Roger Hedgecock Show Flashfax of 12-3-03!

THE ROGER HEDGECOCK SHOW
KOGO/AM 600 - 3P - 6P (Pacific)
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA
THE RADIO MAYOR OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3RD , 2003

ROGER RALLIES FOR ARNOLD

(the job ain’t done!!)

ROGER WELCOMES ARNOLD TO SAN DIEGO YESTERDAY…The Radio Mayor hosted the Governor at Horton Plaza as Arnold launched his statewide tour to promote his California Recovery Plan. More than 3-thousand folks showed up over the lunch hour to hear Arnold talk about promises made and promises kept and to hear him ask once again for citizens to be part of the process of bringing our state back from the brink.

ROGER was there as the recall campaign got underway and vows to remain in the ranks as the new governor sets about the extremely difficult and painful job of putting the Gold back into the Golden State. And you can be part of this continuing citizens effort to get our lawmakers to fall in behind our new governor. First you need to call, fax or email your state lawmakers and urge them to vote to put the budget cap and 15 billion dollar bond issue on the next March ballot. You need t do that right now. Friday is the deadline for the legislature to vote on this. Call today. Do not put this off.

Then on January 11th ROGER and at least 100 of his listeners will fly to Sacramento, shortly after the governor delivers his new budget to lawmakers, to lobby for the California Recovery Plan. We’ll fly on Sunday, do a welcome dinner and pre-lobby organization session…then on Monday and Tuesday (January 12 and 13) we descend upon the offices of every single lawmaker…lobbying in person, face to face with our elected officials on behalf of a new California.

In the afternoon on Monday and Tuesday (3p-6p) ROGER will broadcast his show live from Sacramento (we’re working with the Hyatt across the street from the Capitol building) and get reports from each of our lobby teams on the air.

Every listener gets a special Hold Their Feet To The Fire t-shirt, tote bag, campaign button and state legislature directory. But more we come away with knowledge that plain old citizens still do the employing and supervision of our government. And there will be time for sightseeing. A lot of California history is located in Sacramento.

And the price is right. Check it out by calling ROGER’S travel guru-est Sandy Carter at 619-338-0098. Governing is too important to leave to politicians. We started the recall, ousted an incompetent governor, elected a leader and now we need to be part of Arnie’s Army.

We’re in the right now process of posting some digital pix from yesterdays Rally for California on the website under show photos. Give them a glance.

SIDE NOTES:

** I showed up to take digital pix of the event with ROGER and Arnold. The boss got me a backstage pass. Security folks were real leery of me. Everybody was cleaned up in nice slacks and jackets and I was sporting jeans and an A&F jacket (you know the kind of clothing that you buy new and for too much money and it looks real old and bum-like). Arnold’s staff folks kept trying to kick me out and so did all the security folks. Which is really kinda funny cause while we were waiting for Arnold to arrive we were secured in a hallway. Shortly before the governor arrived a janitor pops out of a doorway from a stairwell. Looks around and goes off down the corridor. So much for security. I’m wearing janitorial garb the next time.

**Being up close and personal with Arnold you notice that he looks short. He’s not. He’s wide. ROGER is 6 feet something and the governor about the same height but the width of his shoulders and torso seem to compact him. We got to shake his hand. Big hand. Strong grip but not hurtful. And he was willing to stop and chat with everyone backstage. Before he went out to greet the crowd Arnold spent a couple of quiet minutes….he went into the back of the hallway and stooped over to prop his foot up one at a time to re-tie his shoes. They were comfortable shoes with spongy bottoms. Just before ROGER introduced him the governor stood in a doorway and seemed to be practicing his opening lines…his mouth moved silently. Once on stage the crowd loved him. His remarks were punchy, laced with humor and a prop gag where he breaks an oversized California state credit card in half and tosses it into the crowd…he did the crowd chant thing asking folks if they were with him again and again, each time the return volley was louder. And his talk was short. Folks had to get back to work after lunch and most were already late. He spoke long enough to get out a simple message: “I’ve kept my promises on Car Tax and Drivers licenses for Illegals…now I need your help to get my California Recovery Plan on the ballot next March.” A simple and direct call to action and appeal for continued support from citizens who set him about his current tasks. Well done.

FOLKS OVER AT SDSU would never forgive me if I didn’t post this message. This week folks are voting on a new mascot. An anatomically correct Aztec Warrior. A brave and fearsome and historically correct mascot to rally campus spirit on and off the game fields. Stupid that the old Monty was scraped and we’ve dealt with this topic for nigh onto five years or so…but finally the school boss sez he’ll abide by the will of campus and alumni voters. Here are the specifics. If you are an alum…you’d best be voting…or forever shut up!!

VOTE YES!!!!!

All Aztec Athletic Foundation (AAF), Alumni Association members, and students have the opportunity to vote this week on whether we (SDSU) will have an official mascot or not. As most of you realize, the current Aztec Warrior is provided by the independent Aztec Warrior Foundation. www.aztecwarriorfoundation.org

We are officially endorsing a yes vote.

