MOScout Daily Update: Budget/DEI Day in Senate? - Schmitt Warns on Approval Voting - Senate Preps for PQ? - How the House Sees Things - Christ Ups Profile and more...
Senate Prepping for PQ?
Looking past today’s budget debate, one veteran of the building says that we’ll soon see the Senate prepping for worst-case scenario this session.
MOScout Daily Update: Big Bill Pile-Up Coming - MATA's GOP Picks? - Kunce Strides Toward Nomination and more...
The Coming Pile-Up…
Take a look at the House calendar right now and you won’t see many Senate bills. Speaker Dean Plocher seems to be making good on his decision to slow walk Senate bills until he sees action on his priority issue: initiative petition reform.
MOScout Sunday6: Political Polarization Less Prevalent Than Imagined? - The Case for Bipartisan Gun Laws - Low Expectations for Pols and more...
1. Responsible gun ownership.
2. Political polarization
3. Age and labor force.
4. College-bound and abortion laws.
5. No great expectations for pols.
6. kiss of death.
MOScout Weekender: Wash U Rebuts Charges - MOScout Poll: Now and Then - Hallway on Trouble Spots - Who Won the Week and more...
Wash U Rebuts Charges
Washington University released the results of its internal investigation, rebutting the charges that had been leveled at it by former employee Jamie Reed.
MOScout Daily Update: Trump Calls Roe "Kiss of Death" - Jones Apologizes (sort of) - Gardner Down to 2 Prosecutors and more...
Trump Calls Roe “Kiss of Death”
Former President Donald Trump in touting new polls numbers tagged Axiom CEO Jeff Roe as the “kiss of death.”
MOScout Daily Update: Ashcroft Throws Punches - Approps Axes DEI - 15 Days Left - Snark-Bag and more...
Ashcroft Throws Punches
Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft isn’t pulling punches as he tries to muscle his way to the governor’s mansion.
MOScout Daily Update: Green on JeffCity "Fascists" - Mosley, Brattin and Local Control - Sifton in 2024? - Quiet SOS Race - Baby Pics and more...
Green Decries “Fascist” JeffCity
St. Louis Business Journal’s Jacob Kirn reports that St. Louis Board President Megan Green threw some punches at Jefferson City in her inaugural address yesterday.
MOScout Daily Update: Anti-Lonsdale Ad - DeWitt Charm Offensive - No Hough 2024 - Blitz and Sinquefield to Mizzou Board - Moon Mocked - April Quarters and more...
Exclusive: School Choice Group Punches Lonsdale
American Federation for Children, a school choice group, is hitting Rep. Chris Lonsdale for flip-flopping on their issue.
MOScout Daily Update: Roe Joins Team Kehoe - Plocher Makes Cold War Move Against Senate - Teen Shot in KC - Houx on Sports Betting and more...
Houx Undeterred
Advocates for sports betting remain optimistic that a deal on sports betting is within reach. Rep. Dan Houx shared that sentiment with Missourinet this weekend:
MOScout Sunday6: Partisan Split on EVs - Immigration to Rescue of Labor Force - Tax Day and more...
1. Gardner in STL headlines.
2. Immigration and labor force.
3. Republicans are EV adverse.
4. Grocery spending versus restaurant spending.
5-6. Tax Day…
7. US divorce rate.
MOScout Weekender: Wagner $$ - Hewkin in Senate 3 - Malek $$ - GOP Primary Poll - Hallway and WWTW and more....
Wagner’s Full Throttle Quarter
Congresswoman Ann Wagner will be reporting $740,000 raised in her Q1 filing, and will show more than $2 million cash on-hand.
MOScout Daily Update: Scharf Lands Club for Growth - Webber Breaks $$ Record - Pro-Parker PAC - New Minimum Wage IP Coming? and more...
Club for Growth PAC Endorses Scharf
Yesterday the Club for Growth PAC announced it was endorsing Will Scharf in Missouri’s Attorney General Race.
MOScout Daily Update: Dwindling Days - To Quo or Not to Quo - Alford # - Smith Nods to Treas Bid and more...
To Quo or Not to Quo
The Federalist Society is hosting a discussion about the controversy surrounding Kim Gardner today at 4PM in the Senate Lounge.
MOScout Daily Update: Smith for Treasurer - Butz for Mayor? - Arthur Strikes Back! - DEI Divide - Roberts Gun Bill - Landfill Bill and more...
Rumorville: Butz Mulls Mayoral Bid
Rep. Steve Butz is said to be mulling a bid for St. Louis City mayor.
MOScout Daily Update: Conflicts Ahead This Week? - Case for Childcare $$$ - Camden Contra ATF - Gardner Gets Challenger and more...
1 Big Thing: The Case for Childcare
Advocates (including the governor’s office) keep making the case for bigger investments in childcare…
MOScout Daily Update: Eigel Taps Small Donors - Christofanelli on Trump Charges - Quade on Ashcroft - Rowden on House and more....
Eigel Taps Small Donors
Sen. Bill Eigel will soon release his latest fundraising quarter. Look for huge increase in small donations to his campaign for governor.
MOScout Daily Update: What's Next for Sports Betting - Pro-Choice Rift on IPs - Ashcroft Announces - Treece Resigns and more...
Ashcroft Announcement
Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft announced today that he’s running for governor.
MOScout Daily Update: Eigel Eruption - Election Results - Riggs' Task Forces - AFP Key Vote Alert - Crazy Palmyra Texts and more...
Election Results
· In St. Louis… Rep. Rasheen Aldridge won his bid to become a St. Louis City Alderman.
· In Jefferson City… Brad Bates won re-election to the Jefferson City School Board, and Mark Schwartz won his City Council race.
MOScout Daily Update: Election Day - Dems Shake Fist at Faber - Kunce $$ Record - Scharf on Trump Indictment and more...
Election Day
Municipal elections are happening now across the state today.
MOScout Daily Update: Ads Hit GOP Sens - Freedom Caucus Inc - Ernst for Harder - Bailey PAC Nets $550K - Malek Adds $100K and more...
Ads Target GOP Resistance to Tort Reform
The Missouri Civil Justice Reform Coalition is rolling out ads (seven of them in all, aimed at different Republican senators) for opposing tort reform.