By Howard Fischer | Capitol Media Services via Casa Grande Dispatch
State legislators are planning an assault on the constitutional right of Arizonans to enact their own laws unfettered by legislative interference.
A series of measures being proposed would change everything from signature threshold to imposing new requirements on the ability to use paid circulators. But the biggest would ask voters to repeal the measure they approved in 1998 which specifically bars lawmakers from tinkering with what gets approved at the ballot.
That’s not to say there won’t be other issues consuming legislative time when the session begins Monday, ranging from how to divide up the more than $9 billion in revenues to who gets a tax cuts, especially because Gov. Doug Ducey, in campaigning in 2014, vowed to propose a tax cut every year he is in office. And he told Capitol Media Services he remains committed to that.
