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Sam, I am it…so far

24 Tuesday Jun 2025

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Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C253485 06/24/2025 Sam Alexander for Missouri Sam Alexander 20465 S Highway RA Fair Play MO 65649 Cox Health Physician 6/24/2025 $100,000.00

[emphasis added]

Earlier:

C253485 04/18/2025 Sam Alexander for Missouri Sam Alexander 20465 S Highway RA Fair Play MO 65649 Cox Health Physician 4/16/2025 $20,000.00

[emphasis added]

Grass roots there. Must be nice.

Sam Alexander for Missouri – Active
MECID: C253485
PO Box 455
Bolivar, MO 65613
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Committee Type: Candidate

Candidate
Sam Alexander
20465 S Highway RA
Fair Play, MO 65649
[….]
Republican

Election History
Election Political Office
8/4/2026 Primary Election State Senator District 28 Missouri State Senate
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Press Release: Dr. Sam Alexander Officially Announces His Candidacy for Missouri State Senate, District 28
By Press Release on May 7, 2025

Fair Play, MO — Dr. Sam Alexander has officially announced his candidacy for the Missouri State Senate in District 28. Dr. Alexander aims to replace term-limited Senator Sandy Crawford. The district covers Benton, Cedar, Dallas, Henry, Hickory, Pettis, Polk, St. Clair, and Vernon Counties.

“I am the true conservative Republican in this race, and I am running to defend the freedoms of Senate District 28,” said Dr. Alexander. “As a physician, I saw the injustices of COVID up close. I will fight tooth and nail to make sure that never happens again. I will fight to protect life, uphold the Second Amendment, secure our elections, oppose woke ideology, and ensure Missouri farmland stays in American hands.”
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“…secure our elections…”

Uh, republicans have been in control of the Missouri General Assembly for over twenty years. They control all statewide offices, two U.S. Senate seats, and six of eight congressional seats. Are you telling us that’s questionable? Just asking.

“…oppose woke ideology…”

Did a teenage intern write this one? If not, it would be helpful if woke ideology was defined.

“…ensure Missouri farmland stays in American hands…”

Too late. You might want to ask Eric Schmitt (r) about that one.

SB 119: right wingnut lunacy

05 Thursday Dec 2024

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Bill prefiling for the 2025 legislative session has started.

“…This act creates the offense of possession of an abortifacient drug with the intent to induce an abortion on oneself or another person and the offense of delivery of an abortifacient drug with the intent to induce, or otherwise assist in, an abortion on another person…”

Give it a rest, already. Missouri voters have spoken on Amendment 3 – restoring women’s reproductive health and abortion rights.

State of Missouri – General Election, November 05, 2024
Unofficial Results
as of 11/27/2024 2:54:01 PM

Constitutional Amendment 3 3572 of 3572 Precincts Reported
YES 1,527,096 51.605%
NO 1,432,084 48.395%
Total Votes: 2,959,180

[emphasis added]

Mike Moon (r) [2019 file photo].

SB 119 Creates provisions relating to the possession and delivery of abortifacient drugs
Sponsor: Moon
LR Number:1314S.01I
Last Action:12/1/2024 – Prefiled
Effective Date: August 28, 2025

Current Bill Summary

SB 119 – This act creates the offense of possession of an abortifacient drug with the intent to induce an abortion on oneself or another person and the offense of delivery of an abortifacient drug with the intent to induce, or otherwise assist in, an abortion on another person. These offenses are Class C felonies. It shall be an affirmative defense for either offense that the possession or delivery of the drug was because of an abortion induced due to a medical emergency.
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They want us all to do this again? That’s lunacy.

