Alex Hissong
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Alex Hissong (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Missouri House of Representatives to represent District 102. He lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
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Biography
Alex Hissong was born in Dayton, Ohio. He graduated from Centerville High School. He earned a bachelor's degree from Ohio State University in 2012. His career experience includes working in information technology.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Missouri House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
General election for Missouri House of Representatives District 101
Incumbent Ben Keathley defeated Jacqueline Cotton in the general election for Missouri House of Representatives District 101 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Ben Keathley (R) | 54.6 | 12,246 |
 | Jacqueline Cotton (D)  | 45.4 | 10,198 | |
| Total votes: 22,444 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Missouri House of Representatives District 101
Jacqueline Cotton advanced from the Democratic primary for Missouri House of Representatives District 101 on August 6, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jacqueline Cotton | 100.0 | 3,039 |
| Total votes: 3,039 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Missouri House of Representatives District 101
Incumbent Ben Keathley advanced from the Republican primary for Missouri House of Representatives District 101 on August 6, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Ben Keathley | 100.0 | 4,201 |
| Total votes: 4,201 | |||
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Endorsements
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Pledges
Hissong signed the following pledges.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Alex was raised in southern Ohio. He studied Biomedical Engineering at The Ohio State University with a focus on molecular and nano technology. After graduating, he spent several years as a project manager for a medical software company in Madison, WI where he met his wife. The two of them moved from Wisconsin to Missouri to California before settling back in Missouri outside of St Louis. He now manages the lab information technology system for a hospital laboratory. When he isn't working or campaigning, he is likely in the garden working with native plants, foraging along the Lewis and Clark trail, or thinning honeysuckle and restoring prairie on their property in Lincoln Co. He is running for office because he was tired of incumbents running with no opposition while claiming they represent the will of the people. He is tired of representatives using their unopposed "conservative mandate" to strip power from local communities, mismanage government agencies, and attack vulnerable populations. It is time for west St Charles county to have someone who represents them; who stands up for their rights, puts power back in the hands of local communities, and stops the insanity of the right-wing culture wars.
- Your choice matters. Both at the ballot box and in the doctor's office. In 2024 you will have a choice. The 20+ year Republican majority will no longer go unopposed. We will win back offices and reclaim our rights to reproductive freedoms. I strongly support free access to abortion, contraception, and IVF.
- I support our public schools and public school teachers. We must stop the culture war attacks on our public schools, teachers, and librarians. The children of Missouri are our future. Their education and well-being are dependent on having stable homes and good schools. We can improve starting teacher pay, fully fund our schools, and keep public money in public schools. We should not be diverting tax payer funds to private schools, religious or otherwise. Public funds should come with public oversight. Our schools are not a business opportunity to be exploited.
- We must return control of local issues to local communities. For years, the Republican majority has talked about the conservative principle of a small state government with deference to local municipalities while doing the exact opposite. It is time for local communities to regain control over local issues. Municipalities should be able to regulate large animal agriculture (CAFOs) and the associated pollution; they should be able to enforce animal welfare laws to shut down abusive puppy mills; they should control their own police departments (KC and STL); they should be able to set their own laws regarding single use plastic and common sense gun laws. The MO GOP is preventing local communities from doing what is best for their people.
Protecting LGBTQ+ rights, protecting the environment, increasing voter engagement, improving voting systems, abolishing the death penalty, and improving mental healthcare. We must remove the gay marriage ban from the MO Constitution before SCOTUS overturns Obergefell. We should restrict the sale of invasive plants and put more resources into restoring our native MO wild areas. We should increase publicly funded voter education and outreach while exploring voting systems that favor consensus government over polarization and extremism (Ranked Choice, STAR voting, etc). The death penalty cannot be carried out without error and no errors are acceptable. Thousands of non-seniors are housed in nursing homes due to insufficient mental healthcare.
It's Just a Feeling: The Philosophy of Desirism
Joel Marks
Joel Marks
Elected officials should have integrity, a sense of community, an affinity for evidence-based policy, and an aversion to absolutist ideology. Integrity is most important because without it you are an island and you will never get anything accomplished. Nothing in government is accomplished alone and you cannot build coalitions or support without trust. A sense of community is necessary because officials must know what is important to their constituents and act in their best interests.
After elected officials build trust with each other and understand their community, they should attempt to pass policy that is backed by evidence. Even if they are trying something new, there should be data that they can point to that clearly supports their strategy. If a new law is being proposed, they should be able to clearly articulate who will be effected, what the effects will be, and what evidence supports those claims.
