In its simplest terms, the recall of Governor Grey Davis comes down to
this: the wingnut division of the Republican Party no longer believes
in democracy. Whenever these goosesteppers believe that that there
is a key elective position where its occupant is not anti civil rights,
anti gay, anti liberal, anti -- well, you know, the usual antis -- the
wingnuts will do all in their power to overturn the will of the people,
and to
install a "leader" who is more friendly to the fascist cause.
The primary allegation against Davis is that he "lied" (that word that
is only allowed to be used in the media when it is applied to
Democrats) to California about the state of our current budget crisis.
Of course this is an allegation that can be leveled against any
Governor in the US because no one predicted (with the exception, of course,
of myself and anyone else who pays attention to right wing
politics) that Bush would purposely trash the US economy, and turn off
required federal funding to the states. Add to that Davis' having
to
deal with Bush/Cheney/Lay skullduggery in severely overcharging California
for energy which Attorney General Crisco refuses to prosecute.
Much better to go after Martha Stewart because she's has a disagreeable
personality and she is a large contributor to the Democrats.
Criscoman is always clear in his goals. Crime is okay as long as
the Bushistas get their cut.
The constitution of California is not as strict when it comes to the removal
of our chief executive as the US Constitution. Our state
constitution allows for a recall at any time as long as one can obtain
the required number of signatures on a petition. For this recall,
900,000 signatures are required, and the last I heard over 700,000 had
been obtained. Gathering signatures on a petition is no Herculean
feat as long as one has the money to wage the campaign. Whenever
Republicans get involved, stolen money or quid pro quo money is
always available. So there is little doubt that the anti-democracy
crowd will come up with the signatures, even if they have to find signers
in
the obituary column of the newspaper.
It should be pointed out that Grey Davis has few friends. I don't
like him myself. I don't like him because he's a bad governor, and
the only
reason he won reelection is because when the national Republican Party
didn't want an honest conservative to challenge Davis (Richard
Riordan), they wanted the moronic and incompetent Nazi crook (Simon).
We had one of the lowest turnouts in our history, and Davis was
reelected.
What is peculiar about this system is that we choose the replacement for
Davis instantaneously to the decision as to whether or not to
remove him, and no one is allowed to campaign for the job. There
will be a bunch of names on the ballot that few people have heard of, with
no real knowledge of who or what is behind those names. Most people
will likely chose a name that they might know, or they will not show
up at the polls at all. This is why the Repugnicans want Ahn-old
to toss his name into the ring.
What is at stake is over 1000 miles of the most beautiful coastline in
the world that the oil companies want to turn into black sludge, and
timberlands with trees taller than skyscrapers, and older than Jesus, that
logging companies want torn down in order to protect against
forest fires.
Even though Davis is a Republican-lite, DLC, governor, he has at least
made more of an effort, than our prior Racist Party governors, to
protect the environment. Whoever replaces Davis in the recall will
only be in office about two years, but the Repuglicans, buoyed by how
fast Monkey Bush could destroy the US, are banking that they will have
enough time to chainsaw trees and get the oil derricks built.
So that's it in a nutshell. Any specific questions I'll be glad to answer.
Always glad to help out,
James Hi