Democracy as Corporate Blackmail

[Jim Westrich]

Here is a case of using ballot initiative process as corporate blackmail.

Key quote after J. Christopher Grace got his way with the initiative threat:

''Our mission has been accomplished without the need to proceed all the way 
to the ballot box.''

Full story:

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/180/nation/Deal_with_AT_T_halts_ballot_item_on_Internet_use+.shtml

ATT/Pepsi for President in 2004.

Peace,

Jim

"When poverty is more disgraceful than even vice, is not morality cut to
the quick?"

  -- Mary Wollstonecraft,  *A Vindication of the Rights of Women*