Citizens in Charge

From the press conference this morning in Hartford, CT here is a writeup on Connecticut News Junkie:

Buoyed by a poll that says 65 percent of Connecticut voters support initiative and referendum a group of advocates and candidates in favor of the concept met at the state Capitol Wednesday to promote the idea.

The poll conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, a company owned by pollster Scott Rasmussen, found only 14 percent of the 500 likely voters opposed the idea of initiative and referendum and 20 percent weren’t sure about allowing citizens to collect signatures to get a specific agenda on the ballot.

When broken down by political ideology Republican favored it 71 to 11 percent and Democrats favored it 56 to 19 percent. The largest cross tab of voters in support of it was those ages 18 to 29 who favored it 92 to 8 percent.

John Woodcock III, a former Democratic state representative spearheading the call for the legislature to pass a initiative and referendum amendment, said he is disappointed Democratic candidates for office didn’t respond to his queries about their support for initiative and referendum. Several Republican and third party candidates were on hand Wednesday to endorse the concept.

“I’m disappointed they’re so indifferent to the will of the people,” Woodcock said.

However, he said the campaign to get initiative and referendum passed is not ideological and it‘s being done without any sort of agenda in mind.

There’s some video footage in the news article, and we’ll post some on our YouTube Channel in the coming days.