Common Citizens of California Fighting for Free and Honest Elections

In mid-May, I posted an article about California’s “Recall Mania,” in reflection upon the recall effort to give Gavin Newsom a non-essential job. It is truly amazing that Americans even have the option to “throw the bums out,” either in an election or a recall effort like the one that had succeeded recently in California. The article referred to recall efforts that seemed to be springing up like wildfires all over California. This is a form of Democracy in action -- when the elected official has not fulfilled whatever campaign promises that were made, or if there is demonstrable incompetence, or evidence of criminal activities of political figures, “reverse elections” can spontaneously erupt.