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David P. Rhodes II
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Announcement of candidacy

David P. Rhodes
II

For Governor of Missouri

[email protected](314) 474-9287

The announcement

I am David P. Rhodes II. I grew up in Rhineland, Missouri, on the rivers, hunting the Ozarks and cutting firewood. I am a concrete to roof carpenter. I am a Republican. I am running for Governor in 2028.

I am no better than anybody. I am just a man that is standing up.

I do not have big donors. I work forty, fifty, sixty hours a week, and I am doing this myself.

Where he stands

  1. 01

    Prisons that do the job

    Lock up the people who need locking up. Stop the revolving door. A man who gets out should not walk right back in. Missouri prisoners will be put to work, so long as that work does not take jobs from our labor force. Prison labor laws are established, and they will be enforced.

  2. 02

    The worst crimes

    If you murder someone or touch a child in the state of Missouri, we will kill you.

  3. 03

    Government aid

    Government aid is not your paycheck. It is assistance. You will still be making working progress, or you will lose your aid.

  4. 04

    Courts, schools, and families

    Courts, social services, and schools answer to Missouri families. Families do not answer to them.

  5. 05

    A race that is not for sale

    No consultants. No big money. This campaign is paid for by a man who works for a living, and the words on it are his.

I am a redneck. I am determined and do not give up.

David P. Rhodes II

Water, methane, and air

  1. Water

    Missouri has no statewide water permit system. Landowners can pump freely under reasonable use, and the only statewide rule is registering equipment over a hundred thousand gallons a day. New Florence is the test case: Amazon’s Project Green projects fifty million gallons a year from wells fifteen hundred to two thousand feet deep, while residential wells around town run about eight hundred feet. Hydrogeologist John Bognar says the public recharge data is too old to trust at that site, and a nineteen-eighty-one New Florence well is already showing decline. If your well drops or goes dry, Missouri law lets you sue the company for unreasonable harm — and multiple landowners suffering the same damage can file jointly or as a class action, spreading the cost. As governor, I’d require a modern site-specific study before any new data center permit moves forward, so the fight starts with science instead of after the damage.

  2. Methane

    Missouri landfills leak methane that could replace fossil gas. Vision RNG at Eagle Ridge in Bowling Green captures fifteen hundred cubic feet per minute, makes three hundred seventy-five thousand MMBtu yearly — heats about eighty-eight hundred homes — and pipes it into Panhandle Eastern. Ameren burns Champ Landfill gas in Maryland Heights for fifteen megawatts, powering ten thousand St. Louis homes. Springfield’s Noble Hill averages two thousand to twenty-two hundred cubic feet per minute and is spending thirty-one point six million on an RNG upgrade expected to earn four to nineteen million a year. Sixteen landfills statewide. Add selective catalytic reduction to the turbines and you get ninety percent less nitrogen oxides than xAI’s Southaven setup.

  3. Air

    Best control is selective catalytic reduction. That’s a system that injects ammonia or urea into the exhaust to convert nitrogen oxides into harmless nitrogen and water vapor — it can cut NOx by ninety percent or more. Baghouses or electrostatic precipitators catch the fine particulate matter before it leaves the stack. For formaldehyde, oxidation catalysts break it down. The catch is that xAI’s turbines in Southaven reportedly weren’t running any of that equipment when the NAACP tested the air. So the technology exists and is standard on modern permitted plants — the problem isn’t that it can’t be done, it’s that it wasn’t done.