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Recall: Davis Strikes Back

From the Bee:

This week, the Davis administration will announce that Steve Smith will leave his government post as secretary of the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency to work on anti-recall activities.

My prediction, for some time, has been that the recall will get on the ballot, but then will fail. I have been advocating this position despite poll results showing the opposite -- most Californians think the recall is a bad idea but would vote against Davis. The poll did not take into account the amount of campaigning Davis will do once the recall gets on the ballot.

Now that he's released his guy to start the fight early, I wonder what effect it will have on signature-gathering. Early in the signature gathering period, Davis' guys threatened to have anti-recall volunteers shadowing the the signature-gatherers to actively discourage people from signing. I have not had any reports, either firsthand or through the news media, of any such antirecall volunteers -- yet.