Freshman Rep. Jay Barnes has urged Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan to let someone else handle a new initiative petition proposal dropped at her office last week.
Unhappy with lawmakers' changes to a 2008 renewable energy law that more than 2.69 million voters approved by an almost 2-to-1 margin, the group Renew Missouri filed a proposed petition with Carnahan's office on Thursday, to rewrite the new law.
Barnes reminded her "one of the largest renewable energy suppliers in Missouri is the Wind Capital Group, a firm holding significant investments from members of your family - including your brother, Tom Carnahan, Wind Capital's Chairman of the Board."
In his letter and in an interview Friday, Barnes suggested the secretary of state has a lot of power in the duty to write the language voters will see, if a petition gets enough signatures to land on a statewide ballot.