Word: referendum
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...Robert Jonathan Scheidt, their security chief who had been jailed on a weapons charge. McLaren is negotiating with state and federal officials from his trailer, which he calls the "embassy" of the Republic. He is seeking the release of another member, Jo Ann Canady Turner, and demands that a referendum be held to decide whether Texas should become an independent republic. Spokesmen for two groups each claiming to be the official government of the Republic of Texas have been quick to disavow McLaren, who was kicked out of any official capacity in both groups months ago over growing concern about...
...state legislature votes to enact the proposal, it will be voted on by Cambridge residents as a referendum...
Born said that in a few years revenue from the transfer tax would be able to fund a $10 million bond referendum...
...petition asks the state legislature to approve a referendum that would let city residents vote on whether to levy the tax to create affordable housing, in the wake of the abolition of rent control in November...
Glazer recently criticized the Califonia Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI), a referendum which garnered 54 percent of the Californian vote last November and has since been upheld by the California Supreme Court. He said he feels that the initiative, which would make racial preferences illegal, "would undermine the pattern of American adaptation to social change by introducing a complete ban on the use of race in college admissions...