Republicans scramble as two Missouri ballot fights get underway

By Jason Hancock | Editor-in-Chief

Good morning,

Amendment 6 could fundamentally alter the balance of power between Missouri voters and the legislature for years to come, making it far more difficult for lawmakers to rewrite or repeal laws enacted through the initiative process.

Yet Republicans, who have a stranglehold on legislative power, have so far mounted virtually no campaign to stop it.

The same is true, remarkably, of Proposition A. After a year of pitched political and legal warfare to protect their new congressional map, Republicans now appear largely unprepared to persuade voters to approve it at the ballot box.

Some in the party are starting to sound the alarm. But absentee voting is already underway, Election Day is just five weeks away and the campaigns backing Amendment 6 and opposing the GOP-drawn map have an enormous organizational and financial head start.

Rudi Keller has the details.

by Rudi Keller

With voting already underway, GOP leaders are organizing efforts to back the gerrymandered congressional map and defeat Amendment 6.

by Annelise Hanshaw

The State Board of Education has begun work searching for a new commissioner and crafting a new strategic plan with funding for the projects anticipated to come from philanthropic sources.

by Rebecca Rivas

The Springfield workers allege retaliation after a union organizing meeting, while employees at a Joplin dispensary voted overwhelmingly to unionize.

by Janice Ellis

Even when lawmakers fund public schools in accordance with the state’s foundation formula, the level is still inadequate to meet the needs of schools across the state.

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