On Our Initiative

[Mythsaje]

I've seen a lot of posts lately slamming the state initiative process in places like California. We have it here in Washington State as well, as we see by the shit Tim (Who the Fuck needs buses anyway?) Eyman throws in the wind every couple of years.

What I'm wondering is if we might make use of these state initiative processes to jump start campaign finance reform on our own. To basically bugger the system that exists now and make it possible to throw the moneyed interests out of, at the very least, our state elections. If so, does anyone have any ideas they would like to put forth about it? I'd be happy to work on the text of the proposal (as people have seen, I'm not too shabby at inflaming political passions when the mood strikes me).

At worst, it could begin a debate about whether campaign contributions from industry TRULY represent "free speech" and whether corporate personhood is an actually valid position. I'd say not, but what do I know? I'm just a loud mouth author, right?

I'd love to have some discussion on this, so, though this is a particularly short post on my part, plenty of Ks and Rs would be appreciated and more than welcome.

Let's talk about this. Is it feasible? We KNOW our representatives will never bring it to us, so maybe it's up to us to bring it to them.