Branson Missouri blog:  “Team -During campaign season, aka hunting season for reporters, back room discussions involve the capacity and talent of candidates and leaders. Blunt’s team outperforms Jay Nixon’s team when it comes to PR. If Nixon or democrats in general want to gain momentum they’ll have to increase their talent pool, information delivery mechanisms […]

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By Raymond Fitzgerald (guest contributor)  Good political move today by the Blunt Administration to not meet with disgruntled, perennial candidate Jack Jackson tomorrow. The Democrats are attempting to spin the decision as evidence that “Matt Blunt is running scared.” But even a third tier political operative/blogger -with a political science degree and a host of failed candidates behind him – can understand it would be foolish to give Jackson […]

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The Colonel Jack Jackson odyssey is really starting to get bizarre. After attempting to upstage the governor last summer by flying around the state with Speaker Jetton, the “I need attention tour” will take a detour to the Governor’s mansion this week. Jackson informed us a couple of weeks ago that he’s commissioned a poll to test the viability of a candidacy […]

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JEFFERSON CITY – To date, Jay Nixon and the Missouri Democratic Party have collectively amassed $200,000 from the liberals at the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. The money is clearly a down payment for Nixon’s commitment to reinstate Bob Holden’s executive order allowing collective bargaining for public employees, but with this much […]

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News Democrat Journal: By Trish Wallace As he campaigns for Missouri state treasurer, Arnold Mayor Mark Powell is calling on current State Treasurer Sarah Steelman to return $60,000 of her campaign funds. “I think it would be appropriate that those amounts be refunded,” Powell said. Among the contributions Powell wants to see refunded are $20,000 […]

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CDT Blog:  It’s not much of a surprise, but Senate President Pro Tem Michael Gibbons, R-Kirkwood, is set to officially kick off his bid to replace Attorney General Jay Nixon in Columbia on Saturday. That’s the news according to a blurb in the Central Missouri Young Republican Newsletter: Read more

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Super Democratic lobbyist Travis Brown has been a busy man these last few months. In June, he loaned his private airplane to Lt. Governor Candidate Sam Page for his campaign announcement fly around. And then in July, he announced the formation of his new lobbying firm  (Pelopidas) along with its first employee, former Speaker Pro Tem Carl Bearden. This is […]

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Please allow us to crow a little bit this morning. MOPNS brought you this exclusive video last week of Attorney General Jay Nixon attending fundraisers around Missouri in his official state vehicle. After we ran the story, we were inundated with emails from print and radio reporters for more information on where we obtained the […]

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 The Missouri Political News Service has obtained an eleven page letter that former U.S. Attorney Todd Graves has sent on his firm’s legal stationary to the Missouri Ethics Commission. The Commission meets today to decide the fate of millions of dollars in campaign contributions. Mr. Graves, brother of Rep. Sam Graves, writes in the letter that he hopes to “provide the Commission […]

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Rep. Sam Graves (R-Mo.), who is running against the outgoing mayor of Kansas City, dismissed the suggestion that Bush has been a bad spokesman for potentially vulnerable Republicans, given the president’s low approval ratings. “It doesn’t make a difference what the president does,” Graves said. Graves said he would favor a small expansion of the […]

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