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.