Recall - How Did California Get To This Point?

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For the second time in less than two decades, California will hold a recall election to decide the fate of its governor. Hoover senior fellows Michael Boskin and Lee Ohanian, along with policy fellow Bill Whalen, discuss the economic, social and political factors weighing on the Golden State’s electorate.The Hoover Institution hosts Recall - How Did California Get to this Point? on Tuesday, September 7, 2021 at 10AM PT.

Michael J. Boskin is the Wohlford Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. A veteran observer of California’s landscape, he served as a member of then-Gov. Pete Wilson's Council of Economic Advisors and, at the request of former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the tax-rewriting Commission on the 21^st Century Economy.

Lee Ohanian is a Hoover Institution senior fellow and a distinguished professor of economics and director of the Ettinger Family Program in Macroeconomic Research at UCLA. He writes weekly on the Golden State’s public policy choices for Hoover’s California On Your Mind web channel.

Bill Whalen is the Hoover Institution’s Virginia Hobbs Policy Fellow in Journalism. A former chief speechwriter for Gov. Pete Wilson, he writes about the Golden State for California On Your Mind and the Washington Post and does a bimonthly conversation on California with Lee Ohanian for Hoover’s Matters of Policy and Politics podcast.