I take little pleasure in the admission by Ted Costa, the architect of the recall election that said bye-bye to Gray Davis and installed Arnold Schwarzenegger in Sacramento in his place, that his efforts have backfired.
“We tried changing the governor, and things are even worse now,” he told the LA Weekly last week.
Not satisfied with the damage he’s inflicted on the state he now wants to launch a “mass recall” of the Legislature in 2010 .
Isn’t one failure enough, Ted?
I’d like to think that Californians would be smart enough to realize that yet another recall election will only distract us from taken on the structural problems that have gotten us into this mess.
But rationality is one characteristic that has been in short supply in California. Don’t count Ted Costa out.
LOUIS FREEDBERG
