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>Reply-To: leo@peyote.win.net (Leonardo Mercado)
>To: kubby@alpworld.com
>Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1996 09:03:24
>Subject: Re: Fife - a shrill-toned musical instrument (fwd)
>From: leo@peyote.win.net (Leonardo Mercado)
>
>Congratulations!!!  I will talk with you soon.
>Here's an article from todays' Navajo Times
>written by a close friend.  Let freedom ring!!
>
>
>FORWARDED MAIL ------- From:
>mark@alpharez.win.net (TANDM) Date: 07 Nov 96
>Originally To: leo@peyote.win.net
>
>
>
>By Mark Engler
>No Longer Despondent Correspondent
>
>
>    Phoenix - Despite unnofficial election results showing
>roughly 65 percent of Arizona's voters in support of both
>Proposition 200 and Proposition 201 at the polls Tuesday,
>Arizona Governor Fife Symington says he may veto the measures.
>    A Symington aide said Wednesday that the Governor believes
>he has the authority to veto successful ballot innitiatives
>which do not pass carrying a majority of *registered voters* -
>rather than with simply a majority of votes, as is commonly
>interpreted.
>    Arizona lists about 2.2 million registered voters in the
>state.
>    Amy Rezzonico, a spokesperson for Symington, said the
>Governor has not decided he, in fact, will attempt a veto, but is
>simply exploring his options.
>    "He has 30 days to make a decision," she said.
>     Symington vigorously opposed both measures prior to the
>election.
>    Proposition 201 relates to Indian gaming. It forces the
>state to enter into gaming compacts with a tribe, at the tribes
>request, if that tribe doesn't currently have an agreement with
>the state.
>    Proposition 200 includes ammendments to state law that
>eliminate jail time as punishment for first- or second-time drug
>posession convictions. Under Prop. 200 individuals convicted of
>such crimes would be sentenced to probation and ordered to
>complete a drug education or rehabilitation program.
>    Proposition 200 also stipulates that those persons convicted
>of violent crimes committed while under the influence of illegal
>drugs shall serve 100 percent of the sentence, with no chance
>for early parole. In addition, the proposition allows doctors to
>prescribe currently illegal drugs to patients who suffer from
>serious or terminal illness.
>    Both Proposition 100 and 102 recived more than 800,000
>favorable votes.
>    Only about 431,000 people voted against Prop. 200, and
>450,000 against Prop. 201. And only one ballot question out
>of the total eight - Prop.  203 - received a more lopsided voter
>endorsement than the two.
>    Using Symington's logic with regard to referendum voting, a
>ballot quastion would have to receive more than one million
>"Yes" votes to avoid potential veto from the Governor - which
>means that theoretically, based on Tuesday's election numbers,
>he could veto all the approved initiatives if he so chooses.
>    John MacDonald, Government Affairs director for the Arizona
>Attorney General's office, said a veto by the Governor would
>violate Arizona's constitution, though he added that the
>subject of refferendum vetoes hasn't been fully studied by
>Attorney General Grant Woods or members of his staff.
>    "Our opinion is that the Governor has no Constitutional
>authority to veto what the people have voted in favor of," he
>said. "We expect he will follow the law. If he does not, we
>expect that one way or the other he will wind up in court."
>
>
>

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Date: 11-15-96  01:02
Subj: DETAILS ABOUT ARIZONA GOV
From: "Carl E. Olsen" <carl@mail.commonlink.com>
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