If Cynthia Davis is "a nice girl," give me a floozy any day

The oversized contributions have not been flowing into term-limited Rep. Cynthia Davis' attempt to leapfrog incumbent Scott Rupp into his State Senate seat.

On the last day of the second quarter, Mrs. Davis received a $26,000 contribution from Bernie Davis, her husband, Back to Basics Christian Bookstore, the business they own. Whether this is an indication that Mrs. Davis was in desperate need of cash for her campaign, of if she was just trying to make the final totals impressive on the next disclosure report are something no will know until about two weeks from now, but greenbacks were not headed Mrs. Davis' way earlier this year.

As I noted in the April 17 Turner Report, Rupp had almost seven times as much money in his campaign account than Mrs. Davis, according to their first quarter disclosure reports filed with the Missouri Ethics Commission.

Rupp collected $27,520 during the first quarter and spent $22,190.97, leaving him with $62,701.41.

Mrs. Davis picked up $17,704, spent $9,047.49, and had $9,985.07 remaining

One might think Mrs. Davis has been trying to jumpstart a fizzling race with her recent slew of outlandish attacks on Rupp, whose credentials as a conservative are beyond reproach. However, it is just possible and probable that the outlandish statements are just Mrs. Davis being Mrs. Davis.

She has been taking a particularly Palinesque approach to the campaign. Her opening statement, printed on her campaign website, rips into the media and everyone in the world who is evil, in other words, everyone whose beliefs differ from those of Mrs. Davis.

Politics has become a dirty business. The way Sarah Palin was nit-picked and harassed, we now can see clearly that the anti-family, anti-taxpayer and anti-traditional values forces will say or do anything to trash people who share the same opinions as you and me.



Since they can’t win on their ideas, they use the media and internet to demean and ridicule and try to make good people leave office or not consider running.


There is an old line, “What’s a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?” With all the political nastiness, many wonder why a nice person would enter such a vicious arena. The reason is simple. I love my country, I love my family and I care enough about both to commit my life to preserving that for which our founding fathers lived and died.

Judging from the approach Mrs. Davis has taken to Scott Rupp, she has either changed her description of a nice girl or this is one time you'd rather not bring a nice girl home to meet the parents.

Consider this attack on Rupp and his fellow Republicans, Mrs. Davis' party by the way, which the folks at the Democratic party house blog, Fired Up Missouri, were only too happy to publicize:

Cynthia Davis laid into Scott Rupp and his Republican colleagues in the Missouri Senate on Gina Loudon's radio program yesterday, stating that Rupp et al. are just a "big frat club," are "too wimpy to handle coercion [legislation]," are inept and "trashed" her Health Care Freedom Act by putting a statutory change on the August ballot instead of a constitutional amendment.

If Cynthia Davis is "a nice girl," give me a floozy any day.

Missouri Right to Life endorses Cynthia Davis for lieutenant governor

Missouri Right to Life has endorsed former State Rep. Cynthia Davis, a Constitution Party candidate, for lieutenant governor.


Mrs. Davis trumpeted the announcement in a newsletter sent today, as well as in the following news release:

In what could be a game changer in November, former State Representative Cynthia Davis became the only candidate to be endorsed as the Pro-Life candidate for Missouri Lt Governor by Missouri Right to Life.  No Republican or Democratic candidate running for Lt. Governor received the endorsement of this respected and influential group.

In response, Davis said "We are changing the political landscape. This is the first time Missouri Right to Life has ever endorsed anyone on the Constitution Party ticket. This endorsement is good news for the Pro-Life voters because they deserve a true champion of our values---not just lip service at election time."

Cynthia Davis is running a true grass roots campaign on the platform of "Principles, not Politics" and holding the others accountable. She has been speaking at rallies, 9/12 groups, property rights councils, Tea Parties, patriot groups and women's organizations throughout the state.

Never before have so many voters been disappointed with the options offered by the Republican and Democrat parties. “Republicans claim to be Pro-Life, but have failed to offer their voters any real choices on the ballot for those who want a Pro-Life option. The Democrat Party doesn't even pretend to care about life issues, though many individual Democratic voters are Pro-Life and welcome the option of voting for a candidate who respects life.  "With the majority of Missourians wanting a champion for Pro-Life issues, I am happy to have this endorsement and the support of thousands of informed Pro-Life voters who want to elect people of principle to office," said Cynthia Davis.

Missouri Right to Life only gives their endorsement to candidates who have demonstrated a commitment to Pro-Life issues including opposition to abortion, human cloning, assisted suicide and euthanasia. While Cynthia Davis was in the Missouri House of Representatives, especially while serving as the Chairman of the Children and Families Committee, she proved her unwavering commitment to life. Missouri Right to Life is the oldest and most credible Pro-Life organization which estimates there are over a quarter of a million informed Pro-Life voters in our state.

The letter from Missouri Right to Life

I don't anticipate this to be any more a "game changer" than Missouri Right to Life's much-heralded endorsement of Roy Cagle in the Republican primary for State Senate a few years back. A giant press conference was held for that endorsement, with Cagle also receiving the endorsements of state representatives Mark Elliott, Gary Burton, and Chuck Surface in his race against incumbent Dr. Marvin Singleton. Singleton went on to win the primary by a wide margin.

