Missouri lawmakers hold closed-door meeting amid speaker controversy

A group of Missouri lawmakers met Friday for hours behind closed doors to discuss a personnel issue.  That closed-door meeting lasted for more than four hours in the basement of the Capitol. There’s no confirmation about who or what the group was talking about, other than that it was regarding a personnel inquiry, but this all comes as other lawmakers are calling on House Speaker Dean Plocher, R-Des Peres to resign.  “That’s all I can say, I have no further comment,“ chairman of the House Ethics Committee Rep. Hannah Kelly, R-Moutain Grove said to reporters Friday afternoon.  The role of the House Ethics Committee is to investigate complaints regarding members of the lower chamber. This comes at a time when the top leader in the House is making headlines.  Calls for Plocher’s resignation come after he began paying back roughly $4,000 that he was reimbursed for regarding work-related travel that he paid out of his campaign fund. Most of those calls coming from other Republicans like Rep. Mazzie Boyd, R-Hamilton, Rep. Doug Richey, R-Excelsior Springs and Sen. Andrew Koenig, R-Manchester.  Koenig posting on X, formerly known as Twitter, Friday, “The recent revelations about Speaker Dean Plocher are troubling, to say the least. He violated the same campaign finance rule on nine difference occasions and misused taxpayer funds. He might resign immediately so that we can get back to the business of serving Missourians. St. Louis News: FOX 2 covers news, weather, and sports in Missouri and Illinois. Read more about this story or see the latest updates on our website Follow FOX 2 on social media: YouTube: Facebook: Twitter: Instagram: TikTok: @fox2now SnapChat: