Florissant legislator may hold key to income tax cut override vote

[pstokely]

Source: STL post dispatch

JEFFERSON CITY • The fate of a $620 million Republican tax cut proposal appears to hinge on Rep. Keith English, a freshman Democrat and union electrician from Florissant.

English said Monday that he will vote to override the bill’s veto by Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon, a fellow Democrat.

In a written statement, English said he was elected “to exercise an independent judgment on every bill. ... Missouri small businesses and every worker in the state will benefit from the first broad-based tax relief in nearly 100 years.”

As long as all 108 House Republicans remain on board, English would provide the key vote needed for a two-thirds majority, the threshold for an override to succeed. The Senate voted for the override Monday on a straight party-line vote of 23-8. The House could vote today.

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[Kelvin Mace]

1. With friends like these...

[okaawhatever]

2. I assume these cuts hurt schools and gov't services and benefit the wealthy? nt

[freebrew]

3. Exactly the intent..

recently was reported a decline in income from lottery sales. $44M loss in revenue to the schools. This makes it next to impossible to recoup the monies elsewhere.

Our budget has no surplus and these fools want to give the rich more money and have the audacity to present a sales tax increase to us to 'fix' the roads. Have I said how much I hate these bastards?

[lark]

4. This is the danger of party line voting.

So this guy is totally an econolmic Repug in Dem clothing, doesn't give a shit about the working class and is only working to enrich himself and the 1%ers that fund him. Solution - work harder for the real populist Dems. at the primaries and defeat the under cover Repugs.

[Liberalagogo]

5. Apparently, he had issues

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/former-florissant-lawmaker-found-dead-of-apparent-suicide/article_3dcb50dc-2ab8-5420-af98-7169acf28c99.html