Democrats criticize Cynthia Davis' "bait and switch" on abortion bill

Democrats are upset with Cynthia Davis' actions on an anti-abortion bill in her committee. From a news release issued earlier today:

Democratic members of the House Special Committee on Children and Families Committee succeeded today in blocking – at least temporarily – an unconstitutional attempt by the committee’s Republican chairwoman to hold a vote on an anti-abortion bill that she had completely replaced with another bill that wasn’t before the committee.

The committee was scheduled to vote this morning on HB 1238, which would change state laws relating to abortion consent requirements. Committee Chairwoman Cynthia Davis, R-St. Charles, instead offered a substitute bill that deleted all nine pages of HB 1238 except for a single sentence and replaced it with language from HB 1236, which would establish medical screening requirements designed to make it more difficult for a woman to obtain an abortion. HB 1236 hasn’t been referred to any committee.

Davis’ attempt to switch bills violates Article III, Section 21 of the Missouri Constitution, which prohibits bills from being changed from their original purpose. The action also could violate Missouri’s Sunshine Law, which requires advance public notice of what legislation will be considered at government meetings.

“I understand Representative Davis’ frustration that HB 1236 was not assigned to our committee by the speaker as she desired, but she still has a responsibility to follow rules meant to assure transparency in government,” said state Rep. Jeanette Mott Oxford of St. Louis, the committee’s ranking Democrat. “She cannot announce one bill and then completely replace it with another while deleting virtually all of the original legislation. That violates statutory and constitutional safeguards against deceptive legislation.”

Davis’ substitute bill eventually was set aside so that it could be redrafted. The committee is now scheduled to vote on HB 1238 on Thursday following morning adjournment of the House.

Davis has engaged in a pattern of deception and abuse of authority to prevent an open discussion on HB 1238/HB 1236. During the original public hearing on HB 1238 on March 3, it quickly became apparent that the witnesses in support instead were testifying on HB 1236, even though that bill wasn’t before the committee. The Democratic committee members sent Davis a letter on Tuesday admonishing her for her deceptive and unprofessional conduct at that hearing.

“My constituents would have been appalled to see the violation of the spirit, and perhaps the letter, of the Sunshine Law that occurred in our committee on March 3 and that was attempted today,” said state Rep. Jill Schupp, D-Creve Coeur. “Clearly one bill was announced, but another was the topic of testimony in a ‘bait and switch’ maneuver that does not pass my sniff test for transparency in government.”

Davis allotted nearly all of the March 3 hearing to supporters and prohibited the standard practice of allowing committee members to question witnesses. After all supporters had testified, Davis allowed a mere five minutes of questioning about the bill at the end of the hearing.

“In addition to the transparency issues, the lack of a democratic process in issuing a gag order to committee members while witnesses testified is equally deplorable,” said state Rep. Margo McNeil, D-Florissant. “There were important questions that needed to be asked, but instead we were held as silent hostages for the better part of an hour.”

Constitution Party fundraising pitch: We need money to make Cynthia Davis a winner

A mailing from the Constitution Party National Chairman Frank Fluckger (you can't make names like this up), makes a pitch for funds to help make Cynthia Davis a winner. The Koch Brothers don't have that kind of money.

Dear Fellow Constitution Party Supporters:

This November we have two very important races that are winnable.  One six person state house race in Michigan in which Bill Mohr is running for state house district 76.  The other race is in Missouri in which Cynthia Davis is running for Lt. Governor.  Both races are winnable by our candidates and both are attracting the news media.

However, to win these races funds are urgently needed.  Bill Mohr is in need of $5,000.00 and Cynthia Davis of course is in need of a greater amount of funds than that since she is running a state wide race. Winning either or both of these races would do wonders for the image of the party and to not do all in our power to make this possible would be a most unfortunate mistake on our part.

I am therefore making an appeal to all or our members to contribute what the can as quickly as they can to at least one and hopefully to both of these candidates. Instructions on how to make the funds payable and where they need to be send the funds is included in the information about the candidates.

The information regarding Bill Mohr is included with this email right below my signature.  The information for Cynthia Davis is in the email below mine.  Plus there is an attachment above that is part of the information.  I am trying to make this as simple and straight forward as possible.

Again, please read the information on both candidates and act quickly as time is of the essence.

My sincere thanks to each of you,

Frank Fluckger
National Chairman
Constitution Party.

Cynthia Davis: We've been the nice ones

For those who thought Rep. Cynthia Davis, R-O'Fallon, was mean-spirited just because she said hunger is a great motivator for children certainly must have changed their minds after hearing her Tax Day speech. In less than four minutes, Mrs. Davis, who is term-limited in the House, but running for the Senate seat currently held by fellow Republican Scott Rupp, corrected any mistaken belief that she and her fellow conservatives are hard hearted{

"Historically, we have been so nice. We have been the compassionate ones. We have been the gentle ones who wanted to reach out and do what we could. I've got news for you- No more Mr. Nice Guy."

Thank God she set us straight.

