That same year, pharmaceutical companies donated $109 million to a campaign that defeated Proposition 61, an initiative on prescription drug costs.
Last November unions won a resounding victory when voters defeated Proposition 32, a ballot measure that would have crippled labor's political influence in California, partly by barring public-employee unions from using payroll-deducted funds for political purposes.
A month ago, Uber and Lyft paused operations in Austin after voters defeated Proposition 1, an attempt to overturn mandatory fingerprint-based background checks for Uber and Lyft drivers in the city.
At the same time they approved Proposition 66, California voters also defeated Proposition 62, a measure that would have ended the death penalty for murder and replaced it with life in prison without parole.
They soundly defeated Proposition 23, an oil-industry-sponsored measure to gut the state's landmark global warming law that will set strict limits on greenhouse gas emissions and create a trading system for pollution permits.
Exactly a month ago, Uber and Lyft paused operations in Austin after voters defeated Proposition 1, an attempt to overturn mandatory fingerprint-based background checks for Uber and Lyft drivers in the city.
Voters overwhelmingly defeated Proposition 45 after health insurers and other opponents spent $57 million on a media campaign against it.
Voters defeated Proposition 19, which would have legalized and regulated the recreational use of marijuana, and roundly rejected Proposition 23, an effort backed by oil companies to suspendthe state's law limiting greenhouse gas emissions.
Voters defeated Proposition 19, which would have legalized and regulated the recreational use of marijuana, and roundly rejected Proposition 23, an effort backed by oil companies to suspend the state's law limiting greenhouse gas emissions.
Arizona voters defeated Proposition 487, put on the ballot by business and Republican interest groups to undermine public employee pensions.
Last November, Californians narrowly defeated Proposition 37, which would have made California the first state to require that genetically modified food be labeled.
