• About
  • The Poetry of Protest

Show Me Progress

~ covering government and politics in Missouri – since 2007

Show Me Progress

Category Archives: Missouri House

Crystal Quade (D) for Governor – Warrensburg, Missouri – September 22, 2023

23 Saturday Sep 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in Missouri General Assembly, Missouri Governor, Missouri House

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

campaign, candidate, Crystal Quade, governor, House Minority Leader, missouri, Warrensburg

Missouri House Minority Leader Crystal Quade (D), an announced candidate for governor in 2024, held a meet and greet fundraising event in Warrensburg last night.

Crystal Quade (D).

The event was sponsored by several Warrensburg Democrats.

Adam Sommer, Heartland Pod.

Representative Quade spent time speaking with everyone on attendance:

Rachel Parker. Heartland Pod

Toward the end of the evening Representative Quade spoke for just under a half hour.

Crystal Quade (D).

Remarks:

https://showmeprogress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/CrystalQuadeWarrensburgMO092223.mp3
.
Previously:

Crystal Quade (D) for Governor (July 25, 2023)

Campaign Finance: You dance with them what brung ya

19 Saturday Aug 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance, Missouri General Assembly, Missouri House

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

campaign finance, HDCC, health care, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, organized labor, Solidarity, working people

Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C171047 08/18/2023 House Democratic Campaign Committee Pipe Fitters Local 553 Volunteer Political Fund 8600 Hillcrest Rd Kansas City MO 64138 7/26/2023 $15,000.00

C171047 08/18/2023 House Democratic Campaign Committee IBEW Local 124 Voluntary Political Fund 301 East 103rd Street Terrace Kansas City MO 64114 7/26/2023 $20,000.00

C171047 08/18/2023 House Democratic Campaign Committee MHA HealthPAC PO BOX 60 Jefferson City MO 65102 8/14/2023 $10,000.00

[emphasis added]

Well, yes, working people and accessible health care.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: It’s your money and you can do what you want with it (August 19, 2023)

Campaign Finance: Beyond the dreams of avarice (July 19, 2023)

Campaign Finance: Beyond the dreams of avarice

19 Saturday Aug 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance, Missouri General Assembly, Missouri House

≈ 2 Comments

Tags

campaign finance, HRCC, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, the usual contributors

Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

091068 08/18/2023 House Republican Campaign Committee, Inc MO Republican Attorneys for Civil Justice PAC PO Box 1792 Jefferson City MO 65102 8/16/2023 $10,000.00

C091068 08/18/2023 House Republican Campaign Committee, Inc HTH Companies Inc. 239 Rock Industrial Boulevard Suite 108 Union MO 63084 8/16/2023 $10,000.00

C091068 08/18/2023 House Republican Campaign Committee, Inc Conservative Leaders of Missouri LLC PO Box 651 Perryville MO 63775 8/16/2023 $10,000.00

C091068 08/18/2023 House Republican Campaign Committee, Inc Missouri & Northern Arkansas Railroad 200 Meridian Centre Suite 300 Rochester NY 14618 8/16/2023 $13,000.00

C091068 08/18/2023 House Republican Campaign Committee, Inc Rex Sinquefield 244 Bent Walnut Lane Westphalia MO 65085 Retired Retired 8/16/2023 $30,000.00

C091068 08/18/2023 House Republican Campaign Committee, Inc MO Optometric PAC 100 East High Street Suite 301 Jefferson City MO 65101 8/17/2023 $20,000.00

C091068 08/18/2023 House Republican Campaign Committee, Inc Missourians for Shields 47 SE Erin Court Saint Joseph MO 64507 8/17/2023 $5,175.00

C091068 08/18/2023 House Republican Campaign Committee, Inc Enterprise Holdings Inc. Political Action Committee 600 Corporate Park Drive Saint Louis MO 63105 8/17/2023 $15,000.00

091068 08/18/2023 House Republican Campaign Committee, Inc Missouri Soybean Association 734 S. Country Club Drive Jefferson City MO 65109 8/17/2023 $20,750.00

C091068 08/18/2023 House Republican Campaign Committee, Inc Xcaliber International LTD LLC One Tobacco Road 4747 NE 1st St Pryor OK 47161 8/17/2023 $15,000.00

