Emanuel Cleaver: “I don't want to be speaker, I don't want to be assistant speaker, I don't want to be the person in charge of trash…”

Despite the cynical and deeply shameful attempt to silence many of our neighbors, the people fought back and won.

I think my reelection prospects shot up significantly.

If I have to serve the people who live just outside of Columbia and Jefferson City, then I’ll do that.

Right here in the middle of the country in the sometimes-cold Midwest, where people became so upset that they did what one can do only in a democracy, and they went out and organized.