Mark Alford (r): not so much to your health

25 Friday Sep 2026

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Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

Today:

Congressman Mark Alford
[September 25, 2026]

Rural hospitals are lifelines. Nobody should have to drive more than an hour to get the care they need.
That’s why House Republicans delivered the largest rural health investment in American history in the Working Families Tax Cuts.
[….]

Yeah, no.

Some of the responses:

If the Big Beautiful Bill had not cut billions from health care we would be OK.

But Mark Alford (r) did vote for the bill, and here we are, not OK.

The house should be in session doing it’s job instead of adjourning early to avoid making decisions

Oh, they nmde the decisions. They just don’t want to be held accountable for them.

Congressman Mark Alford You present this as a standalone win without mentioning that the same bill cut rural Medicaid funding by an estimated $137B, nearly triple the new fund, a tradeoff independent researchers (KFF, CBO, Georgetown) and even some rural hospital groups have flagged as a net loss for rural healthcare, not a net gain. [….]
You don’t have Missourians’ best interests in mind, Congressman. Your bill cut $137B from rural Medicaid. This $50B ‘investment’ doesn’t even cover half of it. That’s not a lifeline, that’s spin.

Actually, he’s gaslighting us.

When? When was this? 1959? Because 1959 is about the last time Republicans did ANYTHING to help rural Missouri.

You cut rural healthcare for years Congressman Mark Alford.
You guys ruined rural health and now you’re gonna fix it.
Just leave things alone.
Look what Republicans have done to inflation and gas.
You’ve fought rural healthcare for years.
[….] how do MAGA scream about funding healthcare and then after defunding it decide to fix it.
It’s like your new wars and gas. If you just shut up and didn’t vote gas would be cheaper and Iran would still not have that nuke bomb our dementia riddled potus believes exists.

Congressman Mark Alford
The Trumplican Hypocrisy is pathetic!
What about that BIG BULLSHIT BILL?
You have failed the constituents in your district!
Be sure to look both ways before you go fuck yourself.

They probably can’t afford the gas to drive an hour or more. Thanks for passing the Bigly Bullshit Bill mark. Cutting healthcare is on you and rising fuel prices are too.

JUST STOP LYING!!!
First Alford gives trillions to his filthy rich ‘donors.’ Then he slashes basic needs from hard working Missourians to pay for it
Now, at election time, he tries to fool us into thinking he cares with these ‘fix our problems just enough for a vote’ SOCIALIST programs. MO 4 loses because we have a LOSER in congress

Bragging about a one-time grant while cutting the permanent funding rural hospitals need to survive is total political theater.
This “investment” comes from the Working Families Tax Cuts Act—the exact same bill that slashes billions from Medicare and Medicaid to pay for corporate tax cuts. Rural hospitals get up to 80% of their daily revenue from those two federal programs. Giving a struggling hospital a one-time check for facility upgrades while permanently cutting the insurance reimbursements they need to pay their doctors isn’t “delivering”—it’s a corporate bait-and-switch that will cause more rural closures.

You cut the rural hospital funding under the “Big Beautiful Bill”. How stupid do you think your constituents are that you think we will praise you for creating a problem then only partially fixing it, kind of?

Missouri Republicans are putting a band aid over a bullet wound.
DO NOT FALL FOR THIS! They voted for the Big Beautiful Bill that is causing these rural hospitals to close!

You tone-deaf moron! You are the one voting for legislation that is destroying rural access to care!

You also passed the Big Ugly Bill that cut funding for Medicaid at the same time it mandated requirements that essentially forced people off the program. You freaking give a pittance while ripping away a limb. Hypocrite.

Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

I named my ostomy bag Congressman Mark Alford because it’s full of shit too!

And YOU voted for that “Big Beautiful Bill” that stripped health care coverage and dollars from states and patients!

You are beating a dead horse issue. You fucked said horse by massively trimming back the funding soi you don’t get to act like you are saving them now. You can’t ad the lube after you’ve already screwed them…

Bullshit, markie-boy. You repubs are killing people.

You mean the largest cut to rural healthcare in America history to then add a pathetic amount back.

GTFO of Missouri Congressman Mark Alford, and take your Bible with you.

