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It’s ALIVE! Activists bring L.A. Times cartoon to life
"eGray Hooker" to appear at Simon/Davis Debate on Monday
When Los Angeles Times political cartoonist Michael Ramirez comes to work tomorrow, he is in for a BIG surprise. A six foot tall, two hundred twenty pound surprise, to be exact, wearing a bright red turkey-feather boa.
Little did he suspect that his cartoon of California governor Gray Davis as a “prostitute” published earlier this year would be the inspiration for a character known as the “eGray Hooker,” which has been hounding the governor with an intensity unequalled by the even “Debate Chicken” from the Simon team.
From Beverly Hills to Hollywood, and Long Beach to Century City, a man dressed as a male prostitute and wearing a Gray Davis mask has been appearing wherever Davis does, most recently at a “Get out the Vote” rally with Hillary Clinton at the Century Plaza Hotel over the weekend.
And now, in an extraordinary case of “Life imitating Art,” conservative activists will be bringing their creation home to meet its Maker. Today, when the L. A. Times sponsors the first debate between Davis and his Republican challenger Bill Simon, Mike Ramirez will finally get to meet the “eGray Hooker,” who will be engaged in “street theater” protests outside the Times building where the debate will take place today at noon.
This kind of “street theater” exemplifies the kind of non-traditional campaign that Simon has been running, shunning the considerable expense of television ads for the much more cost-effective – but far less visible – world of talk radio and Internet. The man who plays the “eGray Hooker” says that he does NOT work for the Simon campaign, nor does he have their consent to do what he does, and was recently admonished by Simon to “Keep it clean.”
He says that he was also inspired by www.eGray.org, a parody of the auction site eBay.
For more information, please contact:
RonDog, Director, "Vast Right Wing Street Theater" at (310) 416-9155
