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Lee wrote:
Red State Voters Approved Progressive
Measures. GOP Lawmakers Are Trying to
Undermine Them.
May 30, 2025
In Missouri, the 2025 legislative
session was dominated by Republican
lawmakers trying to reverse two major
measures that voters had put on the
ballot and approved just months
before; one made abortion in the
state legal again, while the other
created an employee sick leave
requirement.
GOP lawmakers in Alaska and Nebraska
also have moved to roll back sick
leave benefits that voters approved
last year, while legislators in
Arizona are pushing new restrictions
on abortion access, despite voters
six months ago approving protections.
At the same time, Republican leaders
in Florida, Utah, Montana, Arkansas,
Oklahoma, Arizona, Ohio, North Dakota
and South Dakota have approved
efforts to restrict citizen-led
ballot initiatives or are considering
measures to do so, essentially trying
to make it harder for voters to change
laws outside legislatures.
Republican elected officials across
these states make strikingly similar
arguments: They say the initiative
process is susceptible to fraud and
unduly influenced by out-of-state
money. What's more, they say that
they, as elected officials,
represent the true will of the
people more than ballot initiatives
do. >https://www.propublica.org/article/red-state-ballot-initiatives-gop-republ >icans-florida-missouri
Rightist fraud is rampant today. We need the death penalty for righist politicians. Some good old fashioned vigiantism would be the right direction. God gave us guns and the 2a for a reason but a rope and a tree will do.
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