Olmsted County, State Senate (Rochester) and State House (Rochester) races will be posted below as they come in on election night. Interviews with the school board and mayoral candidates are also included below.
Oliver Steinberg’s pro-marijuana legalization platform centers on a Bill of Rights passage that states a person can sell products from their farm without obtaining a license beforehand. Steinberg also supports constitutional amendments that eliminate government allowances treating corporations as people, ...
Bills Introduced: Marijuana: SB 853 by Sen. John Doolittle (R-Citrus Heights) would require a mandatory prison sentence for anyone convicted of planting, cultivating, harvesting, drying or processing more than 50 marijuana plants or 20 pounds of marijuana. Judges’ Salaries: SB 857 by Sen. Alan...
Dave Fratello, a spokesman for the campaign in support of the marijuana measure, said that “for better or worse we’re sort of coasting.” However, the campaign continues to broadcast TV commercials. Supporters of the two rival health care regulatory measures, Proposition 214 and 216, both di...
and vetoes bills to establish bilingual education and to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana. He surprises many of his opponents by signing a liberalized abortion bill. He also fights a state proposition that would have banned homosexual teachers in state schools and helps to es...