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CLEAN MISSOURI is DIRTY POLITICS

MOGOP Executive Director Sam Cooper says that the name makes it sound good, but this is really about redistricting which would be a disaster for Missouri.

Big donations flow to group trying to change Missouri government, raising GOP eyebrows


JEFFERSON CITY

A proposed ballot measure that would make sweeping changes to state government is picking up momentum — and cash.

Missouri Republicans are starting to take notice.

A group called Clean Missouri has been collecting signatures to put a constitutional amendment before state voters that would ban all lobbyist gifts to legislators larger than $5; require legislators and their staff to wait two years before becoming lobbyists after they leave the Capitol; and rework how legislative districts are drawn.

Earlier this month Clean Missouri received a $250,000 donation from MOVE Ballot Fund, a St. Louis-based political action committee connected to a nonprofit of the same name.

Three days before the donation to Clean Missouri, MOVE received a $300,000 donation from the Open Society Policy Center, the lobbying arm of liberal billionaire George Soros ’ philanthropic network. MOVE reported raising only $100 before that donation.

Sam Cooper, executive director of the Missouri Republican Party, said the donation was an example of hypocrisy by Democrats, who have hammered GOP-aligned groups over the last year when they’ve taken steps to shuffle money around to conceal its source.

Cooper keyed in on the provisions in the ballot measure that would reform legislative redistricting.

“Under the guise of ‘Clean Missouri,’ they’ve accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars from George Soros in order to rewrite the Missouri Constitution in an attempt to disenfranchise Missouri voters,” Cooper said. “I wish I could say I was surprised, but after years of getting their tails kicked at the ballot box, I guess using Soros money to redraw legislative districts is the only chance they have of winning.”

The comparison between the Clean Missouri donation and GOP-aligned nonprofits working to obfuscate donors is inaccurate, said Molly Fleming, the group’s executive director, because MOVE set up its PAC specifically to be as transparent as possible about its efforts to support Clean Missouri.

“We’re really excited about the opportunity presented by the Clean Missouri effort to make our state government more open and accountable,” Fleming said. “Big money and political insiders have been running the show for too long — leaving working people out in the cold.”

The redistricting provisions of the proposed ballot measure would turn over the task of drawing legislative districts to a nonpartisan expert, whose work would then be reviewed by a citizen commission. Competitiveness would be a required criteria for drawing districts, and an independent state demographer would help create the maps, which are set to be redrawn after the 2020 census.

The goal, according to Clean Missouri, is to ensure legislative maps are drawn fairly, rather than being drawn to protect incumbents or to unjustly favor one party.

Legislative redistricting in Missouri now is handled by two bipartisan commissions, one for each chamber. The governor selects members of the commission from lists of nominees submitted by the state committees of the Democratic and Republican parties.

Cooper said he expects the redistricting provision to doom the larger ballot measure if it does end up on the statewide ballot later this year.

“I’m confident,” Cooper said, “that Missouri voters won’t let out-of-state liberal billionaires change the way we elect our representatives.”

Read more here: https://www.kansascity.com/new...4.html#storylink=cpy

Thanks for the update Chellim.

Once I saw the name of George Soros I knew it would be bad. Good tip, thanks.

"....the name makes it sound good,"

SOP for the politicos. Affordable Care Act? lol

I have no dog in this show, but I generally approve barring former legislators from accepting jobs as lobbyists--at least for 5 or more years.

flashguy

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I generally approve barring former legislators from accepting jobs as lobbyists--at least for 5 or more years.

Yes, I would agree.
The problem is that those provisions are the attractive veneer for the re-districting scheme.

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Originally posted by chellim1:

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I generally approve barring former legislators from accepting jobs as lobbyists--at least for 5 or more years.

Yes, I would agree.
The problem is that those provisions are the attractive veneer for the re-districting scheme.

That's true. It gives the power of redistricting to someone appointed by the state auditor. Right now the state auditor id the only Democrat in elected state wide office. Wonder how that happened?

Amendment 1 is a deceitful attempt by out-of-state billionaires to fill Missouri’s legislature with liberal Democrats.

Not-So-Clean Missouri has accepted more than $600,000 in dark money donations. But they claim they want to make government more transparent. What are they hiding?

The liberal agenda behind Amendment 1 is easy to spot.
Just look who’s paying for it.




http://stopamendment1.com/

We've got a similar thing going in Utah. I'd already decided to vote against it before reading this, and now I know why. I'll bet our Constitutional redistricting amendment is sponsored by the liberals.