What IS dis crap :-? Loosen the pursestrings, Morons.. We got a fight for California on our hands.
DUMP DAVI$ & the Den of Socialists
GO SIMON
Posted on 06/25/2002 11:34:14 AM PDT by StoneColdGOP
June 12, 2002
Mr. Gerald L. Parsky
Chairman, Team California
10877 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 2100
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Dear Gerry,
With the greatest urgency, I am writing to express my concern over the seeming lack of interest by Team Cal in supporting the Cal Plan approved unanimously May 3, 2002 by the CRP Board of Directors. You voted for the plan and expressed your strong support for its components.
The Party’s problem is that all funds from appearances by Bush Administration officials go into the Team Cal account. You therefore have control over all the California Republican Party’s discretionary funds. Yet you keep turning CRP staff down when they ask you for funds to support approved budget items.
For example, on the June 3rd Operations Committee conference call, you were asked on behalf of Team Cal to contribute somewhat less than $100,000 to enhance our voter file, $25,000 for a desperately needed new CRP computer system, and computer support staff costs of $12,000. You said no to these expenditures. I think you owe the Board of Directors an explanation.
You said further that there are no plans to convene a Team Cal meeting to discuss what the organization will do to fund Cal Plan program needs. You said you had ‘no plan to expend funds’ except for Registration Bounty.
Gerry, there are only 143 days left until the general election. If you are serious about electing Bill Simon, please call a Team Cal meeting and decide which elements of the Cal Plan the group will support. As of today, Team Cal has $787,182 in its account. The rest of the California Republican Party has $60,720 to fund everything except Registration Bounty. Our reformed CRP By-laws state that Team Cal as a group, not any one individual, will decide how their funds are spent. Any money left in the Team Cal bank account on November 6 is money wasted and opportunity lost.
You have told us repeatedly the past fifteen months that the CRP would get fundraising visits from Cabinet officers. None have appeared except Secretary of Agriculture Veneman at our February convention. If these visits are not scheduled within the next month, we will be unable to maximize their financial potential. Three to six well-planned events could raise several million dollars for the Team Cal bank account.
I pledge that I will support Team Cal’s decision on which Cal Plan program elements to support. We all united on the Cal Plan. Now, let’s unite on making it work. The time for action is now. Soon it will be too late to make a real difference.
Sincerely,
Shawn Steel
Shawn Steel
Chairman
cc: Board of Directors
All candidates should be clear on that point before they file their paperwork.
Key word: "if."
Simon can't get off the dime against a pathetically weak Democrat with tons of baggage. That implies that Simon has some huge problems of his own. Your "if" is looking like a really long shot.
And if Bush throws his full support to Simon and Simon proceeds to lose, it costs the Bush Administration a lot.
Excuse me? Are you a bitter Riordan-Parsky person who is upset Simon won? You are speaking falsehoods and defaming Bill Simon in the process.
For your edification:
FIRST STRIKE: After five days of "positive" ads, Gov. Gray Davis unleashed the first in what will likely be a series of attack ads on Republican opponent Bill Simon -- and with good reason.
There's a new poll floating around Sacramento that shows the embattled Davis trailing Simon by a whopping eight points.
The poll -- which was of likely voters and paid for by the Democratic- friendly Service Employees International Union -- found newcomer Simon at 42 percent to Davis' 34 percent. Green Party candidate Peter Camejo came in with 5 percent.
But, as with other recent statewide polls, the real news is on Davis' job performance numbers.
They are in the toilet.
"The real problem is that Davis has turned off even fellow Democrats, who should be his natural base," said one Democratic consultant.
And if Simon "can find a way to the middle -- or at least not appear to be some sort of scary conservative -- Simon could win this," the consultant added.
That's a pretty big change in opinion from just a couple of months back, when most Demo insiders thought Simon's pro-life, pro-gun, pro-school voucher stands would be the political equivalent of cement shoes.
But then came story after story about Davis' nonstop squeeze for campaign contributions. And the stories about ties between Davis political contributors and the awarding of state contracts -- the recent Oracle software scandal being one case in point.
Now a number of polls are reaffirming what many insiders have known for some time: Davis has a real fight on his hands. A poll by J. Moore Methods of 600 voters, done within the past two weeks, showed Davis at 44 percent and Simon at 43 percent. In other words, too close to call. Other polls by the California Teachers Association, the Simon campaign and even Davis' campaign are finding similar neck-and-neck numbers.
Another thing all the polls agree on is that Davis is in a world of trouble with voters.
The Moore poll, for example, showed a whopping 50 percent giving Davis an "unfavorable" job performance rating.
As one Democrat told us, "In politics, that's usually considered terminal."
Another Democratic consultant added, "I've seen other polls that show an even lower performance rating."
