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First city council hopeful puts his hand up
Mr Shelton said it had been \"many years since someone under the age of 35\" had a say on council.
\"Next year\'s poll is about electing a team dedicated to bringing Toowoomba into the new-millennium. I look forward to being part of a proactive team, committed to listening to Toowoomba\'s community and to be their mouthpiece in council.\"

http://www.toowoomba.net.au/misc/election2000/new/news_candi...

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Ann Arbor is very close to getting a local initiative that would legalize marijuana for medicinal purposes on the ballot in November. With only a few days of petitioning left, the local Libertarians spearheading this effort need students and local advocates of medical marijuana to register to vote in Ann Arbor and sign the petition that would put this issue to a city-wide vote.


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In other words, \"spearhead\" in this context is usually a verb.

Are you trying to go E > R or R > E ?

A campaign group or political action committee or legislative committee or coalition of interest groups might spearhead a campaign for or against some legislative or political measure, that is the group, comittee etc would lead the campaign.

Since the phrase "local legislation" appears in the question, one note: Journalists, say, might write "spearhead legislation" but English teachers would wince in pain,
In general you enact legislation, vote legislation up or down, but only in broadest shorthand would you "spearhead legislation."

So in Russian
Инициативная группа может вести кампанию за какие-либо местные законы.

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инициативная группа:

Today, reading the comments, I think a good phrase might be \"task force.\"

I would still like to know the context a little more fully to say for sure.

perhaps. Good luck, neatru!