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RandySF

(88,739 posts) Mon Jul 13, 2026, 05:32 PM 16 hrs ago

Amendment 4 puts rural Missouri at center of fight over ballot power

Supporters of Amendment 4 say it would give rural Missouri a stronger voice.

Antwann Rhodes says it would take one away.

Rhodes lives in Waynesville, a Pulaski County town of about 5,600 just outside Fort Leonard Wood, where he settled after retiring from the U.S. Army. He is a Realtor in south-central Missouri and treasurer of the Missouri Association of Realtors, the organization bankrolling the campaign against the Aug. 4 ballot measure.

To Rhodes, Amendment 4 is not rural Missouri’s answer to urban political power. It is a proposal that would make it harder for Missourians in small towns and big cities alike to use the initiative process when politicians in Jefferson City refuse to act.

https://missouriindependent.com/2026/07/13/amendment-4-puts-rural-missouri-at-center-of-fight-over-ballot-power/

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Amendment 4 puts rural Missouri at center of fight over ballot power (Original Post) RandySF 16 hrs ago OP

Just because someone lives in rural MO that their vote is more important than my vote in St. Louis MO? NO WAY. SWBTATTReg 16 hrs ago #1

SWBTATTReg

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1. Just because someone lives in rural MO that their vote is more important than my vote in St. Louis MO? NO WAY.

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Mon Jul 13, 2026, 05:38 PM

16 hrs ago

This is discriminatory and I can't help it if you chose to live in rural MO. You suffer the consequences of living there, like all of the rest of us do, no matter where in MO we live. Period.

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