Word: governorship
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...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...
...Democrat to watch is Feinstein. "Nothing I know right now interests me in running," she said last week. But that leaves her some wiggle room, should things change. She is more popular in the state than Davis and has long been thought to covet the governorship. (She lost a shot at it in 1990.) She also comes to the race with rare experience. In 1983 when she was mayor of San Francisco, she too faced a recall election. She won handily. --By Terry McCarthy and Karen Tumulty
...such piece, titled "What is Sauce for a Goose is also Sauce for a Gander," raked up every possible allegation against Franklin--including that he had bought his honorary degrees, sought a royal governorship and stolen his electricity experiments from others, all of which were false. It also alleged that his son William was the bastard child of a "kitchen wench," which had some truth to it. Another broadside painted him as an excitable lecher...
...declaration of independence. But the evidence tends to support Benjamin's contention that he was a good and "indulgent" father. Although William was illegitimate, he brought the boy into his house and raised him as a member of the family. William used Benjamin's influence to secure the royal governorship of New Jersey. Throughout the 1760s, the two men worked in tandem. Both were strong-empire men, and neither predicted that he would have to make a choice between King and country...
Both Democrats and Republicans believe that a recall vote against Davis is inevitable--either in the fall or next March--and with Davis scoring as low as 21% in some polls, Republicans realize they have a chance to win back the country's most visible governorship. Issa may be too conservative (and abrasive) to win statewide office, but former Los Angeles mayor Richard Riordan tells TIME that he and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, both moderates, have talked about running against Davis. Schwarzenegger isn't discussing politics while he promotes Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, which opens this week, but, says...