Citizens in Charge

Last month California voters weighed in on - and largely rejected - a series of ballot measures that lawmakers claimed would fix the state’s budget. Among those rejected was Proposition 1B which would have funneled $7.1 billion to school funding. Even though the plan was rejected by 2/3 of voters, it looks like the state legislature wants to go ahead and do it anyway.

A similar situation happened last year when New York City Mayor Bloomberg decided to gut term limits that were imposed by voters through a ballot initiative. If lawmakers are going to do whatever they want anyway, it makes you wonder why they let us pesky little voters go to the polls in the first place doesn’t it?