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Not my fault if your petition drive failed
The “Buck Stops Here” Award (not) goes to James Harris, executive director of ShowMe Better Courts, for his reaction to the news that his group’s effort to select judges through partisan elections had failed to gain enough valid signatures.
“We are very disappointed that Lincoln Strategies failed to collect the requisite number of signatures, but we will continue moving forward and will resubmit the petition in November,” Harris said in a written statement.
Lincoln Strategy Group is the Arizona firm which Harris hired to gather the requisite number of signatures.
It’s not too hard to imagine Harry Truman ruefully shaking his head.
BREAKING: Missourians apparently reject proposal to inject partisanship and politics into Missouri courts
Missourians for Fair and Impartial Courts Action Fund today announced that according to an analysis of signatures submitted to the Secretary of State by ShowMe Better Courts, a group proposing a constitutional amendment to dismantle Missouri’s Non-Partisan Court plan, it appears that insufficient signatures were collected to qualify the amendment and send it to the voters. The review predicts that ShowMe Better Courts fell short of the signature requirement in at least six of nine Congressional Districts.
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