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Posted on 09/01/2002 12:48:17 PM PDT by RonDog
IMHO, members of this forum need to "supplement" the traditional campaign now being conducted by the Simon team with the kind of "guerilla" tactics for which we are uniquely suited. Our overall STRATEGY should be to effectively communicate one simple message to the undecided "swing" voters in this state:
The evidence against him is overwhelming, from Oracle and Metabolife, to dioxin dumping, plastic pipe and the prison workers, Gray Davis is for sale to the highest bidder. He is thoroughly unscrupulous, a money-grubbing poster boy for everything that is wrong with America. Corrupt politicians who sell political favors for cash CANNOT be trusted, and MUST not be re-elected.
We need to hammer home this message with images of Gray Davis as a bribe-taking, favor-granting, "Pay for Play" whore:
The TACTICAL plan that I believe will be most effective in implementing this strategy is political "street theater" using FReepers dressed in costumes to represent larger-than-life cartoon characters for each candidate:
Total cost for both costumes (with accessories) should be under $200, so that we could have MULTIPLE "morality plays" going on at "Dump DAVIS" FReeps across California.
The possibilities to generate media coverage are endless.
I can imagine promoting some kind of professional wrestling-type confrontation between these two colorful characters, ending everytime with "Super SIMON" stuffing the "Gray DIVA" into a giant garbage can - perhaps butt-first - and wheeling the Davis-in-a-Dumpster around on a handcart like the one used by movers to lift refrigerators. Perhaps there could be OTHER FReepers dressed as "Johns" who give him bribes, carrying signs like, "Dioxin Dumpers for Davis."
This kind of "eye candy" should be IRRESISTIBLE to TV news producers, wire service photo editors, talk radio hosts, and political commentators EVERYWHERE, in spite of their liberal bias. (The images will be too good to ignore!)
Simple, powerful IMAGES are the best way to communicate with the MTV generation, and THESE images will work.
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I know that not every FReeper lives in California, but IMHO, we will all BENEFIT from having a Republican governor here, and we will all LOSE if Californians cannot "Dump DAVIS!"
In addition to being the incumbent, and having the left-wing media on his campaign staff, Davis has BUCKETS of money to use in a traditional attack.
It is my hope that FReepers in California (and elsewhere) can help elect Bill Simon by running low-cost, but highly effective "guerilla" operations.
The union thugs and government lackeys will ALWAYS vote the straight RAT ticket, but perhaps we can "plant the seed" into enough minds of as-yet "undecided" voters that Gray Davis is a corrupt, bribe-taking, political favor-granting WHORE.
We MUST prevail.
You're quite welcome, O humble servant....hehe
Our signs featured a picture of Warner next to a toilet and had the "Dump Warner" logo above it.LOL! Great idea!
Our problem here is also to communicate WHY to "Dump DAVIS."
Perhaps voters here will blame him - rightfully - for grossly mismanaging the "energy crisis" here, but they might just as well blame the folks from Enron, in this era of corporate mistrust.
IMHO, Davis is UNIQUELY vulnerable to charges of sellling favors, and images of him as a prostitute - because it is TRUE!
Even his supporters acknowledge that Gray Davis is a money-generating MACHINE.
Articles about his "Pay for Play" actions have been published even in the hard-core leftist L.A. Times and San Francisco Chronicle, not to mention DEVASTATING pieces from the Sacramento Bee.
We need to drive home the message that this corruption is BAD, and that Bill Simon will be GOOD.
More than using images of "Gray Davis the incompetent energy czar," though - as accurate as they may be - I think that we need to focus on images of Gray Davis the CORRUPT, the WHORE, the PROSTITUTE - who will take money from ANYBODY, to do ANYTHING.
Dump bump!
How BIG are those Styrofoam cutouts?
I think you will be successful. Just a hunch, but I think the voters will, in the end, flock to Simon. And not only because of the rightness of his views, but I think the "likeability" factor will play a big role.
I will do my part by sending a financial contribution to the Simon campaign.
And ... if we should decide to "join you" - where will you be doing this "theatre".How about having a "Dump DAVIS" FReep in good ol' used-to-be-solidly Republican ORANGE COUNTY?
In a parody on the Stephen Sondheim musical, Sunday in the Park with George (1984), we could a "Sunday at the Dump with Gray" DumpDAVIS FReep at the Olinda Alpha Landfill in Brea, just north of the Nixon Library.
We should be able to get coverage from the Orange County Register, the new conservative radio station KPLS (830-AM), and perhaps some local TV stations?
Orange Couny has nicer dumps than L.A. County does:
After seeing your cutout, I can see how this butthead Davis REALLY DOES resemble Beavis!Separated at birth?
Will Cool Guy dress up as "Super SIMON?"Either way, WHERE is a good place to hold a "Dump DAVIS" FReep (or SEVERAL FReeps) up your way?
(Or, vice versa?)
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