{"id":299,"date":"2002-03-08T12:12:13","date_gmt":"2002-03-08T19:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/03\/the-campaign-trail\/"},"modified":"2002-03-08T12:12:13","modified_gmt":"2002-03-08T19:12:13","slug":"the-campaign-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/03\/08\/the-campaign-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"The campaign trail"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t— Davis and Simon hit the campaign trail big-time yesterday: Simon toured schools across the state and Davis talked to editorial boards. The San Diego Union-Trib ripped him for pitching a hissy<\/a> fit at some of the tough questions they asked him about the power crisis, eliciting this piece of wonderment:<\/p>\n

Surprisingly, Davis offered a pat on the back to Enron, the bankrupt Houston power trader accused of fraud. “Enron was the best of the lot,” he said. “They dealt with us more honestly.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I suppose he means Enron gave him more money than the others.

The U-T was alone among dailies in not mentioning a demonstration that met Simon in Burlingame, where a group of students<\/a> carried signs slamming him for his stands on guns and abortion:<\/p>\n

\nA clump of student protesters confronted him in the hallway bearing signs that said, “Pro-Child, Pro-Choice,” “Guns Kill” and “Vouchers Are Not the Solution.”
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\n“We’re going to go back to coat hangers,” said Sara McNamara, 17.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Other papers numbered the “clump” at about 11. Burlingame is the place where the Dr. Mom mentioned below performed a post-natal abortion on her son recently.

Simon faced tough questions<\/a> from an 11-year-old:<\/p>\n

\nA fifth-grade boy in Sacramento asked Simon what he had ever done in public office before running for governor, a potentially devastating question from an 11-year old to a candidate who has never run for office and rarely even voted.


\nUnfazed and soft-spoken, Simon explained that he worked for Giuliani. “I put bad people in jail,” he said, explaining his three years as a junior federal prosecutor in the New York area. “Anybody know Rudy Giuliani? He’s the mayor of New York who was there on September 11.” The class nodded in recognition.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Simon can win if he can keep the race focussed on personalities and not policies. In this state, that shouldn’t be too hard.

Incidentally, the 31% turnout<\/a> for the primary was the lowest in state history. Dan Walters<\/a> says not to make too many dire extrapolations since this number was so low, but he believes the Frisco machine is losing steam:<\/p>\n

\nThe decades-old political alliance between San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown and Senate President pro tem John Burton faltered. Their candidates in local elections, including Burton’s own daughter, were largely rejected; Brown was on the losing side of a local ballot measure fight; Burton’s nephew-by-marriage lost a state Assembly bid despite Burton’s strong backing; and voters rejected Burton’s pet cause, a state measure to loosen legislative term limits. The results raise doubts about Brown’s succeeding Burton in the Senate and Burton’s prospects to run for mayor next year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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— Davis and Simon hit the campaign trail big-time yesterday: Simon toured schools across the state and Davis talked to editorial boards. The San Diego Union-Trib ripped him for pitching a hissy fit at some of the tough questions they asked him about the power crisis, eliciting this piece of wonderment: Surprisingly, Davis offered a … Continue reading “The campaign trail”<\/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-299","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-4P","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","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=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}