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SB735 the Silver & Gold Bill has passed the MO Senate

 

SB 735, The Constitutional Money Act passed with 21 votes in Missouri in the Senate.

It’s off to the house! If it passes it will be the most comprehensive Sound Money Bill in the country!

— Citizens for Sound Money (@4SoundMoney) April 29, 2024

 The Missouri Senate today passed Sen. Bill Eigel and Sen. Mike Moon's Constitutional Money Act. SB735 passed 21-10. It now moves to the Missouri House to be considered. The Tenth Amendment Center has the story HERE.

From the article:

"Under the proposed law, gold and silver would be accepted as legal tender and would be receivable in payment of all debts contracted for in the state of Missouri. The state would be required to accept gold and silver for the payment of public debts. Private debts could be settled in gold and silver at the parties’ discretion.

The Director of the Department of Revenue would be tasked with “promulgating rules on the methods of acceptance of specie legal tender as payment for any debt, tax, fee, or obligation owed.”

Practically speaking, this would allow Missourians to use gold or silver as money rather than just as mere investment vehicles. In effect, it would put gold and silver on the same footing as Federal Reserve notes."

And more here, but do read the whole article:

"The United States Constitution states in Article I, Section 10, “No State shall…make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts.” Currently, all debts and taxes in Missouri are either paid with Federal Reserve Notes (dollars) authorized as legal tender by Congress or with coins issued by the U.S. Treasury — very few of which have gold or silver in them. Passage of SB735 would allow Missourians to pay state obligations with gold and silver.

The Federal Reserve destroys this constitutional monetary system by creating a monopoly based on its fiat currency. Without the backing of gold or silver, the central bank can easily create money out of thin air. This not only devalues your purchasing power over time; it also allows the federal government to borrow and spend far beyond what would be possible in a sound money system. Without the Fed, the U.S. government wouldn’t be able to maintain all of its unconstitutional wars and programs."

For more information on the Silver and Gold bill go HERE (hours 2 and 3), HERE, and HERE.

The Missouri Freedom Initiative has been working alongside Daniel Diaz of Citizens for Sound Money to pass the Gold and Silver bill.

A Tale of Two Rallies

 

A slice of the Freedom Rally

 

By Gretchen Garrity


Groups of citizens from Christian County, including the Missouri Freedom Initiative and Grassroots Patriots of Christian County, traveled up to the Capitol to attend the protest organized by grassroots activist Catherine Dreher of Rogue Politics. Dreher threw the event together quickly after Sen. Caleb Rowden and Sen. Cindy O’Laughlin attacked members of the Missouri Freedom Caucus in a contentious few days in the Senate last week.

When we arrived we heard cheers and applause coming from the rotunda. It could not have been the rally, since that wasn’t scheduled for a couple hours later.

Instead, it was a gathering of well-organized activists from groups like Missouri Voter Protection Coalition, Vote.org, a contingent from Jobs With Justice, and the United Auto Workers.

 

Some of these groups claim to be nonpartisan. I really hope people understand the current narrative that is being pushed by these leftist groups. They are anything but nonpartisan. Don’t fall for it, whether it’s Jobs for Justice or United Springfield PAC.

Really, the “voting rights” rally was a perfect foil for the protest in support of the Missouri Freedom Caucus. From the photos below you can see that a generous guess of attendance was about 150, if you count the chairs (which had been mostly filled at the height of the rally) and those standing on the edges, including the media.

News coverage of the event followed along the lines of this article from the Columbia Missourian. Notice how the pictures are framed in the linked article. Notice that the article does not provide links to the organizations mentioned in the article (doing a little digging would out their far left agendas). Notice how Rep. Dean Plocher is given the last word, as if he was the Republican hero trying valiantly to get IP reform passed. Eye roll.

Here are pictures I took of the event. A different perspective.

As the other rally finished up.

 

Side view during the organized rally

Lots and lots of signs

GRASSROOTS IS REAL

Enjoy the videos:

Let’s move on to the grassroots-organized freedom protest. In just a few days, Dreher and her compatriot Kirby Lane, also of Rogue Politics, put the word out and the people came. Packed into an upper hallway on the second floor, about 400 citizens from all over the state made the trek to support senators Bill Eigel, Denny Hoskins,

Andrew Koenig, and Rick Brattin and the rest of the Freedom Caucus and to call for the leadership resignations of senators Rowden and O’Laughlin.

Besides senators Eigel and Hoskins, speakers included native Missourian Doug Billings of The Right Side podcast, Sen. Andrew Koenig, Sen. Jill Carter, Rep. Justin Sparks, and several more. The rally lasted over an hour and was interspersed with prayer, song, and deafening cheers.

 

Although the RINOs in the state legislature are doing their best to blame their perfidiousness on the Freedom Caucus, Missourians know that legislators like Plocher, Rowden and O’Laughlin are the ones who have stood in the way of IP reform and other legislation important to citizens.

After the protest, members of the Missouri Freedom Initiative conducted a Knock And Shock, visiting as many legislators as possible to encourage them to support the following bills in the House and Senate: SB735, SJR61 and HB1955.

Grassroots is real.

And it’s growing.




Hundreds & hundreds (!) of Missouri Freedom Fighters have shown up @ the MO Capitol today to support the ⁦@MOFreedomCaucus⁩ ! Second floor of the Capitol is absolutely PACKED…I’ve never seen anything like it in 15+ years. #MOLeg pic.twitter.com/mp6kh4gdK7

— ThePeoplesSpeaker™️🇺🇸 (@SpeakerTimJones) January 30, 2024