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Monday, June 6, 2022 – Missouri political news headlines

Published June 6, 2022 in Missouri Political News - Daily Headlines. Tags: #moleg, #moleg news, #MOSEN, 1st Congressional District Democratic primary 2022, Americans for Prosperity-Missouri, Ann Wagner, Ann Wagner for Congress, anti-agriculture bias, avoid Post-Dispatch paywall, avoid stltoday paywall, Billy Long, Brett Dinkins, Camellia Peterson, Chris Dinkins Missouri, Critical race theory in Missouri schools, critical race theory in Springfield MO public schools, Dan Shaul, Dave Helling, Dave Schatz, Eric Greitens, Eric Schmitt, everything is racist, Galen Bacharier, get around stltoday paywall, Holly Rehder, how to get around St. Louis Post-Dispatch paywall, how to get around stltoday paywall, Jeremy Cady, John Combest, John Holt, Jonathan Shorman, journalists treating Roy Blunt fairly after he announced retirement, Kansas City Star liberal bias, lead contamination in Missouri, Lead contamination Missouri, liberal media bias in Missouri, Lucas Kunce, Lucas Kunce for Missouri, Lucas Kunce for Senate, Lucas Kunce Trudy Busch Valentine debate, Midwest Newsroom, Missouri 2022 U.S. Senate race, Missouri DNR, Missouri Independent liberal bias, Missouri Lottery, Missouri Medicaid expansion news, Missouri political journalism, Mohammed Almuttan, Post-Dispatch editorial board, Ryan Hawkins Missouri Democrat, Scott Faughn, Spencer Toder, Steve Roberts St. Louis, Steve Stenger, Steven Roberts, Steven Roberts Cori Bush, Trudy Busch Valentine, Trudy Busch Valentine U.S. Senate Missouri, Vicky Hartzler, victimhood, wanting to live in a safe neighborhood is racist, Wiley Price, Wiley Price IV.

This Week in Missouri Politics: U.S. Rep. Billy Long talks with Scott Faughn about outlook on campaign and career in Congress (0:30), early support for Trump (2:00), Trump endorsement (4:00), farcical “polls” and a “legitimate” poll (4:45), two paths to victory (5:30), billionaires supporting other candidates (6:00), Roy Blunt’s legacy (7:15), energy inflation (9:15); Panel of Reps. Chris Dinkins (R-Lesterville) and Wiley Price (D-St. Louis City), Brett Dinkins and Ryan Hawkins discuss gun control (15:00), GOP U.S. Senate primary (22:00), Lucas Kunce vs. Trudy Busch Valentine vs. Spencer Toder (24:15), Brett Dinkins on Dave Schatz’s path to victory (26:00), primary predictions (26:30), who won the week: Dan Shaul, Holly Rehder, Joe Biden, Steve Roberts, Americans for Prosperity’s Jeremy Cady and Camellia Peterson (27:00)

Fox4 KC/KC Star: U.S. Senate candidate series: Billy Long with John Holt and Dave Hellin g on Greitens (1:15), g u n c o n t r o l (3 :3 0 ), Helling calls Long “silly” and is not amused by Long’s humor (7:30), refusal to drop out (9:30)

KC Star: U.S. Senate GOP primary: Political reporter/cultural anthropologist Jonathan Shorman spends three (3) days in SW MO: “lack of racial and ethnic diversity have helped make the region an enduring bastion of conservatism”

SNL’s Galen Bacharier: How GOP attempts to legislate on ‘critical race theory’ failed in MO

SNL’s Galen Bacharier: Decrease in Medicaid wait times coming, official says, as Missouri violates federal law

Combest, 10/21/21: Missouri media’s top victimhood angle for 1H 2022: “Missouri expanded Medicaid in 2021, but experts are worried that it was too late.”

P-D editorial: Missouri lawmakers gut lottery’s ad budget even as they enable unregulated competitors (get around stltoday paywall here)

P-D editorial: Did they learn nothing from Steve Stenger? Another pay-to-play scandal embarrasses St. Louis and boosts hopelessness. (get around stltoday paywall here)

Missouri Independent’s Janice Ellis: Missouri Republicans wrong on Medicaid expansion, 2nd Amendment; elected officials are bought by lobbyists, “monitoring and accountability” needed, etc.

Missouri Independent/Midwest Newsroom lead-contamination campaign: The venison donated by Missouri hunters to food banks might contain tiny fragments of lead; more government warning labels, lead-free bullets are the solution

P-D letter: Frontenac septuagenarian wants Ann Wagner to answer questions about AR-15s (get around stltoday paywall here)

P-D letter: Clayton octogenarian wants lawmakers to repeal 2nd Amendment (get around stltoday paywall here)

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