(From Protect Missouri Taxpayers)COLUMBIA, Mo. - Hundreds of Missouri REALTORS® rallied on Thursday for the closing stretch of their “Protect Your Power” campaign urging the defeat of Amendments 4 and 5 in the August 4th election.
“I say to all Missourians - Missouri REALTORS® are YOUR neighbors. We are 26,000 strong, and we are READY TO ROLL to August 4th!” declared Brian Jared of Springfield, President of the Missouri Association of REALTORS®, the state’s largest professional association.
The statewide rally in Columbia was a key distribution point to the 31 local REALTORS® associations across Missouri for tens of thousands of “NO on 4 & 5” yard signs, plus bumper stickers, lapel buttons, and literature. The local REALTOR® associations will serve as grassroots hubs in the association’s campaigns to defeat the politicians’ Amendments 4 and 5.
Matt Becker of O’Fallon, Treasurer-Elect of Missouri REALTORS®, noted in his rally remarks: “Amendment 5 lets politicians ignore tax restrictions that voters put into the Constitution – including the Hancock Amendment, which requires giving you a vote on big tax increases. And the 2010 and 2016 tax protections Missouri REALTORS® ® helped put into the constitution could be simply ignored. That means new taxes on buying and selling homes, and new taxes on everyday services, from haircuts to doctor visits.”
Derek Schreiwer of Washington, Immediate Past President of Missouri REALTORS®, told the rally: “We citizens have power and freedom to directly propose amendments to the Missouri Constitution – and politicians hate it. Amendment 4 allows politician’s amendments to pass by a simple majority vote – but unfairly forces a tougher double standard of passing in 8-out-of-8 congressional districts for citizen-led amendments. Amendment 4’s hypocritical double-standard favoring politicians destroys one-person one-vote and majority rule for the people they are supposed to serve.”
Elizabeth Mendenhall of Columbia, Past President of the National Association of REALTORS®, is serving as the campaigns’ Grassroots Chair: “We are fighting on two fronts against Amendment 4 and Amendment 5 on a single ballot. We did not pick this battle. It was brought to us. We did not pick the timing – two terrible twin proposals on a single ballot with a compressed countdown clock. But make no mistake – REALTORS® are READY!”
The rally was emceed by Missouri REALTORS® Treasurer Antwann Rhodes, who serves the Fort Leonard Wood region: “We're going to connect with a winning message, and that critical message is - we are protecting your power, the power of your vote! Because Amendments 4 and 5 are a threat to your power as voters, and Missouri REALTORS® ® won't have it!”
Brent Sager, President-Elect of the association, told the cheering rally: “We are 26,000-strong grassroots community leaders. We are organized. We are motivated. And YES – REALTORS® are EXPERTS at yard signs!”
Thursday’s statewide rally was a combined event for the REALTORS® campaign committees Missourians for Fair Governance (MFG), which opposes Amendment 4, and Missourians for Fair Taxation (MFT), opposing Amendment 5.
Learn more at https://protectmotaxpayers.com/ for NO on 5 and https://protectmojorityrule.com/ for NO on 4.
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