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It looks like a good old-fashioned whistlestop rally, with Bill Simon and Rudy Giuliani running up the state and stopping to rally the troops.

Oh, gosh! I really want to come. I took my kids to see President George W. Bush on his Whistlestop tour in August of 2000 and it was SO MUCH FUN!! I'm going to really try to get down to the one in Sacramento ...

By the way, I really like Mr. Simon's commercials. They are so well done, it's like a real person is talking to me, not some bigwig. I mean, he is a real person, of course, but he sounds real, not like someone who has made all this money and used to be a prosecutor and stuff. He sounds like someone who really listens and understands and will understand that people like me with tight family budgets are just as important as people like him running a big huge business with a big budget. I hope that makes sense!

I'm voting for Mr. Simon because I think that he will do the best job.

It will be painful supporting a Dem, but (if Simon doesn't win the primary) I'm willing to make that sacrifice.

I can't vote for either Mr. Riordan or Gray Davis. They are both so bad ... and I can't vote in good conscience for anyone who supports abortion. I guess I'll have to skip that race if Mr. Simon doesn't win the primary.

I am one California pro-lifer in a family of many that stands solidly behind Simon.

Good to hear it! If all of us pro-lifers came out and voted for Mr. Simon, he would win hands down (I think.)

Let everyone you know know about how wonderful this guy is because he needs our help ... that Mr. Riordan is just horrid, we can't let him win.

You did a fine job, The Lord Jesus bless you, and may He be with Mr. Simon.

Thank you! God bless you!

I hope I'm pinging right ... these are two of my favorite lists, I want all my friends there to see this good news!

I hope I did this right! This is the first time I've ever posted anything to FR!

A friend of mine who gets this pro-life newsletter every morning sent this to me because she knew that I liked Bill Simon. She was SO impressed (she thinks that I'm a political dummy) that I was right on about a candidate!

This is just so wonderful. It affirms everything that I thought already. Just wanted to pass it on to all of you.

Whoops. I'm new to this html coding stuff, and I think that I messed up the mail link for Assemblyman Leslie. I THINK this is right, but if not please someone correct me!

Assemblyman Tim Leslie's Email

Thank you for your patience! Don't forget to email him and let him know what we think of his endorsement of Riordan!

Emailed Riordan and expressed my outrage at his support for abortion, homosexuality and illegals.

Good for you! But don't stop there. Let's not just email Riordan. Let's email the so-called conservatives who are supporting this Democrat infiltrator with his pro-gay, pro-abortion higher-taxes agenda.

Here's one we can start with. Assemblyman Tim Leslie led off liberal Riordan's kick-off announcement in Sacramento a few months back. Apparently Leslie even had the nerve to stand on the stage at an anti-gay marriage press conference yesterday, with a straight face as a discussion ensued over Riordan and his pro-gay marriage stance.

What is really sad is that Tim used to be known as a pro-family conservative. He is also my assemblyman and used to be my senator. I sent him a letter after his endorsement of Riordan expressing my disappointment.

Let's all email Assemblyman Tim Leslie and tell him what we think of his endorsing Riordan.

Good point.

I re-read the article again and became just as angry as I was the first time. I have four kids -- two girls -- and am sick over this. Just because SOME girls are experimenting with sex when they are 13, why should we encourage it? Shouldn't we tell them, Just Say No?

If they start experimenting with drugs when they're 13, should we hand out the needles and joints and just say, "If you're going to shoot up, be safe?"

"The irony of it is there are very few differences between Richard Riordan and Nancy Daly (Riordan)," said Bebitch Jeffe. "Except he has an 'R' by his name, and she has a 'D.' "

Finally! Someone in the media who recognizes that Mr. Riordan is as liberal as any Democrat.

I'm supporting Bill Simon because he's a Republican. He is smart and conservative. He has common sense solution to real problems. And he won't think that it's OK to hand out condoms to 13 year olds!

