15 Tuesday Feb 2022
Posted in social media, Uncategorized
This afternoon in Jefferson City:
Missouri Senate Conservative Caucus @SenateCaucus
Reports of law enforcement only allowing the trucker convoy to leave their meeting place one truck every 30 minutes & threatening to arrest or give tickets to pickup trucks with American flags driving around the Capitol since they didn’t get a “parade permit”. #moleg
2:24 PM · Feb 15, 2022
The horror.
01 Thursday Jul 2021
Posted in Healthcare, Missouri Governor
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.
Previously:
So, why hasn’t Medicaid Expansion happened in Missouri? (March 31, 2019)
Because Medicaid expansion is “too expensive” (October 28, 2019)
Medicaid Expansion Rally – Clinton, Missouri – April 17, 2021 (April 17, 2021)
Medicaid expansion? What Medicaid expansion? (May 3, 2021)
So it begins (May 21, 2021)
01 Saturday Aug 2020
Tags
#resist, concern trolling, Jefferson City, meta, missouri, protest
“…Apparently a few people staged a die in on the street next to the Governor’s Mansion. In the afternoon in July in Jefferson City. Really? It’s not like they were blocking rush hour traffic…”
We continue to get comments:
Are you trying to justify that no law was broken because there was not “rush hour traffic”? That is pitiful. Protesters have the right to assemble, but they have no need to block the streets and expect nothing to happen. Also, please work on your grammar and sentence structure. I got a headache from reading this.
A hand wringing concern troll. Heh.
You’re here, aren’t you?
“…I got a headache from reading this.”
Then don’t read us. Or, I dunno, start your own blog and do better?
On July 4, 2020 in Warrensburg:
Interesting. People in the street. Police are present. No escalation. Peaceful protest. No pepper spray or tear gas.
Previously:
So, today in Jefferson City (July 30, 2020)
How not to escalate (July 31, 2020)
31 Friday Jul 2020
Posted in meta
“…Apparently [yesterday] a few people staged a die in on the street next to the Governor’s Mansion. In the afternoon in July in Jefferson City. Really? It’s not like they were blocking rush hour traffic…”
Jefferson City Police overreacted.
Michael Bersin @MBersin
Replying to @MO_HouseDems and @SharkFu
The nerve. Blocking a street and hindering traffic in Jefferson City during the busiest time of day. In July. I feel sorry for the tour groups waiting to get into the Governor’s Mansion who had to see this. Oh, wait…
5:18 AM · Jul 31, 2020
We get comments, directed at Show Me Progress:
They have no right to be in the street and they were told so. Look what they did in Columbia. You give you protesters an inch and you take a mile. Peaceful is not blocking streets and other taxpayers rights to drive down the streets. The protesters need to learn the definition of peaceful
This crap of protests needs to be squashed before it turns in Seattle. Protesting on the sidewalks, bullhorns, signs are fine, but when you move into the public thruway, stop it.
Hand wringing concern trolls. They try to post comments here. We usually let them languish in comment moderation for eternity (or until we stop paying the hosting bill).
There was no street traffic. And if there was, knowing that area of Jefferson City, approaching from the Capitol, all a driver would have to do is turn right to detour, drive up a block, and then turn left and then right to return to the same street. How inconvenient. A freakin’ block. Maybe our concern trolls consider this a slippery slope of some sort.
How do other towns in Missouri handle such outrageous behavior?
In Warrensburg, at the end of May:
Interesting. People in the street. Police are present. No escalation. Peaceful protest. No pepper spray or tear gas.
George Floyd – Protest – Warrensburg, Missouri – Sunday afternoon, May 31, 2020 (May 31, 2020)
George Floyd – Protest – Warrensburg, Missouri – Sunday afternoon, May 31, 2020 – part 2 (June 1, 2020)
In Warrensburg, in June:
Interesting. People in the street. Police are present. No escalation. Peaceful protest. No pepper spray or tear gas.
March for George Floyd and Justice – Warrensburg, Missouri – June 8, 2020 (June 8, 2020)
March for George Floyd and Justice – Warrensburg, Missouri – June 8, 2020 – part 2 (June 9, 2020)
And in July:
Silent March for Justice – Warrensburg, Missouri – July 4, 2020 (July 4, 2020)
Again, interesting. People in the street. Police are present. No escalation. Peaceful protest. No pepper spray or tear gas.
Previously:
So, today in Jefferson City (July 30, 2020)
30 Thursday Jul 2020
Posted in Resist
This evening from Missouri ACLU:
Breaking: Statement regarding unconstitutional use of chemical agents and arrests outside of the Governor’s Mansion.
