Ten years after recall, California still feels effects

The state was changed — but not the way proponents hoped — by the seismic election that propelled Arnold Schwarzenegger into the governor’s office.

By Mark Z. Barabak, LA Times
Reporting from Sacramento October 7, 2013

Ten years ago, California erupted in an anti-government, anti-establishment convulsion unlike any ever seen.

Disgruntled voters seized the chance for a rare do-over, recalling their staid and serious governor, Gray Davis, and replacing him less than a year after his reelection with one of the most famous and exuberant personalities on the planet. It was only the second time in U.S. history a sitting governor was booted from office.

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