throughout the 1990s the legislature and stay continuously had to respond to what bill sizemore was proposing. sizemore became very effective because he turned that initiative process into a business, so than that way in essence he could make money while putting initiatives on the ballot and so when you get to the 1990s and the first part of this millennium, you see one initiative after the other on the ballot that bill sizemore was able to get onto the ballot, so he was the most important sort of player and initiative in politics and sort of the most important populace because even though he wasn't elected governor and did not serve in the legislature the fact he was able to put initiatives on the ballots meant his opinion and ideas had to be listened to. sometimes-- actually, when we wrote this book at one point we discussed having instead of the theme being the progressive versus conservative populace we actually thought that they might be that initiative process. four, 15 to 20 years with such a big deal and part of the state and politically what going on affecting our single chapter we t

he, throughout the 1990s, the legislature and the state continuously had to respond to what bill sizemore was proposing. sizemore became very effective because he turned the initiative process into a business. is so that way he could, in essence, make money while putting initiatives on the ballot. and so when you get to the 1990s and the first part of this millenium, then you see, you know, one initiative after the other on the ballot that bill sizemore was able to get onto the ballot. so he was the most important sort of player in initiative politics and i'd say the most important sort of conservative populist. each though he wasn't elected governor, even though he didn't serve in the legislature, the fact he was able to put initiatives on the ballot meant that his opinion, his ideas had to be listened to. sometimes we -- actually, when we wrote this book, at one point we discussed having instead of the scene being the progressives versus conservative populists, we actually thought the scene might be the initiative process. because 15-20 years it was such a big deal, such a big part of t

that was bill sizemore able to get on the ballot. so he was the most important sort of player and initiative politics and i was his most important conservative populist or even though he was elected governor, even though he didn't serve in the legislature, the fact is able to put initiative on the ballot met that his opinions on his ideas have to be listened to. sometimes we, actually when we wrote this book, at one point we discussed having instead of the theme being the progressives versus populace can we thought that they might be the initiative process. because 15-2 15-20 years it wash a big deal, such a big part of the state politically what was going on that it affects every single chapter that we talked about. when we talked about the governor, we had sizemore ran for governor one year, and he was defeated, and the newly elected governor had all these things on his agenda that is going to do, but sizemore said you need to think about these things or else i'm going to write an initiative in the next campaign if you don't. so ev