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Stories Posted on July 24, 2008
Only One Citizen Initiative Qualifies for November Ballot
Category: Initiative and Referendum · State: Montana · Source: The Missoulian
Only one citizen initiative qualified for the November ballot in Montana - I-155, identified in its short title as the Healthy Montana Kids Plan Act. In addition to I-155, there will be two ballot issues referred by the Legislature on the ballot. They are LR-118, identified in its first section as a tax levy for the university system, and C-44, a constitutional amendment affecting the way in which certain public funds are invested.
Ruling Recharges Idaho Wolf Foe's Ballot Drive
Category: Idaho · State: Idaho · Source: The Salt Lake Tribune
The leader of the Anti Wolf Coalition in Idaho says he will try again to put a wolf removal initiative on the ballot now that a federal judge has restored endangered species protection for gray wolves in the Northern Rockies. "We are very pleased this liberal judge did what he did," Ron Gillett told the Lewiston Tribune. "Now it will be all-out war." He said restoring federal protection to the wolves will reinvigorate his attempts to put a ballot initiative before Idaho voters. Two previous attempts to put such an initiative before voters failed, the last one falling about 10,000 signatures short of the 45,000 needed by the May 1 deadline.