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effort against the entire City Council of my hometown of Fredericksburg. After a court hearing, a judge dismissed the case.

But the reed issue is the California law dating back to 1911 that allows candidates in a recall election to have their names put on ballots by getting only 65 signatures from registered voters and paying $3,500.

This tends to make a mockery of the complicated recall process with an election pending that will first determine if voters want to recall Davis and, if so, who should replace him as governor.

A 99-cent store chain in the state offered to pay the filing fee and collect signatures for any 99-year-old person who would agree to run for governor. In the race already are a publisher of pornographic magazines, a pom star, a well known movie actor and many, many more.

I went to the web sites of just a few of the candidates whose names will be listed on the ballot, including an artist

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