Since John McCain’s campaign manager says GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin is being kept away from the press until reporters learn to treat her with “with some level of respect and deference,” I want to say I’m posting this…
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People who want to buy a piece of state government ordinarily use a lobbyist. But for a limited time, they can get a chunk o’ Missouri on eBay, the online auction site.
Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt and his…
With less than six months remaining in office, Gov. Matt Blunt and his administration are hard at work framing and burnishing their legacy.
They’ve been boasting about how well Mr. Blunt managed the state budget. In a press release issued last week, they…
On the evening of Nov. 2, 2004, when it became apparent that Republican Matt Blunt had defeated Democrat Claire McCaskill in the race for Missouri governor, Jeremiah W. “Jay” Nixon began laying claim to the Democratic nomination for governor in 2008.
He…
Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt celebrated his leadership this week with a news release that claims that he has created “strong budgets, surpluses, while other states see red.”
The release adds: “Gov. Blunt’s strong, conservative fiscal management of Missouri’s budget turned an inherited $1.1…
Last Saturday, the day after Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt signed Senate Bill 1038, which repeals the limits on campaign contribution to state political candidates, we pulled up behind a car on Chippewa Street and noticed a bumper sticker that read: “We…
FiredUp Missouri is looking for Gov. Matt Blunt’s latest finance report to see whether he returned over-limit donations.
Meanwhile, Politico notes that the governor’s dad, U.S. Rep. Roy Blunt of Missouri, has handed the NRCC a half million clams for the fall campaigns.
Gubernatorial…
The U.S. Senate this week gave unanimous consent by voice vote to President George W. Bush’s appointment of Missouri Supreme Court Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr. to the U.S. District Court for Eastern Missouri.
Given that Senate Democrats and the Republican president have been…
While checking the Missouri Secretary of State’s Website for the final certified ballot for the Aug. 5 primary, we were shocked to learn that Chief Wana Dubie of Salem had been DQ’d from the Libertarian Party ballot for governor.
Thus the final link in…
In the general election of 2000, the full impact of the term limits Missouri voters had imposed on their state Legislature eight years earlier kicked in. Ninety of the 163 members of the Missouri House elected in 2000 were freshmen.…
Back before things got so polarized, it was said that American politics stops at the border. Democrats and Republicans might squabble at home, but they’d present a united front abroad.
Every now and then, there are signs that the good old…
