Sentences with phrase «measures on the ballot last»

All the abusers of the district - of - choice program placed bond measures on the ballot last year.

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Uber and Lyft left Austin last year after losing an expensive fight against a ballot measure that would have required the ride - hail companies to conduct fingerprint background checks on drivers.

For at least two of these Californians (one says she is a distant relative of Mitt Romney's), the day church leaders called on Mormons to support Proposition 8 — a 2008 ballot measure to prevent same - sex marriages — was the last time they sat in the pews.

The Plum Grove Estates Property Owners Association held the seventh and last meeting to answer questions and dispel any misconceptions regarding a referendum measure on Tuesday's ballot on the proposed annexation.

California voters, having rejected every measure on the special election ballot last November, are feeling in a more positive frame of mind, it seems.

I have been on a ballot, or have campaigned for measures on the ballot, like the Open Primary and No Budget No Pay, for virtually every election cycle we have had over the last 20 years.

The debate over the safety and environmental sustainability of GMOs has intensified in the last year in the United States, with California placing a measure to label food products with genetically altered ingredients on its November ballot.

It was unclear as of late last week whether supporters of the taxing measure could or would put the question before voters again at a time when fewer items are on the ballot.

The measure was rejected in King County, but not by as large a margin as when charters were last on the ballot eight years ago.

In order to get a measure on the ballot without opposition, Boards are told by their consultants to wait until the last possible meeting to vote to approve the measure for the ballot.

Last week former state Rep. Marty Walz, who campaigned for Great Schools Massachusetts, suggested that if the ballot question failed, the group would push in the Legislature to lift the cap on charter schools in districts where the measure passed.

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.