Breaking: Judge Upholds Missouri Health Care Vote
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, July 19, 2010, 6:12 PM
Local Tea Party co-founder Bill Hennessey joined the pro-Prop C rally Saturday in St. Louis.
Hat Tip Caroline
A Missouri judge has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to stop Prop C, an Aug. 3 ballot issue vote offering Missourians a chance to express their position on the nation’s new health care act.
Ozarks First reported:
A Cole County judge has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to stop an Aug. 3 ballot issue vote offering Missourians a chance to express their position on the nation’s new health care act.
Judge Paul C. Wilson ruled late Friday against Jefferson City attorney Chip Gentry’s argument that the ballot issue exceeds its original purpose and does not contain a clear title focused on a single subject.
A Simple Yes or No to a Multifaceted Question
The state lawmaker-driven ballot initiative asks voters for a single answer to a two-part question.
First it asks voters to decide if Missouri statutes should be amended to prevent the government from “penalizing citizens for refusing to purchase private health insurance or infringe upon the right to offer or accept direct payment for lawful healthcare services?”
A second question asks if laws governing the liquidation of certain insurance companies should be modified.
The insurance liquidation question was the original focus of House Bill 1764. The legislature amended the bill to include language on the health care issue in a last-minute maneuver known as “log-rolling.”
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Published February 8, 2012 at 8:42 pm - 43 Comments
Militant Conservative commented:
The socialists pushed America. America is starting to push back twice as hard. Unintended consequences are neat things. powder is dry.
Oboingo commented:
Obama must be mad as hell, he will not take it anymore. You will submit to his mediocracy or you will die ( or at least be called by Jessie Jackson, and Al Sharpton, and Michelle Obummer) a racist.
Will that island tip over if there are too many marines? So not answer that question, you could wind up being called a racist.
frank commented:
This question, coming in early August, has excellent timing as it will be a harbinger of what is to come in November.
MO posters: In what direction is the polling on this question running?
bill-tb commented:
So they don’t want commie Kare either. Imagine that.
Granny commented:
Take a peek at what they are saying in the UK -
QUOTE – So who will speak – both here and over there – for the aspiring, the enterprising, the law-abiding, and, perhaps most important of all in these economic times, the productive classes? . . . .
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/janetdaley/7896446/American-politics-has-caught-the-British-disease.html
Jules Hamil commented:
I’m from MO and am sadly disappointed in the advertising of this vote. I have heard NO TV ADS, NO RADIO ADS AND SEEN NO ARTICLES IN THE NEWSPAPERS OR WEBSITES. This really scares me as many of my friends didn’t even know about it until I told them. I’ve offered to help at phone banks, pass out literature and donate my time, but sadly, no takers. Again I say, I’m not hopeful. SEIU is quite powerful in St. Louis and Kansas City areas. Pass the word if you know people in MO.
bg commented:
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Lets Roll!!
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Opus #6 commented:
Glad to hear the good guys won one.
down with dems commented:
MARK YOUR CALENDAR FOR AUGUST 3, MISSOURI!
VOTE YES ON PROP C!
http://www.mohealthfreedom.org
Be the first state to reject the Obamacare mandates by popular vote! Stand up for freedom and set an example for your fellow Americans.
Jim, hope you make Prop C the top story all day on 8/3 so Missourians remember to go vote!
Ginger commented:
Jules Hanil
I have been trying to find something in my paper about it. Nothing no where! No tv ads! Nothing! Why? This is so important to be voted on. The SOS on the Missouri election has the ballot wording. I am praying that people understand and votes the right way. It’s called Proposition C
http://www.sos.mo.gov/election/2010primary
Ginger commented:
Thanks ….. down with dems I have been telling everyone I know to go vote November 3rd if they want to control their own health insurance and send a message to that fraud. But I worry that ACORN and NAACP will have a lot of voter fraud! I am sending a “Letter to the editor” now to say my discust that they are denying people the right to know about this important matter.
Ginger commented:
Judge Wilson
Thank you so much….. you are our HERO
Ladue Pundit commented:
Driving through Kirkwood, MO today I saw > a dozen YES ON C signs. Mostly on lawns with Rick Stream (local R ) signs.
All MO Gateway Pundit people need to get these signs / bumper stickers!
Wading Across commented:
I’m guessing that a number of people were following the court decision, trying to be the first to break the news, so GP probably got a number of email notices from different people.
I’d emailed GP and Dana Loesch Friday night or Saturday morning early when I saw it posted online at Peter Kinder’s website, who posted an article from the Kansas City Star. http://wadingacross.wordpress.com/2010/07/16/prop-c-lawsuit%c2%a0update/
I did find it a little odd though that GP waited until Monday to post this and 97.1 didn’t make any mention about it until today in their quarterly morning news blurbs. That’s not really “breaking news” then, is it?
dunce commented:
The real shame is that anyone can sue to stop a democratic process and only luck of the draw gave freedom to vote our fate by a judge. A partisan judge and this attorney both on the public payroll could have killed freedom.