JEFFERSON CITY, MO. – Missouri’s governor is in his final legislative session and is starting out the year disappointed with the infighting among Senate Republicans.
In his State of the State speech, Gov. Mike Parson said what he’s done while in office hasn’t been all talk and hot air. His annual and final address happened during the same week that Senate Leadership stripped other GOP members of their committee assignments. Parson said Thursday, in a sit-down interview with our Missouri Capitol Bureau Chief Emily Manley, that it’s time for lawmakers to figure out a solution.
“Right now, we’re looking like Washington, D.C. and I don’t think anybody in Missouri wants to see that,” Parson said. “I don’t care whether you support these people on one side of this issue or another, but people don’t like chaos. We’ve done been through that and I think people want you to come up here and do your job. I’ve had the privilege of sitting in those chairs; needless to say, you’re disappointed with what you’re seeing.”