> With financial help from the giant retailers Target, Home Depot and Walmart, the coalition has gotten a ballot measure qualified for the November election tha

> With financial help from the giant retailers Target, Home Depot and Walmart, the coalition has gotten a ballot measure qualified for the November election that would impose harsher punishments for crimes that result in lighter charges or no prosecution today. Yeah, cause that’s how direct democracy should work. For those without California context, ballot measures are the means by which the monied seek to bypass the legislature by appealing to the worst instincts of voters directly. They’re a feature and a bug of Californian democracy.