SVGOP Podcast, Episode 4
Democrats Intimidate and Silence
Democrat state senators have introduced Senate Bill 663 to allow the Governor’s supporters to gain access to the Recall Campaign’s lists of petition signers and try to persuade them to remove their signatures. Current law allows only election officials to access their names to validate signatures.
Partial Transcript
Two Democratic state senators, Ben Allen of Redondo Beach, and Josh Newman of Fullerton–who went through a recall election himself in 2018, are carrying measures they say are needed to reform the recall process. If enacted, future recalls of California’s elected officials will be less likely. Senate Bill 663 would allow the Governor’s supporters to gain access to the recall campaigns lists of the recall petition signers and try to persuade them to remove their signatures. Current law allows only election officials to access their names to validate signatures. Chairman of Reform California, Carl DeMaio, discussed his opposition to SB 663 in more detail with KUSI’s Paul Rudy on Good Morning San Diego. DeMaio says SB 663 “is a real Jim Crow law of 2021.” And it is the, “worst form of voter suppression we’ve seen in a century.”
Republican gubernatorial candidate John Cox said in a Wednesday statement. “California politicians play by their own set of rules and then, when they don’t like the rules, change them.”
