Yesterday, the Senate State and Local Government Committee hear testimony on SCR 4013. I’ve written about how bad this resolution is before.
To her credit, Senator Janne Myrdal was hearing this too, and offered up amendments to her own bill to make it less bad - specifically taking out the 67% threshold for approval.
(You can watch the video above, her testimony starts at the beginning, mine starts at the 20-minute mark.)
Because of Senator Myrdal’s willingness to moderate her proposal, I took a different approach and outline in detail the proposal that I am currently working with State Representative Steve Vetter to have introduced on the House side.
(You can read my written testimony here as well as the testimony of others here.)
A Comprehensive Fix That Both Sides Can Live With
The battle over restricting the initiated measure process has been going on ever since the populist NPL (back when it was associated with the Republican Party - back when the Republican Party was the “progressi…
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