State GOP comes out for Davis recall

[jamesinca]

Edward Epstein, Chronicle Washington Bureau Thursday, July 10, 2003

Washington -- California's state Republican chairman threw his party's all-out support behind the effort to recall Gov. Gray Davis for the first time on Wednesday and said party leaders will try to get all but one of the potential GOP candidates for governor to stand aside.

Sundheim's comments are likely to intensify the criticism of the recall from Democrats, who have attacked it as a purely partisan effort by Republicans upset they were defeated last November by Davis and every other Democratic candidate for statewide office.

Sundheim's Democratic counterpart, Art Torres, was out of the country Wednesday, but Bob Mulholland, the party's campaign adviser, said Sundheim is pursuing an impossible goal in trying to winnow the field.

Sundheim, who was in Washington for meetings with leaders of President Bush's re-election campaign and White House political operatives, also claimed that the recall and the budget stalemate in Sacramento have given new energy to his party. He said anecdotal evidence from five of the state's 58 counties shows that 20 percent of those registering to vote as Republicans in June were changing over from the Democratic Party. He also said that in San Bernardino County, 6,300 people registered as Republican, an unusually high number for June in a nonpresidential election year.

Mulholland said Sundheim was wrong when he said some major Democrats will break ranks, once the recall qualifies for the ballot in the fall or next March, and run for governor. "There won't be any. They've all made it very clear," he said.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?bin=/c/a/2003/07/10/MN267422.DTL

[trogdor]

1. They are sooooooooooooooo full of shit.

If anyone wants my 2 cents, Carrot Top should run for governor if the recall effort makes it to a ballot. That'll learn 'em.

[CWebster]

2. Funny, how they can brazenly get away with this-

Spending millions to fund professionals to organize and hire signature gatherers, but at the same time, everyone, with possibly the exception of Al Sharpton, has to tiptoe around the reality of the Bush administration's ongoing deceptions. Not only now, with this latest official revelation of lies and fabrications---but from the start with the illegitimate election.

Granted, Democrats do not stoop to the radical Right's tactics of intimidation and fear-mongering, but when are they going to speak out in a strong and confidence voice in defense of the country and the truth?