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...with disdainful apathy; Californians tend to be more interested when the state's nutty kernel of political extremists put some hot-button initiative--about race, immigration or taxes, inevitably--on the ballot. Indeed, there is a weird karmic genius to the current electoral gimmick, the movement to recall Governor Gray Davis from office. It has turned politics itself into a ballot issue--with Davis in the dock, representing a system run aground...
...standing joke about Davis is that his personality reflects his name, but Gray is darker than that. He is, in fact, an exemplar of all that is awful about latter-day California politics. He is not incompetent, but he has governed without much creativity through a succession of crises--the rolling electricity blackouts of 2001 and the subsequent high-tech economic implosion. His greatest political skill seems to be an uncanny ability to raise money. He has used this cash to buy television ads, most of them quite vicious...
...overused cliche that California is known for seismic tremors, but there's no getting around the fact that yesterday?s dramatic upheavals in the recall campaign against Gov. Gray Davis were, well, earthshaking. Voters woke up Thursday morning to a completely different race. Arnold Schwarzenegger?s shock-and-awe style announcement on The Tonight Show that he would run was the top headline, but Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante?s decision to jump into the race was just as big. It gave the signal that the Democrats have abandoned Davis, deciding it?s better to cut the Governor loose...
...Davis is dead. Maybe it?s risky to say so because the Governor has come back so many times, but Gray has little to no hope of surviving this mess. Years from now he?ll probably look back at August 6th as the day his political career died. Ironically, the day started out well for him: Senator Dianne Feinstein, the state?s most popular pol, announced she would not be jumping into the race. Feinstein, who survived a recall attempt in 1983 when she was Mayor of San Francisco, called the Davis recall a destructive carnival. But while she refused...
California Governor Gray Davis may have a 22% approval rating and the personality of the tofu shakes he drinks every morning, but he has always been a tough campaigner. In the state's unprecedented recall election set for Oct. 7, however, he faces a campaign unlike any he has ever run. Davis has built a career out of persuading people to vote against his opponent--like Bill Simon, the conservative Republican he defeated last November. Now, with voters asked to cast a simple yea or nay on Davis' tenure, he has a more daunting task: persuading people to vote...