Update: The town hall meeting set for Friday at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in south 狐狸视频聽has been cancelled due to weather forecasts.
After taking a bit of a breather for the holidays, the 2024 campaigns for higher political offices are heating up in the colder weather:
CAMPAIGN TRAILERS: After taking a bit of a breather for the holidays, the 2024 campaigns for higher political offices are heating up in the colder weather:
鈥 The only 狐狸视频-area candidate running to unseat GOP U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley has been invited to appear with a decidedly conservative group that is meeting Friday at a Catholic church in south 狐狸视频.
State Sen. Karla May, D-狐狸视频, is scheduled to be part of a panel arranged by Freedom Principle, a group that espouses Donald Trump鈥檚 鈥淢ake America Great Again鈥 credo.
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The event, billed as a 鈥渢own hall鈥 meeting and open to the public, is set for 6:30 p.m. at Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church.
May is running against Lucas Kunce of Independence and December Harmon of Columbia in the August primary, with the winner likely facing incumbent GOP U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley.
Among other state legislators who have been invited to the meeting is state Sen. Bill Eigel of Weldon Spring. Eigel is arguably the most conservative candidate running for governor in the Republican primary, in a field that also includes Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft and Lt. Gov. Mike Kehoe.
Other well-known conservative Republican state legislators scheduled to attend are Sen. Nick Schroer of Defiance, Rep. Justin Sparks of Wildwood and Rep. Jim Murphy of south 狐狸视频 County.
State Rep. Steven Butz, a Democrat who represents the district in which the church is located, also is slated to attend.
鈥 And speaking of the U.S. Senate race, leading candidate Lucas Kunce has announced that his bid to unseat incumbent Republican Josh Hawley has picked up the endorsement of a Democratic group aimed at campaign-finance reform.
End Citizens United/Let America Vote, a political action committee formed in 2015, got behind Kunce earlier this week.
Tiffany Muller, the group鈥檚 president, praised Kunce for refusing to 鈥渢ake a cent of corporate PAC or federal lobbyist money.鈥
Jason Kander, former Missouri Secretary of State and a state legislator, sits on the board of the committee. He is the founder of the Let America Vote group.
The PAC formed in response to the 2010 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in favor of a group which called itself Citizens United. The court鈥檚 decision eased restrictions on corporations and labor unions making large campaign contributions, ruling that political spending is a form of free speech.
鈥 Finally, the pivoted Wesley Bell campaign has a private fundraiser in the works for next week, a private soiree on Jan. 18 at a Clayton location.
Bell, who quit his run for the U.S. Senate in October, now is opposing U.S. Rep. Cori Bush, D-狐狸视频, for her 1st Congressional District seat in the August primary.
Helping spread the word for the fundraiser is businessman Bob Fox, a well-heeled Democratic contributor and husband of Build-a-Bear founder Maxine Clark.