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A jewel in the crown of California's democracy

A jewel in the crown of California’s democracy
Jeff Jacoby
© Marcio Jose Sanchez
Demonstrators in Huntington Beach, Calif., in November.
California’s secretary of state made it official on Monday: The drive to recall Governor Gavin Newsom from office has qualified for the ballot. For only the second time in history, voters in the nation’s largest state will decide in a special election whether to give their governor the boot before his term is up and replace him with someone else.
To trigger a recall vote, Newsom’s opponents had to gather at least 1,495,709 valid voter signatures the equivalent of 12 percent of all ballots cast in the last gubernatorial election. They surpassed that threshold easily, submitting well over 1.6 million, with additional signatures still waiting to be verified and tallied. ....

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Opinion: Recall process holds elected officials accountable

Opinion: Recall process holds elected officials accountable
Submitted by Ted Gaines
Governor Newsom looks certain to face a recall election. Voters – even his supporters – should be thankful that California has citizen empowerment tools to check corrupt, incompetent, unresponsive or simply unpopular government officials. If you favor accountability, look kindly upon the recall effort as a means of voters being heard.
It was not always so. In the early 20th century, California state and local governments, media, and courtrooms operated as little more than subsidiaries of the mighty railroads, which abused the public faith by buying and selling influence as though it was rail stock. Republican reform Governor Hiram Johnson revolted against railroad dominance by creating a direct-democracy end run around the moneyed Colossus that so easily and thoroughly controlled the state. ....

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