Michael Bersin Posts

Previously:
This must mean that I now qualify for low income assistance (January 1. 2013)
The House of Representatives voted at the last minute to extend tax cuts to those making up to $400,000.00 a year. You know, the "middle class". Representative Vicky Hartzler (r) thinks millionaires and billionaires have it really tough right now:
FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 659
    &...

Governor Jay Nixon is running for something. Today, at the Missouri Ethics Commission:
C001135 01/02/2013 A BETTER MISSOURI WITH GOVERNOR JAY NIXON Ford Motor Company PO Box 1758 Dearborn MI 48121 12/31/2012 $10,000.00 [emphasis added]
Chevy tough? ...

Today, at the Missouri Ethics Commission:
C001135 12/30/2012 A BETTER MISSOURI WITH GOVERNOR JAY NIXON Southwestern Bell Telephone, L.P., d/b/a AT&T Missouri One AT&T Center Room 4200 Saint Louis MO 63101 12/28/2012 $25,000.00 [emphasis added]
Whatever for?
Previously: Campaign Finance: no difference, then? (December 23, 2012) ...

Well, this is interesting:
December 28, 2012
Journalist makes Missouri Scout end-of-year list
Yokley to cover state Legislature for The Joplin Globe
....Yokley said he does not think of himself so much as a blogger, but as a journalist.
In a recent interview, Yokley said: "Whenever I think 'blogger,' I think of partisan guys who sit in their basements and yell about things from the left or right. That's not what I do...."

Oh, ...

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a combination of contradictory or incongruous words (as cruel kindness); broadly : something (as a concept) that is made up of contradictory or incongruous elements
Today, at the Missouri Ethics Commission:
C121488: Missourians For Excellence In Government
308 East H...

The price of gasoline continues to drop:
The price of gas in west central Missouri, early morning, December 19, 2012.
Remember this?:
From: Repres...

Here we go again.
From the AFL-CIO:
Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka On Speaker Boehner's Proposal
December 18, 2012
"Republicans are once again demanding benefit cuts to pay for tax cuts"
Republicans are once again demanding benefit cuts to pay for tax cuts, and threatening to harm the economy unless they get their way.  House Speaker John Boehner's recent "Plan B" propos...

A bill prefiled today in the Missouri House:
HB 70
Allows teachers and school administrators to carry concealed firearms on school premises if they have a valid concealed carry endorsement
Sponsor: Kelley, Mike (127)
Co-Sponsor: Brattin, Rick (055) ... et al.
Proposed Effective Date: 8/28/2013
LR Number: 600L.01I
Last Action: 12/18/2012 - Prefiled (H)
[....]
Wait, aren't public school teachers union thugs? And the republicans want to arm them ...

Send in the clones. A bill prefiled in the Missouri Senate yesterday:
SB 84 Provides for the conscience rights of individuals who provide medical services
Sponsor: Rupp
LR Number: 0610S.01I Fiscal Note not available
Committee:
Last Action: 12/17/2012 - Prefiled
[....]
Current Bill Summary
SB 84 - This act provides medical freedom of conscience protection for medical professionals and health care institutions w...

Senator Claire McCaskill's rating (2006) from the National Rifle Association [NRA]:
MO - Claire McCaskill, "F" Rated By The NRA
And from the NRA in 2012:
...Claire McCaskill, has earned an "F" rating from the NRA-PVF for opposing our Right to Keep and Bear Arms. Claire McCaskill refused to join the historic District of Columbia v. H...

Michael Moore @MMFlint
If only the first victim, Adam Lanza's mother, had been a gun owner, she could have stopped this before it started. 10:18 AM - 16 Dec 12 ...

On Thursday, December 13, 2012 Senator Dan Brown (r) pre-filed SB 75 for the 2013 legislative session:
SB 75 Require school districts and charter schools to provide training and education about firearms safety and addressing potentially dangerous or armed intruders
Sponsor: Brown
LR Number: 0366S.01I Fiscal Note not available
Committee:
Last Action: 12/13/2012 - Prefiled
[....]
There's an interesting detail:

The defenders of the Missouri Court Plan continue, via the Missouri Ethics Commission:
C121483: Missourians For Fair And Impartial Courts Committee
Po Box 1072 Committee Type: Political Action
Jefferson City Mo 65102
(573) 636-2822 Established Date: 12/13/2012 [emphasis added]
On Friday:
C121483 12/14/2012 MISSOURIAN...

We received the following from Representative Chris Kelly (D):
Expanded Health Care Coverage in Missouri
By Rep. Chris Kelly
The most important issue facing the next Missouri General Assembly is whether to expand health care coverage for uninsured Missourians who have incomes below 138% of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL).  (FPL equals an income of $23,050 for a family of four.)
The costs and benefits of expansion have been analyzed i...

President Obama: This afternoon I spoke with Governor Malloy and FBI Director Mueller. I offered Governor Malloy my condolences on behalf of the nation, and made it clear he will have every single resource that he needs to investigate this heinous crime, care for the victims, counsel their families.
We've endured too many of these tragedies in the past few years. And each time I learn the news I react not as a President, but as anybody else would, as a parent. And that was especially true today. I know there's not a parent in America who does...

This evening, along North Commercial in Harrisonville, Missouri. ...

A petition was started today at the White House site:
We petition the Obama Administration to:
Immediately address the issue of gun control through the introduction of legislation in Congress.
The goal of this petition is to force the Obama Administration to produce legislation that limits access to guns. While a national dialogue is critical, laws are the only means in which we can reduce the number of people murdered in ...

A few days ago, via Twitter:
Rep. Vicky Hartzler ‏@RepHartzler
The 'fiscal cliff' is the President's own making for political gain. The House passed bills last summer stopping the tax hikes & cuts! 7:12 AM - 11 Dec 12
Today, the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press released a poll with a sample of 1,503 adults taken December 5-9, 2012. The margin of err...

From The Action. ...

Follow the money.
And for the republican candidate in the 2012 Secretary of State race the sources weren't particularly grassrootsie.
The distribution of contributions to Shane Schoeller's (r) campaign as indicated to the Missouri Ethics Commission in his 30 Day After General Election-11/6/2012