Eight months after voters approved it, Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe signed the repeal of a law Thursday that had guaranteed paid sick leave to workers and inflationary adjustments to the minimum wage.
The move marked a major victory for the state’s largest business group and a frustrating defeat for workers’ rights advocates, who had spent years — and millions of dollars — building support for the successful ballot measure. The repeal will take effect Aug. 28.
What sort of ass-backwards State allows direct Voter-approved laws to be repealed by the politicians. The purpose of having that process is to deal with situations where the State can’t get their shit together.
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
This governor should be removed from fucking office now, and I don’t mean a recall or impeachment. If the voters vote a law in the fucking governor shouldn’t be able to remove said law. Only fucking voters should get to do that
wirebeads@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
Welcome to America, the game show where your votes don’t matter and you’ll get deported by ICE if you defend your rights.
RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I welcome them to try it. We’ll all race across life’s finish line, together.
chosensilence@pawb.social 6 hours ago
it is becoming more and more obvious to those who couldn’t see before that you cannot vote fascism out of power. we are rapidly approaching a countrywide breaking point. i don’t know from which side or what angle, but there is a lot of anger and only one group (anyone Left of Republicans) has the moral high ground. we are not going to demonstrate or talk our way out of the pockets of the oligarchy. if not now, when? when will it be time?
teamevil@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
We are well past that … America is like a person who gets a massive dose of radiation. They feel fine right after, but their body can no longer make new cells…so they end up dying a few days later.
America has had the dose of radiation, she’s just waiting for the effects
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
This isn’t even the first time they’ve overriden voter choice.
Hell, it’s not even the twentieth time.
danc4498@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Same voters will reelect him and the legislators that created the bill
plz1@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
The voters put legislators in office that crafted this repeal. The governor didn’t just unilaterally do it.