Government by and for the People, next Joke

This what we voted for, really? 

It is long past time for a serious discussion. Discussion requires listening, inequitable tax codes, regressive sales and use taxes to allow special exemptions and corporate tax reductions has been revealed and no one was listening. Lawmakers don't lack courage, they have plenty of courage when it comes to special interests rewards.

 They have plenty of opportunity to reverse or stop the fiscal wreckage or correct legislative boondoggles and excesses . They enact legislation that takes effect four-six-eight years down the line, the results won't show immediately and by the time it does they will be term-limited out with racy new positions given by those whose favor they curried with legislative special treatments.

Take a roll call of past legislators and government political appointees and check out what they are doing today, with and for who?   It is so difficult to believe, the voters have been stomped on, beat up, totally violated and yet they vote for the sane public molesters time and time again.

In 1998 the voters passed Arizona Proposition 200, also known as the Clean Elections Act. Many of the people chosen by the voters have fought and tried to destroy the Act every since. Turning to this week the Senate rejected a bill to ask the voters to end the Clean Elections Act, then two Republican Senators changed their votes and on reconsideration the measure asking voters to repeal the public campaign funding system was passed and will go the 2016 ballot.

Was there anything wrong with the Act? Couldn't it be amended and fixed? Why if it has been working since 1998 have the political powers finally mustered enough strength to destroy it, who or what is behind it, certainly not the voters who placed it into law?

Another case of voter abuse, is the voter mandate on school finance adopted by the voters in 2000. When the Legislature decided it didn't want to follow the voters requirements, they just ignored them. The Courts have ordered the State to comply with the voters adopted measure.

What has happened? The Governor and the Legislature just spit in the voters eye and rather than make up the voter approved funds for schools, more financial cuts and demands without money for schools to do more. Yes, with less!

In 2000 the voters in Arizona were fed up with the results of how the Legislature was drawing the voting district lines and gathered signatures to put Proposition 106 on the ballot delegating the power to draw congressional and legislative district boundaries to an Independent Redistricting Commission. The voters decided they wanted an independent commission to complete the redrawing of lines every ten years after the census was completed by the Federal Government.

Behold the voters spoke again, and what has the Legislature done every since?

Fought tooth and nail to get back to their old ways of gerrymandering districts to favor their political needs and retain political power. Once again, right up to today, the choice of the people has been rejected to the point taxpayer dollars are being spent to challenge the decision of the voters in the Supreme Court of the United States.

The elected representatives of the people want to overturn another initiative sponsored by the people and get back their selfish, self-serving ways. Another case of slapping the people governed in the face.

Some how the people keep giving the keys to the government in Arizona to the elected people that pick and choose what voter decisions they like and will accept. Long overdue time for discussion? In Arizona we have what the dark money has bought, what we pay for with our tax dollars and so far what we as voters are allow to have by the political powers in Phoenix.