Sentences with phrase «ballot initiative campaigns»

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.

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The danger, Cook knows, is that he is now America's most high - profile gay, and there will be a desire for him to weigh in personally on ballot initiatives, speak at campaign events, and give time, talent and treasure to LGBT causes.

A court in Washington has ruled that the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) violated the state's finance disclosure law when it funneled millions of dollars in dark money from its major corporate members to the campaign that defeated a 2013 ballot initiative to label food containing genetically modified organisms, or GMOs.

The ballot initiative was part of a national campaign brought by Personhood USA, a group that describes itself as a nonprofit Christian ministry.

Olson strikes a chord similar to Ken Mehlman, Bush's 2004 campaign manager whose effort was greatly assisted by traditional marriage ballot initiatives in key states like Ohio but who has since come out of the closet to favor the nullification of those results.

Robertson told the Times that he «absolutely» supports pro-marijuana legalization ballot initiatives in Colorado and Washington, though he said he would not actively campaign for them.

Update: One more point to note is that an all - online approach like this is perhaps particularly well suited to a low - profile campaign like a typical ballot initiative, since success in this kind of campaign often depends on getting a core group of supporters to the polls.

In a campaign to get someone elected, or one involving a higher - profile ballot initiative, Facebook and other online messaging will be competing with TV and radio ads, media coverage, etc., and may not work quite as well.

Here's something to chew on while you're waiting for those promised Netroots Nation after - action reports: the results of an attempt to use Facebook advertising as the primary paid outreach tool for a ballot - initiative campaign.

Third, we survived an under - the - radar, stealth campaign run by the Massachusetts Teachers Union to disqualify our ballot initiative.

After ballot initiative votes are tallied for Ohio's November elections, we'll have a better idea of how it might be used in the 2012 campaigns.

Eighty - four percent would back term limits for lawmakers and 79 percent back term limits for state elected officials; 77 percent support ending the practice of limited liability companies giving unlimited funds to campaigns; 74 percent back allowing initiative and referendum on the ballot; 65 percent support banning full - time employment for the Legislature.

He is currently embroiled in an all - out campaign to pass four ballot initiatives in a special election on Nov. 8 — none of which is ahead in the polls at the moment.

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.

Silicon Valley entrepreneur and software developer Ron K. Unz has set off sparks in recent election seasons by financing campaigns to get rid of bilingual education through various statewide ballot initiatives.

A court battle over a campaign for the ballot initiative illustrates the problem: A lawsuit filed in November alleges public money and property were improperly used when posting political signs on campuses about the tax.

Jerry Brown's Tax Allies on Proposition 30 Outspent Foes 4 to 1 Gov. Jerry Brown and his allies spent nearly $ 54 million passing Brown's November ballot initiative to raise taxes, about four times the opposition, according to year - end campaign finance reports.

The Our Schools Now campaign is a ballot initiative effort that would put a question on the ballot in November 2018 asking Utahns if they would raise their own taxes if they could be sure that money went directly to education with a primary goal of reducing class sizes and improving education turnouts in Utah.

This past Tuesday the campaign made it official, filing the paperwork with the Lieutenant Governor's office to begin the ballot initiative process.

(Calif.) Supporters of the three ballot initiatives of most interest to the state's public schools are leaving nothing to chance — burying the opposition under millions of dollars of campaign spending.

For School Libraries Public library districts come to mind first when considering ballot initiatives, but they are by no means the only types of libraries where voter education and campaign support matters.

A new state ballot initiative committee, Missourians for the Protection of Dogs, has officially kicked off its campaign to save tens of thousands of dogs from suffering in cruel conditions in puppy mills, the high - volume dog breeding facilities where dogs are inhumanely bred under harsh conditions with inadequate shelter and care.

More significantly, after pit bull advocates won legislation in 19 states prohibiting the passage of breed - specific local dangerous dog ordinances, victim advocates have mobilized on campaign budgets of nothing to stop the passage of similar laws in at least six other states, as well as defeating aggressive efforts to repeal pit bull bans by ballot initiative in Miami in 2012 and Aurora, Colorado in 2014, winning the 2016 passage of a pit bull ban in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and obtaining the introduction of a proposed pit bull ban throughout Quebec province.

Missourians for the Protection of Dogs, the group spearheading the ballot measure to prevent puppy mill cruelty, launched a statewide radio campaign urging state lawmakers not to undermine the citizen - backed initiative.

Michigan campaign disclosures reveal that $ 1.3 million for this ballot initiative came from the GreenTech Action Fund of San Francisco, CA.

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.

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.»

Having been a member of LW4SP for three years, Leslie has written extensively about the research on shared parenting and has experience with prior political campaigns, including the shared parenting ballot initiative in North Dakota and the legislative push in Florida.

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In addition to a slew of bills intended to make housing more affordable signed by Governor Jerry Brown last fall, various campaigns are under way to put affordability initiatives on the November ballot.

In 1997, Missouri voters approved a ballot initiative that established limits on campaign contributions.