In her speech, she reminds us that she is the one who brought Missourians the Health Care Freedom Act, the Firearms Freedom Act and the Light Bulb Freedom Act.

Possibly, Scott Rupp will provide Missourians with the Freedom from Cynthia Davis Act.

MO State Rep Cynthia Davis from Doug Edelman on Vimeo.

Cynthia Davis: Ethics reform won't work

Rep. Cynthia Davis, R-O'Fallon, doesn't think much of Gov. Jay Nixon's proposal for ethics reform, according to a report on KCUR:

Republican State Rep. Cynthia Davis from O'Fallon says ethics reform won't accomplish much since any rule will probably have a loophole around it.

Cynthia Davis: "If these legislators can't even get the ten commandments right, what makes us think if we add a whole other layer of 15 more rules we're going to make people more ethical?"

Mrs. Davis can be considered somewhat of an expert on this, since she was painfully unaware that she was not allowed to use campaign funds to pay her personal tax debts.

Cynthia Davis: Not one person in 15 years has asked me to change our healthcare system

Count Cynthia Davis among those who thinks Medicare is some sort of socialist program and is unconstitutional to boot.

In a letter sent to Senators Kit Bond and Claire McCaskill and Congressmen Todd Akin and Blaine Luetkemeyer, Mrs. Davis writes, "From where does Congress receive constitutional authority to pass any kind of healthcare bill?"

She also notes that in her 15 years of public service "(I) have never once had a constituent ask me to change our healthcare system. I believe those pushing this in Washington are misguided and out of step with the American people."

If you recall, Mrs Davis, in her Aug. 6 newsletter, wrote, the proposed healthcare reform "would force all of us to pay for abortions and encourage people to die prematurely. While some may argue we could save money if more people are dead, this is the wrong approach to healthcare."

Perhaps this kind of ignorance about what the proposals have said is the reason why no one has contacted Mrs. Davis about the need for healthcare reform.

The text of Mrs. Davis' letter is printed below:


Dear Senators Bond and McCaskill and Representatives Akin and Luetkemeyer,

As the Representative for District 19 in the Missouri House of Representatives, I have some questions and concerns about the national-healthcare proposal. As an elected official, I understand the pressure you may feel to placate the leadership in Washington D.C., but representing us well should be the highest priority. Taking care of the people in our district is far more important to me than making the “in-crowd” happy, and I am asking you to do the same.

Remember the old expression, “If it isn’t broken, don’t fix it.”? Why would anyone want to change the best healthcare system in the entire world? The only part of healthcare causing discontent is the rising price of healthcare. All the bills under consideration will do little to drive down costs; this means the proposal on the table fails to address the biggest problem. Finding ways to funnel more money to the providers without making them compete for customers is anti-free-market and moves our country closer to socialism.

If you are sincere about making a difference in the real health care problems we face, I would like you to address these issues:
-Why don’t you let amendments pass that will assure us you will not be using our money to pay for unethical extermination of innocent human beings? For more information: view it online
- Why not exchange the current Medicaid program for health savings accounts or healthcare vouchers which gives the consumer the incentive to save? Even if people are on Medicaid, they are still capable of making choices that will be in their best interest.
-Why don’t we make all medical expenses (including dental, lasik, and eyeglasses) tax deductible?
- Stop showing disdain for those who don’t have medical insurance. There are some very fine Amish and Mennonite constituents in Missouri as well as others who don’t want insurance and do not deserve to be blamed for our healthcare problems. Those without insurance are the only ones being charged the highest amount for their healthcare. You will not hear from them because they have no high powered lobbyists to speak on their behalf. If you were doing more to support free market principles in healthcare, people without insurance could better afford to pay for what they need. Even Massachusetts can’t get everyone on an insurance plan, so quit making this the goal.
-What is being done to increase transparency? If you ask your providers how much a test or drug will cost, they usually can’t tell you because they don’t know. How would any other industry operate if you were forced to purchase a service without knowing what you will pay?
-Why do you spend money you don’t have? How about paying off the national debt and then when you have a surplus, you give it back to the taxpayers so we can purchase the healthcare of our choice?
-From where does congress receive constitutional authority to be passing any kind of healthcare bill?

The Math:
Cost of medical care
+ Cost of processing paperwork, overhead for buildings and staff
= more money being redistributed out of the taxpayer’s wallets and into the bank accounts for hospitals, insurance companies and administrators. Cost of more people on government insurance is > current conditions.

It is counterproductive for our congress to be spending time on something that will take us backward. I have served the public in an elected capacity for more than 15 years and have never once had a constituent ask me to change our healthcare system. I believe those pushing this in Washington D.C. are misguided and out of step with the American people.

I welcome your reply and would be eager to speak with you if you would like to call me. My office is always open to you.

Sincerely,

Cynthia Davis

Worst Person Cynthia Davis: If I run statewide, I'll learn to act like a hick

If Rep Cynthia Davis, R-O'Fallon, elects to run for statewide office, she has a plan for how she will win votes in southwest Missouri, the Bootheel, and other rural areas.

