How has California's direct democracy system been misused to serve narrow special interests? In just the last few years, there was the billionaire venture capitalist with the harebrained idea that California should be six — no, three separate states. There was the labor union that spent millions of dollars on ballot measures — in three elections! — to punish the dialysis industry that wouldn't fall in line. There was the referendum by the plastic-making industry that tried to undo California's... Read this story