What annoys me to know end are these people who call themselves "personally pro-life", but would "never stand in the way of a woman's choice." What moral relativistic cowardly garbage.

I read somewhere that a candidate for office who says that he is personally opposed to abortion but thinks it's a "woman's right" is either fooling himself or trying to fool you. A person who carries out an evil action -- such as voting for abortion -- performs an immoral act, and his statement of personal opposition to the moral evil of abortion is either self-delusion or a lie. If you vote for such a candidate, you would be an accomplice in advancing the moral evil of abortion.

Listen up Riordan supporters! If you are prolife, think about this! It is so important pro-lifers are united AGAINST people who stand up for the evil of abortion and FOR people who oppose the evil of abortion.

We have a good pro-life candidate. And he can win. He has a lot of money, not just his own money but he's raising a lot of money for other people who support him. His name is Bill Simon. He OPPOSES abortion. And he is a really good speaker. A friend of mine heard him speak (I couldn't because of my kids) who said she was really really impressed that he was so smart and spoke well. We have a good candidate here folks! We have a candidate who can win! We can't throw away our vote by either not voting or voting for Riordan because we think he might be able to beat Davis. Because I don't think he can because he's too liberal.

So let's stand united!

A big Bill Simon bump from a Mad Mom!

Simon 68%! Yeah!

I have been so swamped with kids and Christmas I haven't been around for the past few weeks. I'm so glad I logged in today!

I am so frustrated. My husband came home last night and told me that Riordan was going to win, that there was a poll that showed he had all this support, and he wasn't even going to vote because it didn't matter

I got so mad at him! I started ranting about how it's attitudes just like his that give us liberals like Davis and Riordan, and we have a moral duty and obligation to vote, especially when we have someone like Bill Simon to vote for!

These polls don't mean anything now anyway because it's Christmas! No one is thinking about the election, and Richard Riordan has all the name ID because he was Mayor of Los Angeles. I think that when Mr. Simon gets his message out that people will be voting for him because he has the best ideas and the best message and people will look at him and listen to him and vote for him!

Anyway, I think my husband regretted opening up that can of worms! But he will be voting for Mr. Simon if I have to drag him to the polls myself! (Sorry, honey!)

So, the moral of this story is, if Mr. Riordan wins the primary he will lose the general, and we only have ourselves to blame. So, fellow conservatives and Freepers and real republicans, make sure that you not only vote but tell everyone you know to vote for Mr. Simon because being part of the grassroots really really works.

Thank you for that link to the Susan B. Anthony website! I had never been there, but I bookmarked it for the polling information like:

Gallup 1998 - 23% of women say abortion should be legal in all circumstances. (Down from 36% in 1995)

And I love this quote:

"When we consider that women are treated as property, it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit."

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton in a letter to Julia Ward Howe, October 16, 1873. Recorded in Howe's diary at Harvard University Library.

Oh, and one more thing ... what's this pro-education stuff? I mean, really! When liberals talk about being pro-education, they are talking about MORE MONEY for LESS TEACHING. They want the money for teacher salaries, attorney's, bureaucrats, more buildings, but rarely for accurate textbooks, quality instruction, reading with phonics. They want money to teach that homosexuality is OK, that God is non-existent, that sex is wonderful, just use a condom!

We have a whole generation of children who are functionally illiterate because they weren't taught to read with phonics. We have a generation of girls with low self-esteem because they think they need to "put out" to be like everyone else, and their teacher says it's OK. THen, the condom breaks, they get pregnant, and they have an abortion, and their mental health and their soul is irreparably harmed.

I read somewhere that Riordan said something like "If it's for the children, I'm for it." What the heck does that mean? There is a lot of stuff out there that is "for the children" that is BAD BAD BAD.

Bump!

That is so right, whoever said it. Being pro-abortion almost always means that the candidate is liberal on everything else. I'm not that political, really -- except on the Life issue -- but I don't understand why anyone liberal would vote for Riordan over Davis? They are so much alike! Why Riordan? Why not Davis? The devil you know ...

