May 2020

JEFFERSON CITY– State Auditor Nicole Galloway continues to seek answers about defective masks distributed by the State Emergency Management Agency, or SEMA, to first responders across Missouri.

JEFFERSON CITY – Between the Missouri State Public Health Laboratory – and at least 15 private, national and in-state laboratories and participating health care institutions – about 50,000 tests could be performed weekly in Missouri.

We need to get through this time and tighten our belts, just as we have through two World Wars, terrorist attacks and other epidemics.

ST. LOUIS – Air Force veteran, lawyer, mother of five and former state auditor candidate Saundra Mc- Dowell, now running as a Republican for governor in the August primary against Gov. Mike Parson, said his stay-home order is illegal.

SENECA – Citing the “volatile situation and political misrepresentation within the Republican Party in Mis souri,” Seneca area business owner and rancher, Raleigh Ritter, seeks the Republican nomination for governor.

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Postal Service needs relief, too, U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II said.

U.S. SEN. ROY BLUNT joins President Trump at the White House for the signing of the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act. The bill, which unanimously passed the Senate, provides coronavirus relief funding for small businesses, agriculture producers,hospitals and health care providers. The bill also includes Blunt’s “shark tank” proposal to speed the development of new coronavirus tests.

On Monday, Excelsior Springs, Richmond, parts of Clay County, all of Ray County and the lion’s share of rural and municipal areas within Missouri will begin to reopen.