Previously:

Chutzpah (Kansas) (August 4, 2022)

Campaign Finance: Not too sure about that (January 16, 2024)

Missourians for Constitutional Freedom – women’s rights initiative petition for 2024 ballot (January 18, 2024)

Campaign Finance: Remember Kansas? Missouri is next. (January 19, 2024)

Campaign Finance: own it (January 19, 2024)

Campaign Finance: We’re not in Kansas anymore (January 19, 2024)

Mark Alford (r) – failure to read the womb, again (January 21, 2024)
Campaign Finance: More (January 22, 2024)

Campaign Finance: and more (January 23, 2024)

Campaign Finance: It does, but not in the way you think. (January 23, 2024)

Campaign Finance: and even more (January 26, 2024)

Campaign Finance: “No one expects the anti-choice imposition” (January 26, 2024)

Campaign Finance: this is the beginning, not the end (February 1, 2024)

Campaign Finance: keep it coming (February 4, 2024)

Campaign Finance: philanthropy (February 6, 2024)

Missourians for Constitutional Freedom – volunteer training, petition signing, rally – Kansas City, Missouri – February 6, 2024 (February 6, 2024)

Rev. Holly McKissick – Missourians for Constitutional Freedom – Kansas City – February 6, 2024 (February 7, 2024)

Rabbi Doug Alpert – Missourians for Constitutional Freedom – Kansas City – February 6, 2024 (February 7, 2024)

Dr. Iman Alsaden – Missourians for Constitutional Freedom – Kansas City – February 6, 2024 (February 8, 2024)

Hartzell Gray – Missourians for Constitutional Freedom – Kansas City – February 6, 2024 (February 8, 2024)

Campaign Finance: the world in which they want you to exist (February 9, 2024)

Signing, Everywhere, All at Once (February 10, 2024)

Campaign Finance: definitely a global impact (February 16, 2024)

Campaign Finance: forward (February 21, 2024)

Campaign Finance: still more (February 23, 2024)

Campaign Finance: more forward (February 26, 2024)

Campaign Finance: keep it coming in (March 5, 2024)

Signing the Petition – Sedalia, Missouri – March 17, 2024 (March 17, 2024)

Campaign Finance: there’ll be more (March 20, 2024)

Signing the Petition – Warrensburg, Missouri – April 5, 2024 (April 5, 20204)

Campaign Finance: sign the petition (April 10, 2024)

Sign the Petition (April 15, 2024)

Signing the petition in Lexington, Missouri (April 23, 2024)

Campaign Finance: on several levels (April 27, 2024)

Signing the Petition in Raymore, Missouri (April 28, 2024)

Campaign Finance: guess what’s next (April 29, 2024)

This morning in Jefferson City, Missouri – delivering the signed petitions (May 3, 2024)

This morning in Jefferson City, Missouri – delivering the signed petitions – part 2 (May 3, 2024)

Abortion Rights Rally in Jefferson City – May 3, 2024 – Press Gaggle (May 4, 2024)

Campaign Finance: coming up on the agenda (August 6, 2024)

Reproductive Freedom and Health Care will be on the November Ballot (August 13, 2024)

Campaign Finance: the tide (August 14, 2024)

Campaign Finance: for the November wave (August 22, 2024)

Campaign Finance: Bam! (August 23, 2024)

Campaign Finance: Dayam (August 24, 2024)

Campaign Finance: no one has forgotten (August 30, 2024)

Campaign Finance: $10,000.00 here, $10,000.00 there (September 1, 2024)

Campaign Finance: Back to the Dark Ages (September 4, 2024)

Campaign Finance: On an express train back to the Dark Ages (September 4, 2024)

Campaign Finance: $10,000.00 here, $250,000.00 there (September 5, 2024)

Campaign Finance: throw down the gauntlet (September 5, 2024)

Campaign Finance: seriously all in (September 6, 2024)

Campaign Finance: “We will not go back” (September 9, 2024)

Missouri Supreme Court: Amendment 3 is on the November 5, 2024 ballot (September 10, 2024)

Campaign Finance: the road to November 5th (September 12, 2024)

Campaign Finance: apparently a guy thing, mostly (September 14, 2024)

Campaign Finance: Why are we not surprised? (September 19, 2024)

Campaign Finance: a friend (September 23, 2024)

Campaign Finance: wedge issue (September 24, 2024)

Campaign Finance: no time to waste (September 26, 2024)

Campaign Finance: time is almost up (October 4, 2024)

Campaign Finance: Who would have thought? (October 7, 2024)

