The petition process is near and dear to my heart. Naturally, I notice among Secretary of State Monae Johnson’s 17 proposals for election law changes…
Tag: initiative
Aberdeen lobbyist Julie Johnson plays dumb about the retail transaction tax initiative: Johnson said the transaction tax proposal lacks clear definitions of what constitutes a…
How can I spend all this time talking about a super-bad public-institution-wrecking initiative and not cover the two super-good democracy-boosting initiatives that are worth your…
Mike Mueller, Julie Frye-Mueller, and Matt Smith have kicked off their petition drive to abolish property taxes and replace maybe only 58% of the lost…
The sponsors of the initiative to replace property taxes with a retail transaction tax moved quickly this weekend to keep their petition drive alive, and…
On Thursday, federal Judge Camela C. Theeler denied the state’s motion to stay her injunction against its unconstitutional February deadline for submitting initiative petitions. The…
LRC: Schools, Counties, Cities Will Lose $850 Million Taxing Retail Transactions Instead of Property
In their dog-and-pony slideshow presented to the Legislature’s property tax task force this summer, sponsors of a proposed initiated amendment to ban property taxes and…
In addition to obtaining the Attorney General’s title and explanation and the Legislative Research Council’s fiscal note, the sponsors of the proposed initiative to ban…
Wow! Thanks to the generous alacrity of Attorney General Marty Jackley, the rightwingers trying to abolish property tax still have a chance to get their…
Attorney General Marty Jackley has posted his draft explanation of the proposed initiated amendment to ban property taxes and replace them with a retail transaction…