Forget seersucker suits, more propeller beanies are needed in Jefferson City. The colossal waste of time continues.
Today’s hearing schedule for the House Judiciary Committee:
97th General Assembly, 2nd Regular Session
Hearing Schedule
Hearing Date Wednesday, April 30, 2014
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Committee: Judiciary
Chair: Cox, Stanley – (Rep-52)
Vice Chair: Elmer, Kevin-(Rep-139)
Date: Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Time: 12:00 PM or 15 Minutes Following Morning Recess
Location: House Hearing Room 1
Note:
Executive session may be held on any matter referred to the committee.
Public Hearings will be conducted for the following bills:
HR 380 — ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT
Sponsor: Marshall, Nick A (Rep-013)
Co-Sponsor: Brattin, Rick (Rep-055)
Adopts Articles of Impeachment for Governor Jay Nixon for the issuance of Executive Order 13-14 regarding the filing of a Missouri state combined income tax return by certain same-sex couples
HR 476 — ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT
Sponsor: Moon, Mike Michael (Rep-157)
Co-Sponsor: Brattin, Rick (Rep-055)
Adopts articles of impeachment against Governor Nixon for failure to issue writs of election to fill vacancies in the General Assembly without delay as required by state law
HR 923 — NOTITLE
Sponsor: Brattin, Rick (Rep-055)
Co-Sponsor: Marshall, Nick A (Rep-013)
Adopts articles of impeachment for the Governor based on his failure to discipline or dismiss executive branch employees responsivle for the released of concealed carry endorsement information
….In the world of far-right extremists, Agenda 21 is demonized as a sort of Trojan horse, part of a larger scheme to shatter Americans’ liberties and institute a totalitarian, one-world government known typically as the “New World Order…”
…to the John Birch Society (JBS), one of the main groups promoting the conspiracy theory about Agenda 21, it represents the end of America as we know it. This is the same group, of course, that claimed President Dwight D. Eisenhower was a secret communist….
Just in case you were worried that our elected officials might be paying insufficient attempts to completely imaginary attempts to sully our precious national body fluids, or something, the legislature in Missouri has stepped up and bravely thrown itself athwart Agenda 21, the secret Illuminati UN plot to steal all our golfs.
To amend chapter 1, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to prohibitions on certain policies that infringe on private property rights.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapter 1, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 1.370, to read as follows:
1.370. 1. As used in this section, “political subdivision” means any state, county, incorporated city, unincorporated city, public local entity, public-private partnership, and any other public entity of the state, a county, or city.
2. Neither the state of Missouri nor any political subdivision shall adopt or implement policy recommendations that deliberately or inadvertently infringe or restrict private property rights without due process, as may be required by policy recommendations originating in, or traceable to Agenda 21, adopted by the United Nations in 1992 at its Conference on Environment and Development or any other international law or ancillary plan of action that contravenes the Constitution of the United States or the Missouri Constitution.
3. Since the United Nations has accredited and enlisted numerous nongovernmental and intergovernmental organizations to assist in the implementation of its policies relative to Agenda 21 around the world, the state of Missouri and all political subdivisions are prohibited from entering into any agreement with, expending any sum of money for, receiving funds from, contracting services from, or giving financial aid to those nongovernmental and intergovernmental organizations as defined in Agenda 21.
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They’re nothing if not persistent.
The paranoid wingnuts and their enablers who voted [pdf] (Y) for this:
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97th GENERAL ASSEMBLY
SECOND REGULAR SESSION
State of Missouri – House of Representatives
Session Day:56
Roll Call: 6
Date: 4/23/2014
HBs FOR PERFECTION
HB 1647
*HA 1
ROSS (142)
PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS
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N – AUSTIN Y – FRANKLIN N – LICHTENEGGER N – REIBOLDT
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N – BARNES Y – FUNDERBURK Y – LYNCH Y – RHOADS
N – BERNSKOETTER N – GANNON Y – MARSHALL Y – RICHARDSON
Y – BERRY @ – GARDNER N – MAY Y – RIDDLE
N – BLACK N – GATSCHENBERGER N – MAYFIELD N – RIZZO
@ – BRATTIN @ – GOSEN N – MCCAHERTY N – ROORDA
@ – BROWN Y – GRISAMORE N – MCCANN BEATTY Y – ROSS
Y – BURLISON Y – GUERNSEY N – MCDONALD N – ROWDEN
N – BURNS Y – HAAHR Y – MCGAUGH N – ROWLAND
N – BUTLER N – HAEFNER N – MCKENNA N – RUNIONS
N – CARPENTER Y – HAMPTON N – MCMANUS @ – SCHARNHORST
@ – CIERPIOT N – HANSEN N – MCNEIL Y – SCHATZ
N – COLONA N – HARRIS N – MEREDITH N – SCHIEBER
@ – CONWAY 10 @ – HICKS N – MESSENGER N – SCHIEFFER
N – CONWAY 104 N – HIGDON Y – MILLER N – SCHUPP
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Y – CORNEJO @ – HODGES N – MITTEN N – SHUMAKE
Y – COX Y – HOSKINS @ – MOLENDORP Y – SMITH
Y – CRAWFORD @ – HOUGH N – MONTECILLO N – SOLON
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University of Central Missouri President Charles Ambrose held an open campus forum on Monday afternoon on the subject of the state higher education budget. The forum lasted three quarters of an hour. President Ambrose took questions and comments from the campus audience made up of staff, faculty, and administrators.
