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Sep 29, 2020 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Welcome to Night One of our legislative focus week on common sense gun laws here in Missouri. Tonight’s topic will focus on why we need common sense gun legislation here in Missouri.
Welcome to day 4 and 5 of our weekly legislative focus over organized labor here in Missouri. Today we will talk about why labor is important to us, and about our strong pro-labor campaign.
As always, join in and share any thoughts and opinions! Lets go!
Organized labor is important to me for several reasons. First, my wife and I have experienced the benefits first hand for almost the past decade.
Knowing that the work you are doing is directly providing for your health insurance, benefits, and retirement, provides security.
Sep 18, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Welcome to night 3 of our Legislative Focus week on organized labor here in Missouri. Tonight’s topic will cover how I plan to support labor legislatively in Jeff City.
As always, please feel free to share your opinions and thoughts at anytime. Lets go!
Tonight will also be a shorter night compared to others.
In Jeff City, I plan to support any and all measures that will go towards maintaining and strengthening the right of collective bargaining for all our unions.
Sep 15, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Welcome to Night One of our new Legislative Focus week! This weeks topic will be about organized labor here in Missouri. My wife and campaign manager, @be_ty_le, and I have been in unions for years, so this one means a lot to us. Tonight we will touch on the benefits of labor!
I fully believe the stronger our Missouri unions are, the stronger our communities will be, the stronger our economy will be, and the stronger our state of Missouri will be. This is because of the many benefits labor unions can bring to their communities.
Sep 6, 2020 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Welcome to the 5th installment of our Legislative Focus Week on Infrastructure here in Missouri. Today’s topic will be my favorite infrastructure pieces across our state. Today is the first day version of our Legislative Focus and the first to fall on a Sunday. Let’s go!
To start off, let’s start locally here in @KCMO with our KC Streetcar! I’m a huge proponent of public transportation and I’m excited for the Streetcar extension coming soon.
Sep 5, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Welcome to Night 4 of our Legislative Focus Week on Infrastructure in Missouri. Tonight’s topic will cover reinvesting in our roads and bridges.
This is a crucial issue in my opinion for our state, and one that has been hard to solve over the years. Please join in the convo!
To start, here’s an article that highlights the needs and attempts to rebuild and improve our roads and highways. It’s time we finally come together to find the best solutions for our roads. showmeinstitute.org/blog/transport…
Sep 4, 2020 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Welcome to Night 3 of our Legislative Focus Week on Infrastructure! Tonight’s topic will cover improving public transportation.
From my graduate studies at @UMKC I have developed such a passion for public transportation. Please join in and share your thoughts!
For starters, here in @KCMO we do have a foundation of public transportation for residents and tourists alike.
Welcome to night two of our Legislative Focus Week on Infrastructure in Missouri! Tonight’s topic, one of my personal faves, will be all about Missouri leading with renewable energy.
Renewable energy is the future, and the sooner we can make it the present, the better.
I love Missouri, and I am a firm believer that Missouri will be able to be a leader in renewable energy.
I’m so glad we have groups here like the @MOsierraclub and @sunrisemvmtkc to be strong advocates for climate change and environmental justice.
Sep 1, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Welcome to Night One of our Legislative Focus Week on Infrastructure! Woohoo! 🥳
Tonight’s topic will cover expanding broadband here in Missouri. Please join along, share your thoughts and opinions, and let’s discover ways to move Missouri forward.
Our rural communities are just as important as our big cities, and they need the resources to be able to keep up with all of the technological advances we see each and every year.
Here’s an article explaining why statewide broadband is important.
Welcome to night 4 & 5 of our Legislative Focus week over LGBTQ+ issues. Tonight we will cover expanding statewide Transgender healthcare protections and decriminalizing HIV & sex work in Missouri.
Please join in and follow along! 🏳️🌈
Over 1.1 million LGBTQ+ Americans rely on Medicaid for vital healthcare, so expanding Medicaid in Missouri was such a vital step for many LGBTQ+ Missourians.
Aug 21, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Welcome to Night 3 of our Legislative Focus week over LGBTQ+ rights here in Missouri. Tonight’s topic will cover Gay-Straight Alliances for our students and implementing Trans-Affirming policies in our schools. Here we go! #ShowMePride#lgbtq
In #moleg in 2020, HB 1565 was filed in an attempt to restrict Gay-Straight Alliances (GSA’s), inclusive LGBTQ curriculum and more.
