These are the signatures of the ordinary folks that have signed on.īut isn’t the recall a struggle between the two major political parties? It’s ludicrous - the Republican Party doesn’t exist. Let me tell you, the Republicans couldn’t even get anyone elected. This is the crazy thing here, when they say it’s a “power grab” of the Republicans. The Republican party is, like I have said, dying at the box office. Newsom’s team says it’s a “Republican recall” and an effort to overthrow a Democratic governor - is that how you see it? With us, it was the power outages in 2003. In Newsom’s case, it was the French Laundry thing. Something that sets it off to a higher level, kind of the straw that breaks the camel’s back. It’s the same vibe.Īnd it’s the same with the momentum. They’re failing us every day.” That’s what I see as the similarities from 2003. And you feel like, “Wait a minute, but Sacramento doesn’t really do everything for us that they promised they’ll do.

It’s very tough to raise kids and to have a family, and to go through this challenge, working to make ends meet. People are making unbelievable sacrifices every day. There was dissatisfaction, to the highest level. It’s pretty much the same atmosphere today as it was then. Here are some excerpts from that conversation, edited for length and clarity:ĭo the 2003 California recall that brought you to power and the current recall against Gavin Newsom have anything in common? In his first-ever interview on this year’s California recall drive, which is expected to be certified soon, the Republican former governor tells POLITICO that the same voter frustration and yearning for effective leadership and post-partisan cooperation are still clearly at play in the nation’s most populous state - and offers Newsom some advice on what may lie ahead. “There was dissatisfaction, to the highest level. “It’s pretty much the same atmosphere today as it was then,” Schwarzenegger, the 38th governor of California, said in an interview this week. But Schwarzenegger, 73, warns that there are plenty of similarities between California’s history-making populist movements nearly two decades apart, and that elected officials ignored them at their peril.

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