This guy is such a hypocritical asshole:
In his standard stump speech as a candidate for U.S. Senate, Attorney General Josh Hawley has repeatedly bashed the value of a university degree, accusing U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill of voting for massive federal spending to produce unemployable graduates indoctrinated into leftist ideology.
Hawley, a Republican, who attended Stanford University for his undergraduate degree and Yale University for his law degree, is a former assistant professor of law at the University of Missouri and his wife, Erin Hawley, is currently an associate professor of law. He hopes to win the GOP primary against 10 lesser-known opponents to take on McCaskill, a Democrat, in November.
On Friday in Cape Girardeau, Hawley called for investments in vocational education and apprenticeships.
“Senator McCaskill has voted time and again to hand out millions and millions of your hard-earned money to these four-year colleges and institutions that take your money and then churn out increasingly worthless degrees with skills that nobody can use,” Hawley said. “Meanwhile, if you don’t have an expensive four-year degree in this country, you’re not treated with any respect.”
Colleges and universities should be responsible for repaying student loans of anyone who can’t find work in their field, Hawley said.
At a March Lincoln Day event in Gasconade County, Hawley said students are being miseducated by their schools.
“Our universities have taken billions of dollars in tax subsidies, your money, and they’ve taken billions more in middle class debt, your money, and they’re increasingly doing what?” Hawley said. “Giving students worthless degrees and indoctrinating them in far-left thinking. It’s time to put a stop to that.”
McCaskill, responding through campaign spokeswoman Meira Bernstein, said she values her education from MU.
“I can assure him that my degrees from Mizzou are very valuable and I believe every waitress shift I worked to help pay for them were worth it,” McCaskill said.
Pell grants and other federal financial aid give students a shot at a middle-class life, McCaskill said. The recent decision to allow Pell grants for students attending summer classes will help them finish faster and find employment, she said.
“As far as his comments that universities indoctrinate students into far-left thinking, well, that sounds a little nuts,” McCaskill said.
Hawley and his wife were hired by MU in 2011 and he was granted a leave of absence in 2015 to run for attorney general. Hawley, who was qualifying for tenure at the time of his leave, never returned to work at the university and resigned after winning his office.
Erin Hawley received tenure but is on leave and has not been paid or taught a class since mid-2016, according to university records. She is scheduled to teach one class in the spring semester next year.
Even one of Hawley’s GOP primary opponents called out his bull shit:
Attorney General Josh Hawley is “out of line” when he complains that universities are wasting taxpayer and student money with worthless degrees and leftist indoctrination, GOP primary opponent Tony Monetti said Friday.
Monetti, assistant dean of aviation at University of Central Missouri for five years before launching his campaign, said public universities have responded to prodding from the General Assembly to be more accountable, save students money and prepare them for work. While many students annually have difficulty finding jobs in their fields of study, he said, a college education prepares them to be productive and ready for the future.
The jobs some students find after graduation “may not be related to their chosen major, but they are articulate, they learn to value cultural diversity and to be able to communicate effectively,” Monetti said. “These are the tools our young men and women need to prepare them for the 21st century.”
Hawley, who faces a field of 10 opponents as he seeks the Republican nomination to run against incumbent U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, is making his criticism of higher education a routine feature of his campaign appearances. On Thursday evening, Hawley repeated those criticisms in an online session with Christopher Vas, president of the Mizzou College Republicans.
But Hawley is just doing what every other GOP candidate running for Senate, selling Trump without Trump:
For what possible reason would a United States senator defend the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action?
That was the agreement between Iran and the U.S., China, France, Russia, Britain and Germany that established this: “Iran reaffirms that under no circumstances will Iran ever seek, develop or acquire any nuclear weapons.”
According to Sen. Claire McCaskill’s Republican opponent in Missouri’s U.S. Senate race, there could only be one explanation: disloyalty to President Donald Trump.
Yep, GOP candidate Josh Hawley’s line of argument on the issue is that witheringly simplistic.
“We should be standing with President Trump and Israel today,” read an email blast from Hawley’s campaign. “If you aren’t, you are standing with the mullahs and John Kerry. Sen. McCaskill needs to make it clear that she stands with President Trump and Israel, and not the mullahs.”
Right. Mullahs vs. MAGA (Make America Great Again). That’s what this complex issue boils down to. Which side are you on?
Hawley is not a stupid person. He is the Missouri attorney general, and he has a good shot at defeating McCaskill. What he is doing here, however, is betting on stupid. He is speaking to the least informed brains within the Trump base. It may work. It may not work. I guess we’ll see.
