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.
Can't forget the important stuff, huh?
Holy cow! This I would pay money to see live and in person. We used to have FReeper Doctor Raoul doing this sort of thing at the DC FReeps. Now RonDog is getting into the act! Woo hoo! Go, CALIFORNIA FREEPERS!
Union is code for overpaid.
Didja get any pics of the Hired Opposition (the soon to be ex- guv has to get his hands out of our pockets) gray supporters?
And it will be interesting to see if Channel 10 does much on it...interesting they came all the way from Sacramento!
It wasn't until CG's reply at post #46 that it was shown correctly.
Anyway,.....
Great job to you, too!
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....Wow. You guys are FAST! GREAT post-FReep thread, Cinnamon Girl!
Tony in Hawaii and I went to the debate after the FReep. More on that soon.You are correct about NOBODY liking Davis!
The best that the hardcore RATs could come up with was, yeah but - will Simon be any better?
Even the rent-a-mob bussed in from the "Legbreakers International, Local 666" were just going through the motions!But WE had SPIRIT!
They certainly did NOT want to be there. LOL!They were late arriving.
And THEY were so DULL, and passionless.
All about 30-something guys.And, all with the same goofy industrial-strength 18"x24" "somethingyoucouldnotread/GRAY DAVIS" signs.
And pretty ladies!
And a darling little girl!!
And COSTUMES!
And ties!
OUR signs had PASSION.In summary, we got SEVEN (7) dedicated professionals to invest an hour and a half of their day:
And creativity. And diversity. And HUMOR!
on a TUESDAY afternoonAnd we yet - we looked MARVELOUS!!!at an event that was in efffect a "stealth" debate - with virtually NO ADVANCE PRESS.
(Even the debate sponsors did not promote it - on THEIR OWN website - until yesterday.)with so little media coverage that even the debate itself (in media-intensive L.A.!) only attracted a TV crew from Stockton/Modesto (!)
where we had to FReep at a less-than-optimum location - outside, and across a busy street from the expo/debate.
I am SO PROUD of you ALL, Beverly Hills FReepers!And, as we discussed, this FReep was in many ways just the "dress rhearsal" for future RAPID RESPONSE "DumpDAVIS" FReeps.
Now that we have PROVEN that this can be done, we can BUILD on this one.
And, with the right event, at the right venue, and the right planning, we WILL break through into the mainstream media the NEXT time!
Now that we know what we are doing, each new "Dump DAVIS" FReep will be BETTER than the one before - until November 5, when we will elect the NEW governor of California, Bill Simon!
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