C091068 08/18/2023 House Republican Campaign Committee, Inc David Steward PO Box 1724 Maryland Heights MO 63043 World Wide Technologies Chairman 8/17/2023 $10,000.00

Billionaires, corporations, tobacco, special interests, and ideologues. That’s more like it.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: It’s your money and you can do what you want with it (August 19, 2023)

Richard Brown (D) in Warrensburg – August 17, 2023

18 Friday Aug 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in Missouri General Assembly, Missouri House

≈ 1 Comment

Tags

Assistant House Minority Leader, candidate, Lieutenant Governor, missouri, Richard Brown, Warrensburg

Representative Richard Brown (D), Assistant House Minority Leader and announced candidate for Lieutenant Governor in 2024, spoke last night at the Johnson County, Missouri Democratic Club at its meeting in Warrensburg last night.

Representative Richard Brown (D), Assistant House Minority Leader.

Representative Brown (D) spoke in depth about the General Assembly, legislation, and the needs of the people in Missouri. He is optimistic about the prospects for Democratic Party candidates up and down the ticket in the 2024 election cycle, citing the U.S. Senate race, taking back the office of Governor, and additional offices falling into place. Among the issues facing Missouri are access to health care, affordable housing, living wages and economic development, support for public education, and bodily autonomy.

Representative Brown (r) reminded everyone that Republicans have controlled the Missouri General Assembly for over 20 years.

Representative Brown (D) is familiar with Warrensburg as an alumnus of the University of Central Missouri.

On being mean

21 Friday Jul 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in Missouri General Assembly, Missouri House, social media

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

2nd Legislative District, General Assembly, Mazzie Boyd, missouri, right wingnut, social media

Yesterday:

Mazzie Boyd, State Representative
[July 20, 2023]
Some of you libtards can’t say the same.
[….]

Who? And who?

A Missouri state representative writes stuff like this?

The cruelty is the point. And notoriety, apparently.

Some of the responses:

Demeaning folks with cognitive disabilities and propping up sundown towns all in one little sentence. Good job, girl!

What a gross way to speak to people.

I could not care less about the Jason Aldean song, but I would love to see any elected official who uses slurs like this, which disparage and disrespect individuals with disabilities, voted out of office. Words matter.

This is an incredibly immature post.

As a special education teacher, I can assure you that the government (that you work for!) has deemed “tard” an inappropriate suffix in describing those with specific learning disabilities. Perhaps you should try better representing your country, no matter what “side”you are on. Better yet, why not represent EVERYONE in your state district, as is implied in the name of your position, and don’t take sides at all? I’m glad you’re no representative of mine.

please explain when you use the word “libtard” what are you really saying?
The use of -tard as a suffix for anything you are trying to mock, belittle or use as an insult isn’t cute or clever. It is hateful and cowardly. You represent people who have disabilities. They deserve your respect as much as anyone.
June 26 you have a post about making it your “aim to love as God loves”. Do better

I just want to second this statement. This is sad coming from an elected official who represents all constituents, many who may have disabilities or love those with disabilities. Actually, is any name calling really necessary?

It’s about punching those who have little or no power. The cruelty is the point.

As a person with a child who has disabilities and lives in your state you can kindly GFY. You’re so unbelievably nasty you don’t know the first thing about being a Christian. Horrible, lying christian terrorist propagandist is what you are.

A sitting member of the Missouri House of Representatives calling her constituents, the people that she works for, “libtards”. Quite the power move

The term libtards?? Really glad you’re not my rep.

Rep. Mazzie Boyd (r):

[….] a Republican, represents Worth, Caldwell, Daviess, Grundy, and Harrison counties (District 2) in the Missouri House of Representatives. She was elected to her first two-year term in November 2022.

In addition to her legislative duties, Boyd works as an accounting assistant. Prior to being elected, Boyd served in the White House as an executive assistant to the Director of Presidential Personnel John McEntee under the Trump administration, as well as a war room analyst for Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. She also worked as an intern for U.S. Senator Roy Blunt, and a communications assistant for the Congressional Office of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.

[….]

That explains a lot.

Some of the sponsored legislation in the last session:

HB 224 – (0987H.01I)
Designates the official state rifle
HB 463 – (1254H.01I)
Creates provisions relating to gender transition procedures
HB 498 – (1219H.01I)
Includes businesses that host drag performances in the definition of a sexually oriented business
HB 712 – (1240H.03C)
Establishes the Anti-Red Flag Gun Seizure Act
HB 1159 – (2501H.01I)
Prohibits the state librarian from disbursing funds to libraries that offer obscene materials to children

That explains a lot.