Campaign Finance: unequal and opposite (October 9, 2024)

Campaign Finance: not messing around (October 10, 2024)

Donald Trump’s (r) World: they want you to continue to live in it (October 15, 2024)

Campaign Finance: In 20 days (October 16, 2024)

Campaign Finance: even more for choice (October 21, 2024)

Campaign Finance: what she said (October 25, 2024)

Campaign Finance: after that forced birth, you’re on your own (October 25, 2024)

Campaign Finance: everyone knows someone (October 27, 2024)

Campaign Finance: making it their business (October 28, 2024)

Campaign Finance: gird your loins (October 29, 2024)

Campaign Finance: To spend on what?

Fuck You, Fuck You, Very, Very Much (October 30, 2024)

Campaign Finance: the forced birthers spend their money (November 2, 2024)

On the same ballot (November 6, 2024)

And here you thought you were safe (November 8, 2024)

Campaign Finance: missed it by that much (November 9, 2024)

Andrew Bailey’s (r) favorite whine (November 27, 2024)

“Don’t like Abortions?…”

SB 72: on hunting people

05 Thursday Dec 2024

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Bill prefiling for the 2025 legislative session has started.

“…The Department of Public Safety shall develop the “Missouri Illegal Alien Certified Bounty Hunter Program” which shall certify applicants to be bounty hunters for the purpose of finding and detaining illegal aliens in this state…”

SB 72 Creates provisions relating to illegal aliens
Sponsor: Gregory (15)
LR Number:1003S.01I
Last Action:12/1/2024 – Prefiled
Effective Date: August 28, 2025

Current Bill Summary

SB 72 – This act creates the offense of trespass by an illegal alien which provides that a person shall be guilty of such offense if the person is an illegal alien who knowingly enters this state and remains here and is physically present in the state at the time a licensed bounty hunter or peace officer apprehends the person. Such an offense shall be a felony for a term of imprisonment without eligibility for probation or parole with certain exceptions as provided in the act.

Any person who commits the offense of trespass by an illegal alien shall be prohibited from voting in any election, receiving any permit or license to drive, receiving any public benefit, and becoming a legal resident of this state.

Additionally, the Department of Public Safety shall develop an information system for people to report violations of this act which shall include a toll-free telephone hotline, e-mail, and online reporting portal. Any person who makes a report in which an illegal alien is arrested shall receive a reward of $1,000.

The Department of Public Safety shall develop the “Missouri Illegal Alien Certified Bounty Hunter Program” which shall certify applicants to be bounty hunters for the purpose of finding and detaining illegal aliens in this state. Any person with a license as a bail bond agent, general bail bond agent, or surety recovery agent may apply to the program as provided in the act.

Finally, this act creates the “Missouri Illegal Alien Certified Bounty Hunter Program Fund” which shall consist of money appropriated by the General Assembly.
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“WTF is going on?”

Your papers, please.

Better carry them with you.

‘This is Nazi Germany stuff:’ Civil rights attorney reacts to Mo. State Senator’s proposed bounty hunter bill

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Lawmakers with ties to St. Louis are pushing new bills to create a bounty hunter program in Missouri. It would pay people to turn in people they think are residing in the U.S. illegally.

Senate Bill 72 was submitted on December 1 and is sponsored by Sunset Hills-based David Gregory, a House Representative who was elected to the State Senate in November. Gregory wants to pay Missourians up to $1,000 if they turn someone in.

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“As a civil rights attorney that’s great for me,” Khazaeli explained. “It’ll take one week for a Puerto Rican who has been harassed. This is a classic demanding papers, you must have your papers everywhere. This is Nazi Germany stuff.”

Puerto Rico? In Missouri, yep:

Falling asleep in geography and civics classes – We’re number one! (September 12, 2009)

A Johnson County, Missouri woman was denied her regular driver’s license renewal at the Warrensburg, Missouri license bureau (a fee office) when she presented her Puerto Rican birth certificate as proof of American citizenship. People born in Puerto Rico are American citizens.

[….]

