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Cheri Toalson-Reisch is an American politician who sits in the Missouri House of Representatives representing District 44. Reisch is a member of the Republican Party. She is the sixth-generation of her family to live in Boone County, Missouri, her ancestors having settled in the county in the 1810s.
Reisch is currently being sued for blocking a constituent on Twitter. In June 2018, Reisch tweeted that it was "sad to see" her 2018 election opponent, veterinarian Maren Bell Jones, put her hands behind her back during the Pledge of Allegiance at a Boone County Farm Bureau event that both candidates attended. The constituent was then blocked on Twitter after he retweeted a post by state Rep. Kip Kendrick, D-Columbia, that criticized Reisch's statement.
On August 16, 2019, Reisch lost her lawsuit, with the judge stating that Reisch blocking users on Twitter violated their First Amendment rights [1]