Just Who the Hell Do The People Think They Are?

Stealth legislation shortens time for circulating referendum petitions by six weeks

By Curmudgeon

Well, this one flew under the radar. Charlie Trentelman reports today in the Standard-Examiner in his Wasatch Rambler column that on Friday, the legislature passed Senate Bill 54, which shortens "by six weeks the time people challenging a law have to file petitions demanding a vote." Meaning a referendum, such as the one that overturned the legislature's school voucher law. "By god," the legislators seem to have decided, "we can't have the peasants getting uppity like this and telling us that we can't do to them what we want to do to them. Imagine, overturning our school voucher law by referendum. Just who the hell do the people think they are?"

Trentelman's full column, which deals with other related matters as well, can be found here.