To:
Members of the General Court
So Sen. Rosenberg's assault on the initiative petition process remains in
the Election Law “Super PAC bill,” irrelevant as it is to the bill itself.
This will be only the first phase of his scheme to kill the people's
lawmaking ability, by attaching his anti-Initiative & Referendum language to
unrelated bills that get their final vote in the end-of-session chaos. There
will be another phase next year, mark our words.
CLT wants to be on record noting that the death of the initiative petition
process began here, today, with the vote supporting this bill.
If there is no roll call, we'll assume nobody wants his constituents to get
a balanced argument from the red voter information booklet produced by the
Secretary of State, as the arguments are skewed by the printed opposition
from a hostile governor.
Nobody who has ever done a petition drive can believe that Rosenberg's
“appeal process” is anything but a joke. We urge you to vote NO on this
bill, which unfortunately now contains the Senate's anti-democracy
provision.
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