Lager

Last week, U.S. Rep. Roy Blunt and National Republican Committee Chairman Michael Steele were both in the hot seat after a radio host in Springfield questioned Blunt’s conservative credentials.

Today, Blunt’s campaign for Senate announced the endorsement of State Sen. Brad Lager, one…

State Sen. Brad Lager boasting that his district is larger than Rhode Island, St. Louis Democrat Rachel Storch having trouble getting extra money for meals-on-wheels and prosecutors lobbying to pack heat in the courthouse — these are just a few of the tidbits…

Kinder

Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder could be looking at four lonely years in Jefferson City.

The Republican incumbent clinched his second term Tuesday, defeating Creve Couer Democrat Sam Page by a firm margin.

In doing so, Kinder was the only GOPer to win statewide office…

Zweifel, left, and Lager are in a tight race

The race for state treasurer is the closest of the five statewide contests on the ballot next week, according to the results of a Post-Dispatch poll reported in this morning’s paper.

Republican State…

Matzdorff

Turns out that Gov. Matt Blunt has long washed his hands — or, at least, his campaign account — of the crooked former telecom exec currently being used as an attack on Democratic attorney general hopeful Chris Koster.

The source of…

Clint Zweifel, the Democratic nominee for treasurer, has his first general election ad up. It looks similiar to his primary ad, though adds a swipe at Republican rival Brad Lager.

A biting new ad from Republican attorney general hopeful Mike Gibbons accuses Democratic rival Chris Koster of, among other misdeeds, accepting money tied to organized crime.

“As a county prosecutor,” the ad says of Koster, “he took contributions…

The Missouri Democratic Party announced today that it filed an ethics complaint against the Republican candidate for state treasurer, state Sen. Brad Lager.

The state GOP countered by filing a complaint against the Democratic candidate, state Rep. Clint Zweifel.

The Democrats accuse Lager of illegally…

The disqualification of former Kansas City Mayor Charlie Wheeler from the state treasurer race means that the Democratic contest for the position will be a strictly local affair.

Wheeler, who served as K.C. mayor in the 1970s and State Senator until last…

The Arch City Chronicle had an interesting item this week, posting past campaign literature from State Sen. Brad Lager, who recently announced that he will be running for state treasurer.

The piece from the young Republican, who represents northwest Missouri, takes…