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The California Recall: How We Got Here, How It Works, And Why Newsom Needs to Go

Michael J. DaPos - Opinion : Sep 13, 2021  LifeSiteNews.com

It's tempting to suggest that most anyone would be an improvement over this mess (radio broadcaster Larry Elder is far and away the superior choice to succeed Newsom), but the foremost priority of voters who plan to cast their ballots in person tomorrow should be to remind Gavin Newsom whom he actually works for by relieving him of his duties.

[LifeSiteNews.com] Gov. Gavin Newsom is fighting for his political life. (Screengrab image)

Such a declaration would have seemed utterly ludicrous at the outset of the summer. Even a month ago, the thought that Democrats would be at risk of losing not just one, but both of their "Big Blue" governors (Andrew Cuomo, we hardly knew ye) within three weeks' time would have seemed like a conservative pipe dream at very best.

Yet today, on the eve of the much anticipated California recall election of 2021, such an outcome seems just as possible now as it would have seemed unthinkable just a few short months ago.

This would not be an unprecedented move for California: In fact, many Americans were first introduced to the idea of a gubernatorial recall back in 2003, when then-Gov. Grey Davis, a Democrat, was removed from office in an off-year election spurred by his handling of the California electricity crisis of 2001, and the widespread voter furor that arose over the corresponding economic turmoil.

Davis was replaced by a candidate who, perhaps more so at the time, seemed as bizarre an alternative as ever: Arnold Schwarzenegger.

As is often said, history repeats, and that may well be the case when Californians head back to the polls tomorrow for its second recall election in less than 20 years. But the fact remains that, due to their general infrequency (this race marks only the fourth recall election held by any state in American history), recalls often generate more questions and even confusion from the public than they do support or opposition, and the 2021 race in California is no exception to the rules... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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