Mrs. Davis, termed the Worst Person in the World twice last week by Countdown's Keith Olberman, revealed her plan Friday to KMOX listeners. This was her response to a question about whether she would run for a statewide office:

Well, you never know. All I know is I bought myself a pair of cowboy boots and I'm learning how to say Missour-ah.

Perhaps Mrs. Davis thought that was funny. The co-hosts of the talk program she was on, including Republican operative John Hancock, thought it was hilarious, according to the transcript, which is posted on the Show-Me Progress website.

To help Mrs. Davis' educational curve, I should explain that most people, even in southwest Missouri, pronounce Missouri with the "ee" sound. The large majority of people who pronounced it Missourah are politicians who think that is shows they have the common touch, and out-of-state news media, who have listened to those politicians and think Missourah is the proper pronunciation.

If this was the first time that Mrs. Davis made sport of this area and other rural areas in Missouri, I might feel inclined to write it off as as just another lame joke by a politician. But as was shown in the June 22 Turner Report, when Mrs. Davis thinks her audience is limited to city folks, or at the least those in the St. Louis area, she has no compunction about making disparaging remarks about poor rural folks who cannot be expected to have the grasp of state politics that someone as cosmopolitan and sophisticated as she is.

Toward the end of the accompanying video, Mrs. Davis makes one disparaging remark after another about rural people and the legislators who represent them. Those who view the video will discover the remarkable fact that we have low taxes in southwest Missouri and that the lion's share of the taxation in this state is in St. Louis and St. Charles counties.

But Mrs. Davis has a solution for that. She is going to educate us, according to the video, because we do not understand complicated matters like taxation.

Cynthia Davis: Tiller murder had nothing to do with pro-life movement

Rep. Cynthia Davis, R- O-Fallon, termed Worst Person in the World twice last week by Countdown's Keith Olbermann, says the murder of Wichita abortionist George Tiller had nothing to do with the pro-life movement.

In her latest capital report issued today, Mrs. Davis addresses Tiller's murder, in a column accompanied by two photos of Mrs. Davis with her new granddaughter. The first picture has the caption "There are many ways to grow a state. Birth is one. My son and daughter in law just added a new resident to Knob Noster, Missouri. Welcome Abigail Jean Davis."

The column is printed below:

I don’t like violence. That is one of the reasons I don’t like abortion. Regardless of who requested it, abortion is an act of violence against women’s bodies as well as the body of a person yet to be born. Abortion is invasive, destructive, and abnormal.

There have been many analyses surrounding George Tiller’s death, but we should all agree it is immoral to kill people of any age. We all want to live in a civil society where people show respect for one another and where we live under the rule of law. Lawlessness is both a symptom and a cause of poverty. We cherish feeling safe in our homes and neighborhoods. The fruit of living with a high common regard for life allows us to have a free and virtuous society.

Kansas already has laws prohibiting doctors from destroying babies mature enough to live outside their mothers. Many babies George Tiller aborted were viable. The Kansas prosecutors and judges let their people down by allowing this clinic to continue operating as long as it did. However with more time, the civil process could have continued to unfold and we may have seen a legal remedy. Since the Tiller abortion clinic is now closed permanently we will never know.

With no knowledge of the person who shot George Tiller, I can only speculate he may have been mentally unbalanced. With the exception of self defense, it is hard to imagine how anyone could shoot another human being in his right mind, yet people get killed every day by drug dealers, gangs, and suicide. All are equally tragic because they involve a loss of a life made in the image of God. All serve as reminders of why it is important for us to have the rule of law.

There are some pro-abortionists who will seize this as an opportunity to spew more of their pro-abortion rhetoric. A great disappointment came from a statement made by Frank Schaeffer, the son of a late philosopher. He raised the question of whether the Tiller death was related to those who speak of the evils of abortion. He could not have been more off base. Those who kill people are evil and it is okay to speak the truth. We must be compassionate and protective when the lives of innocents are involved.

Public debate is an important part of how we shape our thoughts. So long as our articulation of truth is tempered by kindness and civility, we should never let others intimidate us from our right to free speech. While it is possible for some people to be hateful and vicious, all the pro-life people I know:

1.) Are very kind, gentle, and compassionate.
2.) Believe there is a God who will judge all of us at the end of our lives.
3.) Work toward peaceful and legal solutions, through prayer and volunteering. As a result, they are making a difference in people’s lives by helping both babies and mothers.

I am grateful we live in a country where people are free to express their thoughts without fear of being imprisoned or executed. I am also grateful we live in a country where threats and violence are prosecuted. Americans should never be squelched from speaking to the evils of destroying innocent human life.

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All Turner Report posts on Cynthia Davis can be found at this link.

The first response to Cynthia Davis, "Worst Person in the World"

Three months before the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Keith Olbermann latched onto Rep. Cynthia Davis, R-O'Fallon (with Olbermann labeling her the Worst Person in the World), The Turner Report criticized Mrs. Davis on the same subject.

From the March 19, 2009, Turner Report:

Rep. Cynthia Davis, R-O'Fallon, makes no bones about her support of the legislation to allow Missouri public school districts to set up four-day weeks.

Some of those who had problems with the bill pointed out that the children would not have access to school lunches or breakfasts on the day when school is not in session.