John McEntee (r).

That explains a lot.

Johnson County Democrats – July 15, 2023

16 Sunday Jul 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in Missouri General Assembly, Missouri House

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

57th Legislative District, Democratic Party, missouri

Johnson County Democrats held a picnic in a Warrensburg park yesterday. About forty individuals attended, including Democrats from nearby counties.

Johnson County Democratic Committee chair Ray James spoke and introduced other speakers:

Ray James, Chair of the Johnson County Democratic Committee.

Cass County Democrat and Missouri Democratic Party State Committee member Lorree Voight spoke on organizing and voter turnout, particularly in Cass and Johnson Counties:

Loree Voight, Vice Chair of the Cass County Democratic Committee and member of the Missouri Democratic Party State Committee from the 31st Senate District.

Missouri State Democratic Party Vice Chair Yvonne Reeves Chong, from Pulaski County, spoke on voter turnout in rural counties and on running for office:

Yvonne Reeves Chong, Vice Chair of the Missouri Democratic Party.

Former Missouri State Representative Deleta Williams (D) also spoke about her ten years representing the then 121st Legislative District and Johnson County in the General Assembly. The Missouri General Assembly had definitely been more responsive, representative, and productive during that period.

Mike Walbom, from Johnson County, announced he was running as a Democratic Party candidate for the 57th Legislative District in the Missouri General Assembly:

Mike Walbom, Democratic Party candidate for the 57th Legislative District.

Campaign Finance: A profitable week?

07 Friday Jul 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance, Missouri General Assembly, Missouri House

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

33rd Legislative District, campaign finance, Chris Sander, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, powder monkey

Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C201219 07/06/2023 Sander for Missouri CHRISTOPHER SANDER 514 N Bynum Rd PO Box 13 Lone Jack MO 64070 powder monkey FIREWORKS, Inc CEO 7/6/2023 $60,000.00

[emphasis added]

You’d think.

That’s exactly why they won’t

18 Thursday May 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in Missouri General Assembly, Missouri Governor, Missouri House, Missouri Senate, social media

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

abortion, ballot initiative, Jess Piper, missouri, social media, women's health care

Jess Piper (D) [2023 file photo].

This afternoon:

Jess Piper @piper4missouri
Republicans say that Missouri is an anti-abortion state. Prove it by putting abortion rights on the ballot. Or do they know something that we also know…
12:13 PM · May 18, 2023

Some of the responses:

Two things. 1. Any anti abortion referendum is their kryptonite. And 2. They don’t want the people to have any say. So they’ll never allow the abortion issue to ever be settled by popular vote. It’s poisonous to their tyranny.

Republicans in our state legislature don’t really want to hear what voters think. They’ve proved it many times over by ignoring the results of statewide voting and just doing whatever the hell they want anyway.

The elders and elderettes of the Republican Party of Missouri certainly realize that they would be on the losing end of a statewide proposition. Regrettably, they also feel “safe” that they’ll be able to keep the General Assembly because they draw the maps.

They obviously should…but good luck with that!!
They won’t.

I wish they would. I believe we’d get the same result Kansas did.

That’s exactly why they won’t.

All of their legislative policies would be destroyed if they left it to the will of the people. We all know that. That’s why they are trying to create a Fascist state. Wake up MO. We deserve better after 20 years of BS.

They fear the truth and they don’t care what the majority of Missourians want.

“Reproductive rights are human rights”

Missouri Republican Dystopia

17 Monday Apr 2023

Posted by penroseonpolitics in Missouri General Assembly, Missouri House

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

Child Brides, Christian Conservatives, dystopia, Mike Moon, Missouri Republican Party, right wingnuts

Ignorance isn’t expensive, getting there is cheap

15 Saturday Apr 2023

Posted by Michael Bersin in Missouri General Assembly, Missouri House

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

budget, defunding, General Assembly, Jonathan Capehart, Katie Earnhart, missouri, MSNBC, Peter Merideth, public libraries

It’s what follows that makes everyone in the future pay.

