In situations where the Utah Legislature won’t pass a bill that is important to Utahns, ballot initiatives enable us to pass laws through direct vote.
Utahns love this option but our legislative leadership does not, and has spent considerable time and money over the past eight years trying to make ballot initiatives more difficult and/or to overturn their results.
Legislative leaders seem to have forgotten that they were elected to represent the voice of the people, and are neither more important nor enlightened than those they were elected to represent.
The language of Amendment B is masked to appear that its focus is tax control, but the amendment is simply the Legislature’s latest attempt to shift power from the Utah voters into their own hands. The Utah Constitution was written to preserve power in the hands of the people, and this should be respected and upheld. Vote no on Amendment B.
Matthew Weed, Holladay