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VOLUME 71, NUMBER 2 • MONDAY, JUNE 14, 2010 • MISSOURI BOYS STATE’S FINEST NEWS SOURCE

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Gov. Nixon addresses evening assemblyBY AKSHAY ALMELKARWEYER

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon addressed the citizens of Missouri Boys State on Sun-day evening in an overflowing, enthu-siastic Hendricks Hall. Having served as the attorney general for 16 years and currently serving as governor, he brought an immense wealth of knowl-edge and sought to inspire students to engage themselves in the various opportunities present at MBS.

After a brief review of his recent activities throughout the state of Mis-souri, Gov. Nixon proceeded to direct-ly address the citizens of Boys State. Speaking in a succinct, forthright style, he first encouraged students to have

an independent mind. He said, “Don’t tolerate intellectual weakness…Be a participant, be engaged, challenge the status quo if you desire, but don’t let someone else dictate your opinions.” He further encouraged students to keep an open mind, pursue the truth, and separate politics from the process of governing.

The relatively placid evening soon experienced a tense moment, as the first question solicited a flurry of emo-tion from the governor. When asked about the recent cuts to the education budget, he quickly interjected and, to great applause, provided a straight-forward answer to clearly support his position. He candidly asked, “Does money dictate the quality of educa-

tion?” He further professed his belief that the government does not necessar-ily have to spend more money to solve the problem but should instead work to improve the quality of education in other ways.

An active audience then asked him a variety of questions, ranging from agriculture and healthcare to college education and illegal immigration, to all of which he provided insightful and thorough answers. He then left MBS citizens with one longstanding piece of advice, “Always tell the truth, no matter how difficult it may be.”

The memorable evening then ended with a perfect tradition, with Nixon donning the latest in Boys State sports-wear.

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon directly responds to citizens’ questions during a question-answer period following his keynote speech Sunday at Hendricks Hall.

BY BLAKE JAMESGAMBREL

Missouri Boys State had the honor of opening the 71st ses-sion on Saturday with Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster addressing the citizens in an assembly.

Koster pulled for the atten-tion of Hendricks Hall by say-ing, “I teared up for the (new) Apple iPhone.” Koster went on to speak about how the iPhone reflects the citizens’ generation as a whole, a generation that will be “unbridled” by so many issues that faced society in the past.

Throughout his speech,

Koster made a few arguments that he related specifically to his life and story as a politician. When talking about college, he said, “You study something seri-ous, not something frivolous, like political science.” When asked why he formed this opin-ion, Koster answered that you need to be grounded in a real science.

However, the major focus was the importance of read-ing the newspaper. He said that without his two hours of read-ing each morning, he would be a “blind man groping his way through the day.”

The citizens of MBS were privileged to question the

speaker. Some of the questions involved partisan politics, edu-cation budget presses and what he felt was the biggest issue that affects our quality of life. Most questions were highly elabo-rated. Regarding a question on party politics was answered with term limits, Koster said that Jef-ferson City has the mindset that “It’s four years of I don’t know and four more years of I don’t care.” He went on to say the healthcare budget is going to be the issue that will inevitably affect us the most.

Koster was the first of seven keynote speakers scheduled to speak this week at MBS.

SCHOOLS OFFER INSTRUCTION, PRACTICE

Attorney General Chris Koster discusses the importance of reading the newspaper.

Koster stresses importance of informed citizenry

MBS citizens are responsible for attending lectures and participating in group activities. Paul Wilson (above) and Steve Grand (below) lectures at the Government Executive School of Instruction.

BY COLTON SPENCERALCORN

As the campaigning assembly ended and Sun-day morning and all of the schools of instruction were introduced, the Missouri Boys State citizens seemed very eager to scurry off to their school of interest.

While some changed their minds with last-minute switching, the brave souls who joined the law enforcement school walked away from Hen-dricks Hall proud as ever to be getting the chance to engage in the law enforcement program.

When arriving at Utt Building in Hart Recital Hall, the boys were introduced to a number of possible positions to engage in at MBS. Although the highest level of enforcement positions have been filled with the eight privileged citizens

selected as highway patrolmen for the state, many positions are still open for the running. Positions such as chief of police and county sheriff, as well as deputies, are all in demand to ensure a safe and crime-free Boys State.

With new laws being submitted every day to the law enforcement department will appoint the best of the best for every positions.

