The Joplin Globe In November, Missourians will vote on a plan advanced this month by Republican lawmakers to overthrow the ethics reform state voters approved just two years ago. That 2018 measure, Clean Missouri, imposed…
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Our opinion: General Assembly needs to step up its game
The Examiner The Missouri General Assembly meets for more than four months each year and consistently has little to show for its efforts. Given that limitation, a list of do’s and don’ts for 2020 makes…
Editorial: Call urges a ‘no’ vote on Missouri’s Amendment 3
The Call Newspapers Voters will consider a Missouri Constitutional amendment Tuesday, Nov. 3 that reverts the redistrict-ing change voters overwhelmingly passed in 2018 with Clean Missouri. Since the day after that vote, Missouri’s Republican state legislators have been chomping at…
Tell Jefferson City no on Amendment 3
The Examiner Missouri voters told them once and now have to tell them again. A no vote on Missouri Amendment 3 on Nov. 3 is warranted for the sake of cleaner government. In 2018, voters…
The Missourian’s Endorsement: Voters should reject Amendment 3
The Missourian Missouri voters performed an act of civic fumigation when they passed a ballot initiative called Clean Missouri in 2018. The package of sweeping political reforms was long overdue. Clean Missouri curbed the influence…
Vote NO on Constitutional Amendment No. 3
Jefferson County Leader The Missouri Legislature must believe voters in our state are chumps.Proof comes in the General Assembly’s decision to place Constitutional Amendment No. 3 on the Nov. 3 ballot.The measure asks voters to do away with redistricting changes approved statewide with a 62 percent majority just two years ago. Jefferson County voters were part of that large majority. On Nov. 6, 2018, the tally here was 52,858 (60.06 percent) in favor of Amendment 1, known as “Clean…
Across the State, Editorial Boards Condemn Amendment 3
In towns big and small, the radical Amendment 3 gerrymandering plan sent to the ballot by politicians intent on overturning the bipartisan mandate for fair maps has been condemned by voters, leaders, policy experts and…
New Schwarzenegger Institute Report: Amendment 3 Would Have Greatest Negative Impact on Communities with Children
A new report from The USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy shows that Amendment 3 would have an extraordinarily negative impact on Missouri’s children and families if it is passed and fully implemented. The report focuses…
Kansas City Council and Mayor Lucas Call On Voters to Reject Amendment 3
The Kansas City Council and Mayor Lucas passed a resolution Thursday calling on voters to reject the extreme Amendment 3 redistricting plan that would overturn voter-approved reforms and set Missouri on a course to be the most gerrymandering…
No on Amendment 3 Campaign Escalates Effort to Prepare Voters For What They’ll See On Ballots
The citizen-led, No on 3 campaign has launched its final push to defeat Amendment 3 with detailed breakdowns of the complicated ballot language voters will see for the politician-protection plan. Two courts have ruled that…