George F. Will, well-known Washington Post columnist, has this column November 1, arguing in favor of keeping names and addresses on initiative and referendum petitions private. Thanks to Jack Dean for the link.
Also, the New York Times of October 31 had this news article about the issue. The more that these important newspapers discuss the issue, the more likely it is that the U.S. Supreme Court will decide to review this issue and the lawsuit concerning this issue, called John Doe v Sam Reed. It is likely that the U.S. Supreme Court will say whether it will hear the case by the end of 2009, or early in January 2010.
George Will, the guy likea base ball, and the electoral college, and thinks Bob ‘Brain Tumor’ Novak is neat!
If you like the way things have gone for the global, fascist imperial American empire in the past half century, you’ll love Mister Will!
Thanks for the link. My local paper, The Clarion-Ledger cut out several key paragraphs, including the one about the director of the Los Angeles Film Festival losing his job for backing Proposition 8.
There’s nothing in the column about initiatives, other than Prop. 8.
I remember a George Will column from several years ago, in which he referred to initiatives as “referendums;” he made it sound like the two were interchangeable.
#1: If you’re going to attack dead people, you should at least have the stones to put your name on your comment (that nickname fits Ted Kennedy too, doesn’t it?)
Robert D. Novak was a Great American (who, incidentally, opposed both Iraq wars and the war in Afghanistan).
I like baseball too. With the Yankees up, three games to one, I’m feeling real good.
I do not known Mr. Will on a personal level and thus resist the urge to love or hate him. However, I am familar with his political beliefs that he expresses in public.
He is generally better at writing and verbal articulation then many other conservative columinists and or bloggers. He is also not totally in bed with the religious right.
However, I do find that he tends to be somewhat ignorant (by choice or deception) about many of topics he deals with and that he tends to be a bit selective in his theories.
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Ted Kennedy [I literally hate all the K boys, their dad (first SEC Commissioner) and Maria and Der Ahnold] at least did not illegally out an active CIA agent. Novak and Teddy, a pox on both of their houses ………