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Californians Scramble to Oust Gov. Davis
NewsMax email alert (sorry, no URL) | Feb 1, 2003

Posted on 02/01/2003 9:04:25 AM PST by John Jorsett

NewsMax's many California readers have been buzzing for more information about a brief UPI item we ran describing a bipartisan coalition to recall corrupt and extremely unpopular Gov. Gray Davis. Here's the inside scoop.

Melanie Morgan of radio station KSFO in San Francisco tells NewsMax that she got the ball rolling when, in a recent interview with California GOP chairman Shawn Steele, she suggested an effort to recall Davis.

"He investigated it, and discovered that with the low voter turnout, we need just 675,000 signatures for a recall. The law says that we can't officially begin until six months after Davis was inaugurated. June 1, we're off and running.

"Steele is going to introduce the recall effort at the California Republican convention next month. In the meantime, Steele has enlisted former Carter pollster Pat Caddell to handle a Dump Davis democrat petition drive. Right/Left Coalition is born!" Morgan writes.

Thousands of volunteers have already contacted Steele to participate, Morgan reveals.

All it takes is 675,000 fed-up Californians? Gray, you might want to start hunting for a new job. Perhaps the state tax collector is hiring bureaucrats to haul in the huge tax increases you're shoving down the people's throats.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: calgov2002; knife
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1 posted on 02/01/2003 9:04:25 AM PST by John Jorsett
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Ping. Too bad we have to put up with Davis until June. One thing I wonder though is whether we'll end up somebody even worse. If Democrats are signing on to this thing, that's a distinct possibility.
2 posted on 02/01/2003 9:06:25 AM PST by John Jorsett
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To: John Jorsett
bump
3 posted on 02/01/2003 9:07:14 AM PST by timestax
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To: American Preservative
ping
4 posted on 02/01/2003 9:11:02 AM PST by I_Love_My_Husband
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To: John Jorsett
Where do I sign?
5 posted on 02/01/2003 9:13:51 AM PST by ladyinred
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To: John Jorsett
"The law says that we can't officially begin until six months after Davis was inaugurated. June 1, we're off and running."

Excuse me, but was Davis inaugurated on December 1?

6 posted on 02/01/2003 9:16:04 AM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE.)
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To: ladyinred
Where do I sign?

Right below my signature. And, since we have to wait until June, we may as well spend the time registering to vote under a few dozen names. It'll come in handy during the recall election and subsequent choosing of a new governor.

7 posted on 02/01/2003 9:17:38 AM PST by John Jorsett
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To: John Jorsett
This is an exciting posibility, but before getting too excited we need to know where we're headed.

Most importantly, who will run on the Republican line if Davis is dumped? Will Shawn Steele have any input, or will Gerald Parsky control the party? Will there be an open primary in which California Republicans can choose the candidate, or will Parsky hand-pick the nominee?

Frankly, I'd rather leave the state in the hands of Gray Davis and let him deal with his self-inflicted budget problem than turn it over to the kind of pro-abort Country-Club RINO that Parsky will push. Better Davis than Riordan or some Riordan clone. With Davis in office, busy fixing the unfixable problems he has made, at least there would be a good chance to swing the state to the Republicans in 2006.

I think it needs to be made crystal clear before this goers forward that the conservative base will not turn out with any enthusiasm for Parsky and his RINO friends.
8 posted on 02/01/2003 9:19:53 AM PST by Cicero
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To: John Jorsett
"Steele is going to introduce the recall effort at the California Republican convention next month.

Does anyone want to bet California Republicans will reject the idea...They're as much a problem as the liberals.

9 posted on 02/01/2003 9:20:15 AM PST by lewislynn (Vindicated once again.)
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To: Cicero
I believe that Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamonte will immediately be sworn in upon the successful recall of Davis.
10 posted on 02/01/2003 9:23:29 AM PST by ambrose
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To: John Jorsett
You can Email them to encourage this effort:

Melanie Morgan

Shawn Steele

11 posted on 02/01/2003 9:25:25 AM PST by antaresequity
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To: John Jorsett
Good luck, Californians. I hope you do jettison that S.O.B.
12 posted on 02/01/2003 9:26:54 AM PST by LibKill (ColdWarrior. I stood the watch.)
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To: LibKill
Ping for signage! Help, trapped in the PRC...
13 posted on 02/01/2003 9:28:06 AM PST by dagar
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To: okie01
Here's everything I can find in the California Constitution that talks about recall elections. I don't know where the six months comes from, although the Constitution talks about having to wait for 6 months after a recall election before you can have another recall election. Note the bold section: if Davis wins, we have to reimburse him for his expenses. Wouldn't that just burn yer butt?

