Blago
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – Gov. Rod Blagojevich, taking his defense to television rather than his impeachment trial, lashed out at his accusers Monday and revealed he had considered naming Oprah Winfrey to the U.S. Senate.
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He said that when he was arrested on federal corruption charges, he took solace from thinking of other jailed leaders — Nelson Mandela, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi.
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Does he seem mentally imbalanced to anyone else? The balls on this guy! If a case could be made against direct democracy, this is it. We elected him, not once, but twice! Take a bow, Illinois.
posted by Heath Morber @ 7:22 AM
1 Comments:
You're confused. The governor is (supposed to be) part of representative democracy. DIRECT democracy is ballot initiatives.
Ballot initiatives are the origin of most reforms, such as women's suffrage (passed in 13 states before Congress went along), direct election of Senators (4 states), publicly financed elections (passed by initiative in 6 of 7 states with them), medical marijuana ( in 9 of 13 states) and increasing minimum wages (in all 6 states that tried in 2006). See http://Vote.org/initiatives for more examples and references. The media have seized on the problem initiatives. They generally kiss up to politicians.
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