What measures are making their way onto the ballot in your neck of the woods?

Cutthroat Republicans disguised as Dems. Is that on the ballot? Do you suppose at this point Jane, that it really matters? You and everyone else knows emphatically, that neither of these corporate parties represents anyone that even has a drip of anything liberal or progressive in their blood. They’ll pass a nice little kids meal at the people, and then the Mega Big Mac Meal to the corporations.

Oh and don’t forget the new Dem catch slogan of the week:
Drill baby, drill!!

The point of ballot initiatives is that they’re an opportunity to go around politicians and entrenched party power, right?

I hope you’re not advocating for staying home and not voting. That’s the biggest success that the corporatists can dream of — disengatement by the opposition.

Exactly. That’s what the corporatists and bigots who push ballot initiatives like Prop 16 and Prop 8 hope: That all the progressives stay home, since the corporatists do a better job of mobilizing their people.

Well engaging isn’t working. If people really thought long and hard about REALLY being progressive, voting a third party, COULD actually win an election. Let’s see the choices:

Republicans……..batshit crazy. Vote no on anything regardless
Dems…………..Corporate sellouts extraordinaire

Now if a third party couldn’t win an election, then it isn’t because Dems an Reps are one party joined at the corporate hip, but because people really are stupid. Neither of these parties is worth voting for, or keeping alive. And one or both could be killed right now. Would take a helluva advertising campaign, and financial backing, but voting for evil or lesser of two evils is doing what? Nothing. And voting for progressive supported candidates has done what? Nothing. They are folding like accordians to toe party lines.

I haven’t looked at the ballot for this year yet but I do know that there’s two that have a very good chance of passing.

One revamps the way districting is done, taking the advantage away from the party in power and eliminating districts carved out for incumbents. Naturally the pols hate this one.

The other is the Hometown Democracy amendment. This gives residents the say on development and growth. Developers and their toadies on county commissions hate this one. The PTB and developers fought this tooth and nail even before it had enough signatures. The legislature passed a law saying that people could take their names off the initiative. The FL Supreme Court ruled against it and the initiative made it onto the ballot.

Gingrich is in St Pete tonight touting “Drill, baby, drill.” Hands Across the Sand will be outside the Vinoy during his appearance. With Obama’s pro drilling announcement I think we’ll draw over the 1000 they wanted to come out.

Propositions on the Ca ballot are a nightmare. They most often are very deviously written so that when you vote no on one you are actually voting for the opposite. They began because people were so fed up when the politicians in Sacto didn’t do their jobs.
We usually have so many on the ballot that you have to wade through them – sorta like quicksand. They are horrible.

Ya have to start at the local level and elect people who share your values within the community and build from there.

The Democrats have been really shitty at doing this or have elected people no different than Rethugs for the last 3 decades. We have to be smarter and act smarter.

Constructive change is coming from the grassroots. Yesterday, Goodkind put this link up: DearAmerica. Recommended food for thought. We have the technology to cut out more middlemen, aka the professional politicians, and thereby circumvent the undue corporate influence.

Right on, SouthernDragon. Gotta think local but act global. Check out BradBlog.com on ballot access and other issues related to voting.

Sadly, Washington State’s public initiative/referendum process normally only produces Tim Eyman initiatives, such as yet another 2/3 tax initiative. Tim has four initiatives filed this year.

We already did the top-two primary thing here and I hate it, basically it is a way for the two political parties to entrench themselves further in the states where either has control.

What measures you ask?

How about this one;

Ballot Proposition #4: Public Acknowledgement of God-The use of the word “God”, prayers, and the Ten Commandments should be allowed at public gatherings and public educational institutions, as well as be permitted on government buildings and propoerty. YES OR NO

or, how about this one;
Proposition #5: Sonograms-The Texas Legislature should enact legislation requiring a sonogram to be performed and shown to each mother about to undergo a medically unnecessary, elective abortion. YES OR NO

Lovely no? Apparently we as a state would like to remain in the 19th century.

Thanks for the post, Jane.

(on edit; havin a tech problem here)

The trouble is that the initiative/referendum process is just as easily co-opted by deep-pocketed corporate special interests as is the regular process in state capitols with officials. It takes a lot of money to get an initiative publicized, backed by name-brand figures in the state, etc. Normally the successful initiatives are either backed by one of the two state or national parties in reality, or are simply backed by corporate front groups masquerading as public interest entities.

