Simon Offers Few Specifics as 'the Candidate of Ideas'

LA Times ^ | 4/8/02 | NICHOLAS RICCARDI

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Republican nominee Bill Simon Jr. pledges that as governor he would cut taxes, balance the budget, create child-care programs at every school and preside over a freeway-and reservoir-building spree.

But despite spending much of the last year touting himself as "the candidate of ideas" who will focus on the nuts-and-bolts issues Simon says Californians care about, he has put forward only sketchy plans on how he would achieve several of his ambitious goals.

On some issues, such as the budget, Simon furnishes long lists of proposals. In other areas, however, he offers fewer details.

[helmsman]

Maybe he'll change the subject???

[Joe Bonforte]

"...create child-care programs at every school and preside over a freeway-and reservoir-building spree. "

And this is the most "conservative" candidate they could find. I guess that term doesn't carry as much meaning as it used to.

[gaspar]

The LA Times sends one of its most liberal flacks to work over Bill Simon and then wonders why he is not available for an interview. I am still trying to figure out which is the bigger joke, The San Francisco Chronicle or the LATimes. One is so fatuous its juvenile (SFC), and the other pontificates more than the Pope.

[LoisHunt]

Christie Todd Whitman was the Republican Governor of New Jersey who started state-funded preschool here. Like Simon, she grew up rich, was raised with nannies, and it came natural to her to think mothers didn't necessarily have the total responsibility to care for their own little children.

[ElkGroveDan]

"...create child-care programs at every school and preside over a freeway-and reservoir-building spree. "

And this is the most "conservative" candidate they could find. I guess that term doesn't carry as much meaning as it used to.

Yep makes him sound like a nutty lib doesn't it? I don't suppose that it has to do with the liberal Times reporter interpreting what rebuilding our state means, when he says a "building spree."

Careful what you read in the press -- especially the LA Times, and how much of it you believe verbatim.

Bill Simon is a successful businessman who has made a career out of rescuing struggling businesses and making them profitable again. He can do the same for California, and it won't be by way of what a cynical reporter calls a "building spree."

[Free the USA]

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