2022 MO Senate race: on Crime


Eric Greitens: OpEd: most pro-police governor in the country

As governor, Greitens prohibited lobbyist gifts, killed a pay raise for politicians, and ended a corrupt tax credit program that lined the pockets of insiders at the expense of Missourians. He got rid of bureaucrats who failed our veterans. He backed our cops. Let me say that again; He backed our cops. Every. Single. Day. He was the most pro-police governor in the country.
Source: Newsmax e-zine on 2022 Missouri Senate race Mar 12, 2021

Eric Greitens: The defund-the-police movement has led to rising violence

[On defunding the police]: "I think when you look at what Joe Biden's done at the border. When you look at the left's campaign against the police. This tremendous defund the police movement which has led to rising violence. When you look at the actions they've taken to kill small businesses. The actions they have taken that are hurting American workers. All of these things suggest to us, prove to us, the country is really in crisis right now," he said.
Source: KAIT-TV ABC-8 on 2022 Missouri Senate race Apr 1, 2021

Eric Schmitt: Launched Cold Case Unit, testing backlog of rape kits

Eric launched the Safer Streets Initiative, an unprecedented cooperative effort between lawyers in the Attorney General's Office and federal prosecutors to take on violent crime. To address the backlog of untested sexual assault kits, Eric launched the SAFE Kit initiative to bring justice for Cold Case Unit to obtain justice for victims who have waited far too long.
Source: 2022 Missouri Senate campaign website SchmittForSenate.com Nov 8, 2021

Mark McClosky: Pardoned by Governor Mike Parson; praised by Trump

STATEMENT BY DONALD J. TRUMP, 45TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Congratulations to Governor Mike Parson of Missouri for having the courage to give Mr. and Mrs. Mark McCloskey a full pardon. They were defending their property and if they had not done what they did, their property would have been completely destroyed and they would have been badly beaten, or dead--great going Mike!
Source: Fox-4-KC on 2022 Missouri Senate race Aug 11, 2021

Mike Kehoe: Against policies that raise taxes, defund police departments

Kehoe said, "I want to make sure that we don't allow some of the crazy things that you're seeing on the other side of the aisle take place in Missouri." More specifically, he said he is against policies and programs that would expand government, raise taxes, defund police departments and be against capitalism or jobs.
Source: Fulton Sun on 2022 Missouri Senate race Sep 12, 2020

Roy Blunt: Riot: Trump touched hot stove, unlikely to touch it again

Q: Is the President a danger to the country [after the Capitol riots]?

BLUNT: I think the President's decisions and his actions that day and leading up to that day on this topic were clearly reckless. My personal view is that the President touched the hot stove and is unlikely to touch it again. And if that's the case, every day, we get closer to the last day of his presidency. We should be thinking more about the first day of the next presidency than the last day of his presidency, in my view.

Source: CBS Meet the Press on 2022 Missouri Senate race Jan 10, 2021

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Candidates and political leaders on Crime:

Retired Senate as of Jan. 2015:
GA:Chambliss(R)
IA:Harkin(D)
MI:Levin(D)
MT:Baucus(D)
NE:Johanns(R)
OK:Coburn(R)
SD:Johnson(D)
WV:Rockefeller(D)

Resigned from 113th House:
AL-1:Jo Bonner(R)
FL-19:Trey Radel(R)
LA-5:Rod Alexander(R)
MA-5:Ed Markey(D)
MO-9:Jo Ann Emerson(R)
NC-12:Melvin Watt(D)
SC-1:Tim Scott(R) 		Retired House to run for Senate or Governor:
AR-4:Tom Cotton(R)
GA-1:Jack Kingston(R)
GA-10:Paul Broun(R)
GA-11:Phil Gingrey(R)
HI-1:Colleen Hanabusa(D)
IA-1:Bruce Braley(D)
LA-6:Bill Cassidy(R)
ME-2:Mike Michaud(D)
MI-14:Gary Peters(D)
MT-0:Steve Daines(R)
OK-5:James Lankford(R)
PA-13:Allyson Schwartz(D)
TX-36:Steve Stockman(R)
WV-2:Shelley Capito(R) 		Retired House as of Jan. 2015:
AL-6:Spencer Bachus(R)
AR-2:Tim Griffin(R)
CA-11:George Miller(D)
CA-25:Howard McKeon(R)
CA-33:Henry Waxman(D)
CA-45:John Campbell(R)
IA-3:Tom Latham(R)
MN-6:Michele Bachmann(R)
NC-6:Howard Coble(R)
NC-7:Mike McIntyre(D)
NJ-3:Jon Runyan(R)
NY-4:Carolyn McCarthy(D)
NY-21:Bill Owens(D)
PA-6:Jim Gerlach(R)
UT-4:Jim Matheson(D)
VA-8:Jim Moran(D)
VA-10:Frank Wolf(R)
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