At least in our D super-majority state, I'm actually glad that the legislature has the ability to amend the laws later. They're generally reticent to completely toss something the voters just approved, (lest they themselves be tossed), and this allows for corrections and clarifications of these long and confusing bills.
At least in our D super-majority state, I'm actually glad that the legislature has the ability to amend the laws later. They're generally reticent to completely toss something the voters just approved, (lest they themselves be tossed), and this allows for corrections and clarifications of these long and confusing bills.
On the other hand, I wish we could do something about our overly long and legalistic summaries that the AG's office writes. They read like the terms and conditions of a cell phone contact and often nearly incomprehensible, even to a highly educated native speaker of English, much less to the larger electorate.
Unfortunately in California, we have gotten Republican initiated propositions passed such as top two primaries and an independent redistricting commission that our legislature can't undo and has enough public support that it will be hard to get undone at the ballot box.
I am largely in favor of independent redistricting commissions and very much opposed to extreme gerrymandering.
That said, only a fool disarms unilaterally. So, as long as some Republican-controlled states are carrying out heinous disenfranchisement through gerrymandering, I would have liked to see Democrats gerrymander California and New York to the max!
At least in our D super-majority state, I'm actually glad that the legislature has the ability to amend the laws later. They're generally reticent to completely toss something the voters just approved, (lest they themselves be tossed), and this allows for corrections and clarifications of these long and confusing bills.
On the other hand, I wish we could do something about our overly long and legalistic summaries that the AG's office writes. They read like the terms and conditions of a cell phone contact and often nearly incomprehensible, even to a highly educated native speaker of English, much less to the larger electorate.
Unfortunately in California, we have gotten Republican initiated propositions passed such as top two primaries and an independent redistricting commission that our legislature can't undo and has enough public support that it will be hard to get undone at the ballot box.
I am largely in favor of independent redistricting commissions and very much opposed to extreme gerrymandering.
That said, only a fool disarms unilaterally. So, as long as some Republican-controlled states are carrying out heinous disenfranchisement through gerrymandering, I would have liked to see Democrats gerrymander California and New York to the max!