I am a pro-life, Republican mom of four young kids and I am offended by Riordan's position. Not only is he so-called "pro-choice", he is militantly so.

It is a well-standing lie that women are overwhelmingly pro-choice. Women are by and large PRO-LIFE, but they are so ridiculed by society, the media, and militant pro-aborts that they remain silent on the issue, quietly voting or sitting out elections because they can't stomach their choices.

Lungren didn't lose because he was pro-life, he lost because he ran an awful campaign, was boring and uninspiring, and had no message. The L.A. Times did an exit poll that showed that people who said that abortion was one of the deciding factors in their decision in the race, voted 13% for Lungren and 12% for Davis, a slight edge for the pro-life Lungren!

Riordan is liberal straight down the ticket, not just on abortion. And I, for one, can not stomach people who think that the right to kill innocent unborn babies without anesthesia should be a deciding factor on who should represent us.

Sadly, Roe v. Wade is the law of the land right now. However, we can change the hearts and minds of the American people by talking about the realities of abortion and giving real, compassionate alternatives to women faced with an unwanted pregnancy.

Riordan is just more of the same, another white guy who doesn't realize that abortion destroys more than one life.

I can't say this surprises me, but this is sick and sad and shows that the entire world, not just our country, has little respect for human life. We all must stand up and be heard, and not resign ourselves that this is the way it will always be.

I have read alot of your posts and admire your thoughts and ideas, but I have to respectfully disagree with you on Bill Jones. Yes, he's the highest ranking conservative (and, if he won the nomination I would vote for him in the general, unlike Riordan), but I don't think just because he's in public office now is a good enough reason to vote for him.

He voted for the largest tax increase in 1991 when Wilson was Governor (some people called him conservative, too, but I never voted for him!)

And, Bill Jones may on the surface be pro-life, but he has never been an advocate for our cause, and it's almost like he's embarrassed to say he's pro-life.

Jones is *OK*, but I really want someone who is a leader, someone who passionately believes in conservative values and can articulate them across all political spectrums. That's why I like Bill Simon.

Respectfully. :-)

Boy, I haven't been around for awhile (it's hard to have any time on-line with four kids and Christmas coming up!) and I'm glad to see that everything I heard about Bill Simon is true.

My neighbor told me about him a couple months ago, and I liked what I heard, and as I've been catching up on reading this morning I've realized Bill Simon actually has a chance to win!

I am so frustrated by liberals --- Republicans and Democrats --- that sometimes I think I should just leave California and move to Wyoming or Montana or someplace like that (but I don't like the snow). Why can't the Republicans realize that if they put up someone like Riordan that we just won't vote? I won't vote for Riordan. Why should I? So he can raise my taxes like Davis? So he can use my tax money to kill innocent babies by ripping them from their mother's wombs? So he can throw more of my money into the failed education system? So he can throw my husband out of business with more taxes and regulations? So he can let gays marry and adopt innocent children? No thank you!

Richard Riordan will never get my vote because he is just like Gray Davis. He's no better, and sounds even more liberal on issues like the death penalty and education.

I am sick and tired of people telling my how to keep my children safe, what color I can paint my house, that sex education is great and wonderful and I'm naive if I think my kids aren't going to have sex in high school, talking about homosexuals and gay marriage and condoms is mandatory, but God is a no-no. A liberal is a liberal is a liberal, whether they are a Republican like Riordan or a Democrat like Davis.

Wow! Sorry for the length of the post, but I just had to get that off my chest!

I can put my trust in someone like Bill Simon. Right now, I like him a lot and everything I heard is positive (pro-life, pro-gun, cutting taxes, fixing roads, bringing God back into public discourse) ... and I know I can support him. I wish I had more time to volunteer! I like what that one guy said on this board about convincing two people to vote for Simon. I'm going to make a list of ten people and email or write them every week until the election and tell them all about Simon and why they should vote for him ... and then call them on election day so they don't forget!