Hey Wally, I'm my own Representative!
They say that all bad ideas originate in California and slowly move east. That may not be completely accurate but it's close enough for guvmint work.
The latest scam moving eastward from the Golden State is the notion that even though we send representatives to the statehouse to vote on and make laws, let's outsource controversial issues back to us in the form of ballot initiatives. Sort of like an elaborate game of hot potato. To be fair, the representatives themselves aren't the ones doing the outsourcing and initiating. That comes from guys like George Soros or trial lawyers or the tobacco institute, often spending as much as $11 per signature in order to get the hundred thousand (or whatever) signatures required to receive life on the ballot.
This time we have five new initiatives, some of which amend the Ohio Constitution over such matters as whether you can smoke in a bowling alley. I kid you not. At this rate, by 2020 we'll be deciding whether to amend the constitution concerning the right of motorists to pick their nose at intersections.
Issue 1 requires that I bone up on Worker's Compensation law. I don't mind telling you that what I know about WC law could fit in a Tokyo phone booth. I've decided to purchase a handsome barrister library case - complete with glass window - to hold the law books I'm going to be buying over the next few years.
Issue two proves that writing up an issue means never having to say you're sorry for overreaching. If you're spending so much dough per signature you're not going to do something even a friendly legislature would do. So let's not just raise the minimum wage thirty percent, let's destroy the confidentiality of employer work-related records while we're at it!
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Update: Ohio Catholic Conference Voter's Guide of questions to ask.
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