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Few if any polling firms in the
nation can match our record of having won 28 of our last 30 referenda
campaigns, summarized below. Six of these involved protecting or increasing funding for public
education, and five involved prohibiting smoking in indoor public places, funding tobacco prevention
programs, or increasing tobacco taxes. For our clients a
win might be passing or defeating certain referenda.
Brief
summaries of our referenda campaigns include:
- Helped defeat legislature-referred statewide school
voucher program in Utah in 2007
- Defeated a state TABOR (Taxpayer Bill or Rights) initiative
in Nebraska to
restrict state government taxing and spending powers in 2006
- Helped defeat a gay marriage ban in Arizona in 2006
- Defeated state constitutional restrictions on school
spending in Colorado in 2006
- Passed an increase in the state minimum wage
in Montana in 2006
- Passed a state constitutional amendment to
require 10% renewable electric energy in Colorado in 2004
- Passed a state ballot initiative in Montana in
2004 to increase the state tobacco tax for health care coverage
- Passed a state constitutional amendment to enact
sweeping campaign finance reform in Colorado in 2002, after a 1996 voter-approved
statutory version was undermined by the state legislature and governor
- Passed a state ballot initiative in Montana in
2002 calling upon the state legislature to dedicate half the tobacco
settlement funds for tobacco prevention and other health purposes
- Defeated
a state constitutional amendment in Iowa in 1999 to that would have
required a 2/3 legislative super-majority for any state tax
increase
- Defeated
a state constitutional amendment in Iowa in 1999 to write into the
state constitution a 99%-of-revenue cap on spending, which was already
written into state law
- Passed
a statewide ban on animal trapping in Colorado in 1998
- Passed
a referendum to continue video lottery to preserve education funds in
South Dakota in 2006 and 2000
- Won
three hard-fought referenda for Stanford University in Palo Alto,
California
- Passed
a school bond issue in Washoe County after its prior defeat without
our involvement (Reno, Nevada)
- Passed
a school bond issue in Madison, Wisconsin
- Passed an exception to an obscure height
variance to allow an attractive renovated shopping mall, mixed
use/pedestrian mall with environment-friendly features to exceed the
existing height limit by 12 feet. Boulder, Colorado
- Passed
a bond issue for a new recreation center in a major Denver Metro county
- Defeated
an initiative to repeal a city ban on smoking in restaurants in
Salina, Kansas
- Passed
an initiative to ban smoking in all indoor public places in Helena,
Montana
- Passed a comprehensive initiative to ban
smoking in restaurants and bars in Lincoln, Nebraska
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