In a recent Kansas City Star column, former Rep. Brian Yates, R-Jackson County, said that while he said he has no proof, he is convinced that vote swapping for campaign contributions has occurred. Yates resigned his seat Dec.1 to work for QC Holdings, a Kansas City payday lender.
Lee's Summit Republican, Representative Brian Yates says this is not the first time he has heard of FBI investigations and he says he feels wrong-doings do happen on Capitol grounds.
A bill introduced by state Rep. Brian Yates, R-Lee's Summit, would, for the first time, implement state regulation of local jurisdictions' red light cameras. Under current statute, the state of Missouri recieves no funds from red-light cameras across the state. The only mention of cameras in current state law is that Missouri allows them to be imposed locally.
On the House side of the Capitol Building, Jackson County Republican Representative Brian Yates proposed a bill to get rid of a similar requirement, that all gasoline contain 10 percent ethanol.