Sentences with phrase «ballot measures did»

But the study found that cannabis ballot measures did increase the overall voter turnout in Colorado and Washington in 2012 (though not in Oregon, where the initiative did not pass).

If the ballot measure does pass, Ladd Bierman of LWV noted, there are many questions that must be addressed in the following legislative session.

Jason Lewis, sponsor of this new bill, argues that the details of the ballot measure do not make for safe and responsible policy.

Not exact matches

Studies looking at 2012 voter turnout in Colorado, Oregon, and Washington have found that ballot measures legalizing marijuana did not drive younger voters to the polls.

Mark, while I certainly don't think all christians are bad, intolerant people, it's kind of hard to ignore all the fundies running for president and all the money religious groups are pouring into anti-gay ballot measures.

By law, the council could vote to put the measure on the ballot or the mayor could appoint a charter revision commission to do it.

A majority of NYC voters support a ballot measure to allow as many as seven casinos in the state, according to a New York Times / Siena College poll, even though they don't want any of those in the five boroughs and probably won't travel upstate to visit those that are built.

Massachusetts, on the other hand, is one of the deepest blue states in the nation, but voters there don't seem to be warming up to the legalization measure on their ballot this fall.

If the Legislature doesn't approve the measure, Fried said he will personally lead an effort as county executive to gather petitions from Rocklanders to bypass the legislature and get this item on the ballot so that the people could decide.

Sens. Joe Griffo and Tom O'Mara are carrying a bill that would allow 54 days for ballots to be mailed out, a measure that does not have a same - as in the Democratic - controlled Assembly.

[UPDATE: Both ballot measures failed, proving that consumers still do not understand the severity of this issue.]

Although the measure was more about politics than policy — it was designed to raise the Hollywood actor's stature in advance of a future run for governor — the ballot initiative did reflect Schwarzenegger's sincere interest in inner - city schools, dozens of which he had toured during work for his nonprofit foundation, the Inner - City Games.

The George Lucas Educational Foundation is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, private foundation that is operated for educational purposes, and, as such, we do not take positions on any legislation or ballot measures, nor do we endorse or oppose any candidates in elections to public office.

In part because of the Lau ruling, the district has built up a robust offering of language - learning pathways, even as many districts around California either diminished or did away with their bilingual offerings in the wake of a 1998 state ballot measure that put severe restrictions on bilingual education.

But the measure does not include the same standards required for signature - gathering in ballot drives.

According to Caucus Chairman Emanuel Jones, because the ballot measure's text didn't discuss the details of how the schools were selected, «people didn't know what they were voting for.»

Today's Wall Street Journal discusses my dissemination of NEA's ballot measure fund spending and concludes, «It's a shame the NEA doesn't spend as much money and effort to improve lousy schools as it does trying to keep taxes high.»

The issue even made it to the ballot box in 2016 when HISD added a measure meant to put pressure on the state legislature to change its school funding system after lawsuits failed to do the same.

Despite arduous efforts by CCSA, the Oakland Unified School Board voted in June to place a $ 475 million bond measure on the November ballot that does not specifically include charter schools.

They did so because if the bill failed, it would go to a ballot measure — and, in a national atmosphere in which support for charters was rising among both Republicans and Democrats as well as championed by the Obama administration, the union leaders were convinced that such a ballot measure would pass and leave lasting damage on Massachusetts» public schools.

It does not now have, and has never had, a written ballot measure.

CarbonWA was being asked to trust not just that the polling on the alliance measure was good but that it would get better when ballot language was nailed down; not just that the policy had moved its way but that it would continue to do so after January 1, when CarbonWA's 350,000 signatures became worthless.

Environmental groups did not put a climate measure on the ballot in 2012 (they didn't want to put the election of Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee at risk).

«Our expansion into Florida was not predicated on the outcome of the Measure 4 ballot initiative, however, we do support the expansion of property tax exemptions that encourage solar power generation as it paves the way for our company (and others) to diversify the solar power generation products that we offer,» Vivint Solar EVP and Head of Capital Markets Thomas Plagemann told pv magazine.

For a state like Rhode Island, which does not allow ballot measures, a state legislature bill may be the only path to legalizing marijuana.

The Supreme Court last week also cleared the way for the reinstatement of marriage rights for gay couples in California, ruling that the supporters of Proposition 8, the ballot measure that invalidated same - sex marriage in the state, did not have legal standing to appeal a ruling holding Proposition 8 unconstitutional.

The measure did not ultimately make the November 2016 ballot.