During his short tenure as Missouri’s top legal official, Attorney General Andrew Bailey has consistently used (and abused) his office to promote an extremist right-wing partisan agenda with a brazenness unheard of even in Missouri politics.
Bailey, appointed to the office to fill a vacancy in January 2023, is seeking the Republican nomination in August to run for a full elected term in November.
In the interest of keeping the public informed about this uniquely problematic public official, the Post-Dispatch Editorial Board has launched this standing summary of Bailey’s more outrageous ideological stunts and abrogations of duty. We have dubbed it The Bailey Tally. It will be updated as needed.
Latest addition: Punting on Christian boarding school abuse
Activists have implored Bailey to use the prominence of his office to highlight alleged physical and sexual abuse of kids at Christian boarding schools — a historic problem in Missouri’s under-regulated private school system and…
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