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Proposed Amendments to the Constitution of Missouri and Statutory Propositions To be submitted to the qualified voters of the State of Missouri at the General Election to be held on Tuesday, the 8th day of November, 2016.

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT NO. 1 [Proposed by Article IV, Section 47(c), Missouri Constitution (SJR 1, 2005)] OFFICIAL BALLOT TITLE: Shall Missouri continue for 10 years the one-tenth of one percent sales/use tax that is used for soil and water conservation and for state parks and historic sites, and resubmit this tax to the voters for approval in 10 years?

The measure continues and does not increase the existing sales and use tax of one-tenth of one percent for 10 years.

The measure would continue to generate approximately $90 million annually for soil and water conservation and operation of the state park system.

In TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand and affix the Great Seal of the State of Missouri, done at the City of Jefferson, this 26th day of August, 2016.

Article IV, Section 47(c) of the Missouri Constitution:

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT NO. 2

Section 47(c). Provisions self-enforcing, exception—not part of general revenue or expense of state—effective and expiration dates.—All laws inconsistent with this amendment shall no longer remain in full force and effect after the effective date of this section. All of the provisions of Sections 47(a), 47(b) and 47(c) shall be selfenforcing except that the General Assembly shall adjust brackets for the collection of the sales and use taxes. The additional revenue provided by Sections 47(a), 47(b) and 47(c) shall not be part of the “total state revenue” within the meaning of Sections 17 and 18 of Article X of this Constitution. The expenditure of this additional revenue shall not be an “expense of state government” under Section 20 of Article X of this Constitution. Upon voter approval of this measure in a general election held in 2006, or at a special election to be called by the governor for that purpose, the provisions of this section, 47(b), and 47(a) shall be reauthorized and continue until a general election is held in 2016 or at a special election to be called by the governor for that purpose. Every ten years thereafter, the issue of whether to continue to impose the sales and use tax described in this section shall be resubmitted to the voters for approval. If a majority of the voters fail to approve the continuance of such sales and use tax, Section 47(a), 47(b), and 47(c) shall terminate at the end of the second fiscal year after the last election was held.

[Proposed by Initiative Petition]

STATE OF MISSOURI Secretary of State

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I, Jason Kander, Secretary of State of the State of Missouri, hereby certify that the

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foregoing is a full, true and complete copy of Constitutional Amendment No. 1, to be submitted to the qualified voters of the State of Missouri at the General Election to be held the eighth day of November, 2016.

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OFFICIAL BALLOT TITLE: Shall the Missouri Constitution be amended to: • establish limits on campaign contributions by individuals or entities to political parties, political committees, or committees to elect candidates for state or judicial office; • prohibit individuals and entities from intentionally concealing the source of such contributions; • require corporations or labor organizations to meet certain requirements in order to make such contributions; and • provide a complaint process and penalties for any violations of this amendment?

It is estimated this proposal will increase state government costs by at least $118,000 annually and have an unknown change in costs for local governmental entities. Any potential impact to revenues for state and local governmental entities is unknown.

Be it resolved by the people of the state of Missouri that the Constitution be amended: One new section is adopted by adding one new section to be known as section 23 of Article VIII to read as follows: Section 23. 1. This section shall be known as the “Missouri Campaign Contribution Reform Initiative.”

2. The people of the State of Missouri hereby find and declare that excessive campaign contributions to political candidates create the potential for corruption and the appearance of corruption; that large campaign contributions made to influence election outcomes allow wealthy individuals, corporations and

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special interest groups to exercise a disproportionate level of influence over the political process; that the rising costs of campaigning for political office prevent qualified citizens from running for political office; that political contributions from corporations and labor organizations are not necessarily an indication of popular support for the corporation’s or labor organization’s political ideas and can unfairly influence the outcome of Missouri elections; and that the interests of the public are best served by limiting campaign contributions, providing for full and timely disclosure of campaign contributions, and strong enforcement of campaign finance requirements.

3. (1) Except as provided in subdivisions (2), (3) and (4) of this subsection, the amount of contributions made by or accepted from any person other than the candidate in any one election shall not exceed the following: (a) To elect an individual to the office of governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, state treasurer, state auditor, attorney general, office of state senator, office of state representative or any other state or judicial office, two thousand six hundred dollars.

(2) (a) No political party shall accept aggregate contributions from any person that exceed twenty-five thousand dollars per election at the state, county, municipal, district, ward, and township level combined. (b) No political party shall accept aggregate contributions from any committee that exceed twenty-five thousand dollars per election at the state, county, municipal, district, ward, and township level combined.

(3) (a) It shall be unlawful for a corporation or labor organization to make contributions to a campaign committee, candidate committee, exploratory committee, political party committee or a political party; except that a corporation or labor organization may establish a continuing committee which may accept contributions or dues from members, officers, directors, employees or security holders. (b) The prohibition contained in subdivision (a) of this subsection shall not apply to a corporation that: (i) Is formed for the purpose of promoting political ideas and cannot engage in business activities; and (ii) Has no security holders or other persons with a claim on its assets or income; and (iii) Was not established by and does not accept contributions from business corporations or labor organizations.

(4) No candidate’s candidate committee shall accept contributions from, or make contributions to, another candidate committee, including any candidate committee, or equivalent entity, established under federal law.

(5) Notwithstanding any other subdivision of this subsection to the contrary, a candidate’s candidate committee may receive a loan from a financial institution organized under state or federal law if the loan bears the usual and customary interest rate, is made on a basis that assures repayments, is evidenced by a written

instrument, and is subject to a due date or amortization schedule. The contribution limits described in this subsection shall not apply to a loan as described in this subdivision.

(6) No campaign committee, candidate committee, continuing committee, exploratory committee, political party committee, and political party shall accept a contribution in cash exceeding one hundred dollars per election.

(7) No contribution shall be made or accepted, directly or indirectly, in a fictitious name, in the name of another person, or by or through another person in such a manner as to conceal the identity of the actual source of the contribution or the actual recipient.

Any person who receives contributions for a committee shall disclose to that committee’s treasurer, deputy treasurer or candidate the recipient’s own name and address and the name and address of the actual source of each contribution such person has received for that committee.

(8) No anonymous contribution of more than twenty-five dollars shall be made by any person, and no anonymous contribution of more than twenty-five dollars shall be accepted by any candidate or committee. If any anonymous contribution of more than twenty-five dollars is received, it shall be returned immediately to the contributor, if the contributor’s identity can be ascertained, and if the contributor’s identity cannot be ascertained, the candidate, committee treasurer or deputy treasurer shall immediately transmit that portion of the contribution which exceeds twenty-five dollars to the state treasurer and it shall escheat to the state.

(9) The maximum aggregate amount of anonymous contributions which shall be accepted per election by any committee shall be the greater of five hundred dollars or one percent of the aggregate amount of all contributions received by that committee in the same election. If any anonymous contribution is received which causes the aggregate total of anonymous contributions to exceed the foregoing limitation, it shall be returned immediately to the contributor, if the contributor’s identity can be ascertained, and, if the contributor’s identity cannot be ascertained, the committee treasurer, deputy treasurer or candidate shall immediately transmit the anonymous contribution to the state treasurer to escheat to the state.

(10) Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision (9) of this subsection, contributions from individuals whose names and addresses cannot be ascertained which are received from a fund-raising activity or event, such as defined in section 130.011, RSMo, as amended from time to time, shall not be deemed anonymous contributions, provided the following conditions are met: (a) There are twenty-five or more contributing participants in the activity or event; (b) The candidate, committee treasurer, deputy treasurer or the person responsible for conducting the activity or event makes an announcement that it is illegal for anyone to

make or receive a contribution in excess of one hundred dollars unless the contribution is accompanied by the name and address of the contributor; (c) The person responsible for conducting the activity or event does not knowingly accept payment from any single person of more than one hundred dollars unless the name and address of the person making such payment is obtained and recorded pursuant to the record-keeping requirements of section 130.036, RSMo, as amended from time to time; (d) A statement describing the event shall be prepared by the candidate or the treasurer of the committee for whom the funds were raised or by the person responsible for conducting the activity or event and attached to the disclosure report of contributions and expenditures required by section 130.041, RSMo, as amended from time to time. The following information to be listed in the statement is in addition to, not in lieu of, the requirements elsewhere in this chapter relating to the recording and reporting of contributions and expenditures: (i) The name and mailing address of the person or persons responsible for conducting the event or activity and the name and address of the candidate or committee for whom the funds were raised; (ii) The date on which the event occurred; (iii) The name and address of the location where the event occurred and the approximate number of participants in the event; (iv) A brief description of the type of event and the fund-raising methods used; (v) The gross receipts from the event and a listing of the expenditures incident to the event; (vi) The total dollar amount of contributions received from the event from participants whose names and addresses were not obtained with such contributions and an explanation of why it was not possible to obtain the names and addresses of such participants; (vii) The total dollar amount of contributions received from contributing participants in the event who are identified by name and address in the records required to be maintained pursuant to section 130.036, RSMo, as amended from time to time.

(11) No candidate or committee in this state shall accept contributions from any outof-state committee unless the out-of-state committee from whom the contributions are received has filed a statement of organization pursuant to section 130.021, RSMo, as amended from time to time, or has filed the reports required by sections 130.049 and 130.050, RSMo, as amended from time to time, whichever is applicable to that committee.

(12) Political action committees shall only receive contributions from individuals; unions; federal political action committees; and corporations, associations, and partnerships formed under chapters 347 to 360, RSMo, as amended from time to time, and shall be prohibited from receiving

contributions from other political action committees, candidate committees, political party committees, campaign committees, exploratory committees, or debt service committees.

However, candidate committees, political party committees, campaign committees, exploratory committees, and debt service committees shall be allowed to return contributions to a donor political action committee that is the origin of the contribution.

(13) The prohibited committee transfers described in the subdivision (12) of this subsection shall not apply to following committees: (a) The state house committee per political party designated by the respective majority or minority floor leader of the house of representatives or the chair of the state party if the party does not have majority or minority party status; (b) The state senate committee per political party designated by the respective ma ority or minority floor leader of the senate or the chair of the state party if the party does not have majority or minority party status.

(14) No person shall transfer anything of value to any committee with the intent to conceal, from the Missouri ethics commission, the identity of the actual source. Any violation of this subdivision shall be punishable as follows: (a) or the first violation, the issouri ethics commission shall notify such person that the transfer to the committee is prohibited under this section within five days of determining that the transfer is prohibited, and that such person shall notify the committee to which the funds were transferred that the funds must be returned within ten days of such notification; (b) For the second violation, the person transferring the funds shall be guilty of a class C misdemeanor; (c) For the third and subsequent violations, the person transferring the funds shall be guilty of a class D felony.

(15) No person shall make a contribution to a campaign committee, candidate committee, continuing committee, exploratory committee, political party committee, and political party with the expectation that some or all of the amounts of such contribution will be reimbursed by another person. No person shall be reimbursed for a contribution made to any campaign committee, candidate committee, continuing committee, exploratory committee, political party committee, and political party, nor shall any person make such reimbursement expect as provided in subdivision (5) of this subsection.

(16) No campaign committee, candidate committee, continuing committee, exploratory committee, political party committee, and political party shall knowingly accept contributions from: (a) Any natural person who is not a citizen of the United States; (b) A foreign government; or (c) Any foreign corporation that does not have the authority to transact business in

this state pursuant to Chapter 347, RSMo, as amended from time to time.

(17) Contributions from persons under fourteen years of age shall be considered made by the parents or guardians of such person and shall be attributed toward any contribution limits prescribed in this chapter.

Where the contributor under fourteen years of age has two custodial parents or guardians, fifty percent of the contribution shall be attributed to each parent or guardian, and where such contributor has one custodial parent or guardian, all such contributors shall be attributed to the custodial parent or guardian.

(18) Each limit on contributions described in subdivisions (1), (2)(a), and (2)(b) of this subsection shall be adjusted by an amount based upon the average of the percentage change over a four year period in the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index for Kansas City, all items, all consumers, or its successor index, rounded to the nearest lowest twenty-five dollars and the percentage change over a four year period in the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index for St. Louis, all items, all consumers, or its successor index, rounded to the nearest lowest twenty-five dollars. The first ad ustment shall be done in the first quarter of 01 , and then every four years thereafter. The secretary of state shall calculate such an adjustment in each limit and specify the limits in rules promulgated in accordance with Chapter 536, RSMo, as amended from time to time.

4. (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection 3 of section 105.957, RSMo, as amended from time to time, any natural person may file a complaint with the Missouri ethics commission alleging a violation of the provisions of section 3 of this Article by any candidate for elective office, within sixty days prior to the primary election at which such candidate is running for office, until after the general election.

Any such complaint shall be in writing, shall state all facts known by the complainant which have given rise to the complaint, and shall be sworn to, under penalty of perjury, by the complainant. ( ) ithin the first business day after receipt of a complaint pursuant to this section, the executive director shall supply a copy of the complaint to the person or entity named in the complaint. The executive director of the Missouri ethics commission shall notify the complainant and the person or entity named in the complaint of the date and time at which the commission shall audit and investigate the allegations contained in the complaint pursuant to subdivision (3) of this subsection.

(3) ithin fifteen business days of receipt of a complaint pursuant to this section, the commission shall audit and investigate the allegations contained in the complaint and shall determine by a vote of at least four members of the commission that there are reasonable grounds to believe that a violation of law has occurred within the jurisdiction of the commission. The respondent may reply in writing or in

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person to the allegations contained in the complaint and may state ustifications to dismiss the complaint. The complainant may also present evidence in support of the allegations contained in the complaint, but such evidence shall be limited in scope to the allegations contained in the original complaint, and such complaint may not be supplemented or otherwise enlarged in scope.

(4) If, after audit and investigation of the complaint and upon a vote of at least four members of the commission, the commission determines that there are reasonable grounds to believe that a violation of law has occurred within the jurisdiction of the commission, the commission shall proceed with such complaint as provided by sections 105.957 to 105.963, RSMo, as amended from time to time. If the commission does not determine that there are reasonable grounds to believe that such a violation of law has occurred, the complaint shall be dismissed. If a complaint is dismissed, the fact that such complaint was dismissed, with a statement of the nature of the complaint, shall be made public within twenty-four hours of the commission’s action.

(5) Any complaint made pursuant to this section, and all proceedings and actions concerning such a complaint, shall be subject to the provisions of subsection 15 of section 105.961, RSMo, as amended from time to time.

(6) No complaint shall be accepted by the commission within fifteen days prior to the primary or general election at which such candidate is running for office.

5. Any person who knowingly and willfully accepts or makes a contribution in violation of any provision of section 3 of this Article or who knowingly and willfully conceals a contribution by filing a false or incomplete report or by not filing a required report under Chapter 130, RSMo, as amended from time to time, shall be held liable to the state in civil penalties in an amount of at least double and up to five times the amount of any such contribution.

6. (1) Any person who purposely violates the provisions of section 3 of this Article is guilty of a class A misdemeanor.

(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law which bars prosecutions for any offenses other than a felony unless commenced within one year after the commission of the offense, any offense under the provisions of this section may be prosecuted if the indictment be found or prosecution be instituted within three years after the commission of the alleged offense.

(3) Any prohibition to the contrary notwithstanding, no person shall be deprived of the rights, guarantees, protections or privileges accorded by sections 130.011 to 130.026, 130.031 to 130.068, 130.072, and 130.081, RSMO, as amended from time to time, by any person, corporation, entity or political subdivision.

7. As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) ppropriate officer or appropriate officers , the person or persons designated

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in section 130.026, or any successor section, to receive certain required statements and reports; (2) “Candidate”, an individual who seeks nomination or election to public office. The term candidate includes an elected officeholder who is the sub ect of a recall election, an individual who seeks nomination by the individual’s political party for election to public office, an individual standing for retention in an election to an office to which the individual was previously appointed, an individual who seeks nomination or election whether or not the specific elective public office to be sought has been finally determined by such individual at the time the individual meets the conditions described in paragraph (a) or (b) of this subdivision, and an individual who is a write-in candidate as defined in subdivision (26) of this section. A candidate shall be deemed to seek nomination or election when the person first (a) Receives contributions or makes expenditures or reserves space or facilities with intent to promote the person’s candidacy for office; or (b) Knows or has reason to know that contributions are being received or expenditures are being made or space or facilities are being reserved with the intent to promote the person’s candidacy for office; except that, such individual shall not be deemed a candidate if the person files a statement with the appropriate officer within five days after learning of the receipt of contributions, the making of expenditures, or the reservation of space or facilities disavowing the candidacy and stating that the person will not accept nomination or take office if elected; provided that, if the election at which such individual is supported as a candidate is to ta e place within five days after the person’s learning of the abovespecified activities, the individual shall file the statement disavowing the candidacy within one day; or (c) nnounces or files a declaration of candidacy for office.

(3) “Cash”, currency, coin, United States postage stamps, or any negotiable instrument which can be transferred from one person to another person without the signature or endorsement of the transferor.

(4) “Committee”, a person or any combination of persons, who accepts contributions or makes expenditures for the primary or incidental purpose of influencing or attempting to influence the action of voters for or against the nomination or election to public office of one or more candidates or the qualification, passage or defeat of any ballot measure or for the purpose of paying a previously incurred campaign debt or obligation of a candidate or the debts or obligations of a committee or for the purpose of contributing funds to another committee.

(5) “Committee”, does not include: (a) A person or combination of persons, if neither the aggregate of expenditures made nor the aggregate of contributions received during a calendar year exceeds five

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hundred dollars and if no single contributor has contributed more than two hundred fifty dollars of such aggregate contributions; (b) An individual, other than a candidate, who accepts no contributions and who deals only with the individual’s own funds or property; (c) A corporation, cooperative association, partnership, proprietorship, or joint venture organized or operated for a primary or principal purpose other than that of influencing or attempting to influence the action of voters for or against the nomination or election to public office of one or more candidates or the qualification, passage or defeat of any ballot measure, and it accepts no contributions, and all expenditures it makes are from its own funds or property obtained in the usual course of business or in any commercial or other transaction and which are not contributions as defined by subdivision (7) of this section; (d) A labor organization organized or operated for a primary or principal purpose other than that of influencing or attempting to influence the action of voters for or against the nomination or election to public office of one or more candidates, or the qualification, passage, or defeat of any ballot measure, and it accepts no contributions, and expenditures made by the organization are from its own funds or property received from membership dues or membership fees which were given or solicited for the purpose of supporting the normal and usual activities and functions of the organization and which are not contributions as defined by subdivision (7) of this section; (e) A person who acts as an authorized agent for a committee in soliciting or receiving contributions or in making expenditures or incurring indebtedness on behalf of the committee if such person renders to the committee treasurer or deputy treasurer or candidate, if applicable, an accurate account of each receipt or other transaction in the detail required by the treasurer to comply with all record-keeping and reporting requirements; or (f) Any department, agency, board, institution or other entity of the state or any of its subdivisions or any officer or employee thereof, acting in the person’s official capacity.

(6) The term “committee” includes, but is not limited to, each of the following committees: campaign committee, candidate committee, continuing committee and political party committee; (a) “Campaign committee”, a committee, other than a candidate committee, which shall be formed by an individual or group of individuals to receive contributions or make expenditures and whose sole purpose is to support or oppose the qualification and passage of one or more particular ballot measures in an election or the retention of judges under the nonpartisan court plan, such committee shall be formed no later than thirty days prior to the election for which the committee receives contributions or makes expenditures, and which shall terminate the later of either thirty days after the general

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election or upon the satisfaction of all committee debt after the general election, except that no committee retiring debt shall engage in any other activities in support of a measure for which the committee was formed; (b) “Candidate committee”, a committee which shall be formed by a candidate to receive contributions or make expenditures in behalf of the person’s candidacy and which shall continue in existence for use by an elected candidate or which shall terminate the later of either thirty days after the general election for a candidate who was not elected or upon the satisfaction of all committee debt after the election, except that no committee retiring debt shall engage in any other activities in support of the candidate for which the committee was formed. ny candidate for elective office shall have only one candidate committee for the elective office sought, which is controlled directly by the candidate for the purpose of making expenditures. A candidate committee is presumed to be under the control and direction of the candidate unless the candidate files an affidavit with the appropriate officer stating that the committee is acting without control or direction on the candidate’s part; (c) “Continuing committee”, a committee of continuing existence which is not formed, controlled or directed by a candidate, and is a committee other than a candidate committee or campaign committee, whose primary or incidental purpose is to receive contributions or ma e expenditures to influence or attempt to influence the action of voters whether or not a particular candidate or candidates or a particular ballot measure or measures to be supported or opposed has been determined at the time the committee is required to file any statement or report pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. “Continuing committee” includes, but is not limited to, any committee organized or sponsored by a business entity, a labor organization, a professional association, a trade or business association, a club or other organization and whose primary purpose is to solicit, accept and use contributions from the members, employees or stockholders of such entity and any individual or group of individuals who accept and use contributions to influence or attempt to influence the action of voters.

