Are any other states voting on stuff other than presidential candidates during this primary season?

[KitchenWitch]

California has 7 ballot propositions to decide on Tuesday.

In other words, the California Assembly gets to shirk their responsibility twice a year during primary years.

:eyes:

[petronius]

1. To be fair to our Legislature, I think this time at least they can't be accused of shirking

In the case of the Gaming Compacts they actually did their job (the referendum is on whether or not they did their job well). Props 92 and 93 would amend previous propositions, which the Legislature isn't allowed to do (IOW, these props are here because of our past addiction to the initiative process). So I really think the Leg is off the hook, for once...

[KitchenWitch]

2. That is true!

But from what I have heard from people who have lived here for years, the Legislature usually does not want to make the difficult decisions we pay them to, so they put those decisions up on the ballot.

BTW I love the "Pro" argument for Prop 91 - "Vote No!"

:rofl:

[petronius]

3. That certainly has been the historical pattern - lots of initiative seem

to be sponsored or pushed by legislators, governors, or their minions. My general philosophy has been to default to a 'no' on initiatives just to try and push some of the pressure back to the Leg. That same logic leads me to vote 'yes' on the compacts.

I was totally boggled by the 91 argument at first; I thought maybe they were going for a reverse-psychology strategy or something... :)