I worked closely with the Simon campaign in the primary and I still am to this day and I will not tolerate anti-Simon bashers to misrepresent the truth about Bill Simon or his campaign. He is a fine man and is running a good campaign and he doesn't need Gerald Parsky or anyone else with an axe to grind to take him out as part of some ideological or personal revenge.
No, I'm a Simon supporter who is somewhat disappointed with some of his supporters (who should be raising funds on their own instead of alternately cussing out Parsky and begging him for money--something that is not likely to work) and really disappointed with Simon's lackluster efforts to date. Maybe he'll get off the dime after Labor Day--and maybe that won't be too late.
And if Simon's only leading Grayout Doofus by eight points, that's a pathetic performance given how inept The Prince of Darkness has been since 1999. That's Simon not being able to get off the dime. BTW, what's the MOE?
Parsky's job is to get the GOP elected in California. If Bush is telling him to back off, he needs to tell him NO.
Parsky's job isn't to be a Bush yesman. His job is to elect the GOP. Period.
Source, please?
You aren't still referring to the April 2002 Field Poll of 546 likely voters, taken before the Oracle scandal and budget woes were widely publicized, are you?
Uh, chicken and egg problem. Simon isn't raising big money for a couple reasons. First, he has his own money and donors traditionally feel a rich guy should pony up a substantial amount of his own cash before they help. You can argue about whether that is fair or not (I have mixed feelings) but the perception is that Simon can self-fund, and if he doesn't want it bad enough or have enough confidence in his own campaign to spend his own nickle first, why should they give?
Second, major donors want to give to a party/campaign that has their act together. Maybe Steel should have kept his mouth shut, but Parsky has done nothing but annoy conservatives since he came on the scene. There has always (at least when I lived in Cali) been a disconnect between big money RINO donors who give to keep their taxes low and volunteers who care about other conservative issues (abortion, guns, etc.) But some people (example: Tom Fuentes in Orange County) know how to work with both groups and get them to work with each other. As long as Parsky keeps stirring the waters and leaking this stuff, donors close their wallets.
So Simon doesn't spend his own money, since he had no commercials he doesn't do as well in the polls as he could be doing, donors hold off giving, Simon has no money for ads, he keeps dropping in the polls, chicken egg chicken egg. However, Simon has just purchased ads and come up with some great endorsements so to me it looks like he's on the offensive. A ten point difference four months out is absolutely winnable.
The Bush people have confused the ability to raise money with political smarts. Parsky may be a great fundraiser, but a smart pol would have figured out a way to work with conservatives.
Sorry - I don't know what "MOE" means. I am an FOB - Friend of Bill's if that helps.
But to your point about laughing off Simon being ahead by 8 points in the Democrat's poll - it just says to me that you are hopelessly biased against Simon (or for the Parsky attack on the Simon campaign) or else uninformed about California politics.
Democrats hold a 46% to 36% registration advantage. Simon has beaten that 10% advantage and bested Davis by 8% in this poll. You are going to arm-chair quarterback, nitpick and gripe against Simon and his ability to "get off the dime" when he has made up 18%?
Hmmm... last I recall that's about the margin that RINOs LOST BY in candidates like Tom Campbell, John Seymour and others. Leave Simon alone and shoot Parsky. Its time for him to retire in San Diego and play Risk! on the computer all day since power and control seems all he is interested in. It certainly isn't ideology, freedom, principle or values.
No, it says that I don't view Simon as being effective. I support him; but he needs to get out and campaign. I'm on his mailing list, and the first I heard about his visit to San Diego was this morning. That says that he's not even TRYING to communicate with his base--or, by extension, anyone else.
Democrats hold a 46% to 36% registration advantage. Simon has beaten that 10% advantage and bested Davis by 8% in this poll. You are going to arm-chair quarterback, nitpick and gripe against Simon and his ability to "get off the dime" when he has made up 18%?
Simon ought to be crushing Doofus by at least 30%, given how badly Doofus is running this state. He ought to be drawing huge crowds because Doofus is so inept. He ought to be getting his message out no matter WHAT the press is doing.
He's doing none of these. And Grayout Doofus will get an uninterrupted summer to paint a false picture of Simon. He's already got the "bomb damage assessment" from his first round of ads, and he's going to run another set that will be much more effective. By Labor Day, Simon will be the Antichrist--and he'll have one hell of a time losing the image in just two months.
The only people in California who make or break a GOP campaign are the candidates--the party has always been a nonplayer, mostly because of little egomaniacs like Parsky and Steel. If you're gearing up to blame Parsky for Simon's problems, it's a sign of how inept Simon's campaign is.
Because Steel et al can't raise a dime through their own efforts.
The bag of money Parsky holds has been irrelevant throughout CA GOP history precisely because of the dueling prima donnas like Parsky and Steel.
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