FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Weston McKee June 13, 2007 Dempsey Kicks Off Campaign for State Senate House Majority Leader stresses legislative experience, community roots, and shared values in announcement (St. Charles) – House Majority Leader Tom Dempsey (R-18) today was joined by more than 225 supporters as he announced his plans to help build an […]
Entries from June 2007
Dempsey Announces Candidacy
June 13th, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: Decision '08
OpEdNews.com: “Is GOP Senator Kit Bond A Liar Or Just Plain Stupid?”
June 13th, 2007 · No Comments
Lost in the coverage Monday of Senate Republicans blocking the no-confidence vote on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, was a silly little speech given by Kit Bond (R-MO) about the Iraq war, the Democratic response to the quagmire and, as the Congressional Record labeled it, “Media Bias” in reporting on the American occupation. Bond covered all […]
Tags: Iraq War · Senator. Kit Bond
STL Post Dispatch: “Riverview Superintendent Still Paid Despite His Removal”
June 13th, 2007 · No Comments
More proof for the need for school choice, especially in our poor and minority communities. By David Hunn MOLINE ACRES — Riverview Gardens school leaders removed Superintendent Henry Williams three months ago, but they’re still paying him $13,300 a month in salary and $700 a month in car allowances. According to district records, Williams has […]
Tags: School Choice · St. Louis
Secret Slush Funds and Earmarks
June 13th, 2007 · No Comments
By Rep. Roy Blunt That the authors of our nation’s governing document gave the House of Representatives exclusive authority to bring forth legislation related to revenue was no accident. The House, after all, was designed to be the more responsive, more accountable of the two chambers — especially when it came to the business of […]
Tags: Rep. Roy Blunt
MOGOP: “Nixon Missed Critical Ameren Evidence, Charges Never Filed”
June 13th, 2007 · No Comments
JEFFERSON CITY – In their zeal to attack the media, Democrat operatives have implicated Jay Nixon for missing critical evidence in a Missouri State Highway Patrol report that could have led to criminal charges against Ameren for the Taum Sauk reservoir collapse. Gleeful Democrats are rejoicing that the media failed to correctly point out that […]
Tags: Decision '08 · Jay Nixon
Way to Go Mr. Congressman!
June 13th, 2007 · No Comments
Has it now come to this, that in order for the perpetual back bencher to garner any attention, he must resort to discussing his dental work with a reporter? Way to go Mr. Congressman! Rep. Clay’s Braces Come off — For Good By Betsy Rothstein The metal wires on Rep. Lacy Clay’s (D-Mo.) bottom teeth […]
Tags: Rep. Lacy Clay
Charlotte Observer: “York County Looks West for New Manager”
June 13th, 2007 · No Comments
By Rebecca Sulock (Rock Hill) Herald The York County Council has pared down its list of county manager candidates to one Missouri man. The county made an offer Tuesday to Jim Baker, former director of administration and the chief of staff for the executive for St. Louis County, which has more than 1 million residents. […]
Tags: St. Louis · STL County Executive Charlie Dooley
Brad Blog: “Wikipedia Entry for GOP ‘Voter Fraud’ Front Group Co-Founder, Thor Hearne, Scrubbed of References to ACVR”
June 13th, 2007 · No Comments
Yawn…. Latest Edit Performed by Someone at Hearne’s Lawfirm, Lathrop & Gage, According to Rick Hasen of Election Law Blog… Mark F. “Thor” Hearne must really want to hide something about his discredited past as the front man for the GOP front group calling themselves the American Center for Voting Rights (ACVR). In the latest […]
Tags: Voter Fraud
GOP Presidential Candidate Ron Paul in K.C Friday, June 15th
June 13th, 2007 · No Comments
Hat Tip: Mike Ferguson Online FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 12, 2007 CONTACT: Jesse Benton 202-246-6363 Republican Presidential Candidate RON PAUL to Go On the Record with the Media and Public in Kansas City. RON PAUL, a ten-term Texas Congressman and Republican candidate for President of the United States, will be in Kansas City Friday, June […]
Tags: Decision '08
The Current: “Gov. Matt Blunt Finalizes SB 389”
June 12th, 2007 · No Comments
By Sarah O’Brien Media Credit: Carrie Fasiska Gov. Matt Blunt signed Senate Bill 389 Wednesday in Century Room C of the Millennium Student Center. The bill will allocate $28.5 million for complete renovations of UM-St. Louis’s Benton and Stadler Halls. After a brief introduction by 16th district representative Carl Bearden, Chancellor Thomas George took […]
Tags: Matt Blunt
