MOScout Daily Update: Special Session Starting Monday? - SBOE Shrugs At Ed Bills - Wesley Bell PAC - Kunce's Online Game - Pensions Lower Assumptions and more....
FRA Update: Special Coming Monday
Word is that the legislature will be reconvening next week for a special session on FRA. It sounds like it will likely begin Monday (June 21).
MOScout Daily Update: Rumors Rumors Rumors... What Trump Told Smith? - Parson To Veto Unclean FRA? - McDowell in CD-4? - Forget 7-1? and more....
Parson to Sign Local Gov Bill
This morning Governor Mike Parson will sign Rep. John Wiemann’s HB 271, a local government bill.
MOScout Daily Update: Long "Leaning Heavily" - Ratliff for McCloskey - Trump Nod Worth 37% of Vote? - 7-1 Scenario - FRA Talk and more...
Ratliff for McCloskey
The highly esteemed Jonathan Ratliff is consulting for Mark McCloskey.
MOScout Sunday6: Images from Lincoln Days - Battle for the Soul of the GOP - Prop Tax in STL County - Moral Divides - Cicada Map and more...
1 – 3. Lincoln Days images.
4. Battle for soul of GOP.
5. Liberal conservative “morality” divide.
6 – 7. Property tax valuations.
8. How many “golden years?”
9. Cicada map.
MOScout Weekender: Greitens Leads Field But Anyone's Game - Emery for CD-4 - Schroer PAC Gets $200K - Hallway on US Senate and more...
Q3: When thinking about the next United State Senator, would you rather have someone whose first priority is helping the State of Missouri OR whose first priority is fighting the agenda of the Biden Administration?
Help Missouri: 37%
Fight Biden: 51%
Not sure: 12%
MOScout Daily Update: Hartzler Announces - Rowden for CD-4? - Perkins Accuser Talks to AP and more...
Hartzler Announces
As expected, Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler announced that she’s running for US Senate.
MOScout Daily Update: Smith Sounds Like a Candidate - Greitens' Endorsements - Torch $$$ - Special Session Watch and more...
Special Session Watch
Missourinet reports on the outlook for special sessions.
“The legislators have not even been out two to three weeks and we’ve already got 13 requests, which is not even practical to think that you’re going to be able to do that on taxpayer dollars…”
MOScout Daily Update: US Senate Watch - FRA Developments - Senate 2 Hotbed? - Idaho as our Future? and more...
US Senate Watch
· Tomorrow Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler is expected to announce her entry into the US Senate race. The other congressionals wait at their own peril. Because the race has already started… the money race.
MOScout Daily Update: Where Are Dem Auditor Candidates? - Case for Rowden - McCreery in Senate 24 and more...
Pro-Life Polling
The governor’s office and legislative leaders are set to huddle today to map a path forward for the FRA renewal.
MOScout Daily Update: Desperately Seeking Dem Auditor Candidate - Gregory Announcement Soon - FRA Watch - CD-4 Watch and more...
CD-4
With Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler’s Senate announcement coming this week, Missouri Independent did a rundown of everyone who’s been mentioned so far as a possible candidate for her seat. It’s a list of nine.
Sunday6: Obesity Rates - School Funding - $$$ to Vax? - Testing Positive for Pot and more...
1. Obesity rate by state
2. More employees testing positive for marijuana.
3. Trans bills
4. $$$ to Vax?
5 - 7. School funding
8. Shakespeare deaths.
MOScout Weekender: Galloway Won Run in 2022 - Poll on Pro-Life - Hallway on FRA Blame - Hyde Hype - WWTW and more...
Galloway Won’t Run for Re-election
On Twitter yesterday, Auditor Nicole Galloway announced that she won’t be a candidate in 2022.
MOScout Daily Update: FRA Talk - Pompeo for Ashcroft - Fauci New 2022 Issue? - Haubrich Antes $100K and more...
And Then There Were Four…
Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler appears to be set to announce her US Senate candidacy on June 10.
MOScout Daily Update: US Senate Race Headed for QAnon? - Jami Gets Parole Board - Everybody Wants a Special - Worker Shortage and more...
Could US Senate Race Go Off the Rails?
The one constant all the US Senate candidates so far has been their desire to appeal to Trump supporters.
MOScout Daily Update: Parson Says "No Guarantee" On FRA Special - Walsh for Congress? - Jones Outlines $$$ - Hot May Revenues and more...
Parson: “No Guarantee” on FRA Special
In an interview with Missourinet, Governor Mike Parson says that there’s “no guarantee” of a special session on FRA.
MOScout Daily Update: Abortion Back As Top Issue - Time for Vax Prizes? - Parson's Criminal Justice Legacy - UI Limbo and more...
Biden Move Could Shake MO Politics
President Joe Biden’s proposed budget would repeal the Hyde Amendment, bringing abortion to the center stage of Missouri politics.
MOScout Daily Update: Wieland Blasts Senate Leadership - FRA's Path Forward - Allegations from Perkins Past - Auditor Report on Education Funding and more...
Wieland Blasts Leadership
In a letter apparently written to his fellow Republican senators, Sen. Paul Wieland blasts his caucus leadership, “apologizing” for trusting them.
MOScout Daily Update: Schmitt Hits $1M - Ozark Group Wants Casino - Clay Registers - Ambassador McCaskill? and more...
Driving the Day: Ashcroft Mid-Summer Fundy
Word is that Team Ashcroft will announce that it’s lassoed a big national name to headline a mid-summer fundraiser.
MOScout Daily Update: Fitz Against De-Banking Fossilers - Smith Deliberations - McCloskey on Racism - Worker Shortage - STL Redistricting Drama and more...
Fitz Against De-Banking Fossil Firms
State Treasurer Scott Fitzpatrick is among 15 Republican state treasurers signing a letter that they’re prepared to use their financial clout to push back against Biden carbon policies.
MOScout Daily Update: Smith Chases Trump Endorsement - Giving Up on Vax? - Anti-Referendum Group Forms - Moody Sees Tax Cut and more...
Are We Done With Vaccinations?
Missouri’s collective civic will to vaccinate the remaining population appears to be waning.