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Article: Bill Simon's campaign theme could be 'I told you so'
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- August 16, 2003
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BILL Simon was nearing the end of a long day, having arisen in the
middle of the night to do a morning news show on East Coast time from
a Los Angeles studio, then driven the spine of the state with stops
in Bakersfield and Fresno.
But when he arrived in Stockton around dinner time to shake hands
at a burger joint off Interstate 5, he looked inexplicably fresh, as
if he were just starting out.
Politically speaking, that's exactly how Simon feels about the
move to recall Gov. Gray Davis, the man who defeated him a year ago
when Simon was the Republican nominee for governor. After a long and
frustrating 2002 campaign filled with too many missteps, Simon
suddenly has a chance to do it over ...