Recall's strange bedfellow

[davidinalameda]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/07/29/MN94086.DTL


Renegade University of California Regent Ward Connerly didn't plan it this way, but his Oct. 7 ballot initiative promoting a "colorblind society" could end up helping Gov. Gray Davis fight off a recall attempt on the same ballot.

At least that's the conclusion of two political analysts who have been studying the issue at California State University at Sacramento. Both believe Connerly's Proposition 54, embraced by conservatives but widely condemned by Democrats, could spark a big opposition turnout of minority and liberal voters -- a development that they say would benefit the embattled governor.

While Prop. 54, dubbed the "Racial Privacy Initiative," appeals to conservative voters, political experts say those voters will turn out anyway for Davis' recall. On the other hand, the initiative has galvanized affirmative action supporters who are mounting an aggressive campaign against it.

[Cha]

1. Good! Ain't fate funny, issa?

[mjb4]

2. if recall vote fails -- they can start over again

watch....

[Walt Starr]

3. It's sick that just over a million voters

can decide to spend $35 million of the tax payer's money for a bogus recall election.

[fob]

4. Davis should spend a lot of repug-induced-recall taxpayer

reimbursable money getting this out front and center! Don't campaign at all on himself, only massive support of this initiative, get the base out to vote.

I DO NOT RECALL!