Missouri's political landscape is being infiltrated by the very figures who should be its guardians—Republicans who are Republicans in name only. Join Doug Billings, alongside his guest, Missouri Senator Rick Bratton, as they expose the obstructionist antics plaguing our state. This episode pulls back the curtain on the so-called RINOs, including Caleb Rowden and Cindy O'Loughlin, who stand in the way of crucial pro-life initiatives and election integrity amidst the Republican supermajority in the Missouri Senate.
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Missouri's political landscape is being infiltrated by the very figures who should be its guardians—Republicans who are Republicans in name only. Join Doug Billings, alongside his guest, Missouri Senator Rick Bratton, as they expose the obstructionist antics plaguing our state. This episode pulls back the curtain on the so-called RINOs, including Caleb Rowden and Cindy O'Loughlin, who stand in the way of crucial pro-life initiatives and election integrity amidst the Republican supermajority in the Missouri Senate.
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Speaker 1:Hi everybody, welcome to the Right Side with Doug Billings Today on the program, senator Rick Bratton from the state of Missouri For those of you that watch the show, you'll probably recall that that is my home state. I was born and raised in the Kansas City area, so I always keep my view on, my peripheral view, my direct view on home, on the home state of Missouri. And this week some Jackassery going on out of Jefferson City If you're from Raytown, missouri, that's the capital of your state, thank you very much but some Jackassery out of that state in the Senate and it is the result of RINOS, the RINO class, specifically Caleb Rowden and Cindy O'Loughlin. We have, for as long as this show has been on, for four years, talked about the problems of RINOS within our ranks, republicans in name only, who are beholden to big money from outside state lines. And it doesn't matter if you live in Missouri or not, ladies and gentlemen, this is pertinent to wherever you are. The RINO problem needs to be addressed.
Speaker 1:We talk about how to identify them, the litmus tests and so forth. Many of you have heard me say back in the COVID days it was simple. The litmus test was fairly simple, I would say to you, because people would come up to me all the time and say how do you know somebody's a RINO? And I would say to them well, if they don't believe that there was election fraud in 2020, that person is a RINO. If they believe in medical tyranny you know lockdowns, shutdowns, mandatory jabs and masks, that kind of thing that person is a RINO. We're talking about people who pretend to be a Republican in the elected class Today, there's the neocon element. That's the Nikki Haley class. Right, she's a RINO. Ladies and gentlemen, nikki Haley is not our friend if you are a true American conservative, and apparently neither is Caleb Rowden or Cindy O'Loughlin.
Speaker 1:In the state of Missouri, influenced by outside state big money holding up legislate, they have a super majority. In the state of Missouri, the Republicans do. On paper. They should be able to get everything they want done, and it should be America first, slash Missouri first. And yet this group of people holds up these RINOs, hold up the progress that you, the people, want. In fact, cindy O'Loughlin said that you grassroots people shouldn't even bother with the intricacies of government in the state capital. Just go back home and worry about your school boards. I mean, it's a real tragedy and we're here not to throw anybody under the bus but to help wake people up.
Speaker 1:So today, in this segment of the program, senator Rick Bratton from the state of Missouri, former Marine, married five kids and has, in his view, a new calling to serve his state, thereby serving his country, and so we appreciate that. And right now let's get to the interview that I had earlier today with Senator Rick Bratton from the great state of Missouri. Hi everybody, welcome to the right side with Doug Billings today on the program. Senator Rick Bratton from Missouri, my home state, and what a debacle in Jefferson City, missouri. If you're from Raytown, missouri, that's the capital of Missouri. Thank you very much. I'm going to talk with Rick about what is happening. And Rick, welcome to the program.
Speaker 4:First of all, hey, thanks for having me. Doug, Really appreciate it.
Speaker 1:You know. So Missouri everybody that watches the show I knows that I'm from Missouri. I'm born and raised in the Kansas City area. I tease Raytown a little bit. I grew up in Grandview and so I tease Raytown a bit, but we watched yesterday in the day.
Speaker 1:Well, this week in general, some of the shenanigans that are going on in the Missouri Senate, headed up by a couple of rhinos, caleb Rodin Rowden and Cindy O'Loughlin, people that are charading as Republicans and part of the problem of rhinoism in the state, can you?
Speaker 1:You know they've acted out childlessly. We've seen this in DC, we've seen it in other places, whereby the leaders of any given legislative body would reassign people who head up committees because they didn't vote the right way or because they're viewed by the unit party as a danger to their, their hold on power. Over in Kansas we saw the same thing and now in Missouri, can you explain your? You're one of the founding members of the Missouri Freedom Caucus. Let's in a former Marine, five kids, you and your wife, view what you're doing now currently as a calling to save America, to get us back on track in a true conservative fashion. So tell us what is going on. Tea up and explain to us what's going on in the Senate in the state of Missouri, because I have a feeling many people in many states are experiencing the same thing.
