If voters had recalled Gov. Gavin Newsom, the lieutenant governor should have been the one to replace him, columnist George Skelton writes.
Larry Elder never should have been on the gubernatorial recall ballot. Neither should have Kevin Faulconer, Kevin Paffrath or Angelyne.
That’s a lieutenant governor’s only reason for existence, after all: to succeed a governor who leaves office in midterm.Let the lieutenant governor be acting governor until the next regular election. Then elect someone to serve the rest of the recalled governor’s term. That would eliminate an incentive for recall mischief. No longer would an out-of-power party — the GOP in these times — be tempted to misuse the recall process in a backdoor effort to seize an office it couldn’t win in a regular election with a much higher, unfavorable voter turnout.
After all, they spent tens of millions of dollars and 18 months trying to recall Newsom, then ended up awkwardly beneathAnd what foolish political donors would again throw money at such a losing venture?
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