California: A bad time to run as a businessman, Simon learns (OPINION)

Sac Bee ^ | 7/21/02 | Dan Schnur - OPINION

[NormsRevenge]

Ken Lay and Martha Stewart aren't running for office in California this year. So it's not really fair to hold Bill Simon responsible for their sins. But now that the voters' love affair with corporate America has hit the rocks, any business leader currently running for political office is encountering much different types of questions than in years past.

[NormsRevenge]

Herein lies Simon's opportunity. Until now, he has presented his business experience as a credential to clean up California's government and reign in its spending excesses. But voters now believe that corporate leaders present as much danger to them as political leaders. So now is his chance to use that same biography as a means by which to argue that he is also better qualified to clean up corporate excesses as well.
DUMP DAVI$ & the Den of Socialists

GO SIMON

[NormsRevenge]

PING

[evolved_rage]

Last I heard was that Prostitution was a business and Davis is the king of political whores.

[stands2reason]

Pang

[timydnuc]

Thanking God, everyday, that I don't live in California.

If the people of California re-elect "Red" Davis, they deserve what they get. They'll be working for the socialists! I just hope they have enough left, after the socialist grabbing, to buy food and rent a U-Haul to get them the hell out of there.

[veronica]

I am reading Simon and Davis are tied. Simon has started re-running the ads Rudy did for him in the primaries. I think Simon can beat Davis if he plays his cards right, in spite of the Dems trying to tie him to corporate scandal.

[joeyman]

I hope CA reelects Davis...in a landslide. That should move all the decent productive people out and leave only the takers and slackers. Let'em enjoy their chamber pot of a state then.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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[doc]

All he has to hammer home is that he is a succesful businessman while Davis in one year drove California from a huge surplus into having a tremendous deficit. Do illegals who vote understand this basic business 101 course?

[dalereed]

"Do illegals who vote understand this basic business 101 course?"

Of course not unless it means that the state pays you every month, gives you food, shelter, and medical care.

[ladyinred]

As if it is that easy to just pack up and move from your home, your business, your life.
I would not wish Davis on my worst enemy, and we are certainly not your enemy.

[ladyinred]

Davis has more ties to big business than anyone in the state! How could the voters be so stupid as to not know this? A simple glance at his campaign contributions should clear this up!
Of course, the business world is what makes this country run, but that doesn't seem to occur to the simple minded liberal voters either!
Where do they think they would be without the corporations anyway? A third world country, starving, that is where.

[Kobyashi1942]

Davis has more ties to big business than anyone in the state! How could the voters be so stupid as to not know this? A simple glance at his campaign contributions should clear this up!

And there in lies the problem with Simon's campaign. Davis is extremely vulnerable on his "exposure" to Enron, Oracle, etc., yet Simon is incapable or unable to come oup with one campaign commercial to twist the proverbial knife in Davis' heart. If the voters are ignorant of Davis' connections to crooked coporations it is Simons fault. So what does that tell us about Simon's campaign?

[NormsRevenge]

I hear ya .. Its easy for residents of other state's to joke .. but what we got going down here is coming to your state real soon .. unless it is stopped.. SooNer Not LaTer

[NormsRevenge]

I bet GraYouT wore Nehru jackets .. Hell Half you folks in probably did too .. :-P
DUMP DAVI$ & the Den of Socialists

GO SIMON

[NormsRevenge]

insert here after in ..

[ElkGroveDan]

Simon is incapable or unable to come oup with one campaign commercial to twist the proverbial knife in Davis' heart.

Last time I was at the Simon web site there were at least three zingers there. I'm told they have been running in all major media markets, plus cable. So what gives with your comment?

[ElkGroveDan]

Wow! Bill Simon should listen to what Schnur has to say. After all he was one of the chief strategists for President Pete Wilson and Governor Richard Riordan......oops never mind.

Move along folks. Maybe there is something useful on the next thread.

[Kobyashi1942]

Last time I was at the Simon web site there were at least three zingers there. I'm told they have been running in all major media markets, plus cable. So what gives with your comment?

Well, I do watch quite a bit of Fox news, late night local news and CNN (Gag-just to see what the left is saying) and the only Simon ads I see are poorly done "Vote for me because I'm not Gray Davis" ads. Sorry, but that dog isn't going to hunt in Souther California.

Also, I know Simon's ads aren't having the affect that Davis' are having because the media up and down the State are now focusing on Simon's skeletons rather than Davis'. I hit the website each day of S.F., Sacramento, L.A., S.B. and S.D.--Davis' message is getting out and Simon's isn't.

Davis is sucessfully taring Simon with the "Corporate Greed" lable and Simon's response is very flacid.

[Traction]

Simon is fighting a two front battle. One against Davis and another against the bluebloods that have a strangle hold on the California GOP purse strings. Since Simon blew out their pet puppet Riorden, they've been miffed and refused to release money to Simon. If he does win (it will be a miracle with the lack of advertising I've been seeing), he should clean sweep out the management of the Calif. GOP. Then, maybe we may get some candidates that aren't transparent, hypocritical yes men.