Califonia's Recall Election Vote is UnderwayFor a number of months the citizens of California toiled to obtain enough votes to force a recall election of Governor Gray Davis. Along the way Daryl Issa jumped in to help, spending several million dollars of his own money to support the effort. The drive to obtain enough signatures was successful.
The recall was certified, a date set for the election and candidates signed up. Leading republican candidate Daryl Issa withdrew from the race. Peter Ueberroth withdrew from the race. Tom McClintock didn't. Today we are two and one half weeks away from turning this state over to new leadership, Tom cannot win and now he's seems determined to make sure Schwarzenegger won't either.
This Recall effort was initiated to wrest control of the state away form the democrats. Today the odds are that Lt. Governor Cruz Bustamante will be the next governor of our state. His leading challenger has been handicapped by the dogged refusal of his only meaningful party oppenent to withdraw from the race. Yesterday republican Tom McClintock negotiated with democrat Cruz Bustamante to develop a strategy to hinder the chances of the leading republican party candidate from winning the election, by manipulating the process of a debate scheduled for Wednesday 09/24. This may or may not work as planned.
Clearly, this type of activity could mean that Six months worth of effort would have been expended to do nothing more than turn the reigns of the state over to someone exponentially worse than Governor Gray Davis.
Today Tom Mc(I'm in it for myself) has been drawing votes through absentee ballot for thirteen days. He has potentially locked up around 5% of the vote so far. By election day he could have bound up 7 to 12% of the vote before 70% of the state's populace even goes to the polls.