As we reported last week, today the Committee to Recall Anthony Adams will turn in around 40,000 signatures to registrars of voters in both Los Angeles and San Bernardino County. In order for a recall election to be called against Adams there will ultimately need to be about 36,000 valid 
signatures of voters from the 59th Assembly District turned in. (The media event will be this afternoon at the Los Angeles County Registrar, headed up by Recall Adams leader and former State Senator Dick Mountjoy.)
The recall against Adams is taking place over his deciding vote to increase state income, sales and car taxes by billions — actually it was the largest tax increase ever at the state level in any state in the history of America. Adams took a pledge not to raise taxes in his critical first primary election.
Unlike qualification for a statewide ballot measure, with this sort of recall a campaign can turn in signatures and get a mid-way count. It appears that this is what is taking place here, as you can figure that 40,000 gross signatures will likely not result in quite enough signatures to trigger the recall — but it will be very close. Proponents would have until mid-September to turn in any remaining necessary valid signatures. From that point registrars would have up to 30 days to notify the state as to the number of valid sigs counted — and then the Governor would have 60-80 days to call a special recall election — so depending on how things go, we’re looking at a December/January time frame.
Memory Lane. Only two years ago, it looked like we had a block against higher taxes…