[SamAdams76]

It appears that the California gubernatorial race, now in its homestretch, is about to get even nastier.

[NormsRevenge]

Ping

A Salvo over Bill's stern. Woo Hooo!!!!

[Political Junkie Too]

Davis refused to stop running his ad about the Simon business' civil court guilty verdict after the judge overturned the verdict. Davis said that it was still true that the jury said guilty.

Run the ad.

-PJ

[daviddennis]

Gray Davis can dish it out, but he can't take it, no?

I don't know if I'd run ads based on Nathanson, though, unless there's some independent evidence to support his statements. Personally, I have no doubt the Nathanson allegations are true, but post-COPS we have to be careful here.

D

[randita]

Facing that prospect, an attorney for the governor this week sent letters to California TV stations warning that they could be sued for broadcasting any commercials based on the ``false and defamatory'' allegations.

If there's one thing the media dislikes more than conservatives, it's threats made in order to stifle the free and open dissemination of information. I don't think this threat will sit well with the media and rather than stifling the spread of the information, it will do just the opposite.

The best way Davis could and should have handled this situation is to just ignore it, laugh at it, say it's old news, etc. He's magnifying the focus and interest on it with these stupid threats and making it into a huge issue of interest.

It's interesting that the threats don't extend to the print media. Simon, with the right wording, can still use the issue in ads and I'm sure he will. Forrester did so in NJ with the Torricelli stuff.

[gitmo]

Isn't this specifically what the 1st Amendment protects?

The Democrats are running ads full of lies across the country, but the 1st Amendment protects that doesn't it?

[Gophack]

You know, this is so ridiculous. Simon doesn't even have a Nathanson/Davis ad. Davis must be worried. In addition, the audacity of Davis to outright LIE that Simon started the negative campaigning ... PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Davis came out negative and hasn't stopped ... everytime Simon talks about the issues, he's ignored ... by Davis and the press.

The bias of this is ridiculous. The press should call Davis on this, but they won't.

[John Jorsett]

I don't think Simon even has to run ads about the allegations. Now he can run ads about how the Davis camp is trying to suppress ads about the allegations. "What does Davis have to hide?" type ads would probably be even more damaging. Plus, by these moves Davis has set the stage for this to be covered in hard news stories from now to the election. That'll be even worse. I think this was a strategic error on Davis' part: everyone knows the coverup is usually worse than the actual offense.

[Seruzawa]

Hmmmm. Suing over lies in political ads. Do the Demoncraps really want to open that door?

I think not.

[Enough is ENOUGH]

"Davis spokesman Roger Salazar said that Simon had shown that he is willing to trumpet reckless charges, citing false accusations that Davis illegally accepted a campaign check in the state Capitol."

Obviously overlooking their own ads that cited false accusations against Simon's company's legal case.

O ``They don't care whether these things are true or not,'' Salazar said. ``They're just looking to do as much damage as possible.''

Does Davis represent the pot calling the kettle black or what. This is his quid pro quo MO that generates big campaign contributions for the sleezy SOB. This article explains how Davis milks his money machine.

I hope enough people are thoroughly disgusted with Davis to defeat him in spite of Simon's weak anti-sleeze campaign.