To:
Members of the Massachusetts Senate
The State House News
Service reports: “One section added by Rosenberg’s committee would require,
starting in 2015, that the voter guides mailed to citizens prior to an
election include a brief note written by the Executive Office of
Administration and Finance explaining the expected impact of a ballot
question on state and municipal government finances.”
As we successfully argued when this provision was defeated in the House,
this provision could make it unnecessarily difficult for almost any group to
pass almost any initiative petition, since a hostile governor could direct
his A&F Secretary to write a note claiming that “the initiative would cost
too much; prove that it wouldn’t.”
This provision reflects Sen. Rosenberg’s ongoing determination to kill the
initiative petition process, which he apparently sees as a threat to
one-party rule, bringing in the electorate itself (your constituents) as it
does. We are asking Senators to remove this provision, which has already
been rejected by the House.
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Box 1147 ▪ Marblehead, MA 01945
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