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Politics : IMPEACH GRAY DAVIS! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (285)	2/28/2003 4:52:40 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 1641

Effort to Recall California Gov. Davis Rolls Along Christine Hall, CNSNews.com Friday, Feb. 28, 2003 An effort in California to recall Democrat Gov. Gray Davis has reached a critical stage, as the secretary of state prepares to review the official recall petition. Past California governors have been subject to unsuccessful recall efforts, but this time may be different. Three-quarters of Californians say Davis is doing a lousy job. That leaves him vulnerable to the recall effort led by California attorney and former state lawmaker Howard Kaloogian. "I love it here in California, but every time I look at one issue or another, be it taxes or traffic or water or energy prices, it's a disaster," said Kaloogian. "Gray Davis is to blame for that. "His two great legacies right now are his energy crisis, locking us into higher payments at the highest energy rates ever for many years to come, and now the budget crisis," said Kaloogian. "The discontent with Gray Davis in California is phenomenally high," said Rob Stutzman, spokesman for the California Republican Party. "He truly would be vulnerable to recall were this [recall petition] to qualify." Ron Nehring, chairman of the Republican Party of San Diego County, says voters blame Democrats for increasing the sales and car taxes and for the state's budget shortfall. Then there was that matter of a Democrat proposal for letting elderly and non-violent prisoners out of jail to save $9 million in prison costs. "You have a $34 billion budget, and then you have a shortfall, and then the first thing they're going to do is let prisoners out of jail?" Nehring asked. "There's no other waste to cut? Fifty thousand new state government workers - none of them get laid off, but we let prisoners out of jail? It's absurd." California Democratic Party spokesman Bob Mulholland dismisses the recall effort. "It's a political agenda by a rag-tag Republican extremist group," said Mulholland. "This is a Republican Party that has lost every statewide elected office in California. For the first time since 1850, the beginning of this state's history, there is not one Republican in any statewide office. "If they get a million or 2 million [dollars] from some nutcase, then it [the recall] will proceed forward," Mulholland predicted. If the secretary of state approves the recall petition, the effort will need to raise cash to pay people to gather signatures for the recall petition. The recall law requires the valid signatures of 900,000 registered voters gathered within 160 days. If that succeeds, the state lieutenant governor must call a special election that allows voters to decide whether the governor should stay in office. If Davis were to lose such a confidence vote, then the candidate who wins a plurality of votes would become California's next governor. "It's easy to file the recall," said Stutzman. "Following through with it is an enormously difficult task. We'll see if this proceeds." The state Republican Party has endorsed the recall effort, but Stutzman says the party is leaving it to others to lead. "Our main priorities are re-electing the president, winning California for him and defeating our liberal United States Sen. Barbara Boxer," said Stutzman. Copyright CNSNews.com Read more on this subject in related Hot Topics: California Governors Race newsmax.com Recall Gray Davis Effort – recallgraydavis.com