Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission for CLEAN Missouri – to oppose Amendment 3, which would gut reforms and turn back the clock, on the November ballot.
C161298 08/26/2020 CLEAN Missouri National Education Association 1201 16th St, NW Washington DC 20036 8/24/2020 $500,000.00
C161298 08/26/2020 CLEAN Missouri Dorianna Blitt 1232 Peralta Ave Berkeley CA 94706 Urgent Action Fund Board member 8/24/2020 $20,000.00
Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission for CLEAN Missouri, the proponents of reform, to fight Amendment 3 [“Dirty” Missouri] placed on the November ballot by the republican controlled General Assembly:
C161298 08/18/2020 CLEAN Missouri National Redistricting Action Fund 700 13th St NW Suite 600 Washington DC 20005 8/17/2020 $50,000.00
C161298 08/18/2020 CLEAN Missouri Brianne Garcia Ziff 350 Park Ave New York NY 10022 Self Artist 8/17/2020 $25,000.00
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Keep fighting the good fight. “No” on Amendment 3 in November.
This is a really difficult decision for me. I am not comfortable with either choice. While I have come to the conclusion that I can’t support Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court — and will vote no on the procedural vote and his confirmation — I remain very worried about our polarized politics and what the future will bring, since I’m certain we will have a Senate rule change that will usher in more extreme judges in the future.
I cannot support Judge Gorsuch because a study of his opinions reveal a rigid ideology that always puts the little guy under the boot of corporations. He is evasive, but his body of work isn’t. Whether it is a freezing truck driver or an autistic child, he has shown a stunning lack of humanity. And he has been an activist — for example, writing a dissent on a case that had been settled, in what appears to be an attempt to audition for his current nomination.
Then there is Citizens United, the single most corrupting force in the history of politics in this nation. I cannot and will not support a nominee that allows dark and dirty anonymous money to continue to flood unchecked into our elections.
I reject this nomination because Judge Gorsuch would continue an activist position that states that corporations have the same rights as people. The men who wrote our Constitution would reject that nonsense, since they were highly suspect of corporations as the tools of royalty. Corporations don’t cry or laugh or marry or worry about sending their kids to college. Judge Gorsuch’s allegiance to corporations disqualifies him from the highest court in the land.
And finally, this judge does not reflect the promises that Donald Trump made to Missourians. The candidate Donald Trump farmed out this important decision to a right-wing group that fronts for large corporations and special interests. Donald Trump promised Missourians that he would look out for the little guy, for working people, for the forgotten. He promised he would drain the swamp of the special interests, the lobbyists, and politicians who have overlooked the working people in this country. This judicial nomination breaks those promises.
The President who promised working people he would lift them up has nominated a judge who can’t even see them.
You’ve just got to love the comments on social media from right wingnuts asserting that Claire McCaskill has lost their vote because of this. As if they ever have or would vote for her.
Besides, the republicans in the U.S. Senate have already established the precedent that a president shouldn’t nominate an individual to a vacancy in the U.S. Supreme Court during the last year of their term in office.
