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If I may ask, what was the argument in favor of the change?
"Protect the Constitution"
never mind that they were "protecting" it by trying to gut and make useless one of the key parts of the constitution 🤷♂️
“Outside money is coming in and imposing it’s will on us..”
Election to change it drew $30 million in outside funding.
The part that makes no sense to me about that argument is that the measure has nothing to do with money or even out of state money. For the life of me I don't know why people are allowed to donate to campaigns on issues that don't affect them directly, but issue 1 had absolutely nothing to do with money.
You'll find that almost no right wing legislation ever gets argued for on it's face. There are always these obfuscations to make it look like it's about something entirely unrelated.