“We know that if we get enough signatures, and we get on the ballot that we’re going to win,” said Molly Fleming-Pierre of Communities Creating Opportunities, the group behind the interest-rate cap petition. “We know that voters in Missouri are sick and tired of triple-digit interest rates.”

But Fleming-Pierre and other say that opponents of the measure are working to confuse voters with similar-sounding petitions that would, in fact, limit the ability of the state to regulate the payday loan industry. The first petition would cap interest rates at 360 percent.

“We think that’s a major attempt to confuse voters, because we’re trying to cap them at 36 percent, not 360 percent,” said Fleming-Pierre. “But as a voter, if you read that quickly you might not notice.”

A spokesman for Missourians for Equal Credit Opportunity in St. Louis told FOX 4 that his group isn’t trying to confuse voters, saying that their petitions are just as legitimate as their opponents. Read more…

WTF??? They’re angry because another group is trying to cap the interest rate 10 times more than they are?

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