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Greens' Camejo says he'll run if Gov. Davis recall qualifies Peter Camejo, who ran for governor as the Green Party candidate in November, said Monday he plans to run again if the Republican-led campaign to recall Democratic Gov. Gray Davis makes it to the ballot. Camejo, 63, who heads a money management firm in Concord, said he intends to announce his candidacy at a press conference June 16 in San Francisco. "I personally believe that Davis should be recalled and that is the feeling of the majority of the people," said Camejo, who got 5 percent of the vote in November, compared to 47 percent for Davis and 42 percent for Republican Bill Simon. But he criticized the recall process as "quite undemocratic" because it could result in a candidate winning with a relatively small percentage of votes. "Part of the reason I want to run in this campaign is to protest this, to demand the electoral laws be changed so the will of the electorate is respected," Camejo said. The recall ballot would have two sections: in one voters would choose whether to recall Davis, and in the other they would vote on a candidate to replace him, with the candidate who gets the most votes winning. Recall proponents have until Sept. 2 to collect 897,158 signatures to get the measure on the ballot. The pro-recall committees have raised more than $800,000, including $445,000 from U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Vista, the only Republican so far to announce he plans to challenge Davis. Other contributors to the recall campaign have been Assemblyman John Campbell, R-Irvine, who donated $10,000 and signed a letter urging voters to sign recall petitions, and state Sen. Rico Oller, R-San Andreas, who gave $37,200, including funding a pro-recall radio ad he appears in.
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