And the circus begins…
158 File Papers for Recall Election
“A flood of last-minute candidates surged into California's unprecedented gubernatorial recall race Saturday, leaving as many as 158 headed for the ballot.”
158 candidates for governor. What a freaking zoo. Sure, the vast majority are probably vanity candidates doing it for a lark; to push their own narrow agenda; or just because they thought it would be fun… "I absolutely have some genuine issues. I started for publicity, but now that I'm running, I kind of want to run.” How’s that for some conviction, huh? (Read about this guy and the rest of the mob here.)
But the rest of us are stuck with a recall ballot that’s going to look like a small book and the likelihood that whoever gets elected, assuming Davis does get recalled, is going to do it on a substantially smaller number of votes than in a regular election, because who’s really going to take this mess seriously? (Not that ANY of this matters… everyone's blissfully ready to vote for Arnold, despite his not making any statement as to how he plans to fix California's problems. Ah, the power of celebrity.)
(I noticed in the main article that California’s recall provision was added to the state’s Constitution 92 years ago. Presumably, at that time, requirements of 65 signatures and $3500 (or its alternative of 10,000 signatures) seemed reasonable enough to only attract serious candidates, while keeping out those willing to do it “just for the hell of it”. Looks like no one thought to revise the thing recently, since we’ve never actually used it.)
Frankly, the only good that I can possibly see come from this is that Darrel Issa is seen to be the gigantic a-hole he so obviously is and his political career is now at an end. One can only hope.
158 File Papers for Recall Election
“A flood of last-minute candidates surged into California's unprecedented gubernatorial recall race Saturday, leaving as many as 158 headed for the ballot.”
158 candidates for governor. What a freaking zoo. Sure, the vast majority are probably vanity candidates doing it for a lark; to push their own narrow agenda; or just because they thought it would be fun… "I absolutely have some genuine issues. I started for publicity, but now that I'm running, I kind of want to run.” How’s that for some conviction, huh? (Read about this guy and the rest of the mob here.)
But the rest of us are stuck with a recall ballot that’s going to look like a small book and the likelihood that whoever gets elected, assuming Davis does get recalled, is going to do it on a substantially smaller number of votes than in a regular election, because who’s really going to take this mess seriously? (Not that ANY of this matters… everyone's blissfully ready to vote for Arnold, despite his not making any statement as to how he plans to fix California's problems. Ah, the power of celebrity.)
(I noticed in the main article that California’s recall provision was added to the state’s Constitution 92 years ago. Presumably, at that time, requirements of 65 signatures and $3500 (or its alternative of 10,000 signatures) seemed reasonable enough to only attract serious candidates, while keeping out those willing to do it “just for the hell of it”. Looks like no one thought to revise the thing recently, since we’ve never actually used it.)
Frankly, the only good that I can possibly see come from this is that Darrel Issa is seen to be the gigantic a-hole he so obviously is and his political career is now at an end. One can only hope.
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