Gray Davis might be recalled in California

[Jack_www]

I dont know how many of you guys know this but here in California there is a movement to recall Davis form his office as governor of California. There have been previvous attempts to recall governers in past times, but none of them ever got the need signitures to go on the ballet and none were ever taken seriously. Now the people running the signiture gathering claim to have arround 600,000 unvarified signitures and that they are getting about 20,000 new ones everyday. Davis has taken note of this and is trying to stop the effort and he has even hired people to pretend that they are gathering signitures for the recall when really they are not.

They need about 900,000 varified signitures, so they need about 1.2 million to make sure enough valid signitures are gathered and have untill Semptember to do it. Personally I will be happy to see the man kicked out, as California has a 38 Billion dollar debt and he hid this fact during the past election. So what do you all think?

[Giancarlo]

Gray Davis is finished... so at least I hope. I am moving to California in August.. and I hope he is either defeated in an election or recalled.

[TCO]

I think he was an idiot and he wasted huge amounts of money that people will have to pay in the future because he didn't have the balls to deal with the energy situation at the time by rationing or by raiseing rates. But he was also playing along with the stupidity of Californians in that respect. I don't thing the recall isappropriate for this type of offense. It should be reserved for ethical transgressions.

[MRT144]

even if davis is gone the state isnt going to change

[Jack_www]

Here is the link to the time article.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101030616-457380,00.html

[Jack_www]

Originally posted by MRT144
even if davis is gone the state isnt going to change

I think so. I dont want the taxes to be raised, instead to cut the overspending the governer and legislature have done. They seem to love spending money they dont even have. The Democratics seems to only want to borrow money and raise taxes and cut very little funding. When Gray Davis gets recalled, it will wake the rest of them up and who knows it might very well spread to the legislature.

[Jack_www]

Originally posted by GP
I think he was an idiot and he wasted huge amounts of money that people will have to pay in the future because he didn't have the balls to deal with the energy situation at the time by rationing or by raiseing rates. But he was also playing along with the stupidity of Californians in that respect. I don't thing the recall isappropriate for this type of offense. It should be reserved for ethical transgressions.

Well voters can recall for any reason they want really, and Gray Davis is sucks and if he stays in I dont know what will happen. Gray Davis also gets lots of donations from various groups and often he gives them special favor in return for the money. He also hid the buget decift during the election. I think these offenses alone are enough to consider them ethical transgressions.

[Kidlicious]

I don't really care if he leaves. He cut services anyway. Let the Republicans try to deal with California's problems. They caused all the problems anyway. After they have a chance we can elect a real Democrat.

[MichaeltheGreat]

I loathe Davis, but normal political games aren't enough justification to recall an elected politician. It should be reserved for something Clintonian or Nixonian in nature. Even if the signatures are gathered, it's not likely to succeed, and the legislature won't give a rat's ass. Their future isn't in elected office, it's in the payola they get from their sponsors after they get out, and Repubs in the legislature (or governor's office) haven't proven to be much more useful than the Dems.

The best thing that could happen to California would be if about 10 million people were motivated to move back where they came from.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by Kidicious
I don't really care if he leaves. He cut services anyway. Let the Republicans try to deal with California's problems. They caused all the problems anyway. After they have a chance we can elect a real Democrat.

What Republicans "caused all the problems?"

And a "real Democrat" like those bay area frootloops Brown, Brown and Boxer?

Yeah, let's bring back the Moonbeam and Willie show!

[DinoDoc]

Any chance of Arnold Schwarzenegger running? He seems to be the name I hear most of from the Republican side to run for California governor but then again I don't live in the state so what do I know.

[MRT144]

pete wilson wasnt a saint either...

i think californians just like to complain

[MichaeltheGreat]

Wilson and Deukmejian were asses too. Or God *shudders* anyone remember Evelle Younger? California is great at producing some really bad politicians, because of the nature of the county party organizations.

Riordan would have wiped the floor with Davis in the last election, but he wasn't ideologically "pure" enough for the local Republican party, so they went for the absolutely unelectable Simon, just to prove some obscure point.

The San Diego County Democratic Party offices are in the building next to my office in SD, and from seeing and hearing them, it's a wonder any Democrat can get elected down here.

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
Any chance of Arnold Schwarzenegger running? He seems to be the name I hear most of from the Republican side to run for California governor but then again I don't live in the state so what do I know.

Oh my God yes. Most people don't think he would win though.

[Lawrence of Arabia]

I dont like Gray Davis, but what are the alternatives? And btw, there is nothing wrong with what clinton did. The state has no right to delve into other people's sex life.