> It seems far more likely that if it's specifically in response to recent events I can answer this conclusively: it's not a response to any single election or

> It seems far more likely that if it's specifically in response to recent events I can answer this conclusively: it's not a response to any single election or event. We've been working on this for almost 2 years. Here's a tweet from June 2020: https://twitter.com/SeattleApproves/status/1277699381756452864 https://twitter.com/SeattleApproves/status/12776993817564528... As we all say, correlation is not causality, but more practically, it's impossible to announce an initiative that addresses a real problem without it seeming related to something recent :-) Until the prior election is done, no one cares, and yet signature-gathering deadlines basically require starting as soon as that election ends. (AMA about running an initiative, particularly one that doesn't have an enemy - that is, we're not trying to "Move the goalposts" towards or against any viewpoint. That's incredibly valuable (IMO!) and quite rare, but also means the typical you're-with-us-or-against-us fundraising and voter pitches don't apply. "You're with us if you support representative democracy" requires a different campaign plan targeted at people and organizations who support systems and incentives, not only candidates and positions, and who put their own preferences second to the will of the voters.)