05.02.2008 4:47 pm
Today, the Missouri Western District Court of Appeals issued its decision regarding the disputed ballot summary language that Secretary of State Robin Carnahan had issued for a proposed constitutional amendment aimed at barring some of the types of embryonic stem-cell research now allowed…

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04.28.2008 8:13 pm
Monday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling in favor of Indiana’s mandate requiring voters to produce a government-issued photo ID produced a lot of reaction in Missouri.
Some of the best analysis of the impact in Missouri, from both sides, came from…

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04.10.2008 5:10 pm
Secretary of State Robin Carnahan just announced that her office has approved for circulation the ballot proposal to do away with Missouri’s current system for appointing judges in the urban areas and to the higher courts.
Advanced by “Better Courts…

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04.06.2008 2:19 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Missouri Democrats held their annual Jefferson-Jackson Dinner on Saturday night, honoring a trio of party stalwarts and gearing up for the November election.
Receiving the “Legacy of Leadership” nod were three lions of Show-Me politics: Dick Gephardt, Jean Carnahan and Bill…

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03.13.2008 6:18 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Kit Bond testified at a Capitol Hill hearing on Wednesday about his favorite suffragist pooch — Ritzy Meckler, the Springer Spaniel who famously was registered to vote in St. Louis.
(Ritzy never cast a vote, and her identity was uncovered by city…

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02.04.2008 8:44 pm
Unsure about what to do when you go to the polls? (By the way, they’re open Tuesday from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m.)
Secretary of State Robin Carnahan wants to help. Her staff has created a “two minute video for first-time…

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01.30.2008 6:22 pm
State Democratic Party chairman John Temporiti is heralding Secretary of State Robin Carnahan’s decision not to challenge Attorney General Jay Nixon for governor.
Temporiti — who has made a point of trying to prevent multi-candidate Democratic primaries — said he had no hand in…

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01.30.2008 6:20 pm
Democrat Robin Carnahan, who has been toying with jumping into the governor’s race, just took her name out of the running and will seek re-election as secretary of state instead.
In a statement released tonight, Carnahan said: “After careful consideration…

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01.25.2008 4:49 pm
A campaign spokesman for Secretary of State Robin Carnahan, a Democrat, confirmed that she is considering whether to make a run for governor — something she’d discarded last year.
If she did make a run, that would mean taking on…

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