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Even though many of us would LOVE to recall the Gropenator, now is not the time to do it:
1) A recall election before the 2006 elections would have to be either: - the same election as the primary election in June to avoid spending extra money on it. This however could lead to some great confusion in how candidates can run both for a primary for governor in 2006 and as a final candidate for the recall at the same time... If you have different people winning the primary and the recall, that creates added problems as to who should run in 2006. Not to mention you only get 5 months of them being in office, and it might not be the person we'd ideally want in anyway with it being a plurality deciding the vote instead of a majority. - a special election could be called earlier for the recall. But in addition to the expense of the signature gathering and many other parts of a recall, the added expense of yet another special election would completely deflate our criticism of this election he's called as being a wasteful expenditure of much needed state money, which will continue to sting him until next election, especially if none of his measures pass. 2) I think for the expense and added effort you go through, you might actually help get Arnold more sympathy from some in the middle rather than the anger if we do it the "normal" way of getting him out in 2006.
Leave the recall alone for now. If we need a recall, it would be to wait until after something suspicious somehow managed to get him elected in 2006. Then that would be the appropriate time for a recall.
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