The initiative/referendum process produces some of the worst impacts on public policy. One of the most famous examples would be California’s Proposition 13 which has had an utterly destructive effective on California’s ability to fund its operations. Some of us (such as yours truly) who were in the public school system in California when the effects of Proposition 13 really began to take hold remember well the badly outdated, grubby old textbooks, the overcrowded classes in run down buildings, the overworked, underpaid teachers, the substandard “lunches”, everything that emerged into the public education system as a result of 13.

The initiative/referendum process is just too easily abused, as much as it is in principle a good thing.

Look, we need a third party. Think of a third party as the “public option” our political system needs.

OT blistering ‘Net service? Not the USA!:

“South Korea has download speed of 100mbs in most homes nowadayws. Coz they all have FTTH connection meaning internet via fibre-optics.”

“The pipeline (telephone line line bandwidth allocated to broadband use) in Tokyo, Japan tops 80Mbs and is not too expensive. In the UK the maximum bandwidth is 8Mbs and I can get around 5.3Mbs. Mbs, btw, stands for Megabits per second.”

“Sigbritt Löthberg’s home has been supplied with a blistering 40 Gigabits per second connection”

“The weekend 29/11 – 2/12 2007 the largest lan-party in the world took place at Dreamhack in Jönköping. At the same time the world’s fastest internet connection was established with 40 gigabit per second performance.:

we got one of those “top-two” systems passed in washington state a couple years ago, and non-incumbents still have fuckall chance to win, so I’m pretty sure it’s a democrat and republican tactic to cement themselves as the only options in elections

don’t pass it, keep your ballot choices open

I’d like to see this initiative: auto insurance payments should be tax deductible. Basically, any payments mandated by the government should be tax deductible. The more we have to pay, the less the government gets as taxes. As anyone who has studied circuits and systems knows, a little bit of negative feedback goes a long way towards maintaining stability.

Seems we need multiple third parties. If memory serves me, according to a A Reason to Vote, the US had multiple third parties which offered Lincoln on the ballot to become elected POTUS. Ballot access laws were successively changed to what we have now.

Jane, maybe this is a good book for a salon unless there is something better and more up to date?

Interestingly, if the citizens have to pay for something, the corporations get to have a tax deduction and get the addition of a subsidy (“AT&T Complains About Losing Corporate Welfare that Raises Drug Prices”)– which is quite amazing!!

There’s never going to be a better time for reform than now. Therefore, it is more than high time to roll up the sleeves and get going.

OT– other stories I have not seen broadly reported indicating more significant shifts of manufacturing capacity from Europe to China:

“Chinese carmaker Geely’s deal to buy Sweden’s iconic Volvo brand offers a glimpse of a new world order clearly headed up by China, Swedish editorials said on Monday.” (“Geely’s Volvo buy signals new world order: Swedish media“)

“The Russian banker and former Spyker stakeholder was forced out of Dutch luxury car maker Spyker in order to facilitate its purchase of Saab from General Motors after the US firm expressed doubts about his suitability as an owner.” (“Saab to build cars in Russia: Antonov“)

Blue Texan’s regularly scheduled post is ready: Surprise! Republicans Suddenly Oppose Offshore Oil Drilling

For the moment China offers the lowest labour expense. China is also allowing more distribution of consumer goods they make within the country. Greider et al have written about manufacturing shifting locations on an ongoing basis, looking for lower costs.

That still constitutes “voting” unless I miss my guess.

I don’t see that there’s something to be gained by focusing on viable third party efforts that don’t presently exist rather than viable ballot initiatives that do.

Seems like this has been a non-issue for California:

“Environmentalists Say Yes to Offshore Drilling” – July 12, 2008 (hattip Dark Skies Blog)

Yea, I get that as I was quoted “pennies on the dollar” (comparing Chinese labor to American labor) back in 2003 but who wants the karma of subsidizing industrial prison labor camps– I don’t. Besides, such “capitalism” doesn’t make anyone any “free” (unless you subscribe to Orwell).

