Posted on 09/17/2002 2:52:22 PM PDT by Cinnamon Girl
Yeah, baby, yeah! Just got back from a little lunch time style FREEP on Wilshire Blvd. in Beverly Hills, right across from the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Future Governor Bill Simon is scheduled to debate the Green Party Kook today (and of course, Davis is too busy raising ca$h for himself to debate any issues) at the Hilton so a few of us Freepers gathered across the street (thanks BH police officers for stopping traffic so I could cross) with RonDog heading the crew in his Gray Davis is a Whore outfit.
Also there, Absolom01 as a grim reaper, urging Davis to stop dumping toxic waste, Feinswinesuksass with a "Davis for Sale", and also DoughtyOne, Tony in Hawaii, who should check in with their signs-- and pictures!
I've been to a lot of Freeps, and the big difference here-- all the passing traffic (and there was a lot) read our signs and either gave us the thumbs up, honked their horn, gave the "V" for victory, or nodded in agreement. NOT ONE MIDDLE FINGER OR "F-U!" No angry responses. Why? Because no one likes Davis.
A Channel 10 news truck was there as were some people standing across the street from us watching our protest. Some of the Gray Davis unpaid college intern West Wing wannabe campaign staffers got on their cell phones and started crying that there was no love going on for Gray in Beverly Hills, so a little while after our freep started, some bought and paid for union men showed up with campaign headquarter signs and got busy acting like supporters on the Hilton side of the street.
That's when we all decided to pack it up and go home, so that the Davis crew wouldn't get any attention.
It must have worked, because I went shopping at Robinson's May after the protest (and got myself a nice black peasant blouse on sale) and when I came out, the union guys were putting their signs away and going home. BY THE WAY-- I KNOW THEY WERE UNION: one of them had a union workers sticker on his car under his Davis sticker, and another had an IronWorkers union frame on his license plate. I am not dissing union workers, but I am dissing these phony supporters who get paid to go out in the middle of a work day and hold signs for the worst governor in the history of California.
For everyone else: Rondog standing in a dumpster wearing the Frankenfruter outfit from the Rocky Horror Picture Show complete with fishnets & a red feather boa. We had fake $100 bills stuffed in his armbands and a big ole "DUMP DAVIS" sign in front.
Other signs were: "Gray Davis: Debate Dodger" and "Dump Davis, Not Dioxin".
Darn good wordplay C.G.!
I just realized why I knew your name...I read your "I've been Hannitized" thread a while back.
Someone needs to get dressed in a chicken suit, to mock Davis for being a such a chicken and not showing up to debate.
Yep. And $60 million can't change that...
Thank you so much for your efforts...
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