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Memories:
California Power Crisis animations featuring Governor Gray Davis
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Do the right thing.
and he's so good to look at...
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'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.
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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.
I'm hoping to have the video done by tomorrow morning - anyone who wants to add the pictures to the thread body is, of course, welcome to do so.
I would like to comment on that news article: Everyone I saw at the freep was extremely enthusiastic about electing Bill Simon. Sometimes, I'm not sure if the news actually attends the same events we do :-(. They would have had to go a long way at this event to find such a sour apple.
Enjoy, everyone!
D