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Edited on Sun Jan-10-10 05:31 AM by divideetimpera
the corporate media sure does hate ballot initiatives, referenda and other true democracy measures.
some example of the biased text from the article above:
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER Published: January 9, 2010
LOS ANGELES — From San Diego to Mount Shasta, voters are expressing mounting disgust over California’s fiscal meltdown and deteriorating services, and they are offering scores of voter initiatives that seek to change the way the state does business.
Over 30 such initiatives — among over 60 total initiatives so far — are now wending their way toward the ballot box. Every day, it seems another vexed voter adds a proposal to the fray. ===============
another patriotic citizen trying to bring democracy to their state, you mean?
------------------------------- Some verge on the radical, like one to establish the state’s first constitutional convention in over a century, to rewrite California’s most fundamental legislative rules.
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Oh, my gosh. We cannot let that happen!!!!!! Since when is innovation bad? Oh, that's right--it's only bad when the citizens get involved.
======================= There are initiatives in circulation that would reduce the time the Legislature is in session, punish legislators for late budgets and criminalize “false statements about legislative acts.” =================
Sounds good to me.
----------------- Despite the fact that past initiatives helped get California into its budget crisis — forcing spending in some areas while limiting taxation in others — the pileup of new ones suggests that many voters still believe they hold the solution to the state’s mess. Few seem to believe that elected officials are up to the job. =======================
Could this possibly be any more biased? California is a decent state to live in, despite its large size. And there are so very few decent states in America.
======================== The number of initiatives so far, while high, is not the largest in history. But the rage that underlies them has not been seen in decades, said lawmakers, pollsters, political consultants and the proponents. =============
GOOD!
----------------------- “The feeling is one of revolt,” said John Grubb, the campaign director for Repair California, a coalition behind a pair of initiatives to call a constitutional convention. “And come January, they will start negotiating the budget again, and there will be more fear and loathing. The feeling here is that California state government is broken, and we need not a little fix, but a big fix.” =============
here is your big fix. Eliminate the position of governor, eliminate the upper house, and then reduce the size of the lower house districts. THEN, seperate the state into 3 or more independent districts, each with its own separate government.
=-============= The public university system, once the crown jewel of California, is struggling with layoffs, tuition increases and outright student and faculty revolts. In the public secondary schools, classroom sizes have swelled and program cuts are rampant. ===============
Good. The higher education industry is for the most part a scam. Cut most everything except science and engineering curricula.
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“Lots of people are unhappy, but for so many different and conflicting reasons that it is hard to envision where we will end up,” said Bruce E. Cain, a professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley. “It could be a chaotic jumble.”
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It's DEMOCRACY, bitch. And if the USA at large had a national initiative process, we would be a far better nation.
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