Ballot Initiatives

Marriage Equality: Our Rights Are Not Up for Debate!

Warren J. Blumenfeld | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Supreme Court, Vice President Biden, Loving v. Virginia, President Obama, Alexis De Tocqueville, Brown v. Board of Education, Federalism, Roe v. Wade, Ballot Initiatives, Same-Sex Marriage, Gay Marriage, Gay Voices News

While many of our political leaders debate issues of marriage equality, I do not believe that the rights of minoritized people should be up for debate and should be settled on in the voting booth.

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Progressives Plot Ballot Initiative Strategy

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Ohio Issue 2, John Kasich Union Bill, Ohio Protests, Paul Lepage, Ballot Initiatives, Ballot Initiative, Maine Ballot Election, Idaho Ballot, Ballot Initiatives 2012, Elections 2012, Sb 5, John Kasich, Idaho Education, Progressive Ballot Initiatives, Ballot Initiative Strategy Center, Same-Day Voter Registration, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Buoyed by grassroots energy from the protests in Wisconsin earlier this year, progressives are now planning an offensive strategy. Organ...

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End of an Era for Colorado Ballot Initiatives (We Hope)

Luis Toro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pretrial Justice Institute, Disclosure, Colorado Proposition 101, Campaign Finance, Colorado, Colorado Amendment 63, Colorado Proposition 202, Independence Institute, Ballot Initiatives, Colorado Amendments 60 and 61, Denver News

Amendments 60 and 61 and Propositions 101 and 102 all failed, and questions raised by supporters' failures to disclose may have contributed to those defeats.

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Denver Voting On Congress, Governor And... Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Denver Ballots, Washington Ballots, Alien Commission, Colorado Democrat, Ballot Democrats, Extraterrestial Commission, Ballot Initiatives, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- During the 2004 elections, the Republican Party was able to use specific ballot initiatives to drive up the vote in key locals and, in t...

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Prop 19 Would Help -- Not Hurt -- Medical Marijuana Patients

David Borden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: California Prop 19, California Gay Marriage, Ballot Initiatives, Ballot Initiative, Ballot-Initiatives, Prop 19, Medical Marijuana, Proposition 19, California-Prop-19, California Proposition 19, Los Angeles News

A group of medical marijuana dispensaries has come out against Prop 19, California's "Tax and Regulate Cannabis" initiative to legalize marijuana. Are they misinformed or deliberately lying? I don't know anymore.

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Colorado Liquor Ballot Initiatives Fall Flat

Denver Daily News | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ballot Initiatives, Colorado, Liquor Stores, Denver News

Another effort to get full-strength alcohol into grocery stores has fizzled out. Blake Harrison said yesterday that he has given up on his two ball...

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Colorado Health Care Reform

Denver Daily | Peter Marcus | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ballot Initiatives, Health Care Reform, Independence Institute, George Pataki, Denver News

Conservatives are raising the message of Paul Revere in an attempt to convince lawmakers to repeal federal health reform legislation recently pushed t...

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Will Mandate Ballot Initiatives Be the Gay Marriage of 2010?

Jane Hamsher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Goldwater Institute, Gop, Individual Mandate, Steny Hoyer, States, Alec, Ballot Initiatives, Ncls, Politics News

Republican rhetoric feeds into an extensive and well-funded network of right wing groups that stand ready to push anti-mandate ballot initiatives that will go into overdrive upon passage of the health care bill.

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Lakoff: The Poll Democrats Need to Know About

Guest Pollster | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Framing, George Lakoff, Interpreting Polls, Ballot Initiatives, Pollster, Politics News

George Lakoff is Goldman Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley, and the author of T...

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Tea Baggers Get Kicked Where It Hurts

Kristina Wilfore | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taxes, Sam Adams, Dick Armey, Bisc, Ballot Measure, TABOR Amendment, Tabor, Grover Norquist, Tea Party, Ballot Initiatives, Politics News

Out of all of the election results from yesterday, the anti-tax ballot measures in Maine and Washington (known as TABOR) provide a better political tea leaf into voter attitudes going into the 2010 election cycle than anything else.

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Perfect Storm 2010?

Robert Hertzberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: California-Assembly, Ballot Initiatives, Arnold Schwarzenegger, California Budget Crisis, Unions, Los Angeles News

A sour economy, political gridlock and year upon year of sagging budget revenues are threatening to combine into a perfect initiative storm that could hit California next November.

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Why the California Court's Decision Is Good for Gay Marriage

Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Judicial Activism, Proposition 8, California, Strauss v. Horton, David Paterson, Progressive Agenda, Civil Rights Act of 1964, California Prop 8 Ruling, Repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell, Defense of Marriage Act, California-Supreme-Court-Gay-Marriage, Don't Ask Don't Tell, California Gay Marriage, Prop 8 Ballot Initiative, Ballot Initiatives, Gay Rights, New York Gay Marriage, Ban on Gay Marriages, Brown v. Board of Education, David Paterson Gay Marriage Bill, California Supreme Court Gay Marriage, Vermont Gay Marriage, California Supreme Court, Maine Gay Marriage, New Hampshire Gay Marriage, California Gay Marriage Ban, Vermont Gay Marriage Override, Gay Marriage, California Supreme Court Same Sex Marriage, California Proposition 8, Politics News

We should view the California court not as opposing gay marriage, but rather as promoting public deliberation and democratic action on the subject of equal rights.

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Cal Prop 2 (Farm Animal Confinement) Interview

Jonathan Handel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pigs, Animal Cruelty, Politics News, Ballot Initiatives, Eggs, Proposition 2, Veal, Prop 2, Animals, Hens, California, Politics News

Learn more about California Proposition 2, regarding cruel confinement of farm animals. Check out my interview with a representative from the Yes on 2 campaign.

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Torture in the Henhouse

Jonathan Handel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Animal Cruelty, Pigs, Egs, Proposition 2, Prop 2, Hens, Veal, Animals, Ballot Initiatives, California, Politics News

Prop 2 would not require that animals be free range -- but would grant farm animals the ability to move about, even while caged, is just basic decency.

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It's Wrong to Count People Who Don't Vote

Michael Markarian | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 2008 Elections, Elections, Ballot Initiatives, Proposition 105, Clean Elections, Voting Rights, Democracy, Fair Elections, Election 2008, Arizona, Animals, 2008 Election, Election, 08 Election, Voting, Yahoo!, Politics News

People who have died or moved and are still on the voter rolls.

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Ward Connerly Cashes In: Profiteering exposed by...The American Conservative!

Kristina Wilfore | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ballot Initiatives, Ward Connerly, Ballot Initiative, Civil Rights, Bisc, Politics News

Ward Connerly, the California lobbyist who has been running a divisive, multi-million dollar campaign to outlaw equal opportunity programs across the ...

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