Today:
Piper For Missouri
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It’s been a busy few weeks, so I figured I should compile a list of things that Missouri’s Republican supermajority has done this session to fight inflation and lower costs for Missouri families:
Yep.
28 Saturday Jan 2023
Posted Missouri General Assembly, Missouri House, Missouri Senate, Resist, social media
inToday:
Piper For Missouri
[….]
It’s been a busy few weeks, so I figured I should compile a list of things that Missouri’s Republican supermajority has done this session to fight inflation and lower costs for Missouri families:
Yep.
26 Monday Dec 2022
Early this morning:
Piper for Missouri @piper4missouri
The Missouri GOP has had a supermajority for 20 years — look around to see the results. They’ve governed with neglect, corruption, and arrogance. They get elected by promising to fix what they’ve broken. Folks, they aren’t going to do anything except line their own pockets.
3:52 AM · Dec 26, 2022
Some of the responses:
Republicans run to grift not to govern.
They have a plan.
Yet people keep voting for them. Sad but true.
Google Kansas Experiment.
21 Wednesday Dec 2022
Posted social media
inThis morning:
Piper for Missouri @piper4missouri
Hot take: if a school is forced to choose academics only four days a week, they shouldn’t be allowed to practice sports five days a week. Make it a rule and see how quickly there’s a backlash that #MOLeg can’t ignore.
9:37 AM · Dec 21, 2022
Heh.
Piper for Missouri @piper4missouri
Parents who have acquiesced to less may stand up for athletics. You can’t win games practicing one day less than the other team…
Some of the responses:
No practice nor games on days school is not in session. Period.
But . . . by cutting back like that they won’t be able to achieve as . . . uh, wait, never mind.
It’s sad, but that would do it.
It’s been my experience that the same parents who couldn’t tell you what classes their kids were taking in middle/high school, or name even one of their kids teachers, will flip their lids & show up screaming if you cut anything to do with school sports.
100%. That’s incredible. And so you need 5 days to be competitive athletically … but who gives a rat’s backside about being competitive academically …
This is NOT America First —
Previously:
For anyone who was wondering, this is not the reason for the existence of higher education (October 16, 2022)
09 Wednesday Nov 2022
Posted Uncategorized
inIn Missouri’s 1st Legislative District:
State of Missouri – General Election, November 08, 2022
Unofficial Results
as of 11/9/2022 6:25:29 AMState Representative – District 1 42 of 42 Precincts Reported
Jeff Farnan Republican 9,323 75.228%
Jess Piper Democratic 3,070 24.772%
Total Votes: 12,393
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You can listen to and engage with voters all you want. You can speak honestly and illuminate your voters’ real life concerns with actual facts and pragmatic solutions. Apparently, that’s not enough to win. You need a majority.
Still, those 3,070 votes were well worth the effort.
Previously:
Ra·tio /ˈrāSHēˌō/: see Jean Evans (r) on social media (October 20, 2022)
20 Thursday Oct 2022
Posted social media
inYesterday:
Mark Langworthy @MarkLangworthy
What’s happening is that Missourians are telling people like you to go away. Go bother someone in California.Piper for Missouri @piper4missouri
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It’s easy for the folks in the Missouri GOP to point at folks like me and laugh and tell us we’re going to lose.All that does is create solidarity. You can try to kick us, but you can’t keep us down. There’s something happening in Missouri. #LFG
Previously:
Ra·tio /ˈrāSHēˌō/: see Jean Evans (r) on social media (October 20, 2022)
20 Thursday Oct 2022
Posted Missouri General Assembly, Missouri House, social media
inTags
1st Legislative District, campaign finance, Jean Evans, Jeff Farnan, Jess Piper, missouri, ratio, social media, The smell of fear, Twitter
Yesterday:
Jean Evans @mojeanevans
Meet Jess. She’s fought hard to keep schools shut down and businesses closed. And now she wants your vote to do more of the same.Piper for Missouri @piper4missouri
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I know you keep up with me, girl. I’m not teaching this year. I’m running for state representative. Just trying to keep my kid’s school open while y’all tell her to get in the field while listening to books on tape. You know…the model you proposed for rural students?
Do you smell republican fear in Missouri’s 1st Legislative District race? You’ve got to wonder why.
Via the Missouri Ethics Commission:
The republican in the race:
That’s some ratio.
Speaking of ratios, some of the responses to Jean Evans (r):
Malarkey!
We see what you did there.
Jess Piper is a rural educator who wants all students, including our rural students, to receive a quality public education. She has obviously not fought to keep schools closed. People are tired of others lying about where people running for political office stand on issues.
Jean, be honest, your work in education promotions privatization of schools, not support of public schools.
Jess is the voice we need in the state legislature. Practical experience dealing with decreased school funding, neglect of rural infrastructure and lobbyists destruction of family farms. She gives me hope
You are obsessed with her lol
More like fear.
