Nationwide Ballot Initiative: CENSURE BUSH
Conservatives have one strategy that turns out their base on election day that Democrats and progressives have yet learned to master. It's a strategy that hijacks the national debate every election...
View ArticleGot Initiative?: Oregon Ballot Measure Preview
The following is a preview of the initiatives that are expected to/may qualify for the 2008 fall ballot. All signatures are due by July 3, 2008 if they have not already been submitted.
View ArticleGet Verified: Oregon Ballot Measures
With the submission of signatures for this year's Oregon Ballot Measures, I thought I'd run down their chances of making the ballot and what they mean, along with listing those ideas that will not make...
View Article9th Circuit Rejects Challenge to OR Gay Rights Laws
In 2007, the Oregon legislature passed two laws: The domestic partnership law (the Oregon Family Fairness Act) and the Oregon Equality Act, which prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation...
View Articlethe myth about anti-marriage initiatives and 2004
The more we know about 2004, the more we know how wrong the conventional wisdom was and has been: No, Bush didn't win. No, this wasn't a victory of right-wing so-called "values voters". And no,...
View ArticleMass decriminalizes marijuana, votes against abolishing income tax
Two interesting ballot measures this race in Massachusetts, and results are in:http://www.thebostonchannel.com/..."Massachusetts votes against a plan to abolish the state income tax and for the...
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Proposition 8 Vote Certified (Margin is 50.04%-49.96% in L.A.)
Mad Professah has been following the final tallies of the 2008 election results very carefully. In Los Angeles County according to the Secretary of State website, Proposition 8 is leading...
View ArticleDirect Democracy Sucks
I grew up in New Mexico, where there is no initiative system. There's also a fair bit of corruption. When I moved to Seattle for college, I was very impressed with the initiative system, and quite...
View ArticleNew Measure Puts Alaskan Teens At Risk
Five days on the ground talking to voters in Anchorage, Alaska really drove home what’s at stake for reproductive justice, voters and for Alaskan teens.Written by Pamela Merritt for...
View ArticleA Trojan Horse Measure Posing as School Reform In San Diego
The right wing here in San Diego never quits. Read about this new and outrageous attempt to oust our progressive school board majority.The battle for the hearts and minds of young people in San Diego’s...
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Return of Oregon's Sith: Kevin Mannix is back with yet another dumb ballot...
Failed gubernatorial candidate (and Democrat turned Republican) Kevin Mannix is back – once again peddling putrid public policy proposals via the ballot initiative system.I had hoped Mannix might...
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Against A Prop 8 Repeal Attempt in 2012
From The Mad Professah LecturesThere is a debate going on in California (again) about when (or if) the LGBT community should attempt to repeal Proposition 8 by circulating and passing a constitutional...
View ArticleWA state: R-71 Petition Signatures Now Online
Whosigned.org now has a searchable database on their website that holds every signature from 2009's infamous Referendum 71 in WA state. Kudos to you, whosigned.org! For all of the associated court...
View ArticleA look at the three California tax proposals - UPDATE: Brown/CFT compromise
Next November, Californians may be faced with three different ballot measures attempting to raise revenue for our state. The California Budget Project has released some comparisons of the sources of...
View ArticleGood news coming out of North Dakota
Not many people have been paying attention to North Dakota for reason other than the oil fields, but ND had two important ballot measures that some in the nation have been following.Measure 2 would...
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Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: Reports of Leonard Boswell's demise are...
Want the scoop on hot races around the country? Get the digest emailed to you each weekday morning. Sign up here.Leading Off: •IA-03: Well lookee here: Some prognosticators had started writing off Dem...
View ArticleJoin Adult Entertainers, Fans, and Free Speech Advocates Striking Back...
No to Measure B. No to Government Waste.Measure B is an unnecessary waste of taxpayer dollars that claims to end AIDS, but actually just hurts the Los Angeles economy and kills jobs.Today from 9am PST...
View ArticleGeorge Skelton Takes California's Prop 32 to Task
Noted LA Times columnist calls out the phony political reformby Brian LeubitzGeorge Skelton has seen most of the smarmier side of California politics. And when he calls something out for being phony,...
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