According to Ben French, a resident of Alcorn, “The officers running the school of law enforce-ment bring a lot of experience that will greatly benefit the citizens interested in protecting our great cities that make up Boys State.

The great young men of the law enforcement school are here to protect and serve our cities by making them as safe as possible.

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Longtime MBS supporter seeks to inspire active engagement

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Editor-in-Chief Aksuay Almelkar, WeyerManaging Editor Chris Dzurick, Boone

Business Manager Seth Barratt, DoniphanCity News Editor Marc Micatka, Lewis

VERBATIM

What are you most looking forward to this week?

“Interviewing peo-ple for the radio station.”CASEY CARLTONBOONE

“Meeting a bunch of new people and having fun learn-ing about govern-ment.”CONNER PACECARNAHAN

“Getting hands-on experience with how our government works and how much one cit-

izen can do to help.”ZACHARY WOOLSEYLEWIS

“Interviewing for a position on the Supreme Court.”BRANDON TRANDONIPHAN

BY BRANNAN PETERSONWHITFIELD

In Sunday’s government executive school of instruction, students were taught about vari-ous topics, including voter behavior and sending messages to the populace.

“Candidates need to have a bond with their voters,” Nick Vansciever said. “We learned we needed to have as many connections as possible.”

Students were also taught about the “mushy middle,” the middle ground between the extrem-ist voters. Candidates were counseled to send messages across to this middle by techniques such as settling their agenda, playing on current and important issues, as well as sending across a respected and loveable image.

There is clearly much to be learned at the gov-ernment executive school of instruction.

Citizens attend schools of instruction

BY ASHER HOULAHANCROWDER

The motto of the American Legion Missouri Boys State program is “Democracy Depends on Me.” Appropriately so, MBS citizens are given the choice a school of instruction in which they are interested.

One of the six schools offered was the Democ-racy Academy, which was a combination of the other five schools as well as additional aspects of the government. Other schools include the Law School, the Government Executive School, the

Legislative School, the Media School and the Law Enforcement School.

“I really wasn’t sure of which school I was going to join, so I went with the Democracy Academy. I was interested in the opportunity to learn a balance of the other five schools com-bined,” said Jacob Turek of Crowder.

Several other students, such as Kyle McGinnis from Duggan, also chose the Democracy Acad-emy for similar reasons. All of them are hoping to expand their knowledge as well as having a little fun in the meantime.

BY JON HOODDONIPHAN

The first sessions of the Journalism School start-ed with the MBS citizens hearing from Dean Matt Flener and Dr. Matt Wilson. Some of the topics covered included moral and ethical issues, how not to report, and the role of journalism in our nation.

After some video examples the students were divided into groups to work on specific sections

of media. Each section of the journalism depart-ment offers something unique and different to the citizens of Boys State.

“I decided to go with radio because I enjoy the technical side,” said Charles Rose of Doniphan.

The MBS Record staff brainstormed ideas and assigned stories for the first issue. TV staff mem-bers were given TV spots, or jobs behinds the camera to help operate the news station. Classes ended with the students being dismissed with their jobs laid out for them.

BY CONNOR BRANSONCROWDER

Sitting in government class, every MBS citizen has learned that in order for a society to thrive, it must put forth a set of rules known as laws. Because the MBS citizens have hastily put togeth-er a complete society, they too need laws to func-tion and advance. At the MBS Legislative School, young men have the chance to hold the reigns of their society and to create the laws that the MBS population must abide by.

Dean of the Legislative School and Attorney at Law Bruce Dotson describes the MBS Legislative School as “education towards how to be a legisla-tor, lobbyist, or consultant. We teach legislative

process, how to write and pass bills, how to testify before committees, and how to defeat bills.”

The MBS Legislative School is housed in the Student Union. In the school, students learn basic principles of the legislature, such as bud-get bills, different committees, specialization amongst congressmen, and the paths bills go on.

When asked about his opinions on the Legisla-tive School, citizen Matt Schwartz said, “It’s pretty interesting. We’ve learned a lot about Jefferson’s Rules. All of the counselors are very experienced and give us real world applications.”

The MBS Legislative School is looking to be a great field of education for MBS citizens by pav-ing an excellent path for our MBS senators and representatives to follow.

Government Executive school discusses voter behavior

Legislation school enables citizensto follow congressional dreams

Journalism staff gets to work Democracy Academy balances disciplinesBrad Leer lectures in the law school.

