Meanwhile, Missouri voters rejected a pair of unique ballot measures backed by the Republican-led Legislature. One defeated measure would have required all citizen-initiated constitutional amendments to pass in each of Missouri’s eight congressional districts instead of by a simple statewide majority — a high standard used by no other state. The other measure would have directed lawmakers to repeal the state’s individual income tax while authorizing a state sales tax expansion.
KSDK is a local outlet (owned by Nexstar, not better than Sinclair but had to check):
Cori Bush raised tornado money through a nonprofit with no public IRS record, and won’t explain it before the primary
Emails show Cori Bush’s PAC raised tornado relief money for a nonprofit the public cannot trace. Now the AG is looking into it
She’s under investigation for hiring her husband as security:
Rep. Cori Bush is under investigation after hiring husband as security
Her husband was investigated for PPP loan fraud but a jury did not unanimously vote guilty. Along with the rest, this still seems suspicious. Still, it could have been a politically motivated investigation.
Cori Bush’s husband avoids conviction for pandemic loan fraud
All these were good reasons to be suspicious of her integrity. Refusing to answer questions about the Tornado relief “charity” is what really drove a lot of people away.
I agree it’s not a good look. Neither is genocide. US electionarianism is utter garbage. We get a slight range of right wing candidates, but never, ever anyone who would make massive change that benefit constituents more than the super-rich. And that’s why I’m a communist. I would like to add anarcho as a prefix, until fully and well-functioning systems are in place, and most of the biggest powers are AES states, but it’s jumping the gun, right now.
I wish we’d had more options in that race but it seems like the DNC doesn’t bother with Missouri so we haven’t had much support getting a broader range of primary candidates. Our ocal groups are getting shit done without the DNC, though.
A little interesting development this election cycle, which, admittedly I only have anecdotal evidence from several large groups to support it: a not insignificant portion of Missouri dems voted in the Republican primaries to keep the most toxic MAGA candidates off the ballot. We live in a red state and can’t count on dems winning in the general and it sucks we have to use this strategy.
Working as designed, imo (against you all).