Subject: news of the day 7/11/03
From: Rick Hasen
Date: 7/11/2003, 7:06 AM
To: election-law

"Recall Backers Go to Court" The Sacramento Bee offers this report, which begins: "One of the groups seeking to recall Gov. Gray Davis took its fight to state court Thursday in hopes of speeding up signature counting and forcing an election this fall...The Recall Gray Davis Committee petitioned Sacramento's 3rd District Court of Appeal, asking it to override a decision by Secretary of State Kevin Shelley that recall backers claim is designed to slow down the process and delay the election until March." It turns out the suit is backed by just one of the three recall groups. (See Dan Weintraub.)
Other recall-related stories appear here; here; here; here; here; here; here; here; here; here; here; here; and here.

Washington Post picks up Florida story See this report.

More on calls to abolish FEC The Washington Post story is here, the New York Times story is here; Roll Call is here (registration required).

Nader again? See this New York Times report.

"FEC postpones decision that could affect Issa's role in recall drive"See this report.

"Campaign Finance Sponsors Want to End FEC" See this A.P. report.

BCRA briefs I have links to BCRA briefs filed July 8 at this post. UPDATE: All the links are up (thanks to the Campaign Legal Center for hosting most of these documents).

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