MOScout Daily Update: Parson Only Issues One Veto - Pro-Pereles PAC - More on Time of Use Rates and more...
Quick Friday update…
Parson Only Issues One Veto
Governor Mike Parson signed all of the bills from last session that made it to his desk except one: SB189. He said he was troubled by two provisions in the omnibus crime bill. One expanded criminal expungement, but failed “to detail specific standards of proof for the court to consider.” The other changed restitution to wrongly convicted individuals; “however, Governor Parson does not believe every taxpayer across the State should be responsible for prosecutorial errors made at the local level.”
More Jones Texts
St. Louis politicos traded giggles, nods and head-shakes as more candid texts from Mayor Tishaura Jones emerged. Read a Twitter thread here where Jones dogs and disses various political opponents.
More on Time Use Rates
One reader isn’t thrilled with Sen. Cindy O’Laughlin’s understanding of “time-of-use” pricing…
[It] has nothing to do with woke or renewables. If you use electricity at 3pm when everyone is, utilities have to fire up resources to meet the demand. If you charge time of use rates, you actually pay more when the expensive generation is on. If you run your dishwasher at night for example or pre cool your house in the morning when just the regular generation is on, the electricity is less expensive. Normally this is all factored into rates so you pay one rate to cover all of the different generation, so you may actually be paying more for overnight electricity than 3pm electricity.… unfortunately time of use takes a LOT of customer education and if you don’t get it right, you are inviting a legislative backlash… [people] don’t change their behavior or don’t know how, their bills go way up, they complain and the General Assembly passes a bill saying you can’t do time of use rates…
eMailbag On Burn Rates
Josh Hawley's burn rate off his Q1 raised was 90%. And his burn rate for every quarter for the last five quarters was roughly the same (his burn rate was even OVER 100% for 3 of the 4 quarters in 2022). And compared to other top Dem Senate campaigns this cycle, a Kunce burn rate of 40% for Q1 is pretty good compared to Gallego (60%), Schiff (43%), and Porter (55%).
You're kind of missing the forest for the trees here — Hawley's been languishing for years on money, while Kunce is building a war chest in 2023 at a rate that will easily surpass Hawley’s first Senate run's 2017 war chest (when he ended 2017 with only $1.2M, largely relying on major donors who couldn't repeat-give).
Previewing the Weekender
New poll coming for GOP statewide races…
New Committees
Fearless PAC was formed. It’s to advance the candidacy of Joe Pereles. He’s running for Senate 15 as a Democrat. Its treasurer is Shayn Prapaisilp (see a bio here). See the paperwork here.
· The creation of an IE PAC, which isn’t subject to the contribution limits of a candidate committee, shows Pereles is serious about this race.
Lobbyists Registrations
Courtney Curtis added MO Hemp Trade Association.
Paul Mouton added Stel-Co.
Lauren Balerki Puplampu added American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, Inc.
$5K+ Contributions
Sander for Missouri - $60,000 from Christopher Sander.
Birthdays
Happy birthdays to Fred Kratky, Eddie Roth, and Ryan Hobart.