Missouri House Republicans passed a resolution Wednesday that seeks to make it harder to amend the state constitution.
Lawmakers voted 106-49 to pass the resolution, almost strictly on party lines, with Majority Floor Leader Jon Patterson, R-Lee’s Summit, being the only Republican to vote no.
The resolution now goes to the Senate, which has already approved its version.
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The resolution, if passed by both chambers, would ask voters whether it should be harder to amend Missouri’s constitution through the initiative petition process.
Even though this will likely pass both chambers, it still has to go to a plebiscite.
Hopefully Missourians are smart enough to vote down this attack on our rights. Luckily, voters have been pretty good about things like this (except for the rollback of the lobbying reform “Clean Missouri” act). Still, people need to be aware of this.
People used to ask “what’s the matter with Kansas?”
The better question today is “What the fuck happened to Missouri?”
I spent most of my youth there, and lived a good portion of my adult life in Missouri.
I’ve lived all over the US at this point, Alabama, Texas, Maryland, Missouri, Minnesota.
Missouri used to be the “Show Me” state. As in, “that sounds nice, but you’re gonna have to show me.”
Somewhere along the way something broke, and instead of being proud of some of the pro-democracy quirks MO has (voters explicitly voting on whether or not to rewrite the state constitution every 20 years, for instance) they’ve been electing people who seem to actively hate the electorate.
The voters keep doing insane things like voting for sunshine laws when asked directly but electing people who actively break those sunshine laws.
I hope that things get better there, but my family was driven out.
Yeah, we used to make fun of Kansas, especially during Kansas’s Brownback years. Now they’re recovering somewhat, while we’re attempting to go even deeper into insanity than Kansas ever did. Guess we really wanted to stick it to Kansas and show 'em how it’s done 🙄
Just think; only 12yrs ago, Todd Aiken rightfully lost is senatorial election to Claire McCaskill over his idiotic abortion comments. Now look where we’re at! That would easily get a MAGA candidate elected today! Yet at the same time, we’d probably still pass abortion rights. Which is what I’m predicting will happen in November (provided the signatures all get collected and it gets on the ballot).
Missourians, get it the fuck together.
None of that woke direct democracy 'round these parts!
