Friends,
Extremist Republicans in the Missouri State Senate spent the entirety of this legislative session fighting to make it harder for voters to hold their elected officials accountable at the ballot box by changing the rules for citizen-driven initiative petitions.
The resolution was ultimately defeated because of the nine Senate Democrats who fought hard against this attack on our Democracy.
Instead of fighting to solve critical issues, including access to affordable and quality healthcare, public education, and improving the safety of our roads and bridges, this Republican supermajority spent the entire legislative session pushing their extreme agenda and how they could further strip us of our hard-earned rights and freedoms.
We have watched Missourians band together and successfully work to expand Medicaid coverage and reject the so-called ‘right-to-work’ initiative that would have shifted more power from workers to employers, among other successful initiatives, and that is why the Republican supermajority wants to take our right to take citizen action away from us.
Thank you,
Russ Carnahan
Chairman
Missouri Democratic Party