James Montee

When he took office, Gov. Jay Nixon pledged to clean-up the process of awarding management contracts for motor vehicle fee offices, which have long been used as political chits in both parties.

So it should come as no surprise that when…

On Wednesday, the state GOP issued a release seeking more information on radio ads featuring Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan, the Democrat’s presumptive nominee for Senate.

Carnahan’s office was quick to oblige.

The spots, which have been running during Cardinals and…

Carnahan

Listen to enough Cardinal baseball on the radio, and in between Mike Shannon and John Rooney, you’ll hear another familiar voice: Senate hopeful Robin Carnahan.

The Missouri Secretary of State, who is also the state’s chief regulator of financial securities, regularly runs…

JEFFERSON CITY — Congressman Roy Blunt wants to make sure he controls the news cycle this quarter.

The Republican from Springfield who is running for U.S. Senate in 2010 took a first quarter beating in the political press in Washington, D.C.,…

ST. LOUIS — Even with lawmakers passing a bipartisan proposal to mandade bidding of the state’s driver’s license fee offices, the old political controversy continues to burn.

Today, the Missouri GOP is criticizing Gov. Jay Nixon for awarding another fee office to…

JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri Republican Party filed an ethics complaint against Secretary of State Robin Carnahan today, claiming that the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate failed to include her husband’s business on ethics forms.

There’s only one problem, responded Carnahan spokesman…

Joe Biden

UPDATED … WASHINGTON — In case you hadn’t noticed, the Obama administration is setting in motion a pro-stimulus PR blitz this week to defend against skeptics and spell out plans to create or save another 600,000 jobs in the next 100 days.

The White House put…

JEFFERSON CITY — The fee office bash-fest continues.

As first reported by our friends over at PrimeBuzz, Gov. Jay Nixon has awarded a fee office to longtime Democratic stalwart and donor James Montee, ex-husband of auditor Susan Montee.

Both the previous fee office…

WASHINGTON — You might expect gay marriage to be the law of the land in California, which was the case until Prop. 8 said no.

Same for liberal Massachusetts and Connecticut, where the gay rights movement is potent and a couple doesn’t have to be…

Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder

Republican insiders are chirping that the new front-runner for the chairmanship of the state Republican Party might be the last man standing in the most recent election: Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder.

It’s no secret that Kinder, the only…