people’s veto
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PublishedFebruary 23, 2020
Our View: Listen to those who remember life before vaccines
In an extraordinary series of letters to the editor, older physicians remind us what's at stake on March 3.
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PublishedNovember 1, 2019
Maine Voices: Non-medical vaccine opt-outs put community at risk
The weakness of vaccination programs is that that they make people forget how bad communicable diseases can be.
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PublishedOctober 16, 2019
Chiropractors give a big boost to people’s veto campaign against new vaccine law
Of the $161,841 raised so far by Mainers for Health and Parental Rights, at least $51,225 has come from chiropractors, according to a Press Herald analysis.
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PublishedOctober 8, 2019
Campaign to overturn new vaccine law raised $160,000 to finance petition drive
Mainers for Health and Parental Choice spent more than $70,000 to a consultant it hired to oversee the collection of voters' signatures.
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PublishedSeptember 25, 2019
Our View: When petitions come around, read before signing
You can't get tricked into signing something you don't support if you insist on reading and understanding it first.
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PublishedSeptember 23, 2019
Some Mainers say opponents of vaccine law misled them in petition effort
Other voters are writing Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap, asking him to remove their signatures.
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PublishedSeptember 22, 2019
Our View: Abortion funding and assisted-dying laws can now go into effect
Maine government will no longer discriminate against poor women who need abortions, or prevent the terminally ill from deciding when they have suffered enough.
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PublishedAugust 30, 2019
Our View: Don’t sign ‘people’s veto’ just to put it on the ballot
A referendum to repeal a law should occur only if enough people actually disagree with the statute.
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PublishedAugust 25, 2019
Another View: Mainers have no obligation to sign people’s veto petitions
No one should support a position with which they disagree just to send the question to the voters.
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PublishedAugust 12, 2019
Confusion – more than usual – reigns over people’s veto votes in Maine
The ballot measures could go to voters during the March primary, but it could be June until they vote.
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