"Nothing could be more threatening to the value of our votes and the future of majority rule in California than the overthrow of elected government by a sliver of the electorate."
Republican consultant Ken Khachigian, the chief strategist of Issa's gubernatorial campaign, said he expects Lockyer or Angelides to run on the recall ballot despite their statements.
"I don't think for a minute they're going to stick by this," he said. "If they are on record that this is a threat to democracy, then my challenge to them is to go ahead and circulate a petition to amend the state Constitution and repeal this [recall] portion of it," he said.
"Otherwise, the people of this state have put in this provision, and it was intended for precisely this sort of thing. These are extraordinary circumstances where this governor has reached a historic low in the confidence level of the people, and I can't imagine any public officeholder who would question the right of the people to have a vote."