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BLAIRBY NICK PORTELLWhen everyone from Blair City was first introduced, the coun-selors made up a nickname for each citizen. This was a very interesting and funny process. There were quite a few creative names like Scoon, Jack Bauer, Twitch, Tex, Hick, Doobie, Blondie, and many others.

After all the nicknames were assigned, Blair City split up into their wards. Each ward elected a ward committeeman, two county delegates, and two state convention delegates.

The Ward I Federalist win-ners were Henry B. as ward committeeman, Robert O. and Austin H. as county delegates, and Colemn S. and Josh K. as state convention delegates. The Ward I Nationalist win-ners were Josh Myers as ward committeeman, Alex Tihen and Danny Brugman as the county delegates, and Taylor Howe and Ben Evans as state convention delegates.

The Ward II Federalist win-ners were Noland Stewart as ward committeeman, Zach Peters and Cody Wimmer as county delegates, and Steven Baur and Ross Hoover as state convention delegates. The Ward II Nationalist winners were Gechan Zhangas as ward committeeman, Danny Rohr-bough and Brendan Pick as county delegates, and Levi Gil-dehaus and Nick Portell as state convention delegates.

The Ward III Federalist win-ners were Thomas Kent as ward committeeman, Zach Hen-derson and Danny Ludlam as county delegates, and Chance Malott and Vincent Morris as state convention delegates. The Ward III Nationalist win-ners were Joseph as ward com-mitteeman, Todd and Kyle as county delegates, and Spencer and Charles as state convention delegates.

GAMBRELBY DYLAN BLUMENTHALGambrel citizens were busy

Sunday afternoon in various city meetings. A large por-tion of the time spent in these meetings went toward selecting ward committeemen, state con-vention delegates and city com-mittee members.

Kyle Miller and Garth Hart are representing Ward One, Max Highsmith and Edbert Cheng will be representing Ward Two and Paden John and Bhavseh Katbamnd are repre-senting Ward Three in the Fed-eralist Party county committee.

The National Party county committee will be represented by Aaron Long and Nathan Watkins of Ward One, Dylan Fomshell and Andrew Kreiling of Ward Two and Adam Haw-thorn and Mitch Allen of Ward Three.

Federal Party state conven-tion delegates of Gambrel are Tanner Buttoon and Ryan Rip-pee of Ward One, Ryan Schro-eder and Nick Huey of Ward Two and Chalen Jackson and Jordan Miller of Ward Three.

Representing Gambrel in

the Nationalist Party wards at the state convention are Ryan Gassen and Doug Witt of Ward One, Pat Mahoney and Bret Clement of Ward Two and Jacob Jones and Tyler Hogle of Ward Three.

Speaking to a group of these newly elected delegates, they are more than ecstatic about representing their wards and the city of Gambrel in negotiat-ing their political platforms.

RICHARDSONBY ZACH NICHOLSOn Saturday night, all the citi-zens arrived in Richardson not knowing what to expect, but they began building a city gov-ernment from the ground up. That night, the citizens began to select positions for their wards.

For the Nationalists in Ward I, Tanner Deeds was nominat-ed for committeeman. Derek Foster and Nathan Baker are county delegates, and Zach Nichols and Cody Youtsey were selected state convention dele-

gates. Ward II selected Andrew Petralli committeeman, Ethan Strunk and Austin Bruce country delegates, and Mark Reininger and Henry Attred state convention delegates. Ward III selected Broghan Fields committeeman, Jason Dorrel and Ryan Stroud county delegates, and Dylan Loud-ebough and Josh Baker state convention delegates.

The Federalists in Ward I nominated Derek Byrne for committeeman, Thomas Burk and Josh Benuelo for county delegates, and James Kromeich and Justin McClain as state convention delegates. Ward II selected Jordan Kelley for com-mitteeman, Austin Beck and Brian Gibson as county del-egates, and Scott Douglas and Jacob Mingus as state conven-tion delegates. Ward III selected Hunter Mathis for committee-man, Jack Nguyen and Dalton Doerr as county delegates, and Nii Addo for state convention delegate.

Today, Richardson shall con-

tinue building by selecting their mayor and other city officials.

WEYERBY BLAKE JAMESGAMBREL

Just as every city across the Missouri Boys State campus, Weyer city broke into wards last night and elected the funda-mental leaders of their city.

