The proposal would prohibit using the bailout money for any new initiative, limiting the Treasury to programs that had already been announced, like foreclosure prevention.
Preoccupied with this looming disaster and lingering economic uncertainty, Californians are in no mood to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Proposition 13, the citizens' initiative limiting property-tax increases that was approved in June 1978.
A referendum last year, known as the 'fat cats initiative' limited executive bonuses and golden handshakes.
Voters in 1990 had supported an initiative limiting state officials and legislators terms, but legal challenges sent it to the courts.
Such independent spending has surged in California since 2000, when a ballot initiative limited the amount that could be given directly to candidates.
Oregon and Alaska voters will decide on the full legalization of recreational marijuana, while D.C. voters will decide on an initiative limited to legalizing possession and home cultivation, excluding retail sales.
It also reduces private initiatives and enterprise, limits citizens' choices of health care providers, although this is based on – and ensured by – certain laws.
Though Kirsch writes that ordinary citizens "will never draft a law or vote on its passage," the citizens of Montana and Colorado put forth and passed initiatives limiting corporate spending in elections.
But making a difference is not just up to the individual -- we're counting on the titans of the travel industry to get involved as well, to work together to develop socially responsible policies and initiatives, limit the industry's negative environmental impact, augment the positive, and help improve the health, education, and economic well-being of the communities in which they operate.
This may be, in part, the result of court rulings and ballot initiatives limiting affirmative action programs.
