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Posted on 03/19/2002 8:20:46 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:39:58 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
With Bill Simon preparing for high-profile Republican backing, Democratic governor Gray Davis went on the offensive yesterday, charging that the GOP candidate is "out of touch and out of sync" with California.
During an appearance in San Francisco, Davis called Simon's decision to hire an activist with the controversial Traditional Values Coalition "a big mistake" and "an attempt to lead us in a direction most Californians don't want to go."
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Someone told me it was the local and state party politics, not the White House, that messed Schundler's race up. The White House was preoccupied with the recent terrorist attack at the time, but Bush okayed a mailer endorsing Schundler to go out under his name as I recall.
It was too soon after the September attacks for the President to jump into partisan politics. It was unfortunate, but not because they could have cared less.
But with just two governor races last year, by the end of October the WH could have dispatched Rep. Senators in the President's name to help Bret. Nothing. Not one party leader helped. It was a giveaway to the Dems. Now we are living with the fallout. McGreevey is well on his way to becoming this state's worst governor. And he's been on the job less than three months.
Don't let the Gray turn to black for California- Vote Simon!
Dubya should have given Bret the same treatment that he is giving Simon.
Maybe, just maybe, the results last November knocked some sense into his advisors.
Like I said, that was such a mistake. It's a defensive remark. "We're embarrassed; we don't want to talk about it." Whether or not that was meant, that is what it said. That guy needs a talking-to.
Make Davis change the topic. Pursue him. And don't accept the premise that social-conservatives are pariahs. Take it to him on that; don't let him get away with it. What is he really saying? Should Sheldon's group be banned? Should social conservatives be interred? Is that his litmus-test? Do we still have to pay taxes? Pay taxes, but don't participate -- is that it?
Dan
... Davis said, after an appearance at the Potrero Hill Neighborhood Center in support of a bill that would require California's three investor-owned utilities to provide more energy from renewable sources, such as wind, solar, geothermal and biomass energy.This bill, of course, is going to raise the cost of producing energy, and probably pretty dramatically at that.
Does this guy ever learn?
D
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