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Issa's bid definite; Camejo may run At the same time, the San Diego-area congressman leading the recall effort vowed to challenge Davis even if the election is held next spring. ``I am a candidate for governor. Period,'' Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Vista, said during a stop in Sacramento. ``I will be a candidate if it's in March or if it's in November. I will be there until the day Gray Davis leaves office.'' Previously, Issa had said that he would not run if he couldn't force a fall election. Republicans will have a much better chance of defeating Davis in the fall rather than in March, when it would coincide with the Democratic presidential primary. Monday, Issa said he is now in for the long haul. At the same time, Green Party member Peter Miguel Camejo said he will also challenge Davis. Camejo, who won 5 percent of the vote last fall, said Democrats have signed a ``political suicide pact'' by pledging not to put their names on the recall ballot in a show of support for Davis. So, he said, he's running as an alternative to Republicans who decide to run. ``I say the Democratic Party's abandoning their members,'' Camejo said in a telephone interview. ``They're going to gamble everything on the fact that Davis is not recalled.'' Carroll Wills, a spokesman for Taxpayers Against the Governor's Recall, questioned Camejo's motives, noting that the Green Party is officially neutral on the recall. ``It suggests the possibility, at least, that Mr. Camejo is doing this more to draw attention to his own profile,'' Wills said. ``It's strange that somebody like Peter Camejo would give aid and comfort to a process that is being driven by people who stand for just about everything he stands against.'' Camejo, 63, of Walnut Creek, founded a money management firm called Progressive Asset Management.
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Contact Laura Kurtzman at lkurtzman@mercurynews.com or (408) 920-5608.
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