Meanwhile, Missouri voters rejected a pair of unique ballot measures backed by the Republican-led Legislature. One defeated measure would have required all citizen-initiated constitutional amendments to pass in each of Missouri’s eight congressional districts instead of by a simple statewide majority — a high standard used by no other state. The other measure would have directed lawmakers to repeal the state’s individual income tax while authorizing a state sales tax expansion.
Here before Missouri legislature chooses to implement the constitutional amendment change anyway, because fuck you.
Another win for AIPAC (that the DNC and their media arm of course frame as a rejection of progressive policy 🙄) and two ballot initiatives that would never even be considered in a sane and just system.
Congratulations on scraping the bare minimum that shouldn’t result in a competency test on the latter and catastrophically failing on the former, Missouri 😮💨
It seems that district loves genocide
Either that or AIPAC ran successful smear campaigns that don’t mention Israel at all, like they usually do.
The other measure would have directed lawmakers to repeal the state’s individual income tax while authorizing a state sales tax expansion.
“Give the taxes to the poors.”
It was basically, income tax goes away! We’ll make up for it in other ways.
And those would be…?
If you come up with concepts of a plan, I expect you to finish that plan before I vote Yes on it.
The article is framing this as a rejection of progressivism, could it not be more simply a rejection of the candidate?
Mainstream media needs to convey that your lying eyes are lying to you and that only centrist democrats are viable in elections. Obviously
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But yeah, it really looks like voters in that district don’t like Bush, rather than this being a denial of progressives. She already lost this district before, it was unlikely she’d win it back unless the current guy screwed up really bad.
As was the case in the last campaign, Bell was backed by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which lobbies for U.S. support of Israel. Bush has denounced Israel’s military action in Gaza.
Oh hey, look at that. I thought it was just my state looking to get rid of state initiatives. I guess the GOP and DNC have something in common after all.
You think rejecting a poison pill amendment to voter initiatives is a bad thing? Dude, that’s kinda weird. Like, did you not understand the text kinda weird, especially cause you’re acting like it says the opposite of what it says (requiring every individual district to approve a ballot measure is just a fancy way to get land to vote)
Hey, it’s the anti-washington account that has to shit on anything Washington does, which has gone as far as saying that blue states like WA deserved what was coming to them with ICE because of gun control.
I see you’ve now increased the amount of bullshit you say about WA, as you used to only shit on WA in related posts. Nice!
