Just two days after he was elected to the state Senate, newly elected assistant minority leader Chuck Graham of Columbia is already fielding questions about his predecessor, Senator Ken Jacob.
Kinder conceeds Cook has the edge on him in terms of name recognition, pointing to her high profile role as Secretary of State and the heavy advertising Cook used to defeat Sen. Ken Jacob in the Democratic Primary.
* Democrat Bekki Cook, who defeated Ken Jacob, the state Senate minority leader in the primary, is running against Republican and president pro tem of the Senate Peter Kinder for lieutenant governor.
JEFFERSON CITY - Sen. Ken Jacob filibustered a Medicaid bill that would require annual eligibility checks for those receiving the health care subsidy. Republican leadership dropped the bill after realizing it wouldn't get enough votes.
As Senate Democratic Floor Leader Ken Jacob drew out discussion on a foster care bill in the Senate's last hours, Lt. Gov. Joe Maxwell, a Democrat, refused to allow Republicans to cut off debate and force a vote. The foster care legislation passed the Senate and was sent to the governor in the last few minutes of the session.
The House and Senate had split over the question of how deeply, if at all, to cut back in Medicaid spending. But neither side's prevailed as a result of a filibuster by Sen. Ken Jacob, D-Columbia, that blocked legislative action on the issue.
Senate Democratic Floor Leader Ken Jacob, D-Columbia, stalled a foster care bill until the last minute of the session. The House passed the Senate's version of a constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriages, sending it to the ballot.
The failure to push through the bonds also generated one of Knorr's sharpest critics, Columbia Democratic Sen. Ken Jacob. He said Knorr's inexperience with this particular state government was a problem from the get-go.
As Senate Democratic Floor Leader Ken Jacob drew out discussion on a foster care bill in the Senate's last hours, Lt. Gov. Joe Maxwell, a Democrat, refused to allow Republicans to cut off debate and force a vote. The foster care legislation passed the Senate and was sent to the governor in the last few minutes of the session.
Senate Minority Floor Leader Ken Jacob, D-Columbia, didn't address specific bills but expressed his general feelings for legislation coming the last week of session.
In the meantime, a Democratic filibuster by Senate Minority Floor Leader Ken Jacob, D-Columbia, derailed a Senate Republican effort to crack down on Medicaid fraud.
With summer approaching, fairs and festivals will abound in small towns all over Missouri, but how safe will they be? A bill currently in the House says the small towns where these festivals are held won't be responsible for any deaths or injuries. Columbia Senator Ken Jacob says that could lead to problems.
The approval of the bill came despite an addition by Sen. Ken Jacob, D-Columbia, that would increase taxes on businesses and generate about $50 million per year. That money would pay off debt from the bond and then, with the leftovers, help fund financial aid for Missouri college students.
There was an unnsuccessful attempt by the chief name change opponent Democratic Senator Ken Jacob to remove language from the bond bil that ties it to the name change.
Kinder and Sen. Ken Jacob, D-Columbia, made a deal earlier in the session linking passage of the bond bill to the name change of Southwest Missouri State University. The current version of the bill includes a provision that it only becomes effective if the legislature changes the name of SMSU to Missouri State University.
The billboards for porn shops and strip clubs that line Interstate-70 were the focus of the bill the Senate approved and sent to the House Thursday. Columbia Senator Ken Jacob says he finds the I-70 advertisements obtrusive.
Sen. Ken Jacob, D-Columbia, filibustered that name change. The bond was, in theory, a compromise that would have essentially given the UM system money and allowed SMSU to take the new name.
Senate Majority Leader Mike Gibbons sponsored the bill to annually recalculate reimbursements to nursing homes. The bill passed without opposition but only after Gibbons responded to questions. Columbia Sen. Ken Jacob says he is concerned about the effects this bill could have on in-home health care.
Missouri Senate Minority Leader Ken Jacob condemned the Senate's Republican leadership today (Wednesday), saying they have dismantled every important issue Missourians have grown to cherish. Darryl Franklin reports on the Republican response from the capitol.
The bond issue was initially proposed as part of a deal to end a filibuster by Sen. Ken Jacob, D-Columbia, against a bill that would have changed the name of Southwest Missouri State University to Missouri State University.
JEFFERSON CITY - By a vote of 26 to 6, the Missouri Senate voted to amend the state constitution defining marriages as a union only between a man and a woman. Senator Ken Jacobs says the amendment will not be enough to prevent couples from other states from being recognized if they move to Missouri. But Senator John Loudon says that despite its impact, the state had to take a stand on the issue.
Senator Ken Jacob proposed an amendment to to address that matter... which would give the state the power not to recognize homosexual marriages from other states.
The $190.4 million bond was originally introduced as a compromise to end a filibuster by Sen. Ken Jacob, D-Columbia, to block the SMSU name-change bill.
Sen. Brian Yates, R-Jackson County, introduced an amendment to link the SMSU name change to a similar name change for Central Missouri State University. Opposition to the bill in the house is a bipartisan effort, while the opposition in the Senate was headed primarily by Sen. Ken Jacob, D-Columbia.
Adult businesses would not be the only industries affected by the bill. An amendment by Sen. Ken Jacob, D-Columbia, defined nudity as "any bare exposure of the skin located on a person's body below the armpits and above the knees."
Sen. Ken Jacob, D-Columbia, who opposed the concealed carry legislation last session, said he disagreed with the Missouri Supreme Court's decision. In particular, he said he was concerned that the law allows people age 21 and older to carry a gun in a car.
Under the agreement, Senate Democratic Floor Leader Ken Jacob agreed to drop his filibuster. In return, the two top GOP leaders -- Senate President Pro Tem Peter Kinder and Republican Floor Leader Mike Gibbons -- agreed to await further action on the bill until the legislature passes another measure to let the University of Missouri borrow more money and lease some property.
The group honored Senate Democratic Leader Ken Jacob for his efforts against abortion-restriction legislation. They also announced a "Wall of Shame" of anti-abortion rights legislators.
Sen. Ken Jacob, D-Columbia, attempted to strike a deal Wednesday night that would have given the University of Missouri system roughly $200 million to help finance the construction of a hotel, convention center and performing arts center on the MU campus.
Sen. Ken Jacob, D-Columbia, attempted to strike a deal Wednesday night that would have given the University of Missouri system roughly $200 million to help finance the construction of a hotel, convention center and performing arts center on the MU campus.
Sen. Ken Jacob, D-Columbia said the state legislature should not interfere with the authority of the Board of Curators given to it by the state's constitution.
JEFFERSON CITY - Sen. Ken Jacob, D-Columbia, who filibustered a bill last year to change Southwest Missouri State University to Missouri State University, offered his support to a bill that would combine the name change and $200 million in bond proposals slated to go to the University of Missouri system.
Sen. Ken Jacob, Democratic floor leader and 22-year veteran of the General Assembly, found less to laugh about his party being in the minority position.
The absence of harmony in the Senate started when Senate Democratic Floor Leader Ken Jacob, D-Columbia, raised an objection to adopting the Senate rules at the start of the session.
The state government pension for former Sen. Ken Jacob jump from nearly $29,000 to more than $47,000 immediately after his appointment. Jacob, who lost the Democratic primary for lieutenant governor, had served 22 years in the state House and Senate -- earning him the nearly $29,000 pension from the state.