Speaker 4:I mean, we're experiencing in Missouri what everyone's experiencing nationwide and in DC it's, it's the unit party, and they're being called out. We formed the Freedom Caucus this year as we're sick and tired of the business, of the usual type approach to governing, to continue to do Democrat things, yet running as Republicans. And now that we're being loud, we're being voiceless, we're we're exposing them. It's the light shining on the cockroaches and they see with hatred and and they will go to any links possible to silence you or anyone that calls it out. And that's what's happening right here, before everyone's eyes in the Missouri state Senate Yep.
Speaker 1:So they and they. So you know the. I know we were talking just briefly before we came on the air here and I was explaining to you, just giving you a history of where I come from. The the rhino problem is probably and one could make an argument that it's more significant than the Democrat problem that we face in America. We have people who pretend to be Republican, who are part of the establishment, who are in politics not because like you and and others in Missouri Denny Haskins, bill Iger, just to name a couple, holly Jones on the, on the, on the house side who are conservative men and women who have left careers, left other walks of life to come in as the founders and vision to serve the country with true conservative values and principles. And we have here now the, this unit party. You know, I don't even think Democrats, especially in DC. I don't think they're really Democrats. I think they've blended communism and socialism together and I've referred to them as the commu socialist party. They clearly are not a pro America political party. I mean, evidence of the obvious is sufficient. You can look around at this. I mean, begin with the border and go everywhere from there. It's anti America.
Speaker 1:In Missouri, what caused this week's uproar, you and others were were eliminated from your committee leadership roles and your offices were were either moved or taken away. You guys, your parking spots were taken away. You have to park, you know, a mile of football field or two or three a length away. They're threatening to take your furniture. I mean, is is is this grade school or is it the Missouri state Senate? What happened to cause all this?
Speaker 4:Well, because we were wanting to force the top priority in the state of Missouri, which is initiative, petition and reform. So the radical left is trying to put on the ballot, surpass the legislature and put on the ballot partial birth abortion and to legalize it. Not just legalize it, but to put it and enshrine it in our constitution. And it's a broken system and it's a form of arm fire that we have to address and address it right now, don't wait until the last day of session. So we've been standing in filibustering, trying to force IP reform to the forefront, to be the first thing that's done to protect life in the state of Missouri, and the Uniparty, especially the Republicans, are balking. They're not wanting to do it. They don't have any interest, honestly, in doing what is the number one priority that we've even determined to be.
Speaker 4:So that's what has them extremely angry. We've got them on notice. We've got them in front of everyone, showing that they're wanting to stall, wanting to block, and that's what's created this whole dumpster fire. So, yeah, we've lost our parking spots. They're threatening to even potentially take our staff away, gut our budgets. But my staff even said if they do that, I'm still showing up to work, we're still going to fight this fight. We're going to take this in jest and make fun of just how ridiculous and ludicrous and what kind of kindergarten clowns that they really are. And America sees it and they know what's going on and they're mad and they want fighters and that's what we are.
Speaker 1:Jim Collison Within the state of Missouri and I follow certain Republican committee groups on social media and on Signal and so forth.
Speaker 1:Almost all of the Missouri Republican committee groups, the grassroots groups, the official state representative committee, people groups within Missouri are all revolting against and speaking up out against Kayla Broden and Cindy Oloflin, just to name a couple of the people who have been instrumental on the rhino side of the aisle.
Speaker 1:What is this? And I also hear rumblings about the FRA, the Federal Reimbursement Act that some of you voted against and they got all pissy because of that, and that act would have availed the ability for abortion funding to come in. I might be getting this wrong and I'll depend on you to explain it, but from a high level, I understand it to be that some money would have been allowed, therefore, to flow into Missouri from federal abortions. And isn't it interesting that in Missouri, which is a right to life state, the only planned parenthood building in the state is right across the street from Washington University, which is a university that trains physicians to go, do and conduct abortions. So one just wonders if somehow these people are in cahoots. Is there any truth or any? Is my speculation about the FRA on target, or is that not so much?
Speaker 4:Yeah, it's. It's not just the the Wash you crowd, it's not the the anti-life, or the the pro-death you know crowd, that's for this. It's also the hospitals that are fighting against us and adding the pro-life language. I mean it's a, it's a scheme where they tax hospitals, send it to the federal government and they send billions of dollars back in the form of Medicaid. So we would have put pro-life protections to ensure that, from from conception to natural death, life is protected. That's been the consensus and that's why we have super majorities.
