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Tablesaw for Governor:
If you're still on the fence about whether the recall is a good idea, you may want to read this article from Friday's LA Times: It Could Be a Long, Quirky Ballot. Registration and cookies are, unfortunately, required, so for those who eschew either, here's a quick summary:
The requirement for nomination to a statewide office during a regular election in California are sixty-five to one hundred signatures of members of the same party (Cal Elec. Code Sec. 8062) and a fee of two percent of the first-year salary of the office sought (Cal. Elec. Code Sec. 8103). There's some confusion about how this applies to this election, though. See, prefacing those and other sections regarding the nomination of candidates is a statement saying, "This chapter does not apply to recall elections." Cal. Elec. Code. Sec. 8000(a). Unfortunately, nobody thought to write down in the laws what procedures do apply to recall elections. Hopefuls have little more than a week to get their candidacies registered, and it doesn't look like the legislature's going to be able to think tem up any time soon (they're still exhausted from staying up all night to pass an ineffectual budget), so it seems that those standards are here to stay.
So, all you need to get onto the ballot on October 7 is $3500 and sixty-five friends. Actually, this is true of any race for governor except that, normally, there's a primary election that whittles any fringe candidates away. This time, there's nothing standing between any citizen and the ballot save the aforementioned criteria. And who's planning a run for the Governor's Mansion?
The requirement for nomination to a statewide office during a regular election in California are sixty-five to one hundred signatures of members of the same party (Cal Elec. Code Sec. 8062) and a fee of two percent of the first-year salary of the office sought (Cal. Elec. Code Sec. 8103). There's some confusion about how this applies to this election, though. See, prefacing those and other sections regarding the nomination of candidates is a statement saying, "This chapter does not apply to recall elections." Cal. Elec. Code. Sec. 8000(a). Unfortunately, nobody thought to write down in the laws what procedures do apply to recall elections. Hopefuls have little more than a week to get their candidacies registered, and it doesn't look like the legislature's going to be able to think tem up any time soon (they're still exhausted from staying up all night to pass an ineffectual budget), so it seems that those standards are here to stay.
So, all you need to get onto the ballot on October 7 is $3500 and sixty-five friends. Actually, this is true of any race for governor except that, normally, there's a primary election that whittles any fringe candidates away. This time, there's nothing standing between any citizen and the ballot save the aforementioned criteria. And who's planning a run for the Governor's Mansion?
- Los Angeles billboard staple and strangely local celebrity, Angelyne
- Porn King Larry Flynt
- Humorist Steve Young, whose fund-raising is stalled because Ebay yanked his Buy a California Governor Candidate auction. (Not surprising; earlier this year, they yanked his auction of his family.)
- People who aren't (but who have the same names as) Bill Murray, Bob Dole, and Michael Jackson.
- The creator of Bat Boy: The Musical, http://www.flemmingforgovernor.org/.
- Dan Feinstein, a man who is a distant relative of, and who has a name similar to, U.S. Senator Diane Feinstein. (Feinstein is immensely popular in Democratic California, and were she to run, she would have a primrose path to the governorship.)
- And my new absolutely favorite underdog Georgy Russell, who's funding her progressive campaign with various merchandise, including the one item that's earning her some national media attention: the Georgy-for-Governor thong.