JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri House Democratic leaders are calling for a GOP lawmaker to step down after he moved out of his district. Minority Leader Jake Hummel and Assistant Minority Leader Gail McCann Beatty said in a letter dated Monday to Rep. Ron Hicks said he should resign immediately. Hicks didn’t immediately return an…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is in Missouri campaigning for the lone female in that state’s four-way Republican primary race for governor. Haley spokesman Rob Godfrey posted a photo Monday on Twitter of Haley talking with Catherine Hanaway ahead of an event in Joplin, Missouri. Hanaway’s campaign says Haley will also join…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – An ad by a Missouri attorney general candidate that’s drawing criticism accuses fellow Republican contender Josh Hawley of working for terrorists. GOP Sen. Kurt Schaefer’s campaign last week announced the ad attacking University of Missouri School of Law associate professor Hawley. Schaefer’s latest ad cites Hawley’s work at the Becket…
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri’s GOP candidates for governor are weighing in on policies that would affect LGBT people. The Republican candidates are businessman John Brunner, former Navy SEAL officer Eric Greitens, former U.S. attorney and House speaker Catherine Hanaway and Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder. The four decried guidance from Democratic President Barack Obama’s…
