This week's Missouri Mondays we are explaining a ballot initiative in Missouri. If you are interested in being trained to collect signatures for this ballot initiative to select "I'm Interested" on the right.

THE CLEAN MISSOURI INITIATIVE

Clean Missouri is taking a desperately needed legislative reform measure directly to voters to make our state government more transparent, limit the power of big money in our legislature, and ensure we're able to hold legislators accountable when they fail to act in the public interest.

Indivisible MO-5 supports this initiative to:

• Require that legislative records be open to the public by ensuring that the legislature operate under the same open records law as other public entities in Missouri

• Require politicians to wait two years before becoming lobbyists after the conclusion of their final legislative session

• Eliminate almost all lobbyist gifts in the General Assembly by banning any single gift worth more than $5 — that means no more steak dinners, expensive booze, junkets or sports tickets. This rule would eliminate more than 99% of the lobbyist gift giving happening in Missouri.

• Lower campaign contribution limits for state legislative candidates to limit the influence of big money and lobbyists in state government.

• Establish new campaign contribution limits for General Assembly candidates— $2,500 for state senate, and $2,000 for state house.

• Limit the ability of individuals and organizations to circumvent caps by counting money from single-source committees towards totals for original, actual donors.

• Stop legislative fundraising on state property.

• Ensure that neither political party is given an unfair advantage when new maps are drawn after the next census by asking a nonpartisan expert to draw fair legislative district maps, which would then be reviewed by a citizen commission.

• Add fairness and competitiveness as required criteria for new district maps

• Protect the political power of minority communities against vote dilution

• Ask an independent state demographer to lead on technical work in creating district maps, instead of entrusting political appointees to do all of that work

Read the Full petition: http://www.cleanmissouri.org/solution/

To find events and to get involved:http://www.cleanmissouri.org/events/