Dan Walters: California Democrats want to control initiative process By Dan Walters dwalters@sacbee.com Published: Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013 - 12:00 am Unquestionably, California’s Democratic Party, which holds every statewide office, dominates the state’s congressional delegation and has supermajorities in both legislative houses, wants to suppress the one political venue it does not already control – the initiative process. Two years ago, the party’s executive board demanded change, declaring that “the initiative process is being abused by the use of misleading titles and advertisements by unscrupulous signature-gathering companies, hired signature collectors, and concealed sponsors to create laws and programs that benefit a very few people at the expense of the many.” Since then, Democratic legislators have introduced myriad bills to make it more difficult for conservative or business groups to place measures on the ballot, while leaving the process intact for unions and liberal groups. Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2013/10/02/5786270/dan-walters-california-democrats.html#storylink=cpy
The whole undemocratic excuse for the Democratic Party is that undemocracy and apartheid is all OK, because they are morally superior. The same excuse they have been using since 1830.
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