Only once has a California governor faced a recall: the 2003 election that cut short the tenure of Gov. Newsom hasn’t publicly commented on the recall effort, deflecting a reporter’s question Monday by commenting on the state’s work in distributing the COVID-19 vaccine. Six of those elections — all of them, other than the Davis recall, involving legislators — were successful. AdvertisementDave Gilliard, a veteran Republican strategist and one of the architects of the successful Davis recall petition drive, recently joined the nascent effort. And if it does make it to the ballot, some suggest looking not at California’s 2003 recall election for a preview but instead at the one that sought to remove Wisconsin Gov.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 20, 2020 13:02 UTC