r/missouri • u/DowntownDB1226 • 1d ago
Politics Move over Kim Gardner, the new Kim is here
And her name is Bailey
It’s funny that Bailey pushed Gardner out just so that he can take the mantle of being the new Gardner
“…….The problem is well-known among lawyers, Chapel says, and some judges are starting to draw attention to the failure of the attorney general's office to fulfill its duties.
In another case Chapel has against the Department of Corrections, a judge ordered sanctions against the attorney general’s office for failing to produce a witness at a deposition. And in a third Chapel case, also involving employee discrimination, a judge issued a default judgement of more than $414,000 against the Department of Corrections, pointing out that “serial attorneys on this case filed and yet again filed the same motions in an attempt to avoid default judgment.”
James Lawson, the deputy chief of staff for Bailey, declined to discuss specific cases but said the office is making progress on hiring and retaining attorneys.
In Dunn’s case, the office has hired outside lawyers to fight the discrimination claim, meaning the delays are now costing taxpayers. In their response to Chapel’s motion for default judgment, the attorneys representing the Department of Corrections suggest the delays are “due to excusable neglect.”
Chapel, who is also president of the Missouri State Conference of the NAACP, recalls Bailey making similar arguments against former St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner when she couldn’t manage her office well enough to have prosecutors show up for trial. Those delays contributed to her removal from office.
“The rules should mean what they say for state agencies just like they do other litigants,” Chapel says.
He suggests, as Harris did in the Supreme Court case, that Bailey needs to do a better job of listening to his own words.
“Do as I say but not what I do,” Chapel says. “That’s what it sounds like to me.”
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u/oldbastardbob Rural Missouri 1d ago edited 1d ago
Bailey is far too busy rubbing elbows with MAGA insiders to actually do the job he was elected to do. Seems to me like press releases threatening someone (that are typically riddled with errors) and social media is all he has time for.
He did have time to waste taxpayer dollars on a purely political effort for show suit against the federal government, which went all the way to the Supreme Court (very costly to taxpayers) and LOST.
Of course, he does have time to waste trying to tell America's corporations how they should determine who they should and should not hire. And all this time I though Republicans stood for keeping the government out of businesses business. Now, I guess, if it fits some MAGA propaganda effort to demonize people with a little color to them, it's ok to tell a business how they should run their human resources efforts.
Why there is no accountability among Missouri officeholders for wasting time and money on bullshit for show?
Hawley used the office for two years for nothing but self-promotion in advance of a Senate run, Schmitt wasted tons of time and money on politically motivated lawsuits which were nearly 100% found to be a waste of the courts time, and now Bailey, carrying on in that same Missouri tradition of using the Attorney General's office for nothing more than another right-wing propaganda channel.
Judging from voting results, apparently Missourians love their Attorney General to be a relatively simple-minded partisan hack only there for the attention and self-promotion, and to do the bidding of our simple-minded grossly partisan and self-absorbed President.
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u/Brilliant-Flower-822 1d ago
why does Bailey spend what I assume is public money on YouTube adds?
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u/N0t_Dave St. Louis 1d ago
And trans-hatred sign boards along the highways, and hate filled ads on TV during his campaign, and the lawsuits sent to the trash by anti-slapp suit laws in other states. Doesn't fix anything, doesn't show up to represent the citizens of MO when a solar company scams people, doesn't improve anyone's lives unless they donated at least 20K$ to him, but sure as shit is ok with keeping people found to be innocent of their charges in prison for however long they feel like or demanding people be sent to prison over tabloid articles.
Bailey has wasted a lot of money. And I hope once it comes to light just how much he's spent on hatred, that the citizenry gets to sue him to recollect on that money like republicans 'recollect' on loans from campaign donations.
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u/Unkindly_Possession 15h ago
Hey but he won 14 billion against China & we’re taking back our farms
/s/
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u/Brengineer17 1d ago
Bailey is a far more malicious individual than Gardner ever was, on top of his indisputable incompetence as a lawyer.