In St. Louis County, in November:

Unofficial Results
as of 12/5/2024 6:14:21 AM

State of Missouri – General Election, November 05, 2024

Office/Candidate Name Party Votes % of Votes
State Senator – District 15 181 of 181 Precincts Reported

David Gregory Republican 55,317 51.608%
Joe Pereles Democratic 50,176 46.812%
Jeff Coleman Libertarian 1,693 1.579%
Total Votes: 107,186

[emphasis added]

That ain’t a mandate.

German Nazi Swastika Flag, National Museum of American History. Catalog number
1977.0788.03, 29 in x 49 in; 73.66 cm x 124.46 cm.

And here we are.

If you’ve ever wondered what you would have done had you lived in Germany in the 1930s, you’re doing it now.

Campaign Finance: Solidarity ain’t what it used to be

02 Friday Aug 2024

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There is no such thing as a moderate republican. You’d think individuals and organizations would learn. Instead, they persist in wanting to believe in some mythical unicorn despite all evidence to the contray.

In today’s mail:

Venn Diagram of Right Wingnut Orthodoxy – not complete

A right wingnut republican touting an endorsement from the AFL-CIO?

Nothing from Missouri NEA, eh?

And just think of the juxtaposition of an endorsement from the Missouri State Teachers Association (MSTA) with “Defends the 2nd Amendment and voted repeatedly to guarantee Missourians right to conceal and carry”. Missouri Association of School Administrators, too?

“Protecting our kids from liberal indoctrination in our schools”? Is that book banning or book burning? Just asking.

Try as I might, I haven’t been able to find an International Allied Printing Trades Council label – “union bug” – on any of these mailings. Solidarity forever.

Previously:

There is no such thing as a “moderate” republican (July 26, 2024)

Lazy and incurious (July 30, 2024)

Ballot Candy – part 2

17 Friday May 2024

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Missouri Capitol Building, Jefferson City, Missouri [2023 file photo]

SJR 74 [pdf] was stalled in the Missouri Senate by a lengthy filibuster conducted by the Democratic minority. The bill would ultimately make it more difficult to pass initiatives. It was also loaded with “ballot candy” – measures already in state law which are included to make approval of this particular initiative more attractive to voters, obscuring the original intent.

The Senate sent the bill to the House for conference with the “ballot candy” removed.

Yesterday the House refused to recede (and conference) and sent it back to the Senate:

SJR74 Coleman, Mary Elizabeth HCS SS#4 SCS SJRs 74, 48, 59, 61 & 83
3890H.17C – Modifies provisions relating to constitutional amendments

Taken Up
House Refuses to Recede, Requests Senate to Take Up and Pass (H) – Request Senate adopt HCS, as amended, and take up and pass bill.

[emphasis in original]

There are approximately ten hours remaining in the legislative session.

Here’s hoping for the usual end-of-session dysfunction from the right wingnut controlled General Assembly.

Previously:

Ballot Candy (May 16, 2024)

Ballot Candy

16 Thursday May 2024

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SJR 74 [pdf] was stalled in the Missouri Senate by a lengthy filibuster conducted by the Democratic minority. The bill would ultimately make it more difficult to pass initiatives. It was also loaded with “ballot candy” – measures already in state law which are included to make approval of this particular initiative more attractive to voters, obscuring the original intent.

The bill is now awaiting conference with the House.

In social media:

Senate Democrats @MoSenDems
Senate Democrats have held the floor for over 50 hours, the longest filibuster in Missouri Senate history, to protect voters’ access to the ballot box & to stop a Republican attempt to eliminate ‘one person, one vote’.
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4:52 PM · May 15, 2024

Jonathan Shorman @jonshorman
In the Missouri Senate, Democratic filibuster appears to have succeeded as Republican Sen. Mary Elizabeth Coleman moves to send plan to limit direct democracy back to conference committee #moleg
4:31 PM · May 15, 2024

Missouri Independent @MO_Independent
A 50-hour Democratic filibuster forced the Senate’s divided GOP majority to finally yield Wednesday evening, stalling a vote on a bill seeking to make it more difficult to amend Missouri’s constitution.
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6:49 PM · May 15, 2024

The end of the legislative session is on Friday, May 17th.

