More on recall

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Welcome to irony world: Darrell Issa (the main guy behind the recall effort, who dropped out of the race a while back) is now recommending that voters vote against the recall.

The reason? He's worried that McClintock and Schwarzenegger will split the Republican vote, clearing the way for a Bustamente victory, which would be worse (says Issa) than leaving Davis in office.

The article notes that Issa may not have been serious; he might've been trying to put more pressure on McClintock to drop out. But I'm still amused.

Maybe when Issa planned the recall effort, he thought he would be the only serious Republican candidate. Or maybe he thought if he weren't, there would still be one frontrunner and everyone else would drop out to support them.

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  1. Jay Lake

    Somehow I was on Planet P when Issa dropped out of the race immediately before his candidacy announcement. I missed the associated news cycle. *Why* did he drop out? My cyncial self presumes someone else had serious dirt on him that was about to blow, but I never heard either an official or unofficial explanation.

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  2. Jed

    Well, the San Jose Mercury sez that Democrats claimed the White House pressured Issa to drop out after Schwarzenegger decided to run. The White House denies it, of course, so that article is basically rumormongering—could be true, could be false. Issa’s official explanation, according to that article, was that his presence in the race would “only complicate things” and (as the Merc article puts it) “that he wanted to eliminate Davis’ ability to cast him as the face of the recall.”

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