Monthly Archive for New Jersey
New Jersey Stories Posted in November 2007
New Jersey's problems require radical solutions
Category: Initiative and Referendum · State: New Jersey · Source: Asbury Park Press
Voter turnout earlier this month was the lowest for a general election in New Jersey history. This was in spite of the fact that all 120 seats in the Legislature were at stake. Perhaps the stay-at-homes feel the Legislature is irrelevant in today's world. Perhaps they're right.
Defeat in N.J. of stem cell initiative raises alarm
Category: Stem Cell Research · State: New Jersey · Source: San Diego Union Tribune
In 2004, New Jersey became the first state to use taxpayer money for stem cell research, beating California to the punch by three years.
Bid for Stem Cell Financing Was Late and Lukewarm, Organizers Concede
Category: Stem Cell Research · State: New Jersey · Source: The New York Times
As the battle over embryonic stem cell research raged for two years in California, Nancy Reagan made emotional appeals in countless television commercials and Brad Pitt passed the word in personal appearances, part of a well-organized $30 million campaign to persuade voters to approve the financing.
Taxes, Stem Cell Funding, School Vouchers Rebuffed in Ballot Measure Voting
Category: Taxes · State: New Jersey Oregon Utah Washington · Source: Congressional Quarterly
“Off-year” elections do not attract the large number of referendums and issue initiatives that are typically found on ballots in presidential and congressional election years. But Tuesday, the Election Day for most states holding 2007 contests, featured a handful of ballot propositions that had national implications. The following are analyses of the outcomes of four of these measures.
Voters Reject Slew of Ballot Measures
Category: Taxes · State: New Jersey Texas Utah · Source: Associated Press
Cost-conscious voters rejected school vouchers for Utah students, state-sponsored stem cell research in New Jersey and higher cigarette taxes in Oregon to fund health care for uninsured children.
New Jersey Voters Reject Ballot Measure for Property-Tax Relief
Category: Taxes · State: New Jersey · Source: Bloomberg
New Jersey voters rejected a ballot measure that would have dedicated all of the proceeds of last year's sales-tax increase to reducing the state's property taxes, the highest in the nation.
New Jersey Election Results!
Category: Taxes · State: New Jersey · Source: Courier Post
Tuesday's ballot included four public questions, the most put before the voters at one time since 1995. New Jersey voters haven't rejected a statewide ballot question since 1990.
Opinion: State Republican chairman Tom Wilson answers our questions
Category: Initiative and Referendum · State: New Jersey · Source: Courier Post
An interview with New Jersey Republican chairman Tom Wilson
Vote for change
Category: Initiative and Referendum · State: New Jersey · Source: Asbury Park Press
Over the past two weeks, we have endorsed 18 candidates for seats in the state Legislature and six candidates for county positions. Some are Republicans, some are Democrats. Some are incumbents, some are challengers. But they all share one thing in common: They offer voters the best chance for fundamental change — change that is desperately needed in Trenton and in Freehold, the Monmouth County seat.
I&R in New Jersey?
Category: Initiative and Referendum · State: New Jersey · Source: Home News Tribune
Democrats will try to defy historical trends and strengthen their hold on the Legislature while Republicans hope to restore a measure of political balance to New Jersey government in statewide elections Tuesday.
Ethics, school funding issues in Assembly race
Category: Initiative and Referendum · State: New Jersey · Source: News Transcript
New Jersey Republicans support I&R.
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