Nonsense

And who voted yes on the terrible big bill??🤮🤡Lil’ Marky Mark

Then, why did you vote for the big, beautiful bill

Big Beautiful BS!

Why did you approve a budget that cut their funding? Is this more reelection rhetoric? Too little too late. You are such a disappointment.

Is that why so many rural hospitals closed down and the care centers are being shut too so tell me

According to analyses from KFF and congressional reports, recent federal legislation passed by Republicans has reduced long-term Medicaid funding, directly impacting rural hospitals and clinics.Major federal spending legislation enacted by Republicans has triggered significant long-term funding reductions for rural healthcare systems.📊 The Legislative CutsAccording to the Congressional Budget Office, the federal reconciliation package cuts over $900 billion from Medicaid nationwide.Estimated $137 billion cut from rural areasPermanent reductions in baseline federal supportMillions of rural residents facing uninsurance risks⚠️ Impact on Rural HospitalsAdvocacy groups like Protect Our Care state that fragile rural facilities face severe financial strain.
Congressman Mark Alford promising healthcare don’t match his actions and cuts.
Actions always speak louder than the word of men.

Mark is one dumb f. You cut Medicaid by trillions and think ur small bs fund is going to bring the back.. lol

Such a crock of 💩!

That about sums it up.

Campaign Finance: there’s plenty more

24 Thursday Sep 2026

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There has to be. The stakes are too high.

Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission for the campaign to preserve access to women’s health care:

C253512 09/23/2026 Stop the Ban PROMO 2200 Gravois Ave. St Louis MO 63104 9/22/2026 $100,000.00

C253512 09/23/2026 Stop the Ban Open Society Policy Center 1730 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite 400 Washington DC 20006 9/22/2026 $700,000.00

No on Amendment 3.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: Next (August 3, 2026)

Campaign Finance: bring a nuke to the fight (September 4, 2026)

“He who hath not a uterus should shut the fucketh up”

Here we are

21 Monday Sep 2026

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We knew what he was. We knew in 2015. We knew what we were facing after the 2016 election. We knew in 2018. We knew the stakes in 2019 and in the 2020 election. January 6, 2021 should have been a confirmation for anyone who wasn’t previously paying attention, or thought he was “harmless”.

The 2024 election was covered by our dysfunctional national media as just another horse race. The smart lady who had a laugh that irritated them vs. that “somewhat” eccentric right wingnut “populist” who was purportedly a “self-made” billionaire who entertained them. He’s a fucking lunatic and a moron. A grifter. A bigot. He has always been.

After another (almost) two years of predictable disasters and failures, now, finally, our failed national media is covering their injury for the rest of us like their hair is on fire. Well, yeah. Where the fuck have you been for the last ten years?

Remember the sycophancy of the WHCA dinner(s)? The servile interviews? The softball questions? For “access”. We do.

Cashed your paychecks, published your tell-all books – two years after the facts could have made a difference. You were supposed to be the defenders of one of the pillars of our Democracy. And you collectively gave it all up. For what?

So, to our failed local and national media: welcome to the club. And fuck you all for taking so long to get here. You don’t get any credit for finally, now, maybe, opening your eyes and acknowledging that everything is dangerously wrong.

God-damned useless assholes.

Campaign Finance: off to the races – part 7

20 Sunday Sep 2026

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Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C264382 09/20/2026 Vote Yes on Amendment 6 Preserve Middle Class America, Inc 1850 East Division Street Springfield MO 65803 9/18/2026 $225,000.00

[emphasis added]

On the November ballot:

Amendment 6

[….]

Shall the Missouri Constitution be amended to:

– expand the initiative and referendum petition process by making it a fundamental right;
– allow courts to revise ballot summaries through lawsuits;
– prohibit the legislature from weakening initiative or referendum powers;
– prohibit the legislature from changing or repealing laws enacted through the initiative process, or passing laws similar to those rejected by referendum, – without approval from at least 80% of both chambers; and
– preserve existing majority vote and signature requirements for initiative and referendum petitions?

State and local governmental entities estimate no costs or savings.

