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Wednesday, February 2, 2022 – Missouri political news headlines

Published February 2, 2022 in Missouri Political News - Daily Headlines. Tags: #MOSEN, Andrea Henderson, Ann Wagner, Barbara Washington Missouri, Better Elections Missouri, bomb threat hoaxes Missouri, bomb threats are racist, Brian Williams, Clean Missouri, Dave Schatz, Dillon Bergin, diversity hires, Donald Kauerauf, Ed Lewis, Eric Greitens, Eric Schmitt, everything is racist, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Governor Mike Parson, Harris-Stowe bomb threat hoax, hate crime hoaxes in Missouri, Holly Edgell, Jason Hancock, Jeanne Kuang, John Bowman St. Louis, John Combest, John Danforth, Jonathan Shorman, Josh Hawley, journalists rattling tin cup for story subjects, Kansas City Star liberal bias, liberal media bias in Missouri, Lucas Kunce, Lucas Kunce for Missouri, Lucas Kunce for Senate, Luke Nozicka, Mark McCloskey, Midwest Newsroom, Mike Bernskoetter, Missouri 2022 U.S. Senate race, Missouri candidate fundraising 2022, Missouri Conservative Caucus, Missouri COVID spread, Missouri DHSS, Missouri Independent, Missouri mask mandates, Missouri NAACP, Missouri political campaign fundraising, Missouri political journalism, Moms Demand Action Missouri, Niara Savage, Peggy McGaugh, ranked choice voting Missouri, Samantha Horton, Sarah Kellogg, Sharing America, sponsored journalism, Trump Derangement Syndrome, Vicky Hartzler, victimhood, Xcaret Nunez.

KC Star’s Daniel Desrochers: Analysis: 2022 U.S. Senate candidate quarterly reports: fundraising and spending for campaign committees and PACs

KC Star: Jack Danforth denounced Hawley for his role in Jan. 6. His daughter donated to him.

SE Missourian: Local “Moms Demand Action” chapt e r promotes “National Gun Violence Survivors Week”

Missouri Independent: Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation funds two six-month “fellowships” for Midwest Newsroom/Missouri Independent content creation ; N iara Savage wrote a book about racial violence, and Samantha Horton covered gender diversity in car racing

The Missouri Times: Combest: 20 for 20, Part 1 (10/18/21): Journalism is not dead: “You may be surprised how affordable it can be to lock in a 24- or 36-month lease on young reporters to generate content for your company or industry’s cause.”

SNL: Missouri Legislature halts work for remainder of week as winter storm approaches

The Missouri Times: Senate stymies Gov. Parson’s pick to lead health department

The Missouri Times: ‘Embarrassment to this state’: Gov. Parson lambasts Senate as health director resigns

Missourinet: Opposition from Missouri Senate Conservative Caucus leads to resignation of state’s top health chief

AP: Missouri health director out following conservative blowback

Missouri Independent: Gov. Mike Parson’s pick to lead state health department rejected by Missouri Senate

St. Louis Public Radio’s Sarah Kellogg: Missouri’s health director resigns after Senate fails to approve his appointment; Comments from Sen. “Tony Leutkemeyer [sic],” others

KC Star: Missouri health director won’t be confirmed after pressure from anti-vaccine opponents

P-D: Gov. Parson calls failure to confirm Missouri health director ‘disgraceful’ and ‘an embarrassment to the state’

Columbia Missourian: Senate blocks appointment of state health director, questioning his stance on mandates

SNL: Missouri health director’s confirmation derailed by anti-vaccine Senate opposition

KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rep. Peggy Mc G augh (R-Carrollton) supports state pay worker increases to address staffing shortages at Missouri Department of Mental Health

Columbia Missourian: Bill from Sen. Mike Bernskoetter (R-Jefferson City) would tie unemployment benefits to jobless rate

Missouri Independent: Missourians will vote this November on whether to hold a state constitutional convention

KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Substitute teacher bill from Rep. Ed Lewis (R-Moberly) passes through committee

TonysKansasCity.com: Sen. Barbara Washington (D-Kansas City) plots to defund Kansas City museum

Columbia Missourian’s Xcaret Nunez: Proposed bill could allow people to kill without proving self-defense; Comments from “Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike [sic] McCloskey”

AP: Prosecutor slams Missouri bill as ‘Make Murder Legal Act’; Sen. Brian Williams (D-University City) says self-defense bill is racist

SNL: Missouri bill empowering deadly force for self-defense panned by law enforcement, supported by Mark McCloskey; Williams calls bill “complete bullsh!t … one of the most offensive pieces of legislation I have ever seen in my life”

P-D: McCloskey praises self-defense bill

KSHB (Kansas City): 2 bills to increase funding for KCPD pass out of Missouri House Committee on Public Safety (link via TonysKansasCity.com)

St. Louis Public Radio/Sharing America racism reporter Andrea Henderson: Harris-Stowe shuts down campus for hours following “bomb threat”; St. Louis County NAACP President John Bowman blames incident on former President Donald Trump

Joplin Globe editorial: State lawmakers should pass funding for Medicare [sic]

P-D editorial: Loudmouth bullies score a victory by using lies against Kauerauf

KC Star editorial: Gov. Parson eaten by his pet monster: Missouri health director out for being pro-vaccine

KC Star’s Jeanne Kuang and Jonathan Shorman: Gov. Parson responds angrily after stunning setback on Kauerauf

KC Star’s Luke Nozicka: Kevin Strickland update: Lawmakers urge broadening Missouri’s paltry compensation to the wrongly convicted

Missouri Independent’s Dillon Bergin: Gov. Parson’s lack of action halts Missouri coroner training, while Sen. Mike Moon (R-Ash Grove) makes stale funeral jokes

P-D letter: St. Louis County man who supported “Clean Missouri” bashes GOP state legislators and Ann Wagner, praises “Better Elections Missouri” ranked-choice voting plan

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