Senator Dianne Feinstein is way off the mark with her recent "deeply flawed"comments on the California recall election laws.

To the Editor

Senator Dianne Feinstein is way off the mark with her recent "deeply flawed"comments on the California recall election laws, which appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle on August 20, 2003. Actually this is the first time in over ninety years that the recall initiative process has actually succeeded in forcing a recall election against a sitting governor.

Feinstein also suggests a system of "pre-screening candidates" for future recall elections. Another moronic idea. Pray tell, who would sit on the board of reviewers for this pre-screening? Governor Gray Davis? Senator Dianne Feinstein? Just another elite fantasy.

She is part of the corporate elite and wants to maintain their continuing death-grip on the electoral process in California at all costs. Last year, Governor Gray Davis threw down the gauntlet to his opponents when he grossly interfered in 2000 GOP California primary election with millions of dollars spent in a smear campaign against the moderate candidate Richard Riordan. Davis was such a weak reelection candidate that he could barely manage to beat the right wing novice GOP candidate Bill Simon by only 5% in the general election in November, 2000. So now Governor Davis has to face the wrath of the people's recall.

Yours truly,

James K. Sayre

22 August 2003