Over a century ago the California government was entirely corrupt and owned by the Southern Pacific railroad company. The current recall rules were part of series of election reforms, along with our system of ballot referendums and initiatives, that worked to wrest control of the state back for the people.

Him and John Cox, whose ridiculous TV ads still make me laugh. He went all-in on dubbing himself “The nicest, smartest beast you’ll ever meet in California” (in contrast to calling Gavin “Beauty”, which raises weird questions about if John Cox has ever seen Beauty & the Beast and if he harbors complex feelings towards…

Something needs to be done. This is how we ended up with Arnold .

Someone needs to clone Elder and run him in every GOP Senate primary. Then just let him wander around talking. 

Badly written laws, it can happens.

Agreed with everything here. 

I notice that there’s been calls for recall reform in California, which I agree is sorely needed to prevent this bullshit proceeding from happening again without good valid reasons. Maybe model it after Wisconsin’s recall effort on Gov. Scott Walker (even though he won that one)?

Elder, his little pal Candice Owens, along with other GOPhers are hellbent on continuing to champion Trumpism and fascism in this country. Elder got the brakes beat off his sorry, abusive, misogynistic ass! If he had his way, he would have Black Americans working in the fields again, and former Confederate,…

Republicans cost themselves this election by refusing to endorse a candidate and letting Larry Elder coopt the recall and drive their base to the right.

Yeah... taxpayers pay most of that money. Sending out ballots, paying for people to work poll stations, etc.

Well it looks like California has taken one step back from becoming Florida or Texass. Thank God!

This was such a needless waste of taxpayer dollars; thankfully it failed.

Larry Elder can go fuck himself.

I look at that $300mil as wealth redistribution: Rich people give money to campaigns who then spend that on print shops and TV ad buys, so eventually some of that rich people money gets to your pressmen, camera operators and janitors.

Newsom has problems, but “ESAD” to Ashy Larry and Jenner.

Waste of 300 million dollars. Fiscally conservative my ass.

She was invited by the designer and it’s a fund raiser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  

Jezebel needs Republicans in office so its not-very-great passel of writers can continue to up their self-satisfied snark and demands that other people take action. There is no longer any real leadership or vision in the former Gawkerverse. 

I know that 2016 was about a thousand years ago, but I’m already getting that “Hillary can’t possibly lose to Trump now, so let’s take a dump on her to score points” vibe with Newsom’s apparent late surge

Are y’all kidding with this headline? Yes, we know Newsom is garbage. I look forward to voting against him next year. But Jesus Christ, is right now the moment for this? When we’re at the tail end of a Republican recall campaign that we know could easily go the other way? Wouldn’t you rather remind your readers to get…

Hear! Hear! I am an old, life-long Californian. Ronald Reagan was my introduction to rethuglicans. I’ve not trusted one since. Newsom is no hero but he’s a good guy who is trying to do (mostly) the right things. If Elder gets the Governorship and something happens to Dianne Feinstein, he’ll appoint a rethuglican to…