McClintock has this black bag theory that Davis did not attempt to void the contracts on the grounds that his negotiator had a conflict of interest with the energy companies, and thus did not pursue that legal line of attack, because it would embarrass him. It does strike me as bad law (you man being compromised is not a ground to set aside a contract unless the other side was involved in a conspiracy to defraud, and planted the mole; that should be a piece of cake to prove, not), and bad politics (because it is not creditable). My man is wrong here, I think.
What are the legal niceties if Davis resigns and Bustamente ascends to the throne?
I like McClintock's proposals to reverse the car tax tripling and to reform the workers compensation system, but I wish he'd change his third topic about the electricity contracts to something else. Davis has discouraged construction of any new electricity plants, so, if our economy actually rebounds, we will need the electricity that CA has contracted to buy. Unless McClintock's car tax repeal initiative, to be circulated soon, brings up his popularity, he needs to choose a topic that interests more people. Either traffic jams or the illegal alien problems might be reasonable, or, better yet, he should propose something for reducing taxes and bringing businesses back to CA.
Given his experience as vice-chairman of the Senate Transportation Committee, he should know what the state needs (more roads and freeways), and improving traffic is more likely to interest people than boring laws and electricity contracts. If he can campaign on doing something about the awful traffic jams, in addition to reducing the car tax, he might draw more crossover votes from those densely populated liberal areas like LA and the SF Bay area that suffer from awful traffic.
Illegal immigration is very controversial, but if voters don't want illegal aliens to have CA drivers licenses, use questionable matricula consular cards as ID, overburden public services, or help terrorists blend in, he could find a platform there to differentiate himself from the other candidates. As long as he's not apologetic about the facts when the media emotionally accuse him of racism, people would realize that he makes sense.
Lowering taxes is always popular, whether it's gasoline taxes or sales taxes, as long as voters realize they would notice the difference without feeling like they were defunding vital services.