There will be much information available today. Unfortunately, I will be in deposition all day and unable to get it to you until tonight. For the major news articles out this morning, (the Bee, the LA Times), you can find them linked at today's Rough & Tumble.
UPDATE: Here's the direct links. I include all the quotes because the site's most frequent user, the Calblog husband, is too lazy, I mean busy, to click through.
Davis recall effort receives go-ahead
After two rejections for errors, backers can now collect signatures: Why does this petition have a chance when al other recalls of CA governors have failed? Here's why:
Russo said anyone could download the petition onto a home computer, print it out, sign it and drop it in the mail. "This is as simple as paying your electricity bill," he said. "And by the way, when you do pay that electricity bill you'll remember why you want to download that petition and mail it in."
Dan Walters: Davis' weakness is evident as fellow Democrats turn on him:
The remarks of Angelides, Bustamante and Lockyer are understandable in a purely political sense. All three are likely contenders for the governorship in 2006, and none owes any political debts to Davis. But O'Connell has been considered to be one of Davis' few semi-friends in politics, having championed much of the governor's education reform program. For O'Connell to go public with even indirect criticism of Davis' budget is a strong indicator of just how weak the governor's position has become in recent weeks.
Supporters of a Davis recall must collect at least 897,158 valid signatures of registered voters to get on the ballot. Under a timetable set by Shelley, it could take until Dec. 12 to gain state certification for an election.
The next regular statewide election is the March 2004 presidential primary, but it is too soon to determine whether the state could put a Davis recall proposal on the same ballot, said Shelley spokeswoman Terri M. Carbaugh.
Note: the March election is the Presidential Democratic primary! skewing the voters democratic (at least theorectically).
San Diego Union-Tribune: has the AP report.Nothing in the SF Chronicle.
Blog sightings at So Cal Law, which is worth your attention anyway and damnum absque injuria, which may someday switch to an English name for the spelling-challenged among us.
Sour grapes moment: Nothing on the Political State Report for CA. When they started, I offered to be a contributor but was turned down because they had enough. When my sour grapes moment passes, I'll email Richard Bennett and ask him to post something since he's posted the previous recall info bits there (though I see that he's gone and there are only Dems and Greens in CA). Did I just say what I think I said?
UPDATE: I corrected the So Cal Law link. It is worth a look. And I will find time this weekend to update the links on the side.
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at the steam fitters' picnic.
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