Politicians Hate Competition

"While Americans readily share power with their representatives, those representatives tend to resent sharing power with the people who choose them. Need proof? Take Colorado. Last year, legislators passed a statute to restrict the petition process, that Governor Ritter had to veto. Then legislators offered up Referendum O, to make it tougher for citizens to place initiative amendments on the ballot. Voters defeated it. Now, Colorado legislators — including legislative leaders of both parties — fast-track a new bill to again restrict the initiative process." Again and again they try to make it harder to tell them what their “employers” want them to do. They never learn. They’ll keep on trying different ways to accomplish it until they slip something through. Something that disenfranchises the citizens in Colorado business. And it’s not happening in just Colorado. Nevada and Missouri and probably every state that has a “petition process” has to regularly fight off legislator’s attempts to get rid of it. Paul Jacobs thinks we should make lawmakers follow the same rules to get THEIR idea on the ballot. That would certainly (if they ever let it happen) change things. (Common Sense)