Sentences with phrase «california ballot initiative»

A proposed California ballot initiative aimed at seniors could help ease the state's housing crises, reports CNBC.

The San Francisco - based billionaire first gained notice in politics by bankrolling a series of California ballot initiative campaigns that boosted state energy efficiency actions, promoted land conservation, and defended the state's cap - and - trade law against industry rollback.

As the article reminds us, in 2010, Shulz, partnering with Tom Steyer, a Democrat, «led the successful campaign to defeat Proposition 23, a California ballot initiative to suspend the state's ambitious law to curb greenhouse gases.»

The fight over Proposition 23, the California ballot initiative that would suspend the state's landmark global warming law, has spawned some unusual political alliances.

Also on June 26, the court held in a different 5 - 4 ruling that the proponents of Proposition 8, a 2008 California ballot initiative that banned gay marriage in that state, did not have standing to defend the initiative in federal court.

While Facebook announced this week that it would cease its opposition to a privacy - focused California ballot initiative, the company's position on biometric privacy laws is less clear.

Similarly, Facebook and Google had donated $ 200,000 each to a group opposing a California ballot initiative that proposes enabling Californians to sue companies for data breaches, among other things.

For instance, how many California ballot initiatives have been «bought» by some concentrated wealthy interest that spent tons of money to swing a low - turnout election?

In 2013, after Harris's investigation concluded, California levied a record $ 16 million penalty on groups linked to the Koch brothers that had secretly funneled money to two California ballot initiatives.

California ballot initiatives have gone back and forth on pot for some years now.

Not exact matches

Initiatives to land marijuana legalization on 2016 ballots are well underway in Arizona, California, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, and Nevada, while a handful of other states could also put legalization to a vote.

California's Proposition 64 was the most important of all the legalization initiatives on the ballot this November.

Leslie Bocskor, founder of marijuana business consulting firm Electrum Partners, says he believes cannabis ballot initiatives in Arizona, California, Florida, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, and Ohio will draw youth voters — ultimately impacting the presidential election.

Facebook this week dropped its opposition to the initiative, which organizers said was on track to appear on the November ballot in California.

The documents state that other co-workers complained they also felt harassed when Coppedge expressed views in favor of California Proposition 8, the ballot initiative in 2010 that defined marriage between and man and woman.

Some activists pointed to the less public role in same - sex marriage ballot initiatives in 2012, a marked departure from earlier fights - such as California's Proposition 8 in which the church vocally supported the move to have same - sex marriage banned.

(here's the PDF for those of you so inclined to read that instead) I bring it up because on 04 August, 2010, U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker ruled that the California's Proposition 8 ballot initiative denying marriage rights to same - sex couples was unconstitutional.

Ballot initiatives in the states of Washington (1991) and California (1992) were both narrowly defeated by a 54 to 46 percent margin.

Arizona, California and Florida have passed similar measures through ballot initiatives, and Maine, Colorado and Oregon have passed related laws in their state legislatures.

Not in California, at least judging from the battle waged over the internet to pass Proposition 8, the 2008 ballot initiative that banned gay marriage in that state: The ProtectMarriage.com coalition used the Web to fuel fundraising, volunteerism, and voter...

On the Ballot: Of the 17 initiatives facing California's voters, Proposition 57 could have the biggest impact nationwide.

The first is that Cuomo has made himself the first major elected New York state official to advocate the $ 15 minimum wage and the plan he supports is comparable to those passed into law in Seattle and Los Angeles and proposed in ballot initiatives in Washington, D.C. and California.

The technique had been developed by the Los Angeles LGBT Center following the defeat of the campaign against Proposition 8, a ballot initiative that made same sex marriage illegal in California.

Voters in California will be the first in the country to cast ballots on an initiative that supports human stem cell research in a concrete way: by providing funding.

The initiative requires the signature of 8 percent of all registered California voters — that's 807,615 people — in order to be on the ballot this coming November.

