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[Listen] Proposed Missouri Tax Cut To Be Blocked By Gov. Parsons?
Missouri House Budget Chairman Cody Smith joined me on Springfield’s KWTO to discuss the tax cut he sponsored, how the moderate forces in the State Senate reduced it to some degree and the likelihood of the Governor signing it into law.
Start listening at -01:18:15min on the Wake Up Springfield Missouri Podcast -6/1/22 here.
Ranked Choice Voting Is a Bad Choice
You will not believe what “reformers” have devised to tinker with and manipulate our elections. It is called ranked choice voting (or “instant runoff voting”)—but it is really a scheme to disconnect elections from issues and allow candidates with marginal support from voters to win elections. In the end, it is all about political power, not about what is best for the American people and for preserving our great republic. So-called reformers want to change process rules so they can manipulate election outcomes to obtain power.
Continue reading here.
Missouri’s Ranking According To Rich States/Poor State
Jonathan Williams, Executive Vice President for Public Policy of the American Legislative Exchange Council joined me to discuss the 2022 Rich States/Poor States publication wherein Missouri dropped seven spots from 29th to 21st and how the passage of the gas tax was one of the major reasons for the decline. We also discussed how Red States continue to economically lead Blue States as the nation continues to emerge from the pandemic.
Where the jobs movedData: Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, Bureau of Labor Statistics. Chart:
Simran Parwani/Axios More warehouse workers, fewer waiters. More health store employees, fewer in public schools. The job market is nearly back to full strength, but it looks strikingly different, Axios' Courtenay Brown writes.
Why it matters: Pandemic-era disruptions have shaken up the composition of the labor force — with big implications for how industries will have to adjust to a longer-term worker shortfall.
State of play: With May's payroll gains, roughly 96% of jobs lost during the pandemic are back.
Stunning stat: The private sector has recovered 99% of jobs lost, but the public sector has regained just 58%. Businesses can adjust compensation and policies quickly. Governments were slower.
Other industries have grown: Transportation and warehousing (package couriers and truckers) have never made up a bigger share of the workforce — reflecting the historic appetite for goods.
Blue Cities In Red States Say They Won't Help Enforce Abortion Bans
Some local officials in liberal enclaves within red states say they won't help enforce bans on abortion if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade. The big picture: Cities have a "wide range of powers they can draw on to try to safeguard and expand access to reproductive health care, including abortion," said Andrea Miller, president of the National Institute for Reproductive Health, an organization that supports abortion rights. Driving the news: José "Chito" Vela, a member of the city council in Austin, has proposed a resolution to decriminalize abortion locally, even as Texas has one of the most restrictive anti-abortion laws in the country. Jenna Hanes, a spokesperson for Vela, said his office has been in contact with lawmakers in several other cities, including Dallas, San Antonio and Houston, who are interested in advancing similar measures. In Louisiana, Orleans Parish district attorney Jason Rogers Williams has said he "will not shift priority from tackling shootings, rapes and carjackings to investigating the choices women make with regard to their own bodies." Prosecutors in Nashville, Tennessee; DeKalb County, Georgia; Fairfax County, Virginia; and Durham County, North Carolina have all said abortion-related prosecutions won't be a high priority for their departments, or they directly stated that they will not enforce state bans. That's an echo of the "sanctuary cities" that don't aid in federal immigration enforcement.
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Free-Speech Group Will Spend Millions To Promote First Amendment Cases
An advocacy group that has spent more than two decades fighting for free expression on college campuses is broadening its efforts to fight so-called cancel culture and other perceived threats to free speech across American society. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education is renaming itself the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression and keeping the “FIRE” acronym as it launches a drive to promote greater acceptance of a diversity of views in the workplace, pop culture and elsewhere. Part of the push may challenge the American Civil Liberties Union’s primacy as a defender of free speech. Lukianoff said FIRE has raised $28.5 million for a planned three-year, $75 million litigation, opinion research and public education campaign aimed at boosting and solidifying support for free-speech values. The new initiative includes $10 million in planned national cable and billboard advertising featuring activists on both ends of the political spectrum extolling the virtues of free speech, officials said.
Source: Politico
[EXCLUSIVE] The Governing Style of Ron DeSantis: Create the Public Polling Results, Don't Follow Them
Ron DeSantis, the Republican former congressman from Jacksonville, was elected governor of Florida in November 2018. Since his election, DeSantis has governed in a way unique in American politics. At 43, he is the nation’s youngest governor, which may help explain his willingness not to play things safe. He’s seemingly taken the old quote about football and war to heart: The best defense is a good offense. In choosing a proactive approach, DeSantis has avoided the unforced errors seen from many Republican elected officials, who would rather avoid controversy than lead on the issues important to voters.
The result? He has outraised his three chief Democratic opponents combined by an order of magnitude. As of May 9, he had raised one-seventh of a billion dollars for his reelection, almost ten times the amount raised by the Democratic challengers:
Social Media Highlights
https://twitter.com/SenateCaucus/status/1533483544365891584
https://twitter.com/BobOnderMO/status/1533458257595056129
https://twitter.com/AVPradioshow/status/1533591420522704897
https://twitter.com/bevehlen/status/1533448950874877952
https://twitter.com/NewstalkSTL/status/1533775482482720771
https://twitter.com/SenateCaucus/status/1533085609232850951
Campaign
https://twitter.com/BenBrownTweets/status/1533282762509242368
https://twitter.com/NickBSchroer/status/1533517140925587457
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