Someone has a sad:

Rick Brattin (r) [2013 file photo].

State Senator Rick Brattin
[May 15, 2024]
Today 9 republicans joined with 9 democrats in an attempt to kill IP reform.
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In the 31st Senate District

24 Sunday Mar 2024

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Ray James (D) [2024 file photo].

Candidate filings in the 31st Senate District:

State Senator – District 31

Republican

Name Mailing Address Random Number Date Filed

Rick Brattin P. O. BOX 421 HARRISONVILLE MO 64701 45 2/27/2024 1:23 p.m.

Michael Haffner PO BOX 407 RAYMORE MO 64083 821 2/27/2024 8:11 a.m.

Dan Houx P. O. BOX 115 WARRENSBURG MO 64093 997 2/27/2024 1:15 p.m.

Democratic

Name Mailing Address Random Number Date Filed

Raymond L. James 552 SE HIGHWAY EE LEETON MO 64761 3/21/2024 10:48 a.m.

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Poor, poor pitiful me

29 Monday Jan 2024

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Where ya gonna park your car?

Denny Hoskins (r) [2022 file photo].

Spin, via email addressed to constituents, from Denny Hoskins (r):

Greetings! Adversity comes before every great victory, and that is never truer than as someone working within the Missouri Senate.

This week I was met with bitter news. I was unexpectedly removed as the Chair for the Committee on Economic Development and Tax Policy during a press conference held on Jan. 23, 2024. I was also removed from the Appropriations Committee. From what I understand this was not due to a failure to fulfill my duties as a chair or committee member. Rather, it seems to relate to the use of certain strategies used on the Senate Floor to pass initiative petition (IP) reform. It also comes after I voted alone against Senate Bill 748, which extends Missouri’s law relating to the federal reimbursement allowance (FRA).

Removing a senator from their position as chair hasn’t occurred during session in over a decade, and it is completely unheard of in our Senate’s history for a group of senators to lose their positions as committee chairs all at once. In a more comical development, they also moved my parking spot further away. I’ve heard leadership discussed removing my office furniture as well. Unfortunately, you can’t make this stuff up folks.

On top of that, these decisions were made without any attempts to compromise or discuss solutions directly with me, and I can’t help but feel it is a punitive action meant to try and silence me as I work to bring my conservative ideals, and the ideals of my constituents, to the forefront of the discussion on the Senate Floor.

Despite this, I will remain steadfast in pushing for the immediate discussion and passing of IP reform on the Senate floor. IP reform is a priority of conservatives throughout the state and I will do everything in my power to make sure it is a priority here in the Senate Chamber. We cannot wait until the last day of session to pass IP reform like we have previously.

I hope to open negotiations with my colleagues to help us all move forward in our work.

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“…certain strategies…”

Translation: “reactionary obstruction”

“…In a more comical development, they also moved my parking spot further away. I’ve heard leadership discussed removing my office furniture as well. Unfortunately, you can’t make this stuff up folks….”

This is done all the time in Jefferson City.

The cult of the victim.

Sure. The goal of curtailing and effectively eliminating initiative petitions for Missouri citizens by using obstructionist tactics is just so democratic. The irony escapes Denny Hoskins (r).

“…I hope to open negotiations with my colleagues to help us all move forward in our work…”

Sure. The republicans have controlled the General Assembly for over twenty years. What gives anyone the impression that they’ll change the way they do business any time soon, if ever?

What a clown show.

Previously:

Elect republican clowns, expect a republican circus (January 27, 2024)

Try caning first (January 27, 2024)

Try caning first

27 Saturday Jan 2024

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Clown hardware.

This past week, in Jefferson City:

Senate Democrats @MoSenDems
The Missouri Republican Civil War continues to escalate as a member of the Freedom Caucus faction has filed a proposed rule change to allow Senators to challenge an “offending senator to a duel.” #moleg
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4:47 PM · Jan 24, 2024

Try caning first.

Less likely to harm any innocent bystanders.

Previously:

Elect republican clowns, expect a republican circus (January 27, 2024)