That argument did not faze Mrs. Davis in the slightest. She wrote in her weekly report:

Most of the opposition in the debate on this bill sounded like we were discussing a state-run orphanage. Some legislators were concerned that the school children would not get anything to eat if they were not at school. This kind of reasoning bothers me because it presumes that our public schools are little more than glorified day care centers. The purpose of public education must always be education. The parents are the ones who are supposed to be feeding the children. Additionally, I have never heard of a child starving to death because he didn’t attend public school over the three-month recess.

Perhaps not, but for many of these kids, school meals are the only decent meals they get during the day. This simply makes it three days a week rather than two that these kids have problems.

Perhaps Mrs. Davis should be thinking about ways to make sure these kids have decent meals during the summer months instead of treating the subject in such a cavalier fashion.

Cynthia Davis outlines pro-life legislation

In her latest weekly column, Rep. Cynthia Davis, R-O'Fallon, outlines the latest in pro-life legislation:

During economically depressed times, it is more important than ever to protect the taxpayers. Last week our caucus met in Jefferson City to discuss the priorities for the next session. The state government’s budget is about 11% below projection for this year. Rather than seeing this as a negative, this is a great opportunity to reprioritize. We need to clarify what is important and what is not. The vital functions of Missouri’s government will continue, but some of our state expenditures need to be reshaped.

I am proposing a House Joint Resolution so that the voters of Missouri can make their opinion known. House Joint Resolution 49, “The Missouri Taxpayer Protection Initiative”, is remarkably short and simple:

Shall it be unlawful to expend, pay, or grant any public funds for abortion not medically necessary to save the life of the mother, for abortion services, for human cloning, or for prohibited human research?

We should all want an honest debate. This resolution allows the voters to decide if they want their public tax dollars funding abortion, cloning and human experimentation with living embryos that have been relinquished by their parents.

The amendment does not stop controversial research. It only restricts who pays for the kind of research that violates the consciences of those who believe in the dignity of human life. Who should decide how tax dollars are spent? The bureaucrats who stand to get a windfall or the taxpayers to whom this government belongs? This proposal will not affect those who want to perform abortions, human cloning and experimentation on frozen human beings whose parents have signed them away. It merely requires questionable research to be funded with private money.

During an economic downturn, it is especially important to protect the taxpayers from having their hard earned money wasted. The proposed constitutional amendment has the potential of saving the state from squandering millions of taxpayer dollars on projects that may lead to a dead end. If this research is viable and based upon promising results, it is capable of developing through business capital and entrepreneurship without consuming public money. The laboratories studying cures through adult stem cell research are already finding success. Why not work on projects that are humane, wholesome and do not harm the consciences of scientists or taxpayers?

Protecting human life is a very progressive and noble position to take. It is not appropriate for us to presume that all scientists want to do abortions and human embryo experimentation. Why let those who want to destroy innocent human life perform these acts in a state that respects and dignifies life?

Here is an online article that recently appeared revealing what I hope to accomplish with this resolution:

Missouri Representative Files Bill to Stop Funding of Abortion, Cloning, ESCR
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
December 1, 2009
Jefferson City, MO (LifeNews.com) -- Today, the first day Missouri lawmakers can file legislation in advance of the next legislative session, one pro-life state representative has filed a bill to stop taxpayer funding of abortion, human cloning, and embryonic stem cell research because they all destroy human life.

Representative Cynthia Davis, a Republican from O’Fallon who is the chair of the Special Standing Committee on Children and Families in the Missouri House, is behind the new bill.

Davis filed a House Joint Resolution, H.J.R. 49, along with six other members of the House.

"This Joint Resolution I filed will allow Missouri taxpayers to make sure their hard-earned tax dollars will not go to pay for abortions not medically necessary to save the life of the mother, abortion services, human cloning or embryo destructive research," she said in a statement LifeNews.com obtained today.

"We are guardians of the taxpayer’s money and public tax dollars in these tough economic times. I speak for all the Missourians who do not want their tax dollars to go for procedures that are controversial and that a large percentage of Missourians find morally reprehensible,” she said.

She said the measure makes sense at a time when state and national residents are "demanding greater accountability and fiscal integrity from their elected representatives."

Davis, a well-known fiscal conservative who has a reputation for being a watchdog for the taxpayers, filed the Resolution to remedy a developing problem of money being funneled to abortion services or other research.

Todd Jones, the director of the Missouri Roundtable for Life, told LifeNews.com that a recent court case in Cole County Circuit Court has clarified that certain restrictions passed in 2003 under the authorship of the late Representative Richard Byrd have been struck down.

Those restrictions made clear that Life Sciences Research Trust Fund dollars would not be spent on abortion services, human cloning, and other destructive research. As a result, Davis' bill becomes more necessary.

Davis’ filing of H.J.R. 49 follows on the hard-fought efforts of Representative Brian Nieves, and 60 bipartisan co-sponsors, filing H.J.R. 38 in the House and Senator Jim Lembke filing S.J.R. 17 in the Senate during the last legislative session.

