California: Ad aims at Simon's business woes

Contra Costa Times ^ | Fri, Aug. 02, 2002 | Alexa H. Bluth. ASSOCIATED PRESS

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Though the ad was produced before the verdict, it came just a day after a Los Angeles jury agreed to levy $78 million in damages against his family's investment firm in a fraud lawsuit.

The newest ad mentions two businesses that were accused of "accounting irregularities." The ad is referring to the failed Marina del Rey-based Western Federal Savings & Loan, a Simon family investment.

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[Saundra Duffy]

The Simon campaign needs to hire some attack dogs!

[goldstategop]

The message is Bill Simon is far from having a good business record even if you think he's personally not a crook. Are you sure you still want him in charge of California? At least with the Devil You Know you have someone who's experienced in public service...

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

At least with the Devil You Know you have someone who's experienced in public service...

That's reassuring?

[goldstategop]

Of course not. Gray Davis is going to be making the argument Simon is too experienced and too risky to be trusted with being the state's next Governor.

[goldstategop]

Sorry. That should be inexperienced.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Davis did real well with his experience, didn't he!

I think any reasonable voter would laugh at that statement from Davis.
Of course that leaves us with a problem !
Not enough voters like that.

[goldstategop]

Yeah California is overrun by liberals. I can't see a jury in a "Red Zone" state coming up with the kind of verdict it did in the case of Simon's firm. Then again this is the land of the O.J Simpson jury.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

Time for tort reform to become a centerpiece of Simon's campaign. Californians are tired of tyranny by civil suit!

[NormsRevenge]

"Simon -- if we can't trust him in business, how can we trust him in the governor's office?"

Try

"Davis -- if you can't trust him with Dioxin and MTBE, how can you believe he cares about your family?"
DUMP DAVI$ & the Den of Socialists

GO SIMON

[BJungNan]

I agree with you. The Simon campaign needs to start campaigning - with attack dogs if necessary.

The problem is, Simon campaign is nowhere to be seen. And he is hurting for contributions to get a message out even if he wanted to.

Without a campaign and Simon willing to step forward in response to the attack ads, the Repub party as usual will cower and fail to support him.

Some on here have been saying Simon is waiting until (whenever they said) to get his ads going because they are ineffective this early. I'd say they are making excuses for his not having any money to spend - a direct result of his decision to sit it out in the early stages.

[BJungNan]

"Davis -- if you can't trust him with Dioxin and MTBE, how can you believe he cares about your family?"

Funny how everyone on here keeps coming up with slogans for him. What about HIS CAMPAIGN. Are you knuckleheads in the Simon campaign out there. Hello, McFly...

[Libertarianize the GOP]

Wouldn't the Jury pool for Los Angeles Superior Court be overwhelmingly Democrat?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Absolutely!

Would be heavily populated by those who only have negative views of business's also!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Be sure and read about Mr. Paul Edward Hindelang and his prior life and exploit's!

COPS GET $25 MILLION IN SEIZED DRUG CASH WINDFALL FOR MONROE SHERIFF (FLORIDA )

Monroe's big payday comes from the $50 million surrendered in 1997 by ex-smuggler Paul Edward Hindelang, formerly of Fort Lauderdale and Miami, who has subsequently become a legitimate millionaire pay-telephone entrepreneur.

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Hindelang helped pioneer the so-called "mother ship" marijuana smuggling technique that revolutionized the illicit trade that dominated South Florida's underground economy in the mid-to-late 1970s. A "mother ship" freighter carrying up to 180,000 pounds of marijuana would be unloaded at sea by a fleet of 50-foot fishing vessels, which would relay the drugs to smaller craft that blended in with recreational boaters for the trip ashore.

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The harder part for Hindelang was making a clean breast of the past he had so successfully concealed from his teenaged children, neighbors in the exclusive enclave he developed in Santa Barbara and business partners. The board of directors at Pacific Coin, the company Hindelang founded with a handful of pay phones in some of Southern California's grittiest communities, fired their CEO in December 1998, shortly after the forfeiture case became public in South Florida.