AUGUST 3, 2021
JEFFERSON CITY On Friday, July 30, 2021, Governor Mike Parson granted 12 pardons and approved two commutations pursuant to Article IV, Section 7 of the Constitution of the State of Missouri. Official documents have been filed with the appropriate government agencies and are being sent to the individuals.
To review the names of the individuals granted clemency, please see attached. Governor Parson has instructed his legal team to continue reviewing clemency files and working to reduce the backlog inherited by his administration.
Governor Mike Parson @GovParsonMO
Yesterday, the advanced life-support ambulance strike teams transported an additional 20 patients to hospitals outside the Springfield area to reduce hospital censuses in the region.
[….] 5:18 PM · Jul 30, 2021
Governor Mike Parson @GovParsonMO
The 10 ambulance teams have transported a total of 107 COVID-19 patients outside the area — some roundtrips of seven to nine hours or more.
ADEM and Missouri State Emergency Management Agency 5:20 PM · Jul 30, 2021
Some of the responses:
Thank You Governor Parsons for creating these new jobs. For a cow farmer your are pretty smart. More Covid cases more jobs! They will need to be transported to other hospitals due to Springfield being overwhelmed. You must be so proud!!!
Uh…
A declaration isn’t enough, but actual action is needed if you want to stop overflowing hospitals. Stop trying to do nothing to appease deniers.
Maybe you shouldn’t have let it get to the point of needing this but in doing something like that you would have actually been a governor.
You’d think.
And yet the census in said hospitals still going up.
It’s weird to talk about there being so many people in the hospitals in SW MO that you are having people transported to hospitals 4 hours away like it’s some great accomplishment.
Sounds like a great reason for you to have a state wide mask mandate and stronger stance on vaccination. How many people need to die?
How about a “please get vaccinated” to go with this senseless bragging?? [….]
Help us out, Hee Haw. Is this one of those GOOD NEWS tweets orr nah?
Can you say…….. crisis?
Who pays for these transports?
Which shouldn’t have been necessary IF YOU WOULD DO YOUR JOB.
Yeah, not seeing the positive of having to transport people due to overcrowding [….]
And what did you do to address this growing concern yesterday ??
Photo op chases photo ops
@GovParsonMO staff finds these fun field trips for him, like the corn cob fest. No hard questions. @GovParsonMO is Missouri’s #dumberdesantis
To StL? Where your AG is suing to stop a mask mandate that will save lives? Asking for people who actually care about saving lives.
Yet 3 days ago he held a huge unmasked event in Springfield (which is in crisis) now he’s bragging about how fast ambulances are hauling extremely sick people out of here. [….]
So, you going to do anything other than tweeting at the problem? Maybe suggest or (gasp!) mandate masks for indoor public spaces?
Wonder what could be done to prevent the need for this?????
That’s great. How about a mask mandate to help slow the hospitalizations and give our medical hero’s some relief?
Nah, he doesn’t give a shit. Never has. [….]
Would have been better of you could have acted faster in granting resources foe the ACS. You dragged out the decision and they had to find another solution.
And . . . .? You are doing WHAT to help stop this?
Rural hospitals are disappearing, and you brag about a fleet of ambulances that can do round trips to the big cities in 6 hours.
Yeah, about that…
I thought the virus was a hoax and we don’t need to vaccinate, wear masks?
Transporting them outside one area does not reduce burden on healthcare workers, including this “strike team” (whatever that means) Do you think if Springfield #s are low MO will quit making national news and you won’t look like the terrible leader you are?
Too bad you failed to do your job. We wouldn’t even be seeing this.
Finish the tweet….
due to your inept leadership and not actually giving a crap about your citizens.
No hospitals beds available in Springfield? That is part of the reason STL and KC felt it was necessary to safeguard the limited urban hospital beds w. a mask mandate. Can you call off your attack dog @AGEricSchmitt with his worthless lawsuits so we can protect all Missourians?
There’s that, too.
And let’s not forget about the State Fair coming up in covid central. [….]
