Show-Me Fight To Uphold Missouri Votes

The analogy used in Jeff City here is pretty horrible and we notice a lot of our Republican friends are slowly walking away from sketchy efforts to cancel votes.

Here's the word . . . 

Frustrated citizen activists are fighting back. They are holding town-hall forums across the state seeking to build support to put a constitutional amendment on the 2026 ballot limiting the Legislature's ability to limit citizen initiatives.

“Our goal is to ban politicians from attacking the will of the people,” presenter Lindsay Browning told people gathered on a recent Saturday at the Missouri River Regional Library, blocks from the state Capitol.

Two days earlier, Republican state Rep. Mitch Boggs used a parental analogy while explaining to colleagues why they should overrule voters' desire for paid sick leave and annual minimum wage increases.

“Of course the people voted for it. It would be like asking your teenager if he wanted a checkbook. They’re going to vote for it every time," Boggs said. But "if we don’t protect our businesses, there’s not going to be a job to go to to get a minimum wage.”

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Some voters are pushing back on lawmakers' efforts to overturn citizen ballot initiatives

Lawmakers in some states, including those in Missouri, are engaged in a tug-of-war for power with the people who elected them.