Press Room: Press Release

Costa confident that the recall election will be held as scheduled

Contact: Ted Costa, 661-482-6175

Sacramento—Ted Costa, lead Proponent of the California Recall Election and Chairman
of the Davis Recall Committee, today said he is confident that the
recall election will be held as scheduled on October 7, 2003.

"The effort by Governor Gray Davis and his supporters to avoid the
recall election or delay is useless," said Costa. "He and his special
interest supporters, public employee unions and trial lawyers, have
filed a dozen lawsuits in a dozen different courts trying desperately to
find a court that would save Davis from the voters; He's lost everywhere
he's gone until he finally went to the liberal mecca, the 9th Circuit
Court."

But Costa said, "Even the 9th Circuit Court will not save Davis from
facing the people. I'm convinced the full court will reverse the
ruling of the 3 judge panel and, if they do not, then I will appeal to
the U.S. Supreme Court where I am certain wiser heads will prevail."

Costa criticized Davis' supporters for attempting to "jerk around the
people of California with "hot coffee"lawsuits and criticized the
arguments put forward as redundant and insulting to minorities.

"The arguments made by Davis' team have all been made before in court and
those issues have been adjudicated and settled by previous courts,"
said Costa, "and the ruling resulted in agreements and orders for
electronic or optical voting machines to be in use by March of 2004 and
for punch card voting machine to be acceptable until then. They're
bringing up an old issue that has been settled. Worse, their arguments
are based on a premise that minorities are too dumb to know how to vote;
that is an insulting argument that is really wrong. I am insulted and
I expect others are also," said Costa.

"Over two million California citizens signed petitions to call an election
to recall Governor Gray Davis for gross mismanagement of the people's
money . . far more than required by the state constitution," said
Costa. "Polls show that 8 million or more voters want Gov Davis
removed from office now. The constitution requries an election to be
held within 80 days of qualification. This recall election is the
people taking democratic action to fix their state government that is
broken. The people deserve to know that their constitution will be
followed and their voices heard," said Costa.

"I'm confident that we will have the people's business back on track
within 48 hours and I would advise Mr. Davis and his supporters to stop
any further efforts to block it," said Costa.

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