Simon's shortcomings.

As I've said many times before, a potted plant should have been able to defeat Davis in 2002. Simon failed the potted plant test.

[NormsRevenge]

Ahhh, Tom. A fine man , indeed.

He'd make a fine Senator.

dp, I owe ya a semi-apology or thanks for correcting me earlier on another recall thread. I had posted yesterday, that if ya voted No on the first part of the Recall ballot, you couldn't then select a replacement candidate. While I still can't or haven;t yet located the exact language in the election code stating such, others have said the same thing.

It would seem to me that when you vote NO, that for all intents and purposes , you have made your selection of the candidate; ie the targeted official, and thus should not be allowed to also select a replacement, seems like doubledipping to me in a way. Oh, well.


I question the logic of it but who am I to argue with Hiram Johnson and the authors of the Recall legislation.

[Syncro]

Simon listened to the wrong set of handlers. But he might of not won anyway even if he took better advice.

His problem is when he went into the phone booth as Clark Kent, he didn't come out as Superman...was still dorky Clark (No offence intended Bill)

Read you thread RonDog, good take on the situation.

[dpwiener]

Here's the link: Section 11382 of the California Elections Code states: "No vote cast in the recall election shall be counted for any candidate unless the voter also voted for or against the recall of the officer sought to be recalled."

[ambrose]

Looks like there's going to be a bunch of Rats screaming about "undervotes" if the race for a replacement is close...

[Carry_Okie]

Thanks for the email link.
I sent one.

[TheAngryClam]

Sure think.

I know that emails like PartyWatch get printed and faxed/passed around the GOP legislators, lobbyists, and consultants offices in Sacramento.

Fun to watch what they say about each other, no?

[TheAngryClam]

er, sure thing. I think.

[Carry_Okie]

Was that a Freudian slap?

[TheAngryClam]

I am thinkink that I am Russki.

[CounterCounterCulture]

This is all we need -- a loser trying to tell people who voted against him that he was right all along, and implying they were stupid and wrong not to vote for him. That's a winning appeal -- telling people they were stupid and wrong.

That could easily apply to all the Dick Riordan hooligans as well.

[CounterCounterCulture]

After Simon failed to establish himself as a worthy candidate among Republican voters, Gray Davis rode to his rescue and trashed Richard Riordan during the Republican primary. Gray Davis should have been listed as Bill Simon’s greatest “in kind” donor during the primary as he was the most influential contributor to Simon’s primary win.

That's a bit of revisionist history. Simon was beginning to establish himself as more people got to see Simon and that snake Riordan for who he truly was. Davis just made the job easier for the conservatives, but the tide was turning long before Gray got involved. All Davis, Bill Simon and Bill Jones had to do was tell the truth about Riordan and Riordan was toast. Somebody on Riordan's team forgot to tell Riordan how to run a primary campaign. He thought he could waltz in and be annointed. Too bad.

That said, I kinda fall into the "Simon had his chance" camp and am hoping for a different candidate to take the gauntlet. And like the primary, I'm not liking my options.

BTW, this sounds like TeamRiordan, not "TeamSimon"