Such committee shall be formed no later than sixty days prior to the election for which the committee receives contributions or makes expenditures; and (d) “Connected organization”, any organization such as a corporation, a labor organization, a membership organization, a cooperative, or trade or professional association which expends funds or provides services or facilities to establish, administer or maintain a committee or to solicit contributions to a committee from its members, officers, directors, employees or security holders. An organization shall be deemed to be the connected organization if more than fifty percent of the persons ma ing contributions to the committee during the current calendar year are members, officers,

directors, employees or security holders of such organization or their spouses.

(7) “Contribution”, a payment, gift, loan, advance, deposit, or donation of money or anything of value for the purpose of supporting or opposing the nomination or election of any candidate for public office or the qualification, passage or defeat of any ballot measure, or for the support of any committee supporting or opposing candidates or ballot measures or for paying debts or obligations of any candidate or committee previously incurred for the above purposes. A contribution of anything of value shall be deemed to have a money value equivalent to the fair market value.

“Contribution” includes, but is not limited to: (a) A candidate’s own money or property used in support of the person’s candidacy other than expense of the candidate’s food, lodging, travel, and payment of any fee necessary to the filing for public office; (b) Payment by any person, other than a candidate or committee, to compensate another person for services rendered to that candidate or committee; (c) Receipts from the sale of goods and services, including the sale of advertising space in a brochure, booklet, program or pamphlet of a candidate or committee and the sale of tickets or political merchandise; (d) Receipts from fund-raising events including testimonial affairs; (e) Any loan, guarantee of a loan, cancellation or forgiveness of a loan or debt or other obligation by a third party, or payment of a loan or debt or other obligation by a third party if the loan or debt or other obligation was contracted, used, or intended, in whole or in part, for use in an election campaign or used or intended for the payment of such debts or obligations of a candidate or committee previously incurred, or which was made or received by a committee; (f) Funds received by a committee which are transferred to such committee from another committee or other source, except funds received by a candidate committee as a transfer of funds from another candidate committee controlled by the same candidate but such transfer shall be included in the disclosure reports; (g) acilities, office space or equipment supplied by any person to a candidate or committee without charge or at reduced charges, except gratuitous space for meeting purposes which is made available regularly to the public, including other candidates or committees, on an equal basis for similar purposes on the same conditions; and (h) The direct or indirect payment by any person, other than a connected organization, of the costs of establishing, administering, or maintaining a committee, including legal, accounting and computer services, fund raising and solicitation of contributions for a committee.

(8) “Contribution” does not include: (a) Ordinary home hospitality or services provided without compensation by individuals volunteering their time in

support of or in opposition to a candidate, committee or ballot measure, nor the necessary and ordinary personal expenses of such volunteers incidental to the performance of voluntary activities, so long as no compensation is directly or indirectly asked or given; (b) An offer or tender of a contribution which is expressly and unconditionally rejected and returned to the donor within ten business days after receipt or transmitted to the state treasurer; (c) Interest earned on deposit of committee funds; or (d) The costs incurred by any connected organization listed pursuant to subdivision (4) of subsection 5 of section 130.021, RSMo, as amended from time to time, for establishing, administering or maintaining a committee, or for the solicitation of contributions to a committee which solicitation is solely directed or related to the members, officers, directors, employees or security holders of the connected organization.

(9) “County”, any one of the several counties of this state or the city of St. Louis. (l0) “Disclosure report”, an itemized report of receipts, expenditures and incurred indebtedness which is prepared on forms approved by the Missouri ethics commission and filed at the times and places prescribed.

(11) “Election”, any primary, general or special election held to nominate or elect an individual to public office, to retain or recall an elected officeholder or to submit a ballot measure to the voters, and any caucus or other meeting of a political party or a political party committee at which that party’s candidate or candidates for public office are officially selected. primary election and the succeeding general election shall be considered separate elections.

(12) “Expenditure”, a payment, advance, conveyance, deposit, donation or contribution of money or anything of value for the purpose of supporting or opposing the nomination or election of any candidate for public office or the qualification or passage of any ballot measure or for the support of any committee which in turn supports or opposes any candidate or ballot measure or for the purpose of paying a previously incurred campaign debt or obligation of a candidate or the debts or obligations of a committee; a payment, or an agreement or promise to pay, money or anything of value, including a candidate’s own money or property, for the purchase of goods, services, property, facilities or anything of value for the purpose of supporting or opposing the nomination or election of any candidate for public office or the qualification or passage of any ballot measure or for the support of any committee which in turn supports or opposes any candidate or ballot measure or for the purpose of paying a previously incurred campaign debt or obligation of a candidate or the debts or obligations of a committee. An expenditure of anything of value shall be deemed to have a money value equivalent to the fair market value.

“Expenditure” includes, but is not limited

to: (a) Payment by anyone other than a committee for services of another person rendered to such committee; (b) The purchase of tickets, goods, services or political merchandise in connection with any testimonial affair or fund-raising event of or for candidates or committees, or the purchase of advertising in a brochure, booklet, program or pamphlet of a candidate or committee; (c) The transfer of funds by one committee to another committee; and (d) The direct or indirect payment by any person, other than a connected organization for a committee, of the costs of establishing, administering or maintaining a committee, including legal, accounting and computer services, fund raising and solicitation of contributions for a committee.

(13) “Expenditure” does not include: (a) Any news story, commentary or editorial which is broadcast or published by any broadcasting station, newspaper, magazine or other periodical without charge to the candidate or to any person supporting or opposing a candidate or ballot measure; (b) The internal dissemination by any membership organization, proprietorship, labor organization, corporation, association or other entity of information advocating the election or defeat of a candidate or candidates or the passage or defeat of a ballot measure or measures to its directors, officers, members, employees or security holders, provided that the cost incurred is reported pursuant to subsection 2 of section 130.051, RSMo, as amended from time to time; (c) Repayment of a loan, but such repayment shall be indicated in required reports; (d) The rendering of voluntary personal services by an individual of the sort commonly performed by volunteer campaign workers and the payment by such individual of the individual’s necessary and ordinary personal expenses incidental to such volunteer activity, provided no compensation is, directly or indirectly, asked or given; (e) The costs incurred by any connected organization listed pursuant to subdivision (4) of subsection 5 of section 130.021, RSMo, as amended from time to time, for establishing, administering or maintaining a committee, or for the solicitation of contributions to a committee which solicitation is solely directed or related to the members, officers, directors, employees or security holders of the connected organization; or (f) The use of a candidate’s own money or property for expense of the candidate’s personal food, lodging, travel, and payment of any fee necessary to the filing for public office, if such expense is not reimbursed to the candidate from any source.

(14) “Exploratory committees”, a committee which shall be formed by an individual to receive contributions and make expenditures on behalf of this individual in determining whether or not the individual see s elective office. Such committee shall terminate no later than ecember thirty-first of the year prior to the general election for the possible office.

(15) “Fund-raising event”, an event such

as a dinner, luncheon, reception, coffee, testimonial, rally, auction or similar affair through which contributions are solicited or received by such means as the purchase of tickets, payment of attendance fees, donations for prizes or through the purchase of goods, services or political merchandise.

(16) “In-kind contribution” or “in-kind expenditure”, a contribution or expenditure in a form other than money.

(17) “Labor organization”, any organization of any kind, or any agency or employee representation committee or plan, in which employees participate and which exists for the purpose, in whole or in part, of dealing with employers concerning grievances, labor disputes, wages, rates of pay, hours of employment, or conditions of work.

(18) “Loan”, a transfer of money, property or anything of ascertainable monetary value in exchange for an obligation, conditional or not, to repay in whole or in part and which was contracted, used, or intended for use in an election campaign, or which was made or received by a committee or which was contracted, used, or intended to pay previously incurred campaign debts or obligations of a candidate or the debts or obligations of a committee.

(19) “Person”, an individual, group of individuals, corporation, partnership, committee, proprietorship, joint venture, any department, agency, board, institution or other entity of the state or any of its political subdivisions, union, labor organization, trade or professional or business association, association, political party or any executive committee thereof, or any other club or organization however constituted or any officer or employee of such entity acting in the person s official capacity.

(20) “Political action committee”, a committee of continuing existence which is not formed, controlled or directed by a candidate, and is a committee other than a candidate committee, political party committee, campaign committee, exploratory committee, or debt service committee, whose primary or incidental purpose is to receive contributions or make expenditures to influence or attempt to influence the action of voters whether or not a particular candidate or candidates or a particular ballot measure or measures to be supported or opposed has been determined at the time the committee is required to file any statement or report pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. Such a committee includes, but is not limited to, any committee organized or sponsored by a business entity, a labor organization, a professional association, a trade or business association, a club or other organization and whose primary purpose is to solicit, accept and use contributions from the members, employees or stockholders of such entity and any individual or group of individuals who accept and use contributions to influence or attempt to influence the action of voters.

Such committee shall be formed no later than sixty days prior to the election for which the committee receives contributions or makes expenditures.

(21) “Political merchandise”, goods such as bumper stickers, pins, hats, ties, jewelry, literature, or other items sold or distributed at a fund-raising event or to the general public for publicity or for the purpose of

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(22) “Political party”, a political party which has the right under law to have the names of its candidates listed on the ballot in a general election.

(23) “Political party committee”, a state, district, county, city, or area committee of a political party, as defined in section 115.603, RSMo, as amended from time to time, which may be organized as a not-forprofit corporation under issouri law, and which committee is of continuing existence, and has the primary or incidental purpose of receiving contributions and making expenditures to influence or attempt to influence the action of voters on behalf of the political party. ( ) ublic office or office , any state, judicial, county, municipal, school or other district, ward, township, or other political subdivision office or any political party office which is filled by a vote of registered voters.

(25) “Write-in candidate”, an individual whose name is not printed on the ballot but who otherwise meets the definition of candidate in subdivision (2) of this section.

8. The provisions of this section are selfexecuting. All of the provisions of this section are severable. If any provision of this section is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be unconstitutional or unconstitutionally enacted, the remaining provisions of this section shall be and remain valid.

EXPLANATION—Matter enclosed in brackets [thus] in the above initiative petition is not enacted and is intended to be omitted from the law. Matter in underline type in the above initiative petition is proposed language.

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I, Jason Kander, Secretary of State of the State of Missouri, hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true and complete copy of Constitutional Amendment No. 2, to be submitted to the qualified voters of the State of Missouri at the General Election to be held the eighth day of November, 2016.

In TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand and affix the Great Seal of the State of Missouri, done at the City of Jefferson, this 26th day of August, 2016.

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CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT NO. 3 [Proposed by Initiative Petition] OFFICIAL BALLOT TITLE: Shall the Missouri Constitution be amended to: • increase taxes on cigarettes each year through 2020, at which point this additional ta ill total cents er ack of ; • create a fee paid by cigarette wholesalers of 67 cents per pack of 20 on certain cigarettes, hich fee shall increase annuall ; and • deposit funds generated by these taxes and fees into a newly established Early Childhood Health and Education Trust Fund?

When cigarette tax increases are fully implemented, estimated additional revenue to state government is $263 million to $374 million annually, with limited estimated implementation costs.

The revenue will fund only programs and services allowed by the proposal. he fiscal im act to local o ernmental entities is unknown.

NOTICE: You are advised that the proposed amendment to the constitution changes, repeals, or modifies by implication, or may be construed to change, repeal or modify by implication, Article IV of the Missouri Constitution and the following provisions of the Missouri Revised Statutes — Sections 33.080, 66.340, 66.350, 149.015, 149.021, 149.065, 149.160, 196.1003, 210.102, and 210.320.

The proposed amendment enacts four new sections in Article IV of the Missouri Constitution, to be known as Sections 54, 54(a), 54(b), and 54(c).

Be it resolved by the people of the state of Missouri that the Constitution be amended: Article IV is amended by adopting four new sections to be known as Sections 54, 54(a), 54(b), and 54(c).

Section 54. The provisions of Sections 54 through 54(c) shall be known as the Early Childhood Health and Education Amendment. It shall be the public policy of this state to improve the health and education of children, from birth through age five, and to improve accountability for early childhood health and education funding.

Section 54(a). 1. There is hereby created the Early Childhood Health and Education Trust Fund. The fund shall consist of all moneys collected as provided in Section 54(c) and shall also include the balance of the Coordinating Board for Early Childhood Fund, which shall cease to exist as a discrete fund after its proceeds are transferred into the Early Childhood Health and Education Trust Fund upon the effective date of this section. Interest and moneys earned on the fund shall be deposited in the fund. Moneys in the fund may be invested by the state treasurer, and any income therefrom shall be

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credited to the fund. Any moneys credited to and deposited in the fund shall be used only for purposes which are authorized by this section, shall not be diverted to any other purpose, and shall not be subject to the provisions of section 33.080, or other similar law. The net proceeds from the moneys collected as provided in Section 54(c) shall constitute new and additional funding for the activities, initiatives, and programs and shall not be used to replace existing funding as of July 1, 2016, for the same or similar activities, initiatives, and programs. The funds deposited in the fund and available for distribution to public and private entities shall be distributed as follows: a. t least seventy-five percent ( ) of funds shall be disbursed in grants for improving the quality of and increasing access to Missouri early childhood education programs, including preschool, home visitation, parent and family support and education, professional development and training for early childhood development providers, and increasing coordination of and public information about the importance of early childhood development; b. o less than ten percent (10 ) and no more than fifteen percent (1 ) of funds shall be disbursed in grants to Missouri hospitals or other health care facilities to improve access to quality early childhood health and development programs, including preventative health care, obesity prevention, infant mortality prevention, health and developmental screenings for Missouri children ages birth through five; and c. o less than five percent ( ) and no more than ten percent (10 ) of funds shall be disbursed in grants to provide evidencedbased smoking cessation and prevention programs for Missouri pregnant mothers and youth to be used solely for the purpose of establishing, maintaining, and enhancing activities, programs, and initiatives to promote tobacco use quit assistance and prevention, including a comprehensive statewide tobacco control program that incorporates the use of nicotine replacement therapy products regulated as drugs or devices by the United States food and drug administration under Chapter V of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, and public health for tobacco-related diseases. The comprehensive statewide tobacco control program shall be consistent with the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s, or its successor agency’s, best practices and guidelines for tobacco control programs, if any, and shall be designed to be effective to prevent and reduce tobacco use, reduce the public’s exposure to secondhand smoke, and identify and eliminate disparities related to tobacco use and its effects among different population groups. The components of the comprehensive statewide tobacco control program shall include, but not be limited to: state and community based interventions, health communication interventions, cessation interventions, surveillance and evaluation, and administration and management.

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. nless modified by law, eligible administrative expenses shall include only those reasonable and necessary for: (1) Salaries, fringe benefits, expenses, and equipment of staff employed by the Early hildhood ommission, as defined in Section 54(b); (2) Expenses associated with cost sharing of salaries, fringe benefits, expenses, and equipment of staff employed or contracted by the Early Childhood Commission from any other state department or agency of the state; (3) Expenses of the Early Childhood Commission associated with contracting with not-for-profit entities; and (4) Expenses of the Early Childhood Commission associated with audits and outcome evaluations of programs and activities funded under this section. Unless modified by law, no more than three percent (3 ) of the moneys deposited in the arly Childhood Health and Education Trust Fund shall be used for administrative expenses.

The Commission shall establish guidelines and controls concerning grantees’ administrative expenses associated with meeting requirements of grants.

Section 54(b). 1. As of the effective date of this section, the Coordinating Board for Early Childhood shall be reformed and shall be renamed the Early Childhood Commission. On the effective date of this section any of the Coordinating Board’s programs, duties, obligations, powers, assets, and liabilities not assumed by the Early Childhood Commission under the express terms of this Section shall, unless otherwise provided by law, be taken up by the Early Childhood Commission. Any employees of the Coordinating Board for Early Childhood shall retain the same status with the Commission on the effective date of this section, and the executive director of the board shall be the first dministrator of the Commission, unless such employees or director are lawfully terminated.

2. In addition to the duties already provided under the laws establishing and governing the Coordinating Board for Early Childhood, the Commission shall also have the duty to administer and make grants from the Early Childhood Health and Education Trust Fund as provided in section 54(a) of this article, as may be provided by law.

Only Missouri residents who are also legal residents of the United States are authorized to receive services or benefits from any funds generated by this Amendment, unless otherwise prohibited by state or federal law. All services or programs that derive from funds generated by this Amendment shall be performed in the state of Missouri.

Only hospitals and health care facilities operating in the state of Missouri that maintain a license in good standing pursuant to Missouri’s hospital or health care facility licensing laws shall be eligible to receive grants from the Early Childhood Health and Education Trust Fund pursuant to Section 54(a)(l)(b). The Commission shall have the power to hire an Administrator and staff, promulgate rules and regulations; apply for and receive public or private gifts, grants, or appropriations; buy, sell, or lease real and

personal property; make disbursements and grants; and any other powers necessary or appropriate to carry out the purposes and duties set out in this Amendment. None of the funds collected, distributed, or allocated from the Early Childhood Health and Education Trust Fund shall be expended, paid or granted to or on behalf of existing or proposed activities, programs, or initiatives that involve abortion services including performing, inducing, or assisting with abortions, as defined in law, or encouraging patients to have abortions, referring patients for abortions not necessary to save the life of the mother, or development of drugs, chemicals, or devices intended to be used to induce an abortion. None of the funds collected, distributed, or allocated from the Early Childhood Health and Education Trust Fund shall be expended, paid or granted to or on behalf of any abortion clinic, abortion clinic operator, or outpatient health care facility that provides abortion services, unless such services are limited to medical emergencies. No funds from the Early Childhood Health and Education Trust Fund shall be used for human cloning or research, clinical trials, or therapies or cures using human embryonic stem cells, as defined in Article III, section 38(d). No funds from the Early Childhood Health and Education Trust Fund shall be used for tobacco related research of any kind. Distributions of funds under this amendment shall not be limited or prohibited by the provisions of Article IX, section 8.

3. The Commission shall establish and maintain a conflict of interest policy for its members and staff. The Commission shall ensure a fair and equitable distribution of funds distributed as grants based on the established residency population of children ages birth through five. The ommission shall establish accountability and audit requirements for all grant recipients, including requirements that success be measured by outcomes for Missouri children and families. nless modified by law, Commission members shall include: (1) the director or the director’s designee from each of the following departments: health and senior services, mental health, and social services; (2) the commissioner or the commissioner’s designee from the department of elementary and secondary education; (3) two members of the Missouri general assembly. One member shall be the chairman of the joint committee on education. One member shall be a member of the joint committee on education, shall be from a different party and different legislative chamber than the chairman of the joint committee on education, and shall be appointed by the elected leader, either the speaker of the house of representatives or the president pro tempore of the senate, of the member’s legislative chamber; (4) The director of the Missouri head startstate collaborative office; ( ) six citizens, representing each of the following areas: early childhood education and development providers, local head start agencies, higher education, business, faith, and medicine.

The Governor shall appoint, with the advice and consent of the senate, the three citizens representing the areas of medicine, business, and higher education. The state board of education shall appoint the citizens representing the areas of early childhood education and development providers, local head start agencies, and faith. Commission members shall serve a term of three years.

Such citizens shall be eligible to serve two terms. Such citizens that serve a partial term of less than eighteen months shall be eligible to serve the partial term and two full terms. Such citizens that serve a partial term of more than eighteen months shall be eligible to serve the partial term and one full term. No Commissioners shall receive any compensation for their service as a Commissioner.

