Around Town: Let's hold a recall and see who comes!
By Pat Orr Special to the Victorville Daily Press It appears the effort to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom may qualify for a special election. That has not happened since Gray Davis fell to a successful recall election in 2003. Are recalls that unusual in California politics? Not at all. In fact, there have been 55 gubernatorial recall attempts since 1939. That year, then-Gov. Culbert L. Olson was the subject of three recall efforts and two more in 1940. All failed to qualify for the ballot. Things fell quiet until the era of Edmund G. Brown, who had three recall attempts thrown his way in 1960 a...
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