That bill was stopped, so our school districts can continue to have control in their support for our LGBTQ students.
Aug 19, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Welcome to Night Two of our Legislative Focus week on LGBTQ+ Rights here in Missouri! Tonight, I will be discussing why we need to finally pass MONA and the benefits it will bring to our state, and to our LGBTQ+ Missourians. Please follow along.
First off, what is MONA?
MONA seeks to update the existing Human Rights Statute to include sexual orientation and gender identity, which would protect LGBTQ people equally under the current law.
Aug 19, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Northland! We have a great opportunity to help out our @NKCSchools at Ravenwood Elementary. Their PE department needs $125 for the equipment below. Let’s raise this amount by midnight tonight to show our support for our local public schools! Thank you! secure.actblue.com/donate/james-f…
Welcome to Night 3 of our legislative focus week covering Missouri Small Businesses. Tonights topic is all about supporting our local small businesses here in the Northland!
I will be shouting out a number of favorite local businesses and I request that you do the same!
1. Friendly Bean Coffee
This local coffee shop has been around for over two decades and has their drive-thru open currently if you need a cup of joe. friendlybeancoffee.com
Aug 8, 2020 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Welcome to night 2 of our MO Small Businesses legislative focus week!
Tonight’s topic will cover improving the government process in regards to our small businesses.
Please join in the conversation and follow along.
I will be quoting the following article for tonight’s conversation.
Welcome to Night One of our legislative focus week on Missouri Small Businesses! One of my favorite topics because here in District 16 we have so many amazing MO small businesses.
Tonight’s topic will cover sending much-needed aid to our MO small businesses. Please join in!
#COVID19 and the current pandemic have impacted so many areas of our society. One of the hardest hit areas has been our Missouri small businesses.
The first round of the PPP loan provided some relief, but a lot of small businesses have yet to receive any help.
Jul 25, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Welcome to night 5 of our Legislative Focus week on Health Care. Tonight’s the final night and our topic is how to obtain a people-first health care system.
Missourians deserve a health care system that’s affordable, accessible, and reliable. We CAN make this happen.
The previous topics this week all work together, in that if we do in fact expand Medicaid and implement it accordingly, if we implement a statewide PDMP program, and if we prioritize mental health, we can begin the process of having a people-first health care system in Missouri.
Jul 22, 2020 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Welcome to night 2 of our Legislative Focus week over Health Care. Tonights topic will cover different ways our #MoLeg can implement Medicaid expansion once we (hopefully) pass it on August 4th.
Reminder- we can expand Medicaid in Missouri on August 4th by voting @YesOn2MO
Strategy 1: Automatically enroll people from family planning programs.
Many non-expansion states provide low-income adults with limited Medicaid coverage for family-planning services. These states have the information needed to determine eligibility for expansion...
Jul 21, 2020 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Welcome to the first night of yet another Legislative Focus week. Our topic this week will be Health Care! Tonight’s focus will be all about Medicaid Expansion. Why do we need it, what are the potential benefits, and what can you do? Lets dig in! #YesOn2#MedicaidExpansion
I will be referring to the @YesOn2MO website tonight, and I highly encourage you to give it a look and share with a friend. Here’s the link- yeson2.org/learn-more
Jul 11, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Welcome to the fifth and final night of our Legislative Focus week on Fighting Corruption in Missouri politics. Tonight’s topic will cover eliminating conflicts of interest.
Tonight’s thread has some homework for you to read, but also to come back with opinions and ideas.
The following article covers some conflicts of interest within the U.S. Congress.
However, I want to explore how these types of conflicts can also be found here in Missouri so we can remove them from our government. hbr.org/amp/2017/02/th…
Jul 10, 2020 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
Welcome to night 4 of our Legislative Focus week over Fighting Corruption here in Missouri. Tonight’s topic will cover a few ways we can strengthen @CleanMissouri beyond protecting it this November 3rd.
I’d love to hear your thoughts as well, so feel free to comment!
The first way we can strengthen @CleanMissouri is by keeping it the law of the land.
For whatever reason, the @MOHouseGOP & @MoSenateGOP want to overturn the will of you the people, by stripping it of its power with their Amendment 3.
