{"id":637,"date":"2024-02-23T19:43:16","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T19:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/progressmo.com\/?p=637"},"modified":"2024-02-23T19:43:16","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T19:43:16","slug":"utd-majority-rule-no-remorse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallant-mclaren.18-188-198-158.plesk.page\/index.php\/2024\/02\/23\/utd-majority-rule-no-remorse\/","title":{"rendered":"Under the Dome – February 23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Welcome back to Under the Dome, your weekly update on the goings-on of the Missouri state legislature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Majority rule under threat as resolution stripping voters of rights moves to House<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This week, the Missouri Senate moved forward<\/a> legislation that would end majority rule in Missouri, taking away rights that Missourians have utilized for more than 100 years to keep legislators accountable and advance legislation favored by voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to a strong pushback by key legislators, Sen. Mary Elizabeth Coleman\u2019s SJR74 was stripped of \u201cballot candy.\u201d The resolution now moves to the House for debate, where extreme politicians are threatening to return \u201cballot candy,\u201d a blatant admission of resorting to trickery to steamroll their permanent plans to take voters\u2019 rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Coleman speaking about purposefully including “ballot candy” in SJR74 on the floor of the Missouri Senate, via Missouri Senate Communications video.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The resolution approved in the Senate would require what\u2019s called a concurrent majority, meaning that in addition to passing the entire state, any constitutional ballot issue would also need to be approved by a majority vote in five of the state\u2019s eight congressional districts. According to an analysis from the Missouri Independent, as few as 23% of voters<\/a> \u2013 a majority in the four districts with the lowest number of voters in 2020 and 2022 \u2013 could defeat a statewide ballot measure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The legislature continues to ignore public outcry to their plans to end majority rule, which has been overwhelming and bipartisan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Progress MO is calling on Missourians from all parts of the state to urgently contact their legislators<\/a> to demand that they vote no on these efforts to dismantle majority rule and seize their rights in Missouri.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Freedom Caucus members smear KC dad, spread fear and hate<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Denton Loudermill and his family in their neighborhood, via family photo shared with the Kansas City Star.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This week also featured continued swamp creature behavior from the \u201cFreedom\u201d Caucus when members and the Caucus\u2019s own social media channels were caught falsely accusing a KC dad of being a mass shooter and illegal immigrant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three Missouri lawmakers shared posts with a photo of a man that claimed him as one of the suspects in the mass shooting, which killed one person and injured more than 20 people. The post not only smeared an innocent man but also falsely fueled illegal immigration fears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asked for an apology, lawmakers instead doubled down. As reported in the Kansas City Star<\/a>, Sen. Rick Brattin, R-Harrisonville and chair of the hard-right Missouri Freedom Caucus, refused to apologize or even recognize that they did anything wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m not even commenting on that,\u201d Brattin told the Kansas City Star. \u201cThat\u2019s not even part of the discussion.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When pressed, Brattin signaled that he didn\u2019t think his false post was worth an apology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s nothing that I even see \u2013 even worth that,\u201d he said. \u201cSo we\u2019ve done nothing. And, you know, I have no comment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

House Speaker under fire for yet another<\/em> scandal<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Finally, this week the St. Louis Post-Dispatch exposed<\/a> that so-called \u201clifelong conservative\u201d Dean Plocher doubled his office\u2019s payroll in the past five years while embroiled in a series of ongoing scandals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After firing two of his employees<\/a> and watching as another resigned amid a midterm shake-up, the embattled House Speaker is overseeing an office payroll that could cost taxpayers double the amount it under then-Speaker Elijah Haahr in February 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to payroll records provided by the House human resources office, the annual payroll for the speaker\u2019s office as of Feb. 1 was $746,427, compared to $495,832 in his maiden year as the leader of the Legislature\u2019s lower chamber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Under the Dome: Majority Rule attack advances, Freedom Caucus smears KC dad, and Plocher embroiled in scandal again<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,27,33,40,43,48,51,57,65,73,75,77],"class_list":["post-637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ethics","tag-house","tag-ip","tag-legislature","tag-majority-rule","tag-missouri","tag-one-person-one-vote","tag-plocher","tag-rights","tag-senate","tag-sjr74","tag-speaker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallant-mclaren.18-188-198-158.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallant-mclaren.18-188-198-158.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallant-mclaren.18-188-198-158.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallant-mclaren.18-188-198-158.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallant-mclaren.18-188-198-158.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gallant-mclaren.18-188-198-158.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallant-mclaren.18-188-198-158.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallant-mclaren.18-188-198-158.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallant-mclaren.18-188-198-158.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}