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State officials need to respect voters’ decision to legalize marijuana

December 6, 2016 By SamTracy 13 Comments

Over the past year, state officials from both parties tried in vain to scare voters away from legalizing marijuana. In spite of — or perhaps even because of — this fear-mongering, 54% of Massachusetts residents voted yes on question 4 to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: ballot-initiatives, Cannabis Control Commission, marijuana, Question 4

No, Question 4 would not “create more pot shops than McDonald’s and Starbucks combined.”

August 29, 2016 By SamTracy 30 Comments

Earlier this month, the Campaign for a Safe and Healthy Massachusetts (the vaguely named organization pushing against Question 4, which would legalize marijuana for adults) sent out an email that warned voters, "We know their playbook. Pass … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: ballot-initiatives, Campaign for a Safe and Healthy Massachusetts, CRMLA, marijuana, marijuana legalization, Question 4

Elizabeth Warren “open to” voting yes on Question 4, marijuana legalization

August 26, 2016 By SamTracy 1 Comment

Asked her thoughts on Question 4, which would legalize and regulate marijuana in Massachusetts, Senator Elizabeth Warren did not quite say she's voting yes — but she did make some very supportive statements and say she is "open to" voting … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: ballot-initiatives, drug-policy, Elizabeth Warren, marijuana, marijuana legalization, medical marijuana, Question 4

Voters support marijuana legalization; Baker, Walsh, & DeLeo don’t

April 14, 2016 By SamTracy 22 Comments

A new poll from Western New England University found that 57% of Massachusetts voters support the ballot question to legalize marijuana for adults over 21, with only 35% opposed. 7% remain undecided (1% declined to give an answer). Full … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: ballot-initiatives, Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol, charlie-baker, election 2016, marijuana, marijuana legalization, marty-walsh, robert-deleo

Provost on Hijacked Ballot Initiatives

March 27, 2012 By massmarrier 6 Comments

In a quiet battle that needs to get louder and more visible. Rep. Denise Provost (27th Somerville) is fighting for a rational ballot-initiative process. She and Sen. Cynthia Stone Creem are flanking this key field from different … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: ballot-initiatives, citizens-united, cynthia-stone-creem, denise-provost, H1830, referenda, reform, S12

Supreme Court Defends KnowThyNeighbor.org’s Right to Publish Petition Information Online

June 24, 2010 By alexander 217 Comments

Essex, MA, June 24, 2010 -- KnowThyNeighbor.org, the national gay rights organization known for publishing online the names of close to a million anti-gay petition signers, celebrates a major victory in today's Doe v. Reed by the US Supreme … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: arline-isaacson, ballot-initiatives, doe-v-reed, gay, glad, initiative-petitions, knowthyneighbor, lambda-legal, lgbt, referendum-71, scalia, scotus, supreme-court, tom-lang, washington, washington-state

Healing California’s Sickly Populism

May 27, 2009 By massmarrier 12 Comments

Cross-post: This also appears at Marry in Massachusetts. In the recent decade, we have seen more and more anti-gay and anti-marriage equality groups try to conceal their bigoted let-the-people-vote petitions to prevent or wrest from … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: ballot-initiatives, california, homophobia, massachusetts, populism, prop-8

Where Carla Howell Loses Me

October 7, 2008 By lynne 19 Comments

I also question her "MA is 8th or so in tax burden." She doesn't think the other methodology for measuring works (the one that puts MA 37th or thereabouts). She thinks measuring by per-$1000 percentages is the wrong way to do it. That it's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: ballot-initiatives, question-1

“The Economist” on 2008’s Ballot Initiatives

September 18, 2008 By Laurel 1 Comment

Here is a state by state rundown, as per The Economist. Colorado Amendment 48 would define a fertilised human egg as a person. The "egg-mendment" would turn abortion, embryonic stem-cell research and some kinds of birth control into murder. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: ballot-initiatives, the-economist

Listen Up, Deval

November 12, 2006 By massmarrier 1 Comment

MarriageThe governor was the babbling baby in the corner and the legislature was paralyzed without meaningful leadership. Hey, all, the Supreme Judicial Court told you that marriage equality was the only thing compatible with our … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: ballot-initiatives, legislation, mbta, same-sex-marriage

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Massachusetts Poised to Do the Wrong Thing by Taking Over Boston Public Schools https://dianeravitch.net/2022/05/22/massachusetts-poised-to-do-the-wrong-thing-by-taking-over-boston-public-schools/ via @dianeravitch #MAPoli #MAEdu

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And the people who gasped at Rayla's comments weren't liberals. They were her own people. #mapoli

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GarethS49101536Gareth Saunders@GarethS49101536·
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#mapoli #bospoli what are our political and business leaders doing about these gas prices?🤔🤷🏽‍♂️💯

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That's great that you're tweeting through it, but you do that know you're going to (checks notes) "get owned by the libs" in November b/c of tweets like this, right? #mapoli

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Nomination locked up! Happy to bring a little energy with my audacious acceptance speech. Good to show a little chutzpah now and then. Glad the soy boy crew with @MattPStout and the Planned Parenthood gang looked on with chagrin. Nothing makes me happier.

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This was a challenging quote for Massachusetts journalists over the weekend. #mapoli https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/05/21/metro/massachusetts-republicans-gather-springfield-with-trump-backed-geoff-diehl-likely-get-activists-nod/?event=event25

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