Recall campaign against Schwarzenegger

muchlove · October 10th, 2005, 07:05 AM

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BERKELEY, Calif. -- Until recently, Dr. Kenneth Matsumura's most notable achievement was inventing an artificial liver that makes use of live rabbit cells suspended in solution.

But on Friday, Matsumura showed up at Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's office in Sacramento and delivered a formal notice of a recall against the governor. Now Matsumura, a 60-year-old physician from Berkeley, is being depicted as the Terminator's terminator among Schwarzenegger's partisan detractors.

"I've never met him, but I intend to," said Art Torres, chairman of the state Democratic Party. "People are very interested in it. This is one way for people to express frustration and anger with the governor's policies."
Though the recall effort is still about a million signatures away from forcing a vote on Schwarzenegger's fate, many Democrats feel the pain of the recall of Gov. Gray Davis two years ago and would like nothing better than payback against the Republican who replaced him.
Schwarzenegger announced last month that he would run for re-election in November 2006. He and his aides said they were not concerned about the recall effort.

Matsumura announced in late September that he intended to organize a recall against Schwarzenegger and started a Web site, recall2006.com.
He said he was moved to try a recall by the struggles many poor people, including some of his patients, have had in making ends meet.

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