Don't blame voters S.D.U.T.
San Diego Union-Tribune Editorial
Don't blame voters
Crisis due to leaders' profligacy, incompetence
2:00 a.m. May 22, 2009
To hear some pundits tell it, California voters' decision to reject five budget-related ballot measures amounted to a petulant, uninformed refusal to clean up a mess they largely created.
“Nearly a century after the Progressive-era birth of the state's ballot-measure system, it is clear that voters' fickle commands, one proposition at a time, are a top contributor to paralysis in Sacramento,â€