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25 Thursday Dec 2025

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Mark Alford (r) [2025 file photo].

Congressman Mark Alford
[December 22, 2025]

We’re disappointed to see the Chiefs’ announcement that they will move across the state line.

While this is a set back for the KCMO metro area, I know Governor Mike Kehoe did everything in his power to get them to stay. I applaud Governor Kehoe and the state legislature’s steadfast leadership throughout this process.

With this behind us, it’s time to move forward. We must deliver real prosperity, job opportunities, and economic development by thoughtfully eliminating the state income tax, while at the federal level, we work to bring home responsible federal investments through my work on the House Committee on Appropriations.

Together, we will turn the “Show Me State” into the “Grow Me State.”

You can smell the desperate fear.

Too bad it had to be over sportsball.

Some of the responses:

BS. The GOP controlled legislature was too busy overturning the will of the voters on minimum wage and abortion. Holding hearings and votes on how to make trans youth lives a hell hole.
They should have been busy on the stadiums.

Kansas tried this perpetual cutting taxes nonsense and figured out that subtracting all the time doesn’t end well. Looks like MO is dumb enough to think they can do it ‘better’ by pretending that subtraction is really addition. 🥴

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What did the Governor do exactly to prevent this from happening?

Mike Kehoe (r) [2025 file photo].

Attended some Cheifs games in a VIP box.

good photo ops.

All while criticizing KC saying we were crime-ridden.

LOL, Kehoe campaigned mightily on the fact he was going to keep the Chiefs in MO no matter what. You the taxpayer paid $175-225K for the #MOLEG Special Session that was supposed to keep the team in the state. Just goes to show how ineffective and incompetent the Republican Majority Controlled Missouri Legislature really is.

the governor gets the blame just as the governor of Kansas is being lauded for her efforts . But the truth when 2 red states are raiding each other it seems the people lose and it’s a rush to the bottom for the area . Moving of a team like this takes away lots of business and economic activity.. Catching a game during the season is a highlight of visiting that area . It’s going to be part of Kehoe’s record that the team was lost under his watch . People lost businesses and jobs

to quote Mark, “the Governor did everything in his power…”. And that was what exactly?

He rambled on……

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They HAD to move. Trump** already thought they were from Kansas. 😜

Yep.

Guess there is now going to be some open space for yet another AI Data Center!

For the win!

Concepts of a stadium plan… or something like that.

We see what you did there.

Congressman Mark Alford, I have no idea why you would applaud Kehoe’s feeble attempt at negotiating with the Chiefs franchise. Oh, I forgot, politicians of the same party stick together even during bonehead decisions.

because Congressman Mark Alford is a major a$$ kisser. He can’t help it.

4th and short. Incomplete pass. Turn over on the Stateline.

Heh.

That’s what you call: “If God gives you lemons, make urine”

Apparently, there’s a plan or something.

3 billion dollars directly to the pockets of a man already worth 24 billion is a scam, not business.

Spend more time wooing the chiefs than gerrymandering!

But did they try to sprinkle some tariffs on it?

Don’t you mean a “Grow Weed State”?

Real curious what attendance is going to look like for the Thursday night game?

We’re about to find out.

Republican Governor Kehoe and the Republican dominated state legislature with a special shoutout to the “Freedom Caucus” were more focused on setting aside the voters majority support of sick leave for Missouri workers and illegally redistricting the Congressional districts to provide Trump with his five House seats in anticipation of the midterm election to focus on this situation. Representative Emanuel Cleaver was not a part of this mess.
Kehoe and the Republican members of the legislature should be turned out of office for their actions regarding but not limited to the situations that have been listed.

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So when you are cutting or eliminating taxes, where is the revenue coming from on the taxes being cut?

Uh, no public good for those not in the 1%.

They have “concepts of a plan.” Sales tax will undoubtedly go up and there will be many cuts made to the state budget; most likely to our public schools.

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Maybe if the legislature funded a new stadium instead of reversing voter approved paid sick leave, they might have stayed. Oh, well 🫤

Wow. How uplifting Mark.

Sure he did

While you were too busy making sure that what the voters already decided was ignored and redistricting the state outside of the constitutionally required time, kansas was making moves. Well done. This is what happens when you pay more attention to DC than what’s going on here.

Congratulations to The Edwardsville Chiefs

While Missouri was focused on gerrymandering, Kansas was focused on the Chiefs and Royals and Missouri loses.

