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.
The article is framing this as a rejection of progressivism, could it not be more simply a rejection of the candidate?
Mainstream media needs to convey that your lying eyes are lying to you and that only centrist democrats are viable in elections. Obviously
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But yeah, it really looks like voters in that district don’t like Bush, rather than this being a denial of progressives. She already lost this district before, it was unlikely she’d win it back unless the current guy screwed up really bad.
Cori Bush has a lot of unanswered questions about what she did with millions in tornado relief funds, supposedly in a nonprofit that does not exist. She also hired her husband, who barely escaped prosecution for pandemic loan fraud, as her security using federal money.
This was not a kowtow to mediocrity and People didn’t “votr to support genocide”, they didn’t want to support an openly corrupt politician any more.
I’m extremely disappointed in Bush for all of this because it also fucks up progressives elsewhere if they have to talk about her bullshit.
Or we wanted a candidate that doesn’t steal tornado relief money through a charity and won’t answer questions about where it all went.
https://ground.news/article/squad-democrat-refuses-to-answer-where-tornado-relief-donations-went
Who rates that story? I don’t know enough to make a call*, but I’d like to know more.
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.