Missouri House Republicans want to defund libraries. Here’s why
Politics Updated on Apr 14, 2023 11:39 AM EDT — Published on Apr 13, 2023 5:11 PM EDT

ST. LOUIS– Missouri’s Republican-led House voted to cut all funding for libraries in its version of the state’s annual budget, an unprecedented move that has angered librarians and patrons across the state who rely on the facilities for everything from books to educational programming and internet access.

The proposal is not yet final; it now sits before the state Senate’s appropriations committee along with the rest of the annual $45.6 billion budget, and Republican chair Sen. Lincoln Hough said it would be his intention to restore library funding.

But for those who manage or use the state’s 160 library districts, especially in rural areas where services are not as robust, the threat feels real, librarians and patrons told the PBS NewsHour.

[….]

Tamara King, a parent and resident of St. Charles County, told the NewsHour it feels like the state’s residents should still be concerned even if the budget is not yet final.

“You start by taking away small things, right? And then you do that, you gain your support and then you go for the jugular, right? So that’s what they did. They took away everything. Now, where are these kids supposed to go and learn and have those activities that involve books?” King said. “Books create imagination.”

[….]

The right wingnut controlled Missouri General Assembly, go figure.

Last night:

Jonathan Capehart: Representative Meredith, you’re on the Missouri house budget committee. What was your reaction to this budget proposal that [cross talk] seeks to essentially defund libraries?

Rep. Peter Meridith: I mean, honestly, you can just, [cross talk], that’s right, even just hearing you talk about the facts right now, walk through the circumstances, it’s hard to believe. And that’s how we felt when it was first presented to us, when the budget chair presented his proposal that Library funding be zeroed out. And then when we asked him why he actually went so far to explicitly say it was because of them suing over this book ban and how dare they sue against a bill that the Missouri legislature passed, that they believe is unconstitutional and has created a really big problem.

Jonathan Capehart: And Katie, help us understand why librarians in Missouri wanted to fight this state law creating criminal penalties for workers like yourself, um, criminal penalties for what the law says is distribution of sexually explicit material?

Katie Earnhart, director of the Cape Girardeau Public Library: Yeah, I mean, obviously we are for Americans’, uh, First Amendment freedoms. We want to make sure that people have access to information. That’s, that’s a core tenet of our profession and we rely on that. And right now that’s in jeopardy which puts our jobs in jeopardy and that’s, that’s something that is concerning for, for all people in this profession. And it’s not happening just here in Missouri, it’s across the country.

Jonathan Capehart: And to that point, Representative Meredith, um, this effort to cut the library’s budget isn’t just happening in Missouri. In Llano, Texas this week Republican Commissioners walked back their threat to close three libraries over their opposition to a book ban that residents argued violated First Amendments rights. You know, why do you think, uh, Republican elected officials turn to defunding libraries when there’s pushback over legislation restricting access to certain books?

Rep. Peter Meridith: Honestly, in places like this they have what feels like absolute power to them and they’re appealing to the furthest right in their base. And so, right now they have decided somehow that libraries and teachers and schools are, uh, the bullies they want to call the enemy and talk about brainwashing our kids. And, you know, like this library thing they can’t point to a single example in Missouri of, of something inappropriate and obscene being given to a kid. but they’re gonna manufacture this problem to work up their base. Uh, and then the defunding the libraries just feels like the next step to them and how they exert power and punish them for, uh, exercising their First Amendment rights. It’s, it’s, straight out of a dystopian novel in my opinion.

Jonathan Capehart: Right, you know ,Katie the majority of Missouri’s public libraries are in small and rural communities. Describe how a budget cut like this would impact libraries like your own in Cape Girardeau.

Katie Earnhart, director of the Cape Girardeau Public Library: Yeah, Jonathan, we’re set to lose roughly twenty-six thousand dollars with this cut, um, for our upcoming budget year. That’s money that we use for our collection development, to buy the books that you see behind me. And for us that makes up about twenty percent of our collection development [cross talk], collection development budget. You know, for, for us it, it’s only two percent of our overall budget, but for some libraries it’s a much larger, uh, percentage, a much larger impact that they’re going to have to, uh, withstand. Some libraries are going to have to evaluate whether or not they stay open as, as many hours whether or not they reduce services that they provide, very important services that they provide for their communities. And it’s something that we don’t want to have to, to worry about that. We already have shoestring budgets and when we have that money taken away, even a little bit ,it just makes our jobs that much harder to provide the needed resources and services that our communities rely on.

