Posted on 09/14/2016 7:23:12 PM PDT by gopno1
JEFFERSON CITY — Senate Republicans on Wednesday twice used some muscle to pass bills over Gov. Jay Nixon’s objections, approving controversial gun and voter identification bills in the annual veto session.
A motion to shut off debate, rare anytime in the state Senate, had been used only once in September veto sessions since they were initiated in 1974. That was in 2014, when lawmakers approved a 72-hour waiting period to obtain an abortion. On Wednesday, it was used on both the gun measure and the voter identification bill.
The Missouri House also passed both bills. The gun measure eliminates the requirement for gun owners to obtain a permit to carry a concealed weapon and enacts provisions known as a “Stand Your Ground” law. The voter identification bill would require a government-issued ID with a photo, birth date and expiration date to cast a ballot if voters approve Amendment 6 on Nov. 8.
Through 8 p.m., lawmakers passed five bills over Nixon’s vetoes, raising the number of successful override votes in his eight years in office to 88, far surpassing the number for any other governor.
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88 veto overrides? Wow.
Constitutional carry for Mo. Awesome!
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“raising the number of successful override votes in his eight years in office to 88, far surpassing the number for any other governor.”
It also means Nixon doesn’t know how to work with other people and he’s really disliked if the House and Senate keep passing bills over his head.
Wow is exactly what I said when I read that.
I believe some municipalities can still apply certain restrictions, but I am not for certain. There was the typical liberal handwringing...as if not passing the law would have kept guns out of the hands of criminals. Sure, whatever. Idiots.
I am really surpised at MO lawmaker; I think of liberal Ferguson when I think of MO, and based on these actions I should never do that.
MO actually has Republican supermajorities in the House and Senate. They hammer the governor all the time on his ridiculous vetoes. Nixon was a decent Governor his first term but went full Daniel Ortega his second term. The only people who care about Ferguson are the lingering BLM types. The rest of Missouri thinks they are morons.
...I believe some municipalities can still apply certain restrictions,...
Statewide concealed carry with SOME municipalities having criminalized restrictions will keep people uncertain about arrest. State preemption is a necessity.
He’s your typical Rat bastard. Glad he’s term-limited.
Please understand; Missouri is a very conservative state, except for St. Louis and Kanas City, plus Columbia.
These bastions of liberalism can sometimes swing Missouri’s vote. Sometimes not.
Trump will help push that vote over the top!
Missouri House 115 republican 45 democrat. Senate I think is 26 Repub 8 Democrat. All Nixon had to do was stand strong, but he wilted in the Ferguson fiasco.
I used to teach Missouri constitution to my history students. It is a state requirement. Until the last 10 or 15 years or so, I believe there had been 2 veto overrides in Missouri history. It was so rare as to be virtually unthinkable, so Nixon easily has the record. It might even be a national record.
Even Columbia (I live about 20 minutes North) isn’t too liberal outside of the University doofuses and liberal city government people. Lots of Dixiecrats around here, too—but that genre is fading. Anywhere on the outskirts of Columbia is staunchly conservative. I think Boone County went like 51-49 D/R in the last presidential election. I assume you live somewhere South of me—which is reliably conservative.
“Please understand; Missouri is a very conservative state”
As a MA resident I was surprised at all the nonsense at U. of Missouri last year. I assumed MO was conservative and your post makes me feel better.
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The U of. MO (my alma mater which I’m ashamed of) has seen a ton of backlash, drops in enrollment, and losses in donations because of the goings-on there. Even long time supporters are truly embarrassed.
“Nixon was a decent Governor his first term “
No he wasn’t. One of the things that got him elected was his “promise” not to raise property taxes on seniors. The minute he got into office, the first thing he did was raise property taxes on everyone, including seniors. Mine went up double. We’ve known what he was for 7 1/2 years, and it didn’t take Ferguson to know it.
Great news on the surface, but it’s only a matter of time before some unelected judge decides to legislate from the bench and declare the voter ID law to be “unconstitutional” and overturns it before election day.
Lake of the Ozarks.
Before that, Minnesota.
We took our Yankee money and moved south.
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