Harry Trickey
Jefferson City
Dear Editor:
Please read the complete Missouri ballot which contains Amendment 3 and vote "no." Amendment 3 is smashed into two proposals: The first part regards a reduction in the lobbyist gift limit and a campaign financing initiative. The second and most important is an amendment to the Constitution that would destroy the anti-gerrymandering initiative that we Missourians passed by 62 percent in 2018.
And just as I predicted in a previous letter, Secretary of State John Ashcroft found a way to scramble the words of the legislature's proposed Amendment to completely hide their intention to undo our 2018 fair maps amendment.
Politicians will expect that most voters will read the vague inviting language in the campaign finance portion and just vote "yes" without reading the second part of the amendment that requires a no vote to save our 2018 anti-gerrymandering amendment.
By such stealth, the politicians aim to steal our right of equal representation in the Missouri State Legislature.
Vote "no" on Constitutional Amendment 3 to prevent the politicians from stealing from us a right that we put into the Missouri State Constitution for ourselves in 2018: The right of equal representation.