September 14, 2005

"GMO ballot lawsuit"

"Citing problems with the Sonoma County auditor-controller's impact analysis and the opposition's argument in the ballot pamphlet, supporters of Measure M, a ballot initiative seeking to prevent agricultural and environmental contamination from genetically engineered organisms, filed a lawsuit in Sonoma County Superior Court on Friday.

"The (Sonoma County) Farm Bureau has had their facts wrong all along, so their ballot statement was no surprise," said Dave Henson, the main author of the measure, and executive director of Occidental Arts & Ecology Center.

Proponents of the measure, which will appear on the Nov. 8 ballot, want to halt printing of the ballot measure until the language is revised. The first ballot pamphlets are scheduled to be distributed to registered absentee voters on Oct. 10.

Opponents of the ballot pamphlet previously filed a lawsuit, objecting to the language used in the proponents' ballot statement."

You can read the article here.

Posted by Randy Riddle at September 14, 2005 04:00 PM