Article: Anti-Con Con group gets mainland funds

Article: CON CON Voted Down
Honolulu Star - Bulletin;  November 5, 2008 ;     611 words ... ... Education Association calling for the rejection of the Constitutional Convention. The funds were sent to the newly formed Hawaii Alliance, a group of labor unions and business interests opposing the ballot measure and headed by former Gov. George Ariyoshi ...

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 ... ... according to a new private poll sponsored by con-con opponents. According to a poll of 800 ... Evanston, 43 percent are in favor of a 1990 con-con, 39 percent are opposed, with 18 percent ... Madigan have found strong support for con-con. But Day said his new poll shows a major ...

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 ... ... favor the Nov. 8 referendum on a new con-con, while fewer than a third are opposed ... Chicago voters are in favor of a 1990 con-con, the poll found. In the suburbs, 46 ... 1, Democratic voters are in favor of con-con. Independents are supporting it by an ...

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 ...