Proving, yet again, that governing by initiative is a bad idea.
Ballot measures that should never have passed:
- State-wide:
- City of San Francisco:
- A unfairly burdens homeowners (a mere 1/3 of the city’s population) with paying for improvements to local schools.
- D: hiring quotas? Oh HELL no.
- E unnecessarily ties the mayor’s hands in making appointments to the Public Utilities Commission, when the Board of Supervisors already has a veto.
- H seems to be an unnecessary enhancement to an already comprehensive law. Waste of time.
I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again: the general populace is neither smart nor knowledgeable enough to make their own laws. What the hell do we pay our lawmakers for?
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May 19th, 2009 at 11:25 am