Sep 24, 2011
My last video before I go out and enjoy the sunshine features House Minority Leader Mike Talboy, D-Kansas City, speaking about the Mamtek debacle and the stall special session.
Enjoy this beautiful weekend, everybody!
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My last video before I go out and enjoy the sunshine features House Minority Leader Mike Talboy, D-Kansas City, speaking about the Mamtek debacle and the stall special session.
Enjoy this beautiful weekend, everybody!
“Governor Nixon is to be commended for protecting Missourians’ right to vote by vetoing an unnecessary photo voter identification requirement that would do nothing to prevent fraud but potentially disenfranchise more than 200,000 legally registered voters. House Democrats unanimously opposed this bill during the legislative session and subsequently voted to make sustaining the governor’s veto an official caucus position. With House Democrats unified on this issue, we are confident that any attempt by House Republicans to override the governor’s veto will fail.”
House Minority Leader Mike Talboy, D-Kansas City, on Gov. Jay Nixon's veto of photo identification legislation.
Nixon vetoes photo identification bill
Gov. Jay Nixon vetoed enabling legislation that would have required a photo identification at the polls.
Lawmakers passed this year a constitutional amendment to allow for a photo identification requirement. The amendment also would have authorized an early voting period.
That amendment will be decided by voters in 2012. But in order for that amendment to become law, a standalone bill would have to pass and be signed by the governor. That was what Nixon vetoed on Friday.
"This new mandate would disproportionately impact senior citizens and persons with disabilities, among others, who are qualified to vote and have been lawfully voting since becoming eligible to do so," Nixon said in a veto letter of the bill.
While GOP lawmakers could hypothetically try to override Nixon's veto, it is unlikely they will procure enough votes in the House. House Minority Leader Mike Talboy, D-Kansas City, said in a statement that House Democrats are united on this issue, something that was block Republicans from an override.
Essentially, supporters of a photo identification bill will either have to obtain a veto-proof majority in the House or wait until Nixon is no longer governor to achieve their goal.
Interestingly, Sen. Bill Stouffer - a Napton Republican who sponsored the measure - said “if the enabling legislation is vetoed and if by chance you wind up with a Republican Legislature in 2013, my guess is you get photo ID without early voting."
Courtesy of House Communications, here's part of the House Democratic press conference that occurred after the legislative session came to a close.
Also courtesy of Missouri News Horizon, here is video of House Minority Leader Mike Talboy, D-Kansas City, discussing the aftermath of yesterday's redistricting vote.
One of the big points of contention during the debate over legislation overhauling Proposition B was the so-called "emergency clause."
If a piece of legislation has an emergency clause, it goes into effect right when the governor signs it. And it also appears that any bill with an emergency clause cannot be put up for a referendum.
House Minority Leader Mike Talboy, D-Kansas City, talked about this development at a Thursday press availability. Click on the video to see more.
I asked House Minority Leader Mike Talboy, D-Kansas City, and Rep. Tishaura Jones, D-St. Louis City, about whether U.S. Rep. Lacy Clay, D-St. Louis City, asked either one of them vote in a certain way on redistricting.
The Post-Dispatch reported that state Rep. Penny Hubbard, D-St. Louis City, said Clay wanted her to vote affirmatively for the proposal that combines St. Louis City into one congressional district.
Most House Democrats are unhappy with a redistricting plan that passed quickly through the legislature this week.
That's putting it mildly. The caucus unveiled a Web site calling on Gov. Jay Nixon to veto the proposal. The site asks the Democratic governor to "rescue our Democratic seat," an nod to the fact the map would effectively dissolve U.S. Rep. Russ Carnahan's district.
Here's video of House Minority Leader Mike Talboy, D-Kansas City, decrying the redistricting proposal.