Homeless in Arizona

These *ssholes in the Arizona legislator are also all big fans of the insane and unconstitutional "War on Drugs" and are doing the best they can't to shut down our efforts to legalize marijuana.

I suspect if the Founders were alive they would be at the Arizona State Capital now with their guns tar and feathering these tyrants and stinging them up from light poles.

A lot of the atheists I know who are gun grabbing ACLU Democrats have been demonizing me for my support of the Second Amendment. Will this is a real good example of why we need the 2nd Amendment.

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Montini: Dumb (lawmakers) and dumber (us)...?

EJ Montini, The Republic | azcentral.com 6 p.m. MST February 13, 2016

The people we elected to serve in the Arizona Legislature are convinced we are stupid. Not just me, which is a given, but you, too.

In fact, especially you.

They’re so confident we are a bunch of thick-headed nitwits they plan to place several resolutions on the November ballot for which a “yes” vote will be both an admission and an affirmation of our own stupidity.

It works like this:

Back in 1998 Arizona voters (I was one of them. You, too, perhaps.) passed an initiative called the “Voter Protection Act.” We didn’t like the way lawmakers fiddled with laws that were voted into creation by the general public. So we passed this initiative, which said such a measure can only be altered to “further the purpose” of the original idea, and then only with a three-fourths vote of the Legislature.

The politicians now in office – politician we put there – believe that the Voter Protection Act is an idiotic idea.

They want us to admit it.

And they want to scrap it.

For example, there is House Concurrent Resolution 2043, which would allow lawmakers to change a citizen-created initiative in ways that do not “further the purpose” of the law voters created.

Another resolution, HCR 2023, also would allow initiatives to be altered. And it would allow lawmakers to change such a law with a smaller majority, three-fifths instead of three-fourths.

Then there is the resolution (HCR 2047) that wants to make it more difficult to get an initiative on the ballot in the first place by requiring that at least 25 percent of signatures come from rural counties. (Where it is tougher to collect a lot.)

And there’s the resolution (HCR 2024) that wants to derail the marijuana legalization initiative (and perhaps the medical marijuana law) by saying Arizona citizens could only decriminalize drugs considered illegal under federal law with a three-fifths majority, rather than a simple majority.

The operative word in that phrase, of course, is “simple.”

As in simpleminded.

As in…us.

This condescending attitude toward voters is nothing new.

The people we elect have been trying to chip away at the Voter Protection Act and other initiative-created laws for years. One special target has been the Citizens Clean Elections Act, also passed in 1998, and meant to do just what it says, clean up some of the dirty money and dirty tricks in politics.

It has been under constant assault by lawmakers. And is again this year.

The Legislature ignored for years the education funding requirements approved in 2000’s Prop. 301, which called foryearly inflation-based education funding for K-12 schools.

They’ve always hated the 2000 initiative in which Arizona guaranteed health care coverage (AHCCCS) for any Arizonan whose income falls 100 percent below the poverty level.

Over the years, when elected official weren’t doing what we wanted we passed our own laws.

Now, they want us to admit how moronic we voters were to assume we actually know what’s best for us.

Crazy, right?

What possible reason would lawmakers have to believe we would admit to being complete dopes?

Well…we elected them, didn’t we?