Simon Twists in the Wind Over Photo Flap
from the lying-is-one-thing;-looking-like-an-idiot-is-another dept.
For those of you fortunate enough not to have been following the California governor’s race, we’re heading into the home stretch of a contest between Democrat incumbent Gray Davis and his Republican challenger, a political tyro named Bill Simon. Simon is making headlines in the wake of Monday’s debate between the two candidates, but not the kind he was looking for. In the debate, Simon accused Davis of having accepted campaign contributions in his state capitol offices while he was Lt. Governor, which would have been a crime. Davis denied the charge. Afterward, Simon showed reporters a photograph that he said showed Davis accepting a contribution check in his offices — except that reporters know what those offices look like, and the photo clearly wasn’t taken there. Oops. Now Simon is backpedaling, and refusing interviews, and Davis has called for him to resign from the race. Ouch.
