Bond’s Closing Argument on Prop D: Adjustment

There are some nice nuances to Kit Bond’s pitch for Prop D.  Listen to it here.  First, he identifies himself as former governor, instead of former Senator.  One assumes that governors are more popular than senators – especially right now in the midst of the McCaskill-Hawley fight.

Second, he doesn’t talk about a tax increase.  Nope, he says it’s been 22 years since we “adjusted” the gas tax for inflation. 

Beautiful.

Q: The candidates in the General Election for United States Senate are the Republican Josh Hawley, the Democrat Claire McCaskill, the Libertarian Japheth Campbell, the Green Party candidate Jo Crain, and the Independent candidate Craig O’Dear. If the election were held today, for whom would you vote?

Josh Hawley: 47%

Claire McCaskill: 47%

Japheth Campbell: 1%

Jo Crain: 1%

Craig O’Dear: 1%

Undecided: 3%

October Revenues Sink

State tax receipts continued to disappoint in October.  Net general revenues collections were 6.1% lower in October 2018 than they were in October 2017.  The main culprit again was individual income tax receipts which were 6.2% below the previous year’s figure.  This appears to be residual damage from the erroneous withholding tables were which corrected by the Department of Revenue last month.

Fiscal year to date, state revenues have declined 3.87%.

HRCC: Boom!

In the large independent expenditure reports Republicans drop $150K into House 14 defending incumbent Rep. Kevin Corlew against Democrat Matt Sain.  And in House 70, there’s a $74K expenditure to help incumbent Rep. Mark Matthiesen against Democrat Paula Brown.