Going Against the Voters’ Expressed Will
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Headline is about the Missouri legislature refusing to expand Medicaid after the Missouri voters approved a Constitutional amendment to expand Medicaid in Missouri. (The excuse there is basically “we know better than the voters.”)
But that article gives many other examples of state legislatures going against direct, voter-approved ballot initiatives — all by GOP-controlled legislatures.
Among Democratic leanings states, that article managed to provide one example where it’s the court, rather than the state legislature, that overturned a voter-approved ballot initiative, and that was California’s 2008 ballot initiative to ban same-sex marriage.
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Then it's the voters' right, and responsibility, to not elect them again. If the lawmakers are within the, ahem, law, then elect representatives who will change the law so as to prevent such chicanery in the future. If they are outside the law, then let them find legal representation to change the result.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@george-k said in Going Against the Voters’ Expressed Will:
Then it's the voters' right, and responsibility, to not elect them again.
Indeed, the article says that’s difficult to do in practice because of gerrymandering; gerrymandering is the root of this particular form of evil.
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@axtremus said in Going Against the Voters’ Expressed Will:
Indeed, the article says that’s difficult to do in practice because of gerrymandering; gerrymandering is the root of this particular form of evil.
I saw that. Let them elect representative who will not resort to that type of chicanery...
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
