Economy Casts Shadow Over Local Ballot Measures: Pocketbook Issues, From Bond Initiatives to Energy
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The Wall Street Journal: Among the 153 propositions on ballots in 36 states as of Oct. 24 are several that aim to limit taxation, a host of bond issues and efforts to ease dependence on foreign oil following a summer of skyrocketing gas prices. They join the usual array of social issues that voters will consider when they go to the polls on Nov. 4. Meanwhile, the housing crisis -- which is at the root of both Wall Street's and Main Street's problems, and is perhaps foremost on voters' minds -- doesn't show up on any ballots. Experts say the advance work needed to collect signatures to qualify measures for the ballot, or for referring measures from legislatures in the form of referendums, simply takes too much time. "Those are things to come for 2010," said Kristina Wilfore, executive director of the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center.
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