FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

RE: CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR GRAY DAVIS FACES
POPULAR VOTE OF CONFIDENCE IN FALL

The drive to remove Gov. Gray Davis from office qualified for the ballot Wednesday, clearing the way for a campaign unlike any other in California history.

If you are preparing a story on the recall of Davis and need expert commentary or interpretation, please call 310.338.2389 for an interview with:

MATT STREB, PH.D
Assistant Professor, Political Science, Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.

Streb is an expert on electoral politics and has studied California's 2002 gubernatorial election and the recent effort to recall Gray Davis. He is the author or editor of four books, including The New Electoral Politics of Race (University of Alabama Press, 2002), and Election Law and Electoral Politics (Lynne Rienner Publishers, forthcoming 2004). Streb has published articles in Public Opinion Quarterly, Political Research Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, and Politics and Policy, among others, and is a frequent radio and television commentator, appearing on C-Span's "Washington Journal," Fox News, and "Today in LA."

Streb can be reached directly at (310) 338-1741.

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