Section 54(c). 1. In addition to any tax levied upon the sale of cigarettes in this state, a tax shall be levied upon the sale of cigarettes in an amount equal to thirty mills per cigarette (or sixty cents per pack of twenty cigarettes), phased in, in four equal annual increments of seven and one-half mills (or fifteen cents per pac of twenty cigarettes) on January 1, 2017, January 1, 2018, January 1, 2019 and January 1, 2020.

The tax shall be evidenced by stamps which shall be furnished by and purchased from the director or by an impression of the tax by the use of a metering machine when authorized by the director as provided by statute, and the stamps or impression shall be securely affixed to one end of each package in which cigarettes are contained.

All cigarettes must be stamped before being sold in this state. For the purpose of allowing compensation for the costs necessarily incurred in affixing the proper tax stamps to each package of cigarettes before making a sale of the cigarettes, each wholesaler purchasing stamps from the director as required by law may purchase the stamps from the director at a reduction of three percent (3 ) of the face value of each lot of stamps so purchased, provided that all statutorily required reports have been made. The discount provided in this section shall be the only discount allowed to purchasers from the director. If a purchaser refuses to comply with the laws of the state of Missouri, the director shall require the full face value for stamps purchased until such time as the person has complied with the provisions of the law. The director may permit the use of meter machines in lieu of stamps, for the impress of the tax stamp, and where used a three percent (3 ) reduction on the total tax due shall be allowed. The director shall prescribe all rules and regulations governing the use of meter machines and may require a bond in a suitable amount to guarantee payment of the tax. The tax on any cigarettes contained in packages of twenty to be used solely for distribution as samples shall be computed on a per cigarette basis at the rate set forth in this section, and payment of the tax shall be remitted to the director of revenue at such time and in such manner as he may prescribe by rule. Stamped cigarettes in the

possession of a wholesaler or retailer before each incremental tax increase under this section is imposed shall not be subject to incremental tax increase before retail sale.

2.a. In addition to the tax provided in section 54(c). 1. effective January 1, 2017, an equity assessment fee is imposed upon the first to occur of the following the purchase, storage, use, consumption, handling, distribution or wholesale sale of each package of twenty (20) cigarettes manufactured by a non-participating manufacturer. The equity assessment fee shall be paid by the wholesaler, and collected by the director of revenue at the same time cigarette tax stamps are purchased from the director of revenue, and the payment and collection of the equity assessment fee shall be subject to the rules and regulations promulgated in connection with the payment and collection of the cigarette tax. The term on-participating manufacturer is defined as a manufacturer that is treated as such under the Master Settlement Agreement entered into by the State of Missouri and certain tobacco manufacturers on November 23, 1998. b. The rate of the equity assessment fee shall be sixty-seven cents ($0.67) per package of twenty (20) cigarettes. Beginning with equity assessment fees due in 2018, the equity assessment fee shall be adjusted each year in accordance with the nflation Adjustment in the Master Settlement Agreement, provided that, in determining the applicable nflation d ustment ercentage, inflation from 1 01 shall not be included. c. The fee imposed by this section does not apply to cigarettes or cigarette tobacco products that are sold into another state for resale to consumers outside of this state, provided that the sale is reported to the state into which the cigarettes are sold under 15 U.S.C. Section 376. d. The fee imposed by this section is in addition to any other privilege, license, fee, or tax required or imposed by state law, provided however that a manufacturer shall not be required to place funds into a qualified escrow fund under hapter 196 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri for any cigarettes that such manufacturer demonstrates in a filing with the ttorney General that the required amount of fees have been paid under this section.

3. All moneys collected as a result of the taxes and fees imposed by this section shall deposited in the Early Childhood Health and Education Trust Fund as said moneys are received, and shall be kept separate from the general revenue fund as well as any other funds or accounts in the state treasury. The additional actual costs incurred by the state in collecting and enforcing the taxes and fees imposed by this section may be paid from moneys appropriated from the Early Childhood Health and Education Trust Fund for that purpose, but shall not exceed one and one half of one percent (1. ) of the total moneys collected in that fiscal year.

Moneys from the Early Childhood Health and Education Trust Fund shall not be used

to pay costs that are not additional actual costs incurred by the state in collecting and enforcing the taxes and fees imposed by this section, except that one percent (1 ) of the funds deposited in the fund shall be used by the Director of Public Safety and the Director of Revenue to employ personnel for the sole purpose of criminal tobacco enforcement of existing state laws regarding tobacco products. No funds from the Early Childhood Health and Education Trust Fund shall be used for any lobbying, or for the promotion or support of any tax increase or any other state or local prohibition or limitation on tobacco products, coupons or promotions.

4. On an annual basis, the director of revenue, in consultation with the director of health and senior services, shall determine whether the taxes imposed by section 54(c) have resulted in a decrease in consumption of tobacco products and thereby directly caused a reduction in the amount of moneys collected and deposited into the fair share fund, the health initiatives fund, or the state school moneys fund, revenues generated from local tobacco taxes, or revenues generated from local sales taxes. If a reduction in the amount of moneys collected and deposited into any of those funds or revenues generated from local tobacco taxes or local sales taxes, has been directly caused by the taxes imposed by section 54(c), an amount equal to the amount of moneys that were not collected and deposited into that fund or funds or were not generated by the local tobacco taxes or local sales taxes because of the taxes imposed by this section shall be transferred from the Early Childhood Health and Education Trust Fund as follows first, to the appropriate political subdivisions, and second to the appropriate fund or funds. The aggregate amount transferred to such political subdivisions and/or funds for any year shall not exceed four percent ( ) of the total moneys collected pursuant to this section during that same year.

EXPLANATION—Matter enclosed in brackets [thus] in the above initiative petition is not enacted and is intended to be omitted from the law. Matter in underline type in the above initiative petition is proposed language.

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[Proposed by Initiative Petition] OFFICIAL BALLOT TITLE: Shall the Missouri Constitution be amended to prohibit a new state or local sales/use or other similar tax on any service or transaction that was not subject to a sales/use or similar tax as of January 1, 2015?

Potential costs to state and local governmental entities are unknown, but could be si nificant he ro osal s passage would impact governmental entit s abilit to re ise their ta structures. State and local governments expect no savings from this proposal.

Be it resolved by the people of the state of Missouri that the Constitution be amended: Article X is amended by adding one new section to be known as Section 26, to read as follows: Section 26. In order to prohibit an increase in the tax burden on the citizens of Missouri, state and local sales and use taxes (or any similar transaction-based tax) shall not be expanded to impose taxes on any service or transaction that was not subject to sales, use or similar transaction-based tax on January 1, 2015.

EXPLANATION—Matter enclosed in brackets [thus] in the above initiative petition is not enacted and is intended to be omitted from the law. Matter in underline type in the above initiative petition is proposed language.

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I, Jason Kander, Secretary of State of the State of Missouri, hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true and complete copy of Constitutional Amendment No. 3, to be submitted to the qualified voters of the State of Missouri at the General Election to be held the eighth day of November, 2016.

In TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand and affix the Great Seal of the State of Missouri, done at the City of Jefferson, this 26th day of August, 2016.

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I, Jason Kander, Secretary of State of the State of Missouri, hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true and complete copy of Constitutional Amendment No. 4, to be submitted to the qualified voters of the State of Missouri at the General Election to be held the eighth day of November, 2016.

In TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand and affix the Great Seal of the State of Missouri, done at the City of Jefferson, this 26th day of August, 2016.

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statement of this legislation shall be as follows: “Shall the Constitution of Missouri be amended to state that voters may be required by law, which may be subject to exception, to verify one’s identity, citizenship, and residence by presenting identification that may include valid government-issued photo identification .

CONSTITUTIONAL MEN MENT N . 6 [Proposed by 98th General Assembly (Second Regular Session) SS HJR No. 53] OFFICIAL BALLOT TITLE: Shall the Constitution of Missouri be amended to state that voters may be required by law, which may be subject to e ce tion to erif one s identit citizenship, and residence by presenting identification that ma include alid o ernment issued hoto identification The proposed amendment will result in no costs or savings because any potential costs would be due to the enactment of a general law allowed by this proposal. If such a general law is enacted, the potential costs to state and local governments is unknown, but could exceed $2.1 million annually.

EXPLANATION—Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in the above bill is not enacted and is intended to be omitted from the law. Matter in bold-face type in the above bill is proposed language.

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I, Jason Kander, Secretary of State of the State of Missouri, hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true and complete copy of Constitutional Amendment No. 6, to be submitted to the qualified voters of the State of Missouri at the General Election to be held the eighth day of November, 2016.

In TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand and affix the Great Seal of the State of Missouri, done at the City of Jefferson, this 26th day of August, 2016.

Submitting to the qualified voters of Missouri an amendment to article VIII of the Constitution of Missouri, and adopting one new section relating to elections.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri as follows: That at the next general election to be held in the state of Missouri, on Tuesday next following the first onday in ovember, 2016, or at a special election to be called by the governor for that purpose, there is hereby submitted to the qualified voters of this state, for adoption or rejection, the following amendment to article VIII of the Constitution of the state of Missouri: Section A. Article VIII, Constitution of Missouri, is amended by adding one new section, to be known as section 11, to read as follows: Section 11. A person seeking to vote in person in public elections may be required by general law to identify himself or herself and verify his or her ualifications as a citi en of the nited States of America and a resident of the state of Missouri by providing election officials ith a form of identification which may include valid governmentissued hoto identification ce tions to the identification re uirement ma also be provided for by general law.

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PR OPOSITION A [Proposed by Initiative Petition] OFFICIAL BALLOT TITLE: Shall Missouri law be amended to: increase taxes on cigarettes in 2017, 2019, and 2021, at which point this additional ta ill total cents er ack of ; • increase the tax paid by sellers on other tobacco products by 5 percent of manufacturer s in oice rice; • use funds generated by these taxes exclusively to fund transportation infrastructure rojects; and • repeal these taxes if a measure to increase any tax or fee on cigarettes or other tobacco roducts is certified to appear on any local or statewide ballot?

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State government revenue will increase by approximately $95 million to $103 million annually when cigarette and tobacco tax increases are fully implemented, with the new revenue earmarked for transportation infrastructure.

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$3 million annually due to decreased cigarette and tobacco sales.

Be it enacted by the people of the State of Missouri: A new section to be known as section 149.017 is enacted to read as follows: 149.017. 1. In addition to the tax levied in subsection 1 of section 149.015, RSMo, an additional tax shall be levied upon the sale of cigarettes at an amount equal to six and one-half mills per cigarette on January 1, 2017, two and one-half mills per cigarette on January 1, 2019, and two and one-half mills per cigarette on January 1, 2021.

2. In addition to the tax levied in subsection 1 of section 149.160, RSMo, an additional tax of five percent of the manufacturer s invoice price before discounts and deals shall be levied on January 1, 2017 upon the first sale of tobacco products, other than cigarettes, within the state, and shall be paid by the person ma ing the first sale within the state. Licensed persons making first sales within the state shall be allowed approved credit for returned merchandise provided the tax was paid on the returned merchandise and the purchaser was given a refund or credit. Such licensed person shall take such approved credit on the return for the month in which the purchaser was given the refund or credit.

3. The revenue generated in subsections 1 and 2 of this section, less any reduction allowed in section 149.021, RSMo, shall be deposited in the “Transportation Infrastructure Fund”, which is hereby created in the state treasury, and used exclusively to fund transportation infrastructure.

Notwithstanding the provisions of section 33.080, RSMo, to the contrary, moneys deposited in this fund, including any interest thereon, shall not revert to the credit of the general revenue fund at the end of the biennium. The state treasurer shall invest moneys in the fund in the same manner as other funds are invested. Any interest and moneys earned on such investments shall be credited to the fund.

4. The additional six and one-half mills per cigarette tax levied in subsection 1 of this section and effective on January 1, 2017 shall not apply to inventories of cigarettes in the possession of the retailer and wholesaler on December 31, 2016. The additional two and one-half mills per cigarette tax levied in subsection l of this section and effective on January l, 2019 shall not apply to inventories of cigarettes in the possession of the retailer and wholesaler on December 31, 2018. The additional two and one-half mills per cigarette tax levied in subsection 1 of this section and effective on January 1, 2021 shall not apply to inventories of cigarettes in the possession of the retailer and wholesaler on December 31, 2020. . The additional five percent tax levied in subsection 2 of this section shall not apply to inventories of tobacco products, other than cigarettes, in the possession of the retailer and wholesaler on December 31, 2016.

6. The additional taxes levied in subsections 1 and 2 of this section shall immediately, automatically and permanently be repealed and reduced to zero under any of the following events:

(1). In the event any tax or fee increase on some or all cigarettes or other tobacco products is officially certified to be placed on any local or statewide ballot by the Secretary of State or any other election official at any time; or (2). In the event any provision of subsections 1 through 9 of this section is ruled null and void, invalid, unlawful, severable or unconstitutional for any reason by any state or federal court of law.

7. The provisions of subsection 6 of this section are specifically meant to include, but are not limited to, any tax increase on cigarettes or other tobacco products placed on any local or statewide ballot in Missouri at any time pursuant to chapters 115 and 116, RSMo, and Article III, sections 49 through 53, and Article XII of the Missouri Constitution or any local laws allowing submission of questions to the voters.

8. In the event any provision of subsections 6 and 7 of this section are triggered, the department of revenue shall automatically, immediately and permanently cease the application and collection of any of the taxes levied in subsections l and 2 of this section, and the department of revenue and the revisor of statutes shall automatically and immediately notify the public. The department of revenue shall authorize the state treasurer to make refunds for any erroneous payments or overpayments.

9. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 1.140, RSMo, or case law or rule to the contrary, the provisions of subsections 1 through 9 of this section are nonseverable.

If any provision of subsections 1 through 9 of this section is held, in whole or in part, to be invalid, unlawful, or unconstitutional for any reason by any state or federal court of law, such decision shall invalidate and make void all of subsections 1 through 9 of this section.

EXPLANATION—Matter enclosed in brackets [thus] in the above initiative petition is not enacted and is intended to be omitted from the law. Matter in underline type in the above initiative petition is proposed language.

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Missouri con man with a taste for high-end sports cars, fake names and online romance was arrested today at an Illinois bus station after his $180,000 Lamborghini Gallardo blew a tire, police say.

Timothy Rosselli told the cops in Effingham he was a deputy U.S. Marshal. It was a line he’d used on at least two girlfriends — but the officers already knew it was a lie, according to authorities.

The 28-year-old, who most recently lived in Union, Missouri, is now facing federal charges of impersonating a federal officer and state charges of identity theft. He is in the custody of actual Marshal’s deputies.

Rosselli’s arrest ends a complex scam conducted across multiple states, involving at least two victims but probably more, authorities say.

The Pennsylvania native spent the past nine months living with a woman in Union, about 50 miles southwest of St. Louis. They were engaged, but the woman had begun to suspect something was wrong.

Union police Sgt. John Biser says she knew Rosselli as Austyn Gardner. He originally claimed to be a flight medic but later told her he’d landed a job with the Marshal service. He started driving a police-style Ford Interceptor “with lights and sirens, all that,” Biser tells the Riverfront Times.

The faux federal agent’s story started to fall apart when he told the girlfriend he had to go in for training.

When she returned home unannounced, she found him still there.

After she confronted him about a $20,000 credit card debt he’d racked up in her name, he hopped in the Lamborghini and bolted, Biser says.

On Monday evening, the girlfriend contacted Union police, who quickly determined he was no deputy Marshal. His badge, vest and other law enforcement memorabilia were all knock-offs.

They also learned he had another girlfriend in Florida, who knew him as Austyn Labella. It was that woman who bought Rosselli the Lamborghini as well as a $96,000

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Timothy Rosselli faces federal charges of impersonating an officer. | MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS Corvette. She’d also given him cash and loans totaling roughly $27,000, Biser says. The woman told police he’d given her a similar story about working as a deputy Marshal.

“He hasn’t had an actual job in years,” Biser says.

Rosselli had courted her online and gone down to Florida to visit.

In fact, she’d just been in contact with him — and after fleeing his girlfriend in Union, he was on the way to meet the Florida woman in Pennsylvania, Biser says. The Florida girlfriend told police that Rosselli had called her from the road and told her the Lamborghini had blown a tire in Effingham.

He planned to take a bus the rest of the way, she told police. Effingham cops, tipped off by police in Union, intercepted him at the Greyhound station.

His bit about being a fellow law enforcement officer got him nowhere, which maybe he should have seen coming. After all, he had previously been arrested in 2014 in Franklin County, Missouri, and extradited back to Pennsylvania, where authorities claimed he’d impersonated a state constable.

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Pennsylvania investigators knew Rosselli as Timothy Rossell (dropping the last “i” from his name). They say he bought a Crown Victoria off Craigslist in 2012, telling the owner his name was John Tobisti and that he needed the car for his work in law enforcement. He took the car but never paid, authorities say.

Police in Pennsylvania claim he pulled similar cons on others, using the name Timothy Brandhorst to scam a couple out of their Ford F250 pickup and later identifying himself as Missouri State Trooper Timothy Michael Keller to sell a twenty-yearold $650 car he never delivered.

Rosselli eventually pleaded guilty to multiple theft charges, court records show.

In the most recent case, investigators are still trying to retrace Rosselli’s tracks. Biser says they’re talking to other women they suspect were duped by Rosselli too. Authorities ask anyone with information to call the U.S. Marshals Service Investigations Bureau at 314-539-2040.

The charge of impersonating a federal officer carries a max sentence of three years in prison and a n $250,000 fine.

n Missouri, RJ Reynolds is spending millions of dollars to push a new tax on cigarettes. But Big Tobacco hasn’t gone soft everywhere — the company is also spending millions to block a new tax on cigarettes in California.

Huh? That strange juxtaposition is the focus of a new ad paid for by opponents of Amendment 3, the new tobacco tax proposal on Missouri ballots next month as “Raise Your Hand for Kids.” The ad highlights the tobacco giant’s contrary positions on the states’ proposed tax hikes.

In California, the company argues that the tax will be diverted to special interests. But in Missouri, the pro-tax campaign — funded largely by RJ Reynolds, which has kicked in $8 million and counting — argues that the money can’t be diverted, so bring on the higher taxes.

(Never mind that, as backers acknowledge in legal filings, it will be subject to the usual appropriations process.)

What’s really going on with RJ Reynolds’ support for Missouri’s tax increase? We’d argue its interest in pushing Amendment 3 has less to do with where the money is going and more with a fascinating provision within the proposal’s details — one that could make Joe Camel & Co. a whole lot of money.

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TOBACCO TAX Continued from pg 14 cheaper cigs, enjoy about onefourth of the market share in Missouri. And Amendment 3 would increase their cost even higher than their bigbrand competitors, slapping those smaller tobacco companies with a 67-cent “equity fee” on top of the across-theboard 60 cent increase.

The fee has its origins in the legal settlement that requires the Big-4 Tobacco companies to pay the state for some medical costs incurred by smokers. Smaller companies don’t. Tacking that fee on top of the tax would raise the cost of off-brand cigarettes a staggering $1.27 per pack instead of the 60-cent hike name-brand companies would get. And it just so happens to make those cheaper cigarettes just about as expensive as a package of Pall Malls.

So what if smoking decreases in Missouri as the cost of a pack increases?

With a bigger share of the market, RJ Reynolds could still be laughing all the way to the bank. No wonder they’re spending millions to back this thing.

The fact is, there’s always a eason o ofi co anies start paying big money to push ballot proposals, and it almost never has to do with altruism. That’s not the American way. Supporting something that sounds good for the children but actually takes out your competitors? n Now that’s more like it.

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he epidemic of tour van thefts in St. Louis became frighteningly common knowledge for many musicians around the country in 2014.

Thieves would steal from vans in Midtown and Clayton, in gated hotel parking lots and in the midday sun. Venues, anxious of the dangerous reputation St. Louis was receiving, hired guards for their lots. Even then, a watchman could leave for the restroom and return three minutes later to an empty van. Sometimes the thieves drove away with the vehicles, sometimes they left them gutted and sometimes they even left the instruments, taking personal electronics and wallets as their only booty.

After a string of three burglaries in two weeks, St. Louis police, generally unable to help in this situation, apparently began to take measures to catch the perpetrators.

