Grandmas Group Stands Against Legislative Measures

Ellen Chaffee leads a discussion. (Jeff Beach/North Dakota Monitor)

(North Dakota Monitor) – A leader of the BadAss Grandmas for Democracy encouraged voters to push back against two proposals from the North Dakota Legislature to change the state constitution.

Dina Butcher, part of the group that was the driving force behind creating the Ethics Commission in North Dakota, said the two measures are the Legislature’s way of discouraging citizen-initiated measures to change the constitution.

One measure would require approval of 60% of the state’s voters to pass an initiated measure; the other would limit citizen initiated measures to a single subject.

The BadAss Grandmas, during an event at the Moorhead Public Library, noted that if either measure had been in place in 2018, the year North Dakota voters approved creating the Ethics Commission, the commission would not exist today.