Sentences with phrase «successful ballot initiative»

He had also sponsored a successful ballot initiative, Proposition 49 in 2002, which set money aside in the state budget for an expansion of afterschool programs.

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However, Colorado and Washington have legalized it at the state level through ballot initiatives and been successful in implementing it because the Justice Department has refused to intervene.

However, voucher - type proposals have not been successful in statewide ballot initiatives.

In 2006 she co-wrote the citizen's ballot initiative that created First Things First (FTF), which set aside Arizona's tobacco tax monies for children birth to five and created a state agency whose purpose is to ensure all Arizona children start kindergarten prepared to be successful in school and in life.

Brown also led the push for a successful state ballot initiative to raise education funding.

Just in case you doubted the power of money to frustrate attempts to rein in greenhouse gases, read Margot Roosevelt's news story in the Los Angeles Times about the successful effort, paid for mainly by oil companies, to put an initiative on the fall ballot that could suspend the state's pioneering, and troubled, climate law, Assembly Bill 32.

Adam leads Vote Solar's team of advocates, experts and staff working to bring solar to the mainstream across the U.S. Adam co-founded the organization in 2002 after he had so much fun working on a successful local solar ballot initiative that he decided to pursue...

As the article reminds us, in 2010, Shulz, partnering with Tom Steyer, a Democrat, «led the successful campaign to defeat Proposition 23, a California ballot initiative to suspend the state's ambitious law to curb greenhouse gases.»