They talked about using bait vans or tracking electronics to follow the thieves, and in general improve communication between venue owners. They said they had “strong, solid leads” on the perpetrators.

This was in the fall of 2014. For around six months, the van burglary spree subsided, but then it returned in full force in the summer of 2015. To be sure, the police, on their own, can’t do very much to combat these burglaries, and artists have little hope of finding goods once they’ve been stolen.

But St. Louis’ Jesse Caron, owner of the company Gigbox (“a kind of dollar shave club for musicians,” as Caron describes it), has come up with a solution: a tuner pedal with GPS tracking capabilities.

The concept of this product, the Smrt oadie, is relatively simple, and already successfully utilized for electronics.

The GPS tracker will be built into the tuner, and provide pin-point precision on where that pedal is,” says Caron.

The “find my phone” iPhone app works essentially the same

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Jesse Caron, owner of Gigbox. | COURTESY OF JESSE CARON way: If you lose the product or it is stolen, you can sign into a website or an app and see where the product is on a little map. The importance of the GPS pedal is how it expands tracking capabilities to precious gear, the linchpin of a musician’s livelihood.

The pedal, which Caron hopes to have available in prototype in a few weeks, will cost $149.95 retail, which is a fair cost for both a high-end tuner and a form of gear insurance. The GPS will be charged whenever it’s on a pedal board, and when off the board the battery will last up to ten days — more than enough power for any band on tour.

The goals of the tuner are twofold, with one hopefully leading to another. The first is to simply find stolen gear, Caron says, before it ends up on eBay si months later.” Caron has been working with local authorities, who he says are willing to retrieve gear if it is

tracked with the Smrt oadie. Police just need to know where to go.

Caron sees a future in these products expanding to guitar cases with embedded trackers as well, increasing the likelihood that police can retrieve stolen gear.

The secondary goal, though, is to hopefully deter some of these crimes. Thieves may be more wary of hitting touring vans if there’s a possibility they will be followed afterwards.

But to achieve this later ob ective, people need to start using the tracking pedals. Caron will launch the product on Kickstarter and begin putting the pedal on trial uses with bands touring in St. Louis.

“We want to deal as local as we can,” he says. Bands in the city can reach out to Caron to potentially test the product once it comes out.

But it’s not ust about cleaning up St. Louis,” he adds. It’s about cleaning up the nation.”

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he fake priest came to town in April 2014, presenting himself as a Benedictine abbot — black robes, clerical collar and all. He put up a small sign in front of an edifice with crimson doors, advertising morning services at the old Methodist church he now called Holy Rosary Abbey.

In the age of Google, though, no one with a long public history of cons can stay under the radar for long — and certainly not a man trying to shake things up in a tiny Missouri town, population 2 4. Soon there were rumors of lawsuits and bankruptcies.

Web searches brought up allegations stretching back decades.

And if the man who calls himself Father Ryan thought moving to rural Missouri would free him from the controversies in his past, he made a terrible error in udgment. e should have known that

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it was only a matter of time. When a disciple made a desperate phone call, law enforcement pounced.

The church has since been bought and sold and bought again. Its steeple looms over the street where the neighbors’ kids run and play. And the people here still talk about the robed man and his nuns. Some are convinced the church is haunted, that the evil spirits it unleashed proved to be his unraveling. There are whispers of demonic possession, of sexual scandal.

But for rmstrong, Missouri, the real question might be who corrupted who?

Did the pretend priest let loose the trouble that became the talk of the town? Or did something behind those crimson doors some malevolent spirit, some remnant of the building’s past — cause Father Ryan’s downfall?

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Father Ryan has lived under many names. e was born andell ean Stocks in Richland Center, Wisconsin in 1953 (although another source puts his birth year as 1950). Little is known about his early years, but he later told the Chicago Tribune that he fathered a child out of wedlock in his twenties. He married and divorced the child was put up for adoption. e eventually moved west, to California and then Hawaii. When he returned to Wisconsin in the late 19 0s, he arrived as yan Patrich Scott though he soon began introducing himself as amien St. Anne.” He claimed to be a Franciscan brother associated with an order based in Canada.

But in a 19 9 letter responding to an inquiry from a woman in Wisconsin, the director of the Franciscan order advised in the strongest terms that amien St. Anne was a fraud: His stay in the monastery had lasted less than four months, he had never taken his vows and instead disappeared without permission with another novice. ot only that, but his abrupt exit was shadowed with additional suspicion: The order had received word from a bishop in Ontario and a priest in Wisconsin that the wayward monk was presenting himself, fraudulently, as a full-fledged brother of the order. (Through his attorney, Ryan declined comment for this story.) nd so Father yan kept moving, trying to outrun his past. But he took too many risks.

In 1992, he was hired as the city finance director in Edgerton, isconsin. private investigator would later find his r sum riddled with degrees from institutions that had no record of his admission. is career in public service ended one year later. He was accused of helping himself to $300.97 of city money by modifying what should have been a $30.9 check. In 1994, he was convicted of felony misconduct in public office and sentenced to three years probation.

He went back to being a fake priest. This time, in California, he fell in with the Reformed Catholic Church of America, an offshoot of the traditionalist Catholic movement that does not recognize the late 1960s reforms that modernized the faith.

Even that fringe group e com-

Father Ryan talks with his attorney on May 1, 2015, in F municated Father Ryan almost immediately.

In a scathing letter dated 1995, an archbishop chastised him for his “self-centered attitude and un-priestly conduct,” and noted his failure to properly operate a monastery, “causing problems in the local community by allowing drugs, alcohol and other misuse.”

Father Ryan returned to Wisconsin, but found no respite there. He found himself hounded.

In La Crosse, Bishop Raymond Burke (the future archbishop of St. Louis sent letters sounding the alarm to every diocese in the country Be wary of this Father yan St. nne Scott” and his oly osary Abbey,” Burke warned. Do not attend his mass or take his sacraments.

“He is not a priest of the Roman Catholic Church,” wrote Burke.

Still, Father yan attracted a flock that was willing to embrace him as shepherd. His followers didn’t care that he’d been previously married or fathered a child.

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He appeared and departed with equal abruptness. e trafficked heavily in the Midwest, setting up his abbey in Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois, but he also turned up in orth akota, Louisiana, labama, ri ona and ew Me ico.

But wherever he fled, both the Church and the law gave chase.

Warnings were sounded in Catholic dioceses across the country, including St. Louis. trail of legal disputes include bankruptcies in

Illinois and Iowa. He was sued by a former nun over unpaid loans, resulting in a civil udgment to pay her $161,000.

In 2012, he was evicted from his abbey in Buchanan County, Iowa.

He left behind thousands of dollars’ worth of religious accoutrements.

He also abandoned a herd of nineteen llamas. He had intended to sell the animals and their wool as part of a venture called Monastic Fleece. Like everything else Father Ryan touched, the llama-based business failed.

In 2013, he regrouped in St. Louis while looking for the next location for his abbey. It is unclear what precisely drew him to Armstrong, a small town about 40 miles north of Columbia, but he was known to trawl through online property listings that featured cheap real estate.

So it came to pass that in pril 2014, with two elderly nuns in tow, Father Ryan made the 166-mile drive to his new home in rmstrong.

There are few official rules of decorum in small towns, but as a newcomer, there are certain things you just shouldn’t do.

For instance: When introducing yourself during a city council meeting, it is not a good idea to mock the intelligence of the townsfolk. It is also not advisable to belittle the mayor or insult his wife.

Father Ryan did all three.

Armstrong is a speck of a town that rests amid the rolling farmland of central Missouri. The modest community center appears to be one of the few recently built structures, and its parking lot contains the city’s lone police car. cross the street, the post office is housed in a long white trailer.

The closest city, a place with a pharmacy and a supermarket, is ten miles south in Fayette.

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Armstrong’s mayor, Harley Owens, had heard that a priest was moving into the old church on Snoddy Street. umor was that the church would be converted into a home for retired priests. Owens had no idea what to expect when, at a city council meeting on April 10, Father Ryan stood up to address him, the four-member council and a dozen residents in the audience.

I never did figure out what he really wanted,” says Owens.

A former farmer and asphalt layer for Mo T, wens has called Armstrong home for more than a decade. Maybe he didn’t want to make friends,” he says in a cautious country drawl. He rubs at the stubble of white whiskers on his cheeks. I ust never seen anyone come in like a pit bull. That’s what happened that night.”

As the fake priest paced the room, he let the audience know that the conditions of the town’s infrastructure were unacceptable.

The lawns were overgrown and the streets in tatters. He had spotted many properties that clearly needed upkeep.

It didn’t have to be this way, said Father yan. Government grants and other funding could be marshaled to help clean the place up.

And then he went too far. Father Ryan declared the town “stupid” for allowing such conditions to persist.

The room erupted. Who did he think he was?

“I lost the meeting, it went absolutely berserk,” recalls Owens.

As the residents shouted down the priest, a woman in the audience stood up, raised her voice and told Father Ryan that if he thought things were so bad in Armstrong, what was he even doing here Father Ryan walked behind Owens and rested a paternal hand on the larger man’s shoulder. He pointed at the woman.

Versions of this moment differ. ccording to several people present at the meeting, Father Ryan remarked to Owens, “You should tell her to keep quiet.” ne attendee remembered the comment as closer to “you should put a muzzle on your dog.”

The woman raising her voice was Owens’ wife.

I never met a man I didn’t like, I never had,” says wens. Until that night.” ews of Father yan’s behavior hit the grapevine immediately, and the reaction was near-universal

One of Father Ryan’s nuns, Patricia Baldridge, became an unwilling witness in the case against the fake priest in 2015. | COURTESY OF THE COURIER/DENNIS MAGEE contempt. He’d managed to alienate virtually the entire town in one fell swoop. e never again attended a city council meeting.

Eight months later, he asked Councilman Bob Cramer, who lives two houses down from the church, to deliver a statement to the council. Father Ryan thought it best that he not be personally present.

Cramer demurred, citing his position on the council. His wife, Dee, read the statement at a December 2014 council meeting. It was addressed to “the City Council, the Mayor, and his wife, and the citizens of this community.”

“I opened a wound with my words and actions,” she said, reading Father Ryan’s words. “It is my sincere desire, that by this corrective action, and the grace of God, I can put forth in charity an effort to close that wound, and pray, that someday, we can all get along in charity and respect for each other, for without community, we stand alone in displeasure of Our Lord.”

Bob and Dee Cramer had a soft spot for the priest. Like Father yan, they were natives of isconsin. And they had a connection to the old church, too they had helped maintain the property for its previous owner, a French musician who had used the property only once or twice in seven years

or so. (The church was known to possess pristine acoustics, and the musician, livier de la Celle, had intended to use the octagonal sanctuary as a practice studio.)

Bob Cramer didn’t agree with the way Father Ryan conducted himself at the April city council meeting, but he did agree that the town needed sprucing up. “I liked the man, because he was talking my language,” he says. “The intentions were good.”

The Cramers noted that Father Ryan put serious work into transforming the church into an abbey, though its purpose was still shrouded in mystery. They watched him bring in furnishings, statues, framed pictures and new pews. A double-wide trailer was purchased to house the two nuns. fter several months, the Cramers noticed something else. A patrol car from the Howard County Sheriff’s epartment would appear parked in front the church, as often as several times in a single week. reserve deputy named Russ Harrison had apparently become friends with the self-proclaimed abbot.

Bob Cramer couldn’t help but feel suspicious of Harrison.

Somehow, I didn’t trust the man,” he recalls. “I didn’t really have any reason. But something here didn’t smell right.”

Before becoming a deputy, Russ Harrison had worked 43 years as a dentist in Columbia. Mormon, arrison is said to have considered Father Ryan a kind of kindred spirit, a fellow man of faith. Harrison donated what he could — including a new set of pews — to assist the new church in getting on its feet. (Harrison declined comment for this story.) arrison also befriended Patricia Baldridge, one of the nuns worshipping under Father Ryan’s direction. Recently widowed, the 6-year-old owned a farm in inton, Iowa, which was being managed by her children. ver time, arrison apparently became concerned about Baldridge’s financial entanglement with Father Ryan. The abbey seemed to subsist on a steady stream of money provided by Baldridge and another elderly nun, an arrangement Father Ryan seemed to take for granted.

According to a report Harrison filed with the sheriff’s department, Father Ryan asked him to notarize an amendment to Baldridge’s trust on March 1, 2015. s he read through the paperwork, the deputy was shocked to see that it now listed Father yan’s abbey as a beneficiary. The amendment stated that, in the case of Baldridge’s death, the abbey would receive two-ninths riverfronttimes.com

of the trust. The remaining parts would go to her seven children.

Fa. yan would be receiving twice the amount of each of the children,” Harrison noted. When he confronted Baldridge about the amendment, she told him that Father Ryan had authored the additions, but only did so according to the instructions of an attorney.

Harrison didn’t accept her explanation, and he refused to notarize the document.

Baldridge called him several times in the coming days, Harrison’s report said. She e pressed “deep concern about her decisions.” He consulted the Howard County sheriff and eventually reported the situation with the Missouri Adult Abuse Hotline.

Baldridge called again on the evening of March 5. She sounded confused and disoriented. Father Ryan was being threatened with arrest, she said, and he was raving about his enemies, all those who had persecuted him for years and called him a liar. In Baldridge’s telling — according to Harrison’s report — Father Ryan had declared that they will have to take me out in a pine box.”

Early the ne t morning, on March 6, arrison received another call from Baldridge. In his report, Harrison wrote that she’d had a very bad e perience, almost sleepless night. Father Ryan was so upset and angry it scared her.

Can I come to get her out as soon as possible?” t 9 30 a.m., arrison arrived at the abbey with four Missouri ighway Patrol troopers as backup. As a befuddled Father Ryan watched from the porch, Harrison and the troopers collected Baldridge and drove to the sheriff’s office in Fayette.

“Baldridge recounted to me that Fa. Ryan was angry last night and the look in his eyes scared her, but she did not think he would hurt her,” Harrison’s report continued.

She commented that Satan had gotten into him. I concurred that that was possible. I asked how much money she had given Fa. yan recently. She said close to $ 0,000, and the money given last year to Ryan for the abbey cost her all of her cows.”

On the strength of Harrison’s report and testimony, Father Ryan was arrested April 1 and charged with three felony counts of financial e ploitation of an elderly or disabled person. He was jailed on a $150,000 bond.

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police officer, and Brown cheered for him during a police academy graduation ceremony in 2014. former academic with a Ph. in horticulture, Brown works as a private investigator on legal cases involving agriculture and plant analysis. Something about Father Ryan’s case tugged at Brown’s conscience. He’d tagged along with Harrison on trips to the abbey and even attended a Latin Mass there.

Was Father Ryan really such a danger that he needed to be locked up?

Brown had spent plenty of time in court, and stopped by that day in February to watch the hearing.

What he was watching felt like a setup, a conspiracy to trap a nonthreatening man of the cloth in a jail cell — and all because of a minor gun charge, only possible because of a decades-old conviction? For Brown, it didn’t add up.

Brown approached the judge.

He announced that he would pay Father yan’s fine.

As he walked toward the exit, he passed Harrison at the doorway.

Harrison grabbed Brown by the arm. “What are you doing?” asked the thunderstruck deputy.

“I’m going across the street to get money to pay his fine,” Brown remembers saying. “I’ll be right back.”

FATHER RYAN Continued from pg 23 hen officers returned to search the abbey, they found a .3 caliber revolver and ammunition. Since Father yan was a convicted felon, the county prosecutor added an additional felony charge for unlawful possession of a firearm.

Harrison’s report, though, went far beyond the criminal charges.

In descriptions that stretched over five pages, arrison characterized Father Ryan as a con man who preyed on a mentally fragile woman who was blinded by her faith.

Baldridge had trusted Father Ryan implicitly, wrote Harrison, and there were other incidents where the so-called priest had bullied her into funding his religious operations. Harrison was convinced that Father yan was trying to wrest control of Baldridge’s assets through “intimidation, deception, thought-control, lies, and other unsavory means.”

But if Harrison thought Father yan would go quietly, he was sorely mistaken. He was about to find out ust how unsavory things could get.

In court, Patricia Baldridge told a different story than the one Harrison recounted in his report. t a May 2015 hearing, she claimed that she’d made “a mistake” in calling arrison. She never needed saving from Father yan.

She disputed that she’d given Father yan $ 0,000, instead insisting that she gave him only $1,500 every month for food, board and for the upkeep of the abbey. She claimed her words were being twisted, and that she had only worried for Father Ryan’s safety, not her own.

Baldridge’s children, however, seemed to confirm the deputy’s accusations. Joe Baldridge, who rented his mother’s 157 acres of Iowa farmland, testified that she began requesting large amounts of money and ordered him to sell the farm’s cattle.

In an incident reminiscent of Father yan’s past felony conviction in Wisconsin, Joe Baldridge recalled his mother writing a $15 check to Father Ryan’s abbey that had mysteriously cleared for $1,500. His mother, after expressing initial shock, later called her son to explain that she suddenly remembered writing the larger check.

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Father Ryan was arrested in 2016 on a parole violation (top), in 2015 for financial abuse of an elderly person (bottom left) and in 2012 on charges of financial exploitation of an elderly person (bottom right).

It had been changed,” testified Baldridge’s daughter Teresa Haifley, according to the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier. “It had been signed with a signature that was not hers.”

After his arrest, Father Ryan languished in jail for the next nine months. But then, the case against him fell apart.

In December, the Howard County prosecutor dropped the pending criminal charges for financial e ploitation. Messages left with County Prosecutor Stephen Murrell were not returned, but it seems likely that Baldridge’s lack of cooperation factored into the decision.

That left the priest facing a felony charge for unlawful possession of a firearm. Father yan pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to five years’ probation, with a suspended seven-year prison term.

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nuns. In March 2012, he had been arrested in St. Louis and e tradited to Knox County, Illinois, where he faced three felony charges for financial exploitation of an elderly person and additional felony charges for theft and deceptive practices. A year later, the charges were dropped.

But while the fake priest had escaped the most serious charges against him yet again, he was far from safe in Howard County. At a hearing in February 2016, a judge ordered him to pay more than $5,000 in fees or risk imprisonment. Father Ryan responded that he was broke, and had no way to pay.

Help came from an unusual place.

John Brown had met Father Ryan through Harrison. The deputy had been Brown’s dentist, and the two men maintained a friendship after Harrison’s retirement. Brown oined arrison at the MC while the older man trained to become a

John Brown is no Catholic nun, yet he soon took on the responsibilities previously handled by Father Ryan’s followers. Brown paid for his new clothes and groceries, and allowed him to live in a house Brown owned in Columbia. And when Father Ryan despaired at recovering his possessions in the church — he had failed to make payments on his lease, and thus the ownership of the church reverted back to the French musician Brown once again intervened.

“I slapped down $25,441 and bought the church,” Brown says.

He’s sitting in a diner in nearby Boonville. t 65, Brown’s white mustache is compact and immaculately trimmed, but the pink t-shirt he wears to meet a reporter is basically a rag, its fabric shredded with holes at the neck and arms.

Brown is a man of odd contradictions. On one hand, he is dead serious about his academic bonafides and his work as an agricultural investigator. In total, he claims to have testified in settlements worth more than $3 billion.

His penchant for sleuthing, however, has led Brown to consider possibilities that most would deem,

well, a bit far out. The more he studied the church, the more he suspected that the conflict between Father Ryan and Harrison goes deeper than simple financial fraud.

Something happened between him and the priest,” Brown says over a plate of the diner’s hot wings. “Here they are, best of friends. Russ is talking about this priest every time I see him, helping him all the time to remodel the church.”

At some point, however, arrison changed his tune. The deputy confided in Brown about the trail of evidence and online news stories linking Father Ryan to a lifetime of deception.

Harrison was no longer interested in remodeling the church, but instead was “obsessed,” says Brown, with the fact that Father Ryan was shaking down Baldridge to her last dollar.

But Brown doesn’t see it simply as a case of Harrison becoming disenchanted with a man whom many have accused of fraud. e says Harrison’s obsession seemed focused on the idea that Father Ryan is gay.

