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Missouri House of Representatives Speaker Rob Vescovo, R-Arnold, lowers the gavel signaling the conclusion of the First Regular Session of the 101st General Assembly
Convened on the very day that Donald Trump tried to overthrow American democracy, the recently concluded session of the Missouri General Assembly might have evolved as a paean to the wannabe oligarch.
It didn’t.
Missouri’s Republican Party proved notable more for fission than fiction by session’s end. Despite their 70-percent-plus stranglehold in both chambers, GOP legislators displayed an astounding lack of unity and fealty to Trump’s central disorganizing principles.
Of course there were some awful top-line results from the session. The Republicans’ scandalous refusal to follow the state constitution and expand Medicaid coverage was and is unconscionable. So was the customary harlotry to gun zealots. And an attack on public education via private-school vouchers. And so on.
Missouri Senate Chamber (Credit: Mo Senate)
Missouri has a storied history of…complicated US Senate races. In 2000, then-Governor Mel Carnahan (a Democrat) was vying for the Senate seat held by John Ashcroft (a Republican, who would subsequently be appointed as Attorney General by George W. Bush.) Tragically, Mel, his son, Randy, and his chief of staff, Chris Sifford, were killed in a plane crash on October 16, 2000. Just three weeks before the election (set for November 7, 2000), there arose an immediate question as to what would happen with the Senate race.
Under Missouri Law, Carnahan’s name could not be removed from the ballot. Carnahan’s Lt. Governor, Roger Wilson (full disclosure I interned for Roger my final semester in college), became governor and promised to appoint Carnahan’s widow, Jean, to the seat in the event that Carnahan won which he did, by two points. (As an aside, anyone who contends Missouri voters were goobers who unwittingly elected a dead man to