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[Listen] 'Its a lot to accomplish in three weeks'
Marc Cox talks with Missouri State Senator Bill Eigel to get the details on the Missouri legislation coming to a close. Did anything get done? Will anything get done in the coming weeks?
Listen live on 97.1 FM talk here.
Sen. Denny Hoskins’ Capitol Report for Week of April 18, 2022
We’ve reached the point in the session when the Legislature is occupied with the 2023 Fiscal Year budget. The Senate Appropriations Committee took up the House budget bills this week and we reviewed each individual item line by line. As we went through each department’s budget, I looked for savings in the lines detailing state government personnel. Throughout my time in the Senate, I have kept my accountant’s eyes peeled for vacant payroll positions. I look for any jobs that have remained unfilled for lengthy periods of time, and propose eliminating those positions from the budget when I find them. After doing this for several years, there are fewer of these wasteful holes in the budget, but I still managed to identify 36 positions that have remained vacant since 2017.
Continue reading here.
Week Ahead
Three weeks left… I’ll be watching Senate bills as they travel through the House process. I’m assuming that they’ll mostly get loaded up with House amendments. But anything that remains clean will head to the governor’s desk. Right now, we have only two (2) Truly Agreed and Finally Passed Bills – and one of those was the supplemental budget. Meanwhile the Senate remains the major bottleneck. The budget is expected to be the week’s big priority, but Floor Leader Caleb Rowden said Rep. Mike Haffner’s HB 2005 dealing with eminent domain will receive floor time. Note: Tuesday could be a short work night as it’s the Governor’s Legislative Barbecue.
Source MO Scout
Kidd on House Process
Rep. Bill Kidd, in the Special Committee on Public Policy Thursday morning, let loose as he presented HJR 81, a property tax phase-out for folks who have paid off their mortgage. He starts off with… “As we all know this bill is deader than a doornail, isn’t it? And what we’re doing today is make everybody get up at 8 o’clock in the morning to be at this committee, but only three weeks left. You must be a very busy committee… because this bill was referred to this committee on January 27th. So, you must be a very busy committee. Took you three months to hear it… I am disgusted. I’m disgusted with the whole process.” Later: When I started this six years ago and I ran into these same kind of roadblocks every year. Either the chairman don’t like the bill or somebody don’t like the bill, or the floor leader doesn’t like the bill or the speaker doesn’t like the bill. Because that’s how it works around here if you hadn’t figure it out. You don’t have representation. So by the way, if you have a bill that other people don’t like, they’ll kill your bill…”
Watch the video here.
Source MO Scout
[Call To Action] Stop Sandy Crawford From Destroying Election Integrity In Missouri
By Cyndia Haggard
Sandy Crawford is at it again, and this time she's out to destroy election integrity in Missouri.NO, that is NOT an exaggeration. The email below this one explains the dirty trick she is up to. Her "election integrity" bill, SB654, is 84 pages of assault on secure elections in Missouri. Among other things, it:
1. Ensures SIX WEEKS of no excuse voting! - A ripe opportunity for increased election fraud!
2. Contains NO SAFEGUARDS against vote centers and drop boxes! - How did drop box fraud work out for us in the 2020 theft of the presidential election?
3. ELIMINATES residency requirements for election commissioners! - Out of state Leftists in blue cities can use this as an opportunity to manipulate elections!
4. WEAKENED hand marked paper ballot language! Missouri wants hand marked paper ballots, not more electronic substitutes.
How did this happen? There was a simple Voter ID bill in the house, HB1878, that passed the House weeks ago. It then went to Crawford's Elections Committee (she's the chair) in the Senate, and that's where the game begins. Sandy gutted HB1878, and replaced it with her own miserable SB654. The bills are now identical, and SB654 stinks. The result? The bill is now labeled "SCS HB1878" and it has an evil twin "SCS SB654". (SCS stands for "Senate Committee Substitute".)
If either passes, we will have legislated opportunities for fraud into our statutes.
Sandy Crawford knows this full well, and we must hold her responsible. Although the bill may not have her name on it, she's still behind turning a bill that required voter ID into an omnibus bill full of opportunities to manipulate election results. Don't let her get away with it!
Action: Call Sandy Crawford's office today or your own Senator. Time is of the essence because the bills are on the informal calendar, meaning that Rowden can call them up for a vote at any time. Crawford's contact information: (573) 751-8793 / email: Sandy.Crawford@senate.mo.gov. Here’s copy for what you can say - tell her you will hold her accountable at the ballot box for what she did, if either SCS SB654 (Senate Committee Substitute for SB654) or SCS HB1878 passes. If Sandy is not your senator, contact your own senator and tell them to vote NO on the two bills referenced in #1. Lookup your legislator here and tell them to vote no on the House counterpart, HB 2140.
Social Media Highlights
1) It’s time for Missourians to defend fair elections with hand-marked paper ballots and photo ID’s. Join the rally April 27th 1:30pm!
2) Great week for the conservatives last week is an understatement! @SpeakerTimJones
3) While Gov. Parsons has passed the largest tax increase in Missouri’s history, other governors are doing the opposite…Nebraska’s Gov. signs the largest tax cut in the states history @jeremycady
4) With only 4 weeks left in session, amendments are added to bills that change the bills beyond the scope of the original purpose and often times violate the MO Constitution. Senator Mike Moon explain 3 examples (SB984, SB761, SB968) on his facebook page here (scroll down his page to see the videos).
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