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Missouri Senate Adjourns Early After Passing Congressional Redistricting Map
The Missouri Senate passed a congressional redistricting map Thursday and then adjourned for the year. The 22-11 vote came after Senate Majority Leader Caleb Rowden invoked a rarely-used rule to bring a bill from the Senate Select Committee on Redistricting to the floor. The adjournment came a day before the constitutionally mandated end of the session. It was the first time the rule to bring a bill out of committee was used since 1979. And it was one of the few times either chamber of the General Assembly has quit working a day early since a fixed adjournment date was added to the constitution in 1952. All the opposition votes came from members of the chamber’s conservative caucus, who have spent the entire session calling for a map that would give the GOP another seat in the state’s delegation.
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[Listen] Eigel On The Last Days Of 2022’s Session
State Senator Bill Eigel joined Speaker Tim Jones on KWTO this week with barely three days left in the 2022 Legislative Session. Senator Eigel explained one of the few highlights of this Session, the anticipated final passage of a major electoral reform and integrity bill. However, Senator Eigel also detailed the many lost opportunities that State Senate leadership failed to pursue and complete, conservative priorities that many other Republican lead states have already achieved.
Part 1 Senator Eigel Interview, Part 2 Senator Eigel Interview.
State Rep. Curtis Trent’s Closing Out Session In The House and Gearing Up For ‘22 Senate Race
Missouri State Representative Curtis Trent of Springfield, a favorite prospect and recruit of The 100 PAC, joined Speaker Tim Jones on KWTO this week to discuss the final week of the Legislative Session both the highs and the many lows. Representative Trent also provided an update as to his race for the State Senate.
Part 1 Rep. Curtis Trent Interview, Part 2 Rep. Curtis Trent Interview.
Missouri House Approves Voter Photo ID Requirement
Two years after Missouri’s Supreme Court struck down a similar measure, lawmakers Thursday passed a bill requiring residents to have photo identification to cast a ballot. “We already have a good system, we just had to make sure it's always better, because Missourians want and deserve to know that their election system is trustworthy,” said Rep. John Simmons, R-Washington, the bill’s sponsor. The requirement, part of a larger elections bill, passed the House on a party-line 97-47 vote. In addition to requiring photo ID, the bill allows Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft, a Republican, to review the list of registered voters in any jurisdiction. Electronic voting machines will be banned after 2024, except in cases where a voter with a disability cannot use a paper ballot. Those machines, however, would be required to have a paper trail for a potential election review.
In addition, local election authorities can no longer accept funding from outside organizations – language targeted at Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, who funded two nonprofits that passed money along to county clerks and election boards in 2020. Zuckerberg told the New York Times in April that the grants were a one-time effort to help officials adjust to conducting elections in a pandemic.
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Missouri Bill Bars Pharmacists From Questioning Ivermectin Effectiveness
Sen. Rick Brattin, a Harrisonville Republican, told The Star Thursday he added the amendment after he spoke with doctors who worried they would lose their medical licenses for prescribing the drugs. Brattin, who said he previously bought ivermectin for COVID-19 but has never taken it, described the drug as “politicized.” “Unfortunately, because of the politicization of those two drugs, [doctors are] being targeted,” he said. “I wanted to protect them from that.”
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