Some REALLY BRIGHT GUY on the Simon advance team
found a truly WONDERFUL band from Sacramento
who are USUALLY called called "Hip Service",
but for today were known as:
"Bill's Band!"
And it got even BETTER when the Simon team arrived!
Posted on 11/03/2002 5:53:03 PM PST by Cinnamon Girl
It was a great day for a FREEP! As the campaign approaches the big day, Bill Simon is looking good and sounding better than ever. With freepers RonDog, daviddennis, Palo, Tony from Hawaii, and others gathered at the historic Olvera Street (which is like a Latin shuk) Bill Simon and the GOP ticket took the stage after a great performance by the Bill Simon Band, and urged everyone to GET OUT THERE AND VOTE ON TUESDAY.
Lots of t.v. cameras and news reporters were present. (I'm sure I'm not the only one who was interviewed by the AP.) RonDog, dressed in a shirt and pants, was working the crowd--
And let's all take a moment to give it up for Ron, who has been getting the word out about pro-Simon rallies, and anti-Davis rallies, and really giving it his all so our man could win. YEAY, RONDOG!!!
Pictures will be posted shortly, I hear. Thanks to everyone on FR for all your hard work for all the GOP candidates.
Do I believe Bill Simon can win?
YES. If we all do our part and call at least our friends and family who vote Republican.
TIPS FOR CHICKS:
As is my tradition, I will be filling out my sample ballot and giving it to all my girlfriends so they know how to vote (sorry, chicks, but you know how it is.) And I'll be offering to watch my friends' kids if need be so they can take a moment to vote. And for any of my friends from NY who still haven't learned how to drive, I'll offer to take them to the polls.
My idiot RAT governor stinks more than yours!
I just got back.Our very own FReeper videographer daviddennis should be posting a few still pictures shortly.
And it got even BETTER when the Simon team arrived!
I can't go like that anymore!
(I'm sure I'm not the only one who was interviewed by the AP.)I don't know, they somehow missed interviewing ME. :o)
But, the EXTRAORDINARILY BIASED Alexa H. Bluth from the AP DID get a quote from THIS bozo...
...from AP (via Riverside Press-Enterprise:One of my PRIMARY goals AFTER we elect Bill Simon will be to get that RAT-sympathizer propagandist-in-AP-clothing Alexa H. Bluth FIRED!!!Davis, Simon target key voters in final hours of raceSAN DIEGO
Gov. Gray Davis campaigned with union workers and black churchgoers Sunday and Bill Simon courted independents and Hispanics as both raced to seal key votes less than 48 hours before Election Day.
Davis set out on a two-day sweep through the state from his hometown Los Angeles to the Central Coast's scenic Monterey with fellow candidates on a slate that hopes to win the first Democratic shutout of statewide offices in California history.
Simon and his Republican ticket-mates boarded a bus for the second and final day of their "Fire Gray Davis Tour." In San Diego they were joined by Arizona Sen. John McCain, a popular figure among moderates and a standard-bearer against the excess fund-raising critics say characterizes Davis' administration.
The governor began the day at the West Angeles Church of God in Christ, telling the predominantly black Los Angeles congregation that he has worked to improve access to health care and education for all.
"This election is not about me," he said. "It's about you and your future. It's about your children and their future. With your help and God's blessing, we'll continue to make progress for all Californians."
Later, at a get-out-the-vote rally with union workers in San Diego, he criticized Simon's conservative stances on social issues, drawing boos and hisses as he ticked off his opponent's platforms on gun control, abortion and worker-friendly laws.
Meanwhile Simon and his supporters cheered as McCain took the stage at an outdoor rally in San Diego's Balboa Park and delivered a stinging attack against the governor's fund-raising practices.
Davis "has put a for-sale sign on the governor's office of the state of California, in violation of everything I've ever stood for and believed in," said McCain, co-author of the bill that overhauled federal campaign finance rules.
"My friends, it's wrong, it's wrong what he's done," McCain said.
A series of controversies has surrounded the governor's collection of some $68 million in contributions, including some from donors with personal stakes in state business.
Simon and his ticket-mates then bused up to Los Angeles to woo Hispanic voters at a confetti-covered rally at Olvera Street, the historical center of the city.
Support from Hispanics, moderates and independents is considered key for Simon to pull off a victory. About 15 percent of registered voters decline to state their party affiliation, and Hispanics are expected to make up 17 percent of the vote on Tuesday.
The first-time candidate is behind Davis 7 to 10 points in polls, but he was predicting victory.
"It's a dead heat, because our people want a change," he told the Olvera Street rally. Repeating his attacks on Davis' handling of the energy crisis and budget deficit, he urged, "Please get out to vote, get your friends out to vote."
For Davis, Sunday's trip at times had the feeling of a victory lap.
Confident with Davis' steady lead in the polls, the chief engineer of his campaign strategy, Garry South, told reporters on the flight from Los Angeles to San Diego: "It is over."
