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Conservative groups are out to take back California with two petitions demanding “fair districts” and a part-time legislature. All they need are signatures—more than 600,000 of them, per petition. Nevertheless, leaders of the most recent movement say they will succeed where several previous petition drives failed. Leading the group is Ted Costa, who said the group has 100,000 signatures for their redistricting initiative. Costa and his group, People’s Advocate, submitted paperwork for their petitions in October. Costa, a veteran of the gubernatorial recall, started accepting signatures after the Nov. 2 election. The petitioning group had previously submitted paperwork for the...

<p>If the Legislature doesn't shape up and enact sensible budget and other reforms, what next can be done? Maybe return to a part-time Legislature such as the state had until the 1960s.</p> <p>The part-time idea is being advanced by Ted Costa, CEO of People's Advocate, the Sacramento- based activist group that spearheaded the recall of former Gov. Gray Davis.</p>

The same grass-roots group that launched the successful recall of Gov. Gray Davis turned its attention to the Legislature on Thursday and kicked off an initiative drive to reconfigure legislative districts so that politicians face tougher competition on election day. Ted Costa, chief executive officer of the conservative antitax group, People's Advocate, has taken the first step toward putting an initiative before voters next November that would take redistricting out of the hands of the Legislature and give it to a panel of retired judges. Costa does not want to wait eight years to get rid of the district boundaries...

10,000 hits in 4 days to Davis recall website By Bay City News Service Within four days after the Web site "RecallGrayDavis.com'' was launched last week, about 10,000 Californians joined the organized effort to remove Gov. Gray Davis from his seat in Sacramento, according to the group's organizers. Former Republican Assemblyman Howard Kaloogian of Carlsbad, who is spearheading the effort, said, "The Recall Gray Davis campaign is committed to organizing the tens of thousands of Californians we will need to carry out this recall effort.'' Kaloogian called the number of visitors to the Web site a sign of how...