Dec. 5, 2012 By Chris Reed Joe Mathews, one of the least ideological mainstream California political pundits, has weighed in on the analysis I did last week on the evidence that unions are trying to stifle direct democracy in California by monkey-wrenching petition drives, trying to invalidate...
Posts Tagged ‘direct democracy’Joe Mathews weighs in on CalWatchdog pieceWednesday, December 5th, 2012The union assault — covert and overt — on direct democracyThursday, November 29th, 2012 Nov. 30, 2012 By Chris Reed For decades, signature-gathering to win placement of measures on the local or state ballot in California has followed a basic script. Once proponents gathered some 30 percent more signatures than the minimum threshold necessary, they shut down operations, confident ... |