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opinion:
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Four
more years -; D’Oh
With the spectacular implosion of Republican Bill Simon’s
campaign for governor, we are virtually assured of four more
years of gloomy Gray Davis in Sacramento.
No, not even orchestrating
California’s energy “crisis” in which everyone got rich but
us was able to derail Davis’ bid for another term.
Republican voters desperate to unseat Davis thought, for some
bewildering reason, that Simon was a better candidate for
the job than Richard Riordan.
While Riordan is no spring chicken and likely would not have
made it to a second term, he had done one small thing that
Simon has never done -; won an election.
Now, rather than deftly stumble around questions about his
non-existent plans for the future of the state should he get
elected, Simon will have to deftly stumble around questions
regarding his family businesses fraud conviction.
Oh, I’m sure Simon is as innocent as he claims to be and the
whole fiasco will be overturned on appeal.
But just in case lets make sure the Rigas clan of Adelphia
infamy gets a duplex cellblock with enough room to accommodate
the Simons.
Most baffling in the entire mess was the fact that the fraud
judgement was connected to the Simon’s takeover of a pay phone
company in 1998.
Think back to the last time you used a pay phone and it might
have been about the same time we had a governor we did not
want to stick on an Amtrack train bound for West Virginia.
Oh wait, that was the last time we used a rotary phone.
With Simon’s campaign likely to fumble along in the weeks
leading up to the election, Davis can now start hitting up
Simon’s backers to make his financial control of the state
complete.
We can only imagine how obscenely our mailboxes will be stuffed
by those many annoying flyers his millions and millions can
buy.
How much is enough to run for governor, anyway?
By the time he finishes, Davis will have enough for two California
races and have plenty left over for a national run.
At least we can hope we don’t have a Beverly O’Neill-like
write-in campaign for Davis in four years.
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