Speak Out — Call Your MO State Legislators

Speak Out Call Your State Legislators. December is the month Missouri State Legislators can pre-file bills for consideration by our State House and State Senate. Call and speak with your State Senator and MO House Rep. about three things during this month:

• File or support a bill to expand Medicaid in MO. Our state needs this measure to improve our healthcare and to protect rural hospitals.
• Support the bill to ratify the ERA (Equal Rights Amendment) in Missouri. State Senator Jill Schupp has filed this bill and we need cosponsors and supporters from both parties in our #MOLeg.
• Do NOT file or support legislation ls this session that aims to overturn the will of voters. They need to hear from their constituents that we knew exactly what we were voting for in Aug. when we repealed Right to Work in MO but voting NO On Prop A, and we were well informed voters in November when we cleaned up MO by passing Amendment 1, legalized medical cannabis by passing Amendment 2, and raised the Minimum Wage in MO by supporting and passing Prop B. They need to accept the will of the people. We will be watching to see who files or cosponsors or votes yes on bills that aim to overturn voter will.     #TheCapitalIsThePeoplesHouse

If you live in the 32^nd Senatorial District call: Sen. Bill White
573.751.2173
If you live in the 31^st Senatorial District call: Sen. Ed Emery
573.751.2108
If you live in Senate District 29 call: Sen. David Sater
573.751.1480

House District 127 Rep. Ann Kelley 417-262-0736
House District 157 Rep. Mike Moon 573-751-4077
House District 159 Rep. Dirk Deaton 573-751-9801

House District 160 Rep. Ben Baker 573-751-9781
House District 161 Rep. Lane Roberts 573-751-3791
House District 162 Rep. Bob Bromley 573-751-7082
House District 163 Cody Smith 573-751-5458

Some of our area legislators are newly elected, if so the legislative assistant may answer with the outgoing legislators name. If this happens please let them know you are trying to leave a message for your new State Rep or State Senator. Numbers are subject to change in January when our new #MOLeg has been seated. As we obtain home district contact info our area legislators we will begin to use that info in our Speak Out emails.

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Southwest Missouri Democrats do not have a December Town Hall meeting. We skip our December monthly meeting so our members have ample time to celebrate the holidays with friends, family, and colleagues.

We are pleased to announce our speaker for the #SWMODems Town Hall to be held on Wed. January 16, 2019 will be the new President of the Joplin Area Chamber of Commerce (JACC), Tobias (Toby) Teeter.

Many of our members will remember Toby from his days on the Jasper County Central Democratic Committee, and from from his Local Races business, which hosted the nationwide Rise Up 5K. We are so pleased the JACC has selected Toby to be the new Chamber President and look forward to hearing him speak about moving the Joplin area forward.

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