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Senate Pulls Pay-Per-Signature Ban From Measure
Category: Initiative and Referendum · State: Missouri · Source: Columbia Tribune
Missouri senators rejected a proposal yesterday that would have prohibited initiative petition sponsors from paying circulators for each signature they collect. Senators stripped the pay-per-signature ban from a bill that imposes several other new restrictions on citizen initiatives. The election-year legislation comes after the supporters of several initiatives paid professional out-of-state petition circulators to solicit signatures from Missouri voters during the past several months. Some signature gatherers, holding several clipboards at a time, were accused of misleading people into signing petitions they didn’t necessarily support or understand. Still remaining in the bill are provisions that would bar non-Missourians from gathering signatures and stop people from passing around petitions for more than one ballot measure at a time.
Affirmative Action Petition Misses Deadline
Category: Affirmative Action · State: Missouri · Source: KMOV News
A group seeking to bar many state affirmative action programs has missed a Sunday deadline to submit its initiative petition. Missouri had been one of five states California businessman Ward Connerly and his supporters had targeted for an effort to strike down affirmative action laws. The Missouri effort was lead by Tim Asher, a former admissions director at North Central Missouri College in Trenton. Asher said it became obvious on Saturday that there were not enough signatures to qualify for the ballot, and he pledged to try again in 2010.
Affirmative Action is Target of Missouri Petition Drive
Category: Affirmative Action · State: Missouri · Source: The Kansas City Star
To get contracts with Kansas City government, a company must make a good-faith effort at sharing the contract with businesses owned by minorities or women. To Bill Torres, a Hispanic owner of an engineering consulting business, that requirement forces companies to do the right thing: Share the pie with businesspeople often discriminated against in a world dominated by white men. But to opponents of affirmative action, the requirement is itself a form of discrimination they want to eliminate. The battle over affirmative action programs like the city’s has moved front and center. Missouri residents heading to the store or going to the polls on Tuesday may find themselves being asked to sign a petition aimed at changing the Missouri Constitution to prohibit state-related affirmative action programs.
Missouri Secretary of State Approves Ballot Measure Banning Abortions
Category: Abortion · State: Missouri · Source: LifeNews.com
The Missouri Secretary of State has signed off on the language of a ballot proposal a research group that examines how abortion affects women is supporting. The Elliot Institute, based in Illinois, is behind the effort and now must gather the signatures of 90,000 state residents in order to get it on the November 2008 ballot.
Fairway prevails in lawsuit over development, city hall sites
Category: City Government · State: Missouri · Source: Kansas City Star
Fairway has successfully defended itself against a lawsuit filed by three residents. The residents — Mike McAlister, Klaus Ulrich and James Kernell — filed the suit last year after the city declined to adopt or put on the ballot two ordinances that would have restricted where Fairway could build a new city hall and allow commercial development.
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