The candidates in the 6th Senate District:

State Senator – District 6

Democratic

Name Mailing Address Random Number Date Filed

Mollie Kristen Freebairn 303 NORRIS DR JEFFERSON CITY MO 65109 3/24/2014

Republican

Name Mailing Address Random Number Date Filed

Mike Kehoe 3589 GETTYSBURG PL JEFFERSON CITY MO 65109 64 2/25/2014

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The Democrat filed right at the end of the filing period.

The past few days, at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C091155 03/31/2014 CITIZENS TO ELECT MIKE KEHOE Committee to Elect Ron Richard PO Box 2523 Joplin MO 64803 3/31/2014 $25,000.00

C091155 04/02/2014 CITIZENS TO ELECT MIKE KEHOE Citizens for Jay Wasson PO Box 1231 Nixa MO 65714 3/31/2014 $25,000.00

C091155 04/03/2014 CITIZENS TO ELECT MIKE KEHOE Citizens for Brad Lager 15898 Hwy 71 Savannah MO 64485 4/2/2014 $15,000.00

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$65,000.00 in less than a week. That’s a good haul in anyone’s campaign finance book.

Fancy that. The republican incumbent’s republican Senate colleagues anted up. That’s so grass rootsie it just makes you want to scream…  

A bill, filed yesterday:

SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 92

97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES POGUE (Sponsor), MOON AND JUSTUS (Co-sponsors).

6430L.01I       D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

JOINT RESOLUTION

Submitting to the qualified voters of Missouri, an amendment to article VII of the Constitution of Missouri, and adopting one new section relating to recall of elected public officials.

Be it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring therein:

           That at the next general election to be held in the state of Missouri, on Tuesday next following the first Monday in November, 2014, or at a special election to be called by the governor for that purpose, there is hereby submitted to the qualified voters of this state, for adoption or rejection, the following amendment to article VII of the Constitution of the state of Missouri:

           Section A. Article VII, Constitution of Missouri, is amended by adding one new section, to be known as section 15, to read as follows:

           Section 15. 1. (1) Except as provided in this subsection, any person holding any elective public office of this state or any political subdivision thereof may be removed by recall petition by the qualified voters of the state or of the political subdivision the person is elected to serve as provided in this section or as provided by state law.

           (2) The following limitations shall apply to any recall under this section:

           (a) No person holding any elective public office for less than six months shall be subject to recall;

           (b) No person holding any elective public office with less than six months remaining in such person’s term of office shall be subject to recall;

           (c) In the case of an office with a term of two years only, no more than one recall petition shall be filed during such term;

           (d) In the case of an office with a term of more than two years, additional recall petitions may be filed, but no recall petition shall be filed within the six months after voter disapproval of the last recall petition;

           (e) No recalled public official shall be a candidate to fill any vacancy created by such public official’s recall, nor shall such person be appointed to fill such vacancy.

           2. Any petition demanding the recall of a person from elective office under this section shall be signed only by the qualified voters entitled to vote for a successor to the incumbent sought to be removed. The number of signatures shall be equal to at least twenty-five percent of the total number of such qualified voters voting in the last gubernatorial election. The signatures to the petition need not all be appended to one paper, but each signer shall add to the signer’s signature the signer’s place of residence, giving the street and number and the date signed. One of the signers of each such paper shall swear or affirm before an officer competent to administer oaths that the statements therein made are true as the signer believes and that each signature to the paper appended is the genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to be.

           3. The petition shall contain a statement of the reasons for which recall is sought which shall not be more than two hundred words in length. Reasons for recall under this section shall be crimes, incompetence, misconduct, corruption in office, failure to perform duties prescribed by law, willful neglect of duty, or any offense involving moral turpitude or oppression in office.

           4. The petition shall be filed with the secretary of state or the appropriate election authority of the political subdivision the person is elected to serve within sixty days after the date of the earliest signature on the petition.

           5. Within twenty days from the filing of the recall petition, the secretary of state or the appropriate election authority shall determine whether the petition was signed by the required number of qualified signatures. If the secretary of state or the election authority determines the number of qualified signatures to be insufficient, additional petition sections containing all of the information required by this section and additional qualified signatures may be filed within ten days of such determination of insufficiency. Within ten days after any supplemental items are filed, the secretary of state or the election authority shall determine whether the number of signatures as supplemented is sufficient.

           6. If the secretary of state or the appropriate election authority finds the signatures on the petition, together with any supplementary signature sections, to be sufficient, the secretary of state or the election authority shall order an election to be held on the next day available for elections as provided by law.

           7. If any elected public official sought to be recalled under this section resigns from the office before such recall election occurs, the office shall be declared vacant and shall be filled on the election day scheduled for the recall election or as otherwise provided by law.

           Section B. Pursuant to chapter 116, RSMo, and other applicable constitutional provisions and laws of this state allowing the general assembly to adopt ballot language for the submission of a joint resolution to the voters of this state, the official ballot title of the amendment proposed in section A of this act shall be as follows:

           “Shall the Missouri Constitution be amended to allow Missouri citizens to recall elected public officials?”.

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“…If the secretary of state or the election authority determines the number of qualified signatures to be insufficient, additional petition sections containing all of the information required by this section and additional qualified signatures may be filed within ten days of such determination of insufficiency. Within ten days after any supplemental items are filed, the secretary of state or the election authority shall determine whether the number of signatures as supplemented is sufficient…”

That’s interesting. A second chance to get the signatures.

