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To: Dennis O'Bell who wrote (166956)	7/23/2005 12:40:19 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

California is the only state I've ever lived in that had a referenda process. There, a referenda process that was intended to give the people a way to advance initiatives in their interest has been perverted beyond recognition by corporations, special interest groups and politicians. A whole referenda industry has developed featuring diabolically worded referenda with paid signature gatherers that, when passed, often end up having exactly the opposite effect of what the people who voted them in intended. You have to read referenda with your eyes wide open and with legal help before voting. Even with such problems, I still loved having a referenda as a tool. Proposition 13 would never have happened without it. I wish we had a national referenda process.