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Finally -- Sense on California Ballot Initiatives -- Vote "No" on Everything Email Print

By pontificator
09/29/2006 04:26:39 PM EST

I heartily endorse this sentiment:

There is only one proposition I would vote for, and that would be a proposition to amend the state constitution to abolish voter propositions.

There are 120 members of the California state Assembly and Senate. Each one, elected by popular vote, earns a full-time salary. Is it too much to ask that these people actually write the laws, and spare me the pain of reading a 190-page voter guide and waiting half an hour in line to vote while some octogenarian pulls 40 levers before he even gets to the first actual election on the ballot?

This direct democracy thing Californians seem to be in love with is a disease. I'm voting No On Everything.


Ballot initiatives are nothing but lobbyist funded astroturf campaigns designed to further a special interest group's agenda.  The average ballot initative consists of completely unintelligible legalese that most trained lawyers can't even understand, much less the average voter -- and thus the side that wins is the side with the best (and most) campaign ads.

It's times we put the business of legislating back where it belongs -- with the people we're paying to do the business of legislating.  Democracy will be the better for it.


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