referendum

If Boston gets to vote on the Olympic ballot issues Councilor Zakim proposes, the 2024 bid itself is in question.  Power won’t be witnessed so much in the money spent to influence our vote on these ballot issues – it will be wielded in whether or not we get to vote at all.    

When the Progressives of a century ago amended the Massachusetts Constitution to institute the referendum process, they envisioned a process by which the people would make policy. That’s now how it has turned out.