Ausfahl v. Caldara

Once again the majority deprives the voters of an opportunity to express themselves on a proposal to limit public fundraising. And once again its action is premised on some variation of the theme that public fund-raising by taxation and public fundraising by borrowing are separate subjects, unable to be considered by the voters in a single initiative. Because I can find no principled basis for treating the identical limitation on taxation and public indebtedness presented here as different subjects, I would not extend our prior reliance on this distinction to the particulars of the current…