The Boston Globe, August 4th, 1989
By Wednesday's deadline, no fewer than 41 referendums -- apparently a record -- had been filed with the attorney general's office for placement on the 1990 or 1992 state ballot. These 30 initiative petitions and 11 constitutional amendments may not fully prove that Massachusetts has become a direct-democracy circus on the California model, but they suggest deep public distrust of this state's political establishment -- and a failure of that political establishment to demonstrate leadership worthy of the public's trust. Since 1976, when seven questions were on the ballot, including a proposed a...
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