Last session, members of the House voted 114 to 37 for Representative Allen Icet’s placement of restrictions on the use of taxpayer funds for those anti-life practices.

If the legislature approves the resolution, the amendment would appear on the ballot during the next general election in 2010 or a special election if called by Governor Jay Nixon, who backs abortion.

“Missouri Roundtable for Life thanks Representative Davis for taking leadership on this issue to protect Missouri taxpayers and for finding six other House members to co-sponsor H.J.R 49,” Jones told LifeNews.com today.

"Missourians need to stop the raid of the Missouri treasury by fringe special interest groups like Planned Parenthood and others who seek taxpayer dollars for abortion services and human cloning. The time to stop that raid is now," he said.

Countdown video: Worst Person in the World-Cynthia Davis

If you have not had enough Cynthia Davis videos on The Turner Report, here is the one that got the ball rolling:

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

And from earlier:

Cynthia Davis' thoughts about the Civil War
Cynthia Davis about the things rural people don't understand

Cynthia Davis changes campaign committee to set up possible run for statewide office

It doesn't necessarily mean she is going to go through with it, but it appears that anyone expecting Rep. Cynthia Davis, R-O-Fallon, to go away quietly is going to be severely disappointed.

Mrs. Davis filed documents with the Missouri Ethics Commission Nov. 2, changing her campaign committee status from this year's failed state senate campaign to a run for statewide office in the August 2012 primary.

Mrs. Davis, who was term-limited after spending eight years in the House, was defeated by incumbent Scott Rupp in the Senate primary, but has maintained a power base as chairman of the St. Charles County Republican Party and has indicated she will continue to write weekly columns.

In this week's column, Mrs. Davis boasted of the award she received recently from the Young Conservaties of America, designating her as the Most Constitutional Legislator in Missouri:

A committee evaluated all the bills that were passed and using objective criteria rated each legislator strictly on his or her voting record. When I found out this group was only considering actual votes, I knew I had a good chance of winning. The old expression is “Actions speak louder than words”. The YOUNG Conservatives of America really means it when they say it’s about how you vote; and frankly, that is what counts when it comes to honest representation. The country has suffered at the hands of those who have a smooth talk during election time, then side with the highest bidder or their “best buddies” when it is time to vote. The nature of a democratic republic form of government is that we are supposed to trust the person in office to vote according to the principles he stood for when he ran for office. Many voters have experienced that sense of betrayal when their office-holder pivots on important issues.


The questions the YOUNG Conservatives of America used to rate legislation are as follows:

1. Is this a proper function of government?

2. Does legislation *create* favoritism? (in any manner)

3. Does legislation have (favorable or negative) impact? (anything..?)

4. Does legislation create a fee for service scenario that only government can provide?

5. Does legislation impact personal liberty or freedom?

6. Does legislation undermine personal responsibility?

7. Does legislation create a means by which a government entity or government employees can abuse a taxpayer approved tax or amendment?

8. Can legislation be currently enforced under existing laws?

In last week's column, Mrs. Davis showed he had not lost any of her ability to generate controversy, something which brought her to national attention in the summer of 2009 when she commented that "hunger is a great motivator for children."

As I noted last week, Mrs. Davis wrote the following statements, which would have been about a year's work for many columnists all in one columns:

-Women who get abortions after rape or incest are compared to prostitutes.

-There is an "irreversible, eternal, transcendental bond" between a woman and the man who gets her pregnant (based on the way this is written, it seems to indicate that includes a pregnancy resulting from rape or incest).

-Military women who get pregnant are compared to thieves, cheaters, and liars.

-Men won't get pregnant. (God bless them!)

-Nobody gets pregnant without a man.

Cynthia Davis to announce run for statewide office Saturday in Springfield

No one requested it, but former state Rep. Cynthia Davis, she of the "hunger can be a great motivator for children" remark, is attempting to stage a political comeback. She issued the following news release Wednesday.

Former Republican and 4-term State Representative, Cynthia Davis, will be making an official announcement on seeking statewide office at 3 Missouri locations:

•Saturday, October 1, 2011, at 11:00 AM in front of the Greene County Court House (Boonville & Central Street) in downtown Springfield, MO

•Sunday, October 2, 2011, at 2:30 PM at the Pioneer Mother statue in Penn Valley Park, just south of downtown Kansas City, MO at Pershing and Main Streets.

•Monday, October 3, 2011, at 12:00 Noon at the statue of St. Louis in Forest Park in front of the St. Louis Art Museum.

Representative Davis chose these locations because she believes that just as it was during the battle of the Civil War, the state and nation again faces a great turning point in our history. It is time for Missouri to rise to the challenges we face and to make our voices heard throughout this nation.

The Kansas City statue of the Pioneer Mother is symbolic of the spirit of this campaign. Like the engraving on the monument, even if our future is fraught with hardship, may it be defined by our trust in God. We are trailblazing a new path for the State of Missouri.

The statue of the famed crusader, St. Louis, was chosen because it marks the beginning of a statewide crusade to make a difference and turn our state, nation and economy around.

""Worst person in world" Cynthia Davis issues response

Rep. Cynthia Davis, R-O'Fallon, described by MSNBC's Keith Olberman as the "Worst Person in the World" Monday, issued a response today.