Missouri, where readin’ isn’t fundamental.

Peter Merideth (D) [2021 file photo].

← Older posts

Subscribe

  • Entries (RSS)
  • Comments (RSS)

Archives

  • September 2023
  • August 2023
  • July 2023
  • June 2023
  • May 2023
  • April 2023
  • March 2023
  • February 2023
  • January 2023
  • December 2022
  • November 2022
  • October 2022
  • September 2022
  • August 2022
  • July 2022
  • June 2022
  • May 2022
  • April 2022
  • March 2022
  • February 2022
  • January 2022
  • December 2021
  • November 2021
  • October 2021
  • September 2021
  • August 2021
  • July 2021
  • June 2021
  • May 2021
  • April 2021
  • March 2021
  • February 2021
  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • September 2020
  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • June 2020
  • May 2020
  • April 2020
  • March 2020
  • February 2020
  • January 2020
  • December 2019
  • November 2019
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • August 2019
  • July 2019
  • June 2019
  • May 2019
  • April 2019
  • March 2019
  • February 2019
  • January 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • July 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • March 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • October 2017
  • September 2017
  • August 2017
  • July 2017
  • June 2017
  • May 2017
  • April 2017
  • March 2017
  • February 2017
  • January 2017
  • December 2016
  • November 2016
  • October 2016
  • September 2016
  • August 2016
  • July 2016
  • June 2016
  • May 2016
  • April 2016
  • March 2016
  • February 2016
  • January 2016
  • December 2015
  • November 2015
  • October 2015
  • September 2015
  • August 2015
  • July 2015
  • June 2015
  • May 2015
  • April 2015
  • March 2015
  • February 2015
  • January 2015
  • December 2014
  • November 2014
  • October 2014
  • September 2014
  • August 2014
  • July 2014
  • June 2014
  • May 2014
  • April 2014
  • March 2014
  • February 2014
  • January 2014
  • December 2013
  • November 2013
  • October 2013
  • September 2013
  • August 2013
  • July 2013
  • June 2013
  • May 2013
  • April 2013
  • March 2013
  • February 2013
  • January 2013
  • December 2012
  • November 2012
  • October 2012
  • September 2012
  • August 2012
  • July 2012
  • June 2012
  • May 2012
  • April 2012
  • March 2012
  • February 2012
  • January 2012
  • December 2011
  • November 2011
  • October 2011
  • September 2011
  • August 2011
  • July 2011
  • June 2011
  • May 2011
  • April 2011
  • March 2011
  • February 2011
  • January 2011
  • December 2010
  • November 2010
  • October 2010
  • September 2010
  • August 2010
  • July 2010
  • June 2010
  • May 2010
  • April 2010
  • March 2010
  • February 2010
  • January 2010
  • December 2009
  • November 2009
  • October 2009
  • September 2009
  • August 2009
  • July 2009
  • June 2009
  • May 2009
  • April 2009
  • March 2009
  • February 2009
  • January 2009
  • December 2008
  • November 2008
  • October 2008
  • September 2008
  • August 2008
  • July 2008
  • June 2008
  • May 2008
  • April 2008
  • March 2008
  • February 2008
  • January 2008
  • December 2007
  • November 2007
  • October 2007
  • September 2007
  • August 2007

Categories

  • campaign finance
  • Claire McCaskill
  • Congress
  • Democratic Party News
  • Eric Schmitt
  • Healthcare
  • Hillary Clinton
  • Interview
  • Jason Smith
  • Josh Hawley
  • Mark Alford
  • media criticism
  • meta
  • Missouri General Assembly
  • Missouri Governor
  • Missouri House
  • Missouri Senate
  • Resist
  • Roy Blunt
  • social media
  • Standing Rock
  • Town Hall
  • Uncategorized
  • US Senate

Meta

  • Log in

Blogroll

  • Balloon Juice
  • Crooks and Liars
  • Digby
  • I Spy With My Little Eye
  • Lawyers, Guns, and Money
  • No More Mister Nice Blog
  • The Great Orange Satan
  • Washington Monthly
  • Yael Abouhalkah

Donate to Show Me Progress via PayPal

Your modest support helps keep the lights on. Click on the button:

Blog Stats

  • 916,091 hits

Powered by WordPress.com.

 

Loading Comments...