This site is an excellent source for information on California ballot measures. Here’s the link for Prop 16:

http://www.ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/California_Proposition_16_%28June_2010%29

It could be that there is no short-term solution to the problem we are all seeing, which is the problem of political power in the US at the national and state levels being held by corrupt, corporate-driven figures and organizations. In this case, the “don’t vote” option for liberal/left/progressive voters can be about two considerations:

1) “Change from within” vis-a-vis the Democrats has been demonstrably failed as a strategy since the Bill Clinton years, and so voting for Democrats is really just voting for figures who don’t represent us, who hold us in contempt, and who will continue to abuse for as long as we continue to participate in a relationship with them. Participation in representative democracy is supposed to be about you and I voting for figures who represent us. We should not vote for figures and a party who do not and will not represent us.

2) It could be that if the Democrats lose enough liberal/left/progressive voters, they’ll lose a lot more often as a party, and there will be turnover in their ranks that would allow, many years from now, non-corrupt figures and factions to take root in the party.

Ballot initiatives could in principle have a positive effect, though on the balance initiatives tend to be abused by special interests masquerading as public interest entities. However, I can’t imagine how it is that you could argue to us that anyone should vote either Democratic or Republican this year.

Get ballot initiatives passed that incrementally make life tangibly better for the working Joe and chip away at the regressive tax structure. Joe will get excited and more active over that. Either initiatives put money back in the Joe taxpayer’s pocket or subsidizes Joe’s bottom line relief. Do the inverse of what the corporate lobbyists do. In the meantime, Americans need to be way more consciuous and creative with their money down to the penny.

What about George Lakoff’s California Democracy Act –I thought it was Prop 13….

I will never ever tell anyone to withdraw from the political process and not vote. That has, without question, “demonstrably failed as a strategy” from time immemorial. If Democrats and Republicans are what’s on the ballot, go and cast your vote. Argue about strategy for the best choice from among a poor selection, but don’t tell people not to vote. I have a real low tolerance for people peddling that line of defeatism. It’s the ultimate capituation to the status quo and it spreads like cancer.

Arguing that “ballot initiatives tend to be gamed by corporate interests so why bother” is, if possible, even worse.

Defeatism, the dressed up whiny Trojan Horse of NO COURAGE? If shame motivates, then so be it.

Jane, Prop 17 is ALSO ‘pure evil’;
See here and here and here and here.

The downside of initatives can be seen from Prop 13 passage years ago and how that has influenced CA’s budgeting thereafter; as a reminder
Buffett pointed this out when the Schwarz was first running for office and wanted Buffett ‘on his team’. After Buffett made his statements, he was dismissed from the ‘team’.

And then,of course, there was Prop.8.

There is also a redistricting measure that takes the drawing of districts out of the hands of legislators.

It will likely be on the ballot after the validation of signatures as the projected invalidation of signatures will not be sufficient to reduce the number of signatures gathered to less than the threshold for validation.

What’s this “IF” scenario that keeps getting barked out of the Left?

I stated here on FDL, we should talk to the Union leaders about starting a Labor Party like what Britain has a party empowered by the average worker. You may disagree with the SEIU on policy issues and you might disagree with the AFL-CIO on certain policy issues but they have M-O-N-E-Y and that’s what you need to affect CHANGE in the current system, you can always modify their policy positions.

The Green Party has a candidate for most positions in State Government in California, why not support them? Those are your neighbors, the guy down the street, not career politicians.

I find it very funny people outside California call Brown a retread. That would be true, but I don’t see anybody else trying to empower another person to run and until recently I didn’t even know the Green Party had somebody running for Governor.

As I said before in fact last night, Obama was effectively UNKNOWN by the majority of Americans until he ran for President how come we can’t do the same for another parties candidate?

What form of “Check and Balance” do you wanna have on the current two party system when its basically a ONE party system just a “Good Cop, Bad Cop” situation forcing people to make a largely unpopular choice either way.

Agreed any ballot measure propped up by Big Business in our current political climate is a BAD NEWS.

We are against both measures in our house, neither are polling well.

Someone asked above George Lakoff’s California proposition to end the two-thirds vote to pass a budget amendment.

Here is Ballotpedia’s article on that effort.

The signature deadline for the first proposal Lakoff submitted is April 12 and it is unlikely that this deadline will be met. However, Lakoff filed a revised version on March 23. He will have a new window of 150 days to collect signatures on the second version, once California’s attorney general provides it with a ballot title. If signatures are collected for this going past the early May 2010 deadline for the November ballot, the measure could still go on a future year’s ballot (if the signatures are collected in the 150 day window).