“He was saying just the most disgusting, dirty things. ‘Queer,’ ‘homo’ — he was going ballistic,” says Brown. emember, I’ve known Russell Harrison for 25 years! He was no longer Russell Harrison. He was somebody else.”

Brown turned his investigatory eye toward the church, which he hoped held evidence that could help Father yan in an eventual civil case. nd what he found seemed of great importance — at least to Brown.

During a search of the church’s interior, he says, he found bottles of lube stashed in a shelf inside the priest’s kneeling bench. A different bench appeared to show a peculiar … wet spot.

“You could see that someone was having se right in front of the altar,” Brown says definitively.

“And there was this little case of bottles of lubricant and sexual supplement things for erections. So then I’m thinking, what happened here?”

Greg Arrendal, a friend of Brown’s who accompanied him during the search, tells a similar tale of hidden lube and sex stains.

There’s a tapestry-covered bench in front of the kneeling bench.

There is a distinct wet spot in the center of that,” Arrendal says.

“We just drew a conclusion.”

Brown kept digging. e believed Fa t h e r R y a n ’s story of persecution and exile, and viewed the news stories about the fake priest’s past as a shoddy conspiracy theory peddled by u n t r u s t w o r t hy blogs.

He sensed that there was still a missing piece to the mystery, another factor that could explain both the personality changes he saw in Harrison and Baldridge’s panicked calls to the deputy that led to Father Ryan’s arrest.

Eventually, Brown says, he figured it all out. The pieces fell together, and the portrait it produced sent shivers down his spine.

The simple explanation might be that Father Ryan was a charlatan. But Brown settled on a different hypothesis: one of demonic possession.

“I’ve known Russell Harrison for 25 years!

He was no longer Russell Harrison. He was somebody else.”

Hidden by weeds in the lawn across the street from a church, a stone plaque can be found resting in the dirt. “Brick Church Built 1 1” it reads. Burned 1910 ebuilt 1911.”

Inside the church, the wall backing the altar is painted the same shade of red as the front door. Stained glass windows allow muted light to streak into the sanctuary. Wooden buttresses climb the walls to meet an eightsided ceiling.

From the day I first went into the church, the hair on the back of my head stood up,” Brown says.

It was like I was electrified.”

Brown believes that something is still living in the walls. group of paranormal investigators advised him that the 1910 fire may have taken the lives of worshipers, leaving their spirits to lash out at visitors.

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FATHER RYAN Continued from pg 25 “What is an octagon church doing in rmstrong, Missouri, with about 110,000 yellow bricks, those stained glass windows and these tiny rooms?” he asks. “It makes you wonder.”

Brown says he was always in good health. But in March, he began suffering pain in his arms and chest. He was diagnosed with diabetes and high cholesterol.

Something was also affecting his mind and temperament My children couldn’t understand what was happening to me.”

He blamed the church.

When he put the building on the market, dozens of would-be buyers arrived from all over the country, but they all turned tail after passing through the blood-red doors. One couple spent the night huddled near a space heater. They reported smelling sulfur in the early morning even though the building’s gas had been turned off.

Then, out of the blue, a “holy man” contacted Brown. He said his name was Adam, and he was from Colorado Springs. e was already on his way, driving across the plains. He told Brown, “Your church is haunted by demons God has sent me here.”

The holy man arrived and the two men walked through the church. Adam noted that there

was no religious symbolism in the stained glass windows. The two men peered at the abstract shapes.

In the diner, Brown recalls the conversation and flips through several photos of one of the decorative wooden buttresses on the church wall. What does this look like to you, Brown asks. He points at a section carved into a spiral. Could those be horns?

This guy was very familiar with symbology,” says Brown. He scrolls lower on the photo, zooming further. “If you look at it that way, it could look like a dragon’s head. nd this is the fire-breathing portion of the dragon’s head.”

Brown scrolls through several more photos. e notes how a fleur de lis on a stained-glass window is actually, according to a picture lifted from a ouTube video, a satanic or Masonic symbol. nother image is similar to the arcane geometry produced by folding a dollar bill. Don’t you see it? Brown asks, again and again. Don’t you see something is going on here?

As Adam talked, Brown felt the floor vibrating into his bones. Then he felt another tremor. “Back away real slow,” said the holy man. “We have to get out of here.” nd they did. Brown never entered the church again.

Others did. Greg Arendall — the friend of Brown’s who says he found the lube in the kneeling

After John Brown sold the church earlier this month, the new owner set to work renovating the building. | DANNY WICENTOWSKI bench — accompanied a paranormal team into the church this past July. Arendall wondered if he could provoke the spirits.

“It was not a cold night,” says Arendall. “All of a sudden motion detectors started going off, and all kinds of little energy sensors the paranormal team was holding go off too. And I got so cold, I can’t describe it. It was like plunging into Lake Michigan in the winter. I felt sub-zero cold.”

Arendall now says he won’t go in the church alone.

To Brown, the whole story suddenly made a terrible kind of sense. arrison’s strange behavior, Father Ryan’s potential anger, Patricia Baldridge’s fear, the church’s curious architecture — what connected these things, if not demonic possession of the edifice The evil spirits within the building could well have brought about a good man’s downfall, he posits.

“This is real, there’s such a thing as demons and paranormal activity,” he says. “Why did my friend of 25 years all of a sudden go crazy?

Because they had been in that church doing things that maybe people shouldn’t have done. nd he became possessed with a demon, that’s why he is so obsessed, filled with hatred and resentment towards this priest. And the priest is so filled with hatred and vengeance towards the deputy.”

Brown knows what he sounds like. But he’s not alone. Reached by phone through her lawyer, Patricia Baldridge says she had encountered spirits in the church as well. She had heard noises inside her room, voices calling from the dark with words she could not understand. fear overtook her.

She suddenly felt that she was in danger of being thrown from the window of the trailer.

“I was so scared, I couldn’t sleep,” she says.

It was the ne t morning, March 6, 2015, that she called Deputy Harrison in a panic. She begged him to get her out of the church.

She feels guilty for what happened next to Father Ryan, the arrest, the jail time, the loss of the abbey.

I made things even worse for Father,” she says. “He did nothing, he was not guilty. I left, and that gave uss more fuel for the fire.

And boy did he run with it.”

Brown finally sold the church earlier this month. The new owner isn’t familiar with the stories of demons or the fake priest who charged into town like a pit bull. e’s renovating the interior into a home. He has no interest in turning the octagonal property into a haunted attraction and no use for questions from curious reporters. nyway, everyone in rmstrong

knows the best gossip is found at the A-City Diner.

“The county sheriff has had sex with other men in the church,” says one local man. He’s leaning over a table, eyes wide and sparkling with conspiracy. “And the Father, he was a homosexual with a lot of people.” He drawls out his syllables for the juiciest possible emphasis. “A laaaahhhht of people.” ow, that’s ust a rumor from some country boy in a bare-bones diner in a small town in Missouri.

But earlier this month, Father yan and Patricia Baldridge filed a federal lawsuit against Howard County Sheriff Mike eal and eputy Russ Harrison.

According to the lawsuit, Harrison attempted to make “many se ual advances, many times on Fr. Ryan.” Lee Cross, the Kansas City-based attorney hired for the case, acknowledges that Father Ryan was in a relationship with a man — but says it was not Harrison.

Enraged by personal and religious rejection,” the lawsuit continues, “Defendant Harrison then began a campaign to destroy Plaintiffs’ reputation, church, and lives through criminal investigation, prosecution, libel and slander.”

The lawsuit zeroes in on Harrison’s role in the charges brought against Father Ryan. The deputy’s riverfronttimes.com

close relationship to him and the abbey should have sent warning bells ringing in the sheriff’s department, argues Cross. He points out that the felony charges for financial exploitation — the ones that were later dropped — were almost entirely based on Harrison’s police report and witness statements. oward County Sheriff Mike eal says he has yet to be served with the federal lawsuit and will not comment on it. Harrison remains on the Howard County payroll.)

As for Father Ryan, he is no longer living in the house Brown owns in Columbia. The Howard County prosecutor is still trying to put him jail, this time for an alleged probation violation in ugust. hile living in Branson, Father yan apparently traveled to Columbia to treat a heart problem. According to the prosecutor, Father Ryan didn’t properly check in with his probation officer about the trip.

Cross maintains this was a minor misunderstanding on the part of the parole office but the prosecutor seems to be taking it seriously. The next hearing is October 26, and if things go badly, Father yan could be facing the full seven-year prison sentence.

Ryan’s lawsuit only raises more questions in a story that’s grown incredibly murky. Was Harrison trying to stop the exploitation of an elderly woman, or was he a man corrupted by jealousy? Was the fake priest scamming Patricia Baldridge or simply ministering to her spiritual needs? What really triggered Baldridge’s call to the deputy that morning on March 6 Perhaps Father yan finally committed the cardinal sin of so many cult leaders and con men, pushing his mark — Baldridge — one step too far. Maybe, in one brief moment of clarity, she saw the truth about Father yan, even if she later returned to the comfort of belief.

Or maybe, as John Brown suggests, it was the church all along. aunted, malevolent and ready to destroy a good man and his followers.

“It’s such a sad story when you think about all the victims that have been created here,” says Brown. He polished off an omelet an hour ago, but he’s still talking.

The Boonville diner is closing. The customers have gone home.

“It boils down to this,” he says.

Either you believe or you don’t.

You get to make a choice.” n

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THURSDAY 10/20 Nick Offerman

He makes furniture and he makes books. Meet Nick Offerman on Thursday. | POPULAR MECHANICS

Nick Offerman is not Ron Swanson.

The actor is more cuddly and less interested in secrecy, solitude and the destruction of the American government than the character he plays. Offerman is also known for his well-written advice books (Paddle Your Own Canoe and Gumption).

His new tome is about life in a small woodworking shop, titled Good Clean Fun: Misadventures in Sawdust at Offerman Woodshop. It’s this book that brings him to St. Louis at 7 p.m. tonight at Sheet Metal Local 36 Union Hall (2319 Chouteau Avenue; www.left-bank.com) as the guest of Left Bank Books. Offerman will discuss what it’s like to make handcrafted furniture with a group of talented woodworkers, and why he also crafts musical instruments and mustache combs. A $39 ticket admits one person and includes a copy of Good Clean Fun. The $44 ticket is good for two people and one copy of the book. Offerman will sign books but no memorabilia.

FRIDAY 10/21 Lit in the Lou St. Louis is a literary city. We have two strong library systems, a double handful of great independent bookstores and several longrunning reading series. Adding to our bibliophilic wealth is Lit in the Lou, a celebration of authors and writers. This year’s format is slightly different. Lit in the Lou opens with an opening ceremony at 7 p.m. Friday, October 21, at University City City Hall (6801 Delmar Boulevard). The event will see Patricia McKissack receive the Tradition of Literary Excellence Award. Admission is $25 and includes appetizers and live music. The book fest starts at 10 a.m. Saturday, October 22, at Jackson Park Elementary School (7400 Balson Avenue, University City) with special guest Marc Brown, author of the Arthur series 28

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BY PAUL FRISWOLD of children’s books. John Hendrix, Amy Sklansky, Mary Engelbreit and Bobby Norfolk will also be there, and admission is free. Also attending is Jacqueline Woodson (author of the National Book Award-winning memoir Brown Girl Dreaming), who will address young adult readers at 1:30 p.m.

Admission to all events at Jackson Park is free. A literary pub crawl on the Delmar Loop rounds out the festival with authors such as Ann Leckie, Maria Balog, Jane Ellen Ibur and Qiu Xiaolong reading from their works and signing copies at businesses along the strip. The crawl starts at 5 p.m. Saturday, and tickets for it are $35; start times are staggered so you can visit all the stops. Visit www.literarystl.com for tickets and schedule information.

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Famalee Holding a family together is harder than it looks, especially when tragedy strikes. Peter and Raul lead a happy life with their adopted son, Chris. When Peter ’s mother Emma needs help, the obligation falls to Raul, and the irascible Emma doesn’t make it easy on her sonin-law. The unexpected arrival of Chris’ birth father and his demand for full custody of his biological child only complicate things. Can Peter and Raul keep it together? Joe Elvis and Bart Barker ’s new play Famalee is about an unconventional family’s fight to remain whole.

Famalee is performed at 8 p.m.

Wednesday through Saturday

and at 6 p.m. Sunday (October 20 to 30) at the Ivory Theatre (7620 Michigan Avenue; www. three5prod.com). Tickets are $20 to $25, with cabaret seating available for $65.

SATURDAY 10/22 Nosferatu F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu may be just a rehash of Bram Stoker’s Dracula with a bestial monster in place of the suave vampire, but it’s a rehash with impeccable style. The silent film is moody and atmospheric, and Max Schreck’s legendary performance as the foul Count Or-

lock is supremely eerie. It’s even better with a new soundtrack.

The Invincible Czars has composed a modern score for the film that incorporates violin, music box, glockenspiel and several other unusual instruments.

Their music also interpolates Bela Bartok’s Romanian Folk Dances. The band also encourages the audience to dress in Halloween-appropriate outfits for the screening; it should be an incredible night of sound and vision. It all takes place at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, October 22, at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood Avenue, Webster Groves; www. webster.edu/film-series). Tickets are $10.

Beer Food & Bodyslams Donuts, beer and wrestling — the Platonic ideal of a great afternoon — come together at Beer, Food and Bodyslams, a celebration of all that is good in life. Today at 1 p.m. at 4 Hands Brewing Co. (1220 South Eighth Street; www.4handsbrewery. com), the Dynamo Pro Wrestlers w i l l g e t t o g ra p p l i n ’ i n a n outdoor ring set up in the street to help celebrate the release of 4 Hands’ Apricot Slam beer.

There will be music by DJ Billy Brown, food by Seoul Taco, Slide by Piece, Gioia’s Deli and Southern, and fresh posters and t-shirts printed on-site by Art Farm. Admission is free, but you’ll want to bring money for stuff like food, donuts and beer.

You’re encouraged to also bring a chair, because no seats will be provided.

Soulard Oktoberfest Oktoberfest in Soulard is going to be a little different. It’s now a fundraiser for the Soulard Business Association, the Soulard Restoration Group and the Soulard School. It still includes a lot of beer and food, plus German music and dancers, same as always. New this year is the OcTUBAfest, which is a performance by low brass musicians of all ages and skill levels. This family-friendly Oktoberfest takes place from 5 p.m. to midnight Friday and 11 a.m. to midnight Saturday (October 21 and 22) at Soulard Farmer’s Market (Lafayette Avenue and South Ninth Street; soulard.ticketleap.com).

Admission is free. Tickets for the VIP tent, which is only open on Saturday, are $10.

SUNDAY 10/23 Passing Strange The Youth flees the middle-class Baptist home of his mother in pursuit of a life in music. His journey takes him from Los Angeles to Amsterdam and West Berlin, where his blackness is perceived as exotic. Female company and drugs are easy to find, but the ability to be honest with himself is more elusive. The musical Passing Strange is loosely based on the life of its composer, Stew, who combined his rock background with the theatrical acumen of his collaborator Heidi Rodewald to create a different kind of show. The Washington University Performing Arts Department presents Passing Strange at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday (October 21 to 30) at Washington University’s Edison Theatre (6445 Forsyth Boulevard; www.edison.wustl.edu). Tickets are $10 to $20.

Charles Burnett’s films are about black America. | COURTESY ST. LOUIS PUBLIC LIBRARY

TUESDAY 10/25 My Brother’s Wedding African-American filmmaker Charles Burnett has been making movies about the black experience in America since the late 1960s. His 1983 independent film My Brother’s Wedding is about Pierce, a black man in an impoverished Los Angeles neighborhood whose best friend is an e -con. But the film’s topic is not life on the hard streets.

Pierce has a good job in the family dry cleaning business, and his brother is a lawyer. Pierce resents his brother’s materialistic, social-climbing approach to life, preferring to stay in the world he knows. But Burnett makes

it clear by the film’s end that Pierce’s loyalty is misplaced — refusing to better himself is no better than being greedy. The St. Louis Public Library’s Central Cinema is screening a selection of Burnett’s best films. My Brother’s Wedding is shown at 6:30 p.m. tonight at the St. Louis Public Library’s Central branch (1301 Olive Boulevard; www.slpl.org).

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We’ve rounded up all the area’s University-Moore Auditorium, 470 E. Lockcreepiest holiday fun, so wheth- wood Ave., Webster Groves, 314-968-7128. er you’re looking to get into the spooky spirit this weekend, scout- Town & Country Symphony ing for the biggest and best par- Orchestra in i s ann al alloween conties next weekend or just want the oin e ce , i led ace e inal on ie ekkies, scoop on ongoing haunted attrac- edis, as ona s, and o e s ace nkies a e tions, it’s all right here. in i ed o co e in cos e o en o so e o

THIS WEEK Mayhem and the Mansion A Halloween happening at the Magic Chef ansion enefi s e and a ks ssociaion o o is ea ing e li e sic o iss ilee icke s incl de ood and cockails icke s incl de access o e sca ase en and signa e d inks a e ook as icke s a www e en ig co c ion i e s incl de a cock ail a and o o is o ic g and o es and a el o oos Sat., Oct. 22, 6-9 p.m., $100$150, 314-421-6474, www.landmarks-stl. org. Magic Chef Mansion, 3400 Russell Blvd., St. Louis.

Nosferatu with the Invincible Czars na s Nosferatu a e s a eas o a oke s Dracula with a besial ons e in lace o e s a e a i e, i s a e as wi i ecca le s le e silen fil is ood and a os e ic, and a c eck s legenda e o ance as e o l o n lock is s e el ee ie s e en e e wi a new so nd ack e n inci le a s is an s in, e as, and a as co osed a ode n sco e o e fil a inco o a es iolin, sic o , glockens iel and se e al o e n s al ins en s e and enco ages e a dience o d ess in alloween a o ia e o fi s o e sc eening all akes lace a on a da , c o e ,a e se ni e si s oo e di o i as ockwood en e, e s e o es www we s e ed fil se ies icke s a e $10. Sat., Oct. 22, 7:30 p.m., $10. Webster

e es o ie sic e e w i en and so e classical i es o s ace as well og a incl des Star Trek Through the Years, oin s Piano Concerto No. 1 ea ed solois iann i awi , sic o Apollo 13, o n illia s Star Wars and ols s The Planets.

Sun., Oct. 23, 2:30-4:30 p.m., FREE, 314330-3457, www.tcsomo.org. The Principia, 13201 Clayton Road, St. Louis.

Foundry Film Series: Hocus Pocus s a o e o nd en e s ission o connec eo le wi e s, i s fil se ies is ee and o en o e lic oncessions will e a aila le o c ase as well as ea s o ga o wee o e fil se ies kicks o wi a s ook alloween a o i e, Hocus Pocus, on c o e isi o s a e enco aged o d ess in ei alloween cos es and ick o ea a e is dios s ai s ed , c , , ee, , www o nd a cen e o g fil se ies o nd en e, ain en e , a les

HALLOWEEN WEEKEND Haunted Hustle 5K Run e a n ed s le is a n k n walk in o es a k ne o e n e e will e so e ing o e e one c a s o kids and c a ee o ad l s ll oceeds enefi e ns ine ids, an o gani a ion a el s kids wi cance in e o is a ea os es a e enco aged ee s i wi egis a ion Sat., Oct. 29, 9-11 a.m., 25.00 for adults, $15 for kids, www.selectgivesback.com. Forest Park, Highway 40 (I-64) & Hampton Ave., St. Louis.

Villains’ Breakfast ing e kids o e illains eak as a ock a e e es a an will a e s e ed ga es and ac i i ies, and e ose o a o essional o o wi ei i e ad g a , c , a , e son kids and o nge a e ee wi a en a d ock a e, a ke o is,

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Halloween Comicfest 2016 o e cele a e alloween a a li e e ll gi e o ee co ics and cand all da o e e od wea ing a cos e ne e o o cos la con es o o c ance o win a s o e gi ca d Sat., Oct. 29, 10 a.m., free admission. Star Clipper, 1319 Washington Ave, St. Louis, 314-240-5337.

