Published Wednesday January 10, 2007 in East Valley Opinions of the Arizona Republic as “Voter Protection Act must be revisited.”
Many important policy changes that the legislature refused to address have been approved by citizen initiatives including a public funding option for candidates (1998), independent redistricting (2000), medicaid eligibility for those up to the poverty line (2000), statewide smoking restrictions (2006), and increasing the minimum wage (2006).
The framers of our state Constitution in 1912 even put the citizen initiative powe