Elad Gross
Elad Gross (Democratic Party) is running for election for Attorney General of Missouri. He is on the ballot in the general election on November 5, 2024. He advanced from the Democratic primary on August 6, 2024.
Gross completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Elad Gross was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Gross' career experience includes working as an attorney and CEO. He earned a law degree from the Washington University School of Law in 2014 and a bachelor's degree from Duke University in 2010.[1]
He has served as a board member with the Education Exchange Corps, Missouri For All, Caring Ministries, and the New Leaders Council - St. Louis. He has served as an advisory board member with the Citizenship Education Clearing House, 1st Financial Federal Credit Union, and Clay Elementary.[2]
Elections
2024
See also: Missouri Attorney General election, 2024
General election
General election for Attorney General of Missouri
Incumbent Andrew Bailey, Elad Gross, and Ryan Munro are running in the general election for Attorney General of Missouri on November 5, 2024.
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Attorney General of Missouri
Elad Gross advanced from the Democratic primary for Attorney General of Missouri on August 6, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Elad Gross | 100.0 | 343,934 |
| Total votes: 343,934 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Sarah Unsicker (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for Attorney General of Missouri
Incumbent Andrew Bailey defeated Will Scharf in the Republican primary for Attorney General of Missouri on August 6, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Andrew Bailey | 64.0 | 149,191 |
 | Will Scharf | 36.0 | 83,973 | |
| Total votes: 233,164 | |||
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Libertarian primary election
Libertarian primary for Attorney General of Missouri
Ryan Munro advanced from the Libertarian primary for Attorney General of Missouri on August 6, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Ryan Munro | 100.0 | 2,401 |
| Total votes: 2,401 | |||
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Endorsements
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2020
See also: Missouri Attorney General election, 2020
Missouri Attorney General election, 2020 (August 4 Republican primary)
Missouri Attorney General election, 2020 (August 4 Democratic primary)
General election
General election for Attorney General of Missouri
Incumbent Eric Schmitt defeated Richard Finneran and Kevin Babcock in the general election for Attorney General of Missouri on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Eric Schmitt (R) | 59.4 | 1,752,792 |
 | Richard Finneran (D) | 37.9 | 1,117,713 | |
 | Kevin Babcock (L) | 2.7 | 81,100 | |
| Total votes: 2,951,605 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Attorney General of Missouri
Richard Finneran defeated Elad Gross in the Democratic primary for Attorney General of Missouri on August 4, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Richard Finneran | 55.4 | 272,516 |
| Elad Gross | 44.6 | 219,462 | |
| Total votes: 491,978 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Attorney General of Missouri
Incumbent Eric Schmitt advanced from the Republican primary for Attorney General of Missouri on August 4, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Eric Schmitt | 100.0 | 602,577 |
| Total votes: 602,577 | |||
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Libertarian primary election
Libertarian primary for Attorney General of Missouri
Kevin Babcock advanced from the Libertarian primary for Attorney General of Missouri on August 4, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Kevin Babcock | 100.0 | 4,089 |
| Total votes: 4,089 | |||
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Endorsements
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Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Elad Gross completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Gross' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I am a lifelong Missourian. I serve as a civil rights and government transparency attorney; my job is to sue the government when it abuses its power and violates our rights.
I previously served as an Assistant Attorney General of Missouri. As an attorney, I have litigated landmark cases to protect our right to transparency in government.
I grew up in St. Louis. I graduated from Clayton High School as a football state champion (go Hounds) before attending Duke University, where I was cut from the football team three times. I graduated with degrees in Economics, Political Science, and English. I attended Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, this time graduating as a national champion in trial advocacy.
For the past 15 years, I have worked with children in St. Louis City to provide youth employment and summer leadership training. Over the last three and a half years, I've helped expand and manage Missouri's largest housing stability mediation program designed to help renters and landlords avoid evictions and prevent mass homelessness.
