Sunday, February 24, 2013
Countless publications have pointed at legislation filed by pro-gun-ownership state Rep. Mike Leara as an example of how polarized the debate is.
Republican Missouri state Rep. Mike Leara of Sunset Hills launched a wave of blog posts and news articles this week (including an earlier article on Patch) when he introduced legislation that, if passed, would criminalize the act of introducing anti-gun legislation. That's right: Proposing a law could get a member of the General Assembly thrown in the slammer. Of course, it won't pass. Even he says so, in a statement widely repeated around the Internet in which he calls the proposed law a "statement in defense of the Second Amendment rights of all Missourians." His proposal would make it a class D felony, punishable by up to four years in prison, to introduce legislation that restricts gun ownership. That has made a list by Politico of …
Sunday, May 27, 2012
Missourians will vote Aug. 7 on a constitutional amendment affirming the right to pray in public places.
Gov. Jay Nixon announced that voters will decide on Aug. 7 on a constitutional amendment affirming the right to pray in public places. The summary of the measure on the Missouri House of Representatives website says it "proposes a constitutional amendment guaranteeing a citizen's right to pray and worship on public property and reaffirming a citizen's right to choose any or no religion." In its summary of the story, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported on its Political Fix blog that the timing has interesting political ramifications. As reporter Virginia Young wrote: The measure is likely to draw social conservatives to the polls. So from a political standpoint, it stands to reason that Nixon, a Democrat, would want to get it out of the …
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Legislator attempted last minute "carve-out" for Fenton as the Missouri General Assembly session ended Friday. St. Louis County and city officials from Wildwood and other municipalities opposed the proposed changes without a holistic approach.
St. Louis County's sales tax sharing system was not changed by the Missouri legislators, despite a last-minute effort on Friday to relieve one city—Fenton—of its obligation to share its sales tax funds with other municipalities. State Rep. Mike Leara (R-95) said he tried to attach an amendment “to any bill I can” to create what he called a “carve-out” for the city of Fenton. His original bill, HB 534, would have altered the decades-long system of taking sales taxes collected in each municipality within St. Louis County and putting it into a pool to be shared by the municipalities. During the last several weeks of the legislative session, proposed changes to the county's pooled tax system were actively opposed by Wildwood officials, St. …
Reverend Scott E. Lee
11:30 pm on Thursday, March 21, 2013
I propose that ALL firearms can be banned without violating the Second Amendment. As a reminder, this is the text that was ratified by the States: "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." It is NOT the same as the text passed by the Congress: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the … more ›