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The San Diego Channel is having a poll in the California Governor's Race. Let's let em' know what we think of governor Dufus and RINO Riordan. VOTE FOR THE CONSERVATIVE BILL SIMON!!!! VOTE HERE

<p>SAN DIEGO — As his former assistant is gaining in the polls to win the Republican nomination for governor, former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani started a statewide swing to boost Los Angeles businessman Bill Simon's campaign Monday.</p> <p>Giuliani, who received widespread praise for his leadership following the Sept. 11 attacks, called Simon an "enormously capable" candidate for governor.</p>

Wooohooo! Giuliani is going from San Diego to Orange County to Sacramento to San Francisco. I will be at the Sacramento event and I am still too excited to work today!!! Giuliani - Simon Story : KGTV 10 Giuliani In Town Campaigning For Simon Former New York Mayor Used To Work With Simon SAN DIEGO -- Former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani was in San Diego Monday, campaigning for his friend and former colleague Bill Simon, 10News reported. Simon is running for governor and hopes Giuliani's influence extends across the continent. Simon and Giuliani arrived together at the Westgate Hotel ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California officials moved Sunday to have federal regulators open the door for the state to scrap a package of long-term purchase contracts for electricity that were hailed a year ago as a good deal, but have since turned into an economic and political liability. The California Public Utilities Commission said Sunday it would ask the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to declare that the 32 contracts with 22 different companies were based on past market prices that were "unjust and unreasonable" and should be renegotiated. "Federal law protects the state and the consumers of California from these kinds ...

<p>Last week, Gov. Gray Davis began running his sixth ad attacking former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan, a GOP gubernatorial candidate. The Democratic governor, whose previous ads criticized Riordan's positions on abortion and the death penalty, has now expanded his criticisms to include Riordan's position on taxes. Following is a text of the new 30-second television spot and an analysis by Emily Bazar of The Bee's Capitol Bureau.</p>

Just a month ago former Los Angeles mayor Richard Riordan had a giant lead over his two Republican rivals for the GOP gubernatorial nomination and experts were viewing him as a shoo in who'd leave Secretary of State Bill Jones and conservative businessman Bill Simon far behind in the March 5th GOP primary. Here's how the LA Times put it in mid-January: "Among voters considered most likely to vote in the primary, Richard Riordan has a double digit lead against his rivals Bill Simon and Bill Jones, according to the latest Los Angeles Times poll. In the Republican Primary match-up ...

Attempt to kill energy pacts resisted State asks relief -- firms cry foul Mark Martin, Carla Marinucci and Zachary Coile, Chronicle Staff WritersMonday, February 25, 2002 California prepared to ask federal energy regulators today to void $45 billion in long-term electricity contracts, a move power companies immediately criticized as an election-year ploy by Gov. Gray Davis to escape blame for the high-priced deals. Two state agencies will file complaints with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, saying contracts between the state and power providers overcharge consumers $21 billion. The agencies and Davis argue that the contracts were signed during a time ...

2mv022402 Originally Published Sunday, February 24, 2002 Davis, Democrats circumventing will of voters Once they become entrenched in office, many politicians begin to think of themselves as public bosses rather than public servants. At least that seems to be the case with Gov. Gray Davis and many of his fellow Democrats in the state Legislature. State senators, Assembly members and even governors are supposed to represent the interests and will of the people. But these days, California's Democratic Party leaders tell the people what they want and then try to subvert laws enacted by the voters. Right now, state legislators ...

Hey everybody, this poll is in need of some major Bill Simon freeping. Let's make sure people realize that, come March 5th, we'll have a conservative as our nominee.

<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) -- GOP gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon is prepared to aggressively attack opponent Richard Riordan on taxes, the state budget and his management of Los Angeles as the tight race for the Republican nomination enters its final week, according to unreleased television ads obtained by The Associated Press.</p>

SACRAMENTO, Calif., Feb 24, 2002 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- California officials moved Sunday to have federal regulators open the door for the state to scrap a package of long-term purchase contracts for electricity that were hailed a year ago as a good deal, but have since turned into an economic and political liability. The California Public Utilities Commission said Sunday it would ask the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to declare that the 32 contracts with 22 different companies were based on past market prices that were "unjust and unreasonable" and should be renegotiated. "Federal law protects the ...

