{"id":294,"date":"2002-03-07T01:03:09","date_gmt":"2002-03-07T08:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/03\/lungren-ii-the-creaming-of-bill-simon\/"},"modified":"2002-03-07T01:03:09","modified_gmt":"2002-03-07T08:03:09","slug":"lungren-ii-the-creaming-of-bill-simon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/03\/07\/lungren-ii-the-creaming-of-bill-simon\/","title":{"rendered":"Lungren II &#8211; The Creaming of Bill Simon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/content\/politics\/story\/1776497p-1855742c.html\">From the Sacramento Bee, Dan Walters<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAs Simon emerged in the late going as the most likely nominee, an intense debate developed in political circles over whether he had a prayer of ousting Davis, one of the most ruthlessly focused politicians the state has ever spawned. Even as he was spending millions to help Simon to secure the GOP nomination &#8212; without admitting it, of course &#8212; Davis and his advisers were plotting how to bury him. And, they left little doubt, it would be a replay of Davis&#8217; assault on Dan Lungren, the very conservative Republican nominee for governor in 1998.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<P>Simon spokesman Jamie Fisfis said Tuesday night that, &#8220;We&#8217;re not going to let Gray Davis define Bill Simon. We&#8217;re going to define him as the incompetent governor he&#8217;s been.&#8221;<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nBut it remains uncertain whether someone as well-bred and polite as Simon can become a junkyard dog.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; From the Sacramento Bee, Dan Walters As Simon emerged in the late going as the most likely nominee, an intense debate developed in political circles over whether he had a prayer of ousting Davis, one of the most ruthlessly focused politicians the state has ever spawned. Even as he was spending millions to help &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/03\/07\/lungren-ii-the-creaming-of-bill-simon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lungren II &#8211; The Creaming of Bill Simon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-4K","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}