Ten years after being recall as the governor of California, Gov. Gray Davis sits for a portrait in the Four Seasons Hotel on March 19, 2013 in San Francisco, Calif. March 25, 2013 marked a decade since the birth of a groundbreaking grassroots political movement that rocked California and the nation â€” and planted the seeds of the Tea Party movement that has since reshaped national politics. The great 2003 California Recall of Democratic Gov. Gray Davis, begun by a few stalwart conservative activists and talk show hosts angered over the stateâ€™s car tax, started a political tidal wave that galvanized a new voter force and upended political convention. It also flashed the early power of online political organizing â€” it was the first major race where voters could download petitions online.