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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[wisn.livejournal.com]

Great quote (found in Tom Tomorrow's blog (http://www.thismodernworld.com/)):

'"The fight has just begun," [Attorney representing recall leader Ted Costa, Charles] Diamond told Reuters. "If (punch cards) were good enough to elect our president we don't see why not they're not good enough to elect our Governor."'

Unfortunately it looks like it's been edited out of the news story (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=1&u=/nm/20030915/ts_nm/politics_california_dc) since its first posting.