"The application was initially rejected," recalled Kurland.
Californians should reject the recall and repeal a law that would permit an insignificant minority to gain control of the state government.
In one of his final campaign appeals, Mr. Davis told schoolchildren in Sacramento that Californians must reject his recall to prove to the world that "we can succeed in a diverse society".
But Mr. Bustamante jumped into the race 12 days ago, and is now walking a tightrope, urging voters to reject the recall but offering himself as a successor to Mr. Davis if it succeeds.
Recent polls and a string of interviews support the perception that Democrats who might be expected to reject the recall and support Mr. Davis are deserting him in droves and that Mr. Davis is in serious jeopardy of losing his job on Tuesday.
According to unofficial results provided by the city clerk, 1,023 voters, or 51 percent, rejected the recall, and 985, or 49 percent, voted for it.
Ridgefield voters narrowly rejected a recall of Mayor Anthony R. Suarez on Tuesday, more than a year after federal prosecutors charged him with taking a $10,000 bribe from a government informant posing as a corrupt real estate developer.
The move by Chrysler, the nation's third-largest automaker behind General Motors and Ford, defused what had become an unusual confrontation between a car company and the nation's auto-safety agency after Chrysler initially rejected the recall.
"I had huge fights, I had terrible trouble getting my grants funded, I had my papers rejected," Dr. Brooks recalled.
"I got rejected," he recalled, "but I refused to take the blank passport back (from the embassy)!" That was the first time he had ever used his passport.
