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MONA-PAC Celebrates 2022 Election and Looks to the Future
The 2022 election cycle has been a good one for Missouri Nurses Association Political Action Committee (MONA-PAC). We have been working for months to elect pro-nursing candidates to the Missouri legislature and election day, November 8, 2022, gave us that opportunity. We celebrate our successes. Based on our endorsed candidates that won their election, MONA-PAC had a 98.7% winning percentage in the general election. These results would not have been possible without activism from nurses. Members donated money, attended events, made phone calls, reached out to friends and family, posted on social media and more – and nurses voted. All of these activities helped MONA-PAC support our nursing champion candidates through their successful elections.
Core Issues
- Workplace rights and safety
- Safe and adequate nurse staffing
- Patient advocacy
- Access to quality health care
- Health care finance
- Nursing education, practice and licensure
Our Goals
- Ensuring a majority of legislators are those endorsed by the MONA-PAC (with a minimum 82 Representatives and 18 Senators)
- Advocating for all House and Senate committees impacting nursing to be chaired by a MONA-PAC endorsed legislator
- Legislative leadership positions be held by MONA-PAC endorsed persons who are successfully elected
MONA-PAC was founded in 1985 as the Political Action for Nurses in Missouri Committee.
The group has interviewed and endorsed hundreds of candidates for elected office in the Missouri legislative and executive branches.
At this time, MONA-PAC contributions have attributed to a 95% success rate for candidate elections/re-elections.
MONA-PAC activities build on nonpartisan, criteria-based selection to:
- Promote and financially endorse candidates who support MONA’s legislative agenda
- Encourage grassroots involvement and nursing participation in the electoral process
- Establish a dynamic, ongoing communication process between MONA-PAC, the MONA Board of Directors, regional officers and individual contributors
MONA-PAC differs from the MONA Advocacy Committee:
- Advocacy Committee monitors legislation and regulation that impact nursing, developing a proactive agenda to support and direct nursing issues
- MONA-PAC endorses candidates that support MONA and its legislative and regulatory agenda