Posted on 03/17/2002 7:36:22 AM PST by Pokey78
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:39:56 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Republican businessman Bill Simon hired a key figure from the Traditional Values Coalition, a conservative religious group that lobbies to outlaw abortion and block gay-rights laws, to help him win the GOP nomination for governor.
Simon, the political neophyte who upset former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan in the March 5 primary, paid $30,000 in consulting fees during the final weeks of the campaign to Louis Philip "Phil" Sheldon Jr., a longtime anti-abortion and anti-gay rights activist, according to documents filed with the secretary of state.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
This was my favorite passage of the article. The implication is, of course, that presently homosexuals don't have civil rights which is out and out nonsense. They have the same civil rights as any other citizen. The problem is that they want to have expanded rights as compared to others. We cannot let little digs like the one cited above pass without criticism. Who would be against "rights" for all citizens? That is not the issue and those self absorbed cretins know it.
You're right. But that's not the problem. For the socialist sheeple of California who want nothing but government to take care of them from cradle to grave, it's about evil white heterosexual males, the mean-spirited Republican Congress, greedy Enron executives and George W. Bush.
Only Gray Davis can save them from a fate worse than death. Failure to re-elect Davis will result in a Nazi-like reign of terror in California.
Or so the party line goes.
You are right on here. I am not reading anything that I don't like about Simon here.
Hide the women and children!
I'm holding my breath.......I'm turning blue........
Oh come on Torie. It's stupid to hire a webmaster? It shows his inexperience? B.S. You're just mad because Simon stomped Gerald Parsky's pick - Dick Rearend.
Your analysis is usually dead on target. This one you hooked over and to the left. Of course Davis is going to champion this line. What it really shows is the bias of the SF Chronicle! Davis is incompetent. He is already going negative. It's not going to help him if there are rolling blackouts this summer?
Regards,
TS
Your saying that hiring Phil Sheldon who is a principled daily worker against the agenda of the left disqualifies him from working for Republicans? My belief is that if it hadn't been Sheldon it would have been Steve Frank - in fact there is probably an article being developed now for Frank you can bet on it - or it would have been someone else. It's just another example of liberal media bias.
The challenge comes now - does the Simon Campaign allow the media and the Davis cabal to define the campaign? OR, do they tell Californians how the problems that California has need to be dealt with and how Governor Simon would deal with those problems more effectively than Dark Davis has.
Regards,
TS
Alameda (Oakland??)- Gore by 223,000
Contra Costa(Bay Area I think) - Gore by 80,000
Humboldt - Gore by 1500, Nader had 13%
Imperial - Gore by 3000
Lake - Gore by 2000
Los Angeles - Gore by 900,000
MArin(Bay Area) - Gore by 45,000
Mendocino - Gore by 4,000
Monterey - Gore by 24,000
Napa - Gore by 7500
Sacramento - Gore by 13,000
San Benito - Gore by 2000
San Francisco - Gore by 190,000
San Mateo(Where's that?) - Gore by 86,000
Santa Barbara - Gore by 2000
Santa Clara(Don't know that area?) - Gore by 140,000
Santa Cruz(Don't know that area) - Gore by 37,000
Solano(don't know that area) - Gore by 24000
Somona(don't know that area) - Gore by 54000
Yolo(don't know) - Gore by 10,000
Some of those areas are going to be real tough to overcome. The San Fran/Jokeland/Bezerkely/San Jose area will be tough. LA County will also be tough. Simon needs San Diego, Fresno, Orange, East Side of the state, Tulare, Shasta, Ventura, Riverside, Placer, Sacramento, and Santa Barbara to come through. I don't know offhand some of those counties(which I noted), but there are more dem areas there than I thought.
Granted his opponent was Geoff Fieger......
You are right, but you are missing one part of the formula, you have to be here to realize how despised Davis is.
The young African American lady who cut my hair the other night was saying how she doesn't know a thing about politics and never votes, but she thinks Davis is an idiot, and she's going to make sure she goes to vote against him this fall.
I think Simon's victory will come from a combination of things; an increase in the motivated conservative/GOP turnout, depressed Dem/Liberal turnout as they realize they have to chose between a conservative and a big ol' doofus, and simple turnover as many people who voted for Gore for superficial reasons decide that the honest and plain-speaking Bill Simon isn't such a bad guy, and that his ideas on rebuilding California make sense.
Actually, I'm pro-abortion, and I usually prefer the Libertarian candidates.
The SINGLE BIGGEST reason I ever vote GOP is precisely to p*ss off the Extreme Left, because they get so shrill and hateful around election time.
I really dislike Bush. I voted for him, with regret. I hope to vote against Bush in 2004, and vote LP. But I fear the Hateful Left will push me into voting GOP again.
No, I'm not making this up. The Left's shrill hate is the MAIN reason I vote GOP instead of LP.
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