If your readers haven’t already been asked to sign a YOUR VOTE COUNTS petition, they will be soon. Here’s why it’s so important to sign the petition. In recent years, state legislators have run roughshod over the voters by rewriting or tossing out laws we passed by initiative petition. We have the right in Missouri, as voters, to pass laws. And the legislature should respect those laws just as they expect us to respect the laws THEY pass.
Although the puppy mill (Prop B) law that passed in November 2010 and rewritten by the legislature two months later is just the recent example of insulting the voters’ judgment, YOUR VOTE COUNTS is not just about puppy mills. In 2009, the legislature undid a school funding measure that passed as part of a casino initiative. They are also looking to dismantle a 2006 ballot measure on minimum wage and a 2008 measure on clean energy. Remember Prop C for alternative energy? Voters supported that by a huge majority, but legislators with their own agenda want to weaken it.
Learn more about YOUR VOTE COUNTS and the petition drive at www.protectvoters.com . Get involved. The democracy you save may be your own.
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