10,681

1

Delegate Grumbacher.

2

DELEGATE GRUMBACHER: Mr. Chairman, members

3

of the committee, I have been against initiative in every

4

form up until this particular point. The initiative in

5

all other cases is on a specific and single issue which

6

can in times of trouble cause us grave difficulties.

7

Since in this particular case the initiative

8

would put on the ballot the calling of a convention and

9

that convention, through the filter of that convention

10

would pass the problems of the state, I think we would

11

be perfectly safe to have the initiative.

12

A major reason for having the initiative in

13

here is to avoid the kind of thing we went through for

14

the past hundred years and particularly, I believe, the

15

past fifty, where we have been blocked and blocked very

16

much from having a constitutional convention because of

17

gross malapportionment. We think we may have cured that

18

problem in our present constitution but some things don't

19

stay cured the way you want them to. I think we must

20

have a different form in addition to the way laid out in

21

GP-8, a different way for us to call a convention.