Boogie Man Cash Bash ig add s on e anding esen s e nn al ig add s oogie an as as alloween a as i es o e es os e, e ies adies os e, and es o o o le on o a da c and onda c o e an , in o al i e one o e wo nig s Sat., Oct. 29, 8 p.m.-3 a.m.; Mon., Oct. 31, 8 p.m.-3 a.m., $5.00 to $20 Cover Charge, 314-621-6700, lacledes-landing.bigdaddystl.com/st-louis-halloween-party/. Big Daddy’s-The Landing, 118 Morgan St., St. Louis.

CWE Halloween Street Party e en al es nd does alloween in a ig wa wi i s a o s all da s ee a e kids cos e con es and a ade s a s a a , ollowed e dog a ade and cos e cones li e sic and s ee en e aine s ake o e , and en a co es e ig one e s a o s ad l s onl cos e con es wi i s , o i e Sat., Oct. 29, free admission. Central West End, Euclid from Delmar to Forest Pk. Parkway, St. Louis.

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ene a ion is en and e ine e wo k a e oining o ces o ing a n and s ook o ie nig nde esas e ll e s owing o se on a n ed ill and ac la in e lic edia o ons in and en e on e wo s o sc een icke incl des one ood icke ddi ional ood will e a aila le o c ase as well as a cas a and o e , lease Fri., Oct. 28, 7-11 p.m., $10 (cash only if paying at the door), 314-516-5968, lischwes@umsl.edu, www.stlpublicradio.org/events/index.php. Public Media Commons, 3653 Olive St, St. Louis.

Howl-O-Ween owl a e oon s ann al a is a ening alloween weekend wi d ink s ecials, ga es, and e e one s a o i e a cos e con es i on ng c a ds o e lack idow cke s e a swea s e won n o in o a oad Fri., Oct. 28, 7-11:45 p.m., 314-736-4695, stlouisevents@howlatthemoon.com, hubs.howlatthemoon.com/ halloween-at-howl-at-the-moon. Howl at the Moon, 601 Clark Ave Unit J, in Ballpark Village, St. Louis.

Lemp Mansion Halloween Bash o e a wi ee li e ands, o o o en a , a e i e e s and a cos e con es wi cas i es o l ck in e e ansion sca enge n fi s o sign onl Sat., Oct. 29, 8 p.m.-12:30 a.m., $65-$75. Lemp Mansion Restaurant & Inn, 3322 DeMenil Place, St. Louis, 314-6648024.

Mollyween ind o w a goes in e nig a oll s i een ann al oll ween a ig lig s incl de d ink s ecials, dancing, ons e s and a cos e con es wi o e an , in cas i es Sat., Oct. 29, 7 p.m.-1 a.m., free admission. Molly’s in Soulard, 816 Geyer Ave., St. Louis, 314-241-6200.

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e e age ance ea e esen s a si e s ecific dance e o ance a o es o g ee oo s o a os l a andoned ilding e a dience is enco aged o d ess in c ee , deca ing cos es o e en ance e e e ience Fri., Oct. 28, 7 & 9 p.m.; Sat., Oct. 29, 7 & 9 p.m., $20-$25, squareup.com/ store/leverage-dance-theater. Intersect Art Gallery, 3630 Texas Ave, St. Louis.

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os e al and aence es ec s i sel o an al elease a wi a alloween all e e Sat., Oct. 29, 8 p.m., $15. Wildey Theatre, 254 N. Main St., Edwardsville, 618-6927538.

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HALLOWEEN LISTINGS Continued from pg 31 wicked lan s and dancing ig a e i e s and s i i sa les incl ded in icke ice, and a cas a will also e on o e and olde onl Fri., Oct. 28, 6-9 p.m., $15-$35.

Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Blvd., St. Louis, 314-577-9400.

7-9:30 p.m.; Fri., Oct. 28, 7 p.m.-midnight; Sat., Oct. 29, 7 p.m.-midnight; Sun., Oct. 30, 7-9:30 p.m.; Mon., Oct. 31, 6:30-11:30 p.m.

Continues through Oct. 22, $25. Lemp Brewery Haunted House, Cherokee St. and 18th St., St. Louis.

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alling all o ies o a o ie c awl ick o o ie ass o a a li e and en s a le o g en nea as ge o ass o nc ed a eac s o o inc easing disco n s on s o e c ases e s o is also os ing a o ie cos e con es wi i es o es in , sca ies cos e, sa ick and as icke s o e c awl a e s Sat., Oct. 22, 8 p.m.-midnight, $5. Star Clipper, 1319 Washington Ave, St. Louis, 314-240-5337.

ee o ld as e anded e again and now o ses a n ed a ac ions, incl ding ilo , e a n ed a e a d and o n ckel ig a ew is ea a e e is as o o so a s e ns and e ig o e i ing ead a n ed a ide Fridays, Saturdays, 6:15 p.m.-12:15 a.m.; Thu., Oct. 20, 7-9:30 p.m.; Through Oct. 27, 7-9:30 p.m.; Fri., Oct. 28, 7 p.m.-midnight; Sat., Oct. 29, 7 p.m.-midnight; Sun., Oct. 30, 7-9:30 p.m.; Mon., Oct. 31, 6:30-11:30 p.m. Continues through Oct. 22, $25. CreepyWorld, S. Old Highway 141 and 13th St., Fenton, 314-6318000.

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e o ng iends o oo a e nn ini es o o ike o elessness o ending o elessness w ile a ing n owling and winning a e i es as a os es a e enco aged ll oceeds enefi e oo a e nn o n ic en nd, w ic oc ses on li i ing e i ac o o elessness on kids Fri., Oct. 28, 6-9 p.m., $25 in advance; $30 at the door, 314209-9181, www.roomstl.org/events/strikeout2016. Saratoga Bowling Lanes, 2725-A Sutton A, St. Louis.

e ica s e ie a n ed o se is ack and sca ie an e e ew ea es incl de o ie e ed esca e oo s and o ie lase tag. Fridays, Saturdays, 6:15 p.m.-12:15 a.m.; Thu., Oct. 20, 7-9:30 p.m.; Through Oct. 27, 7-9:30 p.m.; Fri., Oct. 28, 7 p.m.-midnight; Sat., Oct. 29, 7 p.m.-midnight; Sun., Oct. 30, 7-9:30 p.m.; Mon., Oct. 31, 6:30-11:30 p.m.

Continues through Oct. 22, $25. The Darkness, 1525 S. Eighth St., St. Louis, 314-6318000.

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360 Annual Halloween Bash o e ing wickedl n is ewing a ee i e a s fi ann al a n ed eig s alloween as is ack o wo nig s ida , c and a da , c , o o o close ick o oison wi inc edile d ink s ecials es s will en o a cos e con es wi s ook ac la i es, ig l alloween es i i ies and o e o o a lood good i e w e e o will ea , d ink e sca a o a o i e oo o a ri., Oct. 28, 8 p.m.-2 a.m., Free Until 10 p.m., 314-6418842, www.360-stl.com/events/. Three Sixty St. Louis, 1 S. Broadway, St. Louis.

Haunted Corn Maze isi e co n and ge los in a a n ed co n a e a e da k o will need s d s oes, a so ea , and a as lig o look o cl es in e a e o fig e o w o killed a e own Fridays, Saturdays, 7-9:30 p.m.; Mon., Oct. 31, 7-9:30 p.m. Continues through Oct. 29, $10 per person, 636-5848001, www.stjordancreek.com. St. Jordan Creek Winery 2829 US-50, Beaufort.

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Continues through Oct. 29, $7-25, 618-3079020, www.edisonsfun.com. Edison’s Entertainment Complex, 2477 S State Rte 157, Edwardsville.

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ONGOING The Abyss o is onl e e e sc ea a n ed o se as no ake ons e s and no ani a ions, onl o and o e o e e s a s ai case a akes o o e da kes lace on ea and a da , da k ca e and nnel co le oe an ee nde g o nd Fridays, Saturdays, 6:15 p.m.-12:15 a.m.; Through Oct. 27,

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HALLOWEEN LISTINGS Continued from pg 31 wicked lan s and dancing ig a e i e s and s i i sa les incl ded in icke ice, and a cas a will also e on o e and olde onl Fri., Oct. 28, 6-9 p.m., $15-$35.

Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Blvd., St. Louis, 314-577-9400.

7-9:30 p.m.; Fri., Oct. 28, 7 p.m.-midnight; Sat., Oct. 29, 7 p.m.-midnight; Sun., Oct. 30, 7-9:30 p.m.; Mon., Oct. 31, 6:30-11:30 p.m.

Continues through Oct. 22, $25. Lemp Brewery Haunted House, Cherokee St. and 18th St., St. Louis.

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ee o ld as e anded e again and now o ses a n ed a ac ions, incl ding ilo , e a n ed a e a d and o n ckel ig a ew is ea a e e is as o o so a s e ns and e ig o e i ing ead a n ed a ide Fridays, Saturdays, 6:15 p.m.-12:15 a.m.; Thu., Oct. 20, 7-9:30 p.m.; Through Oct. 27, 7-9:30 p.m.; Fri., Oct. 28, 7 p.m.-midnight; Sat., Oct. 29, 7 p.m.-midnight; Sun., Oct. 30, 7-9:30 p.m.; Mon., Oct. 31, 6:30-11:30 p.m. Continues through Oct. 22, $25. CreepyWorld, S. Old Highway 141 and 13th St., Fenton, 314-6318000.

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e ica s e ie a n ed o se is ack and sca ie an e e ew ea es incl de o ie e ed esca e oo s and o ie lase tag. Fridays, Saturdays, 6:15 p.m.-12:15 a.m.; Thu., Oct. 20, 7-9:30 p.m.; Through Oct. 27, 7-9:30 p.m.; Fri., Oct. 28, 7 p.m.-midnight; Sat., Oct. 29, 7 p.m.-midnight; Sun., Oct. 30, 7-9:30 p.m.; Mon., Oct. 31, 6:30-11:30 p.m.

Continues through Oct. 22, $25. The Darkness, 1525 S. Eighth St., St. Louis, 314-6318000.

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Haunted Corn Maze isi e co n and ge los in a a n ed co n a e a e da k o will need s d s oes, a so ea , and a as lig o look o cl es in e a e o fig e o w o killed a e own Fridays, Saturdays, 7-9:30 p.m.; Mon., Oct. 31, 7-9:30 p.m. Continues through Oct. 29, $10 per person, 636-5848001, www.stjordancreek.com. St. Jordan Creek Winery 2829 US-50, Beaufort.

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Continues through Oct. 29, $7-25, 618-3079020, www.edisonsfun.com. Edison’s Entertainment Complex, 2477 S State Rte 157, Edwardsville.

Layers of Insanity a e s o nsani o ened a e a n ea lie is on an o esca e e la o a oness fi s ic i , is wi e, as ened o e dead s o e in a a e o c allenges aila le o g o s o si ail a n s l g ail co o ese a ions o co e o e a n i and a da wi o ese a ions Fridays, Saturdays, 8-11 p.m. Continues through Oct. 31, 25, 314-481-5003. The Haunt, 5000 Alaska Ave, St. Louis. n

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Bad Luck, If You’re Black Ava DuVernay’s documentary explains how America got this way Written by

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Directed by Ava DuVernay. Written by Spencer Averick and Ave DuVernay. Starring Angela Davis, Jelani Cobb and Henry Louis Gates. Now streaming on Netflix.

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lthough it is appearing in the heart of the pre-Halloween season, 13th is not a film about triskaidekaphobia or hockey-masked serial killers; its horrors are deeper and more pervasive. The title of Ava DuVernay’s powerful new documentary refers to the thirteenth amendment to the Constitution, which abolished slavery in the United States but retains a significant loophole ... except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.” For DuVernay and the many historians and activists who speak in her film, that simple exception opened the door for a system that essentially kept slavery alive by giving it a new name and methodology.

The central target of 13th is the American prison system, the largest in the world, which has become both a way of continuing the postCivil War Jim Crow laws, and a major economic industry dominated by commercial firms that are paid to operate prisons and use the profits to lobby for new laws that help keep prisons full. It’s a complex story spanning more than a century, and while DuVernay tells it both clearly and comprehensively, there are more than a few times where you find yourself wishing that a movie could include footnotes.

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“A society seeking to oppress a race can only do so by taking control of how that race is perceived.” structure, it’s only half the story.

With an extensive selection of historical footage and a small army of expert witnesses, historians and commentators (including Angela Davis, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Cory Booker, Michelle Alexander — even Newt Gingrich and Grover Norquist) 13th goes deeper to tell a far more agonizing story, the continued history of American racism all the way from Reconstruction to the summer of 2016. DuVernay reaches wide the film hits subjects as diverse as the murder of Emmett Till, voting rights, the

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War on Drugs, the murder of Fred Hampton, the trial of Angela Davis, the murder of Trayvon Martin — but skillfully finds the facts and footage to defend her historical points, all in less than 120 minutes.

What could easily have become a umble of sound bites and film clips is instead a masterful work of editing and concise writing.

One important theme is that a society seeking to oppress and dominate an entire race can only do so by taking control over how that race is perceived. DuVernay shows how racist forces have worked to demonize African-Americans and control that image, from grotesque nineteenth century cartoons and the historical revisionism of D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation, right up to the 1990s concept of the super predator” the latter a creation so easily embraced across the political spectrum that Hillary Clinton is still being shadowed by her use of it in a 1996 speech). White politicians create an exaggerated projection of what blackness means, and then create new rules such as the stand your ground” laws based on their own imaginary misconceptions.

Perhaps the most disturbing thing about 13th is that it’s not

an historical film it’s relentlessly, unavoidably contemporary. This will not come as a surprise to anyone who’s followed current events in the last four or five years, but that doesn’t make it any more comfortable. u ernay’s film is a challenge, a confrontation, and no one gets off the hook. Although she presents a few conservative apologists and allows a few partisan shots, DuVernay clearly sees racism as a problem that reaches beyond politics. That doesn’t prevent her from reaching all the way up to the current election to drive a point home. The Clintons come under fire the former President for signing the 1994 Three Strikes crime bill, his wife for the super predator” remark), while the Trump campaign provides material for the film’s most devastating segment, a scene that compresses more than 50 years of hatred into a single violent montage. It’s brilliant and terrifying, a chilling summation of everything the film has shown before it and why it matters.

With her last film, Selma, DuVernay offered a respectful history lesson. With 13th, she goes many steps further. It too is a history lesson, but it’s also a powerful work of analysis and a call for action. n

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Let’s Be Frank Stray Dog’s new version of The Rocky Horror Show is simply wonderful Written by

PAUL FRISWOLD The Rocky Horror Show

Book, music and lyrics by Richard O’Brien Directed by Justin Been Presented by Stray Dog Theatre through October 29 at Tower Grove Abbey (2336 Tennessee Avenue; www.straydogtheatre. org). Tickets are $20 to $25.

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t. Louis is in dire need of a weekly midnight screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. This became clear partway through the first act of Stray og Theatre’s terrific new production of The Rocky Horror Show. Director Justin Been’s conception is a combination of the stage and screen versions of this cult classic — the cast performs the original musical, and, as at film screenings, the audience is encouraged to sing along and shout out their favorite talk-back lines. Rocky Horror habitués come prepared to yell funny stuff at the actors in the film the best comments often set up a character’s next line in call-and-response fashion. Audience members also deploy a host of props for e ample, when a character calls for a toast, everybody throws toast at the screen.

In the Stray Dog version, talkbacks are welcome, but no audience props are allowed. It is admittedly a strange animal, this hybrid Rocky Horror, and it would be a lot more fun if audience members came ready to play. Instead, on the night I saw the show, a handful of people in the crowd delivered the classic lines well, but most of the house was in the dark about what to shout and when to shout it. The program gives some brief instructions — shout “asshole” when someone says Brad’s name,

Michael Juncal (center) is a heroic Frank ‘N’ Furter. | JOHN LAMB shout “slut” after someone says “Janet” — but even these were often delayed. And unfortunately, some dudes enjoyed braying “slut” too much, and too late. It was more disruptive than fun. St. Louis, which used to be a Rocky Horror stronghold, has apparently lost its way.

Even with that, though, the show is a corker. Magenta (Maria Bartolotta) opens the play with a rendition of “Science Fiction” that is both sweet and aching, setting the tone for the rest of the night. It’s a challenging song, but Bartolotta pulls it off effortlessly.

Kevin O’Brien and Heather Matthews are our Brad and Janet, who drive a car made out of the supporting cast of phantoms (they cleverly supply both headlights and windshield wipers) that breaks down during a storm.

Director Been has devised several visually appealing moments like this wriggling automobile, and he tastefully augments them with digitally projected effects, such as the rain that flickers over the pair during their performance of “Over at the Frankenstein Place.”

Matthews and O’Brien sing together beautifully, edging their hopeful voices with trepidation as rivers of smoke fall off the stage and flow into the crowd.

And then we’re at the Frankenstein castle, and the show really takes off. Scenic designer Robert J. Lippert has surpassed himself here — twin staircases climb up to multiple elevated walkways and secret passages. It’s as much playground as it is scenery, and the cast makes the most of it.

But it’s Michael Juncal who steals the show as Dr. Frank N. Furter, renegade scientist and freakydeaky gay cross dresser. Juncal is bulkier and balder than the typical stage Frank, and he throws every inch of himself into the role. His “Sweet Transvestite” is campy, his “Charles Atlas” is engorged with lust, and his performance of “I’m Going Home” is a world-weary Götterdämmerung. He also fires back at sloppy crowd comments with the venom of a thwarted lover. If you’re gonna come at the queen, you best not miss.

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that’s because it is. There isn’t a bad moment or misstep in this show. Riff Raff (Corey Fraine) and Magenta are perfectly creepy and yet sweet together. Fraine’s angular frame is reminiscent of the great Richard O’Brien and he has similar timbre, but Fraine makes Riff Raff his own man. The Narrator (Gerry Love) is an authoritative creep (watch how he swabs people for biological samples in numerous scenes), Michael A. Wells kills as Eddie during “”Hot Patootie,” Magenta and Columbia (Sara Rae Womack) bring a muchappreciated wackiness to their roles (they’re a scream in “Touch-A Touch Me”) and Luke Steingruby is the hottest Rocky Horror ever, and that includes the film version.

He’s built like a Greek god and he wears the smallest set of sparkly gold panties you’ve ever almost seen — is it any wonder he sets off the chain reaction of lust and sex that follows? (It is not.)

So go see it. But work on your lines before you do. This production is too good for your late quips and weak nonsense. n

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A selection of items from Mayana: carne guisado nachos, a cheese quesadilla, tacos and a steak-filled “Wet Burrito.” | MABEL SUEN [REVIEW]

All in the Family Smart and tasty, with expansive options, Mayana is a worthy fast-casual heir to the Hacienda dynasty Written by

CHERYL BAEHR Mayana Mexican Kitchen

7810 Forsyth Boulevard, Clayton; 314-8338200. Mon.-Sat. 11 a.m.-8 p.m. (Closed Sundays).

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lex Rodriguez de Torres knew by the age of seven that she was destined to be in the restaurant business. Growing up in one

of the city’s most beloved eateries, Hacienda Mexican Restaurant, it was more than just a calling for her and her brother John Rodriguez — it was their legacy.

That sort of pressure didn’t weigh too heavily, though, when the siblings puttered around Hacienda. Alex remembers more important tasks, like folding napkins and begging the harried servers to let her put the doilies on the side plates. Still, all those years of working at the Rock Hill institution got into her system.

Hacienda, she admits, is in her blood.

Hacienda’s patriarch, Norberto Rodriguez, always wanted his kids to carry on what he had created, but he let them find their way back to the restaurant on their own terms.

Alex went to art school in Chicago; John attended Boston’s Berklee College of Music. Yet despite their artistic inclinations, they returned to St. Louis six years ago ready to confront their birthright.

Running Hacienda for their father, however, has proved to be only part of that. This July, the siblings branched out with a fastcasual concept, Mayana Mexican Kitchen. They tapped Brian Michaels, a veteran fast-casual chef and graduate of Le Cordon Bleu culinary school, to serve as executive chef and managing partner, translating Hacienda’s recipes for a fast-casual audience — and creating a few of his own. Their hope is to bring their family’s brand into the Chipotleverse with a chain of restaurants across the country, starting with a planned six locations in the St. Louis area.

