Joe Mathews, a New America
Foundation senior fellow who blogs about the initiative process in
California and elsewhere, said today's process is rooted in the early
20th century progressive tradition, written by "tough guys, outsiders
to government" who thought government was fundamentally corrupt and had
to be circumvented by the people.
"It's that kind of fighting
tradition this thing comes out of. It's not a flexible system "...
there's not a lot of room to negotiate, there's room to fight," Mathews
said. LINK