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Friends,
In the last two weeks, the South Carolina and Missouri Freedom Caucuses made some massive headlines in fights against the Uniparty in their respective legislatures.
The South Carolina legislative session officially came to a close on Thursday and the SC Freedom Caucus ensured that it would end with some fireworks.
First, SCFC Chairman Rep. Adam Morgan triggered a response from Gov. Henry McMaster when he discovered that a South Carolina Medicaid office was handing out voter registration forms to non-citizens.
Rep. Morgan then tried to amend the state budget to prevent agencies from doing it again but the “Republican supermajority” under RINO Speaker Murrell Smith blocked it, claiming it was “non-germane” to the budget. A vote to rule the amendment germane was then defeated.
After failing to muster up the willpower to stop illegals from receiving voter registration forms, the RINO leadership in SC found a bigger priority of their own: Creating a new Dr. Fauci in their state.
Given the mess that governments made with “emergency health powers” during COVID, you’d think Republicans would be focused on taking power away from the health bureaucracy. But in South Carolina the RINOs attempted to pass a bill to dramatically restructure the health department. It included the creation of a “health czar” that would be given wide-ranging powers over health policy.
Obviously, the Freedom Caucus said “no way”. Led by Rep. Josiah Magnuson, they used a procedural move to kill the bill just as the legislature adjourned for the year, sending Speaker Murrell Smith and the rest of the RINO leadership team home with their tail between their legs.
News outlets across the country, such as the Associated Press, recognized how big a deal it was.
After failing to get his big government priority passed, Smith then did an interview with reporters where he said the SCFC was “harming South Carolinans.”
The only thing harming the state is the lack of conservative leadership in the legislature.
Missouri
In just their first five months in existence, the Missouri Freedom Caucus has made a splash unlike any other.
We’ve written in the past about their fight throughout this year’s legislative session to pass Initiative Petition (IP) reform in order to stop out-of-state, left-wing dark money from being able to influence ballot measures.
After months of their RINO leadership stalling the bill, MOFC State Senators took matters into their own hands — and proceeded to break the record for the longest filibuster in Show Me State history.
For 41 long hours, the Missouri Freedom Caucus, led by Sens. Rick Brattin, Bill Eigel, and Denny Hoskins, filibustered budget bills in the Senate until it was guaranteed that IP reform would be brought up for a vote.
It began at 10:30 am on Tuesday, April 30, and concluded at 3:30 am on Thursday, May 2, when the Freedom Caucus secured the commitment of sufficient Republican senators to complete the passage of the IP reform.
Forty-one hours of a non-stop real-life talking, standing, reading from the Bible filibuster.
Let that sink in.
The MO Freedom Caucus also fought like mad to cut wasteful spending in the state budget. When the dust settled, the big spenders in the state senate had to cave, resulting in the first budget since 2009 that actually cut spending in real terms compared to last year’s budget.
In addition to IP reform and cutting the budget, the MO Freedom Caucus led the way to expand school choice earlier this year and they defunded Planned Parenthood. All of these issues have been in the pipeline for years - conservative Missouri voters have been demanding them - but it took the launch and the steady, tenacious conviction of a state freedom caucus to make it happen.
That is how hard Freedom Caucuses are willing to fight in order to deliver victories for conservatives.
50 Swamps Podcast
In case you missed it, I have also started a brand new podcast called “50 Swamps.”
Check out the first two episodes with MOFC State Director Tim Jones and our SFCN Comms Director Greg Price on YouTube, Spotify, Apple, or any podcasting platform.
Andy Roth
President
State Freedom Caucus Network
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