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what do you think of Measure 60?

As a method for dealing with complicated issues, using the Initiative to solve problems is seriously flawed.

First, the language is too vague. Listening to your guests, I am struck by how they read the same words and get to different interpretations.

Second, Bill Sizemore did not offer the measure for its merit. He makes a good living from proposing Right Wing ideas that hurt their enemies, such as "the liberal school teachers."

Third,the legislative process gets a better result, because (1) statutes define the terms used in a law, (2) knowledgeable people offer specific language to become law, (3) the statute is not merely an amorphous concept like this Initiative and, at least part of the time, (4) skilled and experienced attorneys shape the law.

posted 4 years, 8 months ago
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