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Onder Goes After Ehlman Proposal
In an email to supporters over the weekend, Senator Bob Onder took after a bill proposed by County Executive Steve Ehlmann that would ban the county executive from “engaging in any trade, occupation, business or enterprise.” In his email, Onder dubbed it the “Corrupt Career Politician Protection Act” and said it was proposed to keep potential challengers like himself from running against Ehlmann.
“I don’t call people corrupt lightly, but in my 7 years serving you in the Missouri Senate, I’ve never seen anything more corrupt, sleazy, manipulative and deceitful. Ehlmann hopes to fool voters into thinking they are voting for a ‘good government’ measure, while it’s really just the Corrupt Career Politician Protection Act to protect his own job,” Onder said in the email.
Roorda Comes Out as Republican in Op-Ed; Opens Door to Senate Run
Former Democratic State Representative Jeff Roorda wrote an Op-Ed this week titled “Blue goes Red: Why this cop became a Republican”. Roorda is a former police officer and serves as the business manager of the St. Louis Police Officers Association. His opinion is not unlike that of many of those throughout Missouri and his home turf of Jefferson County where democrats once ran and held office without much difficulty. However, it comes at an interesting time as rumors swirl that Roorda may be considering a run for the State Senate seat being vacated by term-limited Paul Wieland. To be successful, Roorda knows he would need to run as a republican. If he does run, Roorda would be joining Reps. Dan Shaul and Mary Elizabeth Coleman in the GOP primary. You can read Roorda’s editorial here.
Judge Green Doubles Down; Denies Counties’ Efforts to Intervene in Local Health Order Ruling
A Cole County judge declined some counties’ efforts to intervene in a recent ruling that stymied local health departments’ ability to impose sweeping COVID-19 orders.
Judge Daniel Green denied all motions to intervene on Wednesday. He had previously ruled Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) regulations allowing the state director and directors of local health agencies to use “personal discretion” to implement mandates or restrictions were unconstitutional.
The regulations allowed health directors to close schools or places of public assembly in the interest of protecting public health during the pandemic. The judge declared those orders, reliant on the DHSS regulations, void.
St. Louis and Jackson counties, along with a few local public health agencies, opposed the November ruling and sought to intervene.
“This case is about whether Missouri’s Department of Health and Senior Services regulations can abolish representative government in the creation of public health laws, and whether it can authorize closure of a school or assembly based on the unfettered opinion of an unelected official,” Green’s November order said. “This Court finds it cannot.”
Schmitt Challenging Federal Head Start Coronavirus Mandates
Attorney General Eric Schmitt is once again challenging a Biden administration coronavirus mandate — this time joining a multi-state lawsuit in opposition of the requirement for Head Start students to wear face coverings and for employees to be vaccinated.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services unveiled its new standards for the Head Start program at the end of November, requiring teachers and staff to be vaccinated against COVID-19 by Jan. 31 — with exemptions for religious and medical reasons — and enforcing universal masking for everyone who is at least 2 years old.
Gov. Ron DeSantis Moves to Decouple Pension Funds and Chinese Communists
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and some of his administration’s top officials moved Monday to take control of the state’s huge pension portfolio from private asset managers that invest heavily in Communist China. At a meeting of the State Board of Administration, Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis and Attorney General Ashley Moody joined Mr. DeSantis, a Republican, in a motion to “revoke all proxy voting authority that has been given to outside fund managers.” The state officials said they need to ensure that fund managers “act solely in the financial interest of the state’s funds.” The measure also orders a survey of the Florida Retirement System’s investments “to determine how many assets the state has in Chinese companies.” The state took action after Consumers’ Research, a conservative watchdog group, launched a campaign accusing BlackRock, the world’s largest investment company by assets under management, of close and growing ties with Beijing.
Trump's Tax Law Hits Four-Year Anniversary in a Safer Spot
Four years after former President Trump signed his 2017 tax-cut law, most of the measure is unlikely to be reversed in the near term, even under a Democratic president and Congress. Democratic lawmakers were united in voting against the legislation, and they and President Biden subsequently campaigned on rolling back the law’s tax cuts for high-income individuals and corporations. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called it “the worst bill in the history of the United States Congress” several weeks before the 2017 tax law was enacted. Four years later, Democrats are struggling to undo major portions of the law, and it increasingly looks like the Trump bill will be lasting. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) might have given Democratic efforts to really change the law in this Congress a fatal blow on Sunday by announcing his opposition to the Build Back Better Act... Democrats were prepared to target the $10,000 ceiling the law imposed on state and local tax deductions, which Trump and the GOP had aimed at blue-state districts, as part of the Build Back Better agenda. But that issue badly divided the party, with some seeing a provision to raise the ceiling as benefitting the rich. The failure of Democrats to make significant progress on rolling back the Trump tax law comes as a surprise to some tax-policy experts.
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