A ballot initiative that eliminates the right to use ballot initiatives!

You'd think the mystery financial and strategic minds behind Reform Michigan Government Now would be big fans of the peoples' right to change things via ballot initiative and referendum, since, oh, I don't know, they're using that tool themselves?  Curious then, that their scheme actually changes the constitution to seriously limit access to these tools by average Michiganders.  

We know RMGN goes to great lengths to centralize power in Lansing, silencing the voice of normal folks outside the Capitol city.  The proposal strips the people's elected representatives of the right to draw legislative district lines, instead granting it to a new nine member panel of bureaucrats who could settle disputes, literally, with the flip of a coin.  We've discussed that before.

But if they're going to take away the voice of the people through representative government I guess they might as well take away voters' recourse and the ability to change things they don't like, too.

Included in the fine print of this liberal extremist petition are constitutional changes that not only prohibit judicial review of their new bureaucratic redistricting plans (yes, you read that right), they prohibit those plans from being rejected, amended or repealed by the legislature OR via ballot initiative or referendum, the very tool the shadowy organization is using to make the change in the first place.

In other words, the petition constitutionally creates and enshrines a new unelected bureaucracy that is 100% immune to citizen, legislative and judicial oversight.  They answer to no one and their decision is final.  Period.  No recourse.  

Ladies and gentlemen, liberal extremists' perfect definition of "good government."