Posted on 02/09/2002 6:02:41 PM PST by CounterCounterCulture
Edited on 04/13/2004 3:29:10 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Republican gubernatorial candidate Richard Riordan attempted Saturday to calm the doubts of party conservatives about his loyalty.
Riordan faced Secretary of State Bill Jones and businessman Bill Simon, along with an audience of the GOP's most faithful activists, during a debate at the Republican state convention less than a month before the March 5 primary.
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The corrupt professionals who run La Raza in this state sure do. They have the money and the know-how to take advantage of such corruption. That it would be an absolute horror is not in question. I know of a doctor who for years has flown a Mexican flag on his pastoral compound. He has a 3,500 square foot house in an upscale neighborhood. He keeps a cadre of apparent illegals on his place in old house trailers and unpermitted ramshackle houses. His animals are loaded with parasites. The neighbors take them to the vet out of pity. His kid has built a large multistory greenhouse with grow lights running all night within 30 feet of a county road. He flies a Swiss flag on the front (medical marijuana?).
When September 11 came along, down came the Mexican flags and up went an American flag on his gate, sporting a portrait of Marylin Monroe. It says "Proud to be an American."
Yeah, right.
You are quite correct in your assessment.
Again, what is your plan? Will you spend your lives sniffling over the glories of the lost California of your grandparents' youth? Will you do something to assimilate the newcomers and bring them along into middle class life and to vote against the Demonrats?
My goal is to start with a massive change in land management and environmental policy. I have written a book to that end. Environmentalists and property rights activists simply have to stop the banks in their ongoing drive to bring 15 million more people here in the next 50 years (that is the plan).
If Proposition 187 was really so terribly popular on an ongoing basis the California supermajority that voted for it would not be caught dead electing Davis or nominating RINO Riordan. It was a spasm easily disposed of by the courts who are not your friends. You also would not be sending DiFi and that egregious Boxer woman to the US Senate.
There is a new majority to be constructed. It consists of existing political conservatives, Hispanic social conservatives, second generation Hispanic business owners, suburban environmentalists, and advocates of high quality education. I think Bill Simon is smart enough, honest enough, and flexible enough to learn to articulate that message. I spent a little time teaching it to him yesterday. He has the book as does his staff, and they know where to find me. That's all I can do in addition to teaching the message of free market environmental management. Switzerland, not Panama.
If you can figure how to involve suburhban enviromentalists in something positive, that should be a first, and likewise as to high quality education in government schools.
Sincere best wishes.
It's save California or lose the nation. It's that simple.
Bill Simon offers a clear choice to Gray Davis. Voters will always vote the status quo given two candidates who are virtually the same. Simon offers a difference.
Simon is not "hard" like Dan Lungren. He has common sense, is compassionate, and has the charitable background that will help exude a sense of warmth and character. It will be hard to pin a "right-wing extremist" label on him when he has proven he cares about people, the underprivileged, etc., etc.
Simon is smart. He can hold his own with Gray Davis, and knows more about budgeting, the economy and business than any career politician.
Simon has actually DONE something with his life, and can point to his accomplishments as a businessman, a prosecutor, and a philantropist. He has tangible accomplishments. While Davis IS the sitting governor, he has done nothing but politics his entire life practically. While this is the million dollar question ... are people sick of career politicians? ... I think the answer is yes, and that helps Simon.
Because Davis has so many problems (budget, taxes, energy, etc), Simon can come in and offer alternatives on every Davis screw-up. If Davis pushes on the social issues, and Simon talks economy and energy and people will think Davis is avoiding the hard questions.
Simon, conservative; Davis, liberal. But Davis is REALLY liberal, and Simon is a warm, compassionate conservative. People will vote for someone they don't agree with on everything if they LIKE the person and they KNOW where they stand -- no surprises. People did not LIKE Dan Lungren, and Lungren betrayed the gunners.
Wow you are a real bitter cynical person aren't you?
I really resent that. I have been part of the grassroots in California for many years. The grass roots has been down and unmotivated in recent years, but that's because we keep nominating people like Riordan (ok not riordan, no one is as bad as riordan). But it is really hard for people to get motivated by the likes of Tom Campbell or John Seymour at the top of the ticket.
In the years when there are solid conservatives to work for, not just in California, but anywhere, in those years people get out and work and get excited. Unfortunaltely on a statewide level we haven't had someone like that since Herschensohn in 1992. On issues like Proposition 22 - the Defense of Marriage Act, in 2000, the grassroots grew into to tall fields of grass indeed. We could barely keep up with the lawn signs and precinct activities. There were a million lawn signs placed statewide. That can only be done through grass roots.
Just wait and see. After Bill Simon wins March 5th. The grassroots across California will come out of the woodwork.
I sat near the front at the convention debate and was absolutely apalled at how he insulted our former governor Deukmejian.
From now on it will be "riordan" in all my posts
Orange Co...RVSD Co.
We, my wife and two children, left CA...for some of the reasons you mention. The overturning of the PROPS....were one of the ''final straws'' for us....................
Best FRegards,
Now if he works with his aids on improving his appearance and mannerisms incrementally, so it's natural and not forced, he's a sure winner.
The leftists only chance would be in stealing the vote -- and that's something else again, especially in the urban areas. You, of course, know who could do something to prevent that this time?
Finally, they indicate that at the Democratic National Convention, when asked who he would vote for (Gore vs. GW) he said he wasn't sure. They really pointed out that he is not a "party" politician. They also imply that he is the only person who has a chance of beating Davis.
While, I don't believe everything (or even a small fraction) of what I hear on NPR, I do think it is interesting to hear what the liberal Democrats have to say about things, expecially political things. (Know your enemy!)
The URL for the "reporting" can be found at NPR Real Audio link
The NPR Summary is;
Ex-LA Mayor Vies with Conservatives in Gubernatorial Bid Republican gubernatorial candidate Richard Riordan faces two conservatives in the California race. The former Los Angeles mayor is criticized for his moderate views. NPR's Ina Jaffe reports on Morning Edition. Feb. 11, 2002.
Califreeper
No current Freeper by that name.
The NPR Summary is; Ex-LA Mayor Vies with Conservatives in Gubernatorial Bid Republican gubernatorial candidate Richard Riordan faces two conservatives in the California race. The former Los Angeles mayor is criticized for his moderate views. NPR's Ina Jaffe reports on Morning Edition. Feb. 11, 2002.I've repeatedly noted that the discussion should never be about whether or not the media was liberal, but rather how far they dared to go. This summary adds more fuel to the fire. There is virtually nobody criticizing riordan for being "moderate." This is clearly not unbiased reporting. To reword what was said in this way is untruthful. It tells us what the reporter or editor thinks of what is being criticized. It recenters the items being critized from left to moderate. And thus it implicitly labels all criticism of leftward (or statist) thinking as rightwing.
Thus, the propaganda machine is alive and well funded by your tax dollars. And they are less afraid to go further into the open with every passing day. Because nobody has even threatened to stop them since 1994. And he was driven out of office.
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