This is from a website named “Re-Elect Governor Blunt in 2008.” It doesn’t say if it is officially connected to the Blunt Campaign. The rift between Mayor of St. Louis, Francis Slay, and the African American community has been growing lately over the controversial demotion of Fire Chief Sherman George 9African American) at the Mayor’s […]

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Missouri Governor Matt Blunt (R) is facing a tough re-election battle in 2008 and the latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey show that it could go either way. Blunt currently attracts 44% of the Missouri vote, one-point more than Attorney General Jay Nixon (D) who earns 43%. A month ago, Nixon had a three-point edge. Blunt […]

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washingtonpost.com’s Politics Blog: Missouri: As usual when it comes to Missouri politics, Kansas City Star political correspondent Steve Kraske gets it right. Kraske wrote in a recent column that Gov. Matt Blunt’s (R) re-election chances hinge on whether he lets a 2005 decision to cut Medicaid rolls in order to close a $1 billion budget […]

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Our guest contributor Raymond Fitzgerald hit the nail right on the head yesterday. Fitzgerald opined on this site that Col. Jack Jackson was not going to commit political suicide and challenge Governor Blunt next year. He speculated that Jackson merely wanted a face to face meeting with the Governor to gauge his reaction to a possible Jackson candidacy. “I […]

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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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The Associated Press should be embarrassed at using such a misleading headline to describe KC Parks Board member Frances Semler’s position on Illegal immigration. It’s funny how the word illegal never seems to make it into stories or headlines dealing with – illegal aliens. The St. Louis Post Dispatch should be equally embarrased. This is […]

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After the revelation last week that Gov. Matt Blunt’s office routinely deletes e-mails, the question arose: Are e-mails public record? Rich Chrismer, Blunt’s spokesman, flatly said they weren’t. That was despite the fact that Sloca, spokesman for the Missouri Republican Party, said they were. The party has used the Sunshine Law to obtain e-mails from […]

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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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