Category: Elections

Still don’t know how to vote?

On: By: topdog

Green Dragon GazetteStill don’t know how to vote?

The FIRST AND FOREMOST rule of voting on amendments and propositions appearing on ANY ballot is this:  “If you don’t know (how you should vote), then vote NO!”  Changes made here are much harder to get rid of than even the worst law on the books passed by legislatures!  DON’T SCREW THINGS UP WORSE!–

–It is a “Two-Fer” this November 6.  Proposition D should be unconstitutional!  There are actually 3 different topics in this and it was challenged and SHOULD have been struck down by the Missouri Supreme Court, but it was NOT!  You can “Show-Me” your ire on this kind of a bum’s rush and vote No on Prop D, and vote NOT to retain the Supreme Court and Apellate judges that didn’t think this obviously unconstitutional proposition was actually unconstitutional!  Nothing like more and more gas taxes to screw up Trump’s improving economy, or better for shuffling money around to departments that can’t seem to properly handle the tax dollars they are getting now!  And a POX on the Republicans promoting higher taxes!  NOT in the party platform, people!–Claire McCaskill REALLY IS to blame for an equally unconstitutional monstrosity called Obamacare.  Well, tell her “Thanks for Obamacare, Claire” on Tuesday and vote her sorry, privileged, 36 years in office butt OUT of office!  If she has been representing Missourians, particularly on the subject of Obamacare, I am an alien creature from Mars… (then link to James article–I’m sure that will fit the narrative here)–Amendment 1 may sound pretty, but it is the ugliest and dirtiest trick maybe ever about to be played on Missourians…or at least that there has been attempted in a VERY long time!  Most everything therein the legislature has actually already taken care of (and to the detriment of Missourians’ freedom of speech, but that’s an article for another time), so why is this amendment even there?  Well, one of 2 reasons.  Remember busing a few years ago where they bused kids from one neighborhood to another to try to equalize the racial and economic make up of schools?  And remember how Affirmative Action works in the workplace where you have to hire to a quota to make things more “fair” regardless of an employees’ skills?  The redistricting proposed in this amendment is BUSING FOR REPUBLICANS and/or AFFIRMATIVE ACTION FOR DEMOCRATS!  Not only would any given district no longer represent an area’s group of constituents with similar views and concerns, but all districts would be renumbered, and its district lines would NO LONGER BE DECIDED IN A NON-PARTISAN MANNER!  DON’T FALL FOR THIS, PLEASE!–Studies (honest ones, anyway) show that teenage marijuana use facilitates the use of more powerful drugs (particularly opioids), that there is a gateway effect, and that there IS more teenage use of marijuana in states that have legalized marijuana–even medical marijuana.  Is this what you want for your kids in Missouri?  Then by all means, vote yes on the marijuana ballot issues…see more at the 101 minute video, https://marijuanavideos101.com/2018/11/03/the-marijuana-opioid-connection-separating-the-myths-from-the-facts/   The meat of the matter begins at 15:00 to about 28:00 if you don’t want to listen to the entire 101 minutes before election day…Abigail Adams

Amendment 1 will effectively nullify the requirement of US citizenship so illegals can vote in state elections

On: By: topdog

If this were Lost in Space the robot would be warning Will Robinson of eminent danger. Clean Missouri will appear as Amendment 1 to the state Constitution this November. Unfortunately, unsuspecting citizens will go into the voting booth armed with a ballot that has a cliff notes version of a
drastic change to the Constitution of this state. If you do not know the details of this amendment and just rely on what it says on the ballot, or the propaganda from TV ads, you would probably say it sounds good and vote yes. However, there is some very troubling language in this bill and the net
effect makes one elected official the most powerful person in this state and no it’s not the governor, it’s the auditor. When all is said and done, the auditor will pick one person to redraw the legislative districts based on some pretty interesting demographic criteria and in particular a new category the courts will enforce because it will now be a constitutional mandate.  So not only are racial minorities mandated a guaranteed amount of representation, but also minorities by language. This Constitutional
amendment effectively nullifies the statutory requirement of US citizenship.  Here is the exact wording that some slick lawyer and leftist judges will use to grant illegals voting rights in state elections.