Your vaccination strategy FAILED!! As of 7/16/21 Mo vaccination rate – 41%. Your refusal to implement a mask mandate killed people !!In Mo New Delta Covid cases have spiked over the past month. One in every 350 people in Mo has been diagnosed with COVID !! Worst Governor ever!!
Why are you having to transport patients? Are they going on your bicentennial tour with you?
Claire McCaskill @clairecmc
This is unbelievable. These newspapers use the numbers provided by his administration. This guy may be the worst Governor in Missouri history. And that is saying something.
[….] 5:15 AM · Jul 22, 2021
Governor Mike Parson (r) [2018 file photo].
Don’t blame me. I didn’t vote for Parsons.
A low bar [….]
I don’t trust anything that comes out of his mouth or through his office.
Really the worst.
It is depraved indifference. I think he should be charged with manslaughter. Everything he has done from the beginning left Missourians vulnerable. He truly does not care what happens to the citizens of this state.
He’s so incompetent, and very thin-skinned when someone criticizes his failures.
Jason Rosenbaum @jrosenbaum
Pretty strong and unequivocal message from @RoyBlunt as MO continues to deal with more Delta variant cases, especially in SW Missouri:
[….] 4:55 PM · Jul 14, 2021
Roy Blunt (r). Just a step or two…or three behind.
Governor Mike Parson @GovParsonMO
I have directed our health department to let the federal government know that sending government employees or agents door-to-door to compel vaccination would NOT be an effective OR a welcome strategy in Missouri! 7:47 PM · Jul 7, 2021
Governor Mike Parson @GovParsonMO
States, territories and the federal government should work together to simplify the federal workforce structure and create public-private partnerships to upskill workers that will bridge the ever-present skills gap and fuel economic recovery as the COVID-19 pandemic subsides.
[….] 7:03 PM · Jul 12, 2021
As the “pandemic subsides”? Really?
Some of the responses:
Wait, Parson was just bragging about #Missouri unemployment rate, economic recovery (via U-Haul), signed a Fed nullification bill, won’t spend Fed funds people need, won’t fund education, healthcare, vaccination campaign, Health Depts, Child Services, etc but now this? Really?
Missouri ranks 49th in education. 49th in teacher pay. Number 1 for Covid infections. One wonders if the skills gap and education and covid infections might somehow be related??
You need to concentrate on getting Covid under control. If you don’t want to do it, find someone who knows what they are doing and hire them. This is only going to get worse as the weeks go on.
Missouri is still leading the nation in Covid. I know you still really want to pretend it’s over
The pandemic isn’t subsiding in Missouri. It’s raging. Pretty soon we’ll have our own variant because your neighbors don’t believe in science.
Says the guy who blocked federal law that defunds local law enforcement if they work with Federal law enforcement. My OFallon police chief resigned bc of it.
You think COVID is subsiding in MO? That’s almost as delusional as thinking you want cooperation between state & Federal govt. Didn’t you just sign a bill saying the opposite?
“As the COVID-19 pandemic subsides”? Sir you do know you are the governor of the state of Missouri where COVID-19 cases are currently increasing exponentially?
Umm. It’s not subsiding in MO.
WTF???
COVID is NOT subsiding in Missouri. It’s getting worse. Why would he say it’s subsiding? It’s a shitshow in SW Missouri where I live. Hospitals are overflowing. People are dying. Parsons has failed to respond in a timely manner to this pandemic. This is failed leadership.
Are we going to shift the paradigms and build synergy to optimize positive outcomes?
This is a bunch of corporate-speak BS that was copied and pasted by the Governor’s staff.
It was written by a committee and then forwarded by an idiot.
Subsides? @GovParsonMO perhaps talk to a few healthcare folks in Springfield. What a poor poor example you are.
Subsides? You need to go check your dictionary.
Continue to ignore Covid and you will have a lot of jobs open up. Republicans continue to not care about their own voters, it’s just amazingly stupid.
Where is Covid subsiding? Certainly not in MO under your failed leadership.
