Missouri House Speaker Dean Plocher (R-Des Peres) says the Legislature could have hit a grand slam on Friday, but instead hit a double or possibly a triple. While he’s pleased with the session, Speaker Plocher tells 939 the Eagle’s “Wake Up Mid-Missouri” that some senators put themselves above the state on Friday, describing their behavior as selfish. Speaker Plocher is pleased the Legislature has passed bipartisan legislation to end state taxes on Social Security benefits. Under the bill, Missouri’s senior homeowners would be spared from rate hikes on property taxes. If the governor signs the bill, it would be up to counties to approve the property tax breaks for people 65 and older. Speaker Plocher is also pleased with I-70 transportation funding. He says he couldn’t be more proud of his 111-member GOP House caucus and of the entire 163-member House:
Mid-Missouri man under federal indictment for alleged child pornography
A federal grand jury has indicted a man from mid-Missouri’s Lohman on three counts relating to producing child pornography.
Federal agents and others arrested 30-year-old Anthony Pitts-Fugate at his Lohman home in April and he remains in federal custody, pending a detention hearing. Lohman, a town of about 175 residents, is west of Jefferson City. Online court records show Pitts-Fugate also has lived in the Russellville area in the past.
Federal prosecutors say Pitts-Fugate engaged in a Kik chat group that was being monitored by an undercover law enforcement officer. Pitts-Fugate allegedly produced and sent the undercover officer a video and photo of a child being sexually assaulted.
A federal grand jury in Kansas City has indicted the suspect on one count of producing child pornography, one count of distributing child pornography and one count of possessing child pornography.
The FBI and the Cole and Boone County Sheriff’s Departments have been involved in the investigation.
(AUDIO): Kehoe touts working-class upbringing in Missouri gubernatorial campaign video
Hundreds of people packed Jefferson City’s Capital Bluffs venue Tuesday evening, as Missouri Lieutenant Governor Mike Kehoe (R) launched his 2024 gubernatorial campaign.
Kehoe has also unveiled a new online video called “Living Proof.”
“I grew up here in north St. Louis City. Growing up, I didn’t have a famous father, or a father at all. He left when I was one, leaving a single mother to raise six kids. There was no entitlement. I did odd jobs around the neighborhood to pay for my high school. I didn’t go to college. I went to work washing cars, here, to earn money so that my siblings and I could help our single mother make ends meet,” Kehoe says in the video.
He also talks in the video about how he turned around mid-Missouri’s Osage Ambulance company.
“Missouri has taught me, no matter what, there is always hope,” Kehoe says in the video.
Kehoe tells his supporters that he’s the only candidate for governor who is ready on day one to make our communities safer, control spending and protect freedoms.
He’s expected to face Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft and State Sen. William Eigel (R-Weldon Spring) in the August 2024 GOP primary. GOP Governor Mike Parson has said this will be his final term. The Missouri Democratic gubernatorial primary will also be in August 2024.
Mike Kehoe served on the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission before being elected to the state Senate in 2010, replacing term-limited State Sen. Carl Vogel (R-Jefferson City). Senator Vogel has since passed away. Kehoe was re-elected to the Senate in 2014, and Governor Parson appointed him as lieutenant governor in 2018 after then-Governor Eric Greitens resigned. Kehoe was elected to a full term as lieutenant governor in 2020, earning more than 58 percent of the vote to beat Democrat Alissia Canady.
(AUDIO): Missouri Lt. Governor Mike Kehoe Discusses 2023 Session and I-70 Funding on “Wake Up Mid-Missouri”
Missouri’s lieutenant governor says the one thing that is for certain in the Missouri Senate is that nothing is for certain. He’s referring to the chaos that happened Friday in Jefferson City on the final day of Missouri’s 2023 session. The final day featured finger-pointing and GOP infighting in the Senate. Lt. Governor Mike Kehoe (R-Jefferson City), who’s running for governor, says there are positives from the session. One of them is $2.8 billion to six-lane I-70 across Missouri. Kehoe describes that as a game-changer. He’s also pleased with a bipartisan bill that passed which will end state taxes on Social Security benefits starting in 2024. That bill is now on the governor’s desk:
Mizzou AD Reed-Francois to keynote Zonta luncheon; Stephanie Bell is a nominee
A few hundred people are expected to pack Jefferson City’s Capital Plaza Hotel for today’s (Tuesday) Zonta Women of Achievement yellow rose luncheon, which is taking place at Capitol Plaza Hotel.
The luncheon begins at 11:30 am. “Wake Up Mid-Missouri” co-host Stephanie Bell, a Jefferson City attorney and Ashland alderwoman, is a nominee, along with nine other women.
Longtime United Way of Central Missouri director Linda McAnany will be presented with a Weldon lifetime achievement award. The award is named for Mrs. William Weldon, the former publisher of the “Jefferson City News-Tribune.”
Mizzou athletic director Desiree Reed-Francois will be the celebration speaker. This year’s theme is ”celebrating women without limits.” The Zonta Club of Jefferson City was founded in 1947.
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