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To: microhoogle! who wrote (465726)	9/26/2003 7:17:12 PM
From: Bill	Respond to of 769670

Agreed. I don't know exactly what the threshold currently is, but it should certainly be reviewed.

To: microhoogle! who wrote (465726)	9/26/2003 7:28:18 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

There were some recent changes to the recall. I might agree the bar is a little low but despite MANY governors being targeted, Davis is the first to get on the ballot. Maybe 15-20% would be a better figure but still it is remarkable that in a very liberal state, with the largest paper, the LA Times also liberally inclined, the effort succeeded in a short span of time. That has to tell you something. "The recall mechanism for statewide officers and legislators in California first appeared as a constitutional amendment in 1911, one of several reform measures put in place by the Progressive administration of Governor Hiram Johnson. The most controversial provision of the amendment was the inclusion of judges, and the justices of the state Supreme Court in particular, among the state officers subject to recall. Proponents favored the amendment as another mechanism to fight graft and corruption in government. Opponents criticized it as a device that extremists and malcontents would employ to harass and remove honest officials. Recalls have often been attempted in California against statewide elected officials and legislators. All governors in the last 30 years have faced some level of recall attempt. In 2003 Governor Gray Davis became the first statewide official to face a recall election. Recall efforts against state legislators have reached the voting stage, and four were actually recalled. Senator Marshall Black (R-Santa Clara County) was recalled in 1913, followed by Senator Edwin Grant (D-San Franisco) in 1914, and by Assembly members Paul Horcher (R-Los Angeles County) and Doris Allen (R-Orange County) in 1995. There have been many successful recall attempts at the local government level in California. The recall law underwent some "streamlining" changes as a result of the passage of Proposition 9 in November 1974. The changes included a new 160-day limit on signature gathering (there was no time limit previously), and a new provision for immediate recall petitioning. Previously, there was a six-month waiting period to initiate a recall petition against a statewide elected official (five days for a legislator). Now, the recall procedure can begin immediately after the election of the recall target. Recall provisions are summarized in Procedure for Recalling State and Local Officials , issued by the California Secretary of State's Office and revised in 2003. "