It's Francis Howell School board candidate forum night. Going to try to keep this as one thread. We'll see how it goes 😬. Candidates are Sam Young, a retired navy sub guy with no relevant experience propped up entirely by dark money, Adriana Kuhn, a ad agent of some sort who works for Republicans and is propped up entirely by dark money, Steven Blair, a methodist minister who works with youth, and

The #moleg Republicans should really just keep their mouths shut. Their grift would be so much easier. Nick, for those of you who don't know, is an unhinge liar who thinks violence and rage is a whole personality. He also likes to use campaign funds for his personal needs. 1/ I'm skipping over the donations. They're all PACs and dark money fronts. Typical of the whole GOP. What's fun with Little Nick's campaign funds is he likes to use them to supplement his family's income. How does he do that? With "donations" and "travel costs." 2/

Had some time and since @phlchristo is my Rep I thought I'd see what he's up to. He was complaining about @piper4missouri being paid for work saying she "steals from her donors" by paying for gas. I'm sure ol' Phil would never do such a thing. Let's just check... 1/ First, where exactly does he get his money? I'm only looking at his most recent MEC filing because they'll all be roughly the same. Phil is funded nearly entirely by PACs plus a couple lawyers and a bank president. Not exactly supported by the community, is he? 2/

Term limits has absolutely destroyed Missouri. #moleg now is what you get when competent people are only allowed to serve for 8 years. It's a shit show of power hungry idiots fighting over who can grandstand in the most disgusting way. 1/ Bills to push hate, abuse the powerless, and drive outrage in order to get their name in the press is the norm. Overturning the will of Missouri voters is the expectation. 2/