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Eigel, a state senator from Weldon Spring and a member of the far-right Missouri Freedom Caucus, was previously considered unlikely to win the Republican nomination to replace Gov. Mike Parson, but polls now show a tighter race. Here's where he stands on some of the biggest issues facing the state, including abortion, immigration, and tax cuts.
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The restored delegates include two of the major GOP candidates for governor, Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft and state Sen. Bill Eigel. A committee overturned the July 3 decision to replace those and other delegates to the Milwaukee convention.
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The Missouri Republican Party lost a lawsuit seeking to kick Darrell McClanahan III off the ballot for governor. McClanahan, who admitted being an "honorary member" of the Ku Klux Klan in a lawsuit, is listed first among the nine candidates.
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Missouri's list of rejected delegates includes two of the major GOP candidates for governor, Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft and state Sen. Bill Eigel. A Republican National Convention committee determined that they were not properly credentialed, along with other "alarming irregularities."
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An attorney for Darrell McClanahan III says the party’s appeal is too late to deny him a spot on the ballot in August.
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Despite outcries from families following the temporary blocking of in vitro fertilization services in Alabama earlier this year, Missouri lawmakers failed to pass legislation guaranteeing the procedure.
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Five states have banned ranked choice voting in the last two months, bringing the total number of Republican-leaning states now prohibiting the voting method to 10. Missouri could soon join them, if voters approve a constitutional amendment this fall.
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This year’s Missouri General Assembly session was defined by fighting among factions in the Republican Party amid campaigns for other offices ahead of the November general election. It resulted in a recent low for passing legislation. Most laws are still waiting a signature or veto from Gov. Mike Parson.
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By some measures, Missouri's recent legislative session was the least productive in recent history. The bitter and public factionalism among Republican lawmakers became so pervasive that it helped tank one of the party’s biggest priorities: a ballot item making it harder to amend the Missouri Constitution.
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In a rare instance of triumph for Missouri Democrats, an effort to raise the bar to amend the state constitution — a central GOP priority — was defeated.
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Under legislation that cleared the Missouri Senate with virtually no opposition earlier this year, marriage would be banned for anyone under 18. Although it passed out of a House committee this week, Republican leaders said it was too late to place the bill on the calendar for debate before the session ends.
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The Missouri Senate has been at a standstill since Monday evening when nine Democrats staged a filibuster to stop a GOP bill that would make it tougher to amend the constitution. The record-breaking filibuster comes just days before the session adjourns on Friday.