Fair Ballot Language:

A “yes” vote will prohibit the people’s elected representatives from directly amending or changing any law enacted through the initiative process; require that any modifications to laws enacted through the initiative process be referred to the people by a vote of at least 80% of each chamber of the General Assembly; restrict the legislature from passing laws that limit the ability to pursue initiatives and referenda; maintain the current signature requirements of five percent of the individual legal voters in each of two-thirds of Missouri’s congressional districts for proposing a law; maintain the current signature requirement of eight percent of individual legal voters in each of two-thirds of Missouri’s congressional districts for proposing a constitutional amendment; and maintain the current requirement that a simple statewide majority of votes cast on a measure by individual legal voters is sufficient to enact any law or constitutional amendment.

[….]

It is a plan.

Yes on Amendment 6:

Previously:

Campaign Finance: off to the races (September 12, 2026)

Campaign Finance: off to the races – part 2 (September 14, 2026)

Campaign Finance: off to the races – part 3 (September 15, 2026)

Campaign Finance: off to the races – part 4 (September 17, 2026)

Campaign Finance: off to the races – part 5 (September 18, 2026)

Campaign Finance: off to the races – part 6 (September 18, 2026)

Mark Alford (r) steps on a rake…again

20 Sunday Sep 2026

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Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

Yesterday:

Congressman Mark Alford
[September 19, 2026]

This week, House Republicans passed the National Fraud Enforcement Division Act — making a dedicated DOJ fraud team permanent.
Taxpayer dollars belong to you. Not to fraudsters.
❓ Should we have a team whose only job is going after fraud?
👍 YES — tell me why
👎 NO — tell me why
[….]

Uh, aren’t you supposed to ask your constituents before you vote on the bill, not after? Otherwise this is just performative bullshit. Just asking.

There is much hilarity in the responses:

Yes, they should start with the president, the cabinet and Congress.

Didn’t DOGE already have a go at that?

Yeah, no. It was all performative bullshit.

I’d love to have a doj that is independent from the presidency

Why did you decline a debate against the candidate running against you? Like to hear an answer!

Or just go to the White House and knock on the door.

Would collecting your paycheck and not doing any work count as fraud?

it is definitely a waste of tax dollars.

Maybe you should start at the White House.

Mark, why frame this as “House Republicans” when 352 members of Congress voted for it, including 139 Democrats? Fighting fraud isn’t particularly controversial or partisan. Giving your constituents the full story apparently is.

I thought that was the job of inspectors general???..

Oopsie.

President Trump’s firing of inspectors general threatens government accountability and efficiency
10/21/2025

[….]
President Donald Trump broke historic norms by firing 17 presidentially appointed inspectors general.
Trump’s firings, additional resignations and preexisting vacancies carried over from the Biden administration have resulted in over 75% of presidentially appointed inspector general positions sitting vacant.
The White House has unilaterally blocked funds appropriated by Congress to the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency, an umbrella office that supports the inspector general community. The office’s website, which housed inspector general reports, recommendations for how the government can save money, and a whistleblower hotline, has been made unavailable due to a lack of funding.
[….]

How about we figure out how Pete lost a ship full of weapons, and they wound up in Hong Kong?

There’s that.

Start with the president and his family that will be a good start.

We already have organizations responsible for detecting fraud. Inspector Generals and the Councils of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency.

If you don’t fire them all…

The should start at 1600 Pennsylvania

Start at the top.

Is there room for that team at the White House?

Here’s a tip ! ( look in the Whitehouse) ..

Mark,
If we did would they precipitate the indictment of Donald Trump? Asking for a friend.

Will Trump pardon them also?

Even better would be one that automatically disqualifies them from running for office or immediately removing them if the a currently in office…

Interestingly…

Yes. Let’s start with you and your friends.

I recommend purchasing a new mirror. It’s much less expensive.

Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

Ouch. That one left a mark.

We had a fraud team. Musk and doge said we did not need it.

Isn’t that part of your job???

Let’s ask AI to find the the fraud among our politicians and government offices shall we?
We’d be left with, if lucky, 5 people.

I am In favor of a Justice Department that doesn’t kiss ass

Starting with You!

So Trump can pardon them for a simple bribe. Which then wipes out restitution…

Have you seen Trump’s pardon list?

