BARBIERI: Trying to block will of people

I feel it’s very disgraceful that one of our local representatives, Vito Barbieri, is trying to push through a constitutional amendment to preemptively block any chance that the Idaho Open Primaries Initiative would be able to be enacted if passed by the people.

For it or against it, initiatives are a way for the people to tell our representatives what is important to us. We as a populous should be able to make that choice once it’s on the ballot. 

Whichever way you lean politically, this should be eye opening that the current people who should be representing us at the state and federal level would rather rule over us, instead of let us be free-thinking citizens.

JORDAN SLATTEN

Coeur d’Alene