Missouri

Missouri

Capital	Jefferson City
Nickname	The Show Me State
Official Language	None
Governor	Mike Parson, R
Senator	Josh Hawley, R (202) 224-6154 Contact
Senator	Roy Blunt, R (202) 224-5721 Contact
Ratification of Constitution/or statehood	August 10, 1821 (24th)
Flag of Missouri	Motto: Salus populi suprema lex esto (The welfare of the people shall be the supreme law)

Missouri is a Midwestern state that was admitted to the Union as a slave state on August 10, 1821. Its nickname is the "Show Me State". Its capital is Jefferson City and its largest cities are, respectively, Kansas City, St. Louis, and Springfield. Missouri borders Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Iowa, and Nebraska. The current Governor is Mike Parson.

The state Constitution of Missouri, like all of the other 50 states, acknowledges God or our Creator or the Sovereign Ruler of the Universe. It says:

We, the people of Missouri, with profound reverence for the Supreme Ruler of the Universe, and grateful for His goodness, do establish this Constitution for the better government of the state.

Politics

Democra prosecutor Kim Gardner charged the McCloskey's of St. Louis with weapons charges for defending their home.

Missouri is a swing state in presidential elections (the metropolitan areas of St. Louis and Kansas City are solidly Democrat while the rest of the state is solidly Republican). It had consistently supported the winning candidates since 1960 until 2008 when it favored John McCain, who lost to Barack Hussein Obama. Before Obama, the last losing candidate to win Missouri was Adlai Stevenson in 1956.

Due in part to being both the home of Anheuser-Busch's flagship brewery and many wineries, the state has minimal regulations on alcohol sales (with very few exceptions, no local jurisdictions can pass harsher laws than the state, and almost any business with permits can sell any type of alcohol). It also has extremely few regulations on tobacco use.

2020 Marxist insurrection

See also: 2020 Marxist insurrection

Kim Gardner is the Marxist prosecutor elected circuit attorney of St. Louis in 2016. Gardner was criticized ahead of the election for releasing a political ad paid for by the Safety and Justice Super PAC that received funding from liberal billionaire George Soros, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The total funds donated by the super PAC were at least $190,750. It was not immediately clear what her campaign budget was or who else contributed. Gardner won her 2020 primary re-election bid while under criminal investigation. Gardner is a member of the Democratic party.

Kansas City, Missouri

4 year old LeGend Taliffero.

See also: Operation Legend

KCUR reported following the Minneapolis riots, Kansas City's Black Lives Matter protests lasted late into the night. The crowd removed barricades and began walking neighborhoods, chanting “Who's streets? Our streets!” and " “No justice, no peace!". Facebook an advertisement saying "Black Lives Matter. Enough is Enough”. More than 3,000 people showed up. Police announced they found “stashes of bricks and rocks in & around the Plaza and Westport to be used during a riot”. The Daily Caller reported:

Kansas City police officers found bricks and rocks staged near protest sites around the city, stoking concerns that individuals or groups had pre-planned looting and destruction that hit the city over the weekend, the department said Sunday. “We have learned of & discovered stashes of bricks and rocks in & around the Plaza and Westport to be used during a riot,” the department said in a tweet on Sunday.

On May 30, 2020 "protesters" set a police car on fire. broke windows, and vandalized the Country Club Plaza business district including, Foot Locker, Victoria's Secret, H&M, The North Face, Cafe Trio, Season's 52, P.F. Chang's and other employers struggling to revive after the coronavirus lockdown. On June 1, 2020 protests grew more violent as protesters threw rocks and bottles at police. More than 150 people were arrested. Jackson County’s prosecutor, Jean Peters Baker, refused to file charges against anyone and Mayor Quinton Lucas said he would likely pardon anyone if she did. Meantime the prosecutor encouraged rioters to file charges against police. In the first week of June there were more than 230 arrests at the protest.

Kansas City had 68 homicides when the riots started and was on pace for a recorded year, over the next 90 days the homicides doubled to 139. About three-quarters of the victims are young black mean as well as most of the suspects.

Four-year-old Legend Taliferro was shot while he slept in his bedroom early on the morning of June 29, 2020. Kansas City Police believe this was not a random shooting and that the apartment was targeted. A week later, some 200 federal law enforcement agents from the FBI, U.S. Marshals Service and other agencies surged into Kansas City. Mayor Lucas said he was blindsided by the White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany's announcement of Operation LeGend. The mayor was found later to have been lying.

Elected Officials

As of 2019.

Federal

• Sen. Josh Hawley (R)
• Sen. Roy Blunt (R)
• Rep. William Lacy Clay, Jr. [D, MO-01]
• Rep. Ann Wagner [R, MO-02]
• Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer [R, MO-03]
• Rep. Vicky Hartzler [R, MO-04]
• Rep. Emanuel Cleaver [D, MO-05]
• Rep. Sam Graves [R, MO-06]
• Rep. Billy Long [R, MO-07]
• Rep. Jason Smith [R, MO-08]

Statewide

• Governor Mike Parson (R)
• Lt. Governor Mike Kehoe (R)
• Attorney General Josh Hawley (R)
• Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft (R)
• State Auditor Nicole Galloway (D)
• State Treasurer Eric Schmitt (R)

Miscellaneous

The term "Missouri" comes from an Algonquin word roughly translating to "river of the big canoes".

St. Louis hosted the World's Fair in 1904, where the ice cream cone was invented as well as the Olympic Games that year (before they were as popular as today).

The mule is the state animal.

The term "iron curtain" referring to the line separating Communist countries from non-Communist countries in Europe was first used by Winston Churchill at a speech in Fulton.

Notable Missourians

• Former Attorney General John Ashcroft served as governor and senator for the state.
• Deceased rock and roll singer Chuck Berry was from St. Louis.
• Five-star general Omar Bradley was from Clark.
• Frontiersman Daniel Boone settled in Missouri late in his life.
• Author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, was from Hannibal.
• Rapper Eminem is originally from St. Joseph.
• Poet T.S. Eliot was from St. Louis.
• Political commentator Rush Limbaugh is from Cape Girardeau.
• President Harry Truman lived in Lamar and Independence.
• Journalist Catherine J. Sambark
• Agricultural scientist George Washington Carver, born in Diamond Grove
• Film director and actor John Huston, born in Nevada
• Outlaws Jesse James and Frank James, born in Clay County
• Phyllis Schlafly, conservative political activist, author
• US Army General John J. Pershing, born near Laclede
• Newscaster Walter Cronkite is from St. Joseph.

See also

• Better Courts for Missouri