FU%^ED!!!
Ya know, the initiative process is what gives us "follower," poll-driven politicians who are too timid to be leaders in this State!
If any Governor, Mayor or other elected official were ever to choose a course, steer consistently along it and start accomplishing something... some other idiot like Harvey Rose-n-fell would pay other negativistic idiots to gather signatures to put something on the ballot to stop such a leader and his/her course of action!!!
It really is a case of "The nail that sticks up, gets hammered down!"(old oriental proverb)
Thus, you see that Pat Brown and Ronald Reagan were the last two Governors to ever accomplish anything meaningful in this State, since Jerry Brown blew the property tax problem just as bad as Gray Davis has blown the energy crisis, by being reluctant to do anything and show leadership.
I read in today's paper that the March Primary Ballot is almost naked of propositions. Rosenfeld wanted to put a "Prop.13" style measure on to freeze the load on ratepayers and it scared Davis to death!!!
Yet Grampa Dave can't see the dark-side of extreme measures since Prop. 13 seemed to do so much good... for a time. I can't even reply to him anymore without him attacking me about it, so I just gave up.
Yep! $10,000,000,000 divided by 30,000,000 taxpayers is serious money that used to be under our control.