California Recall Election

October 06, 2003

By AHRC News Services
Copyright AHRC News Services

As of today, 15 women have accused Arnold Schwarzenegger of a variety of sexual crimes. If true, these charges are of a very serious nature, and deserve to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. The press has been understandably full of these charges.

Lost in all the hoopla, however, is a complete absence of any coverage on the crimes of Gray Davis. In the last election alone, he spent over $70 million from special interests groups. Nobody receives that kind of money without promising even more in return.

Those who live in homeowner associations know only too well what Gray Davis has done to them. When he authored the Davis Stirling Act in 1985 - the law that governs homeowner associations in California - he chose the chief HOA lobbyist, Katherine Rosenberry, to write it. She had been the president of Community Associations Institute (CAI), the homeowner association lawsuit industry lobby group. She testified in Sacramento two years ago that she was told to take of the special interests.

It is because of that law that thousands of homeowners in California have lost their homes through HOA foreclosure, and many more have had to pay millions of dollars in extortion fees to prevent their homes from being foreclosed on.

Which is the greater crime?

At least one thing is clear. Davis should be prosecuted as well to the full extent of the law.

It is a sad day when Californians have to choose for governor between two people who are subject to prosecution.

It is even worse when voters are urged by virtually by every California newspaper editor to vote for somebody who has caused so much suffering and harm to homeowners and their families.