Representative Dan Maffei, a freshman Democrat from New York who helped write the measure to protect the dealers, said that in his case, local car dealers strongly supported the opposition.
Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, who helped write the measure, said Tuesday that "the passion level" among Hispanic voters on the immigration issue "is as high as on any issue I've observed".
One helped to write the measure and launched a radio campaign even before it was introduced.
Michael Romano, an attorney who helped write the measure, said the initiative did not define that risk for judges, many of whom used their own criteria to decide whether someone was too risky to release.
Various ministers were involved in writing the measures, he said, to better address the problems that have dragged down the Italian economy for more than a decade.
In his 1920 critique, "The Economic Consequences of the Peace," the celebrated University of Chicago economist Thorstein Veblen wrote, "the measures hitherto taken in the execution of this peace treaty's provisional terms throw something of an air of fantasy over Mr. Keynes's apprehensions".
Asked whether he thinks it appropriate to shut them out for one night and to forbid bringing larger bags afterwards, McDonald writes, "The measures in place are appropriate to the security task".
Selling the amendments to voters on the basis of encouraging voter participation also masks the fact that the terms of some officials who wrote the measures would be extended 18 months to accommodate the change in the elections schedule.
In his postscript for the musician Lou Reed, who died on Sunday, Sasha Frere-Jones writes, "The measure of his influence and importance dwarfs the news item, the obituary, the tribute.
But that timetable was in jeopardy after House and Senate Republicans writing the measure were unable to make public a final proposal by Sunday evening.
