Sentences with phrase «successful state ballot»

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

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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.

The Hotline has two very hot documents from the Republican database - driven turnout machine, one describing their (apparently very successful) absentee ballot program in Michigan and the other listing sample voter contact numbers by state and district.

The use of petitions is most commonly associated with forms of direct legislation in California (and other US states) and Switzerland, where successful petitions generate a popular ballot on potential legislative and constitutional changes.

Between Rocky's campaign and party efforts, Roque De La Fuente and the Reform Party have successful put together approximately twenty five ballot lines, but hope to establish ballot access in up to forty - two states.

State Republican Party Chairman Jerry Labriola Jr. brushed off Visconti's successful petition drive and his spot on the ballot.

Discuss and debate pros and cons of running a ballot access petition drive and assess whether your state is ready to undertake a successful petition drive.

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.

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.

Moreover, public school advocates know that while ALEC legislators have been successful in getting limited school voucher schemes passed in state houses across the nation, these measures never succeed when they are put to the ballot.

He was lead counsel in the Institute's successful challenge to Florida's «electioneering communications» law, which required groups and individuals to register with the state and comply with onerous regulations if they merely wanted to mention candidates or ballot issues in their publications.

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.

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.»