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As Gavin Newsom Offers $600 Stimulus Checks, Recall Campaign Continues Push
On 2/18/21 at 10:38 AM EST
The campaign to recall Gavin Newsom claimed on Wednesday to have collected almost 1.7 million signatures as the California governor unveiled his plan for a $9.5 billion COVID relief bill for the state.
The group Recall Gavin 2020 issued a statement on Wednesday night, saying its petition had reached 1,689,000 names with less than a month to go. The campaign needs a minimum of 1.5 million signatures to force a recall election, but aims to collect 2 million in case any are discounted by state officials.
The campaign has set an internal target date of March 10 and the official petition deadline is March 17.
Efforts to recall Gavin Newsom have drawn comparisons to the successful recall of former California Governor Gray Davis in 2003, but strategists say the two scenarios are entirely different.
02-17-2021
California Gov. Gavin Newsom. (AP Photo)
Leaders of a movement to recall California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom say they have enough signatures to force a special statewide election. The organization known as Recall Gavin Newsom 2020 says it has now gathered more than the minimum 1.5 million signatures needed to qualify the measure for the ballot.
Randy Economy, a senior adviser to the organization, says they will continue to work to get hundreds of thousands more and validate them all before the March 17 deadline We re not stopping at the 1.5 million signatures that we ve collected thus far, he told Fox News. Our ultimate goal is to get … 1.8 million to 2 million because we don t want to leave any doubt in anybody s mind in regards to the validity and the accuracy of what we re doing here.