[T]he new bill would add language to the state constitution that makes it harder for Missouri citizens to gain legal standing to challenge a gerrymandered map in court.
Campaign Updates
Washington Missourian: Dirty Missouri is an “odious” measure
“[L]awmakers also passed some odious measures this session, including a plan to gut key provisions of Clean Missouri, which voters passed with 62 percent of the vote in 2018.”
Citizens sue to block politicians’ dishonest ballot language on Dirty Missouri Amendment
“A top House Republican warned his colleagues last week that SJR38 was riddled with ‘errors’. He is correct.”
Clean Missouri statement on House passage of Dirty Missouri amendment
The Clean Missouri campaign released the following statement following the House’s passage of the deceptive and flawed Dirty Missouri constitutional amendment proposal. “An overwhelming bipartisan majority of voters delivered a mandate for fair maps and…
Top House Republican: “There are errors or corrections that need to be made” on SJR38
“This is going to go down in flames if it makes it to the ballot. Flames. This will not pass at all.”
NAACP Kansas City Chapter President: Dirty Missouri “outrageous even by Jeff City standards”
“Amendment 3 would take Missouri’s legislative redistricting process out of the light and into backrooms controlled by powerful insiders who would be in charge of drawing electoral maps for the next decade.”
Joplin Globe: “Defer to voters on redistricting”
Lawmakers should only consider overturning the will of voters in the rarest and most extreme circumstances — state emergencies, for example. This is not that moment. Joplin Globe Editorial Board, May 5, 2020 Missouri Republicans…
Sen. Jack Danforth: “I will vote no on the legislators’ gerrymandering amendment and encourage every Missouri voter to do the same”
Indeed, if the proposed constitutional amendment is fully enacted, Missouri’s legislative maps could be more gerrymandered than any in the country. Sen. John C. Danforth, writing in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch The citizens of Missouri pulled off an…
Statewide opposition increases to politicians’ gerrymandering plan
Citizens and editorial boards from across the state continue to condemn a radical gerrymandering proposal, SJR38, that Missouri House leaders passed in a sham hearing last week. Reforms requiring fair maps and fair redistricting were…
Joplin Globe: “Time to trust voters”
Legislators would be better off if they sought to respond to the real needs and priorities of voters rather than pursuing political advantage by selecting the mix of voters to make their seats more secure….