Committee Drops Proposal to Regulate Grassroots Speech as Lobbying.

The Connecticut legislature’s Government Administration and Elections Committee rejected a bid by the state’s ethics agency to smother the public’s right to petition its government. The ethics proposal would have required people engaged in “grassroots lobbying” (commonly known as citizens exercising their free speech rights) to register as lobbyists. The bill, S.B. 850 was reported out of the committee this week without the offending language.

Score one for freedom over the grasping bureaucracy.