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âAll politics is loco,â the New York Times headlined during Californiaâs 2003 recall campaign. That never looked more true than in mid-May, when gubernatorial recall replacement candidate John Cox campaigned with a Kodiak bear to demonstrate his âbeastlyâ qualities, then complained loudly because the bear got more attention than he did. Or when reality TV star Caitlyn Jenner, running as a âcompassionateâ right-winger, griped that seeing too many homeless drove a fellow airplane-owning neighbor at a small airport to move his plane out of state. Support local ...
THOMAS D. ELIAS The ultimate goal of city and county agencies trying to solve Californiaâs homeless problem is to get this transient populace into permanent housing. But it turns out many of the homeless donât want the kind of permanent units that are becoming more available as local, state and federal governments devote ever more money to getting them off the streets. No one knows precisely how many of the stateâs approximately 161,000 homeless prefer to keep sleeping in tents and under tarps, as about two-thirds of the California homeless do each night. But dealin...
THOMAS D. ELIAS As the signatures that qualified the Gavin Newsom recall election for a statewide vote began arriving in big numbers at county recorderâs offices around California, the governor soon realized he could no longer ignore the threat. Rather, it was time for him to speak up, and also to begin seeing this as the opportunity of a lifetime to establish a brand as a courageous, defiant Democrat who will not be intimidated. Thatâs why just two days before the St. Patrickâs Day deadline for submitting signatures, Newsom began emailing past supporters regularly ...
THOMAS D. ELIAS Almost all the usual rules of California elections are off today, as the state heads toward its second gubernatorial recall election of the last 18 years. The list of candidates to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom will surely be interesting, but perhaps not as odd as what voters faced when they decided in 2003 who should replace then-Gov. Gray Davis. They plainly did not regret choosing movie muscleman Arnold Schwarzenegger for his most interesting role ever, reelecting him easily three years later, in 2006. Like this yearâs will be, the timing of that election was a...