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suegibson.bsky.social • 11 days ago

My letter to the editor of my local newspaper is threaded here. #Missouri
https://www.newstribune.com/news/2025/may/07/your-opinion-bad-faith-power-grab/

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suegibson.bsky.social•11 days ago

Missouri Senate Bill 22 is a dangerous and bad faith power grab that attacks Missouri’s citizen initiative petition process, the process that we voters have used to expand Medicaid, raise the minimum wage, require employers to provide paid sick leave, legalize medical marijuana, end puppy mills,…

suegibson.bsky.social•11 days ago

…reform legislators’ ethics…so many things we Missourians wanted and deserved but the Republican-led legislature refused to provide. They even later reversed some of the laws we worked so hard to pass.

SB 22 takes power away from voters and gives it to partisan politicians who will be newly…

suegibson.bsky.social•11 days ago

…empowered to write — and rewrite — and rewrite, again if challenged — misleading ballot summaries with no real oversight, robbing citizens of valuable signature collection time. Our Republican Secretaries of State have routinely tried to keep our citizen initiatives from passing by writing…

suegibson.bsky.social•11 days ago

…deceptive ballot language that has had to be made right by the courts. Can you even count the number of times you’ve seen “Should the Missouri Constitution be amended to allow only citizens of the United States to vote?” It is already the case — and has been the case — that only citizens can vote!

suegibson.bsky.social•11 days ago

Republican officials like to lead with that deceptive question to trick you into voting Yes for something you would likely oppose if you read further. That kind of trickery, when challenged in court, has in the past often been made right by impartial judges. With the passage of SB 22, the…

suegibson.bsky.social•11 days ago

…Secretary of State can run out the clock with three bad faith attempts at language, delaying signature collection until it’s impossible to get enough signatures to make it onto the ballot.

The bill has earned the nickname: the “Let Politicians Lie Act.”

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