Federalist Ward 1 commit-teeman will be Cody Martin, the Federalist vice chair. Ward 2 Committeeman John Uchi-yama has also been selected as party chairman. Ward 3 will be headed by Jermy Hernandez, his party’s secretary.

Nationalist party leader-ship include the chairman from Ward 2, Brent Simmonds. Vice chair from Ward 1, is Kyle Bauche and the secretary is Zechariah Blaine.

Weyer is very excited to get this 71st session rolling.

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MBS offers opportunity for exploring, expressing Judeo-Christian beliefsCitizens have church, state experiences

BY GRANT HARTLEYPERSHING

A large number of Missouri Boys State citizens attended the Protestant Christian wor-ship service at Hendricks Hall, yesterday morning. These citizens came either to worship or to learn more about the Protestant Chris-tian faith by singing songs of praise with worship leaders and listening to a sermon.

“[The music worship was] really good. I really liked it. The leaders did a good job,” said Rusty Johnson of Persh-ing.

Although citizens had never heard some of the songs before the worship leader’s awesome guitar play-ing and eager voice really

got the crowd to join in. After a particularly challeng-ing guitar riff made many of the MBS citizens burst into rhythmic clapping.

The morning’s sermon was entitled “Facing the Giants,” and it was about standing up to the “giants” of problems in your life by leaning heavily on God and doing your best. The sermon also incorporated clips from a movie also named “Facing the Giants.”

“The movie fit this pro-gram because there are many challenges in trying to cre-ate a government,” said Tyler Finders of Pershing. “Those giants are hard to knock down.”

BY BRIAN FLAMMANGPERSHING

One may walk into a religious service with high expectations of suddenly gaining enlight-enment or finding meaning in life. Some citizens decided to grow and break out of their comfort zone such as Pershing citizen Gus Thies who attended the Jewish gathering yesterday morning.

He found the event to be an “enlightening experience” in which he “gained a differing view of other religions.”

The attendees of the ser-vice, however, were surprised to find that there was no worship-

ing but an educational travel through Jewish customs and background.

Many of the young men may have been disappointed in the beginning, yet, like Gus, they were pleasantly surprised by the cultural value of diversity that they received.

A great example of experi-encing cultural diversity can be something simple, such as when Gus announced, “I didn’t know [Jewish] women could pray.”

These little things that peo-ple learned at the Jewish service are what made the whole event memorable and endearing.

Jewish gathering is ‘enlightening’ in diversity discussion

BY CHRIS SHEFFERDUGGAN

There was a large congrega-tion at the Catholic religious service yesterday morning in the Morris Building’s Nahm Auditorium.

The priest who would have presided at the service was not available. Because the priest was not present, there was no Liturgy of the Eucha-rist. The Liturgy of the Word, however, was celebrated, fol-lowed by the distribution of the pre-consecrated host. The Liturgy of the Word was able to proceed as it normally would because several Boys State citizens volunteered to help perform various duties

during the service, such as reading from the Bible. One citizen helped the officiant distribute the host.

Because of the consider-able amount of the people at the Catholic service, they supply of pre-consecrat-ed host was depleted. The Eucharistic ministers had to resort to breaking the host into practically microscopic pieces in order to accom-modate as many people as possible. Several people were not able to receive the host and had to make due with a blessing instead. The offici-ant admitted that they had underestimated the number of citizens who would be in attendance.

Catholic service continues despite absent priest

Protestants enjoy ‘spirited’ guitar riff

ALCORNBY SHANE MCCARLEYAlcorn’s city parties joined to nominate city offices on Sunday. The following are the names of the nominees and their parties:

Mayor — Brock Jacobs (Nationalist Party) and Ross Straughaun (Federalist Party)

City Treasurer — Zachart Kollbaum (N) and Nick Dore (F)

Municipal Judge — Nick Miller (N) and Jimmy Hunter (F)

City Councilmen — Ward One: Cole Wheeler (N) and Nate Hirnhinridge (F); Ward Two: Robert Sims (N) and Dylan Martin (F); Ward Three: Jake Alsup (N) and Shawn Hadler (F)

City Councilmen-at-large — Nationalist: Austin Ellwein, Daniel Muskgrave, Joseph Weimer, Michael Roundcount, Addisson Foot, Michael Cump-ton; Federalist: Weston Her-man, Nate Kelly, Dan Brouinite, Dylan Martin, Jordan Schultz, Nate Faulk.