Tip line, check 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

I thought was that was what DOGE was supposed to do. And failed badly.

We already have a permanent Justice Department. The problem is the corruption within that department.

Why don’t you start at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

The president cut out the government watchdogs with the Doge cuts. Start with the White House.

Trump would just free them

Why, if they donate $ to Trump, he’ll just pardon them.

Grifters gotta grift.

Like Trump?

How about we start in the White House?

Only if they arrest Trump first

Legislating where NOT needed, NOT legislating where needed. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Trump university and trump foundation

Once again- the call is coming from inside the house.

Why so then they can pay trump and then get paroled?

Didn’t they have that? But as soon as the IGs inspecting such were fired, it all went away! Waiting on my $2000 promised check!

Let’s start with trump and work our way down. Mark, you should be on that list as well.

They should start at the White House.

In theory, of course it’s a great idea. But I think in practice, we all know trump will just use it to go after his adversaries. So until we have someone in office that has some morals, and a congress that does their job, it’s probably not a great idea.

A better idea would be to not allow the president to take bribes from convicted fraudsters for pardons.

Not sure it helps since the president keeps pardoning people found guilty of commiting fraud.

It would pay for itself by recovering all of the money taken by Trump.

Seriously Congressman how can you even write this post? Our President has pardoned dozens of fraudsters thus eliminating the monetary judgments against them that our court system had handed down. So all the consumers that were ripped off got nothing.
[….]

They should start in the Oval Office.

Sure and you can start with the current administration and the billionaires in this country.

How about a House of Representatives that actually does some work. 71 or so work days and you don’t complain.

Congressman Mark Alford, no, we don’t need a permanent justice team to root out fraudsters—-we need investigators in every Federal agency to investigate fraudsters inside and outside of the government. Like the ones Trump fired, including hundreds from the IRS. Those auditors need to focus in fraud within ICE, the Pentagon, the Kennedy Center,
the Freedom250 committee, and expenditures made by every
Congressional member.

We already have this. The Department of Justice has dedicated health-care fraud prosecutors and Medicare fraud strike forces, working with the FBI, HHS-OIG, CMS and IRS. Tax fraud already has dedicated federal enforcement too. Creating another ‘team’ to do a job the federal government already does isn’t a policy proposal I t’s ragebait.

Hey!!! What do you think of trump banning the press and violating the Constitution???

A journalist would be outraged. Alford, not so much.

Ouch. That left a mark.

Yes, but when all the GOP is arrested, what then?

No. We should have the checks and balances that Trump took away when he fired Inspector Generals on one of his first days in office.
Nothing says “I am gonna commit some big time fraud” like firing most of the Inspector Generals (like he did during Covid, too)

That’s never been more a true need since Trump’s second term.

It’s already part of their job. I’d rather have a team in the White House that wasn’t issuing pardons to the worst convicted fraudsters that have stolen billions.

On vacation again we see…

If you give POTUS and his family a free pass it doesn’t matter what you do… you have zero credibility

If you can’t stop the president from grifting in plain sight what makes you think we trust you to catch anyone else 😆😂🤣

Not if they answer to the top fraudster and his personal lawyer.

There’s a guy in Jefferson City I could point them towards. Bald guy, looks like a rodent, wearing a red valet jacket, sometimes carries a baseball bat.

Donald Trump has pardoned so many white-collar criminals that committed financial fraud that he has effectively wiped out an estimated $2 billion in restitution and fines owed to the victims of those crimes.

We had Inspectors General who did that but Trump fired all of them at the beginning of his presidential term so they wouldn’t catch him stealing billions from We the People.

Wouldn’t our president just pardon them, like all the other fraudsters. You just speak to the people like they are complete idiots. How low must your iq be to vote Republican in 2026? Pretty, pretty, pretty low.

We used to have that until your orangutan buddy disbanded it. Next let’s talk about the CFPB you dick.

Well, that would be a bit embarrassing for your Great Leader, wouldn’t it?

Holy shit. Yes. Start with the Trumps, Kushners and Musk.

Start in the White House. What a stupid F’ing question.

You must think we’re stupid, and you’d be 38% correct according to latest polls

Who is the biggest fraudster on planet earth?? You know the answer bozo.

