The results of the recall election poll are in...
Here are your responses to this week’s Q-Line question: “Will you vote for or against the recall? And who will you vote for and why?” ■ “I am against the recall and I will not vote for anybody as long as we keep Governor Davis in office. If he is not in office, I will vote for Lt. Governor Bustamante. We should never have a recall for anybody. I am a democrat and even if there is a recall for President Bush, I would be against the recall. I personally believe that if a person is elected to an office, he should serve out his term and not have any recalls, and what the republicans and the Arnold-man are doing is very, very wrong.” ■ “Yes, I am going to vote for the recall and I am not quite sure who I am going to vote for yet. That’s still up in the air. But Davis screwed up and he’s on his way out.” ■ “Gray Davis is only one governor out of 50 governors who are taking the brunt of the incompetence and improprieties of the George Bush Jr. administration that is compounding the incompetence of the George Bush Sr. administration.” ■ “All the people running for governor are a bunch of idiots. I’ll vote for Gary Coleman because he’s the only one who’s been on the Simpsons.” ■ “I fully intend to vote for the recall and the reasons I am voting for the recall are if Davis stays in office another three years we won’t even have a state any-more and he will spend all the money there is left, plus we will have a huge deficit that he’s already created for us with the electricity snafu and everything else. I will not be voting for Bustamante. I think he’s just a smaller version of Davis. He wants to regulate the oil industry, he’s for driver’s license’s for illegal immigrants. Why reward people who are here illegally breaking the law with driver’s licenses when they aren’t going to drive any better than they do now? I don’t know who I am going to vote for. I am not going to vote for Arianna Huffington because I think she’s full of crap and she doesn’t pay taxes.” ■ “I am totally against the recall. It’s a waste of time, money and energy. As far as Arnold is concerned, he hasn’t come out with anything that says what he would do or could do and I don’t believe that he is that interested. He’s a movie star, we have had movie stars before as governor. Let’s get down to specifics. If I were to vote for anyone it would be Arianna Huffington, at least she has ideas and those ideas are valid.” ■ “I would like to vote for the recall. I would like to see the recall election take place.” ■ “I plan to vote against the recall, although I am not a fan of Gray Davis.
As a replacement, I plan to vote for Arianna Huffington for her stand on the issues and her outsider status. Bustamante is uninspired and as for Arnold, although it might be fun to have him in office, he is way too vague on the issues.” ■ “Yes on the recall. I will vote for Arnold because I believe his strong leadership qualities will begin to turn California in the right direction. He also has the best chance to defeat Bustamante.” ■ “I am not voting for Gray Davis. I am voting to recall him. I am not voting for Bustamante. I think he’s just a bigger version of Davis. Davis has his hands in the pockets of a lot of businesses; the Indians. He’s for giving illegal immigrants their driver’s license, which he wasn’t before, and now because he wants the votes he’s going to sign it into effect. As far as Bustamante goes, he just accepted a $2 million contribution from the Indian Gaming Commission which means that he is going to push for more gambling in California. This does-n’t upset me as much as the fact that he’s going to do everything he can to further bankrupt California.” ■ “I will vote against the recall of Governor Davis, however I would like to vote for the recall of Santa Monica’s City Council, after the incident at the farmer’s market. And another incident where a woman drove a full block on the sidewalk of the Promenade. The City Council still has not put up any barricades anywhere. Yet they have millions to re-do Virginia Park, the library and other projects.” ■ “I am voting against the recall. I really feel it trivializes the whole political process. It makes a mockery of the general elections and means that anyone with enough money can basically turn the government upside down.” ■ “Up until this morning, I was against the recall of Governor Davis, but once I read in the paper that he is ready to sign the bill for the illegal aliens to get their driver’s license I changed my mind. As far as who I will vote for, I don’t know. The field is so limited, if somebody twisted my arm it might be Arianna Huffington.” ■ “I am very much in favor of the recall of Gray Davis. He has our state in ruins because of the way he wasted money from you and I and everybody else. Also I just learned today that the casino in San Diego has given $2 million for the Cruz Bustamante campaign. This is a very, very bad situation. They will have their hands open to the Indians and steal money from the poor people who go to the casinos.” ■ “I will vote for the recall because Governor Davis has been trying to do away with proposition 13 all along. I will vote for Arnold because not only is he for proposition 13, he is also on the board of U.S. English, which I have liked for years and he is also pro-choice.”
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on September 5, 2003. Read the original PDF.