A constitutional convention will allow us to have people who really listen to us. What’s wrong with that?
• In the 1978 constitutional convention, in two and half months, 102 delegates proposed 1,116 revisions to every article our state constitution. There will be no overarching direction for a constitutional convention. Nothing in our state constitution would be sacred if we were to vote in favor of constitutional convention. It will be a free for all. • The result would be a deliberative body composed of multiple voices with different agendas vying for attention and the pressure to make changes at the expense of fully understanding the implications of these changes. The cost to campaign as a delegate is prohibitive for many people. Those who receive financial backing will most likely be beholden to the special interests of their funders. • Our legislative process is broken because people do not feel that they are being heard by those whom they elected or have given up on voting and the belief that we have a representative democracy. Doesn’t a constitutional convention address this? A con
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