"Humane Care" Won't Make The Ballot

The "humane care" petition - supported by many out-of-state interests who wanted to use Nebraska as a testing ground for a radically conservative agenda - failed to make the ballot today. Seeing Nebraska as a conservative enough state to push their agenda, the "humane care" people, with close ties to the group that is pushing the disasterous "SOS" amendment, thought it would be easy to fool Nebraskans into signing these petitions.

It's clear, given the out-of-state interests that have pushed themselves into this state's initiative process, a process that is meant to be a democratic tool, in the truest sense of the word, that we need a serious reform in our initiative process. Something that gives the power back to the people, and takes them away from shadowy organizations that do nothing but use Nebraska as a testing ground for bad ideas.