“The brutality inflicted on peaceful protesters and journalists by the rogue police force in front of the governor’s mansion today was reprehensible. Under the First Amendment, protestors have the right to assemble and demand accountability from their government. Journalists have the right and duty to report those demands. This especially rings true in front of the taxpayer-funded Governor’s mansion and down the street from the Missouri State Capitol building.
Police have no right to pretend that a law has been violated to justify arrests. But even when protestors can be arrested shooting chemical agents at protestors who were in the process of complying with officer orders is a callous and inappropriate response to dissent. This is another shameful example of police officers unable to accept criticism who then demonstrates that criticism is valid by resorting to the gratuitous use of force. No official who fails to denounce these tactics can be taken seriously if they claim in the future that care about our constitutional rights. Missouri must reevaluate its priorities and recognize that true public safety starts with police reform.”
And:
Kaitlyn Schallhorn @K_Schallhorn
I identified myself as a reporter multiple times and followed instructions the police gave as to where to stand. I had one officer yell at me multiple times to move, I did as instructed. He threatened to arrest me several times.
2:04 PM · Jul 30, 2020
Apparently a few people staged a die in on the street next to the Governor’s Mansion. In the afternoon in July in Jefferson City. Really? It’s not like they were blocking rush hour traffic.
Escalation is not a smart strategery. Not now. Not during a leadership crisis. Not during a pandemic.
22 Saturday Jun 2019
Posted in Missouri General Assembly, Missouri Governor, Resist
Tags
abortion, choice, governor, HB 126, Jefferson City, Mike Parson, missouri, Resist
At about 10:30 a.m. after the rally under the capitol rotunda the demonstration marched to the Governor’s Mansion:
“When politicians lie, people die”
“So bad, even introverts are here”
In front of the Governor’s Mansion in Jefferson City.
Handmaids.
“Women brought you here and women will vote you out”
“Never again”
“No country for old men”
“Oppression is so 1972”
“I will not go quietly back to the 1950s”
“Keep abortion safe and legal”
“We will not go back”
“Stop the war on women, we will not be hushed”
“There’s nothing scary about choice, scary is when you don’t have a choice”
Leaving a message for Governor Mike Parson (r):
Left on the fence at the Governor’s Mansion.
Fierce.
Previously:
HB 126 and HB 127: catering to their single issue base (December 3, 2018)
Gov. Mike Parson (r): Alabama, hold my beer… (May 15, 2019)
Gov. Mike Parson (r): New York is shorthand for what? (May 16, 2019)
Medieval (May 17, 2019)
Sen. Denny Hoskins (r): post session victory dance over any individal woman’s personal medical decisions (May 17, 2019)
Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): the 13th Century GOP in 21st Century America (May 20, 2019)
HB 126: the elephant in the womb (May 24, 2019)
HB 126: “…here for the ratio” (May 25, 2016)
Missouri: Medieval (May 28, 2019)
ACLU: Referendum Petition filed on HB 126 (May 28, 2019)
Women’s Health Care in Missouri – 1, Gov. Mike Parson (r) – 0 (May 31, 2019)
Our nation turns its eyes to Missouri (June 1, 2019)
State Auditor Nicole Galloway (D): Gov. Mike Parson (r) and HB 126 – “…extreme and cruel.” (June 3, 2019)
In the Medieval State of Missouri (June 4, 2019)
Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft (r): Emergency! Emergency! (June 7, 2019)
Campaign Finance: fighting HB 126 (June 8, 2019)
Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft (r): “…it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less…” (June 12, 2019)
This morning at the Governor’s Mansion in Jefferson City (June 22, 2019)
Everyone for Reproductive Rights – Rally and March at the Capitol – Jefferson City – June 22, 2019 (June 22, 2019)
22 Saturday Jun 2019
Posted in Missouri General Assembly, Missouri Governor, Resist, social media
Tags
#resist, anti-abortion, capitol, HB 126, Jefferson City, Mike Parson, missouri, pro-choice, social media
This morning in Jefferson City several hundred individuals showed up at the capitol building (in rainy weather) to protest the radical anti-choice policies and legislation of the republican controlled Missouri General Assembly and Governor Mike Parson (r) and his administration. The rally portion was scheduled to start at 9:00 a.m. on the south lawn, but rainy weather moved that portion of the event indoors under the dome.
“We aren’t ovary-acting”
Individuals with their signs started showing up under the dome after going through security shortly after 8:30 a.m.
