Looking for information on when Daniel Issa started the recall drive.

[Brian Sweat]

What I am looking for is a link to a credible story showing the earliest mention of Issa starting a recall drive.

[slackmaster]

1. About the last week of April

Here's a piece from the Wall Street Journal dated May 3, 2003:

The Governor's budget abdication is now producing a rare and remarkable recall effort, which under the state's constitution doesn't require that the incumbent be guilty of any malfeasance. The recall must be put to a vote if 897,000 valid signatures are turned in by early September. A ragtag group of citizen volunteers with little money must convince 10,000 people a day to sign the petition to make the ballot.

Yet it still could happen. Last week GOP Representative Darrell Issa promised to raise money for the recall, and a state budget meltdown this summer could help. The Field Poll found that a special recall election could be close. Mr. Davis's approval rating is 24%, the lowest of any California Governor in a half century. Voters approved of recalling him by 46% to 43%....

For full text see:

http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110003447

And another one for you:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/05/07/BA174210.DTL

[caledesi]

2. Brian, I hope you are investigating on the same hunch that I do.

Bush*/Rove behind the whole recall. Why are the journalists sleuthing this?

If you get any dirt, please inform us. Thank you.

[joefree1]

3. Yeah, we'll put it in the recall petition

I got a feeling that in a month or two we'll have plenty.

Get over it? I don't think so.

11x17 size free download on my web page:
http://darrias.com/small_art/smallart.html

California Democrats for the Recall of Aunald meet here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=106&topic_id=3018

Totally Recall Arnold Schwarzenegger Petition
http://www.petitiononline.com/schwarze/petition.html

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RecallArnold/

[Clete]

6. Try digging up a Larry King interview with former Texas Governor

Ann Richards a few months back. She says that the political rumor mill thinks that the White House and specifically Rove had an oar dipped in the recall. If you can trace back to Richard's political circle you might hit paydirt and then again maybe not. Good luck.

[charlie]

4. This article has some background

What the governor and his friends didn't know was that Issa had been quietly plotting his moves since the California Republican Party convention in February.

"What's happened has been almost exactly what he outlined that day in the hotel room, what he walked me through in February," said state Assemblyman Ray Haynes, R-Murrieta. Issa had taken Haynes into his confidence during the convention, calling him to a private meeting at the Hyatt Regency Sacramento.

"He said ... it's not smart to do anything before the war," Haynes recalled. "He just walked through how it needed to go. The only thing that delayed it was the war started two weeks later than he thought it would."

http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/6730105p-7681339c.html

[Clete]

5. Register at the LA Times website. It's free.

They should have some very good articles in their archives. I do remember reading some in the past. It's Darrell not Daniel.

http://www.latimes.com

Here's one story from the archives.
http://www.latimes.com/la-me-issa16jun16,1,5728652.story