Missouri

Last week, the backer of Missouri’s TABOR initiative told a district court judge that initiative signatures should be considered valid even if submitted in a trash bag.

The judge, Richard Callahan, trashed the TABOR initiative instead. Yesterday he upheld the Sec’y of State’s decision to disqualify signatures in support of that initiative.

The political advocacy group Missourians in Charge (MIC) turns out to be neither — not Missourians, nor in charge. Not really a group, even — just a lone Beltway insider backed by a New York City libertarian and an army of out-of-state signature gatherers, including some from Colorado.