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State Sen. Bill Eigel said he didn't burn books but instead empty boxes in a recent video, however.
I am voting for: Bill Eigel for Governor of Missouri
He Calls Out the Missouri Political Swamp daily> https://x.com/BillEigel
Apparently requiring a remedial biology class, Missouri State Senator Bill Eigel is worried about allowing one-year-olds to have abortions.
Anti-choice extremists have gone from claiming there’s a movement to abort babies after birth, to claiming that babies are getting abortions.
In Missouri, state legislators were debating an abortion ban, and whether it should include exceptions for rape and incest, only for one state Senator — one who aims to become Governor — to argue that Democrats are trying to give abortions to one-year-old infants.
Senator Bill Eigel was addressing an amendment that would have allowed abortions for child rape victims.
In case anyone reading this was served as poorly in sex ed classes as Senator Eigel seems to have been, a pregnancy in a one-year-old child would be an incredible, unprecedented biological anomaly, and likely fatal if allowed to proceed.
This came as Senator Doug Beck offered an amendment that would only permit abortion to protect the health of a rape victim aged 12 or under. Senator Eigel didn’t like it. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported:
“You want to bring back the institution of abortion so that kids can get abortions in the state of Missouri,” Eigel said to Beck. “A 1-year-old could get an abortion under this,” Eigel said.
I did not see that coming...
Jess Piper at Jess's Substack:
This image popped up on my Facebook feed this weekend, and well, I audibly sighed and thought…here we go. The photo was posted by Missouri State Senator Nick Schroer on Facebook. He is the man with the flamethrower in the foreground. The other man spitting flames and attempting to not cross the streams is State Senator Bill Eigel, who is also a candidate for Missouri Governor. The Senators claim there were no books in the boxes they torched in front of a mob of “Freedom Fest” goers in St Charles, Mo, who can be heard laughing and cheering while chanting “Let’s go Brandon.” But, an X account run by Jake Jackson (@realjakejacks) of Missouri, claimed to be at the event and posted a video of the fire with the caption “…torched the woke liberal agenda.” You should know both Schroer and Eigel have been in Jefferson City for years and are elected to the GOP supermajority—the swamp that they so often refer to. They are not the outsiders they pretend to be. They are both responsible for voting to pass an abortion ban, limit health care access for trans youth, and limit trans youth participation in sports. They both are in favor of sending taxpayer money to private schools, and both have attacked teachers and Missouri public schools for being “woke” or teaching “CRT”.
The fiery picture was accompanied by this caption by Schroer, “This is how we roll in St. Charles County! Burning down the swamp at St Charles GOP Freedom Fest with our grassroots bad to the bone fam…” There is absolutely nothing “grassroots” about Sen Schroer. The Senator also provided the internet with photos from a Florida trip a few weeks back sponsored by the dark money group ALEC. ALEC supplies elected Representatives with expenses paid trips to give lawmakers corporate bills to pass in their states—corporate bills that often harm folks. The scheme is incredibly effective in red states like Missouri where our GOP legislators sponsor bills that they can’t even explain because they don’t write their own bills…ALEC does. Grassroots my ass.
Here’s the thing, I live in Missouri and bear witness to the damage done by a GOP supermajority so drunk on power that they think WWII Nazi-like images will go unnoticed, or worse, cheered. How can we pay attention to flamethrowers when our starting teachers are the lowest paid in the entire nation and our schools rank 49th in funding? When our AG attacks libraries and Missouri becomes the first in the nation to cut ties with the American Library Association. Why would we even blink as Senators torch “agendas” when at least a dozen rural hospitals have closed in the last two decades leaving many Missourians to drive 1.5 hours to access health care.
St. Charles County, Missouri-based Republican State Senators Nick Schroer and Bill Eigel conducted a torching that is supposed to resemble book burnings that is representative of their extremist agendas. Eigel is running for Governor, and is seeking to turn an already far-right state even further to the right if he elected as Governor.
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Lawmakers including Rand Paul and Ron DeSantis say they would back disruption of a Canadian-style trucker convoy
Sergio Olmos at The Guardian:
In the wake of racial justice protests following the murder of George Floyd, a wave of Republican lawmakers supported legislation to punish protesters who blocked roads. Now some of those same Republicans are supporting similar tactics from conservative trucker convoys protesting against vaccine mandates.
Last year, the Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, signed an anti-rioting law that stiffened penalties for protesters who blocked roads and even gave some legal protection to drivers who ran them over. It went so far that in September a federal judge struck down the law, ruling it unconstitutional.
Draft legislation from DeSantis – seen by many as the leading heir to Donald Trump – was even more draconian. He initially sought to extend “stand-your-ground” laws that would have granted legal immunity to drivers claiming to have unintentionally killed or injured protesters disrupting traffic.
Yet DeSantis has thrown his support behind conservative trucker convoys using similar tactics to protest against vaccine mandates that for weeks have blocked roads between Canada and the US, stalling trade between the two nations and leading to disruptions to the global supply chain. He also announced Florida’s attorney general would investigate GoFundMe after it dropped the page for donations to Canadian truckers.
Nor is he alone. The Texas senator Ted Cruz told Politico he sent a letter to Federal Trade Commission demanding an investigation into GoFundMe. The Ohio congressman Jim Jordan similarly decried GoFundMe.
Many Republican politicians have also expressed enthusiasm and support for US truckers seeking to emulate the Canadian protests on US soil. A convoy of truckers is set to begin a protest drive to Washington later this month, in a move some fear could bring the same kind of disruption that has gripped the Canadian capital, Ottawa.
The Kentucky senator Rand Paul, who has criticized the disruptive tactics of racial justice protesters in the US, is “all for” the disruption of a trucker convoy. “I hope the truckers do come to America. I hope they clog up cities,” Paul told the Daily Signal, a publication of the conservative thinktank the Heritage Foundation.
Paul said: “Civil disobedience is a time-honored tradition in our country, from slavery to civil rights, to you name it. Peaceful protest, clog things up, make people think about the mandates.”
Republicans on BLM protests: Ahh!! End it! Republicans on “freedom convoy’ protests: Yippee!
Missouri Political News: Senator Bill Eigel Receives Tax Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement in State Tax Reform
Missouri Political News: Senator Bill Eigel Receives Tax Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement in State Tax Reform
JEFFERSON CITY, MO — Missouri State Senator Bill Eigel, R-Weldon Spring, was recognized by the Tax Foundation for his efforts to simplify and reform the Missouri state tax code.
The Tax Foundation, headquartered in Washington, D.C., is a national non-profit, non-partisan research organization that generally favors lower taxation. In October, Sen. Eigel received the organization’s “Outstanding…
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