A visibly relaxed Davis was unwilling to proclaim victory but said, "I can see the victory at the end of the tunnel" as he flew from the San Diego event to an evening rally at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
The last-minute campaigning capped an expensive and often-negative eight-month fight during which voters routinely told pollsters that they disliked both candidates.
Some crowds at the final campaign stops were small, and even some supporters were halfhearted. Asked at the Olvera Street stop what she liked about Simon, 59-year-old Nancy Parker of San Diego said, "It's more what I don't like about Gray Davis."
Simon is seeking to defy history by becoming the first challenger since 1942 to deny an incumbent governor a second term.
The candidates and their parties promised a strong finale, with Simon and Davis both boarding planes Monday for final campaign swings.
The Democrats started inundating voters Friday with eight million recorded calls from former President Bill Clinton, his wife Sen. Hillary Clinton, actor Martin Sheen and others. On Monday, the Republicans planned to send two million households a recorded message of support from President Bush.
___
Associated Press Writer Erica Werner contributed to this report.
Published: Sunday, November 3, 2002 17:22 PST
Her MISERABLE reporting makes it seem that the crowd at our rally in OLVERA STREET today was "small" and half-hearted," which is DEMONSTRABLY false......which we will PROVE with our daviddennis video, soon.
Let's get out the vote! Here's a tool...
Click here to download the California Republican Liberty Caucus' tri-fold pamphlet on the governor's race!
It's a .pdf file, so you'll need Acrobat Reader... it's free, and chances are good you already have it on your computer. Try the link and see.
Print it using the printer-icon button in the Acrobat toolbar in your browser (not File|Print in your browser's menu). It's intended for double-sided printing using single pieces of paper-- no stapling needed if you do it that way, and saves trees! ;-) Print one side, then invert the paper and feed it through a second time for the second side. Fold, and sally forth to get out the vote!
Give this to friends, walk your neighborhood, take it to stores, give a wad of 'em to your school, hand some out at your house of worship, at clubs, at stores and small businesses...
Let's retire Gray Davis!
Let's show the media and RINOs that "It's the base, stupid!"
Let's show Gray Davis that money can't buy him love ...or re-election!
Freepers and RLC activists can claim considerable credit for nominating Bill Simon, so now let's elect him!
Ron, I am glad you are on our side, I don't know where you get all that energy but it is appreciated by us that can't get down there.LOL!
Short of armed revolution I don't know what else you guys can do!!!
Muchas gracias!
I do not have NEARLY the stamina of THESE guys...
Join Bill Simon for the final Campaign Fly-Around! SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 20002...who are STILL at it, tomorrow!9:30am - SANTA BARBARASUNDAY NOVEMBER, 3, 2002
Santa Barbara Airport
Mercury Aviation
404 Moffett Place
Goleta, CA
11:15am - MONTEREY
Monterey Airport
Monterey Jet Center
300 Sky Park Drive
Monterey, CA
1:15pm - SAN JOSE
Hyatt San Jose
1740 North First Street
San Jose, CA
3:45pm - MODESTO
Modesto Airport
Sky Trek Aviation
825 Airport Way
Modesto, CA
5:15pm - FRESNO
Fresno Airport
Corporate Air
4885 East Shields
Fresno, CA10:00am - SAN DIEGO
w/ Special Guest, U.S. Senator, John McCain Balboa Park
Veterans Memorial Center and Museum
2115 Park Blvd.
San Diego, CA 92101
1:15pm - LOS ANGELES
El Pueblo de Los Angeles - Plaza Dolores
Historical Monument Authority
125 Paseo de la Plaza 400
Los Angeles, CA 90012
5:00 pm - BAKERSFIELD
Congressman Bill Thomas Family Dinner
Featuring “The Drifters”
CSUB Icardo Center
9001 Stockdale Hwy.
Bakersfield, CA
To purchase tickets, call: 661-322-2225
$8/person $20/family for Tri-Tip/Chicken Dinner
Check out THESE "Fire Gray Davis!" rallies on MONDAY!!!
MONDAY, November 4, 2002 - BRAND NEW!!! Just ADDED!!!Bring Signs in support of Bill!1:30 pm - ONTARIO
Ontario Mills Mall
(in front of the NIKE STORE, Entry 3)
One Mills Road
Ontario, CA3:30 pm - MONTEBELLO (East Los Angeles)
Simon for Governor Montebello Office
3509 W. Beverly Blvd.
Montebello, CA
Wear your campaign colors! (blue and gold)See you there!
We had the "little brother" of that MONSTER sign at OLVERA STREET for the FReep.
"Dump DAVIS!"
Get the FACTS
about our "Pay for Play" governor at:
www.eGray.org
"We, the people of the State of California,
refuse to take it any longer;
we will fire Gray Davis on November 5th."
from
www.FIREdavis.com
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