Does He Think They've Changed Their Minds?

 

December 11, 2025

 

I don’t write about all the outrageous events going on, simply because there are too many of them. (In fact, a couple of months ago I started to write a post about how horrible government deeds are so prolific that we’re getting numbed to them, and how that is a very bad thing; but I was too overwhelmed to write it. Consider this that post.)

 

So I’ll turn to one that the rest of the country is probably unaware of, so it’s not rehashing news you’ve already heard.

 

At President Trump’s behest, his loyal followers in Missouri redrew the congressional districts to favor Republicans. When they got wind of the proposed change, People Not Politician, a political action committee, started collecting signatures for a referendum to put the matter to a vote by the citizens. They got over 300,000 signatures, more than twice the number needed to get the issue on the ballot.

 

Was the Secretary of State impressed by the action? Indeed he was. He was so worried that the issue might come to a vote, and the gerrymander be rejected, that he declared that signatures collected before the governor signed the bill into law would be rejected. So, there go 92,000 signatures. Then he said that since he didn’t approve the form of the referendum for two more weeks, signatures collected before that wouldn’t be counted, either.

 

Probably just as well: Who knows how many people might have changed their minds between September 29 and October 14^th?

 

Maybe somebody can start collecting signatures to kick him out of office.