[NormsRevenge]

Simon strategist Sal Russo says Gov. Gray Davis has "cynically targeted the soccer moms" with more money and more attention for suburban schools while neglecting those in the inner cities, where votes are scarce. Russo notes that more than 70 percent of the children in failing schools are Latino.


DUMP DAVI$ & the Den of Socialists

GO SIMON

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[NormsRevenge]

Simon never played football. But he has spent much of his time -- and money -- in recent years on charities aimed at helping the poor, and especially poor kids, improve their lives. So it's natural for him, as a candidate for the state's highest office, to think about ways government can aid that effort.

Charity begins at home. Welcome Home , Bill!

Simon proposes to eliminate the state capital gains tax in poor neighborhoods where investment is weak. He also wants to encourage the clean-up of urban toxic waste sites. He wants to build more urban parks and encourage police to establish links with the communities they serve. And he proposes to increase access to health care by giving vouchers instead of program applications to the working poor, and by giving tax credits to doctors who provide care that would otherwise go uncompensated.

I don't think GraYouT hangs around barrios much these days .. Kudos for Simon.

[daviddennis]

I'd love to see the LA Weekly's writers respond honestly to this story. About a month or so ago, they ran a very interesting article that said that inner city schools were so bad that the governor had might as well be Simon for all the good Davis had done.

Looks to me like the poor would be better off under Simon; at least he cares about something other than campaign contributions.

(If you poke through the archives, you'll find it since I posted it when it came out).

D

[spintreebob]

re: Davis has "cynically targeted the soccer moms.

In Chicagoland, appearing friendly to minorities, and making sure this friendliness is visible to the soccer moms, is essential to getting the soccer mom vote. Here soccer moms are turned off by the mean spirited image of the Jim Ryan-Tancredo-Buchanan-Dornan-Pete Wilson leaders of the Republican party. In Chicagoland Jim Ryan will lose more soccer mom votes than minority votes for his framing of innocent Rolando Cruz.

[jumpstartme]

Has Simon issued any statement responding to the IRS' illegal release to the media concerning his part in a tax shelter scheme?

Of course, they painted it as an accident, but it sure seems like political timing to me. If you're not aware of the story, it was on the AP wires either early today or yesterday.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

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[Carry_Okie]

Class size reduction was the worst thing that has been done to the poor in this adminstration, worse even than the power crisis.

[Kobyashi1942]

Simon proposes to eliminate the state capital gains tax in poor neighborhoods where investment is weak.

Horse hockey. Simon is playing the race card right here, in a very offensive way. Why not just eliminate the State Capital gains tax altogether? The politics of division is sickening. He also wants to encourage the clean-up of urban toxic waste sites.

"encourage"? What does that mean? Spend what few dollars we have already to pick up after the corporate polluters? HOw about throwing these polluters in jail and seizing their finances instead of making me, the taxpayer, pay for it?

He wants to build more urban parks and encourage police to establish links with the communities they serve.

Note to Simon: Community policing doesn't work. Crime is SKYROCKETING in Los Angeles and Community policing is all the rage down here. Also, we don't have the money for "more urban parks". It isn't the role of government to spend my tax dollars to build parks in the Ghetto or bario, which inevitably turn into drug dealing locations.

And he proposes to increase access to health care by giving vouchers instead of program applications to the working poor, and by giving tax credits to doctors who provide care that would otherwise go uncompensated.

More "big government" direction and regulation from a "conservative" Republican.

If Simon had juevos, and he doesn't, he could win outright in November just by promising to enforce Proposition 187 and defund the left. If 187 had been enforced we wouldn't be in this mess that we are in today. California's health care system is crashing due to all the illegal aliens that are flooding across the border to get GOVERNMENT MANDATED MEDICAL CARE. All on the backs of the taxpayers.