You have no idea what you’re doing. Please stop offering suggestions on what should be happening. You’re incompetent.
Covid has not subsided. Admissions are doubling again. Nurses have left because they are tired of the no vaccine no mask bullshit. There won’t be enough nurses to care for our aging population. Good luck you’re pretty much f@cked.
I see you’ve managed to incorporate seven bull$hit bingo terms into your run-on sentence tweet, including the ridiculous “upskill”.
AND you’ve implied (dishonestly) that the pandemic is subsiding, while you have a full-blown medical crisis in your state.
Liar.
Missouri counties are in the top 20 of all of USA for covid cases, hospitalizations, .and deaths. Obviously not subsiding. You are just another alternative facts Republican moron.
You really are a shitty governor.
Says dude who cut off unemployment so as to try and force people to take crap minimum wage service jobs. GFY
Subsides? Have you seen the numbers in Missouri? Christ you’re an ignorant asshole.
But…at least we know who are more likely to engage in behavior that will reduce the red voter pool in 2022. Good Job killing your voters off, Moron.
Governor Mike Parson @GovParsonMO
Missouri’s health care system remains stable. 11:05 AM · Jul 9, 2021
Some of the responses:
Liar.
[….]
If you are concerned about getting the #COVID #vaccination, please get the facts from the scientists. [….]
“Stable” is what you say about a patient that may get better or may die. It’s not something you say about something doing well.
Why can’t you just come right out & say to your voters “please get vaccinated today, it’s safe and effective” that’s all – just keep saying that everyday. Maybe make a trip (like the one to Branson or Liberty or Kearney but talk about vaccines. That is how you serve your voters.
It would actually be a more effective PR strategy to just help people instead of ignoring the problem. Just saying.
Keep telling yourself that.
Is this the opening line of your stand-up act, Gomer? Because it’s the best joke I’ve heard all day.
Mike ignored not just science but math, so #Missouri has taken a bath as his new cases soar. Of the toll he lost score in the face of the variant’s wrath but he keeps his head stuck in the sand, now and then at events to grandstand. [….]
Who says?
Totally normal thing to say when things are going well
When you have to send patients hours away to hospitals in larger cities that is not a stable healthcare system for rural Missourians. The elected GOP in this state have failed their constituents by politicizing a virus that is causing their voters harm.
Parson must be back at the family farm this weekend, because he is shoveling some bullsh*t this morning.
Sure sure. Stable as in the infection rates are going UP.
#GOPDeathCult #DeputyDawg
[….]
Hospitals are turning away covid patients. @GovParsonMO is incompetent.
You know nothing about the stability of our health care system. You’re too busy with photo ops and propaganda. [….]
You mean what we’re seeing with our own eyes is not what we’re seeing?? Your COVID-19 leadership = callous indifference to human life.
If you are going to continue to lie why not say this:
Trump made you a big beautiful vaccine. The most beautiful vaccine. A special one just for MAGA. So come get the bigliest beautiful vaccine. Only for you, his special ones.
Our state government is an international joke
Repeating lies does not change the facts.
Missouri’s health care systems, especially in rural communities that listen to you and your party over professionals and science, are strained nearly to breaking.
You did nothing to promote the vaccine! NOTHING. And now the Delta variant has become the dominant strand in Missouri. You have blood on your hands.
As is the rise in COVID hospitalizations in your state.
Intubate much?
Right, and you’re a very stable genius.
You’re in denial.
Not even close, thanks to your incompetence. [….]
Had a woman tell me the vaccine is poison. I’m assuming these are the kind of people that voted for you. We are the laughing stock of the country. It’s you’re inability to lead that’s getting people sick here.
Excuse me, Governor—what the f&@k does that mean, exactly? And by the way, if you had the courage to push vaccines as a remedy to the pandemic (instead of the “availability” of vaccines), maybe you wouldn’t need to comment on the “stability” of the health care system.
Don’t you want MORE for Missouri than merely “stable” (your word)? Don’t you want Missouri citizens’ health THRIVING? “Stable” sounds like you’re totally fine with people getting sick and dying.
