The killing of a bill to create a task force to study the initiative process in Oklahoma resulted in a nice editorial last week in The Oklahoman:

The floor substitute to a bill by Rep. Randy Terrill, R-Moore, and sponsored in the Senate by Randy Brogdon, R-Owasso, would have established a task force to study a process that’s stacked too heavily against those who wish to get referendums and initiatives placed on the ballot.

Most of the initiative petitions circulated in Oklahoma in recent years have gone up in smoke, derailed by challenges ranging from the logistical (having to gather huge numbers of signatures in a short time) to the legal (felony charges filed for allegedly using out-of-state circulators).

The editorial went on to say, “We’re generally not fans of task forces, but the complexity of this issue warranted such an approach.”

But what the editorial failed to mention was the man behind the killing of the bill: none other than Attorney General Drew Edmondson.