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In Kansas

26 Tuesday Jul 2022

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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abortion, bumper stickers, Constitutional amendment, Kansas, Roe v Wade

On the ballot in Kansas on August 2, 2022:

Anti-choice:

“…A vote for the Value Them Both Amendment would affirm there is no Kansas constitutional right to abortion or to require the government funding of abortion, and would reserve to the people of Kansas, through their elected state legislators, the right to pass laws to regulate abortion…”

Who the hell knows?:

Pro-choice:

“…A vote against the Value Them Both Amendment would make no changes to the constitution of the state of Kansas, and could restrict the people, through their elected state legislators, from regulating abortion by leaving in place the recently recognized right to abortion…”

HJR 80: The only Confederate flag that ever mattered was a white rag on a stick

22 Sunday Dec 2019

Posted by Michael Bersin in Missouri General Assembly, Missouri House

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Bryan Spencer, Constitutional amendment, General Assembly, HJR 80

Chairs and table – at the surrender to end the Civil War on April 9, 1865, at Wilmer McLean’s home in Appomattox Court House, Virginia. National Museum of American History.

Prefiled for the 2020 legislative session:

HJR 80
Proposes a constitutional amendment to enact the “Right to Remember Amendment”
Sponsor: Spencer, Bryan (063)
Proposed Effective Date: 8/28/2020
LR Number: 3918H.01I
Last Action: 12/12/2019 – Prefiled (H)
Bill String: HJR 80
Next House Hearing: Hearing not scheduled
Calendar: Bill currently not on a House calendar

The Constitutional amendment:

SECOND REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 80 [pdf]
100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE SPENCER.
3918H.01I DANA RADEMAN MILLER, Chief Clerk
JOINT RESOLUTION

Submitting to the qualified voters of Missouri an amendment to Article I of the Constitution of Missouri, by adopting one new section relating to the Right to Remember Amendment.

Be it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring therein:

That at the next general election to be held in the state of Missouri, on Tuesday next following the first Monday in November, 2020, or at a special election to be called by the governor for that purpose, there is hereby submitted to the qualified voters of this state, for adoption or rejection, the following amendment to Article I of the Constitution of the state of Missouri:

Section A. Article I, Constitution of Missouri, is amended by adding one new section, to be known as Section 36, to read as follows:

Section 36. 1. The provisions of this section shall be known as the “Right to Remember Amendment”. It shall be the public policy of this state to remember our nation’s and state’s historic conflicts, events, and figures by preserving the historical memorials and monuments in this state as provided under this section.
2. No memorial that is, or is located on, public property shall be removed, renamed, unnamed, relocated, materially altered, rededicated, or undedicated except in such manner and to such extent as the general assembly may provide by law.
3. In making provisions by law as authorized under subsection 2, the general assembly may pass or repeal a local or special law or repeal a general law in part, regardless of whether a general law could be made applicable. However, this section shall be subordinate to Article III, Section 42 of this Constitution.
4. Nothing in this section shall prevent or prohibit the following acts, so long as the acting entity ensures that a memorial is preserved to the greatest extent possible:
(1) A public entity responsible for maintaining a memorial, or a nonprofit entity acting with permission of the public entity, that takes proper and appropriate measures and exercises proper and appropriate means for the upkeep, care, preservation, protection, repair, and restoration of the memorial;
(2) The state relocating, removing, or materially altering a memorial located on public property if it determines that the memorial interferes with the construction, maintenance, or operation of the public property or improvements thereto, so long as any such action is consistent with federal historical preservation law;
(3) The general assembly taking an action to comply with a federal law or passing a general law necessary to allow the state or a person residing therein to compete or maintain eligibility for a federal grant, federal contract, or other federal funding opportunity; the state taking an action required by federal law to maintain a state historic preservation officer or state historic preservation program, as may be defined by federal law; or a local government from taking an act required by federal law to seek or maintain 28 a status as a certified local government, as may be defined by federal law.
5. As used in this section, the following terms mean:
(1) “Historic conflict”, any war, battle, or military conflict in which citizens of the United States or a state or territory thereof participated;
(2) “Historic entity”, any entity recognized as having state, national, military, or historical significance;
(3) “Historic event”, any event recognized as having state, national, military, or historical significance;
(4) “Historic figure”, any individual who is recognized for serving or participating in a historic conflict, historic event, historic entity, public office, or public service;
(5) “Historic organization”, any entity with a material mission to recognize or 39 preserve sites, structures, or artifacts relating to any historic conflict, historic entity, historic event, or historic figure;
(6) “Memorial”, either:
(a) Any real property or park, preserve, or reserve located on public property that is named or dedicated in honor of a historic conflict, historic entity, historic event, historic figure, or historic organization; or
(b) Any artwork; bust; flag; historical display; memorial; monument; name of a bridge, building, school, or street; nameplate; plaque; or statue dedicated, erected, or named on public property in honor of a historic conflict, historic entity, historic event, historic figure, or historic organization;
(7) “Public property”, all property owned, leased, rented, managed, or maintained by or under the authority of the state, a political subdivision thereof, or any other public entity created by an act of the general assembly to perform a public function.