Why not put a little effort into getting shots in arms? You’re a terrible governor.
People die, but the system is in good shape. You’re a weird dude, Parson. Not running again, yet you are such a coward and somehow proud of being a national embarrassment.
You’re negligent.
Get the fuck out of office & let someone competent take over.
LOL what are you talking about? How can the GOVERNOR be so out of touch with the realities of his own state?
Or are you a shameless liar?
Yes.
Our state is #1 in the nation for per capita covid cases, only 39% are vaccinated, our death rate is raising, and our state has been declared the least safe state during the pandemic. We are failing under your leadership and you are out on a Bicentennial tour. Kindly fuck off
Emily A. @emzorbit
Living in Missouri is like being trapped with Branch Davidians and Jim Jones followers on a cruise ship being helmed by a people who flunked out of clown college. 3:58 PM · Jul 8, 2021
Last night, from Missouri Governor Mike Parson (r):
Governor Mike Parson @GovParsonMO
I have directed our health department to let the federal government know that sending government employees or agents door-to-door to compel vaccination would NOT be an effective OR a welcome strategy in Missouri! 7:47 PM · Jul 7, 2021
Also, what an asshole.
Some of the responses:
Wait. I thought they were coming door to door to take our guns. You said!
Congrats, Governor. You have successfully shut down the Feds from forcing people to be vaccinated. Excuse me—when did the feds say they were going to do that?? Grow a pair & encourage people to get the vaccine. ERs are filling up again.
What exactly is your strategy?
REALLY? I guess being put on a ventilator is a welcomed strategy in MO?
Governor – this is such an irresponsible statement. You are stoking the fire of fear when our state is a hot spot. The same fear that is stopping our friends & families from getting the vaccine. Here I’ll fix it. “If you can’t travel you will be able to get vaccinated!”
If people just cared about each other we wouldn’t even be here in the first place. I demand @GovParsonMO televise his support for the vaccine to turn this tide and get us back to normal. This is embarrassing.
Yeah because when they open fire due to all the vaccine fear mongering, we can’t cooperate with federal authorities for violent gun crime.
Save me Jesus.
We see what you did there.
A waste of money is paying politicians with zero medical knowledge to handle a public health crisis like Covid. Last year more people died than were born in Missouri. If this keeps up, we will make that 2 yrs on a row. Think.
What strategies are you suggesting that the federal govt try since our state govt has failed to use any effective strategies to eliminate this virus? Seems like getting the vaccine is the best and easiest way to get out of this mess. Much easier to prevent Covid than treat it.
Please yell it loud enough for the poor communities/minorities in the back that don’t have easy access to vaccines and that have also been disproportionately affected by covid during the pandemic. Please tell them louder that you don’t care about them and their health.
Translation: “I have decided to lie like a lying liar about the intent of the federal government sending Health Care workers door-to-door to offer vaccinations & make getting a vaccination easier/safer in Missouri since we’re in an escalating death spiral of Covid infections”
Wow, hospitals in Springfield are begging for ventilators. We haven’t even seen the 4th of July surge yet. Missouri is a disaster and you’re the one that didn’t want mask mandates and thought it was a hoax.
You know, it would be really great if the governor of this state helped counter the crazy anti-vaccine mania that we see all over rural Missouri. That’d be great. Since you went without masks all the time you were saying to wear them, people are skeptical.
Sorry Gov, I guess not everyone is on board with your “let the poors die already” plan.
I don’t see how turning down federal assistance benefits Missourians especially when they’re trying to help people breathe.
they are NOT compelling anyone to do anything… they are offering another option and assisting those needing it. Words matter. please stop
It’s a good thing to inform people of the benefits of getting the vaccine. No one is forcing anyone to get it, if you could please just do your job and help people that would be great!
Let me score a cheap political point first, then as a side note say something about getting the vaccine and in an even more understated way, encourage people to get vaccinated in the sub-sub tweet so as not to offend my voting base who have been misinformed and brainwashed.