Jean, you might want to sit this one out. Jess will go toe to toe with you and you’ll lose.
Meet Jean.
She’s OK with forcing schools to cut their curricula to 4-days a week to fund tax breaks for the wealthy, but trolls people who supported public health protocols protecting students, customers & employees during the pandemic.
Jean’s a hypocrite.
Don’t be like Jean.
Jean, meet our friend Ratio
Heh. We noticed.
Person that wants public education to fail says what?
And we LOVE her for it. Americans don’t want the fascism you’re pushing Jean.
Don’t be like Jean. Jean is sad and bored.
You are a liar, disgraceful. You do not have Missouri citizens in your best interest
She is being paid. That is what matters to Jean.
Huh? I’ve been following Jess for a while… her messaging seems to be about keeping rural schools open 5 days a week. Are you resorting back to talking points from 2 years ago? The world has changed, Jean.
Meet Jean. She has 45,000 fewer followers than Jess. If Jess has 48,000 followers, how many does Jean have?
Well, would you look at that. Us teachers can turn anything into a math problem [….]
We see what you did there.
As I recall Jess taught during the pandemic, in person. She was a brave frontline worker. I have nothing but respect for her and her voice in our community. Thank you, Jess Piper!
You’re a sad, dishonest shill for the GOP.
Believing in public schools and wanting to be a responsible steward of our children’s health. Wanting to invest in rural children. What a concept! Republicans have failed.
The whole world was shutdown. Just stop.
What a load crap. Betsy Devos is the one that proposed keeping rural kids in the field for starters. Secondly, What schools actually shut down last year in Mo? None How many businesses actually shut down other than the first 2 weeks of the pandemic in Missouri?
Saaaay what? Girlfriend you need to cough up data before you roundhouse with parroting opinions. But then that would mean knowing how to research and vet information…which is taught in public schools by the very educators you are trying to cancel and defund. Sit down.
Petty twitter fight? Shouldn’t you be busy stealing public funds for private education capitalists. Or maybe just finding new arguments to ensure that children with special needs are setup to fail.
Pretty much.
You’re Jean. Whose whole existence is fighting to defund public schools and pack the pockets of elitists. And now she thinks her trolling on Twitter is cute. It’s not.
Pretty much.
Well, Jean. Congrats on the steaming pile of horse shit you just dumped on the internet.
Meet Jean. This morning someone shat in her Fascist Flakes. And now she wants your attention so she can fill the hate shaped hole in her soul.
Well.
04 Tuesday Oct 2022
Posted Missouri General Assembly, Missouri House, social media
inTags
1st Legislative District, abortion, GOP hypocrisy, House, Jess Piper, missouri, Roevember, social media, Twitter
This morning:
Piper for Missouri @piper4missouri
The fact that Herschel Walker paid for an abortion surprises no one. Folks with money and means will always have the right to an abortion. When they pass abortion bans, they aren’t meant for powerful folks.Bans are for the rest of us.
7:38 AM · Oct 4, 2022
Well, yes.
Roevember.
23 Monday May 2022
Posted Missouri General Assembly, Missouri Senate, social media
inThis morning:
Piper for Missouri @piper4missouri
When you’re brave enough to put your hot takes on the web, but not brave enough to let folks comment […] One of Denny’s constituents tagged him in one of my FB posts just to lure him into a response since he won’t speak to his constituents. Very typical of MO GOP politicians.
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7:32 AM · May 23, 2022
An open public town hall? What’s that?
Previously:
Sen. Denny Hoskins (r): post session victory dance over any individal woman’s personal medical decisions (March 17, 2019)
Sen. Denny Hoskins (r): regulated land use is evil, until it isn’t (August 12, 2019)
Sen. Denny Hoskins (r): uninformed and selective outrage (September 18, 2019)
Denny Hoskins (r): sleeping through school as an aspirational model for life (June 23, 2021)
Consistently stepping on any available rake as a lifestyle choice (April 30, 2022)
17 Sunday Oct 2021
Posted social media
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This morning:
Jess Piper @EnglishTeach07
Republicans in my state are running on “Make Missouri Great Again” which is cool, but they’re the ones who’ve been in control of Missouri for two decades, so…
7:58 AM · Oct 17, 2021 from Missouri, USA
Yep.
27 Saturday Mar 2021
Posted social media
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This morning:
Jess Piper @EnglishTeach07
Missouri voters: Okay, we voted to expand Medicaid. We voted to end gerrymandering. We voted against “Right to Work”. We passed local ordinances against CAFOs.MO GOP: lol, you must be new here. We do what we want.
7:34 AM · Mar 27, 2021
Yes they do. For the highest bidder, even.
Previously:
Jess Piper (D) in the 1st Legislative District – the time is now> (November 22, 2020)
Save it, print it, frame it, nail it to the schoolhouse door (December 29, 2020)