Dave Drebes 4/30/21 Dave Drebes 4/30/21

MOScout Daily Update: Final Stretch - Hoskins Strikes Back - MedEx Now in Gov's Hands - SPD Changes Recruiting and more....

The Final Stretch

As the legislative session winds down, there’s no shortage of big bills left for legislators to work through. In addition to finishing the budget next week some of the big priorities left…

Dave Drebes 4/29/21 Dave Drebes 4/29/21

MOScout Daily Update: Senate Defeats MedEx Amendment w Rowden Voting in Favor - Crumbling Conservative Caucus? - MRP & Trump Cash - Jones Visit and more...

The Latest MedEx Battle

The Senate defeated an amendment to insert Medicaid expansion funding into the state budget.The proposal went down 20-14.Four Republicans joined the ten Democrats.

Dave Drebes 4/28/21 Dave Drebes 4/28/21

MOScout Daily Update: Greitens Forms New PACs - Lefties Eye Paid Sick Leave IP - COVID Liability Games - MDC RFP and more....

Greitens Forms PACs

Eric Greitens has formed two new PACs in his quest to become a US Senator.

Dave Drebes 4/27/21 Dave Drebes 4/27/21

MOScout Daily Update: Why GOP Supermajorities Get Knotted Up - Gov Won't Release Williams Resignation - US Senate Watch and more...

Those Republican Supermajorities…

Ever try to explain to an average person why the Republican legislative supermajorities can’t just pass their agenda in a rapid-fire sequence?

Dave Drebes 4/26/21 Dave Drebes 4/26/21

MOScout Daily Update: Budget Week in Senate - MedEx Blow-up? - Messenger on Schmitt Suit - Will Sheena Speak? and more...

US Senate Watch

· Tipster: Both Congressmen Billy Long and Jason Smith were in attendance at the Pulaski County Lincoln Day over the weekend. Pulaski County isn’t in either of their congressional districts…

Dave Drebes 4/25/21 Dave Drebes 4/25/21

MOScout Sunday6: Note to Staffer - COVID Grid - "The Unwilling" - Bipartisan Election Reform - What Airplane Tix Say and more...

1. Note to staffer

2. Paper ballots is bipartisan

3. COVID grid

4. 24% of Missourians among “the unwilling.”

5. Airplane ticket prices

6. Cars + Alcohol = Bad news.

7. Oscars will hit new ratings low tonight.

Dave Drebes 4/24/21 Dave Drebes 4/24/21

MOScout Weekender: Early Biden Action Doesn't Budget MO Approval - Hallway Shrugs at Ed Reform - Who Won the Week and more....

Gubby Appt

Governor Mike Parson appointed James Caleb Cunningham as Camden County Prosecuting Attorney. He will fill the vacancy created by the appointment of Heather Miller to Associate Circuit Judge in the 26th Judicial Circuit.

Dave Drebes 4/23/21 Dave Drebes 4/23/21

MOScout Daily Update: Three Weeks Left - 2/3 MO Not Yet Vaxxed - MedEx in Senate Guess - TeleMed and more...

Wright Announces House Run

On TwitterKendall Martinez-Wright announced she’s going to run for House 5.

Dave Drebes 4/22/21 Dave Drebes 4/22/21

MOScout Daily Update: Roeber Expelled - MedEx Fails in Senate Approps - Parson-Steelman Rift - Vaccine Urgency Needed and more...

Roeber Expelled

The House voted unanimously 153-0 to expelled Rep. Rick Roeber from the body. Lawmakers agreed with the Ethics Committee report that the allegations of child abuse and sexual assault were credible.

Dave Drebes 4/21/21 Dave Drebes 4/21/21

MOScout Daily Update: Second Floor Shake Up - McCloskey Serious? - Long to Pitch - MedEx Watch - FRA Tax Scuttled Again - HB 275 Dead? and more...

Second Floor Shake-Up

Governor Mike Parson made moves yesterday to reconfigure his top-level advisors.

Dave Drebes 4/20/21 Dave Drebes 4/20/21

MOScout Daily Update: Greitens Gambit - Roeber Report - MONA Momentum - 3rd Read Fails - McCloskey Moves and more...

MONA Moves

Rep. Tom Hannegan’s HB 275 was discharged from the House Committee on Children and Families. It’s a rarely used procedure (House Rule 35) where 55 House members file a petition to move a bill out of committee and onto the House Calendar.