Lakoff’s proposal is not the only one filed that would end either the 2/3rds majority for passing a budget or the 2/3rds majority for raising taxes (or both), but it is the one most people have heard of.

Never heard of it — I found Lakoff’s article on truthout from last September — it would have been an ANTI Proposition 13 prop, but it looks like Lakoff just sent a letter to the California AG suggesting that he put it on the ballot (change passage to majority, not two-thirds), not that he actually went through the initiative process and gathered signatures.

Ending Minority Rule in California: One Sentence Can Do It
Thursday 24 September 2009
by: George Lakoff, t r u t h o u t | Perspective

California is in deep trouble because it has a dysfunctional system of government. Much of the problem can be change by one sentence.

I have sent to the attorney general a ballot proposition for the 2010 ballot called The California Democracy Act, the content of which is the following: All legislative action on revenue and budget must be determined by a majority vote.

It would change two words in the Constitution, turning “two-thirds” to “majority” in two places. It is simple, understandable and it is about democracy.

California AG website has a PDF of the proposal–2010′s Proposal 15.

Please note that proposals are posted as submitted by the proponent(s). The Attorney General makes no comment on the accuracy of any statements made in the proposals. The Attorney General provides the official titles and summaries to the Secretary of State for all measures cleared for petition circulation. To view the official titles and summaries, see Circulating Petitions.

# 10-0015 PDF logo [PDF 86 kb / 2 pg] Submitted for Title and Summary on March 25, 2010. “California Democracy Act”

So I guess that means it’s just cleared for petition circulation and now they have to get signatures? Interesting civics lesson, thanks

Hmmmm -

1) I don’t see total failure. The only failure I see is mechanism that would allow for political debate to modeled in a detailed manner so you can make the correct choice. What I saw from the Obama campaign is the same thing I see with people wearing corporate logos ever they go. It became “cool” to be on the Obama bandwagon.

That kind of populism is a good thing actually, if we get about 50% of that turnout in Nov for mid-terms, the Republicans are in trouble.

Now is time to identify the obvious Corporate owned Democrats and remove them from office.

2) If your speaking in Federal elections, you can’t have this happen. We need to show up and remove boneheads from office. Removing loud mouths like Bachmann will help clean up the political discourse. Corporatist can be dealt with, Wing Nuttery uses emotion to gin up all sorts of unwanted outcomes.

But again, why not empower the Green Party if you’ve felt that doing it from “Within” is a loosing strategy?

Its a non-starter in California, we will not allow for off-shore oil drilling and we have been using CNG to power stoves, heaters, ovens and heating water in Southern California for years.

Jane is a native Californian and I’m sure she would agree, the most populated state is tasked with the job of reshaping American again.

Not that we don’t have our own home grown wing nuts Chuck DeVore comes to mind, but they can be effectively pushed back, most of the voting happens in the State’s two largest areas which are effectively DARK BLUE.

I thought somebody was turning Orange County Blue?

ballotpedia in person! Hey, I was just at your website, jumping to your Jerry Brown page from a page (heck, where?) that said Brown opposes marijuana legalization, (WTF?! ) but when I get there there’s no discussion why. If you could develop that– ? Also, you need to correct:

Upon election, he refused many of the privileges and trappings of the office, forgoing the grand California Governor’s Mansion, which he sold off in 1983, and instead rented a modest apartment. Instead of riding as a passenger in chauffeured limousines as previous governors had done, Brown drove himself to work in a compact sedan, a Plymouth Satellite from the state vehicle pool.

A Plymouth Satellite was not a compact sedan. (God I loved him! My good years!)

I wish he’d won the presidency. He was the best anti Reagan ever, when he followed him as governor of California. I see the argument too that he may have inadvertently caused Prop. 13 then by building up a healthy CA budget surplus. Kinda like saying Clinton caused the Iraq War and tax cuts for the wealthy by building up a surplus?

Yes, we definitely need to do more writing on what politicians in California are saying about the marijuana legalization initiative. Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown both came out against it the day it was certified for the ballot and I believe that several others have come out against it.

Ballotpedia does have a longish article on marijuana dispensaries in California. It’s all about the ganja riche, an entertaining term the New York Times came up with.

