Anti-marijuana crusader and State Representative Travis Ismay apparently doesn’t like paid petition circulators, as he’s introduced a measure to ban them:
HB 1267 by Pat Powers on Scribd
The problem he faces with that? Like it or not, it’s unconstitutional:
Meyer v. Grant is a key decision of the United States Supreme Court asserting the right of proponents of ballot measures to pay circulators to collect signatures. It was decided on June 6, 1988, on an appeal from a decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit. The ruling was unanimous; the court’s decision was written by Justice Stevens.[1]
and..
The highest court agreed with the Tenth Circuit that the Colorado statute “abridges appellees’ right to engage in political speech in violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments.”[1]
For a guy that claims to be a constitutionalist, he sure seems to have a weak grasp on the constitution
Exactly, but he is not the Lone Ranger
He reads it how he wants and he didn’t see it in there DUH
Maybe he should have tried to hire a couple and maybe he could have gathered the signatures he needed for his medicinal marijuana repeal.
This dude evidently doesn’t care for cannabis
but inhaling welding slag for years looks like
it killed the few remaining brain cells that he claimed to have.
The unbelievable part of his blather is that the guy is serious.
Ignorant, but serious.
So many of them only read part of either the US or SD constitutions and even then only understand a part of that portion. Painful to watch and hear them wave constitutions and have so little understanding or regard for them
It’s about time for someone to come to ismays defense with a quote from the art of war by sun tzu and how that is ismays favorite coloring book.