Article: Poll: Most don't want Con Con

Article: House readies various strategies to push ...
Manila Bulletin;  December 13, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... through a Constitutional Convention (Con-con). Speaker Jose de Venecia said the House ... its challenge to immediately act on the Con-con proposals. He said the Lower House majority is ready to act on nine proposals for a Con-con. Representatives Luis Villafuerte (Kampi ...

Article: Poll finds voters evenly split on calling con-con
Chicago Sun-Times;  November 2, 1988 ;     501 words ... ... Evanston, 43 percent are in favor of a 1990 con-con, 39 percent are opposed, with 18 percent undecided ... Day reported in a similar poll that 57 percent favored con-con, with just 18 percent opposed, and 25 percent undecided. Since ...

Article: What's a Con-con?(Opinion & Editorial)
Manila Bulletin;  December 14, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... experience, a constitutional convention or Con-con is a super political body called by Congress ... Constitution. (Editor's note: The Con-con, once convened, is not free from all ... noted by the author.) Not much different Con-con can also create, abolish or "destroy ...

Article: Another con-con would be costly - and risky
Chicago Sun-Times;  October 26, 1988 ;     700+ words ... ... Chicago voters are in favor of a 1990 con-con, the poll found. In the suburbs, 46 percent of voters are in favor of Quinn ... Democratic voters are in favor of con-con. Independents are supporting it by ...

Article: Getting a fix on the Con Con
Honolulu Star - Bulletin;  May 25, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... frequent question remains: What's a Con Con? Let's start from the beginning. Our ... revisions (a constitutional convention, or Con Con). We voters also decide whether to convene a Con Con. The question can be put to us in any election ...

Article: Con-Con land stirs debate; ATV users don't want ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  May 18, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... session to designate 102,000 acres of Con-Con land as state wildlife management areas (WMAs). Con-Con land, 1.5 million acres in all, is ... in an attempt to drain and settle the Con-Con properties. The plan fell apart when ...

Article: OHA trustees defend expenses to oppose Con Con
Honolulu Star - Bulletin;  October 27, 1998 ;     655 words ... ... disagree. "Why does OHA not want a Con Con?" Johanna Lawrence asked OHA ... 157,394 in its "Vote No on Con Con" campaign. About 61 percent of that amount was spent during ... several reasons to vote against a Con Con. Among them are the cost to ...