Posted on 11/04/2002 7:54:01 AM PST by bonesmccoy
Folks...watch the bold faced punch lines at the end from Garry South...
With the end of an expensive, aggressive California governor's race finally on the horizon, Democratic incumbent Gray Davis flew around the state Sunday exuding a feeling of smooth skies ahead.
"It's all over," said Garry South, the governor's senior adviser, with a Cheshire cat smile aboard Davis' chartered 727 airplane. "All over but the shoutin'."
The cautious Davis, wrapping up an eight-month general election campaign, was slightly more circumspect with two days until Tuesday's election.
"It's over when the secretary of state says you won," he said Sunday. "(But) I feel very positive. . . . I can see victory at the end of the tunnel."
Davis skipped across California the past weekend on a six-city, two-day trip aimed at energizing his party's voters. The events reflected an upbeat, confident governor and his campaign staff who have seen in the past week giving him a lead of 7 to 10 percentage points over his Republican challenger, Bill Simon.
Speaking to reporters Sunday, the governor began referring to the grueling 2002 election as a thing of the past -- comparing it with his 1998 gubernatorial campaign against GOP candidate Dan Lungren, which Davis won in a landslide.
"In a way, this (election) is more gratifying because we worked through some very serious challenges -- a national recession, an energy crisis of biblical proportions," he said. "This is more gratifying, because we had to work hard and fight through all the nonsense to get to where we are."
Davis traveled Sunday with his wife, Sharon, and most of the Democratic candidates for statewide office.
At the West Angeles Church of God in Christ in Los Angeles' Crenshaw district, Davis swayed to gospel music and told hundreds of African American worshipers, "With your help, and God's blessing, we'll continue to make progress."
In San Diego, revving up a crowd of 150 campaign volunteers with the help of a mariachi band, Davis gamely broke into a chant of "Four more years!" in Spanish.
And, in a departure, his stump speeches began openly rejoicing at what Democrats of the past could only dream about -- domination of all statewide constitutional offices.
"We're going to surprise the pundits," Davis said in San Diego. "We're going to vote for a Democratic sweep!"
Independent polls released last week showed all seven statewide Democratic candidates holding slim to substantial leads in the campaigns for constitutional offices.
Democratic organizers said they expect to increase that gap with a coordinated $5 million get-out-the-vote campaign involving phone bank volunteers in 22 regional state offices.
And the Davis campaign committee -- still flush with cash after raising more than $65 million for the governor's re-election bid -- said it would spend $4.8 million on television ads and $4 million on phone banks and mailers in the final days to reach 600,000 state voters.
That means that by Tuesday, about 8 million recorded and live calls will go out to newly registered or regular Democratic voters, who will hear reminders to vote from people including former President Bill Clinton, Sen. Hillary Clinton, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and actor Martin Sheen.
While Simon's campaign insisted the race was closing, Davis and South said the Republicans can't compete in manpower or in grassroots appeal.
"They've been lying about their polling, lying about their money, lying about their media," South said. From the start of the campaign, "this crew was not ready for prime time. . . . They're running a novice candidate who doesn't have a clue what he's doing."
Analyzing the race for reporters, South predicted Davis would win by 8 to 12 points, but acknowledged it was an unusually tough and costly campaign.
"You have a sitting governor whose job ratings tanked a year and a half ago and never recovered," due to the energy crisis, South said. "And you have roughly half of the people of the state who think (California) is going in the wrong direction.
"Those two things combined are usually a death knell" for an incumbent governor, he said. "But we're going to win in spite of that. That's what our money got us."
VOTA PARA BILL SIMON !
VIDEO: The ROARING SUCCESS of our 10/26 Pasadena Freep, now on Video!
amazing.com (my web site) ^ | 11/03/2002 | David H Dennis
Posted on 11/03/2002 9:46 PM PST by daviddennis
Yes! It's finally here, my exclusive account of last weekend's dramatic freep of Gray Davis! We almost get a SWAT team sent after us, and we manage to intimidate Gray Davis into noticing us -- right on video!
Yes, indeed, this one was a triumph for me - Garry South and Gray Davis in the same video, looking delightfully sleazy!
more-- snip --
Garry South - getting FReeped in Pasadena
Stay Safe and good luck getting the "Grey" Out.
It was in 1812 Governor Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts redistricted the state so that one congressional district was in the shape of a salamander. The press called the district a Gerrymander district. That technique had been used by both parties to cause election outcomes that thwart the voters will.
It is the nature of political candidates to invent techniqes to give them an unfair advantage. Gray Davis and his gang have invented a new one. In this technique the Democrats spend millions in the Repubican primary to select a Republican they can defeat. It worked perfectly and gave Davis the desired result. The fact that so many Republicans fell for it and were even happy that the Democrats had done it, will ensure it will be used many times in the future.
One has to admit it is a very effective tool to elect unelectable Democrats. We will see it hundreds of times more in the future, if it is not stopped cold every time it is tried.
It was very imporant that future (can't win Repubican candidates) understand the consequences of their candidacy. They must learn that being the patsy for the Democrats is of no value to them. Most likely such certain losers will have to be prevented from becoming candidates in the primary. There is no way that Republicans can let Democrats use advertising and effective negative campaign to select a disasterous Repubican nominee. The Repubican party would cease to exist.
Once the Davis gambit had worked to select our nominee, Bush and the RNC had to make a decision as to what to do. One option was to make Simon into a candidate that could win. Simon rejected all such offers. He was going to do his disasterous attack Davis campaign no matter what. The only other option was to ignore this race and try to fix it so no future Gray Davis can ever get this done again.
It is likely the entire state of California will be in the firm hands of the Democrats. That is the result of this brilliant Davis strategy. It has elected the unelectable and that is brilliant.
If candidates clearly understand that the only winners of such a gambit are the Democrats, perhaps future Republcans will not be so selfish and stupid as to let Democrats do it to them. But means will have to be created to foil future hopefuls from participating in a publicity seeking death wish. Lots of people are working on that right now.
"But we're going to win in spite of that. That's what our money got us."
If Simon's people have any money or brains left they will run that on an ad until the end of the day on tuesday linking it to the corruption of the Davis legacy.
That's us ...... rapidly turning into Tijuana Norte.
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!
We'll see . . . won't we? GO, SIMON!!!!!!!! For victory & freedom!!!
That's us ...... rapidly turning into Tijuana Norte.
Fiorello LaGuardia, the greatest Mayor in the history of New York City (and one of the few Republicans ever elected to that office), used to memorize a whole campaign speech in Sicilian, Yiddish and Cantonese versions. And this was back in the 1930s.
I'll ping my list.
Memories:
California Power Crisis animations featuring Governor Gray Davis
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...to see what Davis has done... - CLICK HERE
and see how France has superseded California under Gray Davis' leadership.
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