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On June 21, Larry Elder won a court order in Sacramento Superior Court, putting him on the September 14, 2021 recall ballot. See this story.
The basis for the decision is that the law requiring gubernatorial candidates to submit their income tax returns only applies to primary elections, and the gubernatorial recall is not a primary. This means that none of the other 41 candidates need to have bothered to have submitted their returns. But of course no one could have known that for sure, at the time of the filing deadline.
So far, there is no written decision.
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Radio talk show host Larry Elder poses for a photo in his studio, Monday, July 12, 2021, in Burbank, Calif. Elder has announced he is running for governor of California. | Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Photo
Talk show host Larry Elder reinstated in California recall
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OAKLAND Conservative talk show host Larry Elder was reinstated in California s recall election at the eleventh hour Wednesday after a judge found he complied with ballot requirements and the state elections chief shouldn t have demanded that candidates provide five years of tax returns.
At issue were the tax filings Elder had submitted to California elections officials in his bid to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom. Secretary of State Shirley Weber’s office said the documents Elder shared were improperly redacted. Elder went to court to fight back, and his case landed in front of Sacramento Superior Court Judge Laurie Earl just hours before Weber was set to certify the final list of
Larry Elder to Appear on California Recall Ballot
Longtime talk show host Larry Elder will be a listed candidate on the California gubernatorial recall ballot after being previously disqualified, a Sacramento judge ruled July 21.
“I won my court case,” Elder, an EpochTV host, said on Twitter. “We will be on the ballot.”
Elder on July 19 filed a lawsuit against Secretary of State Shirley Weber after being left off the official recall candidate list for supposedly filing incomplete tax returns.
However, on July 21, Sacramento Superior Court Judge Laurie M. Earl ruled in favor of Elder, stating that the law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2019 requiring gubernatorial candidates to release their tax returns doesn’t apply to recall elections, only primary.
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – A judge Wednesday denied former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer’s request to be labeled as the city’s retired mayor on the ballot in this year’s gubernatorial recall election.
Earlier this week, Faulconer’s campaign announced it planned to sue the Secretary of State’s Office regarding his ballot designation, alleging that no regulations prohibit the use of the word “retired.”
Secretary of State Shirley Weber’s court filings argue that Faulconer was termed out as San Diego’s mayor and thus did not voluntarily retire from the office.
Faulconer argued in court papers that he took the mayor’s job knowing he would eventually have to depart the office due to term limits, meaning he “voluntarily undertook a job that would, as a matter of law, force his early retirement from that job.”