Alan Zagier, the principal at Tightline Public Affairs, and communications director for Legal Missouri 2022, contacted the Political Eye regarding last week’s columnand the ballot initiative Missourians will be voting on about recreational use of marijuana in this state.
Here are his concerns as received in an email, and the EYE’s response to his stated concerns.
Zagier felt it was in error to say, “signatures collected for a constitutional amendment as submitted by an organization called “legal Missouri.” The campaign’s actual name is Legal Missouri 2022.”
The EYE: Several news outlets have referred to by that name, including KCUR.org article published August 15, 2022.
Zagier writes it was incorrect to write, “After competing with two other ballot initiative signature collecting drives all summer.” The only other active “ballot initiative signature collecting drive” that was happening simultaneously to ours was the Better Elections campaign for ranked-choice voting….
