Jolt
Afternoon Jolt: $113,000!
Winner: NARAL Pro-Choice Washington
If you didn't get the idea from today's Morning Fizz, NARAL's Saturday night fundraiser was cool. Auctioning off a first-trimester abortion is audacious.
Today's news: NARAL raised $113,000. Which would be a jaw dropper in its own right. But in an election season when social issues like abortion are taking a backseat to the economy? Raising over $100,000 is huge.
Loser: Opponents of Initiative 1107 .
There's a new Elway poll out today that shows support for Initiative 1107 has swung from 47 percent to 53 percent. The initiative, funded almost entirely by $16.4 million from the American Beverage Association—the national soda pop lobby—is gaining ground fast, mostly on the strength of a campaign that paints the tax as a levy on groceries. (In fact, the new taxes the initiative wants to repeal only apply to candy, pop, bottled water.)
The "grocery" rhetoric is a reference to the fact that the legislature repealed a tax exemption on meat processors last session that would be restored by the initiative. The state revenue lost by giving the exemption back to the meat processors would be $4 million—or 4 percent out of the $100 million 1107 would lose the state in revenue.
If you didn't get the idea from today's Morning Fizz, NARAL's Saturday night fundraiser was cool. Auctioning off a first-trimester abortion is audacious.
Today's news: NARAL raised $113,000. Which would be a jaw dropper in its own right. But in an election season when social issues like abortion are taking a backseat to the economy? Raising over $100,000 is huge.
Loser: Opponents of Initiative 1107 .
There's a new Elway poll out today that shows support for Initiative 1107 has swung from 47 percent to 53 percent. The initiative, funded almost entirely by $16.4 million from the American Beverage Association—the national soda pop lobby—is gaining ground fast, mostly on the strength of a campaign that paints the tax as a levy on groceries. (In fact, the new taxes the initiative wants to repeal only apply to candy, pop, bottled water.)
The "grocery" rhetoric is a reference to the fact that the legislature repealed a tax exemption on meat processors last session that would be restored by the initiative. The state revenue lost by giving the exemption back to the meat processors would be $4 million—or 4 percent out of the $100 million 1107 would lose the state in revenue.
