QUESTIONS:
1. The movement to recall California Gov. Gray Davis recently submitted signatures to place his possible recall on the state ballot. When was the last time recall proponents in any state had their signatures certified to recall a governor?
2. When was the only time in the 20th Century that a governor anywhere was recalled?
3. Several reporters have noted that if Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes governor of California in the new election that would accompany a recall, he would be ineligible to run for President because he is not a natural-born American citizen. Who is the only current governor ineligible to run for President also because of being born in another country?
4. Name the last governor of California who stepped down before completing his term of office.
5. Although she insists she won’t be a candidate, California Democrats still talk of Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s running for governor in the event Davis is recalled. Who was the last senator to run for governor of California?
ANSWERS:
1. In 1988, when the state of Arizona certified that enough signatures had been submitted to schedule an election to recall Republican Gov. Evan Mecham. (The election, however, was never held because the legislature subsequently impeached and removed Mecham.)
2. In 1921, when Lynn Frazier, Socialist governor of North Dakota, was recalled.
3. Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm of Michigan, who was born in Canada.
4. Republican Earl Warren, who resigned as governor in 1953 to become chief justice of the United States.
5. Republican Sen. Pete Wilson (Calif.), elected governor in 1990 and served until 1998.
