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"Dump DAVIS" FReep ideas: statewide "Super SIMON" street theater puts Davis-in-a-Dumpster, NEW logo
"The Devil that you DO know": FReeper help needed for aggressive Gray Davis "street theater" ^ | September 1, 2002 | RonDog, Howie, antaresequity,Aunt Polgara, ElkGroveDan, Mama_Bear, d14truth, MeeknMing, Bob J, AnnaZ

Posted on 09/01/2002 12:48:17 PM PDT by RonDog

Now is the time for all good FReepers
to come to the aid of the NEXT governor of California, Bill Simon!

IMHO, members of this forum need to "supplement" the traditional campaign now being conducted by the Simon team with the kind of "guerilla" tactics for which we are uniquely suited. Our overall STRATEGY should be to effectively communicate one simple message to the undecided "swing" voters in this state:

Gray Davis is CORRUPT, so we need to "Dump DAVIS!"



(lifesize Styrofoam cutouts courtesy of FReeper Howie)

and


(bumper stickers courtesy of FReeper antaresequity

The evidence against him is overwhelming, from Oracle and Metabolife, to dioxin dumping, plastic pipe and the prison workers, Gray Davis is for sale to the highest bidder. He is thoroughly unscrupulous, a money-grubbing poster boy for everything that is wrong with America. Corrupt politicians who sell political favors for cash CANNOT be trusted, and MUST not be re-elected.

We need to hammer home this message with images of Gray Davis as a bribe-taking, favor-granting, "Pay for Play" whore:


(political cartoon courtesy of Mike Ramirez, originally published August 20, 2002)
Copyright 2002 Los Angeles Times

The TACTICAL plan that I believe will be most effective in implementing this strategy is political "street theater" using FReepers dressed in costumes to represent larger-than-life cartoon characters for each candidate:

>

"Super SIMON"
...played by a FReeper wearing THIS costume:


from www.halloweencostumes4u.com

versus



"The Gray DIVA"
...played by another FReeper wearing THIS costume:


from www.costumes-4-halloween.com

...and THIS Beavis™ mask:

from www.easleys.com

Total cost for both costumes (with accessories) should be under $200, so that we could have MULTIPLE "morality plays" going on at "Dump DAVIS" FReeps across California.

The possibilities to generate media coverage are endless.

I can imagine promoting some kind of professional wrestling-type confrontation between these two colorful characters, ending everytime with "Super SIMON" stuffing the "Gray DIVA" into a giant garbage can - perhaps butt-first - and wheeling the Davis-in-a-Dumpster around on a handcart like the one used by movers to lift refrigerators. Perhaps there could be OTHER FReepers dressed as "Johns" who give him bribes, carrying signs like, "Dioxin Dumpers for Davis."

This kind of "eye candy" should be IRRESISTIBLE to TV news producers, wire service photo editors, talk radio hosts, and political commentators EVERYWHERE, in spite of their liberal bias. (The images will be too good to ignore!)

Simple, powerful IMAGES are the best way to communicate with the MTV generation, and THESE images will work.


TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Announcements; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Free Republic; Government; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: billsimon; californiagovernor; dumpdavis; graydavis; hughhewitt; prostitute; supersimon; thegraydiva
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To: RonDog
Hehehe, better than Gray Davis...

Well if anything is going on within walking distance, I can be there. Having a problem with transportation at the moment...
41 posted on 09/01/2002 5:20:16 PM PDT by TheSpottedOwl
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To: ChadGore
Building a bridge to the 1800's....

Hahahaa, good one!
42 posted on 09/01/2002 5:28:14 PM PDT by TheSpottedOwl
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To: TheSpottedOwl
And, how good do you look in fishnets and garters? :o) - RonDog

Hehehe, better than Gray Davis... - TheSpottedOwl

Ooops! I see from your profile page that you are a FReeper-ette.

Sorry, but we need a MALE prostitute to play Gray. LOL!

As for scheduling a "DumpDAVIS" FReep within walking distance from you, we are working on it. :o)

43 posted on 09/01/2002 5:29:54 PM PDT by RonDog
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To: RonDog
California Power Crisis animations featuring Governor Gray Davis
44 posted on 09/01/2002 5:33:43 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP
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To: RonDog
Hmmm, where? How about the South Bay. Lots of money, lots of hippies...
45 posted on 09/01/2002 5:34:18 PM PDT by TheSpottedOwl
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46 posted on 09/01/2002 5:35:55 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP
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To: RonDog
Count me in! I don't think I'll fit in a costume, but I'd love to carry a "dump davis" cutout. Also, for the national repudiate Jesse Jackson Day my son and I carried a picture of JJ with a red circle and slash over his face. Could work for Grayout.

