Citizen's initiatives

To pass a citizen's initiative, you need a van full of cash. You need a lot of signatures and a lot of people begging for signatures and a lot of money to pay people to collect signatures. This has reached the point where the donors of money are as important as the people signing the initiative.

Why don't we admit that the citizen's initiative process is permanently broken. Why don't we admit that slots on the ballot are for sale. Why don't we admit the truth and find a way to live with it.

Ground Rules

Every general election, we should allow six initiatives onto the state ballot. The initiatives and their order on the ballot would be determined by a bidding process. Those initiatives with the highest bid would go first. Only those who make the cut would go on the ballot

Now, I know this means money talks. This is the system we have now. This is the principle that our country was founded. This is the the way God intended