Many still think our initiative process has some kind of purity about it, that it is an opportunity for ordinary citizens to make their voices heard in an exercise of pristine democracy. In reality, the initiative process was long ago hijacked by special interests who write awful laws like this one because they found it inconvenient or impossible to get the legislature to do what they wanted.  I long ago stopped signing or voting for any initiative. Virtually all of them are terrible public policy, and why wouldn't they be? They're written by a few self-interested people unencumbered by the messy workings of a democracy, such as debate, public discussion, and compromise.