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The gubernatorial term from 1999-2003 was a poisoned chalice for any governor in California coming into power, since many of Pete Wilson’s chickens started coming home to roost.

IOTL Gray Davis didn’t do that bad a job with the shit he had fall in his lap, but a lot of it like the power crisis and CalPERS unfunded liabilities were driven by events outside of his control. With the power crisis being driven by Enron and the CalPERS bomb being caused by the dot com bubble and a bill that had unanimous support in the legislature.

So if Dan Lungren somehow gets elected in 1998, would he also get recalled over the power crisis? And would that tar the entire CA GOP with the accusation that they were complicit in the power crisis?
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