MO GOP State Senator unloads on Jay Ashcroft, Adam Sommer analyzes SCOTUS arguments on absolute immunity, salaried workers getting a raise, and more

The Heartland POD, Friday April 26, 2024: Flyover Friday 

On this episode of The Heartland POD for Friday, April 26, 2024 - a Flyover Friday including

1. Missouri’s GOP-run legislature moves forward on silencing voters
2. The tough guy Olympics between two of Missouri’s state-wide GOP candidates
3. Biden admin moves to protect workers' wages
4. The Supreme Court hears the Presidential Immunity arguments

1. Missouri state house GOP has sent the initiative petition “reform” bill back to the senate with language called “ballot candy” reinserted

https://missouriindependent.com/2024/04/25/missouri-initiative-petition-bill-ballot-candy-reinstated/

From article: The bill was initially approved earlier this year after Democrats ended their 21-hour filibuster in exchange for the removal of “ballot candy” provisions — referring to unrelated additions to a ballot measure designed to win voters who are skeptical of a proposal’s main focus. 

On Thursday, the House added language to the bill that would ask Missourians if they want to change the constitution to define legal voters as citizens of the United States as well as whether they want to prohibit foreign entities from sponsoring initiative petitions. 

Democrats called the additions “unnecessary” and “deceptive.”

“This feels to me like another situation where this body is being asked to bend to the will of the Senate,” said state Rep. Eric Woods, a Democrat from Kansas City. “We are putting this bad stuff back on to send it back over there and watch the Senate explode again as if we aren’t already in enough turmoil in this building.” 

After the Senate vote in February, state Sen. Mary Elizabeth Colemen, a Republican from Arnold and the bill’s sponsor, asked the House Committee on Elections and Elected Officials  to reinstate the “ballot candy.”

The committee complied. After an hour-long debate Thursday morning, the bill ultimately passed, with House Majority Leader Jon Patterson of Lee’s Summit the lone “no” vote among his Republican colleagues.

2. Missouri Republican elected officials are fighting hard… at least with each other

First Hoskins vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rID2bvi1VEs&t=41s

Second Hoskins vid: https://youtube.com/shorts/cZ2iiL5pt7M?si=Wy3alsOWnpr9B1rH

Special uncovered 3rd video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fopvzf77b8&rco=1

https://www.riverfronttimes.com/news/jay-ashcroft-is-a-chickenshit-gop-senator-says-repeatedly-on-video-42376787

3. New FLSA rule from Biden/Harris admin to protect low wage salary employees from being taken advantage of: https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/whd/whd20240423-0

• Think - Casey’s store Asst Managers getting paid a salary to work well over 40 hours in a week
• Effective July 1, 2024, the salary threshold will increase the present annual salary threshold of $35,568 to $43,888 and then to $58,656 on Jan. 1, 2025. The July 1 increase updates 

4. US Supreme Court held a special session on April 25, originally not set as an argument day, in the appeal regarding “Trump v. US” - certainly an appropriate naming - regarding presidential immunity

Transcript of argument: https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2023/23-939_l5gm.pdf

What some of the media is saying

CNN: https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/25/politics/takeaways-trump-immunity-supreme-court/index.html

Fox: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/scotus-sees-dangerous-precedent-trump-immunity-case-presidents-prosecute-rivals-experts

NPR: https://www.npr.org/2024/04/25/1246376720/donald-trump-supreme-court-immunity

Meanwhile in another Courtroom: https://www.threads.net/@griffinkyle/post/C6MLx6Ru7og

Pecker’s testimony: https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/april-25-new-york-trump-trial-supreme-court-immunity

Funny stuff: https://www.threads.net/@gtconway3/post/C6MDMCHOXZ6

Host: Adam Sommer 

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