"They legislature is largely made up of lackeys for the leftist ideologues..."
All I can say is that if the people feel strongly enough about the issue, no amount of money should be able to buy their vote. Hence, these Dems will be gone after the next election. Yes, money is power but information will trump the money in this case if the voters have conviction.
California dims stay in power whilst regularly subverting the will of constituents the same way WA state dims do, completly misleading them with the help of the media. Take WA's last session. They exercised "emergency" clauses on unpopular bills 98 times on everything from taxing rain collected in buckets to adopting CA's emission standards, to a 9 cent a gallon gas tax, right after a 5 cent gas tax, right after a 9 cent tax was soundly defeated, and oh btw next year we get another 2.8 cents gas tax, and all kinds of excise taxes and new registration fees just a couple years after having an initiative abolishing them. Our previous governor and his attorney general who is now governor have gone to court to try to take away our right of referendum, now that Gurgles is governor, she simply subverts the process by applying emergency clauses, which disallow referendums.
The state's 3 major rags and all it's TV MSM either completely ignore the new bills, flat out lie about them, print wildly misleading editorials, or blame it on George.
Most of the citizens in this state are wildly misled about the major issues of the day or don't even know they exist.
This is a state where Agnostic, Gay and Communist agendas are VERY actively pushed upon our children from very early ages, as is California, where I grew up. The people who push these agendas have taken great pains over very many years to place themselves in positions of influence in government, schools, and media, recruiting more like them whenever possible, while libertarians and alot of conservatives, people who don't have any agenda but getting their job done for the day and returning to their families, have sat back and let these groups organize to prey on our youth, their primary goal.
They have to recruit our youth or they will become socially irrelevant, which for a commie or a homo is worse than being extinct.
The peer pressure to become homosexual, left wing, and deny God is extreme in most colleges across the nation, very significant in middle and high school, and in text books in some elementary schools. Notice how "intelligent design" is only described as a "new alternative" to evolution?
Do the newspapers care that most of the people reading the articles will be offended by the anti God slant, or all the omissions of what our representatives are doing? Hell no, they know (most) people will still buy the rags for the rest of the news, not having anything to compare it with to know it's slanted, and eventually the sheep start thinking this must be the social norm, or it wouldn't be printed in all the papers, right?