A coalition of left-wing groups in Ohio submitted the signatures on Wednesday needed to place an extremely broad, anti-parent abortion amendment on the fall statewide ballot.
Lombardo, a Republican, signed a bill into law that protects out-of-state abortion seekers and abortionists from prosecution in the state, “regardless of other states’ policies,” according to the report.
Several left-wing groups are working together to put abortion through 24 weeks of pregnancy on the ballot in Florida next year.
Protect Women Ohio (PWO), which describes itself as a pro-woman, pro-parent coalition, is launching two new 60-second advertisements this week aimed at defeating Ohio’s proposed abortion ballot measure.
The coalition warns that parents would be “cut out” of their children’s decision making around abortions and sex change procedures.
Two pro-abortion groups in Ohio have kicked off an effort to place a constitutional amendment on November’s ballot.
Abortion groups utilized arguments about personal freedom to convince many moderate voters to turn against pro-life measures.
Montana voters rejected a ballot initiative during the midterm elections that would have mandated that infants who are born alive, including those who survive botched abortions, are legal persons entitled to life-saving medical care.
A measure to enshrine abortion as a right in the state constitution of Michigan has been projected to become law following Tuesday’s vote.
The activists unfurled a banner warning against a ballot initiative they say could lead to abortion through all nine months of pregnancy.
A proposed ballot measure to require the State of California to spend 2% of its annual budget on expanding water infrastructure has been dropped after failing to raise enough money or gather enough signatures.
Democrat Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth Kathy Boockvar said she would resign by the end of this week after her office failed to advertise under state law a proposed amendment to the state’s constitution to protect alleged child sexual abuse victims.
The California State Senate passed a constitutional amendment on Wednesday to repeal Proposition 209, a ballot initiative passed in 1996 to prevent the state from discriminating on the basis of race for any purpose.
A lawyer whose firm hired Fusion GPS to produce opposition research on Donald Trump leading to the phony “Russia dossier” has written to the State of Nevada pressuring it to bow to Democrat demands to allow “ballot harvesting.”
Voters in Alabama, Oregon and West Virginia are facing specific questions about abortion restrictions on their ballots Tuesday.
Republican Diane Harkey led a rally outside her Carlsbad, California, campaign office on Sunday afternoon for Proposition 6, the ballot initiative to repeal last year’s 12-cent-per-gallon gas tax increase and vehicle fee hike.
An October 19 poll revealed that Proposition 10 to expand rent control in California is in big trouble, with just 41 percent support in the campaign’s final weeks.
The $8.9 billion Proposition 3 water bond on California’s November ballot has gained bipartisan support because most of its proceeds will fund watershed and water infrastructure.
Republicans in the Golden State believe a ballot measure that would repeal Gov. Jerry Brown’s 12-cent-per-gallon gas tax, known as Proposition 6, could be the key to reviving their party’s fortunes in California — and to preventing Democrats from winning the key congressional races they need to win back control of the U.S. House in November.
California’s Secretary of State officially placed the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association’s “Repeal the Gas Tax” initiative on the November statewide ballot.
As of last week, both houses of the California legislature have now passed a bill that would allow voters to end Daylight Savings Time by referendum this November.
California Democrats are trying to convince voters to ignore the “Cal 3” initiative, which would create three separate states. But it may be a risky strategy.
California voters passed four uncontested bond measures on Tuesday, and then trounced Proposition 70 as punishment for Republican “triangulators” who extended climate change taxes for another decade.
The latest USC Dornsife / Los Angeles Times Poll found that a majority of California registered voters want to repeal the new gas tax increases sponsored by Gov. Jerry Brown.
The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers’ Association (HJTA), which has led California’s “Reject The Gas Tax” ballot initiative, delivered 940,000 signatures to Sacramento Tuesday, far above the required 585,407 valid signatures necessary to qualify the gas tax repeal for the November 2018 ballot.
Activists who want California to secede from the nation may begin collecting signatures on a petition to put the question before voters in 2020, according to Secretary of State Alex Padilla.
Over the past few weeks, leading into the California Republican Party’s convention in Orange County this weekend, there have been mailings supporting the argument that the “top two” or “jungle primary” system created by Proposition 14 in 2010 is a good idea.
A Sacramento judge ruled Friday that California Attorney General Xavier Becerra’s title and summary for a ballot initiative to repeal the gas tax passed by the legislature in April was misleading, and said he would rewrite it.
California voters could enshrine climate change in the state’s Constitution — thanks to a phony ballot initiative being promoted by weak Republican Party leaders as a brake on cap-and-trade spending.
For the second time in less than a year, the CalExit effort in California will gather signatures for the right to secede from the United States.
Californians may be able to vote on high-speed rail again, after Governor Jerry Brown’s cap-and-trade extension carried a Republican-backed provision requiring a referendum on how the cap-and-trade funds are to be spent.
Republican advocates of a California ballot initiative to repeal the state’s new gas tax will sue Attorney General Xavier Becerra over language he issued describing the measure, which they say is “misleading” to voters.
The California State Assembly may have voted Proposition 54 — which requires bills to be posted online in their “final form” at least 72 hours before a final vote — 95 times last week as it rushed to vote before adjourning Friday.
The separatist movement known as CalExit, which gained favor among some California liberals in the wake of President Donald Trump’s election last November, is officially dead. For now.
California Secretary of State Alex Padilla announced Thursday that a ballot initiative called “California Nation” has been approved by the state to begin collecting signatures to qualify for the 2018 ballot.
Even though the election was Tuesday, in California Election Day has really become Election Month. And the state went way left.
There are only two ballot referenda worth supporting this year in California: numbers 54 and 66. Vote no on the rest.
My default on ballot measures is to vote “no,” unless there is a compelling reason to vote “yes.” There are, in my opinion, four measures that are no-brainer “yes” votes.
Californians will decide in November whether to legalize marijuana for recreational purposes, after a measure backed by Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and Facebook investor Sean Parker gathered enough signatures to qualify for placement on the state ballot this fall.
It’s not too late to send Lieutenant Governor Newsom a message: don’t disarm Californians and don’t give breaks to those who want to harm us. As the Democratic leaders in Sacramento have already pleaded with him to do, Newsom must pull this initiative and work with the California legislature on public safety bills that support our police and empower the people.
