NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/ca/politics/9639

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From: [e-mail] (Rick Donnelly)
Subject: Re: CA REPUBLICAN PARTY
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Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 02:43:45 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>,
[e-mail] writes:
>
> In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Rick
Donnelly) writes:
> > In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (James
> > Preston) writes:
>
> >> If some of us have our way, he [Wilson] literally won't have a chance for
> >> re-election because we'll have a recall election and throw him out
> >> before that.  Does anyone know that status of the recall petition,
> >> like how many more signatures they need?

As of last Thursday, approximately 30,000 petition forms had been returned,
and they averaged 3-4 signatures per form.  This is a total of about 100K
signatures, up from 10K or so the previous week.  That's quite a fast
ramp-up rate!  923,927 validated signatures are needed by Mar. 18, 1993.

> It's not unheard of for recalled politicians to be reelected the
> next election. Especially in California.

If memory serves me correctly, at the organizational meeting of the
Bite 'em Back campaign, we were told that no state politician had ever been
recalled, and only one recall election (for a legislator) has ever been
held, despite dozens of attempts.  Local politicians get recalled more
frequently.  (For example, the Santa Clara school board was recalled in the
last election.)

Quite frankly, I have no idea what will happen in the '94 gubernatorial
election if Wilson is recalled.  No politician of the scale of governor
of the largest state in the U.S. has ever been recalled before.

> > The recall petition needs a little less than a million signatures.
> > Secondhand information has it that only about 10,000 signatures have
> > been collected so far.  The problem so far has not been a lack of people
> > who are willing to sign the petitions, but rather that there are not
> > nearly enough volunteers yet to collect the signatures.

Volunteers are still needed.  Call [phone].

> Isn't there a time limit on the petitions for a recall? Or is
> that on some other initiative?

There is a time limit of 160 days from the day that the Secretary of
State certifies the petition.

> In any event, now that the halfway point has been reached, I
> suspect that it will become even harder to get the energy needed
> for a Wilson recall. Barring some dramatic scandal, of course.

Like, for instance, the state budget crisis of 2 months ago, which is
what sparked this in the first place.  Wilson's failed Prop 165 power-
grab-disguised-as-welfare-reform isn't likely to win him much admiration
either.  And next year's budget process looks like it's going to be as
least as nasty as this year's was.

> But good luck, I s'pose.

Thanks, but it takes more than luck to make something like this succeed.


Rick Donnelly                             My opinions, not Taligent's.
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