NO DEMOCRAT WOULD RUN, DNC CHAIRMAN PREDICTS.Byline: Harrison Sheppard Staff Writer Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe Terence Richard "Terry" McAuliffe (b. 1957) is an American business and political leader. He served as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2001-05. He currently serves as Chairman of the Hillary Clinton for President exploratory campaign committee. predicted Thursday that no Democrat would run to replace Gov. Gray Davis in a recall election, and said party leaders throughout the country are organizing to support the governor. McAuliffe, speaking at a downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or news conference organized by recall opponents, said the party organized a conference call Wednesday with activists from every state, stressing the importance of supporting Davis. He expects the conference calls to become a daily event in the campaign, similar to what was organized for the 2000 Florida presidential election controversy. ``There will not be a Democrat on this ballot,'' McAuliffe said. ``Voters here in California need to understand that. When you go vote in the recall, you will not have a choice to then pick a Democrat, because we stand firmly 100 percent behind Gray Davis. No ifs, ands or buts.'' This week, proponents of the recall said they turned in the last of 1.6 million signatures, more than the 897,158 valid signatures from registered voters needed to force a recall election. County officials are validating signatures to see if the recall qualifies for the ballot. McAuliffe said he would oppose the recall on principle even if it were against a Republican governor because it seeks to overturn an election that occurred only eight months ago, and allows for the governor to be replaced with a candidate who receives only a small percentage of the vote. Recall proponents responded to the DNC DNC Democratic National Committee DNC Democratic National Convention DNC Do Not Call DNC Delaware North Companies DNC Domain Name Commissioner DNC Direct Numerical Control DNC Do Not Change DNC Does Not Compute DNC Digital Nautical Chart chairman by saying their movement is comprised of California taxpayers and voters. ``We're not afraid We're not Afraid! is a website which was created just hours after the 7 July 2005 London bombings as a place for Internet users from around the world to state that they were not being intimidated by the actions of the terrorists. of anything the national Democratic Party is going to do,'' said Chris Wysocki, spokesman for Rescue California Rescue California was the political committee that orchestrated the 2003 recall election of Governor Gray Davis. This committee was primarily funded by Congressman Darrell Issa (Republican-California). . ``Really, this is a movement about taxpayers. It's amazing that people in Washington continually think that they know what Californians think more than Californians do.'' Bob Mulholland, campaign adviser to the state Democratic Party, predicted Democrats would muster a united team including former President Bill Clinton and former Vice President Al Gore Noun 1. Al Gore - Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton (born in 1948) Albert Gore Jr., Gore , along with some Republicans and chambers of commerce. The party's strategy, he said, will be to pit the Republican candidates against each other, similar to how Davis intervened in the Republican primary to help businessman Bill Simon William Edward Simon, Jr. (born June 20, 1951), best known as Bill Simon, is an American businessman and politician. In 2002, Simon campaigned unsuccessfully for Governor of California as a Republican against Democratic incumbent Gray Davis. win the primary over former Mayor Richard Riordan Richard J. Riordan (born May 1, 1930) is a Republican politician from California, U.S. who served as the California Secretary of Education from 2003–2005 and as Mayor of Los Angeles from 1993–2001. Riordan ran for Governor of California unsuccessfully in 2002. , leading to what many observers said was an easier general election victory for Davis. Rep. Darrell Issa Darrell E. Issa (pronounced Eye-suh) (born November 1 1953) is an American politician and former CEO of a consumer electronics company. Since 2001, he has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the 49th District of , R-Vista, is the only Republican to formally declare his intent to run in the recall election. Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, state Sen. Tom McClintock, R-Thousand Oaks, Assemblyman Keith Richman, R-Granada Hills, Riordan and Simon are among the Republicans who are considering running. Issa spokesman Jonathan Wilcox laughed off Mulholland's threat. ``We are neither intimidated nor impressed.'' Harrison Sheppard, (213)978-0390 harrison.sheppard(at)dailynews.com |
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