By Barb Shelly | Kansas City Star
Might the Show-Me justice showdown be over before it even gets started?
Not sure, but opponents of the drive to force a statewide vote on Missouri’s judicial selection process say their analysis shows that vote isn’t going to happen.
Missourians for Fair and Impartial Courts says it has studied the signatures gathered by ShowMe Better Courts, and predicts the effort to move to partisan election of judges failed to collect the required number of signatures in six of the nine Congressional districts.
Here’s the press release from Missourians for Fair and Impartial Courts.
James Harris, who heads up ShowMe Better Courts, released a statement to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch saying, “I reject this as an effort by self-interested ambulance chasers to influence the Secretary of State’s count.”
We won’t know for sure until Aug. 3, which is the deadline for signatures submitted to be counted and verified by local election boards.
But if the opponents are right, some people are going to be pretty frustrated. I’m thinking specifically of Joplin contractor David Humphreys, who has dropped $475,000 into the effort so far.
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