Think of the possibilities…

HJR 30 and HJR 31: a gun humper twofer

24 Tuesday Jan 2017

Posted by Michael Bersin in Missouri General Assembly, Missouri House

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Constitutional amendment, General Assembly, gun humpers, guns, HJR 30, HJR 31, Mike Moon, Nick Marshall

It’s all about that magnetometer (metal detector) and security at the public entrance.

Two constitutional amendments, filed today:

HJR 30  
Proposes a constitutional amendment prohibiting searches of persons upon entering the Missouri State Capitol or on capitol grounds
Sponsor: Moon, Mike (157)
Proposed Effective Date: 8/28/2017
LR Number: 1528H.01I
Last Action: 01/24/2017 – Introduced and Read First Time (H)
Bill String: HJR 30
Next Hearing: Hearing not scheduled
Calendar: HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTIONS FOR SECOND READING
[….]

HJR 31  
Proposes a constitutional amendment prohibiting searches of persons upon entering the Missouri State Capitol or on capitol grounds
Sponsor: Marshall, Nick (013)
Proposed Effective Date: 8/28/2017
LR Number: 1333H.01I
Last Action: 01/24/2017 – Introduced and Read First Time (H)
Bill String: HJR 31
Next Hearing: Hearing not scheduled
Calendar: HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTIONS FOR SECOND READING
[….]

It’s empty posturing unless and until minigun emplacements are allowed in the public galleries.

Previously:

HB 96: gun humpers in the General Assembly want to hold everyone else hostage (December 8, 2016)

Rep. Stacey Newman (D): about those guns… (December 12, 2016)

HB 300: gun humpers in the General Assembly want to hold everyone else hostage – redux (December 29, 2016)

HJR 68: Say what?

10 Sunday Jan 2016

Posted by Michael Bersin in Missouri General Assembly, Missouri House

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Constitutional amendment, General Assembly, HJR 68, missouri, Paul Curtman

Natural what?

Through the Looking Glass, Chapter 6:

“….When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master, that’s all….”

A joint resolution introduced in the Missouri House by Representative Paul Curtman (r) on January 7th:

SECOND REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 68 [pdf]
98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE CURTMAN.
4330H.02I D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

JOINT RESOLUTION

Submitting to the qualified voters of Missouri an amendment to article I of the Constitution of Missouri, and adopting one new section relating to the rights of conscience.

Be it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring therein:

That at the next general election to be held in the state of Missouri, on Tuesday next following the first Monday in November, 2016, or at a special election to be called by the governor for that purpose, there is hereby submitted to the qualified voters of this state, for adoption or rejection, the following amendment to article I of the Constitution of the state of Missouri:

Section A. Article I, Constitution of Missouri, is amended by adding one new section, to be known as section 36, to read as follows:

Section 36. That the conscience of the individual shall not be infringed; that all individuals have the right to act or refuse to act in a manner motivated by their conscience; that no government entity shall interfere with the right of an individual to render private judgment on account of his or her individual conscience; this section shall not be construed to excuse nor to justify any acts or practices that undermine or violate the natural rights of others.

[emphasis in original]

Right.

