MOScout Daily Update: Shaul Gets Arnold Police - Map Looms Over Final Week - Bruce's Radio Ad - Schroer on Fox - IP Signatures Turned In and more...

Exclusive: Shaul Nabs Police Endorsement

Over the weekend, the Dan Shaul campaign teased big news coming… “stay tuned for a major endorsement on Monday. Let me tell you: it’s HUGE!”

Today, he’ll announcement the endorsement of the Arnold Police Officers Association.

Why it matters…

·         Team Shaul sees this endorsement – together with Shaul’s military service – as helping him with the district’s pro-military and pro-police voters, of which there are many in a Jefferson County Republican Primary.

·         In terms of this Senate 22 rivals, he and Rep. Mary Elizabeth Coleman share representation of the city of Arnold.  This presumably helps him as he fights for that turf.  Also, it raises questions whether Jeff Roorda will be gaining any traction in this race.  He’s worked for the St. Louis Police, but he wasn’t able to land this endorsement, much less keep it from going somewhere else.

First in MOScout: Bruce’s First Ad

Kalena Bruce is launching her first ads in the CD-4 race. The ad touts her support from former Farm Bureau president Blake Hurst, as well as praise she’s received from former president Donald Trump.

The ad will run on radio and on the web.  See it here.

I’m Blake Hurst, past president of the Missouri Farm Bureau. A good friend of mine, and a good friend of rural Missouri is running for Congress. Kalena Bruce… Today Kalena Bruce has my full support in her campaign to serve us… She’s a bold conservative leader who will stand up to the Pelosi’s and AOCs of the world.

Map Looms Over Final Week

The House will send over their second iteration of the congressional redistricting map.  It’ll be what Rep. Dan Shaul unveiled last week (or something close to it).

It’ll take a few days for them to get HB 2909 to the Senate.

So that probably gives us two days before the possible eruption. 

One building observer thinks the “map will probably end up passing or shutting the Senate down.”

Sens. Bill Eigel and Bob Onder are the ones to watch.  They were unmoved by the last house effort. 

Senate 2: Schroer Hits Fox

Rep. Nick Schroer, on Facebook, says he’ll be on Fox and Friends this morning “discussing some alarming issues in our local public schools. Our segment should be just after 7am CST.”

He’ll be talking about this news item.

Some Wentzville parents are raising concerns about a question that surfaced in class activities. It’s connected to an advanced placement government class at Holt High School this week.

A student said an assigned, in-class, online exercise included the following question:

“Teresa has heard in the news about the fatal shootings of unarmed African American men by police officers but does not think it is necessarily due to racism. Teresa is MOST likely a:”

The choices were, “Democrat, black woman, Republican, Democrat-leaning woman.”

According to the online exercise, the correct answer is Republican.

IP Signatures Turned In

AP’s Summer Ballentine reports that “campaigns to legalize recreational marijuana use and allow ranked-choice voting in Missouri both turned in voter signatures by Sunday’s deadline, putting the measures one step closer to appearing on statewide ballots in November.

·         The recreational pot campaign, Legal Missouri 2022, had already collected nearly twice the required number of signatures by mid-April, and it turned in more than 385,000 signatures on Sunday, organizers said. The Better Elections campaign group said it submitted more than 300,000 signatures with its petition Sunday.

·         Campaigns typically collect more than enough signatures to balance out invalid signatures from voters who misidentify which congressional district they live in…”

eMailbag on Abortion Poll

Interesting poll. So people believe life begins at conception, but they don’t want to ban post conception birth control. The best message will win this fight, and kind of shows you how even hard core right to lifers and pro choice-ers need to get their anatomy/biology books back out and understand what they are advocating so ferociously for. That has often been the problem – two people fighting about issues they know very little about.

$5K+ Contributions

Legal Missouri 2022 - $50,000 from New Growth Horizon LLC.

Legal Missouri 2022 - $10,000 from Teal Industries LLC.

Legal Missouri 2022 - $10,000 from GRD Columbia LLC.

Legal Missouri 2022 - $10,000 from Conte Enterprise Holdings LLC.

Page PAC (pro-Page) - $10,000 from United Association Political Education Committee Missouri Federal Committee.

Lobbyists Registrations

William Shoehigh deleted United Healthcare, Inc.

Birthdays

Happy birthdays to John Ashcroft (the big 8-0), Scott Penman, Gregg Keller, and Brett Dinkins.