Speakers at the event also included Reps. J.C. Kuessner, D-Eminence, Margaret Donnelly, D-St. Louis, and members of the Missouri Disability Vote Project and Missouri People First.
"We started the 101 Caucus because we wanted to have a yearly crab boil," said Rep. J.C. Kuessner, D-Eminence and a member of the 101 Capitol Complex Caucus.
"That mom and pops made a living there all those years, then we don't want to sell that because of condemnation," said the amendment's sponsor, Rep. J.C. Kuessner, D-Eminence. "This bill simply says that if use condemnation or eminent domain to seize that property, that you can not use TIFs."
"To make this the state mushroom when everyone in this room has heard of the morel would be a travesty, said Rep. J.C. Kuessner, D-Eminence. "I just can't believe that we'd do something like that to our public citizens of the state of Missouri."
Democratic Representative J.C. Kuessner voted against the bill and said it would be a travesty to pass over the morel and elect another specimen for the official mushroom.
Representative J.C. Kuessner's district includes the Taum Sauk reservoir, and he questions how the state will pay for more engineers to perform inspections.
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