Funny coincidence about Initiated Measure 22 – there’s lots of other things happening that I’m hearing less than an hour from my previous post. What am I hearing?
I’m hearing rumors of two new high profile resignations from a citizen board that just happened today because the people on the board also spend time in Pierre during session as lobbyists. Watch for those announcements, as well as more to come.
I’ve heard that invitations to events are not being taken. As a result of IM22, legislators are saying “no” when being invited to things as innocuous as the membership banquets held in Pierre, where legislators are invited to sit with and learn from organizations over a meal served en masse.
And similarly, organizations that have held events annually for years are canceling events left and right.
And as one attorney noted to me tonight, there are potential lawsuits “galore” being prepared across the state with regards to constitutional challenges to the measure. Watch for multiple lawsuits, or one aggregated one to come against the poison pill ballot measure.