In one segment of the response, Rep. Davis writes, "My weekly Capitol Report is a way for me to have two-way communications with my constituents and not a national manifesto for you to mock, distort, and to be quoted out of context."

If the only people affected by Rep. Davis' decisions and comments were her constituents, I might have more sympathy for her situation. But the simple fact is, her votes have an effect on every Missourian, not just those who put her into office (or who voted against her).

According to Rep. Davis' campaign committee documents, she is considering a run for statewide office in 2010. If that is the case, we not only have the right, but the obligation to be looking at everything she says and does.

That would include such things as the disparaging comments Mrs. Davis made about rural communities and their elected representatives in a presentation to the O'Fallon Senior Council. And this is not an isolated incident. Mrs. Davis apparently wants to be able to make outrageous statements to one area of the state and not have them known elsewhere. In this day and age, that is impossible.

The text of Mrs. Davis' response is printed below:

Last week an editorial that misrepresented my views and the true issues surrounding the summer feeding program was published in a local Missouri newspaper and has since been discussed out of context in several other media outlets. We all agree on the importance of feeding children, but we differ on who should do this. I believe this duty belongs to the parents. Instead of respecting this time honored jurisdiction of the family, the summer feeding program treats families like they do not exist.

When government takes over a family function, like feeding children on a daily basis, we take a group of people who are capable and treat them like they are incapacitated. Some have a low view of parents, presuming most of them are inept and proposing governmental intervention as the only solution.

I believe most parents are good and want the blessing and privilege of feeding their children. When families are sharing a meal around the kitchen table, much more is happening. Mealtime is the primary time for shaping values and strengthening bonds. All of this is missing or diluted when it happens outside the family. Look into your own heart and ask, “What made a difference in my life as a child?” Was it standing in a line for a cafeteria style meal at school or was it sitting around the kitchen table with others in your family?

All the children being fed in this program have parents or guardians who are already functioning in a nurturing roll. They have not been judged to be neglectful or abusive in any way. Government should not take the care of their children from them. The right way to help is to treat the root cause, not the symptom. We must support the parents in providing for their children, not circumvent them.

We can go a long way to strengthening our families without any government program at all just by connecting our less fortunate families to churches and food pantries. Parents will usually feed their children before themselves. Wouldn’t it be better to fix the overall problem for the family rather than use private vendors and make the children go back to an institution to eat two meals a day?

Yet to dare suggest there are alternatives for rational people to discuss and consequences of government taking over so much in people’s lives is to be branded an inhuman monster in your editorial. If you truly believe there are parents who “wouldn’t” feed their children breakfast or lunch during the summer, why aren’t you concerned that they aren’t getting dinner, may not have clean clothes, or a proper bed to sleep in? Don’t you care about children? Isn’t the next step under your scenario to take children away from their poor parents?

My goal is not to replace parents, but to reinforce them. The solution is found in helping those near us, not in yet another gigantic federally funded mass market approach. Bigger government invites fraud and robs people of the dignity of personal human relationships.

Perhaps the core of our differences comes from a conflict of vision. I see beauty in human potential emerging from finding local solutions to local problems. Short of a national disaster, all family problems are as local as you can get and need local solutions. Missourians have the resources and capacity to address the needs of our own residents without our national government coming in to “spare us” from our own individual problems at a tremendous cost.

My weekly Capitol Report is a way for me to have two-way communications with my constituents and not a national manifesto for you to mock, distort, and to be quoted out of context. Better education can change the plight of the poor. My sincere hope is that we can lift families out of poverty through compassionate interaction with those who can show them a better way. This is why I agreed to chair an interim committee to study poverty and why I volunteered to teach a cooking class for mothers utilizing the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Program to help teach young mothers how to prepare nutritious meals. Together we can discover how to couple good intentions with sound economic policies that will create sustainable solutions that empower all of us. This is the path to helping our families flourish and move us forward as a free and virtuous society.

Cynthia Davis: Some of my best friends are black people

Rep. Cynthia Davis, R-O'Fallon has added her two cents to the racism debate that is going full force across the country.

In her latest capitol report, Mrs. Davis criticizes those who are playing the racism card, and notes that race problems in this country are a thing of the past. Not only is she not prejudiced, she said, but some of her best friends are black people.

And to hammer home her point, she posted a picture of her with one of her black friends:

I love a great debate. The national congress is providing our country with lots of content for dinner-table conversation. However, when some play “the racism card” it destroys our community and national spirit. This is becoming especially common when people lack the logic to back up their positions or beliefs. As we have been watching the public debate concerning the destiny of this country, I am most disappointed in the decline of civility and the insult slinging. The most offensive part about name calling is that it implies we can read the minds of others.

The former president Jimmy Carter made news by his vitriolic and inflammatory remarks when he accused Americans of racism. When he told NBC News-anchor Brian Williams in an interview last week, "An overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man," he needed to clarify that those were his thoughts, not others, especially since nobody is capable of knowing what is in the heart of another person.

