Citizens in Charge Foundation

While around the United States legislators and special interests seek to restrict citizens’ initiative & referendum petitioning rights, the European Union is expanding them. Joe Matthews of the New America Foundation notes:

The news here are the choices the Europeans appear to be making about how to structure the new signature gathering process. In almost every way, their process represents a vast improvement on what we have in California.

To put that into perspective, only two states scored higher than California in our 2010 Report Card. You can read the rest at Fox and Hounds.