You misspoke Gov, you meant to say Offer… not Compel. For those who want the vaccine but can’t get to a location, this is a blessing.
[….]
But our fight against this virus is not over. Right now, as I speak to you, millions of Americans are still unvaccinated and unprotected. And because of that, their communities are at risk. Their friends are at risk. The people they care about are at risk. This is an even bigger concern because of the Delta variant.
In today’s briefing, we discussed how the Delta variant is already responsible for half of all cases in many parts of this country. It’s more easily transmissible, potentially more dangerous. And it should be — because of reconsideration and —
Look, let me put it another way: It seems to me that it should cause everybody to think twice. And it should cause reconsideration, especially in young people who may have thought that they didn’t have to be vaccinated, didn’t have to worry about it, didn’t have to do anything about it up to now.
But the good news is that our vaccinations are highly effective. Fully vaccinated Americans have a high degree of protection, including against this Delta variant.
Study after study after study has shown that, since early May, virtually every COVID-19 hospitalization and death in the United States has been among the unvaccinated.
So, if you’re vaccinated, you’re protected. But if you’re unvaccinated, you’re not, and you’re putting yourself and more importantly maybe, from your perspective, your family and your friends at risk.
So, please get vaccinated now. It works. It’s free. And it’s never been easier, and it’s never been more important. Do it now — for yourself and the people you care about; for your neighborhood; for your country. It sounds corny, but it’s a patriotic thing to do.
In today’s briefing, we discussed how our administration is going to devote the remainder of the summer to a special focus on five ways to make gains in getting those of you who are unvaccinated, vaccinated.
Because here’s the deal: We are continuing to wind down the mass vaccination sites that did so much in the spring to rapidly vaccinate those eager to get their first shot — and their second shot, for that matter, if they needed a second.
Now we need to go to community by community, neighborhood by neighborhood, and oftentimes, door to door — literally knocking on doors — to get help to the remaining people protected from the virus.
Look, equity, equality — it remains at the heart of our responsibility of ensuring that communities that are the hardest hit by the virus have the information and the access to get vaccinated.
[….]
Nothing about “agents” or “compel” in there.
More of the Twitter responses to Missouri Governor Mike Parson (r):
The risk of getting the vax? Becoming a rational adult who grasps scientific facts!
“I am determined to keep our vaccination rate low!! I want my citizens to die!” [….]
Big surge in Springfield! Big big surge in the non-vaccinated population of Springfield Missouri! Will you let the federal government come in and help with that?
Imagine Branson is 45 minutes South and COVID can be spread to all of your incoming guests and they can receive a free case of Delta Variant Covid courtesy of the Show Me State. to take home with them when they depart. The gift that keeps on giving.
Can we get some of those cool mobile units though? It’s as American as an ice cream truck, but for saving lives! Pretty please.
They have to do something since the state government has failed to convey to people how important it is to be vaccinated! Too many people don’t seem to understand the science or the need for everyone to do the right thing & get vaccinated if you want this to end!
Mike Parson works for the virus.
No one is being “compelled.” This inflammatory rhetoric reinforces the paranoia about getting vaccinated. And that same federal govt. that you disparage is sending workers to help deal with the overwhelming # of Covid cases in Springfield. This is just tragic.
Some science and common sense would be a welcome strategy in Missouri. [….]
Yes, fear mongering and utter apathy towards the issue is working splendidly.
Wow! You are actively making it harder for folks to get vaccinated. What is your problem @GovParsonMO
See above.
Has anyone told you we are leading the nation in new cases of the Delta variant? And that 99% of recent deaths could have been prevented with the vaccine? Can you step aside and let someone smarter take over?
It will be a strategy something that is lacking here at MO.
What is your strategy? Waiting? What actions have you done since June to get ppl vaccinated (Twitter doesn’t count). [….]
Mr. Biden never said door to door workers would COMPEL the vaccine. There may be homebound people who need someone to come to them.
See above.
What news source are you listening to and why do you choose to continue to be manipulated by it?