When not in court or in a classroom, you can usually find me on Sundays playing rugby, in a garage gym just about every other day, or reading an obscure book on Missouri history.
My wife, Tasha, is a nonprofit professional. We live in St. Louis City with our many pets and will be celebrating our fifth anniversary this year.
- Sue scammers, including those in our government. I will enforce the Do Not Call List again, start a Public Corruption Unit to protect taxpayer money, and bust the trusts to prevent monopolies from taking over our economy and price gouging our families.
- Protect families. I will lead Missouri's first statewide plan to reduce and prevent violent crime through smart coordination of law enforcement and community resources. I will start Missouri's first Civil Rights Division to protect our civil liberties, including holding government officials accountable, enforcing our privacy rights, and ensuring access to health care. I will restart our Conservation Division to protect our land, air, and water and hold polluters accountable, including the federal government. I believe in small government, and I will keep politicians out of our private family and health care decisions.
- End puppy mills. For the 12th year in a row, Missouri is the nation's capital of abusive puppy mills. We voted on this issue already, but our representatives ignored the will of the People. I will enforce our current laws, advocate for stronger ones, and, most importantly, always fight to protect the People's voice in government. Our Attorney General should be our attorney, not the attorney for the Governor, or for Big Government, or for Big Donors. I will be your advocate in your government.
All of them because they are all so connected, but I am most passionate about education, economic access to opportunity, and protecting our civil rights.
As Attorney General, I will lead Missouri's first statewide plan to prevent violent crime. That plan will coordinate law enforcement officers and prosecutors to ensure that those who commit violence in our state are held accountable. But the effort will go further to working with community members to divert Missourians away from committing violence and preventing crime in the first place. We need an Attorney General who has our backs, and preventing violence will be a major focus of my office.
I will also join a national network of Attorneys General and prosecutors to protect our rights on the job. Wage theft is increasingly exploiting workers in Missouri. I will go after companies exploiting their workers. I will also make sure to enforce our antitrust laws to stop companies monopolizing our economy and our conservation laws to prevent the exploitation of our state's natural resources, especially our drinking water.
Human and drug trafficking is a major issue in Missouri because of our central location. As Attorney General, I will get our anti-human trafficking task force working again, and I will work with law enforcement, school districts, and community members to shut down human trafficking rings. We also must do so much more to address the fentanyl crisis in Missouri, including deploying proven harm reduction strategies and ensuring that the opioid settlement funds are used appropriately.
Government corruption is also holding our state back. As Attorney General, I will start a Public Corruption Unit to go after misappropriation of taxpayer funds and stop corrupt officials from abusing their power.
I will also make sure our Consumer Protection Division is working again. I will sue a lot of scammers.
Finally, for the 12th year in a row, Missouri is the puppy mill capital of the country, despite us voting against having abusive puppy mills in our state. I will enforce our current laws, advocate for better ones, and hold animal abusers accountable.
The Attorney General should represent the interest of the People of Missouri, and that includes preventing federal government abuses and overreach. For example, Missouri families have been poisoned by the federal government with radioactive waste left here and improperly secured after the Manhattan Project. Thanks to open records laws and lots of hard work by dedicated Missourians, we now know that the federal government knew they were harming our citizens since at least 1949 but didn't want to tell us because they feared we would panic.
As Attorney General, I will hold the federal government accountable for what it did to Missourians. It is inexcusable that so little has been done by our Attorney General so far.
My political philosophy puts people at the center of political decision-making. It's our government, and we should be the ones in charge. So much of our government is run by wealthy or corporate interests, and the rest of us are left with nothing. It's time for that to change.
I'd recommend everyone read Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments, not just The Wealth of Nations. The former is the first and last book he wrote; he came back to it often because he believed it was crucial for societies to ensure fairness within their economic systems.
