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...says that the repeal of rent control put into effect by a 1994 statewide referendum has caused rents to triple—and in some neighborhoods quadruple—and has displaced a large number of working-class and poor families...
Worse, when I tried to address Milikowsky’s concern by suggesting that we might ask for a referendum (such as the Undergraduate and Graduate Student Councils have carried out on past occasions), the principled people began to insult Harvard students to avoid hearing from them. Harvard faculty said that Harvard students were too uninformed to be listened to and that we could not possibly expect to learn anything from them. One professor argued that Harvard students should not be allowed to express their views because they were such dupes that they could be hoodwinked by any competent pollster...
According to Hoxby, her suggestions for an undergraduate or graduate student referendum were similarly dismissed. “One professor argued that Harvard students should not be allowed to express their views because they were such dupes that they could be hoodwinked by any competent pollster into saying what the pollster wanted them to say,” Hoxby wrote...
...Maine voters made history when they overwhelmingly approved a referendum to limit state representatives and senators to four consecutive terms. The only organized opposition came from legislators themselves. People have a right to restrict their choices, and with term limits they have done so deliberately and with the full understanding of the tradeoff it entails. In exchange for partially limiting their choices among candidates, they correctly believe that they are limiting also the accumulation of political power in the hands...
...marchers, organized by the Mass. Voters for a Clean Elections, came out to protest the fact that although Mass. voters passed the Clean Elections law in a statewide ballot referendum three years ago, the state has yet to fund the legislation...