Work Sat. but have some days off during the week. Also part of thee "Brantuk for Assembly" impact team, maybe we could incprporate the two in the 56 A.D.
47 posted on 09/01/2002 5:37:57 PM PDT by gc4nra
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To: All
Excerpt:

Gray Davis' Edison problemGray Davis' Edison problem

The governor struggles to orchestrate a multimillion-dollar bailout of the utility that has spent big bucks on his campaign.

By William Bradley
- - - - - - - - - -

July 31, 2001 | Ever since his January State of the State address, in which he dwelled on the state's power crisis but neglected to mention private utilities' central role in devising the deregulation scheme that caused it, California Gov. Gray Davis has been searching for a way to bail out the insolvent Southern California Edison, which has contributed more than $350,000 to Davis' campaign coffers. Now his drive to save the battered utility, which claims nearly $4 billion in debt and is no longer creditworthy enough to buy power, has gone into overtime, with no solution yet in sight. An attempt to bring the California Assembly back from its summer recess to vote on a new bailout bill Friday was just the latest such effort to fall apart.

48 posted on 09/01/2002 5:44:38 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP
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To: MeeknMing
California Power Crisis animations featuring Governor Gray Davis
LOL!

It took a while to load those images, but they are worth the wait!!! Thanks!

49 posted on 09/01/2002 5:46:45 PM PDT by RonDog
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To: gc4nra; Mr.B.goes.to.Washington
Also part of thee "Brantuk for Assembly" impact team, maybe we could incporporate the two in the 56 A.D.
Excellent!

Please ask Mr. B how he wants to use the L.A. Chapter's "DumpDAVIS" players.

I will be there!

50 posted on 09/01/2002 5:51:30 PM PDT by RonDog
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To: MeeknMing



Am I the only one who finds humor in the California energy crisis?  Here is a state that votes overwhelmingly for Democrats, allows the environmental lobby to create policy dealing with the construction of everything from homes along the sea shore to power plants, and that has a governor who has appointed himself and the state legislator as CEO and board of directors for the socialized power utility in the nations most populated state and still they're crying about the federal government not stepping in to control the evil, out of state, power generators.

Of all the states in the United States that have deregulated their utilities, only California is having rolling black outs.  It is only the California governor who stands in front of a power plant almost every day banging his podium asking that the people of his state turn their air conditioners off when it is 90 degrees outside.  Only the people of California are being asked to live as if we were in a third world country rather than in the 7th largest economy in the world.  Only in California did deregulation fail.

51 posted on 09/01/2002 5:53:50 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP
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To: RonDog
You're welcomed. It said they were copyrighted and needed permission , or
I'd had posted them as images here.
52 posted on 09/01/2002 6:05:06 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP
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To: RonDog; All
Refresh my memory, please. Remember when the legalize marijuana bill was on the ballot and passed? Remember when the state government said we didn't know how to vote, and overruled us? That was Davis, wasn't it? Well if it was, it would be a good thing to bring up to show how much he respects the voters of the state of Kalifornia.

Yeah, yeah I know. What if it was a popular vote on homeschooling and they overturned it? I'm really talking about the voting process here :)
53 posted on 09/01/2002 6:07:49 PM PDT by TheSpottedOwl
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To: TheSpottedOwl
Isn't Davis the jerk that called a press conference and appointed a liberal judge every time Governor Pete Wilson left the state? Wasn't he Lieutenant Governor in those days?
54 posted on 09/01/2002 6:43:43 PM PDT by Howie
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To: RonDog
I'll take ladyinred's sign! Were do we start? Freeway overpasses? Malls?
55 posted on 09/01/2002 7:25:54 PM PDT by GVnana
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To: RonDog
Hmmm, should we be dumpstering the governer in effigy, or is that a hate crime? I'm soooo confused.
56 posted on 09/01/2002 7:28:42 PM PDT by no-s
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To: Howie
Gosh I can't remember. I do remember my ex used call him P*nis Wilson, so maybe HE was the one appointing the liberal judges?
57 posted on 09/01/2002 7:35:05 PM PDT by TheSpottedOwl
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To: RonDog
Gosh, I hope you guys pull this off. We're watching you here from the workers' paradise known as the Peoples' Republic of New Jersey. Make us proud and post lots of pictures!
58 posted on 09/01/2002 7:42:44 PM PDT by Antoninus
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To: RonDog
Absolutely EXCELLENT work! (I'll get back on this thread tomorrow!)

59 posted on 09/01/2002 7:47:49 PM PDT by AnnaZ
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To: CounterCounterCulture
I can see you in a Davis costume.

60 posted on 09/01/2002 7:49:12 PM PDT by AnnaZ
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