Read anything that Dr. King wrote. There's a great publication of all of his speeches. I highly recommend his sermon on the Drum Major Instinct. It's about how people in power can keep us divided against each other by giving some of us a few more crumbs than the rest, making those more fortunate feel superior to everyone else and those less fortunate resentful, all while those in power stay in power.
For those who have not seen any of his episodes, I'd recommend watching Congressman Jerry Litton's Dialogues with Litton. He hosted an open town hall program with guests like Shirley Chisholm, Jack Kemp, and Jimmy Carter right here in Missouri in the 1970s. That kind of fun, engaging openness is desperately needed in our time.
Jane Jacob's The Death and Life of Great American Cities is a great discussion about community design that is applicable even beyond city planning.
I am definitely leaving a lot of people out, but I'm running up against the character limit. So I'd say read the federal and state constitutions, read the rules of procedure, read our laws and regulations, read the letters to the editor in papers all over your state, and really think about the system we have built and what could make it better for the People. That should be the job of any elected official.
Our elected officials should be committed to representing the People, and I think we're missing that commitment in our state. We need responsiveness from those in power. Our leaders shouldn't be a bunch of politicians who think they know better than the rest of us, and they should have the courage to stand up for the People against powerful interests.
We need far more folks in government who respect what the people who put them in office have to say.
I am deeply committed to making sure people have a voice in government, and I have a lot of patience and energy. I'm also a pretty good driver. Missouri is a very big state!
The Attorney General's Office deals with a lot of different issues. The number one complaint to the office every year is about scammers. We need an Attorney General who will make consumer protection a major priority. That includes going after scam callers, staying ahead of AI scams, and prosecuting fraud in our health care system.
Second, we need to work with local law enforcement, prosecutors, and community members to reduce and prevent violent crime. Our Attorney General should be leading that initiative.
Third, our Attorney General should be protecting our civil liberties. We need an Attorney General who will hold government officials accountable. That's why I've proposed starting a Civil Rights Division at the office.
Fourth and related, our Attorney General should be a watchdog ensuring accountability within our government. We need a Public Corruption Unit at the office.
Fifth, our Attorney General should be the People's advocate. The Attorney General should be holding regular town halls all over the state to hear what people want their attorney to do for them. We need serious responsiveness in that office.
Sixth, we need to protect Missouri's working families. Many other states fight back against wage theft, poor working conditions, or massive concentration in different economic sectors, like health care or retail or Big Tech. It's time we had an Attorney General who has our backs and who will get back to enforcing antitrust law and busting the trusts.
Seventh, that office can do so much to improve access to opportunity for Missourians. We can make it easier to start and maintain small businesses, create jobs, and improve our state's economy. We can help veterans access needed services. We can stop the exploitation of our urban and rural communities. We can address human and drug trafficking and deal with the fentanyl epidemic. The People of Missouri need an attorney who is here for them.
A bunch of prosecuted crooks and a Missouri that is reminded of what good government can look like.
I helped my grandfather with his very big garden when I was a kid and got a few bucks, but my first real job was as a summer camp counselor at SummerQuest. I had that job for a few summers before I started my own free summer program for kids in St. Louis City.
My first legal job was as an Assistant Attorney General of Missouri, where I served in multiple divisions from early 2014 until the end of 2016.
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It's really good!
Dire Strait's "Money for Nothing"
Be careful when it's raining cats and dogs out there. You don't want to step in a poodle!
Many, including Missourians of all backgrounds, unions, and political organizations. You can endorse me too at EladGross.org/endorse
I very much favor both. I have spent the last many years defending Missouri's Sunshine Law - the law that allows us to see government records and participate in public meetings - against our government and in our state legislature. I've been opposed every step of the way by our Attorney General. I successfully defended that law and won a unanimous decision at Missouri's Supreme Court to protect our right to transparency in government.
As Attorney General, I will return control of our state to you. I will fully enforce Missouri's Sunshine Law. I will make sure you can see where your money is going. I will start a Public Corruption Unit to hold government officials accountable.
