Rich extremists trying to silence the voters...and let the dead vote

Several wealthy right wingers have put forth a ballot initiative that would require a majority of all registered voters, and not just a majority of those who vote, to pass any initiative that taxes or requires the spending of any money. Had this been in place in the previous decade, the will of the voters would have been thwarted and thousands of children that the voters said deserved health care would not have gotten it, and our perpetually-bottom-of-the-barrel-in-funding schools would not have received the critical boost in funding that voters gave them in 2000. Moreover, since the initiative would mean that any registered voter who does not vote automatically votes "no" on a proposition that costs money, anyone who is dead and hasn't yet been taken off the un-audited rolls would be casting a "no" vote on any future proposals that require spending money. Anne Denogean of the Tucson Citizen hit the nail on the head with her column on this nasty initiative that you should vote against in November. You know, the Tucson Citizen does a better job of covering local news than most papers out there, and I will miss them after they fold, the way most afternoon newspapers have (and increasingly, non-afternoon papers too).