Five Myths About the Recall

[Classical_Liberal]

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16605

Myth No. 2: The recall election will throw the state into chaos.

Whenever encrusted elites lose control of one of their processes, they always warn of chaos, catastrophe and dire consequences. Only they are wise enough to guide our lives. Nothing strikes so much fear into their manipulative little hearts as when the hoi polloi spin out of control – out of their control.

An election in which pliant, predictable candidates are handpicked in backrooms and bankrolled by special interests, in which the victor comes to power through a $75 million campaign of slash-and-burn TV ads with a record-low turnout, well, thats just one more serious and orderly round of balloting, were supposed to believe. But let just any dumb bastard citizen off the street run for office, totally beyond the reach of the party and lobbyist elites, and that is a sure sign that California is sliding into the sea. What has the establishment so panicked about this election is hardly the threat of chaos. It's rather the unpredictability of the process and its outcome. Imagine electing some candidate that hasn't already been bought and paid for. The horror, the horror.

We're told the recall is a hijacking, a coup, the illegitimate overturning of a legitimate election; ultimately, we're warned, this is the unwashed and witless electorate running riot. Pundits beware: This "circus" election is likely to generate a bigger turnout than last year's "official" contest. A staggering 90 percent of voters say they plan to cast ballots on October 7. In a recent Gallup Poll, almost 70 percent of likely voters said they want to oust Gray Davis.

[RealityDose]

1. So what

It is still a hijacking. Explain to me how this is fair. Davis only got 40% of the vote last time. That was enough to get him in the governer's seat. But now it will take 51% to keep him in office. Even it every one who voted for him before votes for him again, Davis is not guaranteed to win. The first part of the recall should only be asked to people who voted for Davis. THose are the people who should vote for the recall. When happnes when the recall succeeds, and the successor only gets 10% of the vote. That opens the door for recall after recall! Argue with that.

[realFedUp]

2. They talk about it being the people's will

when actually it was a little group of pissed off
Republicans who lost last November and started this
recall, using Issa's millions to fund it. There is
nothing about this that was grassroots. If Greens
are pissed off because Camejo doesn't have a chance
right now in a real election, maybe that is the people's will.

They should run for City Council first.