http://greengabbro.net/2003/08/22/but-you-still-have-two-kidneys-scott/ rock out to the apparatus Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:28:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://greengabbro.net/2003/08/22/but-you-still-have-two-kidneys-scott/#comment-8411 CrimeBlog.US » Blog Archive » Re-Run from Huff’s Crime Blog: The Many Faces of Mr. Davis Mon, 04 Dec 2006 21:28:25 +0000 http://greengabbro.net/2003/08/22/but-you-still-have-two-kidneys-scott/#comment-8411 [...] Then there was Scott Davis, an Independent running for Governor of California in 2003. Here’s a quote from a blog titled greengabbro.net, an entry written in August of 2003 about Scott Davis withdrawing from that race. The blog entry was titled, “But you still have two kidneys, Scott!”: Some people just don’t know how to run a press campaign, or something - Scott Davis has withdrawn his candidacy because in a race composed of equal parts serious budget difficulty and circus hijinks, with a dash of 100 or so candidates’ pet issues thrown in, the media were not paying enough attention to his pet issue. Quitter!Scott Davis’s pet issue was organ donation - a nice pet issue, one that is hard to argue against without being a jerk-o religious nutcase (what? the god that made your heart in the first place won’t be able to make you a new one for the afterlife? hahaha! jerkface. gimme those corneas.) but it’s hardly an issue of immediate political need in the state of California. All the serious pundits are talking about the budget, which will soon end up in a morass of un-money and no way to fund anyone’s pet issues, and all the non-serious pundits are talking about a) things that are funny, or b) things that have juicy human interest stories behind them. I have no idea if there was a juicy human interest story behind this campaign or not, and Scott Davis has “stopped giving interviews” so I may never find out… [...] [...] Then there was Scott Davis, an Independent running for Governor of California in 2003. Here’s a quote from a blog titled greengabbro.net, an entry written in August of 2003 about Scott Davis withdrawing from that race. The blog entry was titled, “But you still have two kidneys, Scott!”: Some people just don’t know how to run a press campaign, or something - Scott Davis has withdrawn his candidacy because in a race composed of equal parts serious budget difficulty and circus hijinks, with a dash of 100 or so candidates’ pet issues thrown in, the media were not paying enough attention to his pet issue. Quitter!Scott Davis’s pet issue was organ donation - a nice pet issue, one that is hard to argue against without being a jerk-o religious nutcase (what? the god that made your heart in the first place won’t be able to make you a new one for the afterlife? hahaha! jerkface. gimme those corneas.) but it’s hardly an issue of immediate political need in the state of California. All the serious pundits are talking about the budget, which will soon end up in a morass of un-money and no way to fund anyone’s pet issues, and all the non-serious pundits are talking about a) things that are funny, or b) things that have juicy human interest stories behind them. I have no idea if there was a juicy human interest story behind this campaign or not, and Scott Davis has “stopped giving interviews” so I may never find out… [...]

]]> http://greengabbro.net/2003/08/22/but-you-still-have-two-kidneys-scott/#comment-7955 Huff’s Crime Blog » The Many Faces of Mr. Davis Wed, 08 Nov 2006 00:45:52 +0000 http://greengabbro.net/2003/08/22/but-you-still-have-two-kidneys-scott/#comment-7955 [...] Then there was Scott Davis, an Independent running for Governor of California in 2003. Here’s a quote from a blog titled greengabbro.net, an entry written in August of 2003 about Scott Davis withdrawing from that race. The blog entry was titled, “But you still have two kidneys, Scott!”: Some people just don’t know how to run a press campaign, or something - Scott Davis has withdrawn his candidacy because in a race composed of equal parts serious budget difficulty and circus hijinks, with a dash of 100 or so candidates’ pet issues thrown in, the media were not paying enough attention to his pet issue. Quitter!Scott Davis’s pet issue was organ donation - a nice pet issue, one that is hard to argue against without being a jerk-o religious nutcase (what? the god that made your heart in the first place won’t be able to make you a new one for the afterlife? hahaha! jerkface. gimme those corneas.) but it’s hardly an issue of immediate political need in the state of California. All the serious pundits are talking about the budget, which will soon end up in a morass of un-money and no way to fund anyone’s pet issues, and all the non-serious pundits are talking about a) things that are funny, or b) things that have juicy human interest stories behind them. I have no idea if there was a juicy human interest story behind this campaign or not, and Scott Davis has “stopped giving interviews” so I may never find out… [...] [...] Then there was Scott Davis, an Independent running for Governor of California in 2003. Here’s a quote from a blog titled greengabbro.net, an entry written in August of 2003 about Scott Davis withdrawing from that race. The blog entry was titled, “But you still have two kidneys, Scott!”: Some people just don’t know how to run a press campaign, or something - Scott Davis has withdrawn his candidacy because in a race composed of equal parts serious budget difficulty and circus hijinks, with a dash of 100 or so candidates’ pet issues thrown in, the media were not paying enough attention to his pet issue. Quitter!Scott Davis’s pet issue was organ donation - a nice pet issue, one that is hard to argue against without being a jerk-o religious nutcase (what? the god that made your heart in the first place won’t be able to make you a new one for the afterlife? hahaha! jerkface. gimme those corneas.) but it’s hardly an issue of immediate political need in the state of California. All the serious pundits are talking about the budget, which will soon end up in a morass of un-money and no way to fund anyone’s pet issues, and all the non-serious pundits are talking about a) things that are funny, or b) things that have juicy human interest stories behind them. I have no idea if there was a juicy human interest story behind this campaign or not, and Scott Davis has “stopped giving interviews” so I may never find out… [...]

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