Darrell Issa—an alleged car thief who later made his fortune selling car alarms—decides he wants to be governor. So he throws the world's sixth largest economy into utter chaos by paying bunch of losers to collect enough signatures to invalidate an election that's not even a year old—right in the middle of the worst deficit crisis in state history. You can't make this shit up.
Via Flutterby [1], “Gary for Governor! [2]”
Yes, California is in a gubernatorial crisis right now, and everybody is running for Governor of the land of Shake-n-Bake. Arnold Schwarzenegger has made noises about running, and Larry Flynt [3] is running (Hustler Publisher Files in Calif. Recall) [4] and, when you read the article above, so is Gary “Whatcha talking 'bout, Willis?” Coleman.
This is about as amusing as the FAU (Florida Atlantic University) [5]'s newspaper/student government scandal [6] over a decade ago. Personally, I'm hoping Larry wins; he's done more for our Constitutional rights and has run a very successful business so he stands a better chance of getting California out of its financial crisis.
[1] http://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/6416.html
[2] http://www.eastbayexpress.com/issues/2003-08-06/recall.html/1/index.html
[3] http://www.larryflynt.com/
[4] http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A11953-2003Aug1?language=printer