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CalMatters: California tests populist vision of ‘direct democracy’
California’s great reformer, former Gov. Hiram Johnson, envisioned that “direct democracy” would be an effective curb on special interest influence. At the time, more than a century ago, the Southern Pacific Railroad dominated a corrupt state Legislature and other political venues. Johnson wanted voters empowered to circumvent such dominance via initiative (legislating by ballot measure), referendum (repealing laws passed by the Legislature) and recall (ousting politicians deemed ineffective or corrupt). The next 15 months will be an especially busy test of Johnson’s direct democracy. A recall directed at Gov. Gavin Newsom, once a longshot, now appears to have a fair chance of succeeding. Ma

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