Then again, South Africa…

Homing Pigeon Faster Than South Africa’s Internet
NPR September 10, 2009

South Africa’s leading Internet service provider is facing some unexpected competition. A financial services company, frustrated with super-slow Internet speed, decided to try a homing pigeon instead. It strapped a memory card to the leg of a bird. By the time it arrived at the data’s destination, 50 miles away, the Internet had managed to send only 4 percent of the information.

I should add — I totally understand the cynicism. And share your feelings. Just looking for a way to intersect with this fall’s election that can be meaningful, as opposed to putting a lot of energy behind candidates who will as you note continue to disappoint.

Jane, can I ask if you ( PAC’s etc ) are going to open things up to supporting 3rd party candidates? I understand this next election cycle is far too close to spin up efforts, i’m looking a bit more long term? Just wondering if it’s a non-starter or not ( hoping it’s not ).

this is a little o/t, but your website seems to have its understanding of CA process pretty well laid out, but what if things don’t work right, how would a citizen find the check and balance? Follow this, a KB Home housing development in rural east county is approved by the San Diego County Supervisors, and the process entails an ERI, a major use permit, and seller’s disclosures, all of which state there is to be a 25-foot buffer to protect specified natural features including existing oak trees, and that there is to be drought-tolerant non-irrigation-dependent landscaping. Except the county Department of Planning and Land Use did not and refused to correct later their total nonobservance of oak tree protection and drought-tolerant landscaping. Code enforcement refused to enforce. The HOA rules require that every homeowner must have a lawn, and irrigation for same came installed with every house. One house was built on top of and underneath an oak tree — under the canopy, over the roots.

This was permitted: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3023/3029749875_7d3ae1310a.jpg

Homeowner (2005, upside down now, like entire project, so “own” is relative term) values tree, wants tree protections enforced and modifications made to help all the oaks, knows that lawns can cause an oat root fungus that can kill the tree, which btw could then fall on the house, and so refuses to maintain the lawn, feeling that the ERI, major use permit and seller’s disclosures are the law, though HOA rules require maintenance of lawns. But San Diego County DPLU will not enforce or fix anything, and HOA refuses to recognize the tree has any bearing and fines the homeowner $100 every month for not maintaining the lawn, which homeowner refuses to pay, and the fine builds and builds — it’s over $3000 now. Sooner or later, something’s gotta give. Plus the drought — the county elsewhere is restricting water usage, yet these HOA homeowners are required to have irrigated lawns in the high desert backcountry of San Diego County where lawns are dead half the year anyway. One homeowner painted his ground green and the next month HOA letter said that would be fine-able in the future. HOA makes up whatever fines it wants. Two other factors: The housing development is on well water, as is the entire community outside the HOA, so everyone’s water is affected/endangered. The other factor is that the California Constitution prohibits wasting water.

(Homeowner testified at County Supervisor’s land use meeting, here’s how her 3 minutes went: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP03JhFEoGQ&feature=related — “Time’s up!”)

So… at ANY level, does this homeowner have public help? It seems that public government (County) stops at the gate and will not cross, and the house is part of the county’s “affordable home” program which means you had to be poor to buy it in 2005, so she’s also too poor to be able to afford a private lawyer. Sierra Club and USD law school’s free environmental law clinic have been nonstarters. Is there any effective check and balance on an HOA other than a private lawyer?

Sorry for the interruption here, but it’s such a perfect storm of regulatory fuckup, maybe the way to learn civics here is literally from the ground up. Any ideas? I mean, it’s really funny in it’s own way, BUT THERE’S A TREE THERE! — and what a tree, hundreds of years old — that nobody can admit they see. And this is so relevant to our global climate crisis, since the environment has no rights/value but corporations (“persons”) are sacred. They see the cost of everything, the value of nothing – Raj Patel’s book.

Maybe I just needed to vent, though I truly hope you know what to do next. This is so much a part of what’s wrong with California. Grace of graces, the tree still lives, though changes could still be made to help it and the others. Thanks.

I find this thread clinically fascinating. Not in a good way.

Jane points out that there are ballot initiatives, wants people to talk about them.

So most of the comments are on the pluses and minuses of ballot initiatives in principle. A few are actually mentioned. But if one wanted to find out anything about actual ballot initiatives, they would find almost zilch.

