“Please pass along my congrats and thanks to Diane Ramirez for explaining the Initiative 77 to us at the LaborFest Jazz show at BusBoys and Poets in DC,” writes IBEW 26 retiree Susan Flashman. “Efforts like hers, I believe, are what helped people know what it was ‘really’ about and pass it. Now we just have to see that the DC voters keep a close eye on the DC Council. Kudos!” Click here for The American Prospect’s Harold Meyerson on Initiative 77: “Will Another D.C.-Based Government Disdain Democratic Norms?