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?
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
MOScout Daily Update: House to Hear Roeber Complaint - Senate Approps Starts Mark-Up - US Senate Watch and more...
US Senate Watch
Mark McCloskey did not announce as a US Senate candidate this weekend.
MOScout Sunday6: Constitutions, Cars, and Mouse Race
1. Comparing constitution lengths.
2. Missouri feels Amazon hiring spree.
3. MO votes 2016-2020
4. Structurally deficient bridges.
5. Electric cars in the mix.
6. Lots of Malibi in Missouri?
7. Mouse names
MOScout Weekender: Long to Mar-A-Lago - MOians Favor MedEx Funding, Passport Ban, and Broader Anti-Discrimination Laws - Hallway Sees GOP Auditor - WWTW and more....
Long Does Mar-A-Lago
It’s not just Congressman Jason Smith who’s jetting down to the Trump club to hold a fundraiser. So is Congressman Billy Long.
MOScout Daily Update: McCloskey for Senate?! - Greitens Weak Quarter - Big MedEx War Coming - April Auditor Quarters - Top 25 COH and more...
Roeber Resignation Rejected
The House unanimously voted to reject Rep. Rick Roeber’s resignation after Ethics Committee Chair Travis Fitzwater voiced an objection.
MOScout Daily Update: Graham Testifies on Intern Bill - Onder Makes Pro-Life Case Against MedEx - Sifton Raises $300K - Sheena to Speak? and more...
Greater St. Louis Inc, the St. Louis business umbrella group, called on the legislature to implement Medicaid expansion.
MOScout Daily Update: Roeber Resigns - Senate Works Through Night - State of the Senate - MFTI Pushes Gas Tax and more...
Roeber Resigns
Rep. Rick Roeber resigned, effective April 16. Roeber has been under investigation by the House Ethics Committee for allegations of child abuse.
MOScout Daily Update: GOP Fraying? - House Passport Ban Covers Businesses - Brown's 1st Quarter - Greitens to the Rescue - Hawley's Haul and more....
In my mind this morning, the Nietzschean aphorism: Under peaceful conditions, a warlike mind sets upon itself.
MOScout Daily Update: Five Weeks Left - Wagner Talks Wall - Fitzwater for Mayor - Cannon Gets CFGF Fellowship and more...
Time, Time, Time…
Five weeks left of session.One lobbyist told me in considering the fate of legislation: “I think time is the biggest enemy right now.”
MOScout Sunday6: Tech sector lobbying – GOPers -> Indys? - Patents by state - Mizzou sends folks to DC and more…
1. Tech sector lobbying.
2. More Independents.
3. GDP growth in 2021
4. e-Commerce.
5. Patents by state.
6. Mizzou sends folks to DC
7. Appointment
MOScout Weekender: Poll on US Senate Match-Ups - Hallway on Threats to End of Session - Who Won the Week and more...
Q1: Do you approve or disapprove of Mike Parson’s job performance as Governor?
Approve: 50%
Disapprove: 39%
Not sure: 11%
MOScout Daily Update: Plenty O Money - MOIndy on Graves Appt - Eigel Calls Out Colleagues - US Sen Talk and more...
Plenty of Money
As the state budget takes center stage over the next few weeks, it’s increasingly difficult to find any reason to worry about state revenues.
MOScout Daily Update: House Forms Stimulus Committee - Jones Transition Team - Candidates Circle Derges Seat - Johnson Hires Siettmann and more...
House Forms Stimulus Subcommittee
Speaker Rob Vescoco formed the Subcommittee on Federal Stimulus Spending.He appointed Rep. Doug Richey the chair of the new committee.