When does a “citizen” initiative cease being a citizens’ initiative? That’s a question we’ve been asking since 2017 when the Supreme Court’s decision in California Cannabis Coalition v. City of Upland suggested that if citizens put a measure on the ballot to raise taxes, the two-thirds vote requirement didn’t apply. Ever since, we’ve seen a flood of these so-called citizens’ initiatives bankrolled by the very special interests (often in collusion with government) that will benefit from its passage. Earlier this month, we got yet another example of that. A coalition of “nonprofit community organizations and labor” collected more than 32,000...