Below are a few selected quotes from audio recording today’s conference call with Governor Matt Blunt (R-MO): Blunt: “While Barack Obama has campaigned on a pledge to not raise taxes for anyone but the rich, that’s clearly not the case. Just this year, in fact, he returned to the United States Senate twice to vote […]

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“I think they’re so mad at Rod Jetton right now that they’d do anything.” – State Rep. Charlie Denison on lawmakers’ attitude toward the House speaker and his role as a political consultant. (Hat tip: SNL News Leader) Oh how the mighty have fallen! Another colleague, state senator and treasurer candidate Brad Lager, has distanced […]

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Hat tip: BelvasDaughter [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/5JbNF_JLDSA” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Related: McCaskill letter to Anheuser-Busch board of directors MOPNS: Rep. Jane Cunningham Spearheads Bipartisan Letter in Opposition to Anheuser-Busch Takeover

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Representatives Rodney Hubbard and Jim Lembke among elected officials co-signing and gathering signatures for letter to protect Missouri jobs. St. Louis, MO–Today, State Representative Jane Cunningham (R-Chesterfield) was joined by other elected leaders in announcing bipartisan opposition to the proposed takeover of Anheuser-Busch by a foreign company. The legislators expressed their opposition in a letter […]

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Congressmen Hulshof & Skelton with Sen. Kit Bond Jay Kersting, host of “Jefferson City’s Morning News” on NewsTalk 1240 KLIK, criticizes on his blog, both Congressmen Hulshof and Skelton on an earmark they recently sponsored: Yesterday, Congressman Ike Skelton proudly presented Federal TAXPAYER money to a law enforcement program that will do a lot to […]

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With all the partisan rancor going on in Washington, maybe this is why Congressman Hulshof has missed so many votes? By Manu Raju The Bush administration is talking directly with Democrats over rewriting the nation’s surveillance laws and leaving the top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee out of the debate, a senior Senate Democrat […]

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Hat tip: trumanlakenews.net & destrecht In this video, an animated Kit Bond “tells it like it is” when it comes to our current ridiculous energy policy and our dependence on foreign oil. Just yesterday, Sen Bond criticized the Lieberman Warner bill on the senate floor saying: “This is not the time to raise energy prices […]

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The National Journal Highlighted today Rep. Kenny Hulshof’s most recent television ad called “moral clarity.” The Congressman talks about his experience as a a former prosecutor and how it taught him to have “unshakable moral clarity.” This ad has interesting timing, especially in light of the recent confusion surrounding the Congressman’s stance on stem cell […]

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Too many families across the nation are feeling the pain of the housing crisis and they need our help now. To help these families, Republican offered the Security Against Foreclosure and Education (SAFE) Act of 2008. In this proposal — which I coauthored — we proposed help for families to refinance distressed subprime mortgages; help […]

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Will you ever run for public office? “Only if it’s the right thing to do for the people of Missouri and my family” – Jason Van Eaton (Prime Buzz’s Q&A – 2/18/07) Inside sources have told MOPNS that one of the factors for Van Eaton not running for Congress (or accepting the Hulshof campaign manager […]

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