Otter Inks Bill To Hamstring Initiatives

It soon will be tougher to get an initiative onto the Idaho ballot. Barely five months after Idaho voters took to the ballot box to scrap the Legislature’s controversial Students Come First school reform laws, Gov. Butch Otter signed legislation Monday adding new requirements for qualifying citizen initiatives and referendum measures for a statewide ballot. “I thought it was the right thing to do,” Otter said of his decision to sign Senate Bill 1108 into law. “I agreed with the arguments that it’s an issue for all of Idaho – why shouldn’t all of Idaho be included in it?”/ Betsy Russell , SR. More here.

Question: So much for the vox populi, right?