200,000 Signature Mark in Sight!

May 14, 2003

By Recall Gray Davis

Introduction by AHRC:

"Davis is the most unpopular governor in California history" - Charles Feldman CNN News

"Davis has sold out the public interest on a scale unprecedented in American politics. He has been the cause of many homeowners losing their homes in foreclosure, and many homeowners losing million of dollars to preserve their homes. " AHRC News Services.

Millions of Californians have joined together to to recall a governor who made his political career trading their homes and life savings for wealth and power.

The following is an update that the Gray Davis Recall Committee sent AHRC

We are continuing in our coordinated effort with talk radio stations throughout the state to help promote the recall effort and collect an additional 100,000 signatures this week. If we are successful, this will put us well over 200,000 signatures in total. Remember – we need almost 900,000 valid signatures for the recall to qualify for the election ballot.

It was less than two weeks ago that we surpassed the 100,000-signature mark, and our surge in momentum is a credit to YOU! The news media and political elite have time and again declared that the Recall Gray Davis campaign was a failure and going nowhere, but you keep proving them wrong!

They’ve underestimated the strength of our democracy where the people can unite and take back their government from the corrupted special interests and politicians who drive our state into the ground, and then lie about it in a pathetic attempt to cover it up.

The Internet has proven to be a revolutionary component of this recall effort. By using the Internet we have been able to reach out to millions of Californians and organize supporters of the Recall Gray Davis effort and then distribute hundreds of thousands of petitions.

Recall Effort Attracts More National Press

We’ve been working extremely hard to keep the Recall Gray Davis effort in the news and are proud to report that we have achieved additional success.

Below are a few of the latest news stories on the Recall Gray Davis effort that we thought you might be interested in reading:

Davis Recall Effort Gains Strength

SAN FRANCISCO — With approval ratings in the basement and a $35 billion deficit, California Gov. Gray Davis faces the biggest challenge of his political career -- staving off a recall effort on a term that isn't set to expire until 2007.

The drive to remove Davis is gaining momentum -- 10 percent of the needed signatures are in. Petitions carried by volunteers and people paid by recall committees are being circulated.

And the recall groups are using a new political weapon -- the Internet. Rescuecalifornia.com and recallgraydavis.com are posting petitions. Downloaded, signed and submitted -- 900,000 signatures are needed to force a vote. ,,,,


Why California's Gov. Davis may be facing historic recall

History happened last week, but if you didn't have your radio tuned to a select few talk hosts in California – you heard nothing about it!

Last Monday, May 5, the combined efforts of the state's two main recall organizations announced the collection of over 100,000 signatures – well over 10 percent of those needed to recall Gov. Gray Davis. Since California's creation of a "Constitutional Recall" in 1911, this is the first time a recall campaign aimed at a statewide elected official has reached even 10 percent of the needed signatures, elevating it to a historical event.

Now, under California law, the secretary of state has to "officially offer the count each month" to the citizens and media alike – a new reality for California's most despised governor in state history.


Get Your Petitions!

Throughout the Golden State you hear comments like: “I can’t believe what he’s done to education!” “Only an idiot would have made that kind of a deal with the power companies.” “He’s the best governor money can buy.” or “Go Davis, Go!”

Because of Gray Davis’s incompetence, ordinary people as well as businesses pay higher electricity bills. Many taxpayers have already seen sales tax increases and very likely by this summer we will see our car registration fees double. Schools have had to make deep cuts and fees are being hiked at colleges and universities.

California was the first state to introduce both the public referendum and the recall under the great progressive governor Hiram Johnson. But we have never actually recalled a governor. It’s time, I think, that we make history!


Conservatives across the state are saying, “I told you so.”

After just a few months since the November election Governor Gray Davis now faces possible recall.

On Feb. 5 former State Assemblyman Howard Kaloogian announced he would lead an effort to recall Governor Gray Davis from office.

In the wake of suggested tax hikes everywhere, voters have now had enough. For CSUB students, there will be another 25 percent raise in tuition next fall. With the university already in a state of budget cutbacks and a hiring freeze, CSUB students are soon to be faced with many issues.

Davis’ proposed reductions in California state universities include: $134 million in unallocated base reductions, $59 million in reductions for academic and institutional support and public services, $53 million in faculty cutbacks and another $53 million in student services.

Cutbacks in academic support will surely mean less tutoring support for students in need of outside help in classes. This will also mean less student aid in areas of learning disabilities.

Public services are also left in question. What services can students afford to have taken away? Childcare, campus police, and disability services are all considered a public service to students. What of these can we do without? More then likely we as a student population need all of these services.

Davis caused the state of California to be in the state of debt it currently faces, and then expects already-poor college students to pay more? No, that’s just not right!