The platform

Six things. Plain language. No task force.

This is what he will push from the governor’s office. It is not a white paper. If a line here is wrong, he would rather you argue with the line than with a slogan.

Missouri Water First

Drinking water and rural wells come before a server farm. A data center does not pump the aquifer for free.

Full water pledge

Household wells and town drinking water are first in line.
If a data center needs cooling water, it buys treated wastewater from Missouri, at a public rate.
That money stays here — on rural water systems, not in a consultant’s fee.
No quiet permit that drains a county while the jobs sit somewhere else.

Work before a check

Aid is a bridge, not a wage. If you can work, you work your way off it.

A check from the state comes with a shift, a job, or a trade.
People who truly cannot work are not the target. People who will not work are.
The goal is a man or a woman off the roll, not a bigger roll.

A consequence that fits

Murderers face the death penalty. So does a drunk driver who takes a life.

The worst killings in this state are not a negotiation.
A drunk driver who kills somebody is not a paperwork case.
Say the sentence, then carry it out. A law you will not enforce is a lie.

Jails that hold. Prisons that work.

A prison is not a warehouse and it is not a hotel. Prisoners work. Counties can actually hold people.

Prisoner labor replaces idle time.
County jails get the funding to do the job they already have.
The revolving door is not a program. Close it.

The road you already drive

Fix the street, the bridge, and the highway a town already knows is bad — before another ribbon cutting.

Small-town roads and bridges come before a press conference.
That includes Highway 100 and the crossings trash trucks and school buses use.
If a bridge should be condemned, say so and replace it. Do not wait on a speech.

Parents raise the children

Schools teach. Courts tell the truth and keep their word. Jefferson City does not get a vote at the dinner table.

Parents are in charge of their children.
A court order means what it says, for both sides.
Social services exist to protect a child, not to replace a family.