Breaking: For the second straight year, lawmakers killed an effort to reinstate a ballot initiative process amid deep disagreement between House and Senate leaders.
by Geoff Pender, Mississippi Today March 23, 2023 The Senate on Thursday let a measure that would restore voters' right to sidestep the Legislature and put measures on a statewide ballot die without taking a vote. "After yesterday, I spoke to my colleagues and the colleagues I spoke to did not show enough support to do this this year," said Senate Accountability Efficiency and Transparency Chairman John Polk, R-Hattiesburg."...
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