Partisan Mischief

...is what California Governor Gray Davis called the recall initiative in the Governor's Answer to the Proponent's Statement of Reasons (both the statement and the answer were included in the petition that was signed by 1,363,411 registered voters). Seems pretty accurate to me. Especially when you realize that the ballot is structured as two separate questions: 1. Should the Governor be recalled? 2. Who should replace him? If a majority of the ballots answer the first question "yes", then the highest vote-getter in question 2 wins. What this means is if you think that, say, David Laughing Horse Robinson would be a better governor than Gray Davis, but otherwise prefer Davis to everyone else, your "yes" answer to question 1 might cause Arnold Schwarzenegger to win. Once again, the lack of instant runoff voting makes me furious. Why not let everyone pick their top 5 choices, in order?

Anyway, I saw Gray Davis on "Real Time With Bill Maher" the other night, and I have to say that once again he displayed a lack of charisma even more severe than George H. W. Bush's. I'm not really sure how Davis got into office in the first place; apparently he ran a very aggressive campaign or something. Still, I don't think he's done anything to warrant a recall in the last 10 months, so if I were a California resident I'd probably answer "no" to question 1 and pick one of the Green party candidates for question 2 just in case.

Oh, and Janeane Garofalo is surprisingly unappealing as a blonde. I really hope it's just for a role.

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