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...everyone is waiting. Another longtime Golden State political pro, Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi, a two-time former insurance commissioner and Deputy Interior Secretary under President Clinton, told TIME, "I am in. Period." (Garamendi, 64, was once a political rival of Brown's sister Kathleen.) California, Garamendi said, needs a leader who will put progressive back into the state's political lexicon. Despite Schwarzenegger's recent swing to the middle, Garamendi said the governor has lost his ability to lead the state out of its troubles. Schwarzenegger's two terms, Garamendi said, "have been a failure of leadership." (See 25 people...
Feinstein took a pass. But then, just hours later on Wednesday, Schwarzenegger didn't, and the fragile shell of solidarity that the Democrats had built around the embattled Governor collapsed. By the next day, two Democrats with proven statewide appeal--Lieutenant Governor Bustamante and insurance commissioner John Garamendi--added their names to the list of candidates on the second ballot who were offering themselves up to replace Davis. And so Davis was left facing members of his establishment and a simple yea or nay verdict on his future: the state supreme court last Thursday rejected the Governor's lawsuit...
...with Schwarzenegger's entry into the race and the defection of fellow Democrats (although one of them, Garamendi, suddenly took himself out last Saturday), it will be more difficult for Davis to frame the debate on his terms. Attention for now has shifted to the second ballot question: if the Governor is thrown out, who should replace him? In some ways, this plays into one of Davis' few known political talents. He has always run best when he has an opponent to savage--and up until now, his only one in the recall election seemed to be Gray Davis...
...political grownup, but Schwarzenegger has been preparing for this for years, unlike say, Coleman.) Several Republicans may file soon, though the recall's biggest backer, GOP Congressman Darrell Issa, ceded the field to Arnold. On the Democratic side Bustamante will file today and state Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi, another Democrat, will announce he is running. The campaign will hopefully shift from debates on whether a pornographer can run a state to who has the best plan to save the world?s fifth largest economy from imploding...
...prejudice among many male Democratic voters that "women aren't tough enough." He warns that countering Wilson's attacks effectively will require negative campaigning. Ironically, Brown proposed in February that the candidates all sign a joint "honest and clean campaign pledge." Luckily for her new strategy, neither Wilson nor Garamendi subscribed...