| Lemon Law under attack by used card dealers |
Here is the link to the Kansas City Star editorial on the bill that was passed by the House this week to help used car dealers. It is House Bill 1970. It passed by a vote of 113-37. One Republican and Thirty Six Democrats voted NO and stood up to Andy Blunt the lobbyist for the car dealers. Now the bill goes to the Senate. We will see if any Senators will stand up on this one.
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| Petition Bill advances to Senate |
We voted out a bill this week that would put limits on how people can pass petitions to get issues voted on by people. House Bill 1763 would ban paying per signature to petition passers. It would also prohibit asking for signatures on more than one petition at a time. But the deal breaker for me at least was the requirement that all petition passers be citizens of Missouri. So if a college student from an adjoining State passes a petition those signatures would be thrown out. Seems to me that leaves the citizens who did sign a petition thinking they had signed up but their voice and signature is thrown out. Just seems like too many restrictions of the freedom of speech. |
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| Dogfighting bill advances in Senate | Bills to protect dogs being heardThe bill was heard in the Senate this week concerning dogfighting. It would make it a crime to attend dogfights and make the confiscation of the animals used by people who stage the fights easier.
On the House side Rep. Talboy has sponsored House Bill 1777 which would make it a crime to negligently abuse animals and increase the fines and penalties for doing so. That bill was heard in the Crime Committee on Valentines Day and may be voted out for debate by the entire House soon. |
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| Presidential Delegate selection Caucuses on February 28th. |
Caucuses were held this week across Missouri to begin the delegate selection process for the Democratic Presidential Convention which will be held in August.
In our district we elected delegates to go to the County meeting where delegates will be chosen to go to the National Convention.
Delegates elected were:
Eleventh Ward - Held at Melrose Methodist Church
Carol Royster - Hillary Clinton Delegate
Ingrid Burnett - Hillary Clinton Alternate
Will Royster - Obama Delegate
Linda Smith - Obama Delegate
Bruce Rahtjen- Obama Alternate
Daniel Smith - Obama Alternate
Twelfth Ward (no results yet - will report next week)
Thirteenth Ward - Held at Knight's Bar-B-Que
Mark Morales - Hillary Clinton Delegate
Jerry Morales - Hillary Clinton Alternate
Crispin Rea - Obama Delegate
Jerry Knight - Obama Delegate
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| Bill to exempt the Economic Stimulus Refund copied & recopied |
Quite a bit of attention has been given this week to House Bill 2178 it would exempt from Missouri tax any advance refund the Feds sent out on the Economic Stimulus program. If and when the checks come from the IRS we wouldn't have to pay Missouri tax on that windfall. Seems like a great idea.
In fact it seems that it was such a good idea when introduced first by some KC area Reps Holsman, Grill, LeVota and Talboy that it was immediately copied not once but twice. Two teams of Republicans copied it word for word and introduced it as House bills 2189 and 2208. 2189 has 25 sponsors all Republicans and 2208 has ten sponsors all Republicans.
Will be interesting to see if they follow the long standing tradition of rolling similar (in this case Identical) legislation into the same bill and give the first sponsor the credit. But with 35 Republicans many of whom are running for reelection or higher office????????
Thank you for the opportunity to serve.
State Rep John Burnett
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