Missouri House Minority Leader Crystal Quade came out on top in this week’s Democratic primary election for Missouri governor. She bested a field of five, which included Springfield businessman Mike Hamra.
Regarding illegal immigration, she wants Missouri’s Congressional delegation to pass the bipartisan immigration bill.
“As governor, you know, our job is to keep Missouri safe and our Missouri Highway Patrol and our law enforcement officers are vastly understaffed, underfunded and my priorities will be, of course, making sure that our communities are safe here at home and, again, leaning on our federal delegation to get something done at the federal level,” she said.
Quade addressed Republican accusations that she supports having “open borders.”
“As governor in the state of Missouri, I will do everything in my power to work with our federal delegation to pass the bipartisan immigration bill that has just been sitting there waiting,” Quade said. “We have folks from both sides of the aisle who worked on that, and nobody has done anything with that.”
She responds to arguments from the right saying that she supports a “woke liberal agenda” which results in higher costs for essentials.
“My record speaks for itself in Jefferson City,” Quade said. “I have been a sponsor of legislation that gets rid of food taxes. I have been sponsoring all sorts of childcare solutions, whether that’s working on the tax credits or doing our state subsidies and having lots of conversations around the things that deeply impact folks every single day.”
The current House Minority Leader fielded questions from reporters asking how she managed to beat Hamra in the primaries and if that momentum continues to November.
“Absolutely, Missourians want somebody who understands what regular working-class folks go through,” she said. “I mean you guys know my story. I grew up in rural southwest Missouri. I’m the very first of my family to graduate from high school and work my way through Missouri State University. I got involved in politics because we need more people in positions of power making decisions who understand what regular folks are going through.”
Quade finished with 50% of the vote while her main opponent, Hamra, finished with 31%. She faces Republican Mike Kehoe and Libertarian Bill Slantz in November.
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