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A former legislative leader who was not enamored with the stateâs initiative process used to call it âgovernment by Barabbas,â referring to the prisoner from the Bible the crowd voted to pardon rather than Jesus when given a choice by Pontius Pilate.
Unfortunately, the story has been twisted in a disturbing manner through the years to promote antisemitism. That was not the intent of the legislator.
He was arguing that sometimes there is a thin line between pure democracy and mob rule, and that the initiative process has the danger of bumping up against that line.
He said he would trust decisions made by the people if they had the time and ability to gather the information he was privy to as a legislator. But without that time and ability, he feared what the initiative could lead to a type of mob rule â government by Barabbas, he called it in off the record comments. That argument might be buoyed by recent events regarding the stateâs initiative process.
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