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Sunday, September 12, 2021 – Missouri political news headlines

Published September 12, 2021 in Missouri Political News - Daily Headlines. Tags: adults blaming others for poor financial decisions, Axiom Strategies, Cortlynn Stark, Crystal Quade, entitlement, Eric Schmitt, Fadel Alkilani, Governor Mike Parson, Kansas City Star liberal bias, Kansas City Star tenants advocacy series, liberal media bias in Missouri, Missouri 2022 U.S. Senate race, Missouri eviction "crisis", Missouri political journalism, Missouri Second Amendment Preservation Act, Missouri vaccine advocacy journalism, MOScout, Remington Research, Sarah Fenske, St. Louis Public Radio, Tony's Kansas City, victimhood, Washington University in St. Louis, Washington University student caught destroying 9/11 display, 🎵Alkilani fabulous he caught on camera🎵.

The Missouri Times: Remington Research (Axiom Strategies)/MOScout poll: Axiom client Eric Schmitt leads GOP field in 2022 U.S. Senate poll

TonysKansasCity.com: AG Eric Schmitt speaks at Rae’s Cafe; Video clip of speech, plus collection of local news coverage

SNL: At local Democrats’ fall picnic, House Superminority Leader Crystal Quade (D-Springfield) serves up full plate of reality and splash of cold water: “We are not Georgia, guys. We don’t have the demographics racially.”

TonysKansasCity.com: Former U.S. Senate runner-up Jason Kander (D) to sell book about PTSD

Fox News: Washington University in St. Louis student Fadel Alkilani caught on video taking down and throwing away American flags from 9/11 display; Student government senator bragged about his “protest against American imperialism”

KC Star: Eviction “crisis” series: Adults who choose to live in places they can’t afford offer excuses for budgeting failure s ; Corporations, COVID, “gentrification” to blame

KC Star: Eviction “crisis” series: Look at maps of where people are making poor housing decisions

KC Star’s Cortlynn Stark: This reporter approaches evictions story with empathy; I worked with a local activist group, KC Tenants, to build out victimhood narrative and seek to “do better by our marginalized communities”

The Missouri Times: Biden vaccine mandate: 16 GOP state senators request special session

St. Louis Public Radio: St. Louis on the Air weekly schedule: Wedn e sday show to promote Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis’ efforts to convince more blacks to get COVID vaccine

SNL: Thrive Branson West opens Table Rock Lake area’s first licensed medical marijuana dispensary; Missouri has issued nearly 139,000 ID card s to “patients”

Washington Missourian: Push to expand Highway 50 to four lanes stalls

P-D editorial: Vaccine mandates: President Biden right, Gov. Parson wrong

P-D editorial: Missouri’s Second Amendment Preservation Act is a scheme to monetize right-wing extremism, and must not stand

P-D’s Bill McClellan: Advice for Democratic voters in a Trump state: Vote for Mark McCloskey

The Missouri Times op-ed: Missouri Farm Bureau President Garrett Hawkins: Here we go again: Biden Administration reigniting Waters of the U.S. (WOTUS) rule

St. Louis Public Radio op-ed: Pulitizer Center’s William Freivogel and Wash U. coed Orli Sheffey: Not enough police changes have been made since Michael Brown’s attack on Officer Darren Wilson in 2014; Missouri state lawmakers and police unions are to blame, but Arch City Defenders and St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones will fix things

P-D letter: St. Charles man says Eric Schmitt should have returned campaign contributions from Torch Electronics more quickl y

P-D letter: Rock Hill sexagenarian provides litany of complaints against Gov. Parson, attempts punchline involving early 1960’s television show

KC Star letter: Kansas City man shares advice “as a gay man, who also has great white privilege” to help Missourians evolve their views on LGBTQ exhibit and slavery

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