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Old 08-15-2003, 12:31 PM   #7 (permalink)
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hmmm....

here is an article i read

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WASHINGTON -- Prominent California Democrats are pressing to get Gov. Gray Davis to resign rather than face a recall that may replace him with a Republican governor in a special October election.


Oakland Mayor (and former California governor) Jerry Brown, in Washington this past week, speculated that Davis could instantly destroy the recall movement by resigning. That would elevate Democratic Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante to the governorship. Sen. Barbara Boxer has sketched the same scenario in private conversations with fellow Democrats.

These Democrats express skepticism that Gray would voluntarily surrender the prize that he sought his entire political life. Nevertheless, he could derail the recall at any time prior to the actual balloting by just quitting.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/r...20030621.shtml

and more

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Instead of letting the recall vote go forward and run the risk of a Republican taking the governor’s office away from him shortly before the 2004 presidential election season, Davis should resign.

In doing so, he would block the GOP’s coup d’etat.

With Davis out of office, a vote wouldn’t be needed to recall him.

“The lieutenant governor shall become governor when a vacancy occurs in the office of governor,” according to Article V of California’s constitution. So if Davis resigns, Bustamante would become the state’s chief executive.

Such a turn of events would have positive ripple effects for Democrats in California.

By maintaining control of the governor’s office during the 2004 campaign, Democrats would be in a better position to deliver California to their party’s White House candidate — a victory that is a must for the Democrat who takes on President Bush next year. Given the nation’s current political landscape, if Bush manages to win California, he would be all but guaranteed four more years in the Oval Office.

In resigning, Davis would not only foil the GOP’s plot to wrest the governorship from Democrats, he would make way for Bustamante, a Hispanic, to become California’s chief executive.

As governor, Bustamante would be in a better position to help his party fend off Republican efforts to make inroads among Hispanic voters, a majority of whom cast their ballots for Al Gore in the 2000 presidential election.
http://www.wisinfo.com/thereporter/n...11664098.shtml

clavus, i think you are right on this occassion.
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