{"id":12308,"date":"2021-09-15T11:59:21","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T16:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/?p=12308"},"modified":"2021-09-15T11:59:21","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T16:59:21","slug":"missouri-governor-parson-defends-missouri-resident-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/politics\/government\/missouri-governor-parson-defends-missouri-resident-rights-20210915","title":{"rendered":"Missouri Governor Parson Defends Missouri Resident Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Thursday, Missouri Governor Mike Parson and other GOP political leaders in Kansas and Missouri had somethings to say to Biden&#8217;s new attempt to touch private businesses. Biden has directed the Department of Labor to create a rule to have companies with over 100 employees mandate vaccinations or weekly testing.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Our administration will reject the Biden Administration&#8217;s attempt to enforce an unconstitutional, federal vaccine mandate for Missourians and private businesses. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AV8dBPDqBy\">pic.twitter.com\/AV8dBPDqBy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Governor Mike Parson (@GovParsonMO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovParsonMO\/status\/1436468924384743437?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 10, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>What People Have to Say<\/h2>\n<p>Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt said, &#8220;Missouri has been a national leader in pushing back against the Biden administration and COVID related mandates. Biden\u2019s historic overreach on vaccine mandates will not stand in Missouri. We\u2019re at a crossroads in America \u2014 who we are and what we\u2019re going to be. We must fight back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>U.S. Senator<\/h3>\n<p>U.S. Senator Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) said, &#8220;This will likely get struck down in the courts but is a terrifying glimpse of the new Marxist Dem Party,\u201d Marshall tweeted. \u201cEvery governor in America who believes in the constitution, the liberty of their citizens and the future of our republic must defy this president.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Missouri Representative<\/h3>\n<p>Representative Sam Graves (R-Mo.) said, &#8220;This is just the latest example of the extreme executive overreach by this administration,\u201d Graves said. \u201cQuite frankly, it seems like a desperate attempt to distract from his disgraceful bungling of the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.&#8221; <a class=\"simple-footnote\" title=\"https:\/\/fox4kc.com\/news\/missouri-governor-other-area-politicians-react-to-bidens-new-federal-vaccine-mandate\/\" id=\"return-note-12308-1\" href=\"#note-12308-1\"><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Good News For MO<\/h2>\n<p>Our elected officials seem determined to defend our rights, and protect private businesses. <a class=\"simple-footnote\" title=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/mkt_breakingnews\/19-governors-2-ags-immediately-resist-bidens-vaccine-mandates_3990650.html?utm_source=News&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=breaking-2021-09-10-1&amp;mktids=e45e4f252115576661284bef18a01f33&amp;est=Z4GKzWAl%2F6gVtcSqFB3zN2ajh7saLOw2pADSRyd7hBr1kZ8FufUO7v9ojIiUpliU43FD\" id=\"return-note-12308-2\" href=\"#note-12308-2\"><sup>[2]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/><div class=\"simple-footnotes\"><h4 class=\"notes\">Notes:<\/h4><ol><li id=\"note-12308-1\" class=\"simple-footnote\"><a class=\"tjfootnotes\" href=\"#return-note-12308-1\">&#94;<\/a>https:\/\/fox4kc.com\/news\/missouri-governor-other-area-politicians-react-to-bidens-new-federal-vaccine-mandate\/ <a href=\"#return-note-12308-1\">&#40;go back &nbsp;&#8617;&#41;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"note-12308-2\" class=\"simple-footnote\"><a class=\"tjfootnotes\" href=\"#return-note-12308-2\">&#94;<\/a>https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/mkt_breakingnews\/19-governors-2-ags-immediately-resist-bidens-vaccine-mandates_3990650.html?utm_source=News&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=breaking-2021-09-10-1&amp;mktids=e45e4f252115576661284bef18a01f33&amp;est=Z4GKzWAl%2F6gVtcSqFB3zN2ajh7saLOw2pADSRyd7hBr1kZ8FufUO7v9ojIiUpliU43FD <a href=\"#return-note-12308-2\">&#40;go back &nbsp;&#8617;&#41;<\/a><\/li><\/ol><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri Governor Parson and other GOP political leaders in Kansas and Missouri had something to say to Biden&#8217;s new attempt to touch private businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[264,203],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12308"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12315,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12308\/revisions\/12315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}