Arizona lawmakers advance bill to limit voter initiatives

[Kali]

ahh democracy...

http://tucson.com/news/local/arizona-lawmakers-advance-bill-to-limit-voter-initiatives/article_9f951b03-ac64-5dcc-bdb1-af739b197362.html?fb_action_ids=10158322407395422&fb_action_types=og.comments

Spurred by business interests in the wake of a voter-approved minimum-wage hike, Republican lawmakers approved legislation Thursday that could curtail the ability of citizens to create their own laws.

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The measure approved by the House Government Committee on a party-line vote and sent to the full House also imposes a series of new procedural hurdles and gives those who oppose initiatives new rights to try to have them knocked off the ballot before voters get a chance to weigh in.

The legislation also requires strict compliance with all initiative requirements, something Sierra Club lobbyist Sandy Bahr said could result in disqualifying petitions simply because their margins are not the right size. <snip>

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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Fascist assholes. Makes me very very angry, hopefully others will be as well.

[denverbill]

2. They did this in Colorado this year and the damned thing passed. It was the frackers funding it.

The frackers knew damned well public opinion was always against them and they somehow twice managed to keeping fracking off the ballot after 2 initiatives actually had gotten enough signatures to get it on the ballot.

But CO voters passed a minimum wage increase the same time they passed the limit on voter initiatives, so I guess that's something.