LePage wants to make it harder to send ballot questions to Maine voters

[jpak]

Source: Bangor Daily News

LEWISTON, Maine — During a speech that’s part of his ongoing effort to convince Maine voters to reject all five citizen-initiated ballot questions this year, Republican Gov. Paul LePage said Thursday that there should be a higher threshold for sending policy matters to a statewide vote.

Speaking to the Lewiston-Auburn Rotary Club, LePage criticized the state’s increasing reliance on ballot questions to make major policy decisions.

He said that instead of needing to collect signatures from 10 percent of voters in the last gubernatorial election, those wanting to get something on the ballot should have to collect signatures from 15 percent or 20 percent, a much tougher standard.

It would be “a big, big lift to get those names” if the number was hiked, LePage said.

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[Maine-i-acs]

1. Obstructionist LeRage likes to veto good legislation. People then take it to the referendum-

Now he wants to stop more legitimate laws from being created by the will of the people.

Harder and harder to be an autocrat these days, esp. when people are onto you.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. When will Mainers figure out the Fascist agenda of this dim-witted man?

Everytime I see a vote suppression or anti-populist maneuver

I post "Fear the party that fears your vote"

but I get the feeling the public doesn't realize what I'm saying,

and I don't understand why people accept political pabulum from dictators

Land of the free - let Lepage decide for me?

[dalton99]

3. No vote rigging there

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

4. Have to hold out for two more years

I don't think Mainers will take kindly to putting the screws to our citizen initiatives. LePage is the do nothing governor. Thankfully, we still have our citizen initiatives to try to get things done despite him. He is showing that he doesn't care about democracy when he says he wants to restrict those.