Gray Davis is one of the sleaziest, dirtiest, and most creative political operators out there. No idea is too sleazy for him. And that's why I'm asking this serious question: Is Bill Simon on Gray Davis's payroll?

Think about it. During the last gubernatorial election, Gray Davis intervened in the Republican primary with a heavy ad campaign to convince Republicans to vote against Richard Riordan ... and for Bill Simon. California Republicans, being the most congenitally brain-damaged of all Republicans nationwide, gave Gray what he was asking for and rejected a sure winner in Dick Riordan and they put up the worst statewide Republican candidate since Virginia nominated Ollie North for the Senate.

The results were predictable. The deeply unpopular Davis won re-election running against one of the few Republican capable of losing to him. Simon ran a pathetic campaign and generally disgraced himself at every available opportunity.

California voters, mad at themselves for being forced to re-elect the lizard-like Davis, have opted for recall. And who has emerged to divide Republicans and smear their frontrunner? Is it? Could it be? Yes! Bill Simon ... to Gray Davis's rescue one again.

Simon's running an expensive ad campaign, claiming that the Republican frontrunner, Herr Arnold Schwarzenegger, wants to "triple" property taxes! It's a lie, Simon knows that, but he's denigrating Arnold in such a way as to be a possible double-win for California Dems. Cruz B. has cruised past Arnold into the lead among the potential successors to a recalled Davis. And by suppressing interest in Arnold's insurgency, it can only improve Davis's prospects of surviving the recall.

It's not like it's beneath Gray Davis to plant a phoney Republican to sabotage that party in California. (Some serious people have even thought out loud that Karl Rove is doing that very thing to the national Dems by financing Howard Dean.) Simon's Gray's bitch.

[ August 18, 2003, 09:35 PM: Message edited by: Charlie in the Trees ]

Sorry CITT; Simon is Dan Quayle redux. He's too stupid to have a viable political strategy, rendering him unworthy of any Davis payola.

And yeah, Davis is slimier that two slugs in coitus. Blech! But he's the slug we elected, as the prospect of Lenny from LA Law running the state was more frightening than a greasy weasel steering the ship.

Regardless of who won two years ago, California was destined for a deficit. Tax revenues dropped, and nobody in Sacramento could've stopped it. Not even the Terminator.

I don't know, AU. Lenny from LA Law might just have done the job better than all of them.

And CITT, California's property taxes ARE too low, way too low, relative to other states and relative to its property values. An intelligent increase in their rates would do a lot to help that state.

[ August 19, 2003, 12:13 AM: Message edited by: MIB ]

It is interesting that property taxes are too low, bad thing, and we are recalling Mr Davis good thing ( in some peoples opinion) but both where done via the petition process.

Dont worry, Gary Coleman will take care of this mess in no time.

CITT, No Simon is not on the Davis payroll, I know it is hard to think some might not alway march in lock step with the party....

Re Simon, from the Los Angeles Times:

"It wasn't part of his stump speech, but Bill Simon, Jr. wound up defending his views on gay marriage after he was confronted by a gay couple during a Monday morning campaign stop at a Santa Barbara eatery.

The candidate had dropped by the Moby Dick restaurant, a scenic spot on a wharf overlooking the sea, to shake hands and pose for the cameras, when two men who were holding hands approached him as cameras rolled.

'We're domestic partners in the state of california,' Angelo Simione, a Los Angeles man celebrating his 50th birthday at the restaurant, told Simon. 'Will you be supporting gay marriage...so that we can have all the same rights--not special rights, but the same rights--as heterosexuals?'

'I do not support gay marriage," Simon replied. 'I support Proposition 22, that a marriage is between a man and a woman.'

'Why is that?' Simione pressed him.

'I believe that myself," Simon said, 'and also the people of California have spoken by approving Proposition 22 in 2000. I think what we should do is let the people of California decide,' he said."

Funny how Simon doesn't think we should do what the people decided in last year's gubernatorial election.


~Adam

Simon Jr., like all the people who bray about marriage being "between a man and woman," has no coherent rationale for opposing gay marriage, and is basically an idiot.

I doubt he's on Davis's payroll; I'm sure he loathes Davis to his very core, and vice versa, but is just too stupid to realize how unappealing and unelectable he is.

Perhaps if he had more smarts--really any semblance of an intellect--like Richard Nixon, or some personality like Raygun, he might have a chance, but I can't see this loser winning anything unless his opponent is...Gary Coleman.