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.
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.
Cori Bush has a lot of unanswered questions about what she did with millions in tornado relief funds, supposedly in a nonprofit that does not exist. She also hired her husband, who barely escaped prosecution for pandemic loan fraud, as her security using federal money.
This was not a kowtow to mediocrity and People didn’t “votr to support genocide”, they didn’t want to support an openly corrupt politician any more.
I’m extremely disappointed in Bush for all of this because it also fucks up progressives elsewhere if they have to talk about her bullshit.
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)