'Gov. Gray Davis was removed from office in a recall election 18 years ago. What lessons did he learn?' From columnist nick_goldberg:
There’s only one other person who has been through the bizarre experience that Gavin Newsom just went through, and that’s Gray Davis.
“I don’t believe in moaning and groaning,” he says. “The recall is a fact of life in our politics. It’s been around for 110 years and if you don’t like it, maybe you shouldn’t run for office in California.”In his position, I’d moan and groan and be bitter. I’d be more like Bob Dole after his loss to Bill Clinton in the 1996 presidential race. “I slept like a baby,” Dole famously said. “Every two hours I woke up and cried.
For one thing, it’s a terrible distraction. His own recall came after a statewide electricity crisis that led to power outages, and after he raised the state vehicle license fee in response to a budget shortfall. Voters, who had just reelected him, were angry and 135 candidates — college students, publicity seekers, a movie star and a sumo wrestler among them — ran to replace him. Obviously, it tore him away from his legislative priorities.
Davis doesn’t want to abolish the recall. He believes it’s part of California’s populist history. But he has suggestions for eliminating its most egregious shortcomings.
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