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<text id=90TT3088>
<title>
Nov. 19, 1990: Enough Already!
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Nov. 19, 1990 The Untouchables
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
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NATION, Page 44
Election '90
Enough Already!
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<p> An election reform created in 1911 for the admirable
purpose of giving people direct power to pass laws at the ballot
box ran wild this year in California--and the voters
rebelled. Faced with 28 ballot initiatives, some with
deliberately similar titles but with opposite intentions,
Californians threw up their hands and rejected 22 of them.
</p>
<p> They not only snubbed Big Green, the most sweeping attack on
environmental problems ever put before voters, but they also
turned back a flurry of special interest-backed proposals that
would have negated Big Green's impact had it passed. In the blur
of clashing TV commercials, citizens turned negative, killing
everything from a nickel-a-drink surtax on alcoholic beverages
to a sales tax to fund antidrug measures.
</p>
<p> One proposition the angry Californians did pass limits
members of the state assembly to three terms, while state
senators and other state officers will be confined to two terms.
The voters' overall message, sums up Larry Berg, a political
scientist at the University of Southern California, was bitter
and crotchety: "We don't trust you."
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