<p>A mere three weeks after the Legislature cut $2.2 billion from this year's budget, nonpartisan Legislative Analyst Elizabeth Hill said Wednesday the shortfall is $5 billion more than assumed by Gov. Gray Davis.</p> <p>Despite the unprecedented midyear cuts, the Legislature is looking at a shortfall of about $15 billion. That's in a general fund of $79 billion.</p>

<p>The battle for the California Republican gubernatorial nomination is heating up, as conservative businessman Bill Simon closes in on front-runner Richard Riordan, former Los Angeles mayor, in the weeks before the March 5 primary.</p> <p>"There's no question that this has turned into a much closer primary than anyone would have imagined a couple months ago," said Dan Schnur, California Republican strategist.</p>

&nbsp; Please join us on Monday, February 25th Welcoming: Bill Simon and Rudy Giuliani Four Appearances Statewide In the lobby of: The Westgate Hotel 1055 Second Avenue San Diego 7:15 a.m. In front of The Pacific Club 4110 MacArthur Blvd. Newport Beach 11:15 a.m. At: McClellan Jet Services 3028 Peacekeeper Way McClellan (Former McClellan AFB) 2:15 p.m. &nbsp;In the lobby of: The Fairmont Hotel 950 Mason Street San Francisco 6:15 p.m. for more information call: Los Angeles:&nbsp; (310) 576-7503 Sacramento:&nbsp; (916) 441-3745 &nbsp; &nbsp;

Family man or deadbeat dad? NICK JESSON: Starkly different portraits emerge of a candidate for governor with Inland ties. BY MICHELLE DeARMOND THE PRESS-ENTERPRISE Nick Jesson says he was radical when he was younger, but says, &quot;People do change.&quot; His ex-wife remembers the rare child support payments usually made in pennies, dimes and nickels &quot;because he thought it was cute.&quot; His son recalls being forced to split a meal at Sizzler with his younger sister because their father said money was tight. On the drive back, the father stopped and promised a roadside vendor that he would return and buy ...

<p>Candidates may fudge when they talk about their poll numbers, but money doesn't lie. That's why Bill Simon's decision to pump $1 million more of his own money into his campaign for governor shows how hot the Republican primary has become.</p>

They go to the same church. They take ski vacations together. And now those old friends, Republican candidates for governor Bill Simon and Richard Riordan, are beating the stuffing out of each other on television. For months, Simon, a political novice Los Angeles businessman, and Riordan, the former mayor of Los Angeles, observed a nonaggression pact as they aimed their fire at Democratic Gov. Gray Davis. Now, though, with the March 5 primary election less than two weeks away and Simon gaining rapidly in the polls against the once-prohibitive favorite, all bets are off. Riordan fired the first shot Wednesday ...

The National Rifle Association has endorsed Bill Jones for California governor, despite recent polls showing Bill Simon is overwhelmingly supported by California conservatives and in a virtual dead heat with Richard Riordan among likely voters. This will have the effect of pitting NRA members against conservative voters in the primary, splitting the vote to the advantage of Riordan — a confirmed anti-defense zealot who favors banning handguns from all but "the authorities," who equates "assault weapons" with "intolerance," and who has gone so far as to call for police sweeps to round up citizen-owned guns. Gun Owners of California has ...

From Jay Nordlinger's "Impromptus" column: I do hope every California Republican — at least every California Republican conservative — is ready to pull the lever for Bill Simon Jr. in the upcoming primary. Former mayor Riordan wouldn’t govern as a conservative, and it seems doubtful he would beat another liberal, the incumbent, Gray Davis. Simon is a principled man who is — as liberals might put it — “non-threatening” (meaning, he doesn’t come off like me: He’s gentle, sweet, handsome, with a twinkle in his eye). Fear not a Simon nomination. Look forward to a Simon governorship.

During the recession of the early 1990s, California Gov. Pete Wilson relentlessly attacked President Clinton's administration for failing to pay its share of the state's costs for services to illegal immigrants. Eventually, he succeeded in getting Congress and the White House to pass SCAAP, the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program, which last year provided California $237 million to help pay for some 25,000 illegal aliens in California's prisons. That's 42 percent of the entire SCAAP program. Now President Bush plans to kill it. In his new budget, SCAAP gets the ax. It's a strange move for an administration that ranks ...