If their freshman effort is any indication, they are well on their way.

For their first Mayana location, the Rodriguez siblings went straight into the hungry belly of St. Louis’ lunchtime beast: downtown Clayton.

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its predecessor’s quick service set-up.

The format is about the only thing the two concepts have in common, though. Mayana has a palette of vibrant red and yellow tones, with a large mural of the restaurant’s Mayan mask logo emblazoned on the floor and Mayan-inspired designs painted in yellow on the restaurant’s white walls. The small space offers roughly five two-seater tables and a line of window ledge seats, making it more conducive to takeout than dining in, though the siblings plan to offer a larger seating area at subsequent locations.

As you are waiting in line — and there’s always one to the door at lunchtime — you can see the corner of the Chipotle storefront up the road. Mayana follows its formula: Select a protein, decide how to present it (a wrap, a salad, in tacos) then move down the line to garnish your creation with a variety of accouterments.

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MAYANA Continued from pg 37 Comparisons with the wildly successful chain are inevitable and bring up an important question: Do we really need to build a better burrito? After all, Chipotle and its imitators have the whole paredback, built for speed, relatively fresh-tasting thing down. Mayana’s expanded offerings, like nachos and seafood options, however, show us what we’ve been missing. They also restore the Mexican vibe (albeit an approachable, Americanized one) that has been stripped out of many national burrito chains. And considering that Michaels and company prepare every last thing from scratch on premises — and still get it out to you in minutes — Mayana should give the national chains a run for their money.

Like Hacienda, Mayana makes its flour tortillas on site from scratch daily. The result is a warm, flaky disc that is delicate, soft and slightly crisped at the edges. The difference between it and Chipotle’s mass-produced version is as striking as a plate of fresh pasta versus the dry stuff that comes in a box.

That tortilla is the base of one of Mayana’s signature dishes, the “Wet Burrito.” This mammoth concoction is filled with a choice of meat and smothered in either rich queso blanco, warm verde or tangy enchilada sauce — or, as the menu suggests, all of the above. I opted for the carne guisado, or slowcooked seasoned, shredded and ground beef. Between the juicy meat and medley of sauce, the server suggested only melted cheese on top.

He was correct; it was a wonderful, oozing mess as it was.

“Macho Nachos” are an outstanding version of the ubiquitous Tex-Mex dish. Mayana’s chips are thick, deep-fried tortillas cut into

A Mayan-inspired mural dominates one wall of the interior. | MABEL SUEN large triangles. I covered mine with succulent citrus-lime chicken, fresh from the grill and chopped in front of me, and then piled on just about everything on the line — sour cream, olives, chunky guacamole, rice, pinto beans, pico de gallo, corn and black beans — and finished it off with the smoky and mildly hot roasted tomato salsa. It’s a good thing they don’t serve booze or I’d be there all night imbibing and devouring this munchie-satisfying masterpiece.

Mayana’s quesadilla is another example of the restaurant’s ability to transform humble bar food into something spectacular. The home-

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Other options for preparation styles include traditional fry bread (which could double as a cumin seed-studded pillow), a burrito bowl, a salad and street tacos. Of these, my only problem was with the tacos — unlike most street taco vendors I’ve encountered, Mayana uses a single tortilla rather than doubling them up. Because they are so delicate and

thin, they don’t hold the generous fillings well and end up breaking apart and causing a mess.

Besides the carne guisado and citrus chicken, Mayana offers a blend of garlic-and- alapeno-flecked vegetables called calabacitas; excellent carnitas, which taste pulled fresh to order; and shrimp that is so tender, well-seasoned and fresh-tasting that it succeeds in assuaging any fears of ordering seafood from a fast-casual steam table. The only miss was the fajita steak. On one occasion it was overly salted; on another visit, the hand wasn’t much lighter with the seasoning.

Mayana’s salsas are another way the restaurant stands apart from the fast-casual pack. The addictive habanero gold salsa, Michaels’ piece de resistance, tastes as if honey mustard has been lit afire. seasonal chilled verde salsa had the cooling taste of cucumber and tomatillos — it could be served as soup. And the South American chimichurri salsa might get me arrested for breaking and entering — the tapenade-style puree of garlic, parsley, cilantro, chiles and oil is so spectacular, I could see myself waking up in the night in a cold sweat and having to do something about it.

The difficulty in reviewing places like Mayana is that the food is designed to be customized. By Michaels’ count, there are at least 700 possible combinations, so the choices I made may not be the “right ones.” However, considering how few misses I encountered, it’s hard to see how you could go wrong here.

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il Pelly has been busy these days, slinging king crabstuffed lobster thermidor at the Libertine (7927 Forsyth Boulevard, Clayton; 314-8622999), where he’s been promoted to executive sous chef under Matt Bessler. When he’s done making mayhem in that kitchen, though, he’s not resting — he’s doing catering gigs for Dweezil Zappa. “He’s my idol,” Pelly gushes. “I started cooking for him a few years ago when I was at Sanctuaria, and every time he comes into town, he sends me a message and asks if I can feed him.”

It’s no coincidence that Pelly cooks for rock stars. Growing up in a Cuban family, he was surrounded by food. “We lived in a duplex; we were on the top floor and my grandma and grandpa were on the bottom,” Pelly explains. “I used to watch grandma cook tamales. And every night it was a ritual: We sat down for meals together.”

As much as he loved food, it wasn’t the cooking bug that captured Pelly; it was music. “When I was a kid I discovered rock & roll and wanted to be a musician,” says Pelly. “That was my path for a lot of my life. I played guitar in different bands and had the opportunity to go on tour with the military, where I got to see the world — and eat some really interesting food too.”

Pelly’s music career seemed like it was taking off. His band, Neptune Crush, was getting regular radio play and even had a record deal. That all fell through, and Pelly was left wondering what he would do with life. His mom had the answer. “She looked at me and said, ‘Why don’t you just cook?’” recalls Pelly.

He’d worked in restaurants for most of his life (“they were the only places that would hire me because I had long hair,” he laughs). So Pelly

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Pelly admits to bouncing around a bit, ne t to Sugarfire Smokehouse and then to various consulting gigs before settling down at the Libertine.

“I’ve been looking for a home this whole time, and I’ve finally found it,” he says. “They are great guys and [put up with me], because 90 percent of the time I am a moron.”

Pelly took a break from prepping the Libertine’s new decadent fall menu to share his thoughts on the St. Louis food and beverage scene, pancakes and why he’ll never give out the name of his favorite bar.

What is one thing people don’t know about you that you wish they did?

That even I, Wil Pelly, can be serious from time to time.

What daily ritual is non-negotiable for you?

Coffee. Period.

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Well, I have always liked the villains more, but none of them had super powers. So I’d have to say the ability to read minds; then I could find out what women really want What is the most positive thing in food, wine or cocktails that you’ve noticed in St. Louis over the past year?

Unique neighborhoods becoming dining destinations. It’s not just the Loop, Central West End and Clayton anymore.

What is something missing in the local food, wine or cocktail scene that you’d like to see?

Stunning, courteous and attentive service across the board. I’m not saying it’s awful here, but it can be hit or miss.

Who is your St. Louis food crush?

This one is easy The Bahrami family [of Cafe Natasha’s]. Hamishe and Natasha and the rest of the family always make you feel like family.

And Hamishe pulls no punches. I don’t remember the dish I served her but she pulled me aside and told me how she truly felt about it, and for that reason she will always be an idol.

Who’s the one person to watch right now in the St. Louis dining scene?

There are two of them — Chris Ladley [Quincy Street Bistro] and Dan Sammons [DeMun Oyster Bar].

These guys know how to put food out that make me want to go back to the woodshed.

Which ingredient is most representative of your personality?

A lime. I’m sweet and sour.

If you weren’t working in the restaurant business, what would you be doing?

Probably following parades with a broom and shovel.

Name an ingredient never allowed in your kitchen.

Pre-fab frozen junk.

What is your after-work hangout?

There is a bar that Matt Seiter and I would go to after work at Sanctuaria. It’s a lovely, dingy joint where the canned beer and rail whiskey flowed like molten lava and the ukebo played only the finest Motorhead and Slayer songs. I’ll never say her name.

What’s your food or beverage guilty pleasure?

Pancakes. No syrup, just a little fruit, butter and sea salt. Well, a lot of butter.

What would be your last meal on earth?

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or the Montiel family, which has owned the Central American grocery/restaurant Papagayo’s for a decade, 2016 has proven an incredibly tough year.

First the building they rented on Gravois, the eatery’s home for three years, was condemned by the city, says Ana Montiel, who with her sister Marian assists parents David and Irma in running the place. The Montiels had no notice of any trouble from their landlord until suddenly the building was shuttered and they were ordered to close.

It took months, but the Montiels located a new home — a much bigger space at 5001 Lindenwood Avenue in the Northampton neighborhood, previously a place called La Tropicana, which closed a few years ago.

But after they began moving in, disaster struck again.

Even though their landlord happily accepted their deposit, Montiel says, it turns out he probably shouldn’t have.

He was in the process of losing the building to foreclosure. And so rather than the September opening they’d planned on, in August they arrived to find the building padlocked and the bank now in control.

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finally opened their doors. Papagayo’s is still waiting for its liquor license, and the sign out front still says bears the name of its former tenant, but they are most certainly open for business.

“It’s been hard,” acknowledges Ana Montiel. Not only did they lose a lot of their equipment when the city shuttered the old building, but they lost some things all over again when their landlord cleared out the new building before losing it to the bank, she says.

“We had to take out a lot of loans and stuff like that. That’s why we decided to open without a liquor license. We just couldn’t wait.”

Although they’ve done nothing to publicize their new location just yet, their loyal customers have already found them, she says. The place is one of very few, if any, serving Honduran food in St. Louis — and with the addition of Mexican dishes to the menu as well, Latinos living in south St. Louis are eagerly lining up for a taste of home.

The menu is still a work in progress, but they hope to have it all worked out by the time the liquor license comes through, which is probably in about a month, Ana Montiel says. For now, they are enjoying the new digs, which include a dining area that’s quite a bit bigger than the previous spot. David Montiel personally painted the colorful illustrations on the booths, with Central American fabrics lending a cozy note. A surprisingly big grocery is tucked behind the dining area.

“Everything is going even better than we thought,” says Ana Montiel. “Even on the first day we were busy — as busy as we were in the old place, with the liquor license.” It’s been a tough year indeed, but for the Montiel family, finally things are looking up. n

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now Factory (6602 Delmar Boulevard), the trendy ice cream spot that opened in September in the Delmar Loop, is one of the few places in the entire Midwest serving Thai-style ice cream rolls. The treat, now the toast of New York City, is “cooked” on an ice-cold hibachi table, then formed into elaborate rolls.

But that’s not the only unique treat owner Van Liu is serving.

He’s also offering a delicious item straight out of Hong Kong — “egg wa e ice cream,” which combines scoops of ice cream and other toppings with a cutesy wa e hot off the iron. This isn’t your grandma’s idea of a wa e cone Liu and his staff make the batter each morning and pour each wa e so it’s fresh with your order. Piping hot, crispy on its bubbly exterior and soft and warm inside, it’s the perfect complement to a subtly flavored scoop of green tea ice cream, topped with red bean paste.

Suffice it to say, this is not Ted Drewes. Forget basic old vanilla and chocolate — here you’re more likely to try lychee, Thai tea, taro or sesame. But it’s not all e otic flavors; you can load up on a toasted marshmallow egg wa e ice cream or a “Sunset St. Louis” with Nutella

The “St. Louis Sunrise” features marshmallow, dark chocolate and graham crackers. | KELLY GLUECK and banana if you prefer. Go subtle or go sweet; the shop is serious about food, but they’re also having a ton of fun.

The space, too, is cute and sleek in a way that evokes modern Asian style without resorting to kitsch.

Snow Factory’s white brick walls are lined with adorable little booths, perfect for two but impossible for three. Join the many customers who’ve left observations on brightly colored Post-Its, or grab a seat at the communal table or one of the stools facing the Delmar streetscape. Wherever you sit, the music is thumping.

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The place draws from the Loop foot traffic during the day, but Liu says it’s especially hopping at night — Snow Factory is open until 11:30 p.m., and they have been serving people right up to the very end of the night. Staffers notice that their clientele isn’t just coming once, say, to post a pretty pic on Instagram; they’re returning again and again.

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common practice for local hardcore, punk, garage and rock groups — essentially any independent band not playing covers — is to open for a traveling act, without pay, thereby freeing up the door money to cover the costs of the traveling act. This “pay-it-forward” approach is typical in DIY music scenes.

But Constant Cocoon Booking has a different idea, one that aims to even out the payment for every participating act.

“I think what sets us apart is that we are just two people in our bedrooms, trying to bring musicians together and make sure that everyone can know what it’s like to get paid to do what they love,” says local musician-turned-promoter Joshua “Patches” Minor.

Minor and fellow St. Louisan Kirin Pax co-founded their promotion company in the spring of 2015, hoping to help elevate lesser-known bands in the St. Louis area and booking dozens of shows across town. In recent months, the pair has thrown all of its efforts into Woopsie Fest, a massive three-day music festival with more than 60 bands — including out-of-town headlining acts Maps & Atlases, Dowsing and Mock Orange — set to take place across Fubar’s two stages this weekend.

Chicago’s Maps & Atlases is just one of the 60-plus bands that will perform at Woopsie Fest. | CHRIS HAINEY In keeping with Constant Cocoon’s mission, local acts make up roughly one-quarter of the lineup, ranging from newer groups such as Boys Club to mainstays such as Jr. Clooney and Staghorn. Such an ambitious undertaking isn’t cheap, especially since Constant Cocoon is committed to paying every act on the bill. So far the pair has partially funded the festival through ticket sales and smaller fundraising events.

“Asking all the bands was super fun,” Pax says, “and trying to get everything together at the right time is a little nerve-racking. And hoping that people will show up to cover the guarantees is too.”

“It’s not only cool to see the bands from out of town, but also the band who probably rehearses five blocks away,” Minor adds. “[Paying bands] is an aspect of the music business that we have to be a part of. But it’s the community focus that I think really sets us apart.”

Pax notes that many of the locals donate their payment to the touring acts anyway. But she pre-

fers to provide bands with the option of forfeiting their share of the door money instead of assuming musicians should be performing for free.

“We definitely try to help the local bands as much as possible,” Pax says. “We try to make sure everyone is paid fairly for their time.”

To help transition between sets at the fest, local shop Mills Custom will provide an impressive backline of artisan amps and speaker cabinets. Leave Your Mark printshop will offer screen-printed posters and t-shirts to commemorate the event, with proceeds going directly to the bands. Once all the guarantees have been met, 25 percent of the profits will benefit RAINN, the largest anti-sexual violence organization in the United States.

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the door for more bands to be added, such as Oso Oso. “We already have bands that are interested for next year,” Pax says. “Especially some of the potential headliners who we asked and said, ‘We can’t do it this year but we’d like to do it next year.’”

Woopsie Fest stands as a springboard for Constant Cocoon booking. Not only is the group looking to the future with the addition of new partner Chris Garner, but it hopes to start working on Woopsie Fest 2017 right away. Pax personally aims to open a venue — a safe space for people to go not only for shows but also during the day. Minor plans on helping more bands on the ground level through a record label, but will focus on contributing to the community by booking shows in the meantime.

“I’ve never stopped loving music and helping my musician friends out,” Minor says. “I really just like playing music and listening to it and hearing my friends play too.

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little less than five months ago, St. Louis producer, rapper, and sound engineer Mvstermind debuted the music video for his single, Mali Moolah.” By early July, the video had made its first appearance on BET Jams.

Since then, Mali Moolah” has been picked up by nearly all of the ma or music television networks. sked what it means to him to turn on the T and see himself alongside superstars like Jayand rake, Mvstermind a.k.a.

Muhammad ustin says, It really feels great, especially with it being Mali Moolah.’ It could’ve been a song about me stuck in my feelings about an old relationship.”

Instead, ustin’s introduction to audiences across the nation is a socially- and spiritually-conscious effort that diverges sharply from much of what commercial hip-hop and popular music in general has to offer.

The fact that I can get on national television and talk about knowing my worth since birth It’s blissful,” he says. It reminded me that songs that I have in-depth concepts on, concepts that connect to the universe, I should focus on those.”

Friday night, ustin will officially release the rest of the EP containing Mali Moolah” entitled Cusp — at the Loop’s newest music venue, elmar all.

The idea of the cusp” like ust about every theme that arises in ustin’s work is multi-faceted, containing layers of meaning that intertwine and play off one another to create a dense conceptual web.

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I write a lot about the situations that I encounter as an fricanmerican male, or ust as an frican- merican, period,” he says. t the same time, I write a lot about self-reali ation, and meditation, and trying to find your purpose and then manifesting those kinds of philosophy and ideals into my life.”

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Finding the appropriate balance hasn’t always been easy. t times, I would catch myself so lost in the world of finding myself and ust meditating, and that whole world ” he trails off thoughtfully before snapping back. e still live on this grid. e can’t ignore it. s much as we want to, as much bullshit as is around, we have to learn how to be a part of this grid and still find your purpose, still retain yourself, retain your selfworth.” ne of the e periences that really drove home the importance of this internal balance for ustin was his time protesting in Ferguson after the death of Michael Brown in ugust 2014.

There’s times when I kind of stopped everything I was doing and I was ust out there at the protest, and that wasn’t necessarily the best mission for me,” he reflects, confiding that his temperament was more likely to be counterproductive in such contentious and emotionally charged situations.

I’d probably defeat myself before I ever faced the actual enemy,” he says. There’s other people out there where that’s perfect that aligns with them. But I was out there and I wasn’t using my full value that I could to the overall goal and mission.” hile direct action wasn’t a good fit for ustin, he still intends to be a part of the movement. In fact, much of the sub ect matter covered on the Cusp EP is informed by his e periences in Ferguson, as well as their aftermath.

My whole mission is to use my art as a platform to spark some change. In the midst of it, we gon’ turn up,” he says. In the midst of it, we gon’ get hip. In the midst of it, you gon’ feel certain emotions, but the whole overall purpose is to build that platform.” Summing up the titular concept of the album he’ll be releasing on Friday at elmar all, ustin says, I feel like me being right here on the cusp that’s what allows me to complete my mission.” n

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For Conformateur, one of two new LPs from Prairie Rehab released this month, Williams crafts her lyrics with the same poetic precision, but the content strikes closer to the heart. Over eight songs, Williams explores the pain, uncertainty and joy in leaving one romantic relationship for another. It’s a path that Williams knows well — she and her bandmate, guitarist and pedal steel player Scott Swartz, turned their musical relationship into a romantic one. The pair was married in 2014.

On the patio benches outside Steve’s Hot Dogs in Tower Grove East, Williams and Swartz talk about their band’s new records as well as the forces that inspired these songs. “Initially we wrote Conformateur as a way of purging these emotions, and facing them and confronting them and saying, ‘there’s nothing we can do about them, so we’re going to write songs about them and work it out of our systems,’” says Williams. “Obviously it didn’t work very well.”

The album title itself — a reference to a haberdasher’s device for facilitating hat-fittings — speaks to the tension between remaining in self-made molds or breaking free of them.

“We’re kind of here after leaving other relationships,” Swartz says, turning to Williams, “and you came to the conclusion, as did I, that [instead of] conforming and not being particularly happy — you can take a chance.”

“With Conformateur, it is in part about conforming to a certain standard of behavior,” continues Williams.

So you have conflicting desires, you have certain obligations, and you’ve made certain promises to people that you obviously feel obligated to fulfill and to keep.”

For Williams, these songs follow a path from resistance and abnegation to acquiescence and happiness. She retains a firm hand over her lyrics her words never

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bare her soul, and remain downright hazy and opaque at places. But even without the knowledge of Williams and Swartz’s union, a thread develops and a mood is established. pening track ot That Song” finds Williams confronting the slow burn of desire and the cold fact of its impossibility. A few songs later, “There, There” finds her vacillating between glee and ennui.

Swartz offers supportive guitar work and, more than on previous releases, apt harmony vocals. It’s a fitting addition given his place in these songs’ content.

