QUESTION FROM ANDRES: Shouldn't campaign-finance reform be more of a legislature issue rather than a supreme court one?
Besides resolving the legislature issue, delegates hope to approve a restructured government and a more ethnically balanced cabinet.
The new legislature issued a package of decrees designed to reorganize the economy with a view toward reducing government involvement and encouraging private enterprise, but these were insufficient to ameliorate the growing economic and political crisis.
Here in Ohio, Gov. Ted Strickland, a Democrat and former Methodist minister, reversed his opposition to gambling and, in conjunction with the legislature, issued a directive allowing video slots at the state's seven racetracks.
The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, the Communist Party-controlled legislature, issued a legally binding ruling last April barring universal suffrage as well as direct elections for chief executive in 2007, while leaving open the prospect of greater democracy in elections held in later years.
A week later, on 20 February 1988, the Nagorno-Karabakh Supreme Council (the regional legislature) issued a request to transfer the region from Soviet Azerbaijan to Soviet Armenia.
Legislative apportionment based on population, the addition of a lieutenant governor, and voice voting of the legislature – all issues advocated by Breckinridge – were also adopted.
He suggested that if voters are angry enough about what Tillis did as a leader in the state legislature on issues like voting rights, Hagan could defy the odds in a tough year for Democratic incumbents and squeak by.
Across the country, we're partnering with mayors, governors, and state legislatures on issues from homelessness to marriage equality.
States now commonly require either a referendum or a supermajority vote of the legislature to issue a general obligation bond (one not backed by earmarked revenues).