Congressman Mark Alford will tell you Republicans are going to grow in a post about how Republicans lost Missouri’s most prized sporting franchise.
Do you understand he’s providing you with the opposite of receipts?

Do NOT replace the state income tax with regressive taxes like sales taxes and property taxes. If this was the reason businesses came to the state California and New York would not have such large economies. Businesses locate where they have a skilled labor force and necessary infrastructure. Invest in education and infrastructure.

Don’t know why the Hunts couldn’t pull themselves up by their bootstrap and build their own stadium.

Billionaires don’t stay Billionaires by spending their own money

Mark, make sure no flyovers for them happen from Whiteman!!

B-2 bomber [2020 file photo]

Good I’m getting tired of funding a billionaires hobby

Missouri is the new Louisiana thanks to the GOP. Fighting to be last in everything

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What exactly did he do?

nothing

Jack and shit

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Giving out participation trophies 🏆 doesn’t fix our broken MO legislation Mark.
We need true visionary leadership. Time for a change in Missouri.

The governor just lost billions in revenue and lots of jobs. We have to start voting blue. Republicans can only think about the top .5% in Missouri.

Kehoe promised the Chiefs state income tax credits as an incentive for them to stay. Then he proposed abolishing state income tax. Great incentive for keeping the Chiefs in Missouri.
Congressman Alford, we pay attention. Your puny propaganda attempts won’t fool us.

TOOL!

We tried to suck up to billionaires by fucking over the lesser classes but it didn’t work this time.

He did nothing!

Hard to see where our legislators or governor did much of anything other than provide lip service to keep them here.

Please stop posting!

I’m surprised he didn’t blame it on Biden or the deepstate

Wouldn’t say it’s a setback. I’m tired of paying taxes for something that I can’t even afford to attend.

Not with Republicans in charge….

Next to shut down is bothwell hospital in Sedalia. Thanks

Why do we lobby for Corporate Welfare anyways?
A lot better ways to spend money than lining the pockets of The Hunts.
I think we shut down the NFL and shut down Agriculture. Then we allocate $ and appropriate legislation on which one after 30 days the citizens start wanting back first.
*hint in the history of the world no government has ever been over thrown because of an entertainment less society.

I genuinely don’t understand why we pay sports teams to do anything or pay to build them shit. They make plenty of money without taxpayer income. Make them do it their damn selves; then maybe they wouldn’t be extorting their home cities every time the lease renews. Sure, teams might move, but at least you didn’t have taxpayers giving them money for x number of years only for them to leave afterward with no regard to their fans.
I don’t care that the Chiefs are moving, by the way. Just sharing my opinion on subsidizing sports teams in general. It’s not our responsibility to pay for their business.

Are you kidding me?? What a joke.

Well we’re disappointed in everything you do!

He did nothing. Are u out of your mind????

Maybe elect a governor in Missouri who is a leader and visionary not a MAGA culture warrior

There’s that.

Listen Mark I am totally conservative but eliminating the state income tax is stupid

Congressman Mark Alford, maybe you all were too busy trying to gerrymander the state?

So what will replace the income tax. Well, if history is a guide, increase the regressive sales tax. Billionaires like regressive taxes.

Just remember who you voted for in Missouri. This is what you get

Weird spin on failure

Maybe spend less time bitching and pointing fingers and more time solving issues and these things could be avoided.

Everything republicans touch turns to shit.

Maybe if y’all didn’t spend so much time trying to gerrymander the maps and do the orange felon’s bidding, you would have seen this coming like the rest of us were screaming. This falls on all of your heads. And I hope Missourians don’t forget when y’all’s time is up.

Really? You’ve been out and about dividing and spreading propaganda and mugging for photos at the White House—while Governor Kelly was at work, proving she is much more accomplished and capable than any politician in the state of Missouri. Thanks again, for NOTHING. You give us nothing but propaganda day in and out. Go hang your head in shame.

Kehoe and the legislature are worthless. They’re more concerned with overturning the voters will and bankrupting the state.

Leave it to Republicans to fumble the simplest things.
You’re all failures. Absolute embarrassments and failures.

Our governor didn’t do crap. You’re just an another politician just like the rest of them.

Socialism for the rich! And you support it. Hypocrite.

This is entertainment…formerly NFL Football. Their GAME is not essential. And then to watch one of the “star” players pout like a child scolded or be the tough guy that roughs up the coach because he can’t control his delicate feelings. The new stadium ought to have a giant consolation trophy prominently mounted on it. The paking fees are exorbitant as are tickets. These are not doctors or scientists….they provide nothing but high-priced over-rated entertainment.

