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The Proposition - The Scourge of California

Some of the posts below, and the comments to them, have brought up what I think is California's greatest scourge - the initiative.Originally, this was created by progressives at the start of the 20th Century as a balance to the entrenched conservative interests that ran the state up until then. Sinclair Lewis was running for governor (he lost), and entrenched conservative interests stopped him. Out of this was born some of the progressive changes to California that exist to this day - the chief one being the initiative process. (I realize that this is a very sketchy description of how the process came to be, I only mention it at all to note the dichotomy of the fact that it was created by progressives, and has since been used to great effect by conservatives)...continue to full post

Full post as published by Public Defender Dude on July 13, 2008 (boomark / email).