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Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner said Tuesday that he will contribute $1.5 million to and become the lead spokesman for the campaign to help defeat a term limits ballot measure that would allow current state lawmakers to stay in office longer.
Voters in the central Puget Sound counties were rejecting the biggest transportation tax proposal in state history, one designed to unite transit and highway advocates to improve regional traffic congestion.
Despite a record-setting deluge of spending by the insurance industry, voters on Tuesday handily approved a measure that allows policyholders to sue for triple damages if an insurance company “unreasonably” denies a legitimate claim.
New Jersey voters rejected a ballot measure that would have dedicated all of the proceeds of last year’s sales-tax increase to reducing the state’s property taxes, the highest in the nation.
The Passamaquoddy Indian tribe’s proposal to build a racetrack-casino in eastern Maine, already turned back by three gubernatorial vetoes in two years, was rejected by voters in Tuesday’s referendum.
Voters decisively rejected the will of the Utah Legislature and governor Tuesday, defeating what would have been the nation’s most comprehensive education voucher program in a referendum blowout.
The insurance industry’s $11.5 million campaign to repeal new consumer protection legislation was defeated Tuesday night.
Tuesday’s ballot included four public questions, the most put before the voters at one time since 1995. New Jersey voters haven’t rejected a statewide ballot question since 1990.
Voters rejected a multibillion-dollar regional roads-and-transit package on Tuesday, likely leaving state lawmakers with a transportation mess that could take years to sort out.
Measure 49 passes, Measure 50 does not.