House Speaker Pro Tem Rod Jetton, R-Marble Hill, said he is concerned with those who already carry weapons on public transportation: criminals. He said that not allowing law-abiding citizens to have concealed weapons on board risks their safety.
Speaker Pro Tem Rod Jetton has said Republican lawmakers are using carrots to attract businesses to Missouri, whereas Holden's proposals are sticks that scare them off.
"These people are exaggerating the problem and then asking constituents to call their representatives to complain," said House Speaker Pro Tem Rod Jetton. "It's very hard on elected officials who come under this pressure, but this is a budget that they should be proud of and shouldn't be ashamed of it."
House Speaker Pro Tem, Rod Jetton of Marble Hill, says he was approached by students who were concerned about voicing their conservative views in classes with leftist professors. The students said one recent example was when guest speaker, David Horowitz, came to the University of Missouri campus. According to the students, Professor Miriam Golomb offered to give points to students who protested him. Jetton says this is a violation of academic integrity.
"If education is our top priority, it is time to get back to the promise we gave the voters when they approved gambling money for education 10 years ago," said the bill's sponsor -- House Speaker Pro Tem Rod Jetton, R-Marble Hill. "This is a visible way to track gaming money directly to the schools."
Republican lawmakers say they want to fulfill a promise made in 1992 to give schools extra funding in the form of gambling revenue. Republican Representative Rod Jetton from Southeast Missouri says this bill is about holding Missouri accountable to the tax payers.
The bill, sponsored by House Speaker Pro Tem Rod Jetton, R-Marble Hill, would create a new fund called the Classroom Trust Fund. Proceeds from riverboat gambling would be placed into this fund and distributed to school districts on a per-pupil basis beginning in 2007.
The new team taking charge of the first Republican majority in the House in 48 years is enthusiastic, energetic and excited, according to Speaker Pro Tem Rod Jetton, R-Marble Hill.
JEFFERSON CITY - Two Missouri legislators who support the new concealed weapons law will not try to keep local governments from instituting ordinances that prohibit guns on busses and other forms of public transportation. Rep. Larry Crawford, R-Centertown, the bill's sponsor, and Speaker Pro Tem Rod Jetton, R-Marble Hill, said that it is the right of local governments to pass such ordinances. They did, however, say that municipal restrictions on weapons will gradually be relaxed.
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