AUGUST BALLOT CANDIDATES AND ISSUES –
1st Congressional District
- Cori Bush
- Wesley Bell
2nd Congressional District
- Joan vonDras
- Fred Wellman
State Senate 14
- John Bowman
- Shante Duncan
- Joseph(Joe) Palm
- Raychel Proudie
Senate District 24
- Tracy McCreery
Missouri House
HD 67
- Tonya Rush
HD 68
- Dr. Kem Smith
- Janay Mosley
HD 70
- Stephanie Boykin
HD 75
- Chanel Mosley
- Chris Brown
HD 87
- Connie Steinmetz
St. Louis County County Executive
- Brian Williams
- Jake Zimmerman
- Angela Mosley
Prosecuting Attorney
- Melissa Price Smith
- David Bryant
County Assessor
- Doug Clemens
- Tommie Pierson Jr
- Joe Camerer
A brief summary of items on Missouri’s August ballot below:
- Amendment 1 – if approved by the voters, continues for 10 years the one-tenth of one percent sales/use tax that is used for soil and water conservation and for state parks and historic sites.
- Amendment 2 – if approved by voters, requires that all charter counties, including Jackson County, elect a county assessor and that such assessors comply with training requirements established by state law.
- Amendment 4 – modifies current requirements that a simple statewide majority of voters may approve initiative petitions (IP) to amend the constitution, requires a majority of voters in EACH congressional district to approve initiative petitions to amend the constitution, and makes available to each voter the full text of initiative petitions with their ballot. (Passage of this measure would doom all future initiative petition efforts except those proposed by the Mo Legislature. The Legislature does not have to follow this law. Examples of IP Measures passed: Medicaid expansion, increase in minimum wage & sick leave, Hancock amendment, campaign finance reform, and nonpartisan court system)
- Amendment 5 – requires the phase out and elimination of the individual income tax based on revenue growth, requires the reduction of property taxes and other local taxes to offset any local sales tax revenue increases, while preserving local funding for public schools. (According to the Mo Budget Project, Amendment 5 would increase taxes for most Missourians, damage communities and the economy. Click here: A NEW Fact Sheet for a fact sheet that summarizes the consequences of Amendment 5.)
· Proposition U: A use tax that collects tax on internet sales. The taxes collected would go
towards our community and protect small businesses. (Paying online taxes evens the playing field for our local brick & mortar businesses who are required to collect this tax. )
Other ballot measures set for the November ballot are: An Amendment to reinstate the total ban on abortion, Amendment to approve or reject the gerrymandered Congressional maps, and the Amendment to Respect Voters Initiative Petition efforts.