No initiative and Referendum process ? ? ? Hard to imagine. Here we have ballot measures every election. The only drawback, and it is easy enough to live with, are occasional elections when the number of measures goes over the top, viz, into the teens Sometimes most of the excitement in an election concerns one or two controversial ballot measures About redistricting, your point about a national system is right on. Billy ---------------------------------------------------- In a message dated 3/27/2010 2:40:17 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
They aren't impractical everywhere. I thoroughly agree with the voting recommendations. Wish we could start that one this year. The redistricting thing would need to be national. Texas and Florida would not go there unless New York and California did. Republicans in Texas and Florida would not be willing to give up their large Congressional Majorities in those states (Texas is almost 2:1) unless the Democrats in heavily Democratic states were to do likewise. Initiative and referendum states and areas can introduce them. States bound to the D/R political gamesmanship are going to have a hard time, practically, getting around the partisan obstacles. I wish that Texas had an Initiative and Referendum process but we don't, and we are unlikely to get that from the legislature. David "A pleasant natural environment is a good - a luxury good, philosophical good, a moral goody-good, a good time for all. Whatever, we want it. If we want something, we should pay for it, with our labor or our cash. We shouldn't beg it, steal it, sit around wishing for it, or euchre the government into taking it by force."--P. J. O’Rourke On 3/27/2010 9:50 AM, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote: Hi DRB, There are only 2 things I don't like here Ernie: 1) his predisposition to call the tea party folks "nuts" I agree. You don't get non-partisan success by name-calling. and 2) your prejudging that I wouldn't like the article. My bad. He was MIA in making the call of "nuts" against the BushHitler demonstrators for eight years, so I think that his current diagnosis of the tea party folks is extremely partisan in that regard. So does that mean you agree with his various proposals, even if you think them impractical? E _______________________________________________ Centroids mailing list: [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) _http://radicalcentrism.com/mailman/listinfo/centroids_radicalcentrism.com_ (http://radicalcentrism.com/mailman/listinfo/centroids_radicalcentrism.com) Archives at _http://radicalcentrism.org/pipermail/centroids_radicalcentrism.com/_ (http://radicalcentrism.org/pipermail/centroids_radicalcentrism.com/) _______________________________________________ Centroids mailing list: [email protected] http://radicalcentrism.com/mailman/listinfo/centroids_radicalcentrism.com Archives at http://radicalcentrism.org/pipermail/centroids_radicalcentrism.com/
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