The definition of a Libertarian? A republican who…:

Wildwood Weed

….One day this feller from Washington come by
And he spied us and he turned white as a sheet.
And he dug and he burned.
And he burned and he dug.
And he killed all our cute little weeds.
Then he drove away.
We just smiled and waved.
Sittin’ there on that sack of seeds….

Think of all the possibilities.

Campaign Finance: as if yard signs were actually a cash crop for actual farmers…

28 Saturday Jun 2014

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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agriculture, campaign finance, Constitutional amendment, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission

Or 4 x 8 signs.

Yesterday, at the Missouri Ethics Commission, for the folks promoting the “right to farm” amendment to the Missouri Constitution:

C101457 06/27/2014 MISSOURI FARMERS CARE Missouri Farm Bureaus Fund to Protect Farming and Ranching P.O. Box 658 Jefferson City MO 65102 6/26/2014 $20,000.00

C101457 06/27/2014 MISSOURI FARMERS CARE Missouri Pork PAC 6235 West Cunningham Drive Columbia MO 65202 6/27/2014 $10,000.00

C101457 06/27/2014 MISSOURI FARMERS CARE Missouri Pork PAC 6235 West Cunningham Drive Columbia MO 65202 6/27/2014 $15,000.00

C101457 06/27/2014 MISSOURI FARMERS CARE FCS Financial 1934 E. Miller St. Jefferson City MO 65101 6/27/2014 $10,000.00

C101457 06/27/2014 MISSOURI FARMERS CARE Missouri Corn Growers Association 3118 Emerald Lane Jefferson City MO 65109 6/27/2014 $40,000.00

[emphasis added]

Previously:

Campaign Finance: Food fight! (May 28, 2014)

Campaign Finance: Because, across Missouri, family farms are being supplanted by… (June 24, 2014)  

Campaign Finance: Because, across Missouri, family farms are being supplanted by…

24 Tuesday Jun 2014

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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agriculture, campaign finance, Constitutional amendment, missouri

…corporate interests. Oh, wait…

“Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.” – Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (1689 – 1755)

Yesterday, at the Missouri Ethics Commission, for the folks promoting the “Right to Farm” constitutional amendment:

C101457 06/23/2014 MISSOURI FARMERS CARE ASSOCIATION OF MISSOURI ELECTRIC COOPERATIVES PO BOX 1645 JEFFERSON CITY MO 65102 6/23/2014 $25,000.00

C101457 06/23/2014 MISSOURI FARMERS CARE MISSOURI CORN MERCHANDISING COUNCIL 3118 EMERALD LANE JEFFERSON CITY MO 65109 6/23/2014 $8,000.00

[emphasis added]

Because government thugs are arbitrarily closing down family farms across the state? Really?

Previously:

Campaign Finance: Food fight! (May 28, 2014)

One of many really bad petitions out there

21 Wednesday Oct 2009

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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Constitutional amendment, missouri, property tax

Constitutional Amendment to Article X, Relating to State, County, and Municipal Taxes, version 8

2010-033

[full text]

Submitted by: Dr. Angela Basham

Dr. Angela Basham

P.O. Box 220

Leasburg, MO 65535

573-245-9970

Official ballot title certified by Secretary of State on June 29, 2009.

OFFICIAL BALLOT TITLE AS CERTIFIED BY

SECRETARY OF STATE

Shall the Missouri Constitution be amended to restrict the ability of the General Assembly, counties, and other political subdivisions to tax and generate revenue by limiting the General Assembly’s power to pass legislation that permits counties and other political subdivisions to tax for county, municipal, and other purposes; removing the authority to tax Missourian’s real or personal property; requiring that any increase to state income taxes be approved by a majority vote of the people; and by removing or modifying certain other tax provisions?

Prohibiting the levy of property and sales taxes by local governments would eliminate or reduce funding for local governmental services, including public schools, transportation, safety, and health programs.  State governmental services to the blind would be eliminated or reduced.  The estimated cost to state and local governmental entities could exceed $8.5 billion annually.

 

I haven’t been approached to sign the petition to put this on the Nov 2010 ballot, but I don’t go to tea party rallies or places where I’d be apt to see these petition carriers.  Has anyone else been approached to sign this?  It would be easy to convince people to sign without reading it simply by asking if they want their taxes reduced.

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