Under the misleading name, "Clean Missouri," liberals got the People of Missouri to amend our state Constitution in a way to hand Nicole Galloway--the only Democrat statewide office holder--to appoint an unelected "non-partisan"--which always means a liberal--bureaucrat to set the lines for election districts. The result would have been funky-shaped districts (which are generally unconstitutional, but it's liberals) that made sure conservative areas had to vote with urban liberal areas. Imagine urban areas having spikes sticking out of it on a map, extending into rural areas, so that, say, people 150 miles from St. Louis would have the same member of Congress as the inner city of that rather insurrectionist area. Missouri is actually more evenly spilt Left-Right than most realize, and the result of breaking up so many rural voting districts would cut current two-thirds GOP advantage in the state General Assembly considerably, if not erase it.
The People of Missouri voted for it in 2018 for three reasons:
1. They were liberals who knew what it meant, and wanted it.
2. They were environmentally-minded, and thought it was about pollution.
3. They were Tea Party-type hicks who had no idea about their own state's political reality, and liked the idea of messing with things for that's own sake. (These are the kinds of people who consider a graduate of the "Smithville College of Heating, Air Condishioning, Cosmetology, and Auto Repare"--spelled that way on their certificates--to be "college educated.")
Let us correct that royal fuck-up. Personally, I see the Amendment 3 in 2020 as going way too far afield, trying to jam in a lot of populist whatever, when the seriousness of the 2018 fuck-up is what needs attention. But the added garbage means little, so there is no cause not to vote for it.
FIX THE FUCKUP!
https://www.sos.mo.gov/elections/petitions/2020BallotMeasures
