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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.
And, how good do you look in fishnets and garters? :o) - RonDogOoops! I see from your profile page that you are a FReeper-ette.Hehehe, better than Gray Davis... - TheSpottedOwl
Sorry, but we need a MALE prostitute to play Gray. LOL!
As for scheduling a "DumpDAVIS" FReep within walking distance from you, we are working on it. :o)
Gray Davis' Edison problem
The governor struggles to orchestrate a multimillion-dollar bailout of the utility that has spent big bucks on his campaign.
By William Bradley
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July 31, 2001 | Ever since his January State of the State address, in which he dwelled on the state's power crisis but neglected to mention private utilities' central role in devising the deregulation scheme that caused it, California Gov. Gray Davis has been searching for a way to bail out the insolvent Southern California Edison, which has contributed more than $350,000 to Davis' campaign coffers. Now his drive to save the battered utility, which claims nearly $4 billion in debt and is no longer creditworthy enough to buy power, has gone into overtime, with no solution yet in sight. An attempt to bring the California Assembly back from its summer recess to vote on a new bailout bill Friday was just the latest such effort to fall apart.
California Power Crisis animations featuring Governor Gray DavisLOL!
It took a while to load those images, but they are worth the wait!!! Thanks!
Also part of thee "Brantuk for Assembly" impact team, maybe we could incporporate the two in the 56 A.D.Excellent!
Please ask Mr. B how he wants to use the L.A. Chapter's "DumpDAVIS" players.
I will be there!
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Am I the only one who finds humor in the California energy crisis? Here is a state that votes overwhelmingly for Democrats, allows the environmental lobby to create policy dealing with the construction of everything from homes along the sea shore to power plants, and that has a governor who has appointed himself and the state legislator as CEO and board of directors for the socialized power utility in the nations most populated state and still they're crying about the federal government not stepping in to control the evil, out of state, power generators.
Of all the states in the United States that have deregulated their utilities, only California is having rolling black outs. It is only the California governor who stands in front of a power plant almost every day banging his podium asking that the people of his state turn their air conditioners off when it is 90 degrees outside. Only the people of California are being asked to live as if we were in a third world country rather than in the 7th largest economy in the world. Only in California did deregulation fail.
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