A Missouri State Representative should work with other legislators to craft good policy and be good stewards of the state. The law should: distribute public funds via a responsible budget that prioritizes the welfare of all Missourians; protects the rights of individuals; and protects public interests for future generations.
Speaker for the Dead - Orson Scott Card
This is the second book in the Ender's Game saga and gets too little recognition in popular culture. I find almost everything about this book interesting. Scott Card wrote Ender's Game as a prequel to Speaker for the Dead. Speaker was the book he wanted to write and only wrote Ender's Game to set the stage for the deeper book. Yet, Ender's Game became the more popular and better known title. I also find it interesting that the same person who wrote Speaker for the Dead, a book with infinite empathy that focused on understanding different cultures and correcting the misdeeds of history, ended up writing bigoted and xenophobic political columns for a right-wing zine in North Carolina.
This is the second book in the Ender's Game saga and gets too little recognition in popular culture. I find almost everything about this book interesting. Scott Card wrote Ender's Game as a prequel to Speaker for the Dead. Speaker was the book he wanted to write and only wrote Ender's Game to set the stage for the deeper book. Yet, Ender's Game became the more popular and better known title. I also find it interesting that the same person who wrote Speaker for the Dead, a book with infinite empathy that focused on understanding different cultures and correcting the misdeeds of history, ended up writing bigoted and xenophobic political columns for a right-wing zine in North Carolina.
Missouri's greatest challenge for the next decade will be repairing the damage that has been done by the Missouri GOP. We have headed down the path of culture-war theater in place of good governance. Our leaders attack vulnerable populations with the apparatus of government while defunding and delegitimizing our public institutions. The party that claims to represent the interests of the individual has been seizing power from the individual and handing it to the state and corporate interests for over 20 years. It is time to protect vulnerable people in Missouri and reclaim our communities.
A legislator can do nothing alone. Building trust and coalitions is necessary for all good governance. Good governance does not mean attaining enough power to overwhelm opposition and force your policy on all. Good governance means building consensus while protecting the rights of the individual.
No. I like my day job and have no desire to be a career politician. Let's fix a few things, set a course in the right direction, and pass the reigns to someone else.
There are three bills I would introduce immediately if elected: 1) a Joint Resolution to remove the gay marriage ban from the Missouri constitution so the people could vote on it in 2026. 2) a ban on the sale of invasive species similar to what Rep Sassmann (R) introduced in 2024. 3) setup a fund for a 2 year epidemiological study of people with historic zip codes near the Weldon Spring site. If our community was negatively impacted by the processing, refinement, or storage of radioactive material, we should help them build a case for RECA expansion and assistance from the federal government.
Sierra Club MO, Inseparable (Mental Health Now) Candidate, COPE, MO AFL-CIO, Tri-County Labor Legislative Club, 2024 Moms Demand Action Gun Sense Candidate distinction
Conservation and Natural Resources, Corrections and Public Institutions, Emerging Issues, Health and Mental Health Policies, Elections and Election Officials
I support a change to the state ballot initiative process. Many Missourians do not know that there are two routes for initiative petitions, one for constitutional changes and one for statutory changes. The only reason that we use the constitutional process so often is that the people do not trust legislators to respect and enact statutory changes. I support a change to the statutory initiative petition process that would protect any statutory changes made by voters from any legislative changes or interference from legislators for at least two years. I believe if we made this change, we would see fewer constitutional initiative petitions.