I have held officials accountable regardless of party. We need a watchdog as our Attorney General, and that's what I will bring to the office.
I fully support the constitutional right of Missourians to put issues we care about on the ballot. As Attorney General, I will not abuse my office to prevent you from exercising that right. It's despicable that our current Attorney General, who hasn't even been elected, illegally delayed the signature gathering process for months simply because he disagreed with putting reproductive freedom on the ballot. That is no excuse to deny Missourians their basic civil liberties.
I do support reforming the proposition process. Today, most of the initiative petitions are filed as constitutional amendments because those are harder for the legislature to change after we pass them; any alterations would have to go back to the people for a vote. The alternative to amendments are propositions. Propositions are like laws, so they can be easily changed by the legislature. The puppy mill initiative was a proposition. Once it passed, the legislature immediately gutted it. That's why we see the amendment process rather than the proposition process being used so much more now even on issues that may need more rapid changes over time.
I would be open to putting in protections for propositions to encourage their use. For example, we could restrict the legislature from changing propositions for a certain number of years unless there is an overwhelming vote to do so, or maybe we could require another vote of the people if changes were needed during that off-limits time period.
I am not open to making the initiative petition process more difficult. Missourians should have the ultimate check on government power.
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Campaign website
Gross’ campaign website stated the following:
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SOLUTIONS These ideas were developed with a special focus on Missouri and the role of our state government, and each of these plans included input from Missourians like you. Elad's Plan to Sue Scammers
Elad's Plan to Crush Corruption
Elad's Plan to End Puppy Mills
Elad's Plan to Prevent and Reduce Violence
Elad's Plan to Enforce Our Civil Rights
Elad's Plan to Make Health Care Affordable
Elad's Plan to Conserve Our Environment
Elad's Plan to Protect Workers
Elad's Plan to Serve Veterans and Service Members
Elad's Plan to Aid Farmers
Elad's Plan to Protect Reproductive Rights
Elad's Plan to Support Small Business
Elad's Plan to Bust the Trusts
Elad's Plan to Fight Human and Drug Trafficking
Elad's Plan to Improve Representation in Government
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2020
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Elad Gross completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Gross' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I am an educator, a former Assistant Attorney General and volunteer Special Public Defender of Missouri, a civil rights attorney, and one of the nation's lead investigators into hidden dark money corruption that is breaking our democracy.
I will be an anti-corruption, pro-justice Attorney General who brings accountability back to Missouri.
As an Assistant Attorney General, I was in charge of the busiest trial docket in the state, I completed several efficiency projects to save taxpayer money, and I trained attorneys in trial practice. As a Special Public Defender, I secured the release of an innocent teenager who lost 7 months of her life in the St. Louis Workhouse for a crime she did not commit. As a civil rights attorney, I have helped reform many of Missouri's justice and education practices.
In my anti-corruption work, I took on a powerful dark money network, our Governor, and our Attorney General to win landmark protections for members of the public seeking public records.
I've been teaching for 13 years. My work in education pushed me into the law.
I graduated from Washington University School of Law, Duke University with degrees in Economics and Political Science, and Clayton High School. I was the worst NCAA Division I player in the country before I was cut for the third time and took up rugby. My wife, Tasha, helped found Ashreinu and MaTovu, and she is better than me on Twitter. We have too many cats and dogs.
- I will FIGHT CORRUPTION. We need to make sure our government serves us, and the influence of big money in our politics is the reason why we haven't been able to solve so many of the problems facing our community, especially inequity of opportunity. It's why corporations are exploiting Missourians, why monopolies are increasing in power and destroying our natural resources, and why scammers are running free. We need to bring accountability to Jefferson City.
- I will PROTECT OUR HEALTH CARE. During a pandemic, our Attorney General is suing to eliminate access to affordable health care for millions of Americans and preemptively end our opportunity to expand Medicaid. Medicaid expansion is crucial to the survival of rural Missouri. If this moment is telling us anything, it's that we need serious reform in so many of our systems, especially in health care.