University of Central Missouri President Charles Ambrose speaking at a campus forum on the state higher education budget – April 28, 2014.
Excerpts of President Ambrose’s forum remarks:
University of Central Missouri President Charles Ambrose: ….As of right now, uh, the, uh, the Senate has kind of gone across party lines and we have communicated clearly, uh, to [Senator] David Pearce [R] that as a university community we’ve done all that we can, uh, to create efficiencies and cut costs and save money and hold costs down and so we would have to actively oppose any bill that has the risk of taking money out of general revenue and disrupting funding for higher education. The Missouri School Board [President], uh, looked him directly in the eye and told him the same thing….
….The one difference between us and Kansas is, uh, they [the Missouri general Assembly] can’t change this law once it’s passed, uh, without, uh, basically going to the people. Uh, and, so, it’s a little bit more, uh, self-fulfilling in, in terms of impact where the, the Kansas legislature can go back and, and by an act of legislature reverse that tax policy….
….You know, uh, I’ll, I’ll be very direct with you. Uh, it’s been, uh, especially disheartening in this session, because there is a lot of great things happening, uh, in the state. The economy actually seems to be taking somewhat of a, a positive turn. And if government, I know we hear this on the national level, but if government would decide, uh, maybe just some strategic thinking about what’s most important and how we can maybe get there together we wouldn’t be having these kinds of conversations. Uh, but that’s just not gonna be the case in, in this session….
….I will tell you this, uh, that Senator [David] Pearce [R] believes that thus current bill [SB 509] under consideration is a lot less impactful than… [HB] 253. And he’s also afraid that we could end up with something a lot more onerous than what we’ve, that’s currently being considered. Now, uh, folks that take the different perspective about investment would say, again, in the lesser of two evils there’s still evil…
The University of Central Missouri campus is in the districts of Representative Dean Dohrman (r), House Speaker Pro Tem Denny Hoskins (r), and Senator David Pearce (r), all who voted for SB 509 and who will all likely vote to override any veto by Governor Jay Nixon (D).
Grover “drown [government] in the bathtub” Norquist (r) is flying around the state today to cheer on the suicide of the public good in Missouri:
Tony Messenger @tonymess
Rich guy from #DC flies from airport to airport with select group of lobbyists to tell Missourians how to vote. Yea, that’s good politics. 2:25 PM – 28 Apr 2014
C081111 04/28/2014 GATSCHENBERGER 4 MO Chuck Gatschenberger 2491 Foxbridge Ct Lake St Louis MO 63367 State of Missouri State Representative 4/28/2013 $220,000.00
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Instant campaign.
At this point all three of the republican candidates (and, we might add, the only three candidates) have written very large personal checks as contributions to their own campaigns.
C131072 03/16/2014 ONDER FOR MISSOURI Robert Onder 2090 Key Harbour Dr Lake Saint Louis MO 63367 self Physician 3/16/2014 $200,000.00
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C091042 04/01/2014 COMMITTEE TO ELECT VICKI A SCHNEIDER FOR STATE SENATE Vicki Schneider 806 Emge Rd OFallon MO 63366 V. Schneider Enterprises ltd Self 3/31/2014 $245,000.00
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All the action is gonna take place for the primary. Think of it as a right wingnut political consultant full employment project.
True net neutrality means the free exchange of information between people and organizations. Information is key to a society’s well being. One of the most effective tactics of an invading military is to inhibit the flow of information in a population; this includes which information is shared and by who. Today we see this war being waged on American citizens. Recently the FCC has moved to redefine “net neutrality” to mean that corporations and organizations can pay to have their information heard, or worse, the message of their competitors silenced. We as a nation must settle for nothing less than complete neutrality in our communication channels. This is not a request, but a demand by the citizens of this nation. No bandwidth modifications of information based on content or its source.
Created: Apr 24, 2014
Issues: Consumer Protections, Regulatory Reform, Technology and Telecommunications
Signatures needed by May 24, 2014 to reach goal of 100,000 73,493
We have benefited enormously from the egalitarian way in which the Internet treats information regardless of type or source, some of the most successful companies in America owe their existence this feature, but the FCC has failed to establish it as policy. Now the FCC has proposed a system that allows broadband providers to discriminate amongst Internet traffic, ensuring special treatment for companies and services of their choosing, the opposite of the neutral Internet that has existed so far. When the court vacated the FCC’s weak rules on traffic discrimination in January, the judge gave a specific instruction on how they could ensure a neutral Internet within the boundaries of the law: reclassify Internet broadband providers as “common carriers.” We are petitioning for just that.
Created: Apr 25, 2014
Issues: Consumer Protections, Regulatory Reform, Technology and Telecommunications
Signatures needed by May 25, 2014 to reach goal of 100,000 97,922
Total signatures on this petition 2,078
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Unrestricted access to snark and sarcasm would continue to be a feature, not a bug.
