FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 14, 2003

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New Poll Says:
GRAY DAVIS IN JEOPARDY
OF BEING RECALLED

(SACRAMENTO) – A new poll commissioned by a respected Democratic pollster finds that Gray Davis is in serious jeopardy of being recalled.

According to the poll, 36% of Santa Clara County voters already support a recall effort against Governor Davis. Only 46% oppose a recall at this time – before the recall proponents have even begun their advertising efforts to explain why a recall is the appropriate course of action.

This is an astounding figure given the fact that this is the heartland of support for Davis in past elections. In the 2002 Gubernatorial race for example, Davis won Santa Clara County by 55.4% with his Republican challenger only receiving 32%.

Rich Robinson of the San Jose-based ERW group (who commissioned the poll) explained to the San Jose Mercury News that the poll shows Davis is immensely vulnerable to recall.

“He should be carrying this county by over 50 percent,'' Robinson said. ``If you extrapolate this to the Central Valley and parts of Southern California where he's really disliked, it could pose a problem.''

Since the November election however, voters learned that Davis had covered up the size and extent of the massive budget crisis that he had claimed had been solved. Several weeks before the November 2002 elections Davis told the Associated Press he had largely solved the budget mess facing California.

Then, astonishingly, 17 days after being elected Davis revealed that he had lied to the voters of California and that in reality the state was facing a $34.6 billion budget deficit that would only be balanced by massive cuts to vital programs and services and gigantic tax increases.

The poll was conducted by Democratic Pollster David Binder in conjunction with ERW Group, a political consulting firm headed up by Rich Robinson. Binder has conducted polling for Senate President John Burton (D), San Francisco Mayor and former Assembly Speaker Willie Brown (D), State Assembly Democrats in 1998 and 2000, and news media outlets including KPIX TV, KRON TV, and the San Francisco Chronicle.