Jonah: I basically agree with your column about Gray Davis. California voters should have seized the chance to recall their governor last year, when he was up for re-election. Having said that, there’s one potential benefit to a statewide recall vote: It would also move up Ward Connerly’s Racial Privacy Initiative. Currently, the RPI will appear on the ballot next March, during a Democratic presidential primary that will probably have a disproportionate share of liberals turning out–and possibly voting down Connerly’s initiative. I have to say I’m not totally sold on the need for RPI, but I’d also hate to see it lose. What a demoralizing blow, less than a year after the Supreme Court’s disastrous ruling on “diversity.” RPI stands a much better chance of passage, however, if the electorate includes Republicans voting in a recall.