Sentences with phrase «control ballot measure»

If dollars were votes, big pharma would be beating California's controversial drug - price control ballot measure Proposition 61 by a margin of about 7 - 1.

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Local elections and campaigns on the ballot: This topic refers to local ballot measures controlling how local elections and campaigns are conducted.

Two gun safety groups in Maine are getting more than $ 3 million from a nonprofit backed by former New York City Mayor Bloomberg in preparation for a big gun control measure on the November ballot.

Republicans control the redistricting process and will try to firm up West unless a new ballot measure that passed this fall, which seeks to take all political considerations out of the line drawing process, makes such a move impossible.

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.

Georgia PTA dedicated its efforts over the past year to advocating against the Opportunity School District ballot initiative, which would have put a state political appointee in charge of public schools with few accountability measures and removed control from locally elected school boards and families.

Supporters of the ballot measure emphasize that the vote is more about delivering renewables and taking back local control, rather than being a referendum on smart grid technologies.