Campaigns pushing three ballot initiatives — seeking to raise taxes for schools, allow medical marijuana, and form an independent commission to draw political boundaries — are attracting big donations, according to new disclosures.
Two other initiatives have raised little to nothing so far — but they have just launched. One seeks to approve Medicaid expansion for the poor while the other is pushing for Utah to use a direct primary, not the caucus-convention system, to choose party nominees.
The Our Schools Now initiative to hike taxes for schools raised $347,740 so far this year; Better Boundaries, campaigning to stop gerrymandering, raised $243,468; and the Utah Patients Coalition seeking to allow medical marijuana raised $214,480.