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I HATE ballot initiatives. Thanks to "direct democracy" Florida is obligated to build a multi-billion dollar "supertrain," allocating billions of dollars to reduce "class size" and to ban smoking in all restaurants and many bars.

Direct Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.

Ballot initiatives have been a net plus here in California. Only recently did our state begin passing bond intitiatives like crazy.

Here are some notable ballot initiatives that have made a positive impact on California:

The legendary Prop 9 - Property Tax Reform

Restricts govt from increasing property value asessment (base for taxation) more than approx 3% yearly. In the land of home values jumping 10%/yr over the past few years, this is a great thing.

Prop 187 - Freebies for illegal immigrants

Showed the will of the CA electorate was to reduce state freebies for illegal immigrants. Judges have blocked this, but there IS an appetite in the USA for limiting "goodies" that will someday come of this.

Prop 209 -- End to affirmative action

Impact just now being felt across CA. Of course, liberals are trying to find 'creative' ways to skirt this law.

Term Limits

At least we know Davis will only be Gov for 4 more years.

English-only school instruction

Yep, in California.