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Edited on Thu Oct-13-05 10:20 AM by calipendence
That responded to my earlier concerns. Folks, he's not an emotional person that's just reacting emotionally without thought about the consequences of these efforts. He's thinking about all of the concerns I have, and I believe is trying to plot the paths through the potential problems here.
He's noted that having another special election besides the June primary for the recall is NOT an option. The law requires that we use an existing election such as the June primary to be used for this election. There isn't another option.
He also noted that he's had SUCH a big response to his earlier announcements of this plan to do this recall, that he feels it's beyond his control to "stop" such an emotional response to do this. To some extent he's right I think, but I do feel that there are many of us that need to help guide the outcome to something constructive. I told him I'd be on board and helping him, if I can see a real clean way of using the June primary for this recall. Still not clear to me yet, but I'm actually hoping that he does have a good strategy that I can jump on board with. I also advised him to contact the Angelides and Westley campaigns for their advice and feedback as well, to see if he can get them agreeing that such a process would be helpful to them too (even if they might not be able to publicly endorse this recall campaign).
We shall see. For now, I'm not ready to sign this petition, but I could be persuaded otherwise if Ken can really lay out a good strategy later. It's kind of like trying to plot the impeachment of George Bush. There are so many different ways that might turn, and whether to try and push to do it now before the 2006 elections or to wait until after 2006 with perhaps a Democratic Congress faces similar challenges of plotting strategies properly through the forest of potential problems.
The good news though is I think he's really thinking hard about how they can effectively do this campaign, and not just listening to his emotions in his planning.
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