spanner in the works

[rone]

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals "ordered California officials to halt preparations" for the gubernatorial recall election in October.

So, the system that elected Davis is now no longer good enough to recall him. Wacky. The 9th is going to catch a lot of shit from conservatives over this, and in this case, they probably deserve it.

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[kodi]

Do they have to wait until the recall succeeds to start collecting signatures to replace whoever replaces Davis? Just curious.

[huaman.livejournal.com]

The was-scheduled-for-October-7 special election has 2 recall-related parts and 2 propositions on it, if I'm correctly remembering my sample ballot.

RECALL:
Part 1: Recall Gray Davis? yes/no
Part 2: Which of 167 (or however many it is) candidates should be govenor if Part 1 = yes
PROPOSITIONS:
Prop 53: yes or no (this one is the obfuscated-language budget-related what to do with infrastructure things that aren't schools or roads)
Prop 54: yes or no (this is the one getting attention, which is seeing debate from the pro-affirmative-action-in-its-current-incarnation vs. anti-race-based-special-interest-groups camps).

So, what this means is, supposing that the special election actually gets around to happening one of these days, I'll vote yes or no on the propositions, yes or no on the recall, and then for whatever candidate I'd like to see be governor assuming the recall passes. This is where you get Democratic leaders arguing about whether people should vote NO on the recall, then for $democratic_candidate, or just NO on the recall and leave the candidate for governor blank. I think the leading Democratic stance at present is "No on the recall, Bustamante for governor if the recall succeeds." The prevailing Republican sentiment, of course, is YES on the recall, and either Schwarzenegger or McClintock for governor if the recall succeeds.

I think. I'm at least reasonably sure that's where things stood this morning when I was driving to work.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I'm not entirely convinced that you've actually answered his question.