SEC. 14. (a) Recall of a state officer is initiated by delivering to the Secretary of State a petition alleging reason for recall. Sufficiency of reason is not reviewable. Proponents have 160 days to file signed petitions.
(b) A petition to recall a statewide officer must be signed by electors equal in number to 12 percent of the last vote for the office, with signatures from each of 5 counties equal in number to 1 percent of the last vote for the office in the county. Signatures to recall Senators, members of the Assembly, members of the Board of Equalization, and judges of courts of appeal and trial courts must equal in number 20 percent of the last vote for the office.
(c) The Secretary of State shall maintain a continuous count of the signatures certified to that office.

SEC. 15. (a) An election to determine whether to recall an officer and, if appropriate, to elect a successor shall be called by the Governor and held not less than 60 days nor more than 80 days from the date of certification of sufficient signatures.
(b) A recall election may be conducted within 180 days from the date of certification of sufficient signatures in order that the election may be consolidated with the next regularly scheduled election occurring wholly or partially within the same jurisdiction in which the recall election is held, if the number of voters eligible to vote at that next regularly scheduled election equal at least 50 percent of all the voters eligible to vote at the recall election.
(c) If the majority vote on the question is to recall, the officer is removed and, if there is a candidate, the candidate who receives a plurality is the successor. The officer may not be a candidate, nor shall there be any candidacy for an office filled pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 16 of Article VI.

SEC. 17. If recall of the Governor or Secretary of State is initiated, the recall duties of that office shall be performed by the Lieutenant Governor or Controller, respectively.

SEC. 18. A state officer who is not recalled shall be reimbursed by the State for the officer's recall election expenses legally and personally incurred. Another recall may not be initiated against the officer until six months after the election.

SEC. 20. Terms of elective offices provided for by this Constitution, other than Members of the Legislature, commence on the Monday after January 1 following election. The election shall be held in the last even-numbered year before the term expires.

14 posted on 02/01/2003 9:35:00 AM PST by John Jorsett
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To: John Jorsett
Poor Gray Davis -- the Catholic Church doesn't want him and neither do a lot of Californians.

He's going to get a complex.
15 posted on 02/01/2003 9:37:45 AM PST by ladylib
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To: John Jorsett
Sorry people. This will never happen. Davis has too much power. The powerbrokers like everyone else nowdays will not admit a mistake by participating with this recall.
16 posted on 02/01/2003 9:38:58 AM PST by bigfootbob
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To: ambrose
I believe that Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamonte will immediately be sworn in upon the successful recall of Davis.

Reading the California Constitution, it appears that a recall election can have one or more candidates on the ballot, and Davis can't be among them.

17 posted on 02/01/2003 9:38:59 AM PST by John Jorsett
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To: John Jorsett
Umm, wasn't the best opportunity to oust the fool the November elections? If Democrats really wanted him out, they could have taken him on in the primaries, or voted GOP (or simply stayed home) in November.
18 posted on 02/01/2003 9:40:19 AM PST by Teacher317
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To: bigfootbob
Sorry people. This will never happen. Davis has too much power. The powerbrokers like everyone else nowdays will not admit a mistake by participating with this recall.

That's what they said about Proposition 13, the Defense of Marriage Act, and other measures that the elite didn't like. This will be a grass-roots effort and we won't need their participation.

19 posted on 02/01/2003 9:41:11 AM PST by John Jorsett
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To: ambrose
I believe that Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamonte will immediately be sworn in upon the successful recall of Davis.

He's the guy that used the N-word publicly, isn't he?

20 posted on 02/01/2003 9:42:01 AM PST by aristeides
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