There's a lot of talk pooh-poohing the growing popular efforts to recall California's Gov. Gavin Newsom. The barriers are high - the petitioners have to gain 1.5 million signatures, in each of five counties and that kind of work on a February or March 2020 deadline, takes money. There also are two petitions going around instead of one, which could split the signatures and doesn't say much for a united opposition with its act together. Neither are revealing just how many signatures they have, and to get to a million, they need 10,000 a day. There are some claims and indicators though that suggest the signatures are rising. It also doesn't help that there are oodles more recall petitions circulating out there, unauthorized, so signatures mean nothing, and the sites themselves are devoted to data-mining. Another problem is that there have been a lot of recall efforts - 86 to be exact, and only one succeeded, in 2003 against the honorable, if errant,...(Read Full Post)