MOScout Daily Update: Readers Poll Results - Rausch Takes Reins at Empower - Galloway Named Rodel Fellow and more....

Results: End-of-the-Year Reader’s Poll

Q1 Senate Republican Most Likely to Lead First Filibuster

Bill Eigel… 64.4%

Denny Hoskins… 5%

Mike Moon… 20.6%

Cindy O'Laughlin… 10%

Q2 Best Role Model for Your Children

Speaker Rob Vescovo… 27.5%

Pro Tem Dave Schatz… 26.1%

Senate Minority Leader John Rizzo… 29.4%

House Minority Leader Crystal Quade… 17%

Q3 Senator Most Likely to Be Governor Someday

Tony Luetkemeyer… 34%

Caleb Rowden… 56.6%

Bob Onder… 5.%

Jill Schupp… 4.4%

Q4 Best Firm to Reach the Second Floor

Giddens Group… 27.9%

J Harris and Associates… 22.5%

Strategic Capital Consultants… 49.6%

Q5  Methodical Worksmanship

Burton-Liese… 8.2%

Gamble Schlemeier… 29.9%

GibbonsWorkman… 25.2%

Grote Associates… 15%

Nexus Group… 15.6%

Scherr-Winter… 6.1 %

Q6  Always In the Middle of Everything

Axiom Strategies… 25.6%

Bardgett and Associates… 20.5%

Jac Cardetti… 5.8%

Chuck Hatfield… 28.9%

Husch Blackwell Strategies… 19.2%

Q7 Power Couple To Have to Dinner

Deanna and Brent Hemphill… 48.94%

Mark and Sharon Jones… 14.89%

Richard and Susan Moore… 11.35%

Missy and Sammy Panettiere… 24.82%

Q8 Upset of the year

Bush over Clay in CD-1… 23.5%

CLEANER’s passage… 51.8%

Eslinger over Ross in Senate 33 primary… 11.7%

Mosley over Pierson in Senate 13 primary… 3.7%

House Republicans holding nearly even against House Dems… 9.3%

Q9 Most Likely to be Governor in 2024

Jay Ashcroft… 29.01%

Mike Kehoe… 55.56%

Eric Schmitt… 15.43%

Q10 The virus

There would have been fewer deaths if governor had responded differently… 41.7%

There would have been more deaths if governor had led differently… 3.1%

Stop the credit/blame game; the virus was largely beyond the ability of state government to contain… 55.21%

Rusch Takes Reins at EmpowerMO

Empower Missouri announced their new executive director.  See it here.

After a year-long search, we are so excited to welcome Mallory Rusch to the Empower Missouri Team as our Executive Director. She will succeed Jeanette Mott Oxford, who served as Executive Director for eight years before transitioning to the Director of Policy & Advocacy role in January 2020.  JMO departed the organization in December 2020. We are so grateful for her many years of service and leadership. 

With more than a decade of experience advocating for social justice, Rusch has the talent and dedication to lead the charge in helping Empower Missouri secure basic human needs and equal justice for all Missourians.

Suntrup on Greitens

Post-Dispatch’s Jack Suntrup looks at Eric Greitens’ 2020.  See it here.  SPOILER: He spent it trying to rehab his image from 2019.

Galloway Named Rodel Fellow

See the press release here: The Rodel Public Leadership Fellowship seeks to enhance our democracy by identifying and bringing together the nation’s most promising political leaders from across the political spectrum to explore, through study and conversation, the underlying values and principles of American democracy and the responsibilities of public leadership… On December 28, 2020, the Aspen Institute announced the new Class of 2020 for its Rodel Public Leadership Fellowship.  The 24 “rising stars” from both political parties were selected from hundreds of nominees based on their reputations for intellect, commitment to civility, and potential for significant future impact on American public life… Members of the 2020 class include: Nevada State Assemblywoman Teresa Benitez-Thompson; Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson; Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron; North Carolina State Senator Jay Chaudhuri; Mayor of Jacksonville, Florida Lenny Curry; North Carolina Labor Commissioner Josh Dobson; Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman; and Missouri Auditor Nicole Galloway.

Another Reader on Bush’s Gambit

Agree that despite how we feel about her in MO, Nancy Pelosi is no Bay Area lib which is why she's an incredibly effective Speaker…. Cori Bush is clearly going to be a member of the "Squad", an AOC ally, Bernie supporter. She won't be able to lead on any legislation for some time, but that's nothing new for STL City. Lacy Clay MAILED IT IN for years. That seat, and the City, has been underrepresented… At least we've got a Congresswoman who gets national press now, whose voice is heard. State-level folks may not care about that (also nothing new), but the City should…

Lobbyists Registrations

Kurt Anderson added Novartis Services Inc.

Richard Brownlee added Presidio Environmental LLC.

Jacob Denniston added American Heart Association.

Miranda Renee Pratt added Stray Dog Policy, Inc.           

Terry McCurren added Otsuka America Pharmaceutical Inc.

William Kuehling added City of St. Louis Senior Fund; and deleted City of St. Louis Mental Health Board of Trustees.

Adam Kazda deleted St. Louis Regional Chamber.

Rhonda Meyer deleted Missouri Attorney General's Office.

Gamble & Schlemeier deleted Citizens for Modern Transit.

Birthdays

Happy birthday to Irl Scissors, Jared Brown, and Martin Casas.

Thursday: Josh Hawley, Mike Moon, Ted Wedel, Carol Kemna, Chris Krehmeyer, and Kate Meiners.

New Year’s Day: Bill Otto, Clint Tracy, and Pat Contreras.

Saturday: Brittany Robbins, and Lyle Rowland.

Sunday: DaRon McGee.

MOScout Schedule

Have a safe New Years.  See y’all Monday!