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catbyte

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1. That prop in 2020 here in Michigan was EVERYTHING. The MIGQP threw up all kinds of roadblocks
Wed Nov 9, 2022, 03:54 PM
Nov 2022

but we persevered and got it done. We would still be a gerrymandered mess if not for that prop being passed. We citizens have to save ourselves in states that the GQP legislature has a stranglehold on. We were a mess until 2018 when we got fed up and elected Democrats to statewide offices. The pot prop helped us in 2018, too, tbh. We were frustrated in 2020 because even though Governor Whitmer wanted to fix the roads and improve education, the GQP legislature killed every initiative. So we collected signatures and put the anti-gerrymandering and expanded voting rights props on the ballot. Those were the game-changers.

We're proof that it can be done if enough citizens get fed up.

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