This month, Green Parties in Portland, Maine, and Arlington County, Virginia, successfully qualified local initiatives for the ballot. See this story about the Virginia initiative petition that asks voters if they wish to establish a local housing authority, and this story about the Maine initiative petition for marijuana reform.
Cool. Now let’s see if we can also put some good candidates on the ballot in 2014. With all of the recent shenanigans being revealed recently, both the Green and the Libertarian Parties might well get double digit vote totals in some races.
We are trying to Ban Fracking by Ballot Initiative in Michigan.
http://www.letsbanfracking.org
I wish you guys luck up in Michigan. We appear to be losing that battle here in Illinois. Perhaps if you’re successful in keeping fracking out of Michigan, I’ll end up moving there in a decade or two in the likely event that fracking ruins much of southern Illinois’ environment.