Congressman Mark Alford I know for certain there is a 34 time criminal felon, sexual abuser, business fraud, tax fraud, charity fraud, university fraud, election fraud con man at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave in DC. Lock him up!

Today’s propaganda drop. Fraud.

Fraud? Start with Trump, little puppet.

Yea- and the first list of arrests would be everyone in the cabinet. Oh, but wait… they’d just be pardoned like the long list of other convicted fraudsters.
Let’s hear your thoughts on all such individuals that have been pardoned and let off the hook for MILLIONS!

I’m pretty sure all of us were thinking that. How can we waste more money at a time where we’re broke and morons like you are in charge?

These Republicans posting this while working for the biggest fraudster in American history is wild. 🖕

You didn’t pass anything. Johnson sent everyone home so Hegsbeth wouldn’t get impeached.

Starting with the Trump family

Do you ever read the comments? The majority of our country and probably the world know trump is the most corrupt president in our history…Start there with waste, fraud and abuse.

It’s almost as if Trump didn’t fire 17 inspectors general his first week of this term whose job it was to do exactly that. 🤔🤷
We’re not nearly as delusional as you, Mark Alford.

Why aren’t you talking about fuel prices?

“$4.29 a gallon for gas, $6.29 a gallon for diesel”

It’s too bad your true supporters can’t read or write. You’ve been ratioed again.

Meta.

You should have not have cut the CFPB and SEC whose whole job was to fight fraud. This irresponsible administration keeps removing the experts and replacing them with weaponized partisan hacks who will do their bidding and attack the American people.

Why? Trump will only pardon the fraudsters.

Hey, Denny (r)…

19 Saturday Sep 2026

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“Gerrymander This”

At the Missouri Ethics Commission for the committee opposed to Proposition A, the referendum on the November ballot on right wingnut Governor Mike Kehoe’s (r) and the right wingnut controlled General Assembly’s mid-decade congressional redistricting scheme:

C253606 09/17/2026 People Not Politicians Let It Resound 80 M Street SE Suite 1000 Washington DC 20006 9/15/2026 $25,000.00

C253606 09/18/2026 People Not Politicians Green Advocacy Project 6218 Georgia Avenue, N.W., No. 1-556 Washington DC 20011 9/17/2026 $1,000,000.00

[emphasis added]

Dayam.

Denny Hoskins (r) [2022 file photo].

We can’t wait for the ads.

“Mike Kehoe is Trump’s Bitch”

No on Proposition A.

Previously:

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D) – on Donald Trump’s (r) early redistricting scam (August 29, 2025)

Hey, Brandon Phelps (r), are you going to vote for this gerrymandered bullshit? (August 30, 2025)

Gaslighting and Gerrymandering (September 28, 2025)

Gerrymander this, Denny (March 23, 2026)

Eric Schmitt (r): contemplating really, really important things

18 Friday Sep 2026

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Yeah, no.

Eric Schmitt (r) [2026 file photo].

Today:

Senator Eric Schmitt
[September 18, 2026]

Without enforceable rules, college sports has become the Wild West.
Courts can strike down rules. States can pass conflicting laws. Only Congress can establish a national framework that gives college sports clear guardrails.
End the chaos. Pass the Protect College Sports Act.
[….]

Some of the responses

I have a college athlete and could care less about this but would love to hear you address REAL concerns like gas and grocery prices, the economy, the war in Iran, healthcare, or the current national debt.

Heck yeah!!!The Protect College Sports Act is gonna bring down the price of diesel!!!

Will this lower gas prices?

“$4.29 a gallon for gas, $6.29 a gallon for diesel”

You want the federal government to regulate college sports! This won’t go well. My Republican Party stood for small government and limited regulation.

So glad Senator Eric Schmitt is so in touch with the American people and his constituents and their most vital concerns. I lose sleep at night worrying about this college sports stuff.

Deficit, gas prices, healthcare, war.

grocery prices, inflation

You’re pathetic, get your priorities in line. Let’s address affordability, gas, the fking war, Healthcare.

Of all the crap to be concerned with.

Please, resign.

