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It just seems weird that Mesa County (District 7) could stop a proposed amendment from even being voted on statewide.
Additional information on California’s Prop 61. Veterans are advertising against it. They say that, while drug manufacturers may be willing to give vets a discount, they’ll balk at giving a discount to a larger (not said: less worthy) group. They assume that if the law passes, their discounts will evaporate.
Seems like a rational fear.
Not when the federal government in the person of the VA has all of the clout it has to negotiate prices.
I saw a pro-61 ad from the AARP today.
I thought we were having another go at legalizing marijuana this year?
They failed to buy enough signatures. I think they’re going to try again next year. (This is why I thought it was foolhardy for marijuana supporters to refuse to back the monopoly-for-pot-barons proposal last year. Signatures are just a proxy for cash, and grassroots movements don’t have a lot of that.)
Looks like my Roku knows where I live, so I just saw my first scaremongering ad on Youtube!
Basically, they’re claiming that poison control calls in Colorado went up 5 fold since they legalized it. Cue scary music. Poe’s law in effect. I can’t seem to find it through search, but its beautifully retarded.
Sounds like Europe’s industry could get a boost of juice (sorry).
How’s that different from the recent non-ballot law?
There are 5 states with recreational marijuana on the ballot: CA, AZ, NV, MA and ME. If they all pass, it’ll double the number of states that have it.
There’s about 4 more with medical MJ, including a couple in the South (FL and AR, IIRC). It won’t increase the total number by much (currently half the states have medical MJ), but virtually none in the South do.
Other than that, the other ballot measures that I think are interesting is one in Colorado that legalizes physician-assisted suicide and a local one in West Haven, Florida that will allow them to test a new technology to eradicate the mosquitoes that spread Zika. The technology releases male mosquitoes whose offspring will die almost immediately. The controversy is that these are genetically modified mosquitoes. Horrors :rolleyes: People, it’s not like anyone is asking you to eat the damn things! Male mosquitoes don’t even bite people; only female ones do that.
The initiative which would place money from selling bags into an environmental fund wouldn’t directly repeal the ban, but that is the intention. The goal is to make grocers, who currently keep the money, come out strongly in favor of repeal because of their loss of revenue.
Maryland just has one this year, it adjusts the way vacancies for attorney general and comptroller, requiring that if there is a vacancy and the governor is of the opposite party of the previous office holder, then he must choose a replacement from a list of candidates from the opposing party. Its an obviouslky partisan piece of legislation given that the comptroller and atourney general are almost guaranteed to be Democrat, while the governor is occasionally a Republican (as he is now). I’ll probably vote for it both because it helps my favorite party and also because I think it better expresses the will of the people.
I feel like the danger with that would be political patronage. Instead of proposing the best person for the job, the party appoints the most loyal party member.
That doesn’t mean I have a better solution and I do get the problem it’s trying to fix. I suppose the requirement of a list of candidates makes it not so bad.
The condom requirement for the porn industry in California probably has the Las Vegas business community hoping it will increase their numbers. Are there corporate taxes in Nevada? They could get a boon if all of the porn production companies move to Vegas out of the San Fernando Valley.
Minimal. No straight franchise or income tax but it looks like there’s a 1.17% gross tax over a certain exemption limit.
Emphasis on the all. I just got the document explaining them today. I took a look at them and then went back to Ulysses which I’m reading now for something easy to understand.
I agree, but as you say the issue of patronage is pretty much unavoidable. In the current situation the Governor would just choose the person most loyal to him.
Illinois has a ballot measure to amend the state constitution so that funds gained for transportation purposes can only be used on transportation. I guess the state has dipped into the road fund for other reasons before.
I am opposing it on the general principle grounds that I oppose constitutional amendments for things that should really be handled at the state legislative level.
This is obviously purely partisan and even though it’s favored by “my team,” I don’t care for it, for exactly the reason you describe. I want the most qualified people, regardless of political affiliation.
Also, I feel like this is not a scenario that comes up very often, and Dems pushing this through is fighting a battle just to win a battle, no matter how trivial.
You should look at this again. Per the official ballot statement, there is no “opposite party” stipulation. The nominations must come from the previous office-holder’s party, if they were a party member, period. It constrains both Democratic and Republican governors, no matter how great their popular mandate, giving that power instead to unelected private bodies.
It’s also primarily only for unexpected vacancies due to “death, resignation, removal from the State, or from office, or other disqualification.”
Right. It seems appropriate to me that popularly-elected governors have broad discretion in such appointments.