The question in my mind is not whether it would pass -- the polls say it would have failed resoundingly -- nor even whether it is worth spending taxpayer money on referenda that are unlikely to pass, but what we want our political discourse to look like, both locally and nationally. I don't want to give a bunch of out of state social conservatives a bully pulpit in a Presidential election year, especially not when it would waste a bunch of my time and the time of the citizens of this state to do so. And I think that is a legitimate concern: I cherish freedom of speech as a legal construct, but that does not obligate me to support financially and logistically the opinions of those with whom I disagree.