State Representative, District 9
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Gena Puckett
(Dem)
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Dean VanSchoiack
(Rep)
What areas of public policy are you passionate about and why?
What is your top priority for legislative action in 2027? Briefly discuss how you would address this priority.
Age
57
Highest post-secondary educ
M.S., Northwest Missouri State University, education
Occupation
Teacher, retired
We need to fund public schools. We have not fully funded our schools in decades. Eliminate vouchers, public schools are free for all. Protect rural healthcare. This is a rural state; losing our rural hospitals is a burden on rural people. Our elected officials should govern in the open. The projected good of AI data centers does not outweigh the environmental devastation.
Fully funding public schools w/ public money should be the bare minimum rather than what we are doing. Why is our student funding and average teacher pay among the lowest in the nation? Our children deserve a firm educational foundation and the opportunity to succeed. Missouri has a spending problem. We need to fix it so we can take care of the real things our people need.
Age
67
Public elected offices held
State representative, District 9, 2020-present
Highest post-secondary educ
B.A., University of Missouri-Columbia, speech and communication
Incumbent?
Yes
Occupation
Farmer and auctioneer
Property rights, fighting government over-reach, preserving our Constitutional rights, agricultural policies, rural healthcare issues, law and order and quality education for our children.
Protecting rights of landowners in their property. I currently chair the Special Committee on Rural Issues and have brought several bills dealing with eminent domain through this committee. I intend to sponsor a bill this session that closes a loophole in our eminent domain law.
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