Dear Trumpers, you’re obviously rooting for Trump to further destroy our economy. Can you at least let us know your target for gas prices? Is it $5 a gallon, $6, $7? What would make you the happiest?

U just don’t understand what your job is….

Fuck off. Our worlds on fire, and you big concern is college sports. You out of touch asshole. Wake the fuck up you damn sycophantic moron.

With everything going on in the country, it’s stupid that you guys are wasting time on this. Saying that, you are on the wrong side when it comes to this. Antitrust laws exist for very good reasons. Passing legislation to allow a multi-billion dollar industry to get around antitrust law is extremely bad for the athletes in these sports. The highest paid public employee in nearly every state is a college football or basketball coach. Allowing this industry to avoid solving their problems in a way that benefits both labor and the employers is wrong. You are giving the good ol boys network who runs college sports a free pass to keep exploiting a bunch of 18 to 22 year olds.

I can’t afford gas or groceries. Please focus on that.

MAGA Culture War Kool-Aid

I’ve never been against college athletics, but Schmitt is quickly changing my mind.

Looks like there is nothing important going on to Schmitt. War in Iran, ridiculous food prices, gas prices rising daily, the only thing important to Schmitt is sports in colleges. What a nitwit. VOTE BLUE, take back our power.

WTF. Yet another post about sports. Get your head out of your ass. Trump is burning this country into the ground.

Always wanting to suppress someone else’s money. Union busting fuck.

You and your college sports. It’s the economy, stupid!

So many more important things to work on but you pick this stupid shit.

Why don’t you worry about something really important to the American people. You are pathetic.

All Missouri wants is to afford groceries and gas again, Eric, I don’t think that’s reaching for the stars here

Ok, there is a war in Ukraine and the USA is losing in Iran and you are worried about sports? Geez Senator, are you off track? The athlete stuff doesn’t cost us. All the other stuff mentioned does. What the hell are doing?

Senator Eric Schmitt (r) [2025 file photo].

Campaign Finance: off to the races – part 6

18 Friday Sep 2026

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Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C264382 09/18/2026 Vote Yes on Amendment 6 We Are Missouri 131 E. High St Jefferson City MO 65101 9/18/2026 $100,000.00

[emphasis added]

On the November ballot:

Amendment 6

[….]

Shall the Missouri Constitution be amended to:

– expand the initiative and referendum petition process by making it a fundamental right;
– allow courts to revise ballot summaries through lawsuits;
– prohibit the legislature from weakening initiative or referendum powers;
– prohibit the legislature from changing or repealing laws enacted through the initiative process, or passing laws similar to those rejected by referendum, – without approval from at least 80% of both chambers; and
– preserve existing majority vote and signature requirements for initiative and referendum petitions?

State and local governmental entities estimate no costs or savings.

Fair Ballot Language:

A “yes” vote will prohibit the people’s elected representatives from directly amending or changing any law enacted through the initiative process; require that any modifications to laws enacted through the initiative process be referred to the people by a vote of at least 80% of each chamber of the General Assembly; restrict the legislature from passing laws that limit the ability to pursue initiatives and referenda; maintain the current signature requirements of five percent of the individual legal voters in each of two-thirds of Missouri’s congressional districts for proposing a law; maintain the current signature requirement of eight percent of individual legal voters in each of two-thirds of Missouri’s congressional districts for proposing a constitutional amendment; and maintain the current requirement that a simple statewide majority of votes cast on a measure by individual legal voters is sufficient to enact any law or constitutional amendment.

[….]

It is a plan.

We Are Missouri.

We Are Missouri – Active
MECID: C253728
131 E. High Street
Jefferson City, MO 65101
[….]
Committee Type: Political Action
[….]

Previously:

Campaign Finance: off to the races (September 12, 2026)

Campaign Finance: off to the races – part 2 (September 14, 2026)

Campaign Finance: off to the races – part 3 (September 15, 2026)

Campaign Finance: off to the races – part 4 (September 17, 2026)

Campaign Finance: off to the races – part 5 (September 18, 2026)

Campaign Finance: off to the races – part 5

18 Friday Sep 2026

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Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C264382 09/17/2026 Vote Yes on Amendment 6 Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council Missouri-Kansas Area Political Action Committee 1401 Hampton Ave St Louis MO 63139 9/17/2026 $500,000.00

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Dayam.

