Missouri remains under a COVID-19 stay-at-home order. But that didn’t stop GOP legislators who returned to the capitol this week from reviving a measure that would shore up their political power.
Republicans tried and failed again in their 2019 session, as part of a broader measure to gut the “Clean Missouri” initiative.
Has the Misery GOP tried intravenous Clorox and a Twenty Mule Team Borax enema 
It’d cure what’s ailing them.
Every single day - every single day - every single day some group of Republicans respond to the pandemic by trying to devise new ways to make their donors richer, screw over poor people, or suppress democracy.
Every single fucking day.
Ah, the riddle of the meaning of the “Show Me” State is revealed.
These are “rear guard“ actions that smack of desperation. But they’ll hurt as many of “those people” as they can before they’re through.
Blatantly unconstitutional—which is so typical of GOP policy ideas.
“…the so-called ‘Clean Missouri’ constitutional amendment…”
You couldn’t scream “Dirty Immigrants!” any louder than that, even with a bullhorn.
Why doesn’t the Missouri Republican Party just cut out all the BullShit and put into a bill what they REALLY WANT: Only White, Male, Christians are allowed to vote.
After all, it’s what the Constitution said (in 1789) even though Missouri did not become a State until 1821 (technically any Male Citizen Landowner could vote, there was no Religious test.)
This attitude well predates the pandemic. What we have here in MO is absolute rural vs urban. Every single fucking time the voters in MO approve a constitutional amendment the Republican try to over turn the will of the voters. Clean Missouri passed by 62% of voters.
I guess they are yearning for “normalcy”…
Yeah that “normalcy” they are yearning for pre-Civil War.
Clean Missouri was a voter ballot initiative. It was to change redistricting to a non-partisan method. After passing Republicans keep trying to ignore the vote of the people (sound familiar?).
The Kansas City Star: In November 2018, 62 percent of Missourians voted to amend the state constitution to enact a series of campaign finance and legislative ethics proposals, along with a new system for redrawing legislative districts following the U.S. Census.
Clean Missouri passed after a two-year campaign garnering hundreds of thousands of petition signers. Advocates included notable Republican names like Jack Danforth. About 1.4 million voted for the measure.
Among the changes to the redistricting process, the constitutional amendment requires that a state demographer use a mathematical formula to try to engineer “partisan fairness” and “competitiveness” in legislative elections.
An Associated Press analysis found that while the new method appears unlikely to impact overall control of the Missouri General Assembly, it will likely increase Democrats’ chances of winning elections and cut into Republicans’ supermajorities in the state House and Senate.
They are not that reactionary, for most the Jim Crow era will do …
You’ve met the folks down in the Ozarks?
I guess the fact that I am alive answers your question.
Well us good Germans and other here in St. Louis tried.
Hey, I have family in the Ozarks but I know what you mean.
Where their soul should be? You could run a freight train through there. They simply cannot win on a level playing, even in many of the red states. They have to cheat and manipulate – it is the only way they can maintain minority rule in as many places as they do.
Good read. Thanks!
Every day the Communist Republican Party continues to follow the advice of their real mentor Uncle Joe Stalin…“It’s not who votes that counts, it’s who counts the votes”!