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Merry-Noella Skaggs
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Merry-Noella Skaggs (Republican Party) ran for election to the Missouri State Senate to represent District 26. She lost in the Republican primary on August 2, 2022.
Skaggs completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Merry-Noella Skaggs was born in St. Louis, Missouri. She earned an associate degree from St. Louis Community College in 2012 and 2014 and a bachelor's degree from Central Methodist University in 2016. Her career experience includes working in the fast-food industry and as a registered nurse. Skaggs is affiliated with evangelical churches.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: Missouri State Senate elections, 2022
General election
General election for Missouri State Senate District 26
Ben Brown defeated John Kiehne in the general election for Missouri State Senate District 26 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Ben Brown (R)  | 73.9 | 48,469 |
 | John Kiehne (D) | 26.1 | 17,115 | |
| Total votes: 65,584 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Missouri State Senate District 26
John Kiehne advanced from the Democratic primary for Missouri State Senate District 26 on August 2, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | John Kiehne | 100.0 | 5,720 |
| Total votes: 5,720 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Missouri State Senate District 26
Ben Brown defeated Bob Jones, Nate Tate, Merry-Noella Skaggs, and Jason Franklin in the Republican primary for Missouri State Senate District 26 on August 2, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Ben Brown | 39.0 | 10,811 |
| Bob Jones | 27.9 | 7,735 | ||
 | Nate Tate | 26.7 | 7,394 | |
 | Merry-Noella Skaggs | 3.8 | 1,041 | |
| Jason Franklin | 2.7 | 742 | ||
| Total votes: 27,723 | |||
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Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Merry-Noella Skaggs completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Skaggs' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I am a Christian, pro-life, nurse with a BSN, who lost her career due to staying true to my convictions and standing up for medical freedom. I am the ONLY nurse on the ballot for Senator in District 26, and I made the ultimate sacrifice of my career to fight with the Grace of God, for the cause of medical freedom.
- I will fight in behalf of ALL Christian values, and especially for the poor, down-trodden, and discouraged by Government and Corporate Corruption.
- I will fight for the cause of medical freedom and an ending to all mandates, including bodily autonomy for health-care workers and I will fight tooth and toenail for your children to not be subjugated to Government tyranny from forcing masks, vaccines, and the trans-sexual agenda on upon our kids who are in school.
- I am for children at poverty level having free lunches, pell grants, and for women having paid maternity leave who work for large corporations and government offices.
Nobody should have to choose between their health and their livelihood. All, including health-care workers should always have medical autonomy. If you are a health-care worker, you now have a College Degree which has been rendered useless by tyrannical government laws. Christianity is under increasing persecution and I shall put an end to this, to the best of my ability. We need people in Congress with courage and not the corrupt status quo.
I really look up to my Mom because she is a fighter. She was wrongfully fired from her job and fought for justice for a couple of years. She did not get the outcome she wanted, but she did everything in her power to fight for her cause.
I would like to follow the example of Florence Nightingale as she increased the odds of her patients surviving by having better hygiene practices which was revoluntionary at the time. Right now, if I want better outcomes for the patients in Missouri, I have to run for office to try to make healthcare better for Patients by having nurse to patient staffing laws.
I would like to follow the example of Florence Nightingale as she increased the odds of her patients surviving by having better hygiene practices which was revoluntionary at the time. Right now, if I want better outcomes for the patients in Missouri, I have to run for office to try to make healthcare better for Patients by having nurse to patient staffing laws.
The most important characteristic of an elected official is being able to put himself or herself in other people's shoes. If you believe that minimum wage should be $12 an hour, in this world you should be willing to work 40 hours a week and make $12 an hour to support yourself. In my opinion, the minimum wage should be the living wage for that area. I once saw a woman who worked at a restaurant living in the side of the parking lot in a tent. No one would want that for himself/herself, we can do better.
The core responsibilities for someone elected to this office are in this order: 1. To serve God and Jesus Christ. 2. To serve others including our constituents, family and friends.
They are not to serve lobbyists and to serve those from whom we can receive financial gain in return.
They are not to serve lobbyists and to serve those from whom we can receive financial gain in return.
