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THE BUZZ: California Democrats convened online this weekend for a party convention that often felt more like a pro-Newsom pep rally, with yoga breaks.
No variable threatens to upend Gov. Gavin Newsom’s recall defense more than party unity,
Four-hundred million dollars.
That s one estimate for how much the election to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom could cost taxpayers this fall.
Could the hefty price tag become the focus of voter backlash against the Republican-led effort to oust the Democratic governor just a year before he would otherwise face re-election? I d say that framing it as a waste of money and waste of time probably is going to be pretty effective with swing voters who aren t sure what they re going to do about the recall, said Darry Sragow, a longtime Democratic strategist in the Golden State.
While California s finance department won t have an official cost estimate for the election until this summer, the California Association of Clerks and Election Officials â the county officials who run the election â says they expect extra COVID-related precautions will push the costs of a special statewide election to roughly $400 million.
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Critics of California governor gather enough signatures to force recall election
Critics of California governor gather enough signatures to force recall election
(Photo / Getty) Thu, 29 Apr 2021, 2:24PM
Critics of California Gov. Gavin Newsom have met the state s threshold with enough validated signatures to force a recall election of the Democratic governor this year, a contest that could land on the ballot as early as this summer or as late as December.
The recall had long been expected to qualify because it was driven by a well-organized grassroots group that gathered signatures in every county of the state and backed by key Republican strategists in California who brought their fundraising heft and direct mail expertise to the effort.
Palm Springs Desert Sun
California s secretary of state said Monday that organizers of a petition drive to force a recall election of Gov. Gavin Newsom have gathered more than 1.6 million valid signatures more than enough to qualify for the ballot.
The 1.6 million signatures are about 100,000 more than needed to force a vote on the first-term Democrat.
However, the validation process won t be complete until Thursday. That s the deadline for county elections officials to verify the validity of any remaining signatures and report the final signature verification.
After that, the clock starts ticking on a period of 30 business days during which voters may ask county elections officials to remove their names from recall petitions up until June 8.