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Paul Jacob, President of Citizens in Charge Foundation, was presented with the “Charlton Heston Courage Under Fire Award” from the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Jacob was honored by CPAC for his commitment to citizen-led reform and his recent fight to uphold initiative rights in Oklahoma, where he had been indicted for helping citizens gather signatures for a state spending cap measure.
Paul Jacob, President of Citizens In Charge Foundation, responds to a participants concerns on individual/constitutional rights with regards to the initiative and referendum process. http://www.youtube.com/CitizensInCharge
Apparently a new record was set for spending on an initiative in Washington State recently. The American Beverage Association has plopped down over $14 million to try and overturn a soda tax passed by the State Legislature.
Citizens in Charge President Paul Jacob sat down with Eric O’Keefe from Sam Adams Alliance while out in San Francisco earlier this month to talk about the initiative & referendum process and citizen rights.
Sam Adams Alliance posted the podcast of it last night on their website. It’s a good interview and you should definitely check it out here.
From the press conference this morning in Hartford, CT here is a writeup on Connecticut News Junkie:
Audrey Wall from the Council of State Governments talks about the poll recently conducted by Citizens in Charge Foundation, as well as the success of the 2010 US Conference on Initiative & Referendum and the 2010 Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy.
You are probably wondering what to do this weekend right?
Why not read through the first two reports in our Truth in Governance project? Find out for yourself if petition signature fraud truly is a rampant problem in the initiative process, as some claim. You can also find out how money is influencing initiative campaigns in California. Who spends? Who wins?
Check them out here.
For those of you who were not able to attend the conference, we’ve uploaded the speaker bios from the official conference program.
Feel free to take a look and see who spoke to the hundreds in attendance over the 6 day gathering.
You can check out the bios here.