Posted on 09/11/2003 12:48:32 PM PDT by Luke Skyfreeper
The Missouri Senate has JUST NOW OVERRIDDEN GOV. BOB HOLDEN'S VETO OF LICENSE-TO-CARRY, by the narrow margin of 23 to 11!
23 votes were required to override, and we barely made it -- but we made it.
We were helped out in key swing votes by Senator Jon Dolan, who flew in from military duty in Cuba for this and the abortion override vote, and also by Senator Michael Gibbons, who voted against the original bill. No one knew until today how Senator Gibbons would cast his vote.
These are certainly not the only Senators who deserve to be thanked. Senator Harold Caskey, Democrat Senator from District 31, has swum against the tide of many of his colleagues to provide tremendous, courageous leadership in this issue. Senators Peter Kinder and Sarah Steelman also come to mind as prominent supporters. And those who passed the override in the House deserve to be thanked as well, because without them we would never have reached this point.
The KC Star posted the votes for every state Senator. All the Republicans and three demos voted for CCW.
MILITARY TO INVESTIGATE LEAVE GRANTED TO MISSOURI LAWMAKER WHO CAST DECIDING VOTE ON GUNS
That does it for me. A Democrat has written a letter trying to ruin the man for taking a SIX DAY LEAVE to come back home and vote. It is now obvious that the Democrat Party is bent on disarming the citizenry and taking us to totalitarian rule. Very foolish.
I'd been in the woods all weekend and heard about this great news, but couldn't post until now!
I saw one of my VERY liberal friends last night, and said to them (I was wearing shorts and tshirt and held arms up in air) Do you see my pistol? She said "Noooo", I "Thats because its concealed!!!! Bwahahhaaaaa" She wasn't very happy....
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