Governor of California race will become governor. The 2003 California recall began with a petition drive that successfully forced sitting Democratic Governor Gray Davis into a special recall election. It marked the first time in the history of California that a governor faced a recall election. He was subsequently voted out of office, becoming the second governor in the history of the United States to be recalled after Lynn Frazier of North Dakota in 1921. He was replaced by Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger. The Lieutenant Governor of California is separately elected during the same election, not jointly as the running mate of the gubernatorial
Nicole Johnson (Miss California USA) Nicole Johnson (Miss California USA) Nicole Michele Phelps (née Johnson; July 12, 1985) is an American model and beauty queen who was Miss California USA 2010 and competed in the Miss USA pageant. Johnson, the daughter of teacher and a pharmaceutical sales manager, was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, grew up in Pennsylvania and then moved to Westlake Village, California, prior to starting middle school. She graduated from Westlake High School in 2003. When Johnson was 17, she read an advertisement in the "Thousand Oaks Acorn" for Miss California Teenager. Johnson, a Moorpark College student at the time, wanted to