Sentences with phrase «by ballot initiative»

More striking, California's Global Warming Solutions Act (Assembly Bill 32, or AB 32) will likely lead to the creation of a very ambitious set of climate initiatives, including a statewide cap ‑ and ‑ trade system (unless it's stopped by ballot initiative — Proposition 23 — or a new Governor, depending on the outcome of the November 2010 elections).

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.

In November 2012, Washington became the first state to approve a public charter school law by a ballot initiative, which also made them the 42nd state to approve charters.

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.

(Colorado's state constitution can be amended by ballot initiative.)

Californians overwhelmingly passed a similar measure, The Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act, by ballot initiative last fall.

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The ballot initiative had been backed by labor unions.

«We will see cannabis ballot initiatives decide the presidency by delivering key battleground states,» Bocskor says.

South Dakota voters approved a ballot initiative in 2016 by a 75 percent vote to cap rates for payday, car title and installment loans at 36 percent annual interest.

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.

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

Local media in the state, tonight, is reporting that ballot initiative SQ755, which bars state courts from using Islamic or international law, is on the path to approval — Yes votes outweighing Nos by more than two - to - one, with about 40 - percent of the precincts in.

Campbell has opposed this state - by - state patchwork approach, and has worked with GMA to defeat several state ballot initiatives.

When it comes to transparency and food labeling, the Times editorial board («Labels for Controversial Ingredients» 11/7/13) favors voluntary disclosure by corporations over ballot initiatives which would legally require the disclosure of controversial ingredients like genetically modified organisms.

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?

The only time a statewide ballot proposition to limit gay marriage was defeated was in Arizona in 2006, although a narrower version of that initiative was passed by the state's voters in 2008.

In 1999, a ballot initiative proposed diverting funds from the APF was rejected by more than 80 percent of Alaska voters.

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

Last November, Maine voters approved, by a slim majority, a ballot initiative to adopt a voting system called «instant runoff.»

If the repeal initiative qualifies for the November ballot and gets the majority of votes, any future gas taxes passed by the legislature would also require voter approval.

This whole medicinal pot issue is a little thorny, since marijuana is illegal under federal law — period, end of story, even in states that have passed legislation or ballot initiatives making the drug legal for use by people who are sick, those individuals are still subject to arrest by federal officials for possession or cultivation.

The IP could return to what made it a party of «reform» for both Left & Right candidates by saying their Party's position is a ballot initiative.

Ohio — Gov. Bob Taft (R) is retiring: The failure of the four ballot initiatives backed by «Reform Ohio Now» on Nov. 8 should be sobering for Democrats who believed passage of the measures would be an early sign of big gains in the Buckeye State next year.

The November ballot will include two funding initiatives for public education, including one backed by Gov. Jerry Brown.

By getting involved in your local Green chapter and online, we will elect more officials, run more ballot initiatives, be visibly in solidarity with justice movements, achieve ballot access quickly, and be a network of communities resisting two - party electoral oppression.

Cuomo in January announced the latest initiative to reduce spending: a proposal that would require county governments to draft a consolidation plan to share services by Aug. 1, which would then go on the ballot for voter approval in November.

Chaired by Eric Holder, the 82nd Attorney General of the United States, NDRC is the first - ever strategic hub for redistricting focused on winning targeted elections and ballot initiatives, advancing legal action, and building the infrastructure to achieve a fairer redistricting process.

Of the 15 states, it is the only state where term limits were imposed by the state's legislators, rather than through the ballot initiative process.

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.

In 2000, they spent $ 12.9 million to promote a ballot initiative to amend the state constitution to allow for vouchers, which was soundly defeated by a two - to - one margin.

In Idaho, a Homestead Exemption initiative, which would exempt the first $ 50,000 of assessed value on residences from property tax, was placed on the November ballot by petition.

State is facing a projected $ 1 - billion deficit, with reduced revenues caused by Measure 5, a 1990 state ballot initiative capping property taxes.

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 the end, the ballot initiative was rejected by the voters.

But she pointed out that a statewide ballot initiative to change teacher tenure, Prop. 74, was defeated in 2005 by a 55 - to - 45 vote margin.

But a growing number are joined by entities whose main focus is lobbying and politics: 501c4 organizations and political action committees, free to spend limitlessly on lobbying for legislation, getting friendly candidates elected, advancing ballot initiatives, and more.

Mr. McIntire's group and other anti-tax supporters need to gather 14,714 valid signatures from registered voters in the county by early May to put the initiative on the state's September ballot — or...

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.

The groups, led by the League of Education Voters, filed a ballot initiative in the hopes of forcing a November vote on the free but independent public schools, which are allowed to use unconventional techniques and hire nonunion employees.

An initiative that would move voting by the LA teachers union from paper ballots to online has gathered enough signatures to put the change to a full membership vote, according to the architects of the proposal, Marisa Crabtree and Megan Markevich, both teachers and Teach Plus fellows.

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.

Although Arizona ranks near the bottom in student funding, we are encouraged by the Governor's discussion of adding more dollars by a land trust ballot initiative and a council to reform school finance.»

Concurrent to approval of SB 114 by the Senate Education Committee, the Secretary of State's office announced that proponents of a separate initiative calling for a $ 9 billion school facilities bond to go on the same ballot were cleared to begin collecting the signatures needed to put that measure before voters.

The initiative is currently in the signature gathering phase and will need to collect about 259,000 signatures by July in order to make it on the November ballot.

The new law was approved directly by voters through a ballot initiative in November 2012.

In November of 2016 a ballot initiative to allow the state to lift the cap was soundly defeated by voters across the Commonwealth.

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.

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