by admin | Oct 18, 2006 | Politics / Govt
Campaign spending reports show almost all of the money being spent in Missouri to oppose a proposed tobacco tax increase is coming from big tobacco. Reynolds America has contributed $2.2-Million of the $2.3-Million raised by Missourians Against Tax Abuse, the group...
by admin | Oct 13, 2006 | Health / Medicine
The group that has been trying to keep the tobacco tax increase off the November ballot is giving up. Attorney Marc Ellinger says Missourians Against Tax Abuse will not ask for a re-hearing before the state supreme court.He says the Supreme Court’s unanimous...
by admin | Oct 12, 2006 | Crime / Courts
An attorney representing Missourians Against Tax Abuse, the group opposing the tobacco tax initiative, raises concerns about the future of the initiative petition process in the wake of this week’s State Supreme Court ruling. Marc Ellinger’s argument...
by admin | Oct 11, 2006 | Crime / Courts
The State Supreme Court has ruled the tobacco tax initiative should appear on the November ballot. In a unanimous decision, the judges affirmed Cole County Circuit Judge Tom Brown’s ruling that the measure should be placed on the ballot. The initiative had...
by admin | Oct 4, 2006 | Crime / Courts
The State Supreme Court has heard oral arguments in the challenge to the tobacco tax initiative being on the November ballot. Attorney Marc Ellinger, representing Missourians Against Tax Abuse – which wants the issue off the ballot – argued many of the...
