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San Francisco Chronicle   June 27,2003

- Opponents of the move to recall Gov. Gray Davis are
asking their supporters to intimidate signature gatherers 
and complain of harassment at stores where recall petitions
are circulating, stepping up the political battle taking place 
in front of Wal-Marts and Home Depots across California.

In an e-mail message and Internet posting titled "How to Advocate
Against the Recall," Davis supporters were told, "It is OK to 
stand in front of their table or approach potential signers 
before they do, or otherwise inhibit their activity." The memo
instructs people to say they are "offended by being harassed" 
and file complaints with managers of stores.    /snip/

California election law makes it a crime to threaten petition 
gatherers with violence or damage their property. It's also 
illegal to bribe petition circulators to abandon their work.
/snip/

Tom Bader, coordinating the signature-gathering effort for the
Rescue California recall committee, said confrontations involving
petition workers in San Francisco were so frequent that he scaled
back and concentrated his efforts elsewhere, including San Diego,
Riverside and Orange counties. Recent figures from the secretary
of state show that only 7 percent of the recall signatures are
coming from the Bay Area.    /snip/


Petition manager John Burkett, who has 100 people collecting
signatures in Riverside County, said his workers have been
approached and offered more money to work on the plebiscite.
Recall petitions have been defaced by people writing "Recall
Bush Instead!" on them, he said. 

"A few weeks ago," said petition circulator Gloria Anderson, 
48, who was working at a Home Depot in Redlands (Riverside 
County), "I had some guy walk up and try to yank my sign down.
He called me a Republican bitch. I'm not even a Republican."

from:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/06/27/MN263113.DTL

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Davis supporters, union thugs and government employees
that are afraid their cash cow that is a Democrat 
adminstration is in danger. 

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    Get a petition to recall Gray Davis here:
       http://www.rescuecalifornia.com/
   Fill it out at home, mail it in, easy as that!
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