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on July 9, 2024
Current members of the Missouri House of Representatives
Leadership
Speaker of the House:Jon Patterson
Minority Leader:Ashley Aune
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Jeff Farnan (R)
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Danny Busick (R)
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Greg Sharpe (R)
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Louis Riggs (R)
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Ed Lewis (R)
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Peggy McGaugh (R)
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Josh Hurlbert (R)
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Dean VanSchoiack (R)
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Bill Falkner (R)
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Brenda Shields (R)
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Mike Jones (R)
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Sean Pouche (R)
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Ashley Aune (D)
District 15
Kenneth Jamison (D)
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Chris Brown (R)
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Bill Allen (R)
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Eric Woods (D)
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Wick Thomas (D)
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Mike Steinmeyer (R)
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Will Jobe (D)
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Yolanda Young (D)
District 23
Michael Johnson (D)
District 24
Emily Weber (D)
District 25
Patricia Mansur (D)
District 26
Tiffany Price (D)
District 27
Melissa Douglas (D)
District 28
Donna Barnes (D)
District 29
Aaron Crossley (D)
District 30
Jon Patterson (R)
District 31
Ron Fowler (R)
District 32
Jeff Coleman (R)
District 33
Carolyn Caton (R)
District 34
Kemp Strickler (D)
District 35
Keri Ingle (D)
District 36
Anthony Ealy (D)
District 37
Mark Sharp (D)
District 38
Martin Jacobs (D)
District 39
Mark Meirath (R)
District 40
Chad Perkins (R)
District 41
Doyle Justus (R)
District 42
Jeff Myers (R)
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Kent Haden (R)
District 44
John Martin (R)
District 45
Mary Steinhoff (D)
District 46
David Smith (D)
District 47
Adrian Plank (D)
District 48
Tim Taylor (R)
District 49
Jim Schulte (R)
District 50
Gregg Bush (D)
District 51
Mark Nolte (R)
District 52
Bradley Pollitt (R)
District 53
Terry Thompson (R)
District 54
Brandon Phelps (R)
District 55
William Irwin (R)
District 56
Michael Davis (R)
District 57
Rodger Reedy (R)
District 58
Willard Haley (R)
District 59
Rudy Veit (R)
District 60
Dave Griffith (R)
District 61
Bruce Sassmann (R)
District 62
Sherri Gallick (R)
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Tricia Byrnes (R)
District 64
Deanna Self (R)
District 65
Wendy Hausman (R)
District 66
Marlene Terry (D)
District 67
Tonya Rush (D)
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Kem Smith (D)
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Scott Miller (R)
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Stephanie Boykin (D)
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Doug Clemens (D)
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Raychel Proudie (D)
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Marla Smith (D)
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Chanel Mosley (D)
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Marlon Anderson (D)
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Marty Murray (D)
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LaKeySha Bosley (D)
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Elizabeth Fuchs (D)
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Steve Butz (D)
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Nick Kimble (D)
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Raymond Reed (D)
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Del Taylor (D)
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Jeff Hales (D)
District 87
Connie Steinmetz (D)
District 88
Holly Jones (R)
District 89
George Hruza (R)
District 90
Mark Boyko (D)
District 91
Jo Doll (D)
District 92
Michael Burton (D)
District 93
Bridget Moore (D)
District 94
Jim Murphy (R)
District 95
Vacant
District 96
Brad Christ (R)
District 97
David Casteel (R)
District 98
District 99
Ian Mackey (D)
District 100
District 101
Ben Keathley (R)
District 102
Richard West (R)
District 103
Dave Hinman (R)
District 104
Terri Violet (R)
District 105
Colin Wellenkamp (R)
District 106
Travis Wilson (R)
District 107
Mark Matthiesen (R)
District 108
Mike Costlow (R)
District 109
John Simmons (R)
District 110
Vacant
District 111
Cecelie Williams (R)
District 112
Renee Reuter (R)
District 113
Phil Amato (R)
District 114
Vacant
District 115
Bill Lucas (R)
District 116
Dale Wright (R)
District 117
Becky Laubinger (R)
District 118
Mike McGirl (R)
District 119
Brad Banderman (R)
District 120
John Hewkin (R)
District 121
Bill Hardwick (R)
District 122
Tara Peters (R)
District 123
Jeff Vernetti (R)
District 124
Don Mayhew (R)
District 125
Dane Diehl (R)
District 126
Jim Kalberloh (R)
District 127
Ann Kelley (R)
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John Black (R)
District 130
Bishop Davidson (R)
District 131
Bill Owen (R)
District 132
Jeremy Dean (D)
District 133
Melanie Stinnett (R)
District 134
Alex Riley (R)
District 135
Betsy Fogle (D)
District 136
Stephanie Hein (D)
District 137
Darin Chappell (R)
District 138
Burt Whaley (R)
District 139
Bob Titus (R)
District 140
Jamie Gragg (R)
District 141
Melissa Schmidt (R)
District 142
Jeff Knight (R)
District 143
Bennie Cook (R)
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Tony Harbison (R)
District 145
Bryant Wolfin (R)
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Barry Hovis (R)
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John Voss (R)
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David Dolan (R)
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Steven Jordan (R)
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Hardy Billington (R)
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Keith Elliott (R)
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Lisa Durnell (R)
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Matthew Overcast (R)
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Brian Seitz (R)
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Mitch Boggs (R)
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Scott Cupps (R)
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Dirk Deaton (R)
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Lane Roberts (R)
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Robert Bromley (R)
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Cathy Loy (R)
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