PPIC recommends that after the Sept. Follow the news on the California recall. Here are key excerpts from our conversation, lightly edited for length and clarity. If you want to reform this so it takes into account the advances in technology, the simplest way to do this is just to have one election. Everybody plays by the same rules. The governor gets to run. Everyone else gets to run.
The person with the most votes wins. It would just be a normal election. Speaking for myself, I think the recall is a mess and needs a raft of changes. It currently makes a laughingstock of California, encourages unqualified candidates to run and impedes the work of government and our elected officials.
Deal with it. He previously served 11 years as editor of the editorial page and was also a former editor of the Op-Ed page and the Sunday Opinion section. He is a graduate of Harvard University. Column: Fraternities are incubators of sexual assault and other violence. Why is USC defending them? Letters to the Editor: For the love of God, stop showing photos of vaccine needles. All Sections. About Us. B2B Publishing. According to laws governing recall in California , recall supporters were required to collect a number of signatures from registered California voters equaling 12 percent of the number of ballots cast in the November California gubernatorial election.
Recall supporters were told on March 25, , that the recall petition form they had submitted to election officials was acceptable, and that they had days -- until September 2, -- to collect , valid signatures. Recall proponents gathered about 1. Issa's financial support for a signature-gathering campaign to collect the necessary signatures to qualify the recall for the ballot was widely credited as the reason that recall supporters were able to collect the necessary amount of signatures to put the Davis recall on the ballot.
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Click here to contact our editorial staff, and click here to report an error. If someone took your parking space away, is that going to have you make a change in the way you do your business? That had so little to do with anything or any decisions that I made. The governor does not administer or manage the parking spaces within the Capitol garage.
Torres, a former state legislator who had helped Bustamante become speaker of the Assembly, called his old friend. Republican strategists did not see Issa as their best candidate, though they were happy to take his money. His chief political adviser had asked a handful of Republican operatives not to commit themselves to other candidates, though he had not made any hires. On Aug. Gorton stood backstage with a prepared statement he planned to hand out to the media.
And Jay Leno asked him, he said, how are you going to break the news to — that you're not going to run? This is what everybody expected, and Schwarzenegger said, I'm bowing out. Someone had the hookup on tickets. And I was supposed to go have dinner with [former Major League Baseball commissioner] Peter Ueberroth that night because I was going to run his campaign. Schwarzenegger, Gorton, Stutzman, communications director Sean Walsh and a handful of strategists retreated to his Hollywood mansion to begin plotting a campaign for the next two months.
Dinner got made. The political world seemed to explode. Suddenly, a year before a presidential election, all eyes were on California. Pitney, the Claremont McKenna professor, answered two dozen media requests the next day. Suddenly the recall had a prominent name — one of the most prominent names on the planet. They became fixated on Arnold as the alternative to Davis, not the other clowns.
Issa, too, bowed out. Schwarzenegger, because of his name ID going into a short election, would have the advantage. He will have the largest popular vote," Coleman told The Baltimore Sun. That would be highly illegal, of course. We basically convened a meeting of business leaders and these two titans of business and diplomacy, and we had a news conference afterwards.
A few days later, the dam broke: Bustamante said he would run, giving Democratic voters an alternative in case the recall succeeded. I thought I was taking one for the team.
I was an experienced political person within the state of California, I knew that by getting into the campaign, I was likely to lose. But in order to be able to make an effort to try to save the state, I decided to go ahead and run against Arnold.
A Field Poll conducted in the days after Schwarzenegger joined the race showed Bustamante had a point: Just 22 percent of California voters approved of the job Davis was doing in office.
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