The voter-initiative process has been a part of Arizona’s DNA since statehood. But a series of bills in the current legislative session was aimed at curbing those efforts.
One frequent criticism leveled by supporters said that Arizona was actually being hijacked by out of state interests who were trying to influence the state with their money.
Now, to keep those laws from going into effect, a political-action committee called Voters of Arizona is going to try to get more than 75,000 valid signatures to put their own counter-referendum on the November 2018 ballot.
Grant Woods is co-chairing that committee with former Phoenix Mayor Paul Johnson.
We spoke with Woods.
