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Two Michigan Measures Reach The Ballot, But Not Democratic Initiative

Published:  August 26, 2008

Two Michigan measures -- one to lift restrictions on stem cell research, the other to permit use of marijuana for medical purposes -- have qualified for the ballot. But a third measure -- the Democratic-inspired initiative to cut legislators' pay, change the courts, and downsize the legislature -- was not placed on the ballot. (This is the measure, you'll recall, that was billed as a goo-goo reform effort before the discovery of a Power Point presentation that showed it to be part of a labor-Democrat effort to curb the mostly Republican courts). A court likely will decide whether that initiative makes the ballot. The AP sums it up.

 

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