The wife of prominent Republican political consultant Jeff Roe was recently crowned Mrs. Missouri United States for 2010. Mrs. Roe is also the deputy chief of staff for Congressman Sam Graves. Related: Picture of the Day: Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows

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   Is it a coincidence, that after we told you about Tommy’s DC fundraiser in a gay bar a couple of weeks ago, Sowers winds up on the Christian Broadcast Network discussing his faith? CBN.com: “When I was in Iraq, I carried that Bible with me and carried it in my left breast pocket, and […]

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The Labor Department announced today that 125,000 jobs were lost in June, in part due to 225,000 temporary census jobs ending, leaving a gain in private sector employment of only 83,000 jobs. The unemployment rate lowered slightly from 9.7% to 9.5%, in part because 652,000 people stopped looking for work. Reuters writes today, “Employment fell […]

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 Dooley drops department heads. “First electing the accessor, now dropping the paid cars for his friends…glad I’m also proposing that Dooley no longer be county executive.” — STL County Executive candidate Bill Corrigan Thirty six days ago, St. Louis county executive candidate Bill Corrigan called for Charlie Dooley to eliminate free cars and free gas […]

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“Go the extra mile to avoid appearance of impropriety.”— Rep. Calloway St. Louis American: This week, attention was brought to Calloway’s campaign finance reports, and particularly his amended April quarterly reports. Though legislators amend their quarter reports all the time, there was enough suspicion on his finance reports to lose a potential endorsement from the […]

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The Hill reported yesterday, “The national debt will reach 62 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) by the end of this year, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said Wednesday. The budget office said the debt will reach its highest percentage of GDP since the end of World War II. The jump is driven by […]

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