BOONEBY JAMES “JAY” SCUDDEROn the first night of the 71st session of Missouri Boys State, Boone came alive with politi-cal activity. As the city and the wards assembled for the first time, many important govern-ment and party positions were filled, and the Government Sur-plus Outlet (GSO) was assigned to Boone.

During the first six hours, both the Federalist Party com-mitteemen and their Nationalist Party counterparts were cho-sen by their wards. From their ranks, Nicholas Kutay was cho-sen as the Federalist city party chairman, while Stewart Pence was chosen as the Nationalist chairman. Pence was also elect-ed as Boone’s athletic director. A variety of other officials from delegates to party secretaries were also chosen.

While elections occurred, a bid was placed by Boone for the GSO program coordinator posi-tion. The attempt was success-ful, and Kevin Joyce was chosen to direct the GSO under Boone’s control. The outlet will open today near the Boys State store and will offer all of the available campaign supplies to citizens.

CARNAHANBY DUANE BYRDBeginning to build a potentially successful city, the citizens of Carnahan immersed themselves in the Missouri Boys State expe-rience. Carnahan elected politi-cal officials and started work on party platforms.

In the process of building their city, Carnahan elected its athletic director, assistant ath-

letic director and beverage com-missioner. Carnahan citizens began to realize what MBS is all about. Carnahan was filled with confident citizens that were ready to be the best city at MBS.

“Carnahan is going to domi-nate and be Model City,” Ryan Fox said.

Carnahan was ready and willing to dominate any chal-lenge that came their way.

CARVERBY TRAYTON WEHMEYERCarver started off the new Boys State session by giving nick-names to each citizen. The citi-zens came up with this method to make it easier to recognize other city members by face and name, allowing them to make new friends by giving them a name everyone would remem-ber.

Ward members were selected during a city meeting which took place later that night. Nationalist ward committee members are Secretary Paul Pierce, Vice Chairman Taylor Marino, and Chairman Ricardo Garcia. Federalist ward com-mittee members are Secretary Brian Lasley, Vice Chairman Thomas Kulczak, and Chairman Alexander Molloy. Andrew Frencken was also elected as Highway Patrolman during the city meeting.

Carver citizens are currently seeking out ways to make their city profit and to earn the Model City award. They are working together to successfully make the city work and flourish. The competition for Model City has heated up and Carver is look-ing for the best way to lead the race and come out on top with the win.

CLARKBY MICHAEL GOOLEYClark citizens got to know each other as they selected ward del-egates and committeemen, as well as the city committees. The race begins as citizens break up into their political parties and plan out their platforms, as well as select candidates for mayor, city councilmen, city secretary and city treasurer.

Joe Scalzitt, Clark mayoral candidate, said, “I feel like the Federal Party came up with great ideas. I’m looking forward to speaking to the Clark citi-zens.”

“Our National meeting went great,” said Frank Tamburello, Nationalist candidate for Clark secretary. “It’s really interest-ing to learn what goes on in the government behind the scenes, to see beyond the shadow at the media.”

The “family of men” of Clark also began to plan the city’s structure at the city meetings.

Everybody is getting ready for a fast-paced week of democracy and sleep deprivation.

“Boys State is a fast-moving program and it’s going to be hard to keep your head above the water,” said Adam Thomp-son, Nationalist candidate for mayor of Clark.

All of the citizens are work-ing hard and working toward making Clark stand out above the rest and become Model City.

CROWDERBY CONNOR BRANSONAs each new MBS citizen is wel-comed into the Crowder meet-ing room an overwhelming sense of friendship and brother-hood is immediately felt within. With registration finally com-plete citizens feel right at home in Crowder.

Counselor Jack Laskowitz started Crowder’s journey with a look at the MBS rules and the details about the prestigious program. It is quite apparent that as the talk of state level offices increase, so does the hype and spirits of the impres-sionable young men in the room. Ideas and excitement really began to skyrocket as Laskowitz introduced the pres-tigious Model City award, previ-ously held by Crowder in 2009.

“Organization and efficiency is key. We need mealtime tidi-ness and cleanliness. We should also focus on maintaining a strong economy by support-ing small businesses and tour-ism,” said Tyree Meadows of Crowder, laying out a clear idea of how his city plans to repeat last year’s performance.

Soon Crowder will choose their mayor. With many prom-ising candidates occupying the Crowder hall, city elections are looking to be monumental.