- I will BUILD A TRUE JUSTICE SYSTEM. I've taught far too many kids who have been affected by violence. States that have effectively dealt with violence have done it through smart, coordinated work that included justice reform. I've worked with law enforcement officers, social workers, mental health care providers, public defenders, community members, and national experts on a plan to build a fair justice system that puts Missourians in positions to succeed.
Education was my first passion. The more I taught, the more I saw how all of our broken systems interact with each other. It's much harder for kids to succeed when our government doesn't fully fund their schools, when school districts can't attract enough teachers, when kids go to homes with little access to food, when parents aren't able to get the health care they need, when jobs aren't available, when the justice system keeps the poor at a disadvantage, when pollution takes away your ability to breathe deep, when violence is always close by.
I am very passionate about policy solutions that put our kids - our future - at the center and look at how we can work together on all of these pieces.
That's why I feel so strongly that we need to do everything we can to ensure our democracy works. We need to make sure folks' voices are heard, that we all have the ability to influence policy regardless of how much money we have in our bank accounts.
As Attorney General, the first steps I will take will be to eliminate corruption in our government. When we clean up our foundation, we can build again, and we will do that in an inclusive way.
I want to hear from you on this campaign. I hope you'll join one of our advisory boards at https://www.eladgross.org/advisory-boards
The Attorney General is the official who can bring accountability back to our government. The Office can enforce our civil rights, prosecute corruption and scammers, help build a true justice system, protect our rights in the workplace, conserve our natural resources, and improve our health care system. Above all else, the Attorney General should be the advocate for We the People.
The Attorney General in Missouri is an elected, independent executive office. The Governor cannot fire the Attorney General. That makes the Attorney General an important check on power exercised by the rest of the executive branch and by the legislature.
This office fights telephone scammers. We need an Attorney General willing to take on Big Telecom so we can take back our phones.
This office can prosecute public corruption. We need an Attorney General who will enforce our constitutional dark money prohibitions, uphold our transparency laws, and disrupt the national network that is selling our government to the highest bidder.
This office should lead on building a true justice system in Missouri. For the last 20 years, our Attorney General's Office has released a report showing that black drivers are more likely to be pulled over, more likely to be arrested, and less likely to have contraband than white drivers. Violent crime is getting worse. Justice is far too often only provided to those who can afford it. We need accountability.
This office can protect our civil rights. Many Attorneys General have civil rights divisions at their offices. Missouri does not.
This office can protect our health care, support legal protections for vulnerable Missourians to access health care, and prevent insurance companies from scamming customers.
This office used to have a conservation division. We need to protect our families from pollution and prevent CAFOs and corporate farms from exploiting our land.
We need an Attorney General who will lead.
We need accountability in our justice system.
I will start Missouri's first Civil Rights Division. The division will ensure Missourians' rights are protected, help investigate and root out injustices in our justice system, and assist in training of law enforcement officers. We need to build a true justice system and rebuild legitimacy in our public institutions.
Missouri is also dealing with a violent crime crisis. I will initiate a statewide coordinated effort with law enforcement, prosecutors, community organizations, and community members to prevent violence and hold violent criminals accountable. This coordinated effort will use proven strategies, including focused deterrence and community mediation, to reduce violent crime.
We also need to improve transparency in law enforcement. As Attorney General, I will enforce Missouri's Sunshine Law and protect public access to public records. I will also help protect law enforcement officers who speak up when they see colleagues violating the law.
I will also continue the work I've done to break the school-to-prison pipeline. That will include working with schools and juvenile justice systems to help our state's children receive the services they need.
As Attorney General, I will help Missouri's court system and prosecutors develop improved diversion programs. Some local jurisdictions are doing a great job in this area already, and we'll do a much better job of sharing best practices throughout the state to improve outcomes and save taxpayer money.
