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George Harris, chairman of Nevadans for Sound Government, is pleading with a district court judge for more time to gather signatures on a petition to repeal the $833 million tax hikes approved by the Legislature last year. He claims government employees have harassed his volunteers, preventing them from turning in their petitions by the May 18 deadline for a referendum.
Others, including the Committee to Regulate and Control Marijuana, have hired a savvy political consulting firm that employs an army of Palm Pilot-carrying signature gatherers to go door-to-door asking registered voters to sign.
“The beauty of a state like Nevada is that ordinary citizens can enact their own laws and constitutional amendments,” said Billy Rogers, whose Las Vegas firm, The Southwest Group, is collecting signatures for four of the petitions.
“I’m not going to say what we’re doing is easy. They make it purposely difficult to get an initiative on the ballot. If it were easy, we’d have 100 initiatives every year to vote on,” Rogers said.
Some of the initiative campaigns are well financed, such as the marijuana petition, which will benefit from nearly $400,000 in television ads that have been ordered to run in Reno since January through August.
Those ads are funded by the Marijuana Policy Project, a national political nonprofit agency that also sponsors medical marijuana initiatives in two other states. Nevada voters overwhelmingly rejected a similar measure floated by the group in 2002, which would have made it legal for an adult to possess 3 ounces of marijuana.
Bruce Mirken, communications director for Marijuana Policy Project, said the ads are part of “an educational campaign” designed to urge voters to rethink the nation’s current policy on marijuana.
Source: Reno Gazette Journal
Author: Anjeanette Damon
Published: 6/6/2004
Copyright: Copyright Reno Gazette-Journal, a Gannett Co. Inc.
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Website:https://www.rgj.com/news/stories/ht...ocal+News&sp5=RGJ.com&sp6=news&sp7=local_news
Others, including the Committee to Regulate and Control Marijuana, have hired a savvy political consulting firm that employs an army of Palm Pilot-carrying signature gatherers to go door-to-door asking registered voters to sign.
“The beauty of a state like Nevada is that ordinary citizens can enact their own laws and constitutional amendments,” said Billy Rogers, whose Las Vegas firm, The Southwest Group, is collecting signatures for four of the petitions.
“I’m not going to say what we’re doing is easy. They make it purposely difficult to get an initiative on the ballot. If it were easy, we’d have 100 initiatives every year to vote on,” Rogers said.
Some of the initiative campaigns are well financed, such as the marijuana petition, which will benefit from nearly $400,000 in television ads that have been ordered to run in Reno since January through August.
Those ads are funded by the Marijuana Policy Project, a national political nonprofit agency that also sponsors medical marijuana initiatives in two other states. Nevada voters overwhelmingly rejected a similar measure floated by the group in 2002, which would have made it legal for an adult to possess 3 ounces of marijuana.
Bruce Mirken, communications director for Marijuana Policy Project, said the ads are part of “an educational campaign” designed to urge voters to rethink the nation’s current policy on marijuana.
Source: Reno Gazette Journal
Author: Anjeanette Damon
Published: 6/6/2004
Copyright: Copyright Reno Gazette-Journal, a Gannett Co. Inc.
Contact:
Website:https://www.rgj.com/news/stories/ht...ocal+News&sp5=RGJ.com&sp6=news&sp7=local_news
