If a sugar daddy like Rep. Darrell Issa can be found to pay the bills, nearly anyone is fair game for paid signature- gatherers, the new foot soldiers in California politics. Money rules as never before.

...these tools [initiatives and recalls] were not designed to substitute for governing, they were developed to protect against abuses... And if groups and partisan interests can afford to put their particular initiative on the ballot, then why not use the same process as a partisan weapon to go after unpopular political leaders regardless of when they were elected? The current recall effort is in many ways the culmination of direct democracy run amok. The only way to avoid runaway initiatives and recalls is for the elected leaders and the voters to recognize their common responsibility to effective self-government.