When asked about impor-tant qualities in a mayor, current MBS Governor and Crowder Assistant City Counselor Tim Williams says, “A mayor that can create total citizen motiva-tion within the city is needed. He needs to give his time and passion to the city. His ultimate goal should be to have his city become a model city because a model city is a complete city.”

Clearly, Crowder is up and coming in the race for Model City. The possibilities are end-less and for this city, success is in sight.

DONIPHANBY CHAD BLOSSEROn Saturday, Missouri Boys State got off to a great start. Since then, a lot has hap-pened in Doniphan, including many selections, decisions and appointments. Lars was elected to be athletic director. He then appointed Deron Washington

as assistant athletic director. The beverage commissioner for Doniphan is Michael Yabut. The Nationalist party chose Zach Sweets, Brock Musick and Tay-lor Jokerst for wardsmen, while the Federalist party chose Dom-inic Palmieri, Weston Blankship and Jesse Doggendorf.

Wes Sickman was chosen as a Highway Patrolman. Seth Bar-ratt was selected to serve as the business manager for the MBS Record. Doniphan also submit-ted an application to host the MBS Government Surplus Out-let, and many citizens applied to be state-appointed officials.

Although this “week to shape a lifetime” just began, Doniphan has taken many staff members’ advice by jumping into the pro-grams’ possibilities early on.

INGLEBY CHRIS SHEFFERDUGGAN

Ingle has some interesting fea-tures that have set it apart from other cities at Missouri Boys State.

It already has two govern-ment-appointed officials who will be working in the governor’s cabinet. Jacob Sapp’s depart-ment is the Department of Cor-rections and Dustin Crouse is in charge of the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources.

Some of the citizens of Ingle are selling Gatorade to beverage commissioners of other cities,

whom they have dubbed “bever-age bartenders.”

In other news, Shone Mat-thews is acting as Ingle’s come-dian, while Austin Midkiff is the security guard of the city, or the “bouncer,” as he is called by his fellow citizens.

Some of the citizens of Ingle claim to have a “girl” in their city, despite the predominantly mas-culine existence at Boys State. They refer to her as “Fine Shar-nell” and have set a price of $5 BSB admission for other citizens to see her. Whether or not such an attraction is ethical is up to individual discretion, however effective at bringing in revenue it may or may not be.

These particular citizens, including Jonathan Howren, Mark Carpenter and others, have set a price of $1,000 BSB for other cities to have a “girl” of their own. It may be assumed that this is another source of revenue for Ingle.

Lastly, Ingle citizen Peter Fortmeyer declares Cheez-Its with Milk Duds to be the offi-cial food of Ingle.

LEWISBY AARON STEIMDLewis citizens had many close elections yesterday. The meet-ing began with the counselors teaching the citizens about bal-lots, and then the chairman of each party took control of the meeting.

“I feel our party chairman will prove himself to be a capa-

ble administrator and represent the Nationalist party well at every level,” Lewis citizen Zach-ary Woolsey said.

The party chairmen helped decide on the positions for their party platform.

“I think we have a strong chance in winning the mayor position,” citizen Richard Bar-ber said. “I feel he could win the election.”

PERSHINGBY ALEXANDER RALPHThe citizens of Pershing are well on their way to forming a great society. Nationalist and Federal-ist caucuses were held to deter-mine who would fill the politi-cal roles and perform the tasks necessary to function as work-ing members of Missouri Boys State. The citizens debated long and hard on issues such as taxes, revenue, and the overall role of the government in everyday sit-uations. Voting takes place this morning, and the results will be announced later today.

The citizens have also gotten to know each other very quickly. Within the first few hours of the first city meeting, the citizens of Pershing had already become close friends.

“For me, coming to MBS was a bit of a culture shock,” Tommy Gagnon said. “Coming from a small town to this was pretty crazy, but I’ve gotten to know lots of cool people.”

City News

MBS citizens participate in city meetings early in the week. Citizens move quickly from learning the basics of the program into conducting preliminary political party and municipal elections. Along with these elections in the first days of the session citizens attended their first School of Instruction lessons and get an introduction on parliamentary procedures and campaigning at Missouri Boys State. By the end of the second day citizens have citizens are not only ready to elect their mayors, but they were been addressed by high-ranking Missouri government officials including Attorney General Chris Koster and Governor Jay Nixon.

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