It must depend on who’s ox is getting gored recalled.

Previously:

Missourians spending big bucks to keep Wisconsin safe for Scott Walker (January 24, 2012)

Interestingly, the sponsor of this bill is also a co-sponsor of the three separate resolutions containing articles of impeachment filed against Governor Jay Nixon (D):

HR 923: the ultimate in right wingnut – guns and impeachment (March 11, 2014)

HR 476: keeping their eyes on the bouncing rubber ball (February 13, 2014)

HR 380: impeaching Governor Jay Nixon (D) because of teh gay thing (February 6, 2014)

Who would have thought…?  

Today, at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C031159 04/02/2014 MISSOURIANS FOR KOSTER Marathon Administrative Company, Inc. 1710 Corporate Crossing Suite 1 OFallon IL 62269 3/31/2014 $28,000.00

C031159 04/02/2014 MISSOURIANS FOR KOSTER Kenneth McClain 308 W. Maple Independence MO 64050 Humphrey, Farrington & McClain, PC Attorney 3/31/2014 $25,000.00

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Chess anyone?

Previously:

Campaign Finance: jumping on the band wagon (April 2, 2014)

Campaign Finance: Was it something in the audit? (April 1, 2014)

Campaign Finance: Friday! (March 30, 2014)

Today, at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C141055 04/02/2014 HANAWAY FOR GOVERNOR Kansas City Power & Light P O Box 418679 Kansas City MO 64141 3/31/2014 $10,000.00

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Interesting.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: Was it something in the audit? (April 1, 2014)

At the White House petition site:

We petition the Obama Administration to:

Revoke non-nuclear status of Ukraine and assist Ukrainian Military in obtaining short-range nuclear weapons.

1. Due to the violent and aggressive nature of Russian Federation intervention to Crimea impose the same level of economic sanctions on Russian Federation as the ones currently in effect imposed on Iran until Ukraine territory is restored in the same borders as at December 5, 1994.

2. Assist Ukraine in claiming with International Courts damages sustained due to the intervention of Russian Federation in Crimea.

3. Revoke non-nuclear status of Ukraine and assist Ukrainian Military in obtaining short-range nuclear weapons, anti-air craft defense systems, rocket propelled grenades, and hand held Stinger surface to air missiles in quantities sufficient to be able to deflect Russian aggression.

Created: Mar 19, 2014

Issues: Defense, Economy, Foreign Policy

Signatures needed by April 19, 2014 to reach goal of 100,000 99,828

Total signatures on this petition 172

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One hundred seventy-two people at this point.

Right. That’ll make the world safer and more stable.

A “gun” bill, filed yesterday by Representative Mike Kelley (r) and co-sponsored by sixty-five others:

SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 2242

97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES KELLEY (127) (Sponsor), JONES (110), ENGLISH, WHITE, LYNCH, WALKER, LANT, SWAN, ENTLICHER, BAHR, LOVE, DAVIS, HOUGHTON, ANDERSON, LAIR, KOLKMEYER, KOENIG, THOMSON, SCHARNHORST, RHOADS, HAAHR, FITZPATRICK, BROWN, MCCAHERTY, ALLEN, PHILLIPS, FRAKER, FITZWATER, CROSS, KORMAN, HICKS, ROSS, MARSHALL, MILLER, HOSKINS, BURLISON, AUSTIN, BLACK, REHDER, KEENEY, FREDERICK, REIBOLDT, FUNDERBURK, MOON, REDMON, SPENCER, CURTMAN, GUERNSEY, CRAWFORD, PARKINSON, JOHNSON, DOHRMAN, JONES (50), JUSTUS, KELLY (45), BERRY, GATSCHENBERGER, DIEHL, BERNSKOETTER, ROWDEN, ROORDA, GRISAMORE, PETERS, BRATTIN, RICHARDSON AND BARNES (Co-sponsors).

6500H.02I      D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

AN ACT

To amend chapter 160, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to student discipline for simulating a weapon.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

           Section A. Chapter 160, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 160.850, to read as follows:

           160.850. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, chapter 167, or any other provision of law to the contrary, public school students shall not be subject to any civil or criminal penalties, fines, or discipline of any nature for simulating a weapon while playing. Simulating a weapon while playing includes, but is not limited to:

           (1) Brandishing a food item;

           (2) Possessing a toy firearm less than two inches in length;

           (3) Using the hand or fingers to simulate a weapon;

           (4) Vocalizing an imaginary weapon;

           (5) Using a pen, pencil, or other writing instrument to simulate a weapon; or

           (6) Drawing or possessing an image of a weapon.

           2. Public school students may wear clothing and accessories depicting a weapon or express opinions regarding the right to bear arms or the right of self defense unless such actions or speech are properly restricted by a viewpoint-neutral school policy applying equally to all students.

           3. Nothing in this section shall prohibit civil or criminal penalties, fines, or discipline imposed for acts of simulating a weapon that cause bodily harm to another individual, disrupt the student learning environment, or constitute a serious threat which reasonably places another person in fear of bodily harm.

Hmmm, they didn’t designate a hierarchy of fingers.

Members of your Missouri House thinks this is a really important issue which must be addressed by legislation.

It boggles the mind.

And what a large amount of money that would be.

Today, at the Missouri Ethics Commission, from Vicki Schneider (r), one of three republicans running in the 2nd Senate District:

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 3/21/2014 $245,000.00

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Voilà, instant campaign!

Only three individuals are running for the seat – they’re all republicans. The race will be decided in the August primary.