California’s Democratic leaders want this week’s gubernatorial recall election, which Gov. Gavin Newsom defeated, to be the last of its kind
gubernatorial recall electionLegislative leaders in both houses of the Democratic-controlled legislature said they would hold hearings as early as next month on proposals that would make recalls tougher to initiate and, they said, less politicized.
Ideas include increasing the threshold of petition signatures needed to place a recall on the ballot, limiting the reasons a governor can be recalled and having the lieutenant governor replace a recalled governor or requiring a runoff solely among replacement candidates.
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