Congressman Mark Alford your idiot megalomaniac fiscal policies only benefit the wealthy.
Maybe we can drop enough population that your district is eliminated. 😂

Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

Previously:

Are you ready for some football? In Kansas. (December 23, 2025)

No winners (December 23, 2025)

No winners

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Sen. Patty Lewis (D) [2025 file photo].

From Senator Patty Lewis (D):

The Chiefs’ decision to leave Missouri is incredibly disappointing. There are no winners in a Border War, just losses on both sides. Companies moving back and forth across the state line to reap massive tax breaks while creating no real net job growth is bad for families, bad for the region, and bad for both states. Missouri’s Governor has no plan to grow our economy besides doubling down on the same failed tax plans that brought us here. It’s time for a hard and honest look at what is driving people, business, and teams out of Missouri.

Some of the responses:

Well, regulating what physicians can and cannot do at the legislative level is part of our brain drain. Physicians don’t even want to come here for residency or fellowship because they cannot get adequate training. Like it or not pro life crowd, we are losing good qualified physicians because they cannot practice for fear of legal retribution.

There’s that.

The Missouri state government is full-on fascist right now, for one thing. Kansas seems much more stable.

Republican philosophy is: I have mine. You are on your own.

For now, I believe this to be what’s going on here in Missouri “The inmates are running the asylum”. This means that those who should be in control (the “asylum staff”) are actually being managed or dictated to by the people who are supposed to be controlled (the “inmates”), leading to chaos, disorder, or bad decisions, often because the supposed leaders are incompetent or absent. It signifies a complete role reversal where the least qualified people are in charge, creating an anarchic or dysfunctional situation, common in corporate or tech settings.

I think what this means is yet another multi-billion dollar employer has seen the instability in the state and decided to move on.

No it is the rich looking for another free stadium.

It’s the Republicans who run the state! They run over our wishes again and again. I’m not saying the Democrats will make everything better but it’s worth a try. Cutting taxes indiscriminately will only mean a cut in services and jobs. It’s time to change direction.

Kansas and Missouri are in a race to the bottom. You hit the nail on the head: when businesses jump across the state line for tax incentives, no new net jobs are being created in the KC metro and workers get stuck paying the bill. Both states need to find a better approach or both states will soon find themselves bankrupt.

Missouri Governor is just another Trump puppet! Take care of the rich and screw the middle class, schools and small business. It’s time the people stood up

Mike Kehoe (r) [2025 file photo].

Previously:

Are you ready for some football? In Kansas. (December 23, 2025)

Are you ready for some football? In Kansas.

23 Tuesday Dec 2025

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Not a happy camper:

Rick Brattin (r) [2025 file photo].

Yesterday:

Senator Rick Brattin
District 31

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For Immediate Release:
December 22, 2025

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State Senator Rick Brattin Responds to
Kansas City Chiefs’ Decision to Leave Missouri

(Jefferson City, MO) – State Senator Rick Brattin issued the following statement today in response to the Kansas City Chiefs’ to relocate operations out of Missouri:

‘Missouri taxpayers have been loyal to he Kansas City Chiefs for decades. That loyalty was real, tangible, and costly. It was expressed in public dollars, public infrastructure, and a willingness time and again to support a franchise that benefitted enormously from being based in Missouri.

The chiefs’ decision to leave Missouri despite that history is deeply disappointing and profoundly disrespectful.

Missourians did not simply cheer from the stands. They helped build Arrowhead. They helped maintain it. They helped finance it. They created the environment that allowed the Chiefs to become one of the most successful and valuable franchises in professional sports. When the moment came to decide whether Missouri would once again step up, the state did exactly that.

The Missouri General Assembly passed legislation specifically designed to keep the Chiefs in Missouri. The legislation offered extraordinary financial incentives and long-term stability. It represented a clear signal to the Chiefs that Missouri values you and Missouri is willing to invest to keep you here. That was not an empty gesture. That was a good faith effort on behalf of Missouri taxpayers. The chiefs chose to walk away anyway.

That choice sends a clear message that decades of taxpayer support and loyalty can be discarded the moment a better offer appears across the state line. That is not partnership. That is exploitation. Missouri did not abandon the Chiefs. The Chiefs abandoned Missouri.

