{"id":224,"date":"2003-10-22T18:38:40","date_gmt":"2003-10-22T18:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:23","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:23","slug":"california_recall_looking_backwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=224","title":{"rendered":"California Recall: Looking Backwards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My <a href=\"http:\/\/windsofchange.net\/archives\/004108.html\" target=\"browser\">quote<\/a> on the recall:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Electing him will be a slap to the face of the political class, which it badly needs.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From  the SJ Mercury News (probably the best paper in California, by the way) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bayarea.com\/mld\/mercurynews\/news\/7073594.htm\" target=\"browser\">today<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Some prominent Democrats read the election as a rebellion against partisan gridlock in general, not a repudiation of their party.<\/p>\n<p>The recall election was a &#8220;hell of a wake-up call&#8221; for all political leaders across the state, Assembly Speaker Herb Wesson said Tuesday.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;Californians said: `Business as usual is not cutting it. We are sick and tired of partisan bickering. Get the job done,&#8217; &#8221; said Wesson, D-Los Angeles.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>In a memo distributed to Democratic Assembly members three days after the election, their chief campaign strategist, Darry Sragow, had this advice:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While voters continue to support Democratic ideals, they need reassurance that Democrats also grasp and are prepared to deal with the public&#8217;s concerns about jobs and pocketbook issues &#8212; the state&#8217;s and their own.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic caucus, he added, should &#8220;put aside whatever differences it may have with the governor-elect and enter into good-faith negotiations regarding the budget.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not that I&#8217;m smug about it or anything&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My quote on the recall: Electing him will be a slap to the face of the political class, which it badly needs. From the SJ Mercury News (probably the best paper in California, by the way) today: Some prominent Democrats read the election as a rebellion against partisan gridlock in general, not a repudiation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}