MOScout Weekender: STL City Voters Support Bailey's Move on Gardner, Red Light Cameras - Hallway Sees Senate as Time-Bomb - Who Won the Week and more...
Remington/MOScout Poll: St. Louis City
Survey conducted March 1 through March 2, 2023. 469 likely 2024 General Election voters participated in the survey. Survey weighted to match expected turnout demographics for the 2024 General Election. Margin of Error is +/-4.7% with a 95% level of confidence. Totals do not always equal 100% due to rounding. See full results here.
Q1: Do you approve or disapprove of the job Tishaura Jones is doing as Mayor of St. Louis?
Approve: 33%
Disapprove: 51%
Not sure: 16%
Q2: Do you approve or disapprove of the job Kim Gardner is doing as circuit attorney for the city of St. Louis?
Approve: 23%
Disapprove: 66%
Not sure: 11%
Q3: Do you think politicians in St Louis side more with criminals or do they side more with victims?
Side more with criminals: 50%
Side more with victims: 19%
Not sure: 31%
Q4: Attorney General Andrew Bailey is attempting to remove Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner. Do you support or oppose this?
Support: 53%
Oppose: 39%
Not sure: 8%
Q5: Some people would like to bring back red-light cameras. Do you support or oppose this?
Support: 56%
Oppose: 33%
Not sure: 11%
Q6: What do you believe should be the city’s top priority?
Creating jobs: 11%
Improving education: 11%
Reducing crime: 67%
Something else: 4%
Not sure: 6%
MOScout’s Hallway Index: State of the Senate
I asked lobbyists, “What's your assessment of the current state of the Senate?” 26 replies…
RESULTS
1. Normal tensions, nothing to worry about… 23.1%
2. Ticking time-bomb… 57.7%
3. Something else… 19.2%
Sample of Comments
· It's always been a ticking time bomb and will always be a ticking time bomb because there is no cloture vote
· Nothing has changed. You still have Lembke and his jolly band of misfits mucking up tort reform, Hoskins is throwing temper tantrums on vlts, and Moon is crying over trans kids. The only difference between now and previous sessions is the appearance that it's all being handled. Same dysfunctional Senate.
· Everyone’s fuse is short and the emotions and tensions are high
· O'Laughlin has more balls than all the other men in the senate combined.
· The formerly known as conservative caucus is bigger and badder than ever, and newly emboldened after Wednesday night's bipartisan tort reform filibuster.
· [Time-bomb] Don't make promises you can't keep
· The regulars and CC members are both growing frustrated with leadership. Recipe for disaster.
· Hysteria over regular conflict has become the norm, unfortunately. This session is going well and can continue to do so if leadership stays calmer than they have the past few sessions.
· Cindy has done an amazing job. Better than any in recent memory. But it will all come apart eventually. It gets closer every week.
· There is always some normal tension. I’ve been pleasantly surprised at their pace and functioning.
· It's still too early to tell but the more personal things become, the more dysfunctional it will get.
Who Won the Week?
Cindy O’Laughlin – The Hallway may think she’s sitting on a “ticking time-bomb,” but so far she’s kept the Senate working one day at a time.
Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys – Huge show of strength this week, as the session’s tort reform bill suffered a bipartisan filibuster.
Brad Christ – Freshman state representative does a fine job on the floor handling one of the hottest topics (state takeover of STL’s police) this session.
Scott Giles – Some folks clamor for the spotlight. But Giles has a truly special talent: the ability to disappear at just the right moment. Funny how MOHELA is at the center of the effort to block President Joe Biden’s student loan cancellation and yet the organization’s executive director has no comment and is nowhere to be found.
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$5K+ Contributions
American Dream PAC (pro-Kehoe) - $15,000 from Site Improvement Association of MO-PAC.
Progress PAC (pro-Megan Green) - $15,000 from Missouri and Kansas Laborers' PAC.
Birthdays
Happy birthdays to Dan Hegeman, and Rochelle Gray,
Sunday: Paul Fitzwater, and Shane Roden.