I will also work with the Innocence Project and similar organizations to develop plans for Conviction Review Units that ensure innocent Missourians do not remain behind bars.
Our public servants need support. As Attorney General, I will advocate for our state to finally invest in our people and our institutions so we can build the home we know Missouri can be.
Previous experience, especially experience working in the Attorney General's Office, is very important. You've got to know how the machine works if you're going to fix it! I'm fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with so many different agencies and court systems in the state throughout my career. I know how the office works, I've already proposed detailed plans at http://www.eladgross.org/solutions, and I'll be ready to go on day one.
But I think an Attorney General should have wider experience than just working in government. Sometimes, if all you know is government, then the only solution you know is government. We need an Attorney General who understands the challenges Missourians are facing, who can reimagine how that office works, and who has a track record of showing up and taking action on behalf of the people of our state.
Technical experience is necessary to operate the office properly. Having real experience fighting corruption, serving our state's families, working in our justice and education systems, and spending the time to understand the different challenges our different communities face is what we need from an Attorney General at his crucial moment.
I look up to quite a few folks. When it comes to our national politics, I have a deep interest in the works of Dr. King, Malcolm X, and Bobby Kennedy. King's approach to economic equity and unity was so important. His work was tragically cut short, and America never completed it. We can realize so many of our ideals by focusing on economic opportunity, and I will lead on that work as Attorney General.
As civil rights litigators, Frankie Muse Freeman and Bryan Stevenson are folks I look to. They are great examples of people who refused to let society perpetuate injustice, even when they faced extreme personal pushback.
In Missouri politics, I look at the examples of Congressman Jerry Litton and Senator Jack Danforth. Like Congressman Litton, I have worked very hard to make our government more accessible to the public, and we hold regular public town halls with guests from all over the country on important issues. And like Senator Danforth, who was a bit younger than me when he became Attorney General, I feel it's very important for Missouri to have a new wave of leadership that focuses on integrity and fighting corruption.
I've had a lot of students I've looked up to, kids who have had to deal with so much and who show unthinkable courage despite our society devaluing them. I have one elementary school student in particular who I know will one day be a presidential candidate - and a very good president if we make the right choice!
I look up to my campaign team, a group of Missourians who are standing up in the face of very powerful opposition. They are fighting so hard to take back Missouri, and I'm so proud to know them.
And, always, I look up to my mom. My mom fled her birth country before she was 10 years old; served in the Yom Kippur War; became an aeronautical engineer; retrained herself in tech; and raised three kids and many dogs just about all on her own.
We need courage in America. I'm proud to have so many models of that.
Integrity.
Accessibility.
An understanding that the office belongs to the People, not to the official.
Openness to input.
Patience.
Empathy.
Creativity.
Perseverance.
Enthusiasm.
Commitment.
Patience.
I don't give up on the People of Missouri. This moment demands leaders who won't accept failed ways of doing things. We need new ideas, creative and clear leadership, and officials who are committed to representing us.
I will run the Attorney General's Office with the patience, deliberation, openness, and energy I use to run our campaign. The Office will be inclusive of all of our voices. I will continue visiting with folks all over our state, holding town halls, and bringing our government back to the People. As Attorney General, I will make sure our government upholds the principle of transparency.
I will manage the Office's litigation like I'm managing my own anti-corruption and pro-justice cases. We will always represent the People of Missouri, and we will relentlessly pursue justice.
Missouri needs a fighter. We need an advocate. We need someone who understands that our state must do better by our children, that we all lose out when any one of us cannot participate in the process.
We need to bring accountability and integrity back to the Attorney General's Office, and that is exactly what I'll do.
I'd definitely want to be a captain in Starfleet. Captain Kirk is my guy!
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- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on July 8, 2024
- ↑ Information submitted on Ballotpedia’s biographical information submission form on November 14, 2018
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Elad Gross, “SOLUTIONS,” accessed July 21, 2024
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