MOScout Daily Update: Senate Filibuster Continues - Shields Predicts Special Session for Budget - Club for Growth for Onder and more…

Three days left of session….

Quiet Day in the Building
The usual frenzied activity of the final week of the legislative session was missing yesterday.  It was largely quiet in the building as the Senate Democrats continued their filibuster, and the House added amendments to bills that, at present, have nowhere to go.

·       So far, this final week one single bill has been Truly Agreed and Finally Passed: a consent bill of Sen. Justin Brown’s which named a portion of Highway 63 for this father, former Sen. Dr. Dan Brown.

IP Filibuster Continues in Senate

The Senate stalemate continues with indication of either side relenting.

·       MOIndy’s Jason Hancock calculates that the Democrats will set a new record for “longest filibuster” around 7:30AM this morning.

·       The word in the hallways is that the Republican majority is currently short of the 18 votes needed to pass a PQ motion.  Some say they’re at 16 votes and others 17 votes.

·       Two veterans of several sessions considered the Senate “caught between Scylla and Charybdis.” Pushing through IP Reform with ballot candy has provoked the Democratic filibuster, but if Sen. Mary Elizabeth Coleman changes course and seeks a conference with the House to strip off the ballot candy, they think she’ll face a filibuster from the Freedom Caucus.

Filibuster Excerpt

Sen. John Rizzo wondered what incoming senators may have learned by watching the Senate this year

If I were coming into this chamber next year, I would not let a single thing through here unless my stuff was in it. I would find, I would go and do what I could to get extremely active on social media. I would take disparaging pictures of people and use them to whatever Nth degree I needed to.  I would find the things that are most important, like the FRA. I would use those as leverage and not let them through. I would definitely try to do everything I could to be the most disruptive. I would talk on the Journal most mornings, because there is no reason to go to work if you’re not getting the stuff that you want, or work in good faith because it’s clearly not rewarded.

Club for Growth for Onder

Press release: Club for Growth PAC has endorsed State Senator Bob Onder in Missouri’s 3rd Congressional District. Onder (CFGF lifetime rating: 92%), is running to replace Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (CFGF lifetime rating: 69%) who announced he will be retiring after this term.

·       “Since being elected to the Missouri State Senate in 2015, Sen. Bob Onder has been one of the state’s leading voices on principled, pro-growth economic policy,” said Club for Growth PAC President David McIntosh.

Shields Predicts Special Session for Budget

Missouri Independent quotes State Board of Education president Charlie Shields warily eying the budget and predicting a special session.  Read it here.

·       The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education anticipates asking lawmakers for more money later this year in order to meet the demands of a massive new education law and make up for reduced federal funding.

·       “My gut is… because you have a lot of federal authority deleted… ​​you’ll see the mother of all supplemental budgets, probably in a special session,” State Board of Education Chair Charlie Shields, of St. Joseph, said during Tuesday’s board meeting.

eMailbag on Scharf’s CNN Appearance

If Scharf as a talking head on CNN constitutes a "mini-ad" to MO GOP primary voters (of which next to none even watch CNN), then what is the Bailey ad equivalency of generating headlines in Missouri news every week on issues important to GOP primary voters for 16 months straight? $64 million???

$5K+ Contributions

American Dream PAC (pro-Kehoe) - $30,000 from Thomas Strong.

Committee for Liberty (pro-Ashcroft) - $10,000 from Carol Carnes.

Fearless PAC (pro-Pereles) - $25,000 from Missouri and Kanas Laborers’ PAC.

Fearless PAC - $25,000 from L.I.U.N.A. Local 110 PAC Fund.

Fearless PAC - $25,000 from Laborers’ International Union of N.A. Local No. 42 Fund.

Committee to Elect Jacob Turner - $10,000 from Jacob Turner.

Missourians for Constitutional Freedom (pro-reproductive rights) - $25,000 from Mary Reilly.

Missourians for Constitutional Freedom - $20,000 from Ned and Nora Golterman.

Missourians for Constitutional Freedom - $10,079 from Abortion Action Missouri Foundation.

MBA Ozark Region PAC - $6,084 from Southwest Missouri Bank.

Sander for Missouri - $21,776 from Chris Sander.

Lobbyists Registrations

Amy Blunt added Sheriff's Retirement System.

Birthdays

Happy birthdays to Angie Schulte, and John Wiemann.