Updated: 3:43 PM PDT Jul 1, 2021 KCRA Staff Gov. Gavin Newsom wasn t expected to face an election until 2022. Critics of his response to the COVID-19 pandemic and liberal policies, however, succeeded in collecting more than the 1.5 million signatures needed for a recall election.The election has now been officially certified and set for Sept. 14, setting off a 10-week burst of campaigning through the California summer.In 2003, when Democrat Gray Davis was recalled and Arnold Schwarzenegger claimed the governorship in a Hollywood blockbuster of an election, voters were faced with a ballot of 135 candidates. The list included unlikely characters, such as adult film actress Mary Carey, former child actor Gary Coleman, columnist Arianna Huffington and Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt. Sacramento bounty hunter Leonard Padilla, a frequent candidate for office, was also on the list.Carey has already said she s running again this time and there s an expectation