Hancock & Kelley: STL’s plan to combat reckless drivers, Parson gets involved in border crisis, Bost agrees w/ Biden, Ashcroft rankles veterans

ST. LOUIS – It was another Sunday morning of sometimes heated but always civil political debate on Hancock and Kelley for Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024.

Republican consultant John Hancock and Democratic consultant Michael Kelley discuss the following topics:

• A FOX 2 New interview with a St. Louis alderwoman about the city’s reckless driving crisis is interrupted by blatant reckless driving: motorcyclists doing wheelies, running a red light, driving on the wrong side of the road and circling cars waiting for the light to change. Alderwoman Cara Spencer is calling for booting the wheels of reckless drivers. The mayor and aldermanic president want to bring back red-light cameras, which would put citations in the mail for offenders, but blatant offenders will likely ignore them, knowing they face no threat of jail time.

• Missouri Governor Mike Parson sends Missouri National Guardsmen and state highway patrol troopers to help with the border crisis in Texas, just as the crisis shifts to California.

• Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker calls for nearly $900 million in tax hikes to help cover the cost of processing more than 35,000 migrants who’ve crossed the southern U.S. border and are now flooding the sanctuary city of Chicago.

• Republican Congressman Mike Bost, who represents a large portion of the St. Louis area in Illinois, agrees with President Joe Biden on something. He says Congress should be in session instead of taking a two-week winter break with pressing issues like the border crisis and military aid for Ukraine and Israel demanding action.

• Former President Donald Trump wins the Republican presidential primary in South Carolina in a landslide over former S.C. Governor Nikki Haley in her home state.

• Missouri Republican Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft, who is running for governor, creates a stir by saying military veterans should not get special treatment like discounts. “I don’t think we ought to say if you’re in the military, we’ll give you this discount, but everybody else has to pay twice as much,” he said. “If it’s good for veterans, it’s good to do it for everyone.”

• The Alabama Supreme Court rules that frozen embryos in fertility clinics are human children.

• Our Quote of the Week was from Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas, who said Governor Parson’s use of the word “thugs” to describe the suspects in the deadly mass shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl victory parade/rally was a racist dog whistle.

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