“ Notwithstanding any other provision of this Article, districts shall not be drawn with the intent or result of denying or abridging the equal opportunity of racial or language minorities to participate in the political process or diminishing their ability to elect representatives of their choice, whether by themselves or by voting in concert with other persons. “

Citizens should be particularly leery when assessing petition ballot initiatives.  There is no real public vetting process with public hearings and floor debate typically done when the General Assembly passes a bill to be placed on the ballot for voter approval. It takes serious money to fund the collection of signatures of registered voters in 6 of 8 congressional districts and lots of boots on the ground in order to do so. Voter’s need to know where the source of money comes from and seek to find the motive behind the proposal not just in the short term but the long term effect of the language of a constitutional amendment. The campaign finance reform is mere fluff meant to create a positive response from the voter and provide camouflage for the real intent of this amendment. The net effect of
the redistricting process will be to dilute the power of rural voters by lumping large chunks of sparsely populated rural counties in with portions of densely populated urban areas. Under current redistricting
guidelines, St. Louis City has approximately 10 State Representatives. Under the new guidelines that could double at the expense of rural voters. A vote NO on Amendment 1 is the only prudent choice.

Claire’s ObamaCare Problem And Josh’s Pre-Existing Condition Dilemma

On: By: topdog

The Claire vs. Josh media war has us all confused. So here are some facts about Obama Care in Missouri that you may want to keep in mind when you go to the polls November 6th.

First: In 2010, 72% of Missouri voters, and our state house and senate, rejected any individual being forced on to Obama Care when we passed Proposition C (The Healthcare Freedom Act). The law, however, does not prevent anyone from signing up for Obama Care if they chose to. Yet our Senator, Claire McCaskill, was the 60th Yes vote in the U.S. Senate when they passed Obama Care. The ACA was forced on every person in our state because of her vote. Our vote to the contrary mattered not at all.

Before Obama Care passed, McCaskill hosted a town hall in Jefferson City to explain the Affordable Care Act. I attended and it was packed. The overwhelming majority were there begging her to vote no. Her phone lines burned up with constituents who where opposed to it. 

Yet she ignored her constituents and voted with her party instead.

So what, you might say. That was then and this is now. How is Obama Care hurting the folks in our state today?

Well, In a nutshell, we lost the freedom to choose what healthcare plan we want and insurance companies lost the freedom to sell it to us. 

The only health insurance coverage now allowed is strictly controlled by the Federal Government. Since the ACA, about a dozen companies in Missouri have either ceased offering any individual plans or simply gone out of business. 

Why? Obama Care does not work as a business. All insurance is based on underwriting – so the risk a company is taking on is known, and premiums can be set accordingly.

The ACA does not ALLOW underwriting and this is critical to the current argument over pre-existing conditions. If no insurance company is allowed to consider an uninsured person’s health (through underwriting), which is actual insurance, at an affordable price to a healthier applicant is impossible.

Welfare is not a dirty word, but let’s be honest: it is not insurance.  If we wish to provide coverage for the uninsured with preexisting conditions, we can. In fact, Missouri had a high-risk pool for many years before Obama Care was enacted. It provided exactly that kind of coverage and worked quite well. We can have “protection for people with pre-existing conditions” and still allow a free market for everyone else…we have DONE it before! Amazingly, premiums for our high-risk pool were actually lower than today’s Obama Care rates for most people. Only if you are getting a hefty subsidy each month is your net Obama Care cost affordable.

The ads accusing Josh Hawley of filing a law suit attacking pre-existing condition coverage is technically correct. But the lawsuit actually seeks to overturn ALL of Obama Care. As we have seen, Missouri can “protect people with pre existing conditions” without Obama Care.

Claire McCaskill supported the federal government in raining down Obama Care on all of her constituents—you are REQUIRED to be a part of it. Nothing else is allowed. She also approved of the individual mandate – the penalty for not buying Obama Care. A lovely feature that takes up to 2.5 % of your family’s income, due at tax time. What a deal! You can’t afford the only health plan available and you get punished for not buying it! Thankfully, that penalty ends in 2019—no thanks to Claire.

But we still only have one or two companies in each county, that change almost every year. They offer wildly more expensive policies, with benefits DICTATED by the Feds, with large deductibles and narrow networks.  When you go to the polls in November, hold Claire accountable for what she has done to her constituents in MO – by foisting Obama Care on us when so few wanted anything to do with it in the first place!

Hold her accountable for her inaction to reverse the horrible harm she inflicted on Missouri. Obama Care has been financial and health plan death by a thousand cuts to the vast majority of your fellow Missourians. What she has done has indeed impacted your life and the lives of those around you.

(See the video on how we can escape the ACA without hurting ANYONE)

https://youtu.be/fUbWcGQ_Z3Y

James Coyne