Sentences with phrase «through voter initiative»

Redistricting reform in our country has largely been accomplished through citizens rising up and achieving it through voter initiative and referendum.

Through a voter initiative in 1993, a two - term limit for city elected officials was created.

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

Even though, in replacing Jack Nicholson and Brad Pitt (who both were sort of iffy on the lead - supporting continuum) with Mark Wahlberg's middle finger and Jackie Earle Haley's little appendage, the Academy implicitly agreed with us, the no - small - parts - only - small - actors initiative will probably fail to move through committee if Oscar voters vote with where history has informed us their hearts lead them: lefty, global market agitprop.

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

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.

In Idaho a few years ago, conservative Republican gun - toting Idaho, voters restored teacher tenure through the initiative process after the legislature took it away.

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

The 2016 measure that was eventually approved by voters only came about after school groups joined with the building industry to qualify the borrowing through the initiative process.

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.