[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"it won't be covered in the mainstream media so as not to encourage supporters to vote."

Exactly. The liberal media up here won't cover it so as to make the ballot initiative supporters do all the work in getting the word out to the people. I for one plan to scream "bloody murder!" to get people to vote it into law.
However, in this Commonwealth, it doesn't matter if the people want it to be law or not. If the pukes on Beacon hill don't like it, they find a way to get rid of it.
They did the same thing with the seat belt law. The people overwhwelmingly voted to repeal it and it was, for about a year until lawmakers introduced legislation to get it back on the books, putting the ball squarely back in the petitioners court to "Go ahead, do it again, I dare ya."

[Little Bill]

I suggested to a Rep one time, at a meeting. I suggested that we move the Hooker statue down to the Common, from next to the stairs at the Capitol and erect, a gallows. We should then top off a legislator at random every now and then, as an example to the others. The proposal was not well recieved.