While Missouri House Republicans are coming big wins last week and another House GOP supermajority in January, one of its members says the Speaker-designee should not be Speaker. State Rep. Justin Sparks (R-Wildwood) appeared live on 939 the Eagle's "Gary Nolan show", telling listeners that House Speaker-designee Jon Patterson (R-Lee's Summit) was elected during an informal caucus vote a year ago, where the freshman GOP candidates who were elected to the House last week did not vote. Rep. Sparks, who was first elected to the Missouri House in 2022, slammed Patterson on-air on initiative petition reform, guns and transgender issues. Representative Sparks tells Mr. Nolan that the next speaker must be ready to tackle Amendment Three, adding that Patterson voted against the SAFE Act, which involved transgender youth. Representative Sparks also criticized the Missouri House Republican Campaign Committee (HRCC) during the interview: