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."
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?