“Perhaps the candidate for president can be helpful in tracking down his wayward Missouri political director. Surely Romney doesn’t want to have a state political director who doesn’t believe in government accountability, does he?” SNL News Leader open letter to Mitt Romney: (excerpted) A group of taxpayers in southwest Missouri (a hotbed of Republican primary […]

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Jo “sticky fingers” Mannies is reporting that a poll conducted by Survey St. Louis LLC(which is co-owned by Rep. Akin’s St. Louis District Director Patrick Werner) for Col. Jack Jackson has the perennial candidate encouraged. Mannies says that Jackson told her: “The numbers are better than I had anticipated, in my favor.” With Mannies penchant for lifting […]

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Not only does Speaker Jetton praise Democrats on the House Floor – as the below video demonstates – he also likes to party with them on lobbyist sponsored junkets. Give Missouri lobbyists credit. Their reach extends far beyond this state’s borders. On Aug. 6-8, their reach extended all the way to Boston, where Missouri legislators were […]

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The public tension is becoming palpable now between GOP House back-bencher Dennis Wood and Speaker Rod Jetton as Wood continues to urge Jetton to answer for a controversial legislative change made late in the 2007 session. Wood says Jetton is personally responsible for a provision that will allow developers to avoid oversight of county governments […]

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From the Busplunge blog: Jetton said many Americans aren’t convinced there is a need to help when they observe welfare recipients buying “Twinkies, Pop Tarts and steak” at grocery stores. “Americans pay their taxes, and they want to help other people. We’re a generous country,” he said. “But they get frustrated when they don’t see […]

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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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In July, a reader asked us was it ethical or legal for Rod Jetton to sign his name as “Speaker” on Mitt Romney campaign correspondence. Speaker Jetton is Romney’s Missouri political director. It seems Speaker Jetton has decided that signing his name with “Speaker” in front, may not be such a good idea after all. […]

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Press release: JEFFERSON CITY – Gov. Matt Blunt, Senate President Pro Tem Michael R. Gibbons and House Speaker Rod Jetton today announced a special session of the Missouri General Assembly to begin August 20th to fast track the Safe and Sound Bridge Improvement Program to repair or replace more than 800 Missouri bridges and enact […]

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GOP House Speaker Rod Jetton is term-limited and therefore cannot seek re-election next fall. But you’d never know it from his most recent Missouri Ethics Commission filing, which reads like the report from a burgeoning young campaign that’s just getting its feet underneath it and its office set up. Read more… Related: Tip Line: Reader […]

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Looks like Speaker Jetton has more ethics issues: Did Jetton send this out to the entire caucus? Can he sign items as Speaker when it is for his personal business? Didn’t Griffin get in trouble for signing legal documents as Speaker? From: Rod Jetton [mailto:rodjetton@sbcglobal.net] Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 5:50 PM To: XXX Subject: […]

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