At this point, you need to do whatever necessary to get people vaccinated. What you’ve been doing clearly is not working.
Do we still have a health department?
By “compel” do you mean asking people who can’t get to the pharmacy if they would like to one?
No one in government is “compelling” shots. That is not a thing.
Calm down chief, it’s just an outreach campaign.
He already knew that. And yet…
GovMike, where exactly did the DOH say it was going to force anyone to do anything?
We’ll wait.
Stop using the word compel. You know that’s not going to happen.
What do you suggest? What you’re doing isn’t working.
I wonder what he would say if he needed more than just his base to get elected? Or like, be a governor for his constituents?
So, what’s your plan to save lives? Or do you even care to save lives?
Governor- Your fears are sprouting fears. Might want to get that checked.
Of course not! Do nothing, that’s so much easier!
I think that doing literally ANYTHING at this point is a great idea. What are you doing to raise vaccination rates? Because what you’re doing right now ISN’T WORKING.
I mean, your strategy is totally working right? We’re not having issues with getting people vaccinated, right?
Is the verb compel or is it offer?
No one is going to compell vaccination, stop the fear mongering.
So…..do you have a better idea?
A perfect strategy in Missouri’s never-ending race to the bottom.
Imagine having a platform and opportunity to help save lives and choosing not to.
I’ll never understand that kind of evil.
Do you have a strategy or are you praying it away?
You know they are not compelling anyone to do anything. What an irresponsible comment. Your incompetence is costing lives, resources, dollars.
Late this morning in Jefferson City around one hundred fifty supporters of Medicaid expansion in Missouri rallied in front the Governor’s Mansion. If the right wingnut controlled General Assembly had honored the wishes of voters and the explicit language they approved for inclusion in the Missouri Constitution access to health care for hundreds of thousands of Missourians would have started today.
“Honor our vote, fund Medicaid expansion”
“Whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me”
“Medicaid expansion is the law of the land”
“1.1 billion for Missouri”
“The people voted for Medicaid”
“We voted”
“Governor Parson – Shame on You”
“Listen to the people” “Medicaid expansion is good for Missouri’s health”
“275,000”
The rally organizers were aware of a press event at the Missouri Department of Transportation building with Governor Mike Parson (r). The supporters of Medicaid expansion marched on the sidewalk the short distance to the building and continued the rally there, waiting for the governor to exit the building.
“Save Rural Hospitals”
“Shut It Down”
The rally and march was sponsored by Missouri Health Care for All, Missouri Jobs with Justice, and Planned Parenthood Advocates in Missouri.
During the latest regular legislative session the right wingnut controlled Missouri General Assembly failed to continue the legislation enabling the previously non-controversial Federal Reimbursement Allowance [FRA] program for Missouri.
There is a looming deadline for legislation to implement the program before it impacts Medicaid and forces cuts in other general revenue funded areas.
Governor Mike Parson (r) has called a special session of the General Assembly in attempt to deal with the mess.
Governor Mike Parson (r) [2018 file photo].
A few minutes ago:
Governor Mike Parson @GovParsonMO
Today, I am calling a special session beginning Wednesday, June 23 at 12:00pm, to focus on extending the Federal Reimbursement Allowances (FRA) and related allowances, taxes, and assessments necessary for funding MO HealthNet before cost-savings measures are needed on July 1.
[….] 12:01 PM · Jun 22, 2021
Last minute. That certainly bodes well, eh?
Some of the response:
“Cost-saving measures”
You’ll do anything to prevent your wealthy donors from being taxed, Mike.
Missouri vote for Democrats if you want a better deal and a functioning government.
Maybe figure out how to implement Medicaid expansion. That will be a game changer for thousands of Missourians
You have really screwed this up already
Republicans waste their time and our money on things we don’t want, and ignore the things we need and voted for. Missouri needs leadership.
People can dream.
The rube Parson cares more about guns than the health of Missourians.
Your resignation would be better. You’re in over your head and totally unable to lead this state.
Another cluster of incompetence. How much will this cost and hurt the residents of Missouri?
