Arcata working on bigger recall
Left-leaning North Coast city says Bush, not Davis, needs to be ousted

Arcata, Humboldt County -- There's nothing particularly wrong with kicking out the governor, say many of the good folks of Arcata, but it's not nearly as important as kicking out someone who really deserves getting kicked out.

Someone like, say, the president.

Arcata, which is hard at work these days pondering a municipal resolution favoring the impeachment of George Bush, is not known as the Berkeley of the North Coast for nothing.

Dayna Cryder, who sells amulets and incense at Moonrise Herbs, says she hasn't made up her mind on the recall but is surrounded by people who have.

"People here tend to lean pretty far to the left," she said. "Way over to the left. They lean so far over they had to hang on or they'll fall down. They all say they're peaceful, but they yell at you if your idea of peace isn't the same as theirs."