yaeh, and i’m still waiting for the e-mails about all the corruption in the give-aways office of Matt Blunt and his GOP supporters.

1. regulators picked by the regulated.

2. fee offices taken from the state and given to GOP supporters and the money derived taken ( some $6.3 million) from the Highway Fund for the benefit of GOP and Blunt supporters.

3. AT&T gets Andy and the Guv to de-regulate it and sticks local residential customers with some $10 million in local rate increase without any PSC review, after they buy out the “competition” and then uses the money for subsidizing their business clients and new video services (just bought statewide from the GOP).

Jeez, it just goes on….and on…and on!

Hey Tim! I thought I’d stay on point as much as you did. Have you caught this little diddy from Lawrence O’Donnell, the liberal talking head?

“John Edwards is a loser. He has won exactly two elections in his life and lost 31. Only one of his wins and all of his losses were in presidential primaries and caucuses. He remains perfectly positioned to continue to lose with a Kucinich-like consistency. Nothing but egomania keeps Edwards in the race now. All presidential candidates are egomaniacs but some of them have party status worth preserving that forces them to drop out when they hit the wall. A loser like Edwards has no status or dignity to lose. Campaigning and losing is his life. So, he will continue his simple-minded, losing campaign and deny Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton the one-on-one contest they deserve.
If John Edwards stays in the race, he might, in the end, become nothing other than the Southern white man who stood in the way of the black man. And for that, he would deserve a lifetime of liberal condemnation.”

Ah, hypocrisy…isn’t it great. Last time I checked, Missouri’s GOP members aren’t doing so well with the law either…

Jo - I’d love to see a post about Tom Lakin. There is a story in “the mother ship” about the feds calling 20 women, and a number of young men, to testify about his sexual activity and drug abuse. What’s missing from the story is any mention of the fact that Lakin, and other members of the law firm he heads, have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Democrats over the same period that he was allegedly plying women, and some teenage girls, with cocaine.

A list of the political contributions can be viewed here:

http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/search.asp?key=RZF64&txtName=lakin&txtState=IL&txtAll=Y&Order=N

Does anyone here except Garrison think that this fact would have been overlooked by the Post if he’d been donating to Republicans?

Our Illinois staff has done numerous stories on Lakin, and many — if not most — have noted his status as one of the region’s most generous Democratic donors.

Because many of the Illinois stories (on any topic) don’t make the Missouri versions of the Post-Dispatch, I don’t feel well-versed enough on Lakin’s troubles to post anything.

I have encouraged our Illinois crew for years to either contribute to Political Fix, or start their own blog to focus on Illinois politics. So far, neither has happened.

I occasionally post something regarding Illinois politics, but don’t feel comfortable enough (or have enough time) to do it often.

I oversee this blog pretty much on my own time, and it takes a hefty chunk just to keep up on all the activities and antics in Missouri.

Jo - that is not the whole story - perhaps (?) it will be in print. I heard on KMOX that Bowman pleaded guilty of this misdemeaner in order to avoid another charge which would have been a felony. What is that about? What is the full story? Timbo, you’re the lawyer - can you please clarify how you get away with a felony because you plead guilty to a misdemeaner?

In response to Centrist: We’ll no doubt have a more detailed account of Bowman’s proceedings in tomorrow’s paper.

And I believe that Heather has been updating the online version, so you might want to check back to see if it has changed.

#5: Good post.

#6: Felonies are frequently pled to misdemeanors for first time criminal offenders.

Quoting from the release: “Even more disturbing is that the head of the Democrat Party, Jay Nixon, is the attorney general of the state.”

Wrong. Try John Temporiti.

Hey Jo, since we are piling on Democrats, why don’t you do a little digging into State Rep. Brad Robinson. His “truck” struck a pedestrian at 1:30am New Year’s day. There have been about 5 different versions of the story released in our local Lee owned rag and not one is the same as the one before it. Instead of calling 911 immediately after the accident, which would have summoned Bonne Terre police and an ambulance literally a couple hundred feet from the scene, Robinson called the COUNTY Sheriff at his home. The story smells like 3 day old road kill and law enforcement in our area have completely dropped the ball.

Amazed - As was recently demonstrated by the good senator from Columbia, driving drunk and causing an accident is no big deal when you’re a Democrat.

Now let’s get back to something really important and relevant - Any new details about the Nathan Cooper situation? I guess he hasn’t reported for prison yet, I haven’t seen a front page photo of him in an orange jumpsuit.