Speaker 4:Yet republicans are fighting tooth and nail to deny pro-life language. They're now wanting to eliminate the sunset, which requires us to revisit this funding. They want to remove that and send it out, without pro-life language, to where the federal government can send whatever, so to whatever organization, like plant here and hood, to fund abortion. And then you you top that with, like I stated, where they're trying to put partial birth abortion into our state constitution. I mean it's, it's a recipe for disaster, and republicans are so tone-deaf to the reality of what they're setting up, and that's why we're fighting so, so adamantly to protect and try to wake people up.
Speaker 1:Well, I salute what you're doing. All of the members of the Missouri Freedom Caucus, I I encourage everybody in the audience to to go look this. No matter where you live, go look this up, follow it. We've posted something yesterday on Twitter. I know that you saw it, rick and others. We we called out Caleb and Cindy and we're gonna continue to do it. You know it's fine.
Speaker 1:I want, I want to get your opinion on on this before we have to say so long as far as the definition of a rhino, if if John and Jane Doe on the streets of Missouri, I'm trying to figure out who, how do I tell? How do I tell if these politicians are rhinos or I'm gonna vote for true conservative politicians? America first, missouri first. I have said the election integrity, clearly, abortion, health, freedom. I mean the jab, the masks, the lockdowns, the election theft issues that we have. If there are people up there that say, oh no, no, there was no election fraud, no, it's all nonsense, that's a problem. If they don't talk about, if they him or they haw about those kinds of issues, you're probably looking at a rhino. Yeah, anything else to add about that with regards to how to identify these people?
Speaker 4:Listen for the, but you know they'll send and say on the campaign trail that I'm conservative. You know, though, they'll throw in the bus to where you know. It gives them that caveat to be able to go to the left, and that's exactly how they operate. I'll tell you one thing, and then they give themselves that out to be able to do the other. So listen to the subtle, subtle phrases and but listen for the but when they're given those speeches.
Speaker 1:That's what I would recommend one of the things I noticed yesterday Was that there, you know, everybody wants these bills and these initiatives that you guys are trying to put together and legislate. They want them to go to committee so they can be discussed. And so Caleb Rodin Says, after he fires you guys basically after he eliminates he did he, he Removes you guys from your committee leadership roles Then he sends a slew of things to committee just so we can say, look, I, I sent him to committee, but he'd already gotten rid of the people that we want there to lead those committees, right, yeah oh, we got rid of us it, but that just frees up our time to be able to it's a plan and to really force this issue.
Speaker 4:But note last year he didn't didn't even refer the bills till the end of session. So he was acting like he was a speaker of the house. So at least, by us fighting and making this a big issue, he referred all the bills. So we claim that as a victory to at least see the bills make it to a committee.
Speaker 2:Now are they gonna make?
Speaker 4:it out of a committee, Well probably not if they're a good conservative piece of legislation and policy. But that at least gives us one, one notch in the belt to show that, hey, we're being effective and getting these things at least moving in the process. So it was a small victory, but I see it as also a tactic where they're gonna still try to kill legislation.
Speaker 1:All right. Well, I encourage everyone, especially in the state of Missouri, to follow senator Rick Bratton here. Senator, where can people find you, both for your as far as your office is concerned emails, and then on social media? Where can they find you?
Speaker 4:You can on official Rick at, rick Bratton at or Rick at.
Speaker 2:Rick.
Speaker 4:Bratton at Senate dot mo dot gov. And then you can go to Rick Bratton online on Social media, on both Twitter and on Facebook. Just type in my name. You'll pop up as a public figure. You can follow us. You can go to the Missouri Freedom Caucus, you know, on that Twitter handle you can get on Facebook as well. Follow to see what the freedom caucus is doing and Are polls to action so you can be involved and be a part of that process. So the people's involvement is so critical right now.
Speaker 4:We can't do this alone without the people getting involved, letting their voice be heard. So I have to give that shout out to the people, that Realize what's going on. You have to let you know what you heard, right?
Speaker 1:right. The grassroots movement is crucial To all, it goes without saying, and and that reminds me of something just outrageous that Cindy Olaflin said once. She said well, the people of the grassroots shouldn't meddle in politics, they should just go back home and just worry about their school boards. That's, I mean. She's on record is actually saying that nonsense, and this is the again the kind of people were up against. It's crazy one. And on Tuesday you have a big event in Jefferson City.
Speaker 4:We do at 11 11 am we're doing a huge rally, grassroots, to come down and really call to action the people, to go to their leaders and tell them to start acting like Republican and acting like the supermajority that you are. So if you can come down, take the time off. It'll be a great time. We're gonna hopefully have a big lit lineup of speakers there, but if anything, just so you can get in front of your elected representative and senator and call them to pass to get get line.
Speaker 1:All right, well, as I thought we planned on five to six minutes and here we are pushing up against 15. You could go on forever about these kinds of things. Rick, I appreciate you taking out time. I know it's a busy time for you. We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday. Good luck, and God bless you. Thank you very much.
Speaker 4:God bless you Thanks.
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