California: Simon staff reshuffled from the top

Sac Bee ^ | 7/20/02 | Herbert A. Sample -- Bee San Francisco Bureau

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He praises his team in a speech to national GOP leaders.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon, preaching to the faithful of the national GOP leadership, Friday voiced confidence that his new campaign team and themes would defeat incumbent Democratic Gov. Gray Davis in November.

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GO SIMON

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"He's in pretty good shape," said Barbara Alby, a former member of the Assembly from the Sacramento area. "I think that we've bobbled a couple of things, but he is running against an 800-pound gorilla with 700 pounds of fleas."

Call the Vet!!!

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Should be an interesting next few weeks.

[dalereed]

What he's doing staff wise doesn't sound good. Putting a bunch of RINOS in charge could just lose him the election.

[Gophack]

There are still many good conservatives on the campaign and I think that his consultant did a phenominal job in the primary, and he's still there and in position.

[Vladiator]

We are waiving a long, slow good bye to Bill Simon.

It's just stupid for him not to release his taxes - - he gets pummeled EVERY SINGLE DAY on the issue, and has no excuse ready other than he doesn't want to.

It not only makes him look like he has a tin ear, it makes him look like he's hiding something.

If he is hiding something, he should quit the race NOW and face the consequnces (they can blame Davis for getting him nominated in the first place). If he's not hiding something, he should lay it out bare, and prove it.

This is just my opinion, but he has to face the music on this one. And he has to do it soon. Even I won't vote for him if I don't see his taxes.

[dalereed]

First off, you have no right to see his tax return or anyones for that matter. Secondly, no one including Simon can view his tax return since it hasn't been completed or filed yet.

[goldstategop]

I don't GrayDown's commercial will be a hit. Au contraire ; he's trying to milk sympathy for the poor, beleagured IRS. Tell me one person in this country who likes the IRS. I don't know of any one who views having to file their 1040 as something they look forward to doing. As for having to release your tax return, there's no law that says you have to do it and I'm one of those people who believe along with Bill Simon that our financial affairs should stay private. Keep it up GrayDown; you're winning a lot of converts with those new (NOT!) negative attacks of yours on the opposition.

[daviddennis]

Well, the latest Davis commercial alleges:

• Simon didn't vote in the last 13 or 20 elections.
• Simon didn't release his tax returns
• Simon was involved in management of a failed S&L, and he sued the state to get his money back. (This one has been debunked thouroughly in previous articles posted on FR).

I was amazed at how focused his commercials were on the past - Davis served in Vietnam, and he got a bronze star. Now he's suffered through a lifetime of public service. None of that means he's a good governor! He seems like a walking embodiment of the Peter Principle - a man raises in an organization to his level of incompetence.

If you listen to the Simon commercials, you find out about the $23 billion deficit, the power crisis, excessive fund raising, and other issues which make it clear that Davis is an exceptionally poor leader.

I think Davis commercials are poor. I got RealPlayer for MacOS X just so I could listen to them, too. If this is the best they can do at mudslinging, and if Simon has enough money to fund a major advertising push after Labor Day, I really don't see how he can lose.

D

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[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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[marajade]

I don't hear Dems calling for Daschle to release his... Why the double standard?

This isn't going to be the issue though...

The Dems just have too many numbers in CA and the Rep can't overcome them in CA anymore...

[Euro-American Scum]

We are waiving a long, slow good bye to Bill Simon.

Simon is typical of so many Republicans. It's as if they just expect voters to "get it". They expect the electorate to know conservatives have an intellectually superior position and vote accordingly upon the dispassionate exercise of intellectual analysis.

I don't know why it is conservative candidates refuse to take a gun to a knife fight.

The way this is going, I fear we'll be looking at Hillary in '04.