Because of that, I intend to introduce legislation that restores fairness and accountability. Under my proposal, any professional sports franchise that leaves a publicly funded stadium will be required to pay one percent of the total demolition cost of that stadium for every year the team used it.

if taxpayers were expected to help build and sustain these facilities, they should not be left holding the bill when a team decides to leave town. This is not about punishing success. It is about honoring responsibility. It is about making sure that taxpayer loyalty is not treated as disposable and that public investment is respected not taken for granted.

Missouri kept its word. Missouri acted in good faith. Missouri showed up when it mattered. If a franchise chooses to walk away from that loyalty, it should not walk away from the consequences. Missouri deserves better and I intend to make sure this never happens again.

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Some of the responses:

Senator your proposed legislation sounds to me like an emotional response to a business decision. It also sounds like a good way to guarantee Missouri never sees another professional team. Missouri had a chance to step up and the voters of Jackson county said no and the Missouri legislature came up with an offer that wasn’t as good as the competition. You’re part of that legislature you should have worked harder to offer a more competitive deal. This is Missouri’s fault. All the Chiefs did was take advantage of a superior offer. I would suggest rather than making emotional statements you get to work trying to keep the Royals because you’re about to loose them also.

Not really a superior offer when Missouri can back up their offer. Kansas has several STAR bonds that are in default like Prairiefire, Topeka Heartland park & Schlitterban as well as Strataca which is projected to take decades to break even on its bonds… Kansas can’t afford it.. it’s all smoke

3 billion dollars directly to the pockets of a man already worth 24 billion is a scam, not business.

Why should taxpayers pay for all these mega rich sports teams. 99% of those who get stuck with the bill can’t afford to attend just one game.

As a resident of Cass county, I won’t see any of this money. However, for those who reside in Jackson county, I think a little coin in their collective back pockets couldn’t hurt. Business or not, there is something to be said about loyalty.

Your proposal is a short sighted retaliatory response to an understandable business decision. If we want any hope to attract future businesses, we better not penalize current businesses for leaving.
Good begets good. Bad begets bad.
Bottom line Missouri didn’t try to do anything until it was too little too late. For far too long, Jackson County citizens stood alone. They said “no more” about 18 months ago. Jefferson City slapped something together only in the June special session. Apparently it wasn’t important enough to do in general session.
It is sad to see the Chiefs leave. Really sad. End of an era yada yada yada. We will survive. But it does sting.
It’s time for Jefferson City to do better. To be better.
Lay out publicly in detail what your priorities are and why they are the best priorities for Missourians. Make your case like our founders intended.
Stop rubber stamping the lobbyists and big donor agendas.
Listen and do what your constituents want and need.
Be better. Please.

If that sales tax vote would have been for the Chiefs only, I am certain it would have passed. But the Royals and their confusion concerning what they wanted to do botched the whole thing. Also, as I recall, when the votes for the renovation occurred long ago it was only Jackson and Clay County that voted for them and Kansas didn’t care then. I used to have season tickets to the Chiefs, but the price and other things started to be too much. I can’t even imagine the price the tickets and any parking will be when they build a brand-new domed stadium in Kansas. Since the Chiefs were named after the nickname of then mayor H. Roe Bartle of Kansas City, will the Chiefs change their name? I’m sure that will make a lot of people happy.

we voted on it and it was a no . Why should tax payers pay for a billion dollar stadium for billionaires . Broncos building there own. This falls back on the greed of the owners not the legislation. I disagree with this bill though because it won’t help bring more teams in.

Glad my tax dollars ain’t paying for a new stadium now!

You took care of the chiefs like you do your roads.

That one left a mark…

If you are a Missourian and you learned nothing about the NFL loyalty to the profut margin from the Rams leaving I can’t help you.

Only the wealthy will be able to afford to go to a game. You can expect ticket prices to rise and tax rates to go through the roof. Truth be known, there are likely more season ticket holders in Johnson County than anywhere else.

I couldn’t care less.

And this, sportsfans, is why we cant have nice things.

LOL. The whining is loud today.

As a Missouri taxpayer from the STL……I am happy to no be using my tax money to Prop up a billionaire and his family. The ticket prices would not be cheaper because the taxpayers were footing the bill. Screw the billionaires, let the people of Kansas foot the bill. Shame on the Republicans in Missouri for trying to waste our hard earned tax dollars to go to a billionaire that can pay for the majority themselves. Mayne ot is time for the Missouri legislation to sit this one out.

Someone has daddy issues. They ain’t leaving they’re moving across town. It hurts your wallet not mine.

