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Governor Nixon struck the same deal with the state’s community colleges that he struck with the state’s four-year schools —if they freeze their tuitions for the 2010-11 school year, he will not recommend deep budget cuts.
A new poll of CD7 Republican voters shows Billy ...
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It's not a debate or healthy democratic process.
It's "war," writes former state representative/ lobbyist Carl Bearden , and "it's far from over."
If the leaders of the Imperial Congress thought that everyone would just go away they are delusional. Well ok, they are ...
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Organizing for America is planning to begin airing this ad on national cable next week . It was picked from thousands of entries submitted from across the country, and was created by Eric Hurt .
A pretty powerful ad.
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Health care
Organizing For America
Today marks the two year anniversary of Ed Martin's replacement as chief of staff for former Gov. Matt Blunt .
Hours after his ceremonial pardon of a Thanksgiving turkey, Blunt was repeatedly asked to explain Martin's departure. Blunt refused to offer direct answers, and then ...
Congress
Scott Murphy
Matt Drudge
Ed Gillespie
Though the the House ethics committee cleared Rep. Sam Graves last month of wrongdoing connected to an appearance by a friend last spring, the handling of Graves' matter has remained in the news. The House ethics committee and the new semiautonomous Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) ...
Congress
Sam Graves
If you haven't sent in your submissions for our Thanksgiving-themed awards, please do so today !
As a refresher, we're accepting nominations for two broad categories of Turkey Day Awards :
Leaders and organizations for whom we are thankful
The Turkeys in Missouri politics
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Bud Day
From The Hill, in an article titled "Vote records can hamper member's [sic] political ambitions" :
The last Republican running in a competitive state, Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), will be forced to fend off attacks that, as a former member of GOP leadership, he is a Washington insider. ...
Congress
Roy Blunt
Washington, D.C
Republican National Committee
Bud Day
Investment staff at the state retirement system would not get bonuses in years when the system’s investments lost money under a plan that tentatively advanced today.
Missouri has been awarded more than $1.2 million in federal economic stimulus money to help train people for green jobs ...
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Public Policy Polling released the second part of their recent Missouri poll today. Regarding Gov. Nixon:
It's been a pretty successful first year for the state's new Governor. 42% of voters approve of the job he's doing to 25% disapproving. In a time when the popularity of many chief ...
Congress
Gallup Poll
Kit Bond
Claire McCaskill
Speaking at last night's term limits forum , Ed Martin let it slip that his "Term Limits for Missouri" organization isn't expected to gather enough signatures for the term limit initiative he filed last December .
"We could gather signatures. I don't know that we will," he ...
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Ed Gillespie
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The Lafayette County Republican Central Committee is proudly
celebrating a new crazy billboard on I-70 near Grain
Valley. It calls for citizens to "starve the beast" and "vote out incumbents" -- and if that doesn't work, ...
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Lafayette Co. GOP Celebrates New Billboard: It May Be ...
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Say what you will about Cynthia Davis' radical views on the role of schools and government agencies (we've said a lot, of course), but there is some consistency in her crazy ideas. Specifically, the government should't be doing... just about anything.
Via The Turner Report , Davis' ...
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Artur Davis
Speaking last night about why he thinks term limits are a good idea, former Matt Blunt Chief of Staff/Congressional Candidate/MO GOP Chairman Emeritus/Serial Tax Waster Ed Martin said he supports limiting Members of U.S. House to four two-year terms , and would sponsor a ...
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Ed Gillespie
Roy Blunt
Sam Graves
Ike Skelton
Ann Coulter
Jo Ann Emerson
The Daily Dunklin Democrat profiles Bob Parker today, a Republican challenger to Jo Ann Emerson in the 8th Congressional District. Like we've seen in numerous other races, Parker is staking his candidacy on tea party anger.
Parker said concerns over last fall's federal bailout of ...
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Jo Ann Emerson
Washington, D.C
Republican National Committee
In a headline story from Newsmax published earlier this week, we read:
[Sarah] Palin, who was a lightning rod for criticism during the presidential campaign, warned that America is in "a dangerous place economically" because Congress is debating healthcare reforms that ...
White House
Sarah Palin
The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy has released a new study arguing that MIssouri's state taxes hit poor and middle class Missourians far harder than the wealthy.
Low- and middle-income families in Missouri pay a far higher share of their income in state and local taxes ...
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There's been a lot of hand-wringing and hyperventilating about Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to try some terrorist suspects in the US on criminal charges. Yesterday, for example, Kit Bond accused Holder of "taking the Department of Justice back to a pre-9-11 mentality," ...
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Eric Holder
The Washington Post :
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has assembled a compromise health package that would expand coverage to more than 31 million Americans at a cost of $849 billion over the next decade, a senior leadership aide said late Wednesday.
The cost of the package would be ...
