Sentences with phrase «through ballot initiatives»

Hell, in the US all full legalizations have been through ballot initiatives, which are entirely the voters» decision.

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.

Arizona, California and Florida have passed similar measures through ballot initiatives, and Maine, Colorado and Oregon have passed related laws in their state legislatures.

Of the 15 states, it is the only state where term limits were imposed by the state's legislators, rather than through the ballot initiative process.

One way forward, she said, could be through a ballot initiative and appeal to the voters with the stories of students who are receiving an inadequate education in California public schools.

The new law was approved directly by voters through a ballot initiative in November 2012.

Perhaps Jameson Rescue can help the Shelter with funding instead of trying to bully them through a ballot initiative?

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Sources there say they wish that proper protocol would have been followed, instead of ramrodding this initiative through onto the ballot.

Will the ballot initiative sail through with a special legislative liaison advocating on its behalf, now or later?

New York now joins the ranks of 16 other states which have done so through resolutions and ballot initiatives.

The four initiatives on the ballot from 1984 through...

It includes questions placed on ballots through a citizen - initiative process as well as measures that legislatures have put before voters in statewide referendums.

First, voucher advocates should avoid statewide ballot initiatives and instead work through the state legislature.

Silicon Valley entrepreneur and software developer Ron K. Unz has set off sparks in recent election seasons by financing campaigns to get rid of bilingual education through various statewide ballot initiatives.

Ballot - initiative procedures — which are a Progressive Era reform — were designed for situations like this: Through the ballot box, the electorate can circumvent special interest - driven legislatures and directly enact popularBallot - initiative procedures — which are a Progressive Era reform — were designed for situations like this: Through the ballot box, the electorate can circumvent special interest - driven legislatures and directly enact popularballot box, the electorate can circumvent special interest - driven legislatures and directly enact popular laws.

But, the Beholden State teachers unions are trying to get an initiative on the 2016 ballot that would continue the higher income tax through 2030.

Last November the charter school industry in the Bay State tried to push through a state - wide ballot initiative that would have allowed more charter schools to be opened in the Commonwealth.

Just two years earlier we educated Coloradans about the widely - endorsed Ethical Standards ballot initiative, Amendment 49, which would have kept political funds from being channeled through government payroll systems.

It's through lobbying and ballot initiatives.

The Coalition to Ban Ohio Dog Auctions (CBODA) is an Ohio citizen - driven, community - based, bipartisan coalition that has come together to address Ohio dog auctions through the 2012 ballot initiative (Ohio Dog Auctions Act, LSC 129 2393).

Nearly 1 million Missouri voters sent a powerful message through the ballot box to shed the stigma of being the puppy mill capital of the country by approving Proposition B, a statewide ballot initiative to establish basic standards for the care of dogs in large - scale commercial breeding facilities.

In Spokane, a city councilman mulled a ballot initiative to ban oil shipments through the city, unless the cargo's pressure and flammability were reduced to meet safety criteria.

This ballot initiative is a notable test of whether hunters and the outdoorsy set, with their old - style conservation values focused on open lands, can find equal footing with the boomtown machinery in a state that is going through a remarkable phase of development.

Except in British Columbia, we also do not have the people's ballot initiatives process, unlike Oregon and Washington State, so we could not translate the 70 - 80 + per cent support among Canadians for decriminalising assisted death into statutory reform through that form of direct democracy.