What Went Down At The California Recall Election: Live Results

Amid the discussion here and elsewhere about whether it’s too easy to recall — or, at least, try to recall — a governor in California, some intriguing comments from Democratic Rep. Karen Bass of California over on ABC News Live tonight. She took note of the dozens of recalls going on at every level of government in California and said there needs to be a serious effort to “see who’s behind it all.”

More of what she said: “This could be a strategy to essentially grind government to a halt, to paralyze government. And so I think that that’s what we have to take a look at. I know that I’m very interested in analyzing who started all these recalls, who’s funding them, because you can’t just recall someone without financial backing, significant financial backing.”

We (myself, perhaps, included) have sometimes covered this recall a bit like the French Laundry photo made things automatically happen. But, of course, the recall drive began long before that picture went viral, and that photo only mattered because serious political infrastructure was already in place to take advantage of that moment.