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September, 2007 | Missouri Political News Service - Part 8

Entries from September 2007

Haves, Have Nots: Here’s a Little Tale About Two Kansas Cities

September 13th, 2007 · No Comments

The Pitch: By David Martin A few weeks ago, Kansas City, Missouri’s City Council let a piddly $36,000 contract with an engineering company bloat all the way up to $22 million. (You read that right: three additional zeroes.) That same day, the council held up a nonprofit group’s measly $125,000 funding request. Care to guess […]

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Tags: Kansas City · Mayor Mark Funkhouser

Old Soldiers Never Die; They Just Run for Office Again & Again….

September 13th, 2007 · No Comments

It seems former state representative, congressional and state auditor candidate Col. Jack Jackson, is aiming to be his party’s Claire McCaskill in combat boots. We should have seen this coming with the Jetton/Jackson “upstage the governor tour” earlier this summer. Republican insiders are asking today why would Speaker Jetton – who makes the arrangements and […]

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Tags: Decision '08 · Matt Blunt · Spkr. Jetton

You Mean Democrats Can Be Uncle Toms Too?

September 13th, 2007 · No Comments

Fellow slaves whipping another slave at the “Massa’s” behest Tomorrow is the deadline for newly appointed St. Louis City Public Safety Director Charles Bryson (an African American – and Democrat) to “discipline” the African American fire chief Sherman George for refusing to make mandated promotions. The civil rights “industry”- and the mainstream press – have […]

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Tags: Mayor Frances Slay · St. Louis

Do Not Pre-Judge Chief Sherman George

September 13th, 2007 · No Comments

St. Louis Metro Sentinel: Too often, the process for judging a person is breached by the major media, just for trying to be number one in the media or trying to influence those who follow the media. In particular, it appears that when a Black man attains a position of prominence, such as Fire Chief […]

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Tags: Mayor Frances Slay · St. Louis

“Baghdad” Tony Messenger Sees No Evil, Hears No Evil, Speaks No Evil

September 13th, 2007 · No Comments

Since Baghdad Tony has woken up and discovered Missouri’s “Sunshine Law” in his recent posts, we asked him yesterday when he was going to write about Judge Stith and the judicial panel’s recent disregard for the Sunshine law? You know, the violation Judge Stith admitted to in Tuesday’s Senate Rules Committee hearing. Here’s Baghdad’s response […]

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Tags: Media Bias · MO Supreme Court · Tony Messenger

Is This What You Get for $7,500 a Month?

September 13th, 2007 · No Comments

Two posts since August 15th? We expected a lot more from Peter Kinder and internet guru David All.

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Tags: Decision '08

Speeding Tickets, Taxes, and the “Politics of Driving”

September 12th, 2007 · No Comments

KMOV News 4 Investigates: Daily Briefing: So what did you do with your Friday night? A fella by the name of Brett Darrow spent a good chunk of it driving around in his Nissan Maxima, running a radar detector and recording video from a camera mounted over his shoulder. Why would he want to do […]

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Tags: David Stokes · Show Me Institute · St. Louis · Videos

UMKC Editor Pushing “Gay Agenda?”

September 12th, 2007 · No Comments

University News “culture editor” Jessie Burche, certainly has been a good friend to the campus’ LBGT community. For those of you not up to speed, LBGT stands for lesbian, bi-sexual, gay, and transgendered. Mr. Burche informed us three weeks ago that the University of Missouri-Kansas City was declared by The Advocate College Guide for LGBT […]

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Tags: Kansas City

Messenger: “Have They No Shame?”

September 12th, 2007 · No Comments

“Are there any state public officials who believe in the Sunshine Law? Any at all? It appears not after the Missouri Ethics Commission of all groups appears to have clearly violated the open meetings law in deciding how to force candidates to comply with campaign donation limits. I don’t care which way they rule on […]

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Tags: Decision '08 · Tony Messenger

Mortgage Company Executive Challenges Carnahan in ’08

September 12th, 2007 · No Comments

By Greg Giroux Republican Chris Sander, a mortgage company executive, has filed papers with the FEC to prepare a campaign for the seat held by two-term Democratic Rep. Russ Carnahan. Carnahan, a son of the late Gov. Mel Carnahan and former Sen. Jean Carnahan, was first elected in 2004 to succeed Democrat Richard A. Gephardt, […]

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Tags: Carnahans' · Decision '08