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Posted by Jack on Friday, April 03, 2009 12:28:17 PM

Chris Christie called this week for initiative and referendum and conservatives should embrace it regardless of their suspicions of him.

New Jersey is one of only a handful of states that does not allow its citizens to initiate new laws directly. Its Governor, legislature and supreme court have been therefore unobstructed in their decades-long march leftward. 

With initiative and referendum -- especially in the new age of electronic communication -- voters can block, reverse and override their lawmakers. More importantly, they could, on their own, restore to themselves the powers held hostage by the corrupt political establishment.

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Is Christie Whitman?

Posted by Jack on Wednesday, February 11, 2009 11:38:30 AM
Conservatives have little by which to be excited so far in the candidacy of Chris Christie.  His promise to bring under control state spending with the line-item veto is not the product of serious thinking.  As even Jon Corzine has said, New Jersey can't afford its own government.  Plucking with tweezers at the mountain of waste that the Legislature has yet to produce misses the point entirely.  Indeed, if the Statehouse dome collapsed upon them all and we were happily without a Legislature, we would still have programs and bureaucracies that need detonating.
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