This November, Missouri voters will consider Amendment 7. It’s a misleading measure that the Legislature placed onto the ballot to attack local control and limit voters’ freedom in elections. Unfortunately, it’s part of a pattern.

[T]here have been quite a few eyebrow-raising purchases in the last year, according to Benjamin Singer, the CEO of Show Me Integrity.

“Keeping track of your receipts when you’re spending your employer’s money is something we’re all used to doing for our jobs. If we’re spending our employer’s money, that’s even more important when it’s the taxpayers, the citizens, the voters of St. Louis, who these department heads are working for,” he said.

“We congratulate Gabe Gore, one of our supporters, and wish him luck turning the ship around,” said Benjamin Singer, CEO of Show Me Integrity, a cross-partisan organization aiming to reform Missouri politics.

Candidates in two-person races for city offices could skip a primary and run only in the general election under a plan to be submitted Thursday to the Board of Aldermen.

Four people active in the campaign to pass the “approval voting” measure in 2020 issued a statement Wednesday applauding Clark Hubbard “for proposing a common-sense approach” but stopped short of endorsing the change.
“We look forward to continuing the conversation with the Board of Aldermen on any changes, including potentially sending this to a vote of the people,” they said.

Among the four were representatives of Show Me Integrity, St. Louis Approves and the League of Women Voters’ St. Louis city unit.