MOScout Daily Update: Labor Warns Committee - Hudson to Carry IP in Senate - Coats for Congress? - McCreery Pulls in $100K+ and more…

House committees passed out the redistricting bill and initiative petition resolution yesterday.  They will go to the Rules Committee today with debate and passage expected for next week.

Hummel Warns Legislators

At the initiative petition hearing, MO AFL-CIO president Jake Hummel’s short testimony should serve as a warning to Republicans in swing districts.  But also, to chances that their IP resolution will face before voters.  The AFL-CIO has the resources – money and people – and organizing capacity to defeat the measure if they make it a priority.

“Missouri AFL-CIO [is] a coalition of labor unions representing many hundreds of thousands of working Missourians and their families. I can tell you that we are opposed to this piece of legislation. Not since Right to Work has my phone rang off the hook or my emails filled up or people call me at my home more angry about something than this… They do not trust the General Assembly. For good reason. After Right to Work was repealed by 68% of Missourians, the next year several elected officials, continued to file bills to put Right to Work back.

They do not like anything that has the ability to take away their right to go directly back to the voters to defend their rights…

More Special Session Talk

·       Scooplette: Sen. Brad Hudson will carry the initiative petition bill in the Senate.

·       Pro Tem Cindy O’Laughlin doesn’t want senators amending the map.  As President of the Senate and representing 14 Northeast Missouri counties I will be calling on my colleagues to pass the redistricting map as sent to us by the House.  This is a time to demonstrate that we can and will act on behalf of the citizens of this state without  regard for personal ambition.  This is my request of my fellow senators, each of whom I respect greatly.

·       It’s unclear if they’re joking, but Sens. Doug Beck and Stephen Webber are telling folks that they plan to talk a lot about the Epstein files next week on the floor.

·       Among new names being mentioned as possible CD-5 candidates are two Kit Bond alumni: Jason Van Eaton, former state director for Kit Bond; and Derek Coats, former district director.  Interestingly a couple of folks point out that the map seems to have been drawn to include Coats’ Columbia residence.  Coats was Governor Mike Kehoe’s campaign manager.

Redistricting Not A Voter Priorities

Politico reports on a poll, commissioned by Democrats, which shows that the mid-decade redistricting isn’t what Missouri voters are concerned about.  The poll also breaks out battleground states senate districts.  Sens. Mike Cierpiot and Lincoln Hough are among the Republican senators who might balk at using a PQ to break a Democratic filibuster.  See it here.

McCreery Kicks Off

Sen. Tracy McCreery kicked off her re-election last night to a roomful (150-ish people) raising over $125,000.  In the crowd: former Sen. Jon Dolan, Gerald Axelbaum and Ellen Schapiro, Scott Intagliata, Clint McBride, Mary Neal, Shayn Prapaisilp, and Dana Sandweiss.

Crystal Ball: New MO Map Moves CD-2 to Safe

The widely-followed Crystal Ball sees the new map helping Wagner.  Read it here.

Aside from radically redrawing the Kansas City area, the most significant changes that Kehoe’s map proposes are in the St. Louis metro. Rep. Ann Wagner (R, MO-2), who has the least red of Missouri’s 6 current GOP-held seats, sees her seat move further to the right. Though it includes many suburbs in St. Louis County, her district expands its rural holdings. At Trump +8, we currently rate MO-2 as Likely Republican, making it a potential Democratic reach target. Under the new proposal, MO-2 would have backed Trump by about a dozen points, which may be enough for us to move the seat off the board entirely.

Veto Session Fundraisers

I tried to collect all the Veto Session fundraisers into an easy schedule.  Find it here.

If I missed any, please let me know and I’ll have a final version ready on Monday.

Help Wanted

The Missouri Ethics Commission seeks Investigator. Work includes but is not limited to the responsibility for gathering, analyzing and evaluating facts and preparing case summaries and recommendations for any administrative actions and/or prosecutions that may be necessary as well as testifying, as necessary, at Commission hearings or in court concerning investigative findings... Starting salary range of $50,000 - $55,000.  See the posting here.

New Committees

Across the Aisle for Missouri Public Schools for formed.  See the paperwork here.  It’s a campaign committee to help pass the constitutional amendment to forbid public funds going to nonpublic schools. 

Lobbyist Registrations

Michael Grote deleted City of Republic, Missouri.

$5K+ Contributions

Real Action PAC (pro-Christ) - $5,500 from The Elster Law Office, LLC.

Great Northwest PAC (pro-Black) - $10,000 from Health PAC.

Missouri Senate Campaign Committee - $20,000 from AGC of MO PAC.

Missouri Senate Campaign Committee - $15,000 from Charter Communications.

Missouri Senate Campaign Committee - $25,000 from Health PAC.

United We Stand PAC - $10,000 from Mark Heising (Atherton, CA).

Birthdays

Happy birthdays to Jack Danforth, Katie Casas, Warren Wood, John Gaskin III, Lana Ladd Baker, Jenee Lowe, and Rachel Storch.