Working people.

On the November ballot:

Amendment 6

[….]

Shall the Missouri Constitution be amended to:

– expand the initiative and referendum petition process by making it a fundamental right;
– allow courts to revise ballot summaries through lawsuits;
– prohibit the legislature from weakening initiative or referendum powers;
– prohibit the legislature from changing or repealing laws enacted through the initiative process, or passing laws similar to those rejected by referendum, – without approval from at least 80% of both chambers; and
– preserve existing majority vote and signature requirements for initiative and referendum petitions?

State and local governmental entities estimate no costs or savings.

Fair Ballot Language:

A “yes” vote will prohibit the people’s elected representatives from directly amending or changing any law enacted through the initiative process; require that any modifications to laws enacted through the initiative process be referred to the people by a vote of at least 80% of each chamber of the General Assembly; restrict the legislature from passing laws that limit the ability to pursue initiatives and referenda; maintain the current signature requirements of five percent of the individual legal voters in each of two-thirds of Missouri’s congressional districts for proposing a law; maintain the current signature requirement of eight percent of individual legal voters in each of two-thirds of Missouri’s congressional districts for proposing a constitutional amendment; and maintain the current requirement that a simple statewide majority of votes cast on a measure by individual legal voters is sufficient to enact any law or constitutional amendment.

[….]

It is a plan.

Yes on Amendment 6:

Previously:

Campaign Finance: off to the races (September 12, 2026)

Campaign Finance: off to the races – part 2 (September 14, 2026)

Campaign Finance: off to the races – part 3 (September 15, 2026)

Campaign Finance: off to the races – part 4 (September 17, 2026)

Read the freakin’ room, Mark (r)

17 Thursday Sep 2026

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Otto West: ‘Don’t call me stupid.’
Wanda: ‘Oh, right! To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! I’ve known sheep that could outwit you. I’ve worn dresses with higher IQs. But you think you’re an intellectual, don’t you, ape?’
Otto West: ‘Apes don’t read philosophy.’
Wanda: ‘Yes they do, Otto. They just don’t understand it.’ [….]
– A Fish Called Wanda (1988)

Mark Alford (r) [2024 file photo].

This morning:

Congressman Mark Alford
[September 17, 2026]

On this Constitution Day in the 250th year of our great nation, I encourage Americans to read the Constitution, study it, and talk about it with those in your circle.
One of the most important things I own is a pocket Constitution my father gave me. I had it with me when I was sworn in for my first term.
I want to hear what the Constitution means to you, what you learned after reading, or what you think every American should know.
Fill out the form below to share your thoughts.

[….]

He asked, they answered:

“An alliance or coalition between Government and religion cannot be too carefully guarded against……Every new and successful example therefore of a PERFECT SEPARATION between ecclesiastical and civil matters is of importance……..religion and government will exist in greater purity, without (rather) than with the aid of government.”
James Madison

I think maybe you should read it👍

that’s not as much fun as waving it around though 🤷
Mark doesn’t actually want to do any work.

Hey Mark-what does the constitution say in the 14th amendment section 3? We read that one.

Maybe you should reread the part about how Congress oversees the executive branch.

You should ask Trump to read it too

You apparently don’t read it

I bet you read the constitution like you read the Bible. Probably never seen either one

Might want to chat with your Attorney General and Secretary of State about the constitution of your home state. Oh ya, the fat orange dude who’s boots you lick might need a refresher course as well

Hey, Skid Mark! MAGA doesn’t follow the Constitution, they follow what Trump wants to do! By the way, Gas prices when up 30 cents overnight to a record high of $4.29 a gallon. I know that you don’t care about gas prices or housing costs because you are living off your $175.000 government paycheck ((BTW)paid for by taxpayers) . So I see that Congress is on another 7 week vacation! So besides doing Photo ops, are you going to be doing any townhall meetings or debates with democrats?

You mean the piece of paper that contains your powers you’ve abdicated?

We see what you did there.

