McGwire's image was badly damaged by his evasiveness at the same hearing; his admission in 2010 that he had used performance enhancers has not generated new support in the balloting.
While its percentage is artificially inflated because of very high abstention rates, it seems that some 400,000 Greeks will always turn up to support it in the ballot.
On Friday night Prodi said he was withdrawing from the race after his candidacy also failed to muster sufficient support in the fourth ballot.
The opposition also demonstrated that Turnbull's team is pretty lousy at crisis management, and exposed Turnbull, who likes to cast himself as the anti-politician, as the kind of guy who will do questionable deals – in this case giving Brough a ministry in exchange for his support in the leadership ballot – to get himself into power.
More than 170,000 people have signed a petition in support of the ballot question, which would define marriage as between a man and a woman.
Restore Hetch Hetchy (RHH) last month filed to have an initiative included on the ballot for this November's elections and has until July to collect 7,400 signatures in support of the ballot measure.
A large chunk of the $8.2 million raised in support of the ballot proposition has come from just two Texas-based oil and gas companies, Valero and Tesoro, which have extensive operations in California.
Just Label It, an organization that has fought for genetically engineered labeling nationally since 2011, came out in support of the ballot measure on Wednesday — but it also will not put money into the fight.
Carson2gether needed just eight days to collect more than 14,000 signatures in support of the ballot initiative.
And while Florida's medical marijuana measure didn't reach the 60percentt support needed for passage, nearly 58percentt of voters were in support of the ballot initiative.
