We are not making this up…there’s actually a reference to one of these:

Cited as the reason the logjam was broken.  Don’t believe us?  Read the story.  From STLtoday:

With nary a peep, the Missouri House overwhelmingly adopted and sent to the governor a bill known as the “village law” that had been the main hindrance in the end-of-session logjam.

The house acted shortly after 9:20 a.m. today.

The bill is intended to repeal a section of statute slipped into law last session that would allow individual landowners to create their own villages, thus bypassing local zoning law. The repeal became the object of a standoff between the House and Senate in the past few days, with House Speaker Rod Jetton insisting that last year’s village law was a good idea.

The repeal was the object of a lengthy filibuster yesterday in the Senate. But the Senate adopted it early this morning and sent it to the House. The Senate’s vote had come at about 4 a.m. today after a nearly five-hour filibuster. Most of the filibustering was done by Sen. Jason Crowell, R-Cape Girardeau, a close ally to Jetton.

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