Bill To Ban Government Lobbying Against Initiated Measures Passes House

  •  February 14, 2009

After the initiated measure to cut income taxes went down under a cloud of taxpayer funded lobbying from people like state university professors, I posted on this blog promising that the issue would be addressed in the legislature.
I worked with Rep. Dan Ruby to develop a bill banning the practice. That bill was superseded by an essentially duplicate bill introduced by Rep. Kim Koppelman. Now Koppelman’s bill has passed in the house, and it’s a real victory for democracy in North Dakota.
The next step is to pass it through the Senate. You know what to do. Contact your Senators, and tell them that it’s not fair for the state to use our tax dollars to initiated measures put on the ballot through our hard work and signatures.

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  • http://1WebPromotion.com/ johnnylitson

    Hi,

    Looks like the Government is waking from its long sleep…
    Bill To Ban Government Lobbying Against Initiated Measures??

    This is good… :) Thanks a lot for the update…

  • Kay

    Would this include people from DPI lobbying against measures to improve North Dakota's home education laws??

  • http://sayanythingblog.com robport

    Absolutely.

  • http://www.refinancetoolbox.com/ jim12065

    Lobbying has been the downfall of the American political system. Unfortunately, it has taken a great economic crisis to put some teeth behind real change in lobbyist procedures, but we'll take what we can get.

  • http://Array sayanything-4625

    I wish we could get this through on the national level!

  • welder4

    NO chance of it being on the national level , as long as Pelosi and Reid are in control , it appears that Obama has given these two a blank check and they will ruin us in the coming two years. The have written the bill that just passed and I bet you that Obama has not read it and will not read it in its entirety before he signs it. I guess he has to sign it as it passed with a 60 vote margin, is that not what they need to force it . 2010 is going to be more important then the last election, we need to make it an ejection this time around .

  • Bobby G.

    This response is what you'd expect from liberals. Lose a fight, and try to change the rules. Claim your defeat is the result of process, not substance. And try to limit the speech of your opponents.

    And we have such a great history with campaign finance reform. The only problem with McCain-Feingold is it didn't go far enough. Right.

    Agreed governments behave disgracefully in opposing or supporting citizen-initiated measures. In my experience, local school boards are the worse.

    But back in 1989, when Sinner and Lips and those fellows opposed the referrals and exploited government resources to do so, the referral supporters used their behavior as an issue against them. And the referrals reversed the tax increases.

    The better approach for North Dakota conservatives would be to come up with a better idea, better approach, work harder and organize a better campaign.

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