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Article: Bill Simon: En Route to Sacramento : Gunning for the governorship.(Brief Article)
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- National Review
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- October 14, 2002
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Bill Simon looks a little like Christopher Reeve when he was doing Superman, wearing those horn-rimmed glasses which were supposed to make him appear pedestrian. Of course if you want to pass by unnoticed, which Superman wanted to do when he wasn't on a tear, you don't run for governor of California, a state that specializes in high dramatic dress, and California is not going to find that in William E. Simon Jr., a candidate without a lot of plumage.
On the other hand, it hasn't found anything striking in Gray Davis, other than his high spending. But Californians at large don't seem to have noticed that, or anything else inordinate in government. Simon is of ...