Sentences with phrase «defeat ballot measures»

Educators helped defeat ballot measures that would have required voter approval of new taxes in Missouri, Montana, and Oregon.

In a dramatic turn of public opinion, Californians defeated a ballot measure that would have capped administrative spending by the state's nearly 1,000 districts at 5 percent of their total budgets and required that the other 95 percent go to classroom expenses, such as teachers» salaries and school supplies.

Even as voters nationally elected a notorious climate denier as their next president, several environmental groups rallied to help defeat a ballot measure in the state of Washington that would have taxed carbon emissions.

Not exact matches

Oregon has been a major battleground for this issue: a ballot measure sharply restricting homosexual rights lost heavily in 1992; a scaled - down version was defeated by several percentage points in this election.

The tax returns bill has been derided by Senate Republicans as a «P.R. stunt» but Stewart - Cousins insisted the measure was part of a consistent set of policy proposals (a different, but similar bill that would link releasing tax returns to ballot access, was defeated as a hostile amendment on the Senate floor).

Paterson also says people should see opportunity in defeats like the ballot measure in Maine: «I think there's this feeling that if legislation fails that it's this colossal loss for the cause.

Critics of the actor - director Rob Reiner's latest early - childhood ballot initiative are fine - tuning their case for defeating the measure on the June 6 statewide ballot.

Voters in four states last week defeated property - tax - limitation ballot measures that educators had claimed would cripple their school systems if approved.

State ballot measures involving education faced a tough sell in Tuesday's elections, including in Florida, where a hotly contested initiative that would have loosened a 2002 constitutional amendment governing class size went down to defeat.

Meanwhile, the string of state - ballot victories by foes of bilingual education was broken in Colorado, where a surge of last - minute spending helped defeat a measure there that would have all but ended bilingual education.

ADLA was also part of coalitions that defeated damaging ballot referendums including a constitutional «right to hunt» measure in 2009 that could have overturned the law that banned traps and poisons on public lands.

George P. Shultz, the Republican former secretary of state, and Thomas F. Steyer, the Democratic hedge fund billionaire, are reviving the coalition that campaigned last year to defeat Proposition 23, the California ballot measure that would have derailed the state's» landmark global warming law.

A ballot measure to expand Michigan's renewable energy standard was soundly defeated at the polls Tuesday, after a hard - fought battle in which the measure's opponents outspent supporters by a three - to - one margin and blanketed airwaves with ads.