A YES vote will get:

our mascot back as an official mascot

Carlos will wear the new uniform

A No vote will mean that SDSU will have no mascot, official or otherwise.

A YES vote means you support the mascot.

A NO vote means you support the detractors like Mecha and NASA.

If you don't have your ballot by Wednesday 12/3, you should call either; Alumni Association (619) 594-ALUM Aztec Athletic Foundation (619) 594-6444

to make sure you can voice you opinion. Please vote YES!!!!

MUTTERINGS

**SMITH BARNEY IS OUR HOMETOWN HERO OF NOVEMBER…on Monday ROGER gets an envelope…inside a short note telling him that Smith Barney employees decided to adopt Operation Homefront as their this year Christmas charity. With the note, like two dozen individual checks coming to a total amount of more than 17-hundred dollars for our Warrior families in San Diego County. Individual checks. Woof…but it gets better then next day when ROGER gets another envelope with the same Smith Barney letterhead on it…inside this time a single check for 10-thousand dollars for Operation Homefront.

This money so important because it means that this listening audience has not forgotten that our men and women from homeport San Diego are still in harms way putting their lives on the line in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere around the world….making our world safe for Santa Claus. And the funds take on new import as we prepare to deploy thousands of Sailors and Marines in the new year. That means that thousands of low ranking Warrior families will have a husband or wife deployed and will have needs we’ll be called upon to meet. The checks from Smith Barney are heart touching….and also remind us that ROGER’S effort on behalf of our Warrior families will continue until there is no need. We’re here for the duration and our thanks to SB know no bounds.

AND WE NEED FOOD AS WELL AS MONEY…we are in the first phase of our Operation Homefront Christmas effort. Nonperishable stuff. Mac & Cheese, canned stuff, shelf stuff, pantry stuff. Not all of our military families are going hungry (tho we do a food outreach three times each week at military housing complexes) but we save families money by stocking the larder. Oh, speaking of money….baby stuff is really needed…have you checked the price of diapers or baby formula recently.

DROP OFF POINTS for food are listed on Macarena’s Clipboard. Places close to you all over the county…and, of course, at ROGER’S Clearchannel HQ at 9660 Granite Ridge Drive, San Diego.

**TEXAS TALES…visited daughter and her family in Grand Prairie over the Thanksgiving holiday. Grand girls are growing like weeds. Gas selling at 1.39 a gallon. Food is also cheap in restaurants. Live like a king on a grocery clerk’s wage. They have stopped smoking in the city of Dallas (that scratches one of my fav places “Louie’s” off my list of must visit when I visit list). We can still smoke in Grand Prairie (but not Arlington) and Fort Worth. Still don’t need a helmet to ride a motorcycle. Del Frisco’s Steak House in Fort Worth is still closed on Sundays (it’s a reverence thing). Texas flags still fly as big and as high as Old Glory. Is that a gorgeous flag or what (both!!). Son in law wanted to cut down the tree in front of our Texas house. We nixed that. The tree will get dead on it’s own time. Meanwhile it keeps sprouting at the bottom truck line. Means it wants to live and grow some more.

**SEE AN ITEM IN NYT about “getting to know your turkey.” Has to do with making sure that your turkey was raised “humanely.” Like free range and like that. We’re supposed to get to know the farmer who raised the bird and chat with him/her about care and feeding of the bird. Sez we’ll feel better about eating a turkey that we’ve gotten to know. My turkey is named Butterball and that’s about all I want to know. Free range this!!

**ALSO IN THE NYT…an item about a current happening event in Iraq makes reference to the “American led occupying authority.” That kinda upset us. How about the “American led freedom force.” They stick their little slant in on the sly thinking we’ll read right over it and let that occupying crap slip into our brain. Nope!! Occupy this!!

**JUST US or did Yellow Jacket and his cronies down at ye old city hall just give the store away again? Council opts yesterday to give the Padres all advertising signage rights inside our new ballpark..the Petplace!! Don’t we need batteries for Bowman (does that sound like a slogan or what)? Yellow Jacket has been to the cleaners so often he smells like cleaning fluid instead of Aqua Velvet. The EPA is following him around with an air pollution meter. We stop building palaces for sports monarchs and we’d have a buck to two to fight a fire with, keep poop in pipe and get Donna Frye’s hair done on a regular basis.

**FIRE STUFF…I need better response from folks on their experiences during the gummint firestorm of 2003. I need to hear from victims. I’ve taken to setting the alarm clock for an hour earlier so I can get some work started on the fire project. Want to know about your house. Saved, unsaved, neighbors help, fire folks help, what did you lose, how are you doing. First person stories that we can either bind in a book or a notebook to send off to some probing authority. Email me at jimmy@adnc.com I will contact you. I will keep your info confidential if you’d prefer. But we need to know and point fingers. Be silent no more.

GOD BLESS AMERICA

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