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Monday, April 11, 2022 – Missouri political news headlines

Published April 11, 2022 in Missouri Political News - Daily Headlines. Tags: #moleg, #moleg news, Allison Kite, Betsy Fogle, Bill Eigel, Brian Treece, Broadband expansion in Missouri, Camillia Peterson, charter schools in Missouri, everything is racist, lead contamination in Missouri, Louis Riggs, Mary Elizabeth Coleman, Midwest Newsroom, Mike Kehoe, Missouri 2022 state legislative session, Missouri congressional redistricting, Missouri Conservative Caucus, Missouri Ethics Commission vacancies, Missouri gas tax increase, Missouri gas tax rebate, Missouri General Assembly 2022 legislation, Missouri Parents' Bill of Rights, Missouri political journalism, Missouri Senate Conservative Caucus, Niara Savage, Parents for Schmitt Missouri, Rasheen Aldridge, rural broadband expansion in Missouri, This Week in Missouri Politics, Tony Messenger, Travis Smith, victimhood.

P-D: Prosecutors want prison time for 3 St. Louis-area residents involved in Capitol riot (hop over Post-Dispatch paywall here)

SNL: Greene County Dems meet for first time in three years; organizers explain plan to win state legislative races; U.S. Senate candidate Lucas Kunce speaks, Trudy Busch Valentine absent; U.S. Senate candidate Spencer Toder explains being offended by “thin blue line” imagery; more

Columbia Missourian: Former Rep. Alan Green (D-Black Jack) says Dems settled on him to fill auditor slot “two or three weeks” before filing deadline

This Week in Missouri Politics: Lt. Gov. Mike Kehoe on Parents’ Bill of Rights (0:45); transparency in school curriculum (2:45); economic development (5:00); 2024 gov race and endorsements (5:45); advice for fixing Senate relationships (8:30); tourism industry (9:30); panel of Reps. Betsy Fogle (D-Springfield) and Travis Smith (R-Dora), Libertarian Republic editor Camellia Peters o n, Columbia Mayor Brian Treece on state budget (14:00); gas tax increase (14:50); rural broadband (16:15); state employee pay increase (17:45); initiative petition changes (20:00); recreational marijuana legislation vs. initiative petition process (23:30); school choice legislation (25:30); who won the week: Mike Kehoe, House Budget Committee Dems, Mary Elizabeth Coleman, Louis Riggs, Brian Treece

St. Louis Public Radio: Politically Speaking podcast: Sen. Bill Eigel (R-Weldon Spring) on congressional redistricting, Conservative Caucus’ role in broader GOP caucus, outlook for remainder o f session

SNL: Missouri Senate expected to boost spending, cut vaccine restrictions from state budget

SNL: Lawmakers add funds for MO Holocaust commission to budget

Missouri Independent: Funding increase for charter schools poised to clear Missouri Senate after compromise; Rep. Rasheen Aldridge (D-St. Louis City) says his vote to support bill has made him lose sleep, c r y

P-D editorial: Republicans in Missouri, Texas and other states assault the right to vote (hop over Post-Dispatch paywall here)

P-D editorial: Illinois is shoring up abortion rights, while Missouri’s ideological extremists are eviscerating them (hop over Post-Dispatch paywall here)

P-D’s Tony Messenger: Missouri Ethics Commission can’t act on complaints until it gets more members (hop over Post-Dispatch paywall here)

Missouri Independent’s Allison Kite a n d N i a r a S a v a g e : Missouri Independent and Midwest Newsroom team up for lead-contamination campaign against Missouri’s “public health disaster” and “environmental racism”

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