According to [1]:

the Davis administration will announce that Steve Smith will leave his government post as secretary of the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency to work on anti-recall activities.

Smith is no ordinary bureaucrat chipping in for the cause. He is one of Davis' few longtime political allies -- a top adviser who played integral roles in the 1998 gubernatorial campaign and the 2002 re-election effort. He's one of the guys on those morning conference calls that include the governor, political adviser Garry South and pollster Paul Maslin.

That column has an even more interesting bit about Shawn Steel's "anti-Islam" remarks; see the next post.

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[1] sacbee · com/content/politics/story/6735719p-7686876c.html