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Monday, February 20, 2023 – Missouri political news headlines

Published February 20, 2023 in Missouri Political News - Daily Headlines. Tags: #moleg, #moleg news, 2023 Missouri legislative session, 2024 Missouri governor race, Barbara Phifer Missouri, basic financial concepts are racist, Bill Eigel, Bill Eigel for governor, boys competing against girls in girls' sports, boys playing girls' sports, Bridget Walsh Moore, Broadband expansion in Missouri, capitalism is racist, Cody Holyoke, competitive contracting processes are racist, Dean Plocher, Dean Plocher 2024, Dean Plocher statewide race, December Harmon, December Harmon #MOSEN, December Harmon 2024, December Harmon Lucas Kunce, December Harmon Missouri, Eigel for Governor, entitlement, everything is racist, get around stltoday paywall, Greg Vonnahme, how to get around St. Louis Post-Dispatch paywall, how to get around stltoday paywall, I-70 widening in Missouri, initiative petitions in Missouri, Jason Smith, Jay Ashcroft, Jay Ashcroft for governor, John Ashcroft, John Combest, John Combest archives, Josh Hawley re-election, Kacen Bayless, KC Children's Mercy transgender, KMBC liberal bias, liberal media bias in Missouri, LJ Punch, Lucas Kunce, Lucas Kunce for Missouri, Lucas Kunce for Senate, Mark Richardson, Michael Butler, Mike Kehoe, Mike Kehoe for governor, Missouri 2024 elections, Missouri 2024 state budget, Missouri General Assembly 2023 legislation, Missouri political journalism, rural broadband expansion in Missouri, Tony Messenger, Tony's Kansas City, Travis Smith, Travis Smith Missouri, victimhood, Washington University in St. Louis, Washington University Medical School transgender, Washington University School of Medicine transgender whistleblower.

This Week in Missouri Politics: Speaker Dean Plocher talks with Scott Faughn about crime (0:25), initiative petition changes (1:45), tax cuts (3:50), foreign land ownership, spy balloon and TikTok (5:00), lieutenant governor campaign (7:30); U.S. Rep. Jason Smith on House Ways and Means chairmanship (10:00), Medicare and Social Security spending (12:50), defunding IRS expansion (13:45), Washington University Transgender Center (15:15), rural broadband (16:35); Reps. Travis Smith (R-Twin Bridges) and Bridget Walsh Moore (D-St. Louis County) on Washington University transgender issue and protecting girls’ sports (19:45), rural broadband (24:00), who won the week: Kansas City Chiefs and Mark Richardson (27:30)

This Week in Missouri Politics: Rep. Bridget Walsh Moore (D-St. Louis County): “I believe there are now more bills filed than there are actually trans people in the state of Missouri” (23:49)

St. Joseph News-Press: Second Democratic challenger for Missouri’s U.S. Senate seat launches campaign; December Harmon calls herself an “extreme leftist”

Missouri Independent: 2024 governor candidate Bill Eigel t a p s Mike Kehoe, J a y A s h c r o f t over taxes and foreigners buying farmland

Twitter.com/johncombest_com, Saturday: Missouri Democratic Party Chairman Michael Butler resigns, more

johncombest_com on Instagram, Saturday: Michael Butler, Trigglypuff and Rappin’ 4-Tay

Twitter.com/johncombest_com, Sunday: KC Star’s #moleg expose and Chico Escuela’s tell-all book

KC Star’s Kacen Bayless: As Missouri marijuana businesses cash in, small black-owned shops are stuck in limbo; owner of “Funky Skunk” smoke shop frustrated that he doesn’t have a license (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on AOL here)

Combest, The Missouri Times, October 2021: Missouri media’s top victimhood angle for 2023: “Missouri voters approved recreational marijuana in 2022, but experts are worried that minorities will be left out in the cold … Victim archetype: Henny Loc and Bootney Lee Farnsworth dumped their combined life savings into their $20 Sack Pyramid storefront location before trying to secure a vendor license”

St. Joseph News-Press: Missouri looks to expand free access to preschool education

JCNT: Missouri has begun to make plans for its aging population; Gov. Parson sets team in motion (get around Jefferson City News Tribune paywall here)

St. Louis Public Radio: Politically Speaking podcast: Rep. Barbara Phifer (D-Kirkwood) gives the superminority view on boys playing girls’ sports, subjecting minors to transgender hormones and surgeries, I-70 widening, initiative petition process improvements

KMBC’s Cody Holyoke: Power of the People: The initiative petition process is already difficult, and Missouri Republicans are trying to make it even harder (link via TonysKansasCity.com)

P-D’s Tony Messenger: “Trans masculine nonbinary” teams up with activist to undermine Wash U. whistleblower and Missouri Republicans (get around stltoday paywall here)

CQ-Roll Call’s Sandhya Raman: Conservatives use abortion strategies to fight transgender care; Missouri could penalize businesses for reimbursing employees for abortion tourism or sex-change surgeries

P-D letters: Ferguson septuagenarian wants prosecutors punished for wrongful convictions; whistleblower Jamie Reed’s attorney notes inaccuracies in Washington University/BJC defense of transgender center, says Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City also profits from youth transgender campaign (get around stltoday paywall here)

Amazon.com: John Combest: Stalking, Harassment, Internet Trolling: A Guide to Recovering and Rebuilding After Online Attacks – available in paperback and Amazon Kindle

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