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Michael Finnegan is at it again.

The Simon "campaign" should serve as a reminder to us. Bush's political instinct made him support Riordan -- not Simon. Turns out Bushie's instinct was good as gold again. They shoulda listened. Riordan was definitely more electable than Simon.

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...DATE../..TIME...	...CITY../..SITE...	...ADDRESS../..Link to Map if available	...MORE INFORMATION...
Sunday 10/20/2002 - 1 pm	Thermal / Coachella, CA	Coachella Valley High School 83-800 Airport Blvd Coachella [Thermal], CA Thread on Free Republic with map	Everyone able to attend is encouraged to arrive at 12 pm. The UFW Rally Starts at 1 pm. Bring signs, banners, whatever! Be creative. FOR SALE signs are HOT!!!
Sunday 10/20/2002 - 4 pm	Oxnard, CA	Oxnard Performance Arts Center 800 Hobson Way	Reconning event for more info.
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Monday 10/21/2002 - 3 pm	Eureka, CA	Warfinger Building Next to Small Boat Basin Near Washington and the Bay	Reconning event.
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People in California may contradict me, but I don't think Simon has run a bad campaign, considering the terrible handicaps he has had to deal with.

He was hit with that crooked judgment against his family's firm, which paralyzed his campaign until it was thrown out.

He has to deal with especially egregious behavior of the California press, which blacks out his messages and then says he is ineffective.

He has to deal with Karl Rove's imposed party boss, who said he knew all the big money people but has done NOTHING to raise money for Simon. Plus Simon has been given only a twelfth of the money that was promised him by the RNC.

Running for office in California is very expensive. The Republican candidate needs to have lot more money than the Democrat to fight media bias. Simon was cut off by the White House and the RNC. I think Bush will live to regret this foolishness.

As for Riordan, he is a second-rate loser, no better than Gray Davis. Every time he opened his mouth he embarrassed himself.

VOTE FOR SIMON

"In the last two weeks before the election, you send the president into the closest races where he can do the most good," said Charles Cook, editor of the Cook Political Report, a nonpartisan political newsletter in Washington. "The California governor's race is not one of the closest races, and it's not where he can do the most good."
For an OPPOSING point of view, see:

George F. Will: Political earthquake in California?
GOP underdog could win governorship
The Union Leader (N. H.) ^ | Thursday, Oct. 17, 2002 | George F. Will
Posted on 10/17/2002 0:10 AM Pacific by heleny
Edited on 10/17/2002 2:10 AM Pacific by Admin Moderator. [history]

LAST SATURDAY morning, after another pratfall in a star-crossed, accident-prone and banana-peel-strewn campaign, a nevertheless ebullient Bill Simon, Republican candidate for governor in a state (California) that has not voted for a Republican Presidential or senatorial candidate since 1988 or for a Republican gubernatorial candidate since 1994, said: “We’re close.” Noting the incredulity of his interlocutor, he added: “I swear.”
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"...Simon’s campaign has resembled the 1962 Mets who, while losing 120 games, moved their manager, Casey Stengel, to look down the dugout and ask, “Can’t anybody here play this game?”
Nevertheless, Simon resembles the Anaheim Angels:
"He can’t be where he is — but he is." - George Will