Word: governorship
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Dartboard cautions California’s voters not to punish their governor for problems he did not create—not because of any fondness on Dartboard’s part for the slick-haired sap, but because doing so would transform the governorship into a game of Russian roulette. If the governor can be tossed out in the street at any moment due to factors he cannot control, there will be no persuading any wise and prudent leader to run in the first place. Film actors and smut peddlers may be the kind of star candidates Californians will have...
Garrison Keillor spoke for many of us rational individuals in his description of Jesse Ventura's governorship of Minnesota [ESSAY, Aug. 25]. Keillor referred to Arnold Schwarzenegger's candidacy for California Governor and noted that Minnesotans "invented the action-hero Governor." Education and experience are the substantive ingredients necessary for any successful career, including one in politics. Star power and money should not be the determining factors. Are you listening, California? ALEXANDER G. KAPOCIUS Orland Park...
...after a federal judge's ruling last week on several counties' voting procedures, the election could be delayed until March. But Bustamante's strong showing reveals two things: voters are increasingly giving up on Davis, and a rump of California's Democrats is determined to hang on to the governorship. Field-poll figures showed 58% of likely voters support the recall motion against Davis, compared with 51% a month...
...will not be the only candidate who has the resources, powerful backers and name identification to push out Davis. Or even the only one who speaks with an accent: Huffington, running as an Independent and a populist outsider, has hired advisers who helped wrestler Jesse Ventura win the Minnesota governorship in 1998. Businessman Bill Simon, the Republican nominee defeated by Davis last year, has claim to the conservative base that provides the Republicans with what little life they have in California. Ueberroth, though officially a Republican, will sell himself as a serious candidate with crossover appeal in a state where...
...current recall process is particularly ridiculous. The ballot will have two questions. The first will be yea or nay on Gray Davis; the second will be a list of candidates--not including Davis--to replace him. Davis might lose the governorship with 49% of the vote and be replaced by Candidate X with 10%. There will be dozens, perhaps hundreds, of candidates. All it takes is $3,000 and 150 signatures to get on the ballot. Larry Flynt of Hustler Magazine has declared. Both millionaire Michael Huffington and his egregious ex-wife Arianna may run. Darrell Issa is running; William...