“I am not your incubator”
The rally and subsequent march to the Governor’s Mansion was initiated by one grassroots individual via social media. The idea snowballed and a permit to demonstrate on the capitol grounds was secured.
“Queen of my own uterus, thank you very much”
The rally under the dome allowed time for individuals to gather, chant, and speak out before the short march to the Governor’s Mansion.
“Keep your rosaries off my ovaries”
“My body, my choice”
“My uterus has more regulations than your gun”
“If you cut off my reproductive choices can I cut off yours?”
“We will not go back”
“Keep your bans off my body”
Speaking.
“Never again”
“If I wanted government in my womb I’d fuck a senator”
“Choice is freedom”
“She had a heartbeat, too”
Handmaid.
Previously:
HB 126 and HB 127: catering to their single issue base (December 3, 2018)
Gov. Mike Parson (r): Alabama, hold my beer… (May 15, 2019)
Gov. Mike Parson (r): New York is shorthand for what? (May 16, 2019)
Medieval (May 17, 2019)
Sen. Denny Hoskins (r): post session victory dance over any individal woman’s personal medical decisions (May 17, 2019)
Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): the 13th Century GOP in 21st Century America (May 20, 2019)
HB 126: the elephant in the womb (May 24, 2019)
HB 126: “…here for the ratio” (May 25, 2016)
Missouri: Medieval (May 28, 2019)
ACLU: Referendum Petition filed on HB 126 (May 28, 2019)
Women’s Health Care in Missouri – 1, Gov. Mike Parson (r) – 0 (May 31, 2019)
Our nation turns its eyes to Missouri (June 1, 2019)
State Auditor Nicole Galloway (D): Gov. Mike Parson (r) and HB 126 – “…extreme and cruel.” (June 3, 2019)
In the Medieval State of Missouri (June 4, 2019)
Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft (r): Emergency! Emergency! (June 7, 2019)
Campaign Finance: fighting HB 126 (June 8, 2019)
Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft (r): “…it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less…” (June 12, 2019)
This morning at the Governor’s Mansion in Jefferson City (June 22, 2019)
22 Saturday Jun 2019
Posted in Missouri Governor, Resist
Messages delivered:
Wire coathangers.
10 Thursday Jan 2019
Posted in Missouri General Assembly, Missouri House
Tags
Images in the House from yesterday’s opening of the legislative session in Jefferson City:
Representative Ashley Bland Manlove (D).
Representative Martha Stevens (D).
Representative Greg Razer (D).
Representative Crystal Quayle (D), House Democratic Minority Leader.
Representative Ingrid Burnett (D).
Representative Mike Moon (r).
Representative Rob Vescovo (r), House Republican Majority Leader.
Representative Tommy Pierson, Jr., Democratic Minority Caucus Chair.
Previously:
The opening of the legislative session – in the House – January 9, 2019
09 Sunday Sep 2018
Posted in Resist
Tags
#resist, censorship, Jefferson City, Labor Day, missouri, parade
What is it with parades in Jefferson City? Yesterday, a Labor Day parade (think about that for a second).
The evil red t-shirt:
Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America – the red t-shirt [2018 file photo].
We received the following account via e-mail:
Members of Jefferson City Moms Demand Action went to the Jefferson City Labor Day parade Saturday, September 8th in our red t-shirts to split up and march with the various candidates for public office who have earned our Gun Sense Candidate of Distinction designation.
I was told by a parade organizer that we were not welcome to wear our t-shirts in the parade. I thought maybe he had misunderstood our presence and thought we were planning to march as a contingent without a permit. I went over and over the distinction with him to no avail; he wasn’t budging. The police were consulted and threatened us with a citation if we wore our shirts without turning them inside out or covering them with a jacket.
We complied because we didn’t want to cause a scene which would reflect poorly on our candidates or our organization.
It is surely unconstitutional for anyone to have to give up their freedom of speech to participate in a parade supported by city funding for police presence and logistics.
As a private citizen (not a Moms Demand official), I have demanded a public apology from the mayor, city council, and chief of police; and a public reprimand of the parade organizers and police department be printed in the newspaper on the editorial page post haste and repeated in the subsequent Sunday edition. I have also submitted my complaint to ACLU Missouri.
Sue Gibson
Jefferson City
Somebody has some explaining to do.
Labor Day, huh? What ever happened to solidarity?
And, well, newspapers never do anything they don’t want to do.
Previously:
On understanding what it is to be patriotic (July4, 2018)