Ballot initiatives ARE. What about the ones that ARE?

Third parties are one partial response to our two-party tyranny (if I may use Teabagger terminology). Third parties will promise to do all of the right things, at least if they want to have a chance of being elected. But a better focus is on open government. We need transparency in voting, in vote-counting, and in all facets of our federal and state governments. Without open government and some type of incentive for media to disseminate information clearly and cogently, it won’t matter which party or parties are nominally in power. Secrecy leads to crime, every time. Are there any good sunshine law initiatives out there?

Linkthink: Diary to ballotpedia to California civics. Are you saying you don’t understand what the ballot initiatives are? It’s true, there’s a lot more in-depth discussion of each of the present ones at ballotpedia, and I really thank Jane for starting the conversation and sending me link hopping. Now I know ballotpedia exists, which I didn’t know before. You want to talk about any of the specific propositions? I’m listening. I think sooner or later we’ll get back to the theme that corporations are buying government. You may have your own examples.

Of course corporations are buying government. Are you saying anyone here doesn’t know that? I guess the original diary isn’t supposed to have anything to do with the subsequent discussion.

I have a thought about the current Prop. 13, the one exempting existing buildings from property reassessment after seismic refitting. Apparently it’s so benign there’s no opposition recorded. But it makes me wonder…

About 10 years ago San Diego County’s hospitals all started closing their pediatric floors, which would leave giant Children’s Hospital as the only pediatric beds in the entire county, a large county. Basically it would be a Wal-Mart. Two of the several hospitals who wanted to close their pediatric beds were district hospitals, meaning they were taxpayer owned and had to go through a public process to close the beds. If you went back about 50 years, you would learn that district hospitals had come into being to serve growing UNserved county populations — the people provided for themselves what private hospitals had not, and that included pediatric beds. I wrote detailed comments (start here and work back up) about my experience of what happened then — basically nurses and community members fought back against hospital administrators and in the end — using public processes — were able to hold onto all the beds at one of the district hospitals and get back some of the ones that were closed at the second district hospital, Tri-City in Oceanside. The thing about Tri-City was how it was enriching its CEO with lavish bonuses and more, while it was cutting back on core services — even redefining its mission statement! — and putting out misleading financial information about how much the floor cost and what the hospital would save if it closed the unit — and one of the things it used to flog the public with then was that it couldn’t afford to keep pediatric beds because every dollar needed to go to state-mandated-but-unfunded seismic retrofitting. Their board did vote to close pediatrics then, and once the vote was done all mention of seismic retrofitting went away. They didn’t do it. In the years that followed, I think I heard mention that the hospital was trying to get bond measures put on ballots so the district taxpayers would pay additionally for the mandated retrofit. I don’t know if they were successful. I don’t think they ever refitted. I don’t know when the mandate deadline is or was, or if the hospital is safe now in an earthquake. But as I see this ballot measure, it makes me think back to then, and I wonder how it could affect Tri-City, or Tri-City’s funky accounting. All I saw then was smoke and mirrors.

The other district hospital eventually leased its pediatric floor to Children’s, and I hear that Children’s does run out of beds now with the other hospitals’ pediatric beds gone — Children’s goes on bypass.

Pick your zoom level. Bloom where you’re planted, did I miss your blooms? I’m sure I’m not there, but that hasn’t made this diary, its links or its comments useless to me.

“Basic research is like shooting an arrow into the air and, where it lands, painting a target.” –Homer Burton Adkins (1892-1949, American organic chemist)

Sorry, I gave the first comment link, so you’d need to work down, not up. This was the middle and this was the last, maybe the best sum-up. I’d second jsprings @46, we need transparency, because after all the hearings and processes I never did understand what was going on behind the scenes.

What does LCRA mean? Lower Colorado Rive Authority? Legislatively-rejected constitutional amendment? How about LRSS or CICA or CISS? Quit using undefined acronyms. It’s disrespectful to your readers and if it doesn’t stop, I’ll just stop visiting your site.

LRCA = Legislatively-referred constitutional amendment.

LRSS = Legislatively-referred state statute.

CICA = Citizen-initiated constitutional amendment.

CISS = Citizen-initiated state statute.

Thank you so much for being here. I’ve been digging into your site, it’s a fabulous resource.

We’re a gray State (CT). No initiatives, no referendums.