“Every song on Conformateur, even when the lyrics veer to the more impressionistic side of things, they are all intensely personal and autobiographical, which is something I never even attempted before because I always felt so uncomfortable — maybe with myself in general, but with the idea of exposing my feelings through a song,” says Williams.

Conformateur is packaged as a double disc alongside the more playful Idiomatic, a hodge-podge of songs and styles that Williams jokingly calls “the b-sides of our imaginary hits.” On the album, Prairie Rehab takes a few big steps outside of the warm confines of loping Americana found on its other albums. “Point of View” employs Portishead-inspired loops and some spectral, cosmic country from Swartz’s delayaddled pedal steel. Drummer John Baldus advocated for a hybrid Latin/disco beat for “Shy Away,” taking his inspiration from Aztec Camera’s “Oblivious.”

“We are completely aware of the fact that we’re really not pulling off many of these supposed genres, but it’s our version of something reminiscent of disco or trip-hop or whatever we were shooting for,” says Williams. Listeners may not buy Prairie ehab as a reggae outfit, but Idiomatic lives up to its title by placing Williams’ words and voice in new idioms that, more often than not, offer a fresh lens on songs more often presented in genteel folk overtones.

Idiomatic is a fun diversion for a band that can come off as self-serious and a little arid, though Conformateur offers the most complete vision of the group to date.

Williams’ voice has never been forceful, but here she sinks into the language more fully — these songs feel less like a genre exercise, due in likelihood to their flesh-and-bone importance to the singer and the ramifications of this new stage in her and Swart ’s life. She says that these songs are inspired by “the idea of destroying their worlds to create another one.”

“But there’s a happy ending,” says Williams. “I think [set-closer] ‘Fortunate Girls’ is a love song. I’m not very good at writing those — but I’m trying to, because I feel them now.”

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Annabel, Anthony Sanders, Anzio, Artorias, At-

$12-$14. Blueberry Hill - The Duck Room, 6504

Brown, Family Medicine, Jr. Clooney, Laika,

DIPLO: w/ Basscrooks, Noah Zarque 9 p.m.,

suko Chiba, Au Revoir, Boy Rex, Coma Regalia,

Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-727-4444.

Lavender, LifeWithout, Lobby Boxer, Mariner,

TBA. Ameristar Casino, 1 Ameristar Blvd., St.

Dowsing, Flesh Born, Forever Losing Sleep, The

JASON D. WILLIAMS: 8 p.m., $15-$20. Off Broad-

Path of Might, Staghorn, Sunwyrm, Ursa Major,

Charles, 636-949-7777.

Foxery, Free Throw, Gas Up Yr Hearse, Gather-

way, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363.

Vanilla Beans, Yonsei, Yowie 6 p.m.; Oct. 22,

ISABELLA: 7 p.m., $10-$12. The Heavy Anchor,

ers, Ghost of a Dead Hummingbird, Glasir, Hey

JOE METZKA BAND: 7 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues

2 p.m.; Oct. 23, 2 p.m., $20-$75. Fubar, 3108

5226 Gravois Ave., St. Louis, 314-352-5226.

& Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-

Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.

PRAIRIE REHAB CD RELEASE SHOW: w/ Letter to

Me, Jorge Arana, Kississippi, Krelboyne, Larks

Memphis 9 p.m., free. Schlafly Tap oom, 2100

Tongue, Lume, Man Mountain, Maps And

Locust St., St. Louis, 314-241-2337.

Atlases, The Menagerie, Messes, Mock Orange,

SCOTTIE “BONES” MILLER BAND: 10 p.m., $10.

Our Lady, Pictures Of Vernon, Plaugewalker,

5222.

JOE METZKA BAND: 7 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues

SATURDAY 22

& Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-

THE BAND PERRY: 5 p.m., $20-$40. Gateway Mo-

abbit,

ikes,

odera,

oly Gallows, Infinite

Ratboys, Roachblunt, Secret Stuff, Tiny Moving

5222.

Parts, Tweak, Warren Franklin, WE LOVE YOU,

LIGHT THE FIRE: w/ Cadmium In Yellow, Sails Through Storms, Karma Alaine, Broken

[CRITIC’S PICK]

Wounded Knee, Bike Path, Boys Club, Duck

Concrete, Bred 4 War 6 p.m., $10-$12. Cicero’s,

Brown, Family Medicine, Jr. Clooney, Laika,

6691 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-862-

Lavender, LifeWithout, Lobby Boxer, Mariner,

0009.

Path of Might, Staghorn, Sunwyrm, Ursa Major,

LIGHT THE FIRE: w/ Cadmium In Yellow, Sails

Vanilla Beans, Yonsei, Yowie Oct. 21, 6 p.m.;

Through Storms 6:30 p.m., $10-$12. Cicero’s,

2 p.m.; Oct. 23, 2 p.m., $20-$75. Fubar, 3108

6691 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-862-

Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.

0009.

MOON HOOCH: 8 p.m., $13-$15. Old Rock House,

SUNDAY 23

1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505.

FESTIVAL OF PRAISE: w/ Fred Hammond, Heze-

MR. GNOME: w/ CaveofswordS 8 p.m., $10-$12.

kiah Walker, Israel Houghton, Karen Clark

The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-

Sheard, Regina Belle, Casey J, Earthquake 8

0353.

p.m., $48-$98. The Fox Theatre, 527 N. Grand Blvd., St. Louis, 314-534-1111.

FRIDAY 21

LOVE JONES “THE BAND”: 8:30 p.m., $10. BB’s

BARBARA CARR BAND: 10 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz,

Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis,

Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-

314-436-5222.

MAC MILLER: 8 p.m., $30-$35. The Pageant, 6161

436-5222.

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BRUISER QUEEN RECORD RELEASE: w/ Crushed way, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363.

JON MCLAUGHLIN: w/ Brad Ray 8 p.m., $17-$20.

Blueberry Hill - The Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-727-4444.

KANSAS: 8 p.m., $26.95-$96.95. Peabody Opera House, 1400 Market St, St. Louis, 314-241-1888.

LEROY JODIE PIERSON: 7 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314436-5222.

LOREENA MCKENNITT: 8 p.m., $45-$65. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-7266161.

MUSICAL BLADES: w/ 3 Pints Gone 8 p.m., $7$10. Cicero’s, 6691 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-862-0009.

MVSTERMIND EP RELEASE SHOW: w/ Danté Wolfe, J’Demul, Arshad Goods 7 p.m., $10-$12.

Delmar Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314726-6161.

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MARTY SPIKENER & ON CALL BAND: 5 p.m., $5.

Out, The Homewreckers 9 p.m., $10. Off Broad-

Donny McCaslin Group 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Thursday, October 19 through Saturday, October 22.

Jazz at the Bistro, 3536 Washington Avenue. $30.

314-571-6000.

When David Bowie died at the start of 2016, it wasn’t hard to feel that there were some cosmic machinations at work with how the timing played out: He had just released his final album Blackstar two days before passing, leaving the mourning faithful to pick over its dense meditations on life and death. To support him on the recording, Bowie enlisted the Donny McCaslin

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BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St.

Group, a jazz-tutored backing band who helped reach the dark corners of those recordings. McCaslin’s forceful, burnished tone on the tenor sax was central to that final album — lead single “Lazarus” in particular — and the band has been playing some of Bowie’s catalog on this tour, including a meditation on “Warsawa” arranged for saxophone and electric piano.

The Great Beyond: The group’s latest LP, Beyond Now, pays homage to Bowie as well as reworking songs by Mutemath and Deadmau5. – Christian Schaeffer

Louis, 314-436-5222.

PLAYING WITH A PURPOSE BENEFIT: w/ Danny Liston, Max Baker, Richard Steltenpohl, Kevin Sanders, Paul Willett, Soul Cracker, Tony Campanella Band, The Sliders, The Pour, Jeni Voss & Rob McDonnell 2 p.m., $15. Delmar Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161.

SARAH POTENZA: 8 p.m., $15. Blueberry Hill The Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-727-4444.

SUICIDAL TENDENCIES: w/ Madball, Havok 7 p.m., $25-$30. Pop’s Nightclub, 401 Monsanto Ave., East St. Louis, 618-274-6720.

WOOPSIE FEST: w/ A Film in Color, Alaska, Annabel, Anthony Sanders, Anzio, Artorias, Atsuko Chiba, Au Revoir, Boy Rex, Coma Regalia, Dowsing, Flesh Born, Forever Losing Sleep, The Foxery, Free Throw, Gas Up Yr Hearse, Gather-

[CRITIC’S PICK]

Suicidal Tendencies 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 23.

For nearly 40 years, Mike “Cyco Miko” Muir has been leading the Venice, California-based crossover act Suicidal Tendencies through all manner of lineup changes. The latest of those shifts sees the legendary Dave Lombardo — he of Slayer fame — stepping in on the skins for September’s World Gone Mad (which Muir has suggested might be the band’s final album). Lombardo

is widely regarded as one of the best metal drummers of all time; his work with Slayer laid some of the earliest foundations for the melding of punk and thrash metal that Suicidal Tendencies still peddles today. Lombardo is a fulltime member of the band now, and will be performing with the group at this show. A better fit you could not find.

Arrive On Time: New York hardcore legends Madball and Denver thrashers Havok will open the show, and are not to be missed.

– Daniel Hill

ers, Ghost of a Dead Hummingbird, Glasir, Hey

314-436-5222.

Pop’s Nightclub, 401 Monsanto Avenue, Sauget, Illinois. $25-$30. 618-274-6720.

abbit,

ikes,

odera,

oly Gallows, Infinite

JAMAICA LIVE TUESDAYS: w/ Ital K, Mr. Roots, DJ

Me, Jorge Arana, Kississippi, Krelboyne, Larks

Witz, $5/$10. Elmo’s Love Lounge, 7828 Olive

Tongue, Lume, Man Mountain, Maps And

Blvd, University City, 314-282-5561.

Atlases, The Menagerie, Messes, Mock Orange,

KAYO DOT: w/ Yowie, Complainer, Daybringer

Our Lady, Pictures Of Vernon, Plaugewalker,

8 p.m., $10. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis,

Ratboys, Roachblunt, Secret Stuff, Tiny Moving

314-289-9050.

Parts, Tweak, Warren Franklin, WE LOVE YOU,

SCHOOLBOY Q: w/ Joey Bada$$ 8 p.m., $35-

Wounded Knee, Bike Path, Boys Club, Duck

$37.50. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St.

Brown, Family Medicine, Jr. Clooney, Laika,

Louis, 314-726-6161.

Lavender, LifeWithout, Lobby Boxer, Mariner,

TORY LANEZ: 8 p.m., $25-$99. The Ready Room,

Path of Might, Staghorn, Sunwyrm, Ursa Major,

4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929.

Vanilla Beans, Yonsei, Yowie Oct. 21, 6 p.m.; Oct. 22, 2 p.m.; 2 p.m., $20-$75. Fubar, 3108

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Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.

BIG RICH MCDONOUGH & RHYTHM RENEGADES: 7

MONDAY 24

BLEACHED: w/ Beach Slang 8 p.m., $15. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-

CHARLIE PUTH: w/ Hailey Knox 7 p.m., $27.50-

0505.

$30. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis,

BOB “BUMBLE BEE” KAMOSKE: 8 p.m. Beale on

314-726-6161.

Broadway, 701 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-621-

CITIZEN: w/ Free At Last, Choir Vandals 6 p.m.,

7880.

$16-$19. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis,

EAST SIDER REVIEW: 10 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues

314-535-0353.

& Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-

LOSER: A LIVE-ACTION GAME SHOW: 9 p.m., $5.

5222.

The Heavy Anchor, 5226 Gravois Ave., St. Lou-

GOLDROOM: w/ Autograf 8 p.m., $20-$25. The

is, 314-352-5226.

Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.

NOTS: 9 p.m., $10. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp

GREEN DAY: w/ Dog Party 8 p.m., $55-$75. The

Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363.

Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-

RINGWORM: w/ Exalt, Everything Went Black

6161.

8 p.m., $15. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis,

IL DIVO: 7 p.m., $36.95-$176.95. Peabody Opera

314-289-9050.

House, 1400 Market St, St. Louis, 314-241-1888.

SOULARD BLUES BAND: 9 p.m., $5. Broadway

LYLE LOVETT AND ROBERT EARL KEEN: 8 p.m.,

Oyster Bar, 736 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-

$60-$100. The Sheldon, 3648 Washington Blvd.,

621-8811.

St. Louis, 314-533-9900.

THIRD SIGHT BAND: 8 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues

TALL HEIGHTS: 8 p.m., $10-$12. Off Broadway,

& Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-

3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363.

5222.

WHITECHAPEL: w/ Oceano, As Earth Shatters,

9:30 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S.

Hallow Point, Left Bleeding, Absala 6 p.m., $18-$20. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314289-9050.

Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222.

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DEAN WEEN GROUP: w/ Meat Puppets 8 p.m.,

AESOP ROCK: W/ Rob Sonic, DJ Zone, Homeboy Sand-

$22.50-$25. Delmar Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd., St.

man, Tue., Jan. 10, 8 p.m., $18-$20. Delmar Hall, 6133

Louis, 314-726-6161.

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When surveying the Texas school of songwriters, the name Slaid Cleaves rarely makes the roll call. But he really should be at the front of the class.

Though he grew up in Maine, Cleaves’ home base has long been Austin (he wrote one of the great Austin barroom songs in “Horseshoe Lounge”) and he has absorbed the lessons of the deans — Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark BON JOVI: Sun., Feb. 19, 6 p.m., $27.75-$137.75. Scot-

PUJOL: Wed., Nov. 16, 8 p.m., free. Off Broadway, 3509

Market St,

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7 p.m., $27

W/ Oddball Wrestling, ABK, Blahzay Roze, John

Scottrade Center, 1401 Clark Ave., St. Louis, 314-241-

Blvd., St. L

Boi, Sat., Dec. 17, 6 p.m., $15-$20. Pop’s Nightclub,

1888, scottradecenter.com.

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401 Monsanto Ave., East St. Louis, 618-274-6720,

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Oct. 24, 6 p

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KAYO DOT: W/ Yowie, Complainer, Daybringer, Tue.,

and The Wilderness, John Henry, Wed., Nov. 23, 7

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p.m., $10. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis,

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314-773-3363, offbroadwaystl.com.

LE’ PONDS: W/ Kara Yannon, Dee Bird, Julia Lucille,

TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND: Wed., Jan. 25, 7 p.m., $17-

Mon., Nov. 7, 9 p.m., $5. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jef-

$62. Peabody Opera House, 1400 Market St, St. Louis,

ferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100, foamvenue.com.

314-241-1888, peabodyoperahouse.com.

MEEK MILL: Sat., Nov. 19, 9 p.m., $40-$60. Ambassa-

TERRAPIN FLYER FT. MELVIN SEALS: Fri., Dec. 9, 9 p.m.,

dor, 9800 Halls Ferry Road, North St. Louis County,

$17-$20. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St.

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TESLA: Tue., Feb. 7, 8 p.m., $59. The Pageant, 6161

NEAL MORSE BAND: Thu., Jan. 26, 8 p.m., $30-$50. Del-

Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161, thepageant.

mar Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161,

com.

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TIM MCGRAW AND FAITH HILL: Thu., April 27, 6 p.m.,

THE OH HELLOS: Fri., Dec. 9, 8 p.m., $17-$20. Delmar

TBA. Scottrade Center, 1401 Clark Ave., St. Louis, 314-

Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161,

241-1888, scottradecenter.com.

delmarhall.com.

Y98 MISTLETOE SHOW: W/ The Fray, O.A.R., Colbie

PRAIRIE REHAB CD RELEASE SHOW: W/ Letter to Mem-

Caillat, Wrabel, Sat., Dec. 17, 6:30 p.m., $9.81. Family

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Arena, 2002 Arena Parkway, St Charles, 636-896-

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and Billy Joe Shaver — in his own witty, bittersweet way. He’s a consummate craftsman, a writer who never wastes a word, a spry singer and an underrated comic voice who rhymes Texas with “where nobody can text us.” On stage, he always gives a master class in just how far a great song can go.

Scrappy and Savvy: One of Austin’s premier guitarists, Scrappy Jud Newcomb, is backing Cleaves on this fall tour. He can play just about anything — and consistently does so in ways you’d never predict.

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SAVAGE LOVE THE TRUMP TALK

BY DAN SAVAGE Hey, Dan: Waiting to pay for my groceries at the market this evening, this guy, stinking of booze, says to my nine-year-old daughter, “Sweetheart, can you put the divider thing there for me?” First, why is some leering grown man calling my child “sweetheart”? He then thumps two huge bottles of vodka down on the belt. I move closer to my daughter; he then reaches his hand over me and wraps his hand around her arm, saying, “Now, you be nice to your Mommy, sweetie.” I pluck his hand off. “Do not touch my child,” I say.

My other hand is pressed against my daughter’s ribs, and I can feel her heart POUNDING. “You have a beautiful daughter,” he says. The cashier, whom we know, a guy, looks at me, eyebrows up. I roll my eyes.

So pissed. We leave. “I hated that man,” my daughter says once we get in the car. “He smelled bad, I wanted to hit him, if anyone ever does that to me again I’m going to scream.”

Here we effing go: “Sometimes you have to be hypervigilant,” I tell my daughter, “because some gross men out there feel they are entitled to touch us.” And then I share my story: “When I was a little girl…” I don’t even remember the first time it happened to me. I don’t remember

the last time some pervert rubbed up against me. But that’s what you have to deal with when you are a girl. We have to learn to brush this shit off, to make sure that this endless assault course of predators doesn’t take one bit of your pride, your confidence, or your sense of peace as you walk through this world. I am so angry.

We should call this the “Trump Talk.” The depressing conversation that every parent needs to have with their little girl about revolting, predatory, entitled men. The Trump Talk.

Mother And Daughter Discuss Enraging Realities I’m sorry about what happened to your daughter at the grocery store, but I’m glad you were there with her when it happened.

The author Kelly Oxford, in response to onald Trump’s horrific comments about sexually assaulting women, called on women to tweet about their first assaults under the hashtag #notokay. Oxford’s post went viral — more than a million women responded — and reading through the seemingly endless thread, I was struck by how many women were alone the first time they were assaulted.

Tragically, many assumed that they had done something wrong, that they had invited this on themselves somehow. And when it inevitably happened again, some became convinced they were in-

deed to blame, that they were bringing this on themselves somehow.

So thank God you were there with your daughter, MADDER, there to pull that asshole’s hand off of her, there to protect her from worse, and there to help her process the experience. And in that car ride home you inoculated your daughter with your message (you are a human being and you have a right to move through this world unmolested) before gross predators could infect her with theirs (you are only an object and we have a right to touch you). I only wish the grocery store clerk had intervened, too.

Regarding your suggestion, MADDER, I’ve received roughly 10 million emails begging me to do for Donald Trump what I did for Rick Santorum: My readers and I redefined santorum (“the frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex”) and some wanted us to do the same for Trump. People even sent in suggestions: Trump is the streak of shit a large turd sometimes leaves on the bottom of the toilet bowl; trump is the snot that sometimes runs out of your nose when you’re giving a blowjob; a trump is a guy so hopelessly inept in bed that no woman (or man) wants him, no matter how rich he is.

The suggested new meanings all struck me as trivial and snarky — and I don’t think there’s anything

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trivial about the racism, sexism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism and violence that Trump has mainstreamed and normalized, and I’m not inclined to snark about it.

And, besides, “trump” already has a slang meaning: It means “to fart audibly” in Great Britain — and that definition is already in the ford English Dictionary. And it frankly didn’t seem possible to make Donald Trump’s name any more revolting than he already has. Mr. Trump, through his own words and actions, has already redefined his last name.

But then your e-mail arrived, MADDER, and I set aside the column I was already working on to rush your idea into print. Because your suggestion — that parents call the conversation they need to have with their daughters about predatory and entitled men the “Trump Talk” is ust as fitting and apt as the frothy mi ture” definition of santorum. It’s not trivial and it’s not snarky. It has gravitas, MADDER, and here’s hoping “Trump Talk” isn’t just widely adopted, but universally practiced. Because no little girl who gets groped on a bus or in a grocery store or on a subway or in a classroom should ever have to wonder if she did something wrong.

Listen to Dan’s podcast at savagelovecast.com. mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage on Twitter

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