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- Pre-filing Legislation
- ALEC Meeting
- O’Fallon Ranked as a Safe City
- A Little Bit of Humor…
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Pre-Filing
Opens for the Next Session
 In
case you are wondering what I am working on while the legislature is out
of session, this is the first week that legislators can pre-file
bills. Here is a link to an article that appeared this week in the
Columbian Missourian that
features my bill, dealing with abortion issues, at the top of the
legislative agenda for this year: Legislature
Pre-Filing.
Another
article on this subject
appeared in the St.
Joseph news:
2009 Legislative
Session.
Where
Is Representative Davis
This
Week?
 I am in
Washington D.C. at a policy meeting sponsored
by the American Legislative Exchange (ALEC). My chiropractor asked
me why I was going. I told him “to change the world.” That may
be too much of an over-generalization, so here are the
specifics:
I
have been appointed to the Health and Human Services Policy Task Force for
ALEC. We craft model legislation and share ideas of what works in other
states so that we can all be more effective and efficient in bringing
forth good public policies. In addition to this, Grover Norquist,
founder of the organization, Americans for Tax Reform, has invited me to
meet with a small group of think tank staff and other key legislators to
discuss how we can protect the taxpayers. December always seems like
an inconvenient time to go out of town, yet I have learned that it takes
work, time and energy to stay on top of the latest issues and emerging
trends.
Although
I am gone, I faithfully read every reply I receive from my Capitol Report.
Communication is the most vital
function of my office, and your response to my proposals is very helpful
in determining the priorities of my legislative agenda.
O’Fallon
Recognized As One of America's Safest
Cities
Population: 72,477
Located
in St.
Charles County
The
results of the CQ Press annual Safest
City Award rankings are in - and our own O’Fallon ranked as the third
safest city among the 397 American cities that were ranked. O'Fallon is
82.05 percent below the national crime rate
average.
The report ranks cities in six different crime
areas: murder, rape, burglary, robbery, aggravated assault and motor
vehicle theft. The end result of these rankings was used to compile the
list of the safest cities in America. In case you are
wondering, Ramapo,
New York was judged the
safest. However, its climate is far worse than ours and its cost of
living is much higher, so let’s just stay in O’Fallon. This
designation is a tribute to our citizens. For me, it is an honor to
represent such a fine city.
St.
Louis:
One
of the Most Dangerous Cities
 On
the other hand, the results of this study rated
St. Louis as the
fourth most dangerous city overall. In population, it ranks
second.
New
Orleans ranked as the most dangerous
city. I went to New
Orleans a little over a year ago and remember
asking a state highway patrol officer if I was in any real danger.
He said as long as we stay in groups of 6-8 people and don’t deal any
drugs, we should be all right
While most of St. Louis might be safe, pockets of high
crime offset the areas where people respect the lives and property of
others. Ultimately, the more virtuous we are, the more freedom we
enjoy.
To
read more about rankings of other cities, click here: CQ Press City Crime
Rankings.
Your
thoughts are important to me, so please let me know what you think about
these rankings. You can send me your opinion by clicking
here:
Cynthia Davis.
A Little
Bit of Humor…
 After the christening of his baby brother in church, Jason sobbed all the way
home in the back seat of the car. His father asked him three times what
was wrong.
Finally, the boy replied, “That preacher said he wanted us
brought up in a Christian home, and I wanted to stay with you guys.”
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