1.   If the Legislature failed to act, the initiative process would proceed.

2.   Money often dominates the initiative process even more than it does the legislative process.

3.   Activists typically resort to the initiative process when they have exhausted every other means of getting a grievance redressed.

4.   Burton said he disagrees with the notion that any wealthy Californian with an idea can use the initiative process to force the Legislature to act.

5.   He and others expressed a growing distrust for the initiative process in Arizona because it can be abused by special-interest groups.

6.   He is not the first Silicon Valley entrepreneur to use the initiative process to seek change.

7.   In Florida, the initiative process applies only to state constitutional amendments and not to the enacting or repealing of specific statutes, as in California and elsewhere.

8.   In the next year or two, nearly a dozen other states are considering similar union measures, either through their legislatures or the initiative process.

9.   It is bad enough that lawmakers go to such lengths to undermine the initiative process.

10.   Lawmakers in some states have called for hearings on the initiative process.