Kaiser Health News: Campaigning Ramps Up as South Dakota Voters Decide on Medicaid Expansion
The Medicaid expansion campaign is backed by the progressive Fairness Project, which has supported expansion ballot campaigns across the country.
The Washington Post: Marijuana is on the ballot in five more states this year
“The expanded use of ballot measures in recent years is a direct response to the increasing polarization of our political system,” said Kelly Hall, executive director of the Fairness Project, a group that funds and organizes state ballot measure efforts across the country.
The New York Times and The Guardian Cover Fairness Project’s Effort to Protect Citizen-Led Ballot Measure Process from Reactionary State Legislators
In response to the success of progressive ballot measures on issues like Medicaid expansion and minimum wage, several state legislatures have moved to make citizen-initiated ballot measures more difficult to pass.
The Guardian: Republicans in Arizona push measures to curtail citizen-led initiatives
“What we’re seeing is red states trying to curtail this tool that citizens have used really successfully to move policies that are otherwise stuck for, usually, political reasons,” said Hannah Ledford, deputy executive director and campaigns director for the Fairness Project.
Politico: South Dakota signals the end of an era on Medicaid expansion
“It’s easy to lose sight of how long of a fight it has been for Medicaid expansion in so many states around the country,” said Kelly Hall, executive director of the Fairness Project, which supports Medicaid expansion ballot measures across the country. “We’re almost working ourselves out of a job.”
Cannabis Wire: In Many Red States, Cannabis Initiatives Face Rising Legal Hurdles
Alexis Magnan-Callaway, communications and digital strategy director with the Fairness Project, says her organization planned to back a measure in Mississippi to expand Medicaid, but had to put the effort on hold after the state Supreme Court’s decision on medical cannabis.
Los Angeles Times: Track the money flowing into the Los Angeles sheriff’s race
The “yes” campaign has raised over $200,000 from the ACLU and the Fairness Project, a social welfare nonprofit which advocates for ballot measures around the country. The “Yes on A” website says the measure is necessary to “protect the public from sheriffs who break the law."
Arizona Republic: Arizona Proposition 209 would reduce top interest rates on medical debt
"No one should be trapped in debt simply because they needed medical care, yet tens of millions of Americans are stuck with thousands of dollars of medical debt," said Kelly Hall, executive director of the Fairness Project, a national nonprofit that funds, organizes and advocates for ballot measures and is supporting Proposition 209.