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I was told that Mike Kehoe was by far the most palatable Republican option for governor. So much so that some were urging democrats to pull Republican ballots in the primary to help Kehoe secure the nomination and therefore the governorship.


Well, I have yet to read Kehoe say something that isn’t perfectly in line with the Christian Fundamentalist MAGA bowel movement. Everything he says sounds like it could be coming straight from the mouth of our current toothless redneck governor in Jeff City.

Probably because you're biased. I hate to tell you, but Parson himself is not a MAGA governor either. Kehoe absolutely was the most moderate of the three realistic options on the Republican ticket. Ashcroft and Eigel are significantly worse.

They’re both proudly endorsed by Trump

All three of Missouri's GOP candidates for governor were endorsed by Trump. I thought that was the funniest thing. 

I suspect Kehoe will largely continue the vibe of the Parson administration. He won't be a friend to STL, KC, or basically any of the priorities we would like to see here on this forum, but when the chips are on the table I think he at least wants to properly govern the state. I couldn't say the same about Ashcroft and definitely not Bill Eigel.

IE: In the wake of Kim Gardner's sudden departure, Parson could have appointed some kind of right wing blowhard to take her spot. I respect that he actually consulted with city leaders and appointed Gore who has done a fantastic job stabilizing the office. I shudder to think what the state of the office would look like with an Eigel appointed CA

EDIT: Perhaps this is an idealistic view, but modern Republicans have largely been trapped in the Trumpy culture war cult of personality for the past eight years. I wonder if Trump loses today and the GOP under performs down the ticket if it would give permission for republican politicians to start charting their own course again. They can return to their brand of regular "civil" evil and stop trying to bring down democracy. That is, of course, assuming they don't coalesce around the next charismatic "chosen one"

Even if he loses he’ll still be the GOP kingmaker. Anyone lacking his endorsement (other than in a handful of districts/jurisdictions) will be primaried out

JaneJacobsGhost wrote: ↑

Nov 05, 2024

They’re both proudly endorsed by Trump

Trump has endorses like every Missouri GOP candidate. It's because he knows that his endorsement may lose and doesn't want to have a loss on his record. That's why he endorsed "Both the Erics" in 2022, even though Greitens was definitely more Trumpy than Schmitt was.

Same reason he endorsed all three. Kehoe may have been "endorsed" by Trump but when it comes down to it, he's a normal dude who's gonna do typical Republican things, he's not fascist or a wanna be fascist. The longer we keep our state under normal Republican leadership the better.

I know Andrew Bailey's name keeps getting floated around for a federal position, but it seems that he's not he only MO politician Trump is interested in.

NYT - Billy Long promised huge tax refunds. Now Trump wants him to lead the I.R.S.

So depressing. The corruption and hypocracy. And talk about grooming.

Stl PR - Amanda Householder escaped abuse at a Missouri boarding school. She’s still waiting for justice

https://www.stlpr.org/show/st-louis-on- ... or-justice

Faith leaders sexually abusing kids? What a shock. It’s always projection from these losers.

Ugh, knew crap like this was coming. There will be statues too I expect.

StlToday - Missouri lawmakers to weigh naming roadways after President Donald Trump

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/gov ... be844.html

He has nothing to do with our state.  Why don't we at least see if he can deliver on any of his campaign promises.  Plenty of other people affiliated with Missouri to honor first.

Shocking to no one.

StlToday - Republicans look to partially repeal new Missouri minimum wage, sick leave law

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/gov ... f3ab3.html

It was a mistake to not make this a constitutional amendment

Since this is Missouri politics, does anybody here have a good hypothesis why 2 elected leaders, with very similar progressive agendas, never even entertained the idea of City/County reunification?

whitherSTL wrote: ↑

Jan 07, 2025

Since this is Missouri politics, does anybody here have a good hypothesis why 2 elected leaders, with very similar progressive agendas, never even entertained the idea of City/County reunification?

Who?

Auggie wrote: ↑

Jan 07, 2025

whitherSTL wrote: ↑

Jan 07, 2025

Since this is Missouri politics, does anybody here have a good hypothesis why 2 elected leaders, with very similar progressive agendas, never even entertained the idea of City/County reunification?

Who?

The Mayor and the County Exec

whitherSTL wrote: ↑

Jan 07, 2025

Auggie wrote: ↑

Jan 07, 2025

whitherSTL wrote: ↑

Jan 07, 2025

Since this is Missouri politics, does anybody here have a good hypothesis why 2 elected leaders, with very similar progressive agendas, never even entertained the idea of City/County reunification?

Who?

The Mayor and the County Exec

The Mayor and County Executive are nowhere near the same ideologically. Jones is a new era Democrat, to the left of the national Democrats while Page is extremely centrist, would probably be closer to a Republican in states like Vermont or Massachusetts.

Page worked on a unification plan with Krewson. The reason Jones hasn't tried to really work on unification with the County is because 1) The County will not get on board and 2) The city sees almost no benefit to it.

Those folks in Jeff City need to understand this:

St. Louis Drives Missouri’s Economy

From St. Louis Business Journal:  The real gross domestic product generated from Missouri’s St. Louis-area counties in 2023 was $157 billion, accounting for 45% of the state’s total GDP, $349 billion, and reflecting nearly double the $80 billion in GDP produced by the Kansas City metro area’s Missouri counties.

https://www.constructforstl.org/st-loui ... s-economy/

Just a tweet but a scenario nonetheless. This made me think... is the St. Louis MSA the largest bi-state region in the US with states controlled by different political parties?  Would certainly be a more important distinction in this case.

Philadelphia is purple/blue. Charlotte is purple/red. Chicago is sorta split purple/blue/red since it's far suburbs are in WI and IN.

Other than that, STL is the only that's totally split in the way that it is.

I think getting rid of the DOE will just excarebate the disparities that are already there since most schools are funding by local property taxes. No matter what state you live in, there will always be really good schools and really bad schools.