Progressive ballot measures look at future

Campaigns to create rank-choice voting and to pay for schools through taxing the highest earning Michiganders have suspended their efforts. Instead, they’re aiming for the 2028 election.
 
At times, canvassers carried petitions for those two and a third effort to stop public utilities and some state contractors from making political contributions.
 
Sean McBrearty is with that third campaign. He says the loss of an ally in the field isn’t slowing them down.
 
“We've been on this upward trajectory, where, in February, we collected 3 times the number of signatures that then we collected in January this month. I think we're going to triple it again.”
 
Meanwhile, a referendum campaign to restore a minimum wage law that lawmakers changed last year only has a few days left to submit its own signatures to get on the ballot.