by admin | Oct 3, 2006 | Crime / Courts
The sides arguing in favor of and against Missouri’s tobacco tax initiative being on the November ballot appear before the State Supreme Court Wednesday. Initially, the Secretary of State had ruled the initiative lacked the valid signatures needed from the 5th...
by admin | Sep 13, 2006 | Politics / Govt
The Secretary of State’s office makes it official: The tobacco tax initiative has been certified for the November ballot. Secretary of State Robin Carnahan had initially ruled that the number of valid signatures collected from the 5th Congressional District in...
by admin | Sep 11, 2006 | Crime / Courts
A judge in Jefferson City has ordered the tobacco tax initiative to be put on November’s ballot. Cole County Circuit Judge Tom Brown agrees more than enough valid signatures have been found to compensate for the 274 the Secretary of State’s office had said...
by admin | Sep 10, 2006 | Crime / Courts
A Cole County Circuit Judge could rule as early as today on a legal challenge to the Secretary of State’s decision to reject the tobacco tax initiative on the grounds there was an insufficient number of signatures from the 5th Congressional District in Jackson...
by admin | Sep 8, 2006 | Crime / Courts
The legal challenge to Secretary of State Robin Carnahan’s decision to reject the tobacco tax initiative on the grounds proponents were 274 votes short of the amount needed in the 5th Congressional District in Jackson County ends for the week. It will resume...