But Hawley hasn’t been able to raise impressive funds so they need to send this clown to do it for him:
Vice President Mike Pence, who recently canceled a scheduled fundraiser for Republican Senate candidate Josh Hawley in Missouri, will raise money for Hawley and other GOP Senate candidates in Indianapolis next Friday.
Pence’s office confirmed Friday that he would attend a fundraiser for Hawley, Missouri's attorney general, and GOP Senate candidates Mike Braun of Indiana, and the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Ohio Republican challenger Jim Renacci may also be involved, depending on scheduling.
Pence had earlier scheduled a Hawley fundraiser for May 9 in Missouri, but that was canceled after his office said the vice president had a scheduling conflict. Democrats said it was because Pence, who campaign for Gov. Eric Greitens in 2016, and whose chief of staff, Nick Ayers, advised Greitens, didn’t want to be in Missouri in the lead-up to Greitens’ trial on invasion of privacy charges on Monday, and amidst possible impeachment of Greitens in the Republican-controlled state legislature.
But maybe that’s because instead of running for a new job, Hawley should be focusing on the current job he was only recently elected to do:
Attorney General Josh Hawley has investigated Gov. Eric Greitens’ social media for alleged Sunshine Law violations twice before. He probed the governor’s use of a self-destructing text message app called Confide as well.
And each time his office said a lack of jurisdiction or subpoena power contributed to dropping the inquiry or clearing Greitens of wrongdoing.
Now, after The Star discovered emails showing a taxpayer-funded staff member appearing to create content for the governor’s Facebook, Hawley has once again launched an investigation.
But some wonder whether the outcome will be any different.
“It's pretty clear he did almost nothing the first go-around, and assuming he's being more thorough now, that just raises questions on why he wasn't before,” said Andy Hirth, an attorney who worked in the attorney general’s office under Democrat Chris Koster. “He's painted himself into a corner where it's hard for him to get out now without looking like he made a mistake before.”
The Missouri House has approved legislation that would give the attorney general more authority to enforce the Sunshine Law, including civil investigative demands, which function like a subpoena. Hawley has said he’ll relaunch his Confide investigation if it passes, but with less than two weeks left before the legislature adjourns, the bill’s fate is unclear.
Meanwhile, Democrats contend that the attorney general has all the authority he needs to enforce the Sunshine Law, if he chooses to use it. Hawley says he doesn’t have subpoena power, but Democrats argue he could file a lawsuit under the Sunshine Law if Greitens refuses to cooperate — a move that would give him subpoena power.
Hawley’s “excuses” aren’t going to wash “because first of all, they're not true,” said Michael Wolff, an attorney and former Missouri Supreme Court chief justice. “And second of all, the day when Josh Hawley is going to be protecting Eric Greitens, that day disappeared on April 11.”
Meanwhile, U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill (D. MO) has been calling out Trump on this:
President Donald Trump’s announcement to lower drug prices received a mixed reaction from the senators. While Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said that Trump should stop wasting people’s time “bragging about meagre, window-dressing policies, Senator Claire McCaskill said that she did not understand why the president backed off the idea of Medicare negotiating drug prices directly, which could bring significant savings for millions of people.
“If the Administration is looking to work with Congress to lower drug prices, they’ve got a ready and willing partner in me, and in the meantime, I’m going to continue to do all I can to work across the aisle and bring down drug costs for Missourians,” she said.
As a bipartisan initiative, Claire worked in tandem with Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine to look into the causes, impacts, and potential solutions leading to skyrocketing price hikes facing consumers. Their joint report, titled, Sudden Price Spikes in Off-Patent Prescription Drugs:The Monopoly Business Model that Harms Patients, Taxpayers, and the U.S. Health Care System, uncovered a business model that holds patients hostage in order to boost the bottom line for pharmaceutical companies.
And McCaskill is also getting some big-name help on the campaign:
U.S. Senator Cory Booker will be coming to Kansas City on Saturday, May 19, and St. Louis on Sunday, May 20, to hold campaign events with colleague Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri).
McCaskill is locked in a tough reelection campaign, with a bevy of Republican rivals vying to take her on, including Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley, libertarian darling Austin Petersen and Air Force veteran Tony Monetti. (There's also some guy who hates "career-obsessed banshees" and may be a performance artist and may be a CIA plant, but we've given him enough ink already.)
As for Booker, he first developed a national profile as the mayor of Newark. As the junior senator from New Jersey, he is considered a possible presidential, or maybe vice presidential, candidate in 2020.
In St. Louis, Booker and McCaskill will be kicking things off at Sheet Metal Workers Local Union No. 36 (2319 Chouteau Avenue) beginning at 1 p.m. No tickets or reservations are needed.
But let’s not wait until then. Click here to donate and get involved with McCaskill’s re-election campaign.