While it may be possible for some to have racist thoughts, most people I know consider it a topic that has been resolved and reconciled in the hearts of everyone that cares. Racism may have affected some people decades ago, but now that we are in a new millennium, the only people trying to perpetuate racism are people who are still trying to live in the past or those who are intentionally trying to stir up unrest.

Even 30 years ago when I was attending college in New York, I did not see any racism. I played the piano for two choirs—the youth choir at Pilgrim Baptist Church and “His Voice” on campus. I was the only white person in the bunch, but they treated me like one of them. Of course it probably helped that I played the piano with the right amount of soul. I have seen the day when people are judged not by the color of their skin, but on the content of their character (and for some, their musicianship). To this day, if anyone is in the Capitol and needs to be accompanied on We Shall Overcome, Never Alone, I'm On the Battlefield for My Lord, or Lift Every Voice, I could be ready in less time than it would take to roll out the piano!

God created mankind in His image. Therefore all human beings are valued and respected because they bear the image of their Creator. If all people are descended from Adam and Eve, then our differences are only related to physical features, which have no bearing on our value as people. Furthermore, the Lord commands us to love our neighbor and over 70% of our country still claims to be Christian. I don’t know who wants to promote racism, but it is not coming from people who fear God and adhere to what is taught in the Bible. Perhaps Jimmy Carter should acknowledge he speaks for himself and get help with his personal prejudices.

Here is the bottom line: We have far too much to work to accomplish getting this country back on track than to allow ourselves to be distracted by those who are being divisive. Making petty and false assumptions about what others may be thinking will send us down a destructive path. If we are going to be able to pull ourselves out of this recession, it is going to take us working together, helping each other and rolling up our sleeves. Everybody has something valuable to contribute, so let’s do what they suggest in the song, America the Beautiful, “and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea”.


Your thoughts are important to me, so please let me know what you think about racism.

(Photo: Cynthia Davis with her friend, musician Larnelle Harris)

Star columnist: Cynthia Davis not worst person, just bad legislator

Kansas City Star columnist Barb Shelley has just come of the defense of Worst Person in the World Cynthia Davis. Well, not really, but she does say Mrs. Davis is not the worst person, just a bad legislator:

She wants to treat the "root cause" of impoverished families' problems, not acknowledging that said root cause just might be poverty itself.

Nor does Davis propose how she would go about treating the "root cause." Don't suggest food stamps, because she doesn't like that program either.

I wouldn't call Davis the worst person in the world. I just wish she didn't serve in the Missouri Legislature.

Cynthia Davis still against summer school meals: Children should not be institutionalized

As she continues her move toward becoming the Casey Stengel of Missouri politics, former Rep. Cynthia Davis, a candidate for lieutenant governor on the Constitution Party ticket, relived the moment that shot her into the national spotlight in 2009.

From Jason Hunsicker's article in today's Kirksville Daily Express:

Davis earned national attention in 2009 when, while serving as chairperson of the House Children and Families Committee, she attacked a government program coordinated by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services that provides food to low-income children during the summer.

Thursday, she said “people pushing the left-wing ideology will use children as human shields to protect more government spending. But, I’m a big champion of the family, and I believe children are best served when they have their mom and dad feed them meals, not when they’re institutionalized.”

Asked to explain what she meant by “institutionalized,” Davis said these programs weakened families by pulling children away from the home for food and was “treating them like a herd of cattle.”

Mrs. Davis still doesn't understand that not all children have loving families or families that can afford to provide them with three square meals.

Davis: Government shouldn't feed those kids during the school year either

Rep. Cynthia Davis has come under fire the past couple of weeks (especially this week after being named Worst Person in the World by Keith Olberman), for her comments concerning a government program to feed school-age children during the summer, but this is not the first time she has expressed these kind of thoughts.

In Mrs. Davis' capital report the week of March 19, which I ran in The Turner Report, she shrugged off complaints that children would not receive nutritious meals if schools went to a four-day week to save money:

Most of the opposition in the debate on this bill sounded like we were discussing a state-run orphanage. Some legislators were concerned that the school children would not get anything to eat if they were not at school. This kind of reasoning bothers me because it presumes that our public schools are little more than glorified day care centers. The purpose of public education must always be education. The parents are the ones who are supposed to be feeding the children. Additionally, I have never heard of a child starving to death because he didn’t attend public school over the three-month recess.

Perhaps Mrs. Davis has not heard of anyone starving because of programs like the one she ripped in the column which has surrounded her in a continuing negative publicity whirlwind.

Other Turner Report posts featuring Cynthia Davis can be found at this link.

Worst person in the world Cynthia Davis: Rural people don't understand taxes

Another gem from the archives of Rep. Cynthia Davis, R-O'Fallon, termed by MSNBC's Keith Olberman as the "worst person in the world" tonight.

In this video, Rep. Davis, speaking to the O"Fallon Senior Council in August 2008 claims rural people don't pay enough taxes and that her constituents are handling more than their share of the burden. She doesn't seem to think much of the rural area of the state. At one point, Rep. Davis says, "They honestly don't understand. It's my job to try to educate them."

Since many rural people and rural legislators probably have not had a chance to hear what Rep. Davis had to say, here it is: