Do not get him confused with the former CEO of Google. (click here) Names are spelled very differently.
I don't know what a Six Million Client Lawyer means. Does he have six million clients? That would be the entire population of Missouri including children. Maybe it means clients have to have six million dollars in order to have him as a lawyer. I would definitely want to know about that, because it sounds very egotistical to me.
Eric Schmitt was a lawyer and unhappy with the way the Missouri AG did things, so he ran for the office and now he gets to make Missouri perform to his personal standard.
Look, I don't like the violence. Ms. Williams should be allowed to propose legislation without the threat of violence. The threat needs to be investigated to the end of an arrest. Her measure needs to be reinstated for a vote with perhaps additional legislators sponsoring it. This is exactly the kind of problem that is entering our democracy because of bullies in office like this guy.
Legislator Crystal Williams says she has withdrawn her proposed ordinance after receiving an "extraordinary amount of threatened violence."
January 12, 2022
With COVID-19 worsening in the area, a Jackson County legislator is proposing an ordinance to restore some powers to the health department. But Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt has already threatened to sue if it passes.
On Monday, lawmaker Crystal Williams introduced a measure that would empower the Jackson County Health Department to “protect and promote public health.”
Williams says a November ruling by a Cole County judge nullifying local health orders has decimated public health, particularly in terms of how health departments are able to deal with communicable diseases.
The ordinance, she says, would codify public health functions similar to those of home-chartered cities like Kansas City and already codified in some state rules and regulations.
“Nothing that we're discussing is new. The idea that public health is scandalous apparently is new,” she says.
In the Kansas City area, daily hospitalizations reached a record high of 211 this week, and local emergency department wait times are also at all-time highs. Statewide, nearly 3,100 people are being hospitalized with COVID in Missouri each day — 50% more than the state reported in the final week of December.
Williams says the ordinance would allow Jackson County to follow a nearly identical framework for addressing public health issues as those used by other local governments in Missouri, including Kansas City....
