MOScout Daily Update: Burns for Koenig - Labor Loves Galloway - Page Fires Erby - Birx Visits and more...
Burns for Koenig
Tipster: Casey Burns is returning to Missouri to run the Andrew Koenig campaign for reelection. Good get for Koenig. She had a successful track record in winning races in St. Louis County and shows how serious he takes the reelection campaign.
Burns was most recently the political director for the Bob Hamilton primary US Senate campaign in Kansas.
Labor Sends $250K to Galloway
Keep Government Accountable, the pro-Nicole Galloway PAC, received two large checks from organized labor.
· $150K from Missouri and Kansas Laborers PAC.
· $100K from Midwest Region Laborers Political League Education Fund.
Page Fires Erby
Seemingly out of nowhere County Executive Sam Page fired Hazel Erby, his ally and the County Director of Diversity. Erby took to Twitter to announce the firing.
Post-Dispatch reports here.
And St. Louis American details the growing tensions between the two here.
Both papers say that Kenny Murdoch is taking Erby’s spot.
What It Means
· The move sparked fist-shaking from some African American politicos on Twitter.
· Page won his recent special election with just 38%, and faces re-election in just two years.
CLEANER Appeal Gets Date
CLEAN’s lawyer, Chuck Hatfield, tweets that “Court of appeals has scheduled oral argument for next Friday (August 28) at 10 am. State’s first brief due this Friday by 430 pm.”
What It Means
· This isn’t ninth inning drama yet. There’s still the Supremes waiting as another possible appeal even after this ruling.
· The majority of the feedback I’ve been getting has been that Republicans should have crafted their ballot language more carefully to avoid this whole messy situation.
Birx Presser
Dr. Deborah Birx visited with Governor Mike Parson and his team yesterday. At the press conference she acknowledged that of course as a public health specialist she’d like a mask mandate. But she also praised Missouri’s work, and didn’t directly contradict the Missouri approach.
· Nicole Galloway still poked Parson over Twitter for his lack of a mask. See it here.
· And the Missouri case chart still shows the virus hasn’t been contained. See it here.
What’s Next
Schools reopening over the next few weeks, and whether they’re able to sustain in-person classes especially in rural areas, could usher in a new phase of this crisis. And it could re-ignite the debate about whether Missouri’s efforts to curtail the spread have been vigorous enough.
eMailbag on Next CLEANER
2022 ballot is too late for the current GOPers worried about their seats--redistricting will have already happened under CLEAN.
$5K+ Contributions
Keep Government Accountable - $150,000 from Missouri and Kansas Laborers PAC.
Keep Government Accountable - $100,000 from Midwest Region Laborers Political League Education Fund.
Uniting Missouri PAC - $50,000 from Cheyenne International LLC.
CLEAN Missouri - $50,000 from National Redistricting Action Fund (Washington DC).
CLEAN Missouri - $25,000 from Brianne Garcia Ziff (New York, NY).
Saint Charles Organization of Republicans - $10,000 from American Federation of Children (Washington DC).
Ozark Gateway Leadership PAC - $10,000 from American Federation for Children (Washington DC).
House Republican Campaign Committee, Inc - $10,000 from Archer Daniels Midland Company.
Missouri Democratic State Committee - $21,812 from Eric Schmidt (Palo Alto, CA)
Doll for Missouri - $11,000 from Jo Doll.
International Union of Painters & Allied Trades PAT Federal PAC - $50,000 from IUPAT Political Action Together Political Committee (Hanover, MD).
Teamsters Local 6 Political Action Fund - $10,000 from International Brotherhood of Teamsters DRIVE (Washington DC).
Midwest Region Laborers' Political League Education Fund - $7,494 from Laborers Supplemental Dues Fund.
Lobbyists Registrations
David Winton and Jessica Petrie added Wexford Health Sources, Inc.
Birthdays
Happy birthdays to Tim O’Connell, Donna Pfautsch, Matt Siettmann, and Connie Cunningham.