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Meanwhile republicans can’t admit the president duped these morons into doing this, and then he pardoned them all. You are in team fascism. Try to scare us with the “socialists and communists” red scar rhetoric. You support a fascist.

Read it instead of us needing to tell you. Then take a responsible action to stop trump from destroying our nations monuments parks and buildings. Tell us how anyone else would not be in prison for even one of these items.

Read it and learn, asshole

Why does Trump say the Kennedy Memorial wont open until his name goes on it? Why does Trump have to have his image on a coin?

This is coming from someone that has turned their back on the US CONSTITUTION And the country by supporting a convicted felon and a Republican party that breaks the law and does everything to destroy the constitution with its lawless unconstitutional acts they do on a daily basis. We deserve so much better then this embarrassment. VOTE MARK ALFORD AND REPUBLICANS OUT IN NOVEMBER

Maybe you should read it again since you and your colleagues have ceded most of your authority to the executive branch.

MAGA Mark Alford & GOP fails. They fail on checks and balances. Alford is ok with cancelling house vote on impeachment of Pete Hogsbreth. Alford is serving trump, not citizens.

Do as I say, not as I do… Mark you clearly haven’t referenced the constitution in quite some time buddy

All of a sudden the constitution matters to MAGA Mark Alford. Fuel prices high, Alford says read the constitution. Trump keeps attempting to suppress the vote, Alford wants citizen to read the constitution. Trumps illegal war in Iran, Alford wants citizens to read the constitution. I think it’s time for MAGA Mark Alford to read the constitution. It’s time for MAGA Alford to understand separation of powers, checks

I encourage YOU to read it. And then read it again.
Then when your majority voters tell you what we want, you read the constitution a 3rd time, and then you come back to us and tell us what you learned.

Left a message with both DC and Raymore for you to host a town hall….yeah I dont anticipate that you will as you are afraid of your constituents because we want to hold you accountable for your actions/inactions while representing the great people of MO4.

Are you talking about the Constitution that Trump and 1000’s of his supporters attacked on 1/6 or is there a Maga Constitution I haven’t ever heard of?

Carrying a pocket constitution doesn’t make you a Constitution follower. 🙄🙄

Responsibility of serving “you” means “us” literally. Do you have any conscience of how your President is harming Americans in your district?
You can’t think for yourself, you follow the rest of the sheep.

Congressman Mark Alford Mark Alford, perhaps you should form study groups there on the Hill and especially in the WH. You all have made it abundantly clear that you have no respect for, nor understanding of, the principles and expectations put forth by our founding fathers in our constitution.
This has to be one of the least authentic campaign promos ever. 🤷

Maybe you should read it… And then read it again. If it’s too complicated know that it applies to EVERYONE HERE, even if you don’t like the color of their skin or the words that come out of their mouths. Loser!

Hey Mark’s people (because I know he isn’t writing or looking at this shit himself anymore)
Get out your ‘pocket Constitution’ that you claim means so much.
FUCKING READ IT AND LEARN WHAT YOUR JOB IS, because your part of Congress has very specific roles that you’ve been neglecting over and over and over in favor of made up bullshit issues to ‘tackle’.
Then do what it actually says to do, since you’re on our dime for your part time gig, which seems to mostly be going on TV shows and avoiding actual debates / public discussions with your constituents.
Or STFU, because nowhere in that does it say to rubber stamp a rapist, pedophile protecting, pathologically lying authroitarian who is constantly trying to undermine THE CONSTITUTION YOU SWORE AN OATH TO, but here we are.
You fucking hack piece of shit.

You may own a copy, but you neither understand nor follow it.

This is the epitome of a gaslighting cynical politician. His MAGA buds in DC doesn’t give a flying F about constitutional or civic norms. They are destroying the foundations of our country one brick at a time. It’s time folks to end this corrupt cynical leadership and it starts with your vote in November. Vote this guy back to being a TV guy.

I have read it, I am thinking sir that you need to read it. That document is very empowering to the citizens as it tells of a story of those frustrated with their leaders and how they resolved to self govern…. Maybe you should pick it up once in awhile and remind yourself who you actually work for.

You telling us to read the constitution. Thats funny on so many levels.

Many things you say have me questioning if you’ve read it. How about a little oversight from congress?