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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...
...current recall process is particularly ridiculous. The ballot will have two questions. The first will be yea or nay on Gray Davis; the second will be a list of candidates-not including Davis-to replace him. Davis might lose the governorship with 49% of the vote and be replaced by Candidate X with 10%. There will be dozens, perhaps hundreds, of candidates. All it takes is $3,000 and 150 signatures to get on the ballot. Larry Flynt of Hustler Magazine has declared. Both millionaire Michael Huffington and his egregious ex-wife Arianna may run. Darrell Issa is running; William...
...blue-gray dawn tickles the tops of the ponderosa pines at the Sugar Pine Recreation Area in California's Tahoe National Forest. Campers slumber in lakeside tents; bikers have yet to hit the trails. But all is not quiet on this cool July morning. A platoon of camouflaged figures equipped with rifles, pistols and bulletproof vests creep through manzanita brush with a police dog. Their objective: a marijuana plantation a few hundred yards from a well-traveled tourist area...
...campaign to recall Democratic California Governor Gray Davis may be mischief making by the Republican right wing [NATION, July 14], but I'm guessing that its popularity is due to independent voters like myself. We see the state's budget woes as caused by the tech-bubble collapse and some shady dealings in the power industry, as you reported, but we also deplore the Governor's continued fiscal mismanagement. I'm tempted to vote to recall him, but I probably won't. Sadly, when it comes to a choice between him and Terminator film star Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, Davis...