Citizens in Charge

(PHOENIX, AZ) –  Citizens in Charge, a national voter rights group focused on protecting the ballot initiative and referendum process, today blasted Proposition 109 as “a sneaky power grab” taking away the initiative rights of Arizona voters as the group’s president, Paul Jacob, travels across Arizona this week urging voters to reject the measure on this November’s ballot.

This November, voters in four states will see ballot measures seeking to place a right to hunt and fish into their constitutions. In three of those states, the issues are likely to pass quite comfortably, but not in Arizona.

This week I am traveling to Arizona to campaign against Proposition 109, a measure that on the surface seeks to enshrine hunting and fishing rights, but in reality is a back door power grab by the state legislature that chips away at citizen initiative rights.

The West Virginia Watchdog has a writeup today on the results of a poll conducted in the state on voter support for initiative & referendum. The poll was commissioned by Citizens in Charge and Citizens in Charge Foundation.

Voters in every state support initiative & referendum by a greater than 2 to 1 margin and West Virginia is no different.

For those of you who might be in the Los Angeles area, Robert Stern, President of the Center for Governmental Studies will be hosting an informational review of what’s on the ballot this November.

Arizona’s largest newspaper has joined the growing number of voices urging voters to reject Proposition 109 - which would enshrine hunting and fishing rights into the state constitution and bar the people from using their petition rights to make or change wildlife laws - this November.

A pharmacy measure in North Dakota won’t be on the ballot in November:

Connecticut Citizens for Ballot Initiative would like to share with you the October 3, 2010 Boston Sunday Globe editorial, circulation 400,000, endorsing the Connecticut Citizens for Ballot Initiative’s campaign to bring a statewide initiative and referendum mechanism to Connecticut.

This summer Citizens in Charge and Citizens in Charge Foundation commissioned a poll in each state to determine voter support for statewide initiative & referendum.

In each state, voters supported initiative & referendum by a 2:1 ratio or greater.

Check out your state’s page to see the results in your state.

The Boston Globe had an editorial yesterday supporting the initiative & referendum process: