If anyone was sitting around waiting for an update, you might have realized that this isn’t going anywhere this year. A month of so back I got a voice message from Rep. Hunt’s LA saying that there won’t be a bill this year.
I had suggested, probably too late, that it be attached to whatever initiative [...]
I can’t tell you, the meeting was moved to Nov. 29. And, I’m probably going to have to call to change that meeting time too, since I have something going on that morning for work, most likely. Crap-a-doodle. I’m not very good at being a lobbyist, I can’t even get the scheduling thing down.
If you just happened upon this blog, and you were wondering what the heck this is all about, and whether I’m actually dead and so is the idea, fear not. I’m not, its not.
I’ve been off working on other related projects, like this one that is meant to collect other great ideas like mine and [...]
There is something going on that I can’t figure out. On the local level, in Seattle and Bellingham, there are handful of progressive municipal initiative campaigns up and running. And, none of them are posting their initiative petitions online.
This is even more troubling because both Bellingham and Seattle (along with Spokane) allow printer sized (8.5 [...]
That the initiative process has been used in Washington in the past ten years to run rough-shod over state government's finances isn't evidence that the initiative system is broken, it is evidence that initiatives are the territory of the rich. Regular people, folks not like Michael Dunmire, don't get their ideas (or ideas they like) [...]
Both Evergreen Politics and Horse’s Ass wrote about (printer) Democracy yesterday, with a relatively thoughtful comment thread resulting from the HA post. David at HA initially kicked it off by pointing out that my solution would be only helpful as part of a larger reform of the initiative process, which he listed here.
Most of his [...]
Good discussion over at Washblog, some good criticism of the idea.
One good point was the security of the petitions, if we made it easier for anyone to print out and collect signatures, who would know what they were signing was a legit petition or simply a fake knock-off of a real one they had heard [...]
The folks running the signature gathering campaign for I-937 asked me to take down my example, because I copied their language. They have a good point, and plus, I was thinking that I should use some non-active initiative language anyway.
Now, all I need to do is figure out which initiative language to copy… maybe that [...]
Talking to someone who I respect last night about the idea to shrink the petition size they said that it would make them less likely to sign a petition from someone they did not know (say like out in front of Albertsons or Safeco Field) because larger petitions seem more official.
This is an argument for [...]