“…[We] avoid these ends by avoiding these beginnings…”

I want my taxes for this to stop!

The Missouri Republican Party has overseen dozens of companies leaving, major factory closures, the KC Royals looking to Kansas and now, two NFL teams in less than twenty years. Also, they are 500 million dollars in the hole to help the upper earners Is it time to bench the Missouri Republican Party? YES VOTE THEM OUT!!!

The fans spend billions to fund ball players that kneel and hate our flag and what it stands for.
All done while our vets give uncle Sam a blank check over there lives to give millions to guys who are horrible examples to our children. Fans have things backwards!!!!!

Uh, sir, this is a fast food restaurant.

Chiefs absolutely sucked eggs for FIFTY years and Missouri still supported them. They have a few great years (that appear to ending) and immediately cut and run for extra taxpayer dollars extracted from Kansans. Loyalty in sports is absolutely only given by the fans.

Chaser:

Not anymore.

Prophet? Bad omen?

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“…A vote for [yes] the Value Them Both Amendment would affirm there is no Kansas constitutional right to abortion…”

Via the Kansas Secretary of State:

Yep, “Yes” lost. Bigly.

Excuses:

Value Them Both Releases Statement on Election Results

08.02.22 — Over the last six months, Kansans endured an onslaught of misinformation from radical left organizations that spent millions of out-of-state dollars to spread lies about the Value Them Both Amendment.

Sadly, the mainstream media propelled the left’s false narrative, contributing to the confusion that misled Kansans about the amendment. While the outcome is not what we hoped, our movement and campaign have proven our resolve and commitment. We will not abandon women and babies. [….]

Chutzpah.

Group behind misleading abortion amendment texts tied to former Congressman Tim Huelskamp, report says
Andrew Bahl
Topeka Capital-Journal

A PAC led by former Congressman Tim Huelskamp was behind a misleading text message urging support for a proposed abortion amendment to the Kansas Constitution, the Washington Post reported Tuesday.

The messages, which were sent Monday afternoon to registered Democrat voters, inaccurately implied that voting yes on the amendment would protect abortion rights in the Kansas Constitution, when in fact the opposite is true. [….]

Yep, chutzpah.

“Hey patriarchy, get your religion off my body”

Previously:

In Kansas (July 26, 2022)

They’ll be back (August 2, 2022)

The message (August 3, 2022)

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Abortion will remain legal in Kansas.

Claire McCaskill @clairecmc
Thing I never thought I would say….thank God for Kansas.
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“…A vote for [yes] the Value Them Both Amendment would affirm there is no Kansas constitutional right to abortion…”

Via the Kansas Secretary of State:

Constitutional Amendment

Precincts Reporting: 3025 of 3994

Votes %

Constitutional Amendment – “YES” 300,815 39%

Constitutional Amendment – “NO” 463,414 61%

Total Votes 764,229

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They’ll be back. You can count on it.

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On the ballot in Kansas on August 2, 2022:

Anti-choice:

“…A vote for the Value Them Both Amendment would affirm there is no Kansas constitutional right to abortion or to require the government funding of abortion, and would reserve to the people of Kansas, through their elected state legislators, the right to pass laws to regulate abortion…”

Who the hell knows?:

Pro-choice:

“…A vote against the Value Them Both Amendment would make no changes to the constitution of the state of Kansas, and could restrict the people, through their elected state legislators, from regulating abortion by leaving in place the recently recognized right to abortion…”

As usual, in America

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Rep. Sharice Davids (D) [2019 file photo].

DAVIDS STATEMENT ON SHOOTING AT OLATHE EAST HIGH SCHOOL
March 4, 2022 Press Release
Representative Sharice Davids issued the following statement after reports of a shooting incident at Olathe East High School:

‘I have been in touch with Olathe leaders, school administrators, and law enforcement as we process and respond to the tragic incident at Olathe East earlier today. This was a traumatic event for our community, and we are all hoping for the speedy recovery of those injured as we figure out how to best support each other and our students. I want to recognize our local law enforcement, particularly the Olathe Police Department—their preparation, courage, and coordination has been exemplary, and I know their response helped many parents feel safer during a terrifying situation.

My thoughts are with the students, staff, and families of Olathe East as the investigation continues. These are the texts no parent wants to receive, the fear that far too many kids live with, and the headlines that every American is tired of reading. I stand with our community and with every Kansan who has come out to support us and ask for change.’

Nothing will change.