As proof of general resistance to school choice, Fischel references failed voucher ballot initiatives in California and Michigan.

Advocates on both sides of California's ballot initiative to curtail bilingual education in public schools went before the state school board this month, several months before the voters will decide the issue.

If the initiative gathers the requisite number of signatures to be on the ballot, with a single vote this November, California's voters could eliminate one of the most egregious examples of inequity in its educational system — and it won't cost taxpayers any additional funds to do it.

A California coalition founded by a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, a venture capitalist, and a schools superintendent is gearing up to put a ballot initiative before state voters in the fall that could dramatically expand the number of charter schools in the state.

In 1998, Hastings teamed with Shalvey to write a statewide ballot initiative lifting California's charter cap and making it easier to start a charter school.

One way forward, she said, could be through a ballot initiative and appeal to the voters with the stories of students who are receiving an inadequate education in California public schools.

Proposed ballot initiatives on teacher tenure and the political use of union dues qualified last week for the next statewide elections in California.

A Los Angeles - based legal and civil rights group is set this week to unveil yet another major ballot initiative aimed at providing California public schools billions in additional revenue.

All California school districts are set for a funding boost, thanks to the 2012 passage of the Proposition 30 ballot initiative and an improving economy...

When vouchers were proposed by ballot initiative in California in 1993, for instance, unions were able to deploy $ 30 million in today's dollars to defeat the initiative.

A small, anti-charter group is hoping to gather more than 360,000 signatures to put this initiative on the ballot in November, with the goal of closing every charter school in California.

Laura Preston with the Assn. of California School Administrators said concerns had grown in the Capitol over the noisy divide between teachers unions and other educational organizations that could impede efforts to pass Proposition 30, the November ballot initiative backed by Gov. Jerry Brown.

The «worst union in America» is preparing to spend at least $ 3 million on three initiatives angling for California's November 2014 ballot.

New polling shows broad voter support for a 2012 ballot initiative that would tax millionaires to raise money for education as well as public safety and social services, sponsors of the measure - led by the California Federation of Teachers reported Thursday.

As Schott has expanded its grantmaking and advocacy across the country, from ballot initiatives in Mississippi to participatory budgeting in California, Schott has begun to leverage its research capacity to focus attention not just on the struggles children face but also on proactive policy solutions.

Eighteen years later, there is a new initiative on California ballots that seeks to undo a major provision of Proposition 227.

This growing interest is reflected in the overwhelming public support — 73.5 percent — at the ballot box last November for the passage of Proposition 58, the California state ballot initiative that creates more opportunities for bilingual education.

I don't want shareholder votes to be like ballot initiatives in California, where one becomes an amateur legislator, but I do want the ability to vote down directors, and for 5 % of the shareholders to be able to propose binding rules to the company, for the shareholders as a whole to vote on.

The VCL SALDF's focus for the remainder of 2008 is working on Proposition 2, which is the Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act, an initiative that will appear on California's November 2008 ballot.

Other animal welfare efforts, such as the California Proposition 2 ballot initiative, may garner media attention indirectly.

And yet solar and wind still only comprised 26 percent of Germany's electricity in 2017 and 23 percent of California's in 2017 — just half of the 50 percent that Steyer's ballot initiative would require from renewables in 2030.

After an intense lobbying spree and threats from Governor Jerry Brown to take the measure directly to voters via ballot initiative should it fail to pass, Senate Bill 32 (SB 32) was approved by the California legislature yesterday.

At the start of the campaign for California's Proposition 23, the ballot measure that would suspend the state's global warming law, opponents darkly warned that the Texas oil companies backing the initiative would spend as much as $ 50 million to win the election.

At least that's the view of California's departing governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is touting his state's environmental credentials in the aftermath of an election that featured the resounding defeat of a ballot initiative that would have suspended the state's landmark climate change and renewable energy law.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California defends the climate change legislation he signed into law and slams the out - of - state energy companies bankrolling a ballot initiative to repeal it.