Sometimes I think it might be fun to give the idiots like Hunter what they want…abolish the Fund and let the Employer pick up the tab for the permanently disabled.
Beware what you wish for, as you might just get it.

Tony - you failed to mention the only reason the vote was close was because the self-serving attorneys like Harris voted against the bill while at least 39 votes (based on previous day’s amendment vote) voted against it because of the Life Sciences.

Not quite up to speed yet or did you intend to mislead with the “tight 82-70″ vote?

BTW - it appears that Nixon could have a bigger second injury fund problem than Webster. Who knows - unlike Webster - Nixon might go to jail for second injury fund abuses.

Good point, Jason. Because while Democrats continue to mislead the public by saying that Webster was busted for the Second Injury Fund, that isn’t true. He went to prison, essentially, for xeroxing campaign flyers on the office copy machine. Nixon, meanwhile, dishes out big dollars to liberal activists from his “Missouri Foundation for Health”, launders contributions from Ameren through Democratic party accounts while he is considering whether to prosecure Ameren … and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. But as another Nixon once said, “I am not a crook.”

If JasonB is ripping on him, then Jeff Harris must be right on the money.

Oh, and Nick, you might recall that Al Capone went to prison for tax evasion. Of course that doesn’t mean he was innocent of everything else, now does it?

Here is another lesson for you Tony - AARP has no credibility in the capitol so there opposition doesn’t mean squat.

The vets obviously do but from what I hear in the capitol - their opposiiton is seen more as a being misled on the issue than substantive. Besides - they want a sales tax designation and won’t do a lot on anything else that would make their chances of success any harder.

Tony?

The return key missing form your keyboard?

Spaces… good things. Easier to read

Nixon’s only second injury fund problem is idiots like Hunter and Nodler who don’t understand work comp, but like to kick it around every election cycle.
If you’re an injured worker, you’re a political football for the Republicans.
The Repubs actually think it is okay to have the Dept of Labor both defend the Fund and decide how much it owes to a worker. There are at least two prohibitions in the Civil Rules against this obvious conflict of interest, but since when did the law (and logic) ever slow these idiots down?

Well Darren, since when did the law slow Bob Griffin down? Oh, wait, it did. Slowed him down a lot. Slow him right down into a prison cell.

If you have to reach back to Bob Griffin, you are really stretching. If we are going to fight old fights, progress will never be made. Having said that, Webster pled to copier abuse, but the case was about the Fund, and plenty of his co-conspirators went to prison over it.

Comments above about Nixon are defamatory. He cleaned up the Fund and it has been run in pristine fashion since he took over from Webster. No criminal activity has taken place since Nixon took it over and anyone who says it has had better be able to back it up with specific evidence, and not just libelous drivel.