Marin Voice: California's initiative process needs to be reformed

JUST OVER A CENTURY ago, California Governor Hiram Johnson, concerned that railroad barons and other predatory special interests had wrested control of the government, proposed creation of an initiative process as a means of restoring lawmaking power to the people.

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