The legacy that I would like to leave in office is safe staffing in Hospitals and Nursing homes or a law that sets the nurse to patient ratios. No one should have to sit in their feces or urine because there is not enough staff to change the patients. Most Missourians will be in a nursing home someday, so lets make it a good and safe stay as possible. The same holds true for hospitals with the law having a nurse to patient ratio. Nurses should not have to skip their lunch break, to ensure the patients get the care that they need.
The first historical event that I remember was 9/11 and I was 9 years old.
My first job was a McDonald's and I had that job for 7 years while I went to High School and 4 years of college.
The State legislature passes laws and the Governor is supposted to implement/ sign laws. The Governor and State legislature should support the laws that are right for the Missouri people.
Missouri's greatest challenges over the next decade would be to keep small businesses in business, prevent our jobs from going oversees/ becoming automated and keeping Missouri farmers in business not corporate farms.
The benefits of a unicameral legislature is that bills would be able to be passed faster, but the drawback is that less people would be looking over a bill and less people would have to agree with a bill.
It is benefical, but not necessary. I think all walks of life and occupations should be represented in State Congress. As a nurse, I get to see the effects of people making laws or the lack there of that have no experience in healthcare. We need nurses in government and I hope to be that voice.
The State Legislature is a team. For the state to score a goal with a new bill, the team has to work together and compromise.
The State legislature should decide the redistricting maps and the state legislature should decide this on the community of interest.
I would like to be on the Health and Pensions Committee, Agriculture and Food Production Committee, and Economic Developement Committee.
I am not a current legislator, but as a Nurse I would like to use my voice to improve healthcare for the people of Missouri. For people to get the best care in Missouri we need safe staffing ratios. Having 1 nurse for 80 patients in a nursing home is not safe, nor having 1 patient care tech for 30 patients on a floor at a hospital. Neither is not enough to give good care. We need a nurse to patient law to protect our loved ones.
I look up to Harry Reids ability to compromise and work with other legislators in Congress. He wasn't perfect, but the way he fought for the people in Nevada was encouraging. I watched a documentary on Harry Reid and I was impressed with him. But even more important than legislators, being ethical, moral and following the guidelines that Jesus Christ established is paramount. Jesus is my ultimate role model.
After this, I am not interested in running for US Congress or Governor, but if elected, and by God's grace, I am successful, perhaps I would be willing to re-visit this issue later on.
I was talking to a farmer who owned a small farm in my district. He was worried that he was going to lose his farm from the rising price of fertilizer and inflation in general. Congress should work harder to keep family farms in the hands of families.
Why didn't Noah catch very many fish while he was in the ark?
Because he only had two worms :D
Because he only had two worms :D
State legislature should oversee the use of emergency powers to ensure checks and balances.
Compromise is necessary in all aspects of life. Harry Reid said it best when he said that if you compromise you at least get half of what you want, but if don't compromise you don't get anything that you want.
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See also
2022 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on April 2, 2022
Current members of the Missouri State Senate
Leadership
Majority Leader:Tony Luetkemeyer
Minority Leader:Doug Beck
Senators
District 1
Doug Beck (D)
District 2
Nick Schroer (R)
District 3
Mike Henderson (R)
District 4
Karla May (D)
District 5
Steve Roberts (D)
District 6
District 7
Patty Lewis (D)
District 8
Mike Cierpiot (R)
District 9
District 10
Travis Fitzwater (R)
District 11
Joe Nicola (R)
District 12
Rusty Black (R)
District 13
Angela Mosley (D)
District 14
Brian Williams (D)
District 15
David Gregory (R)
District 16
Justin Brown (R)
District 17
District 18
Cindy O'Laughlin (R)
District 19
Stephen Webber (D)
District 20
Curtis Trent (R)
District 21
Kurtis Gregory (R)
District 22
Mary Coleman (R)
District 23
Adam Schnelting (R)
District 24
Tracy McCreery (D)
District 25
Jason Bean (R)
District 26
Ben Brown (R)
District 27
Jamie Burger (R)
District 28
Sandy Crawford (R)
District 29
Mike Moon (R)
District 30
Lincoln Hough (R)
District 31
Rick Brattin (R)
District 32
Jill Carter (R)
District 33
Brad Hudson (R)
District 34
Tony Luetkemeyer (R)
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Democratic Party (10)
