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April 5, 2012
If You Like Guns, Ted Nugent, Mitt Romney & More Guns, the NRA's Got a Deal for You!
Next weekend, more than 60,000 people are flocking to downtown St. Louis for the 2012 National Rifle Association Annual Meetings and Exhibits! This is a huge deal because, first of all, I will have a tougher time finding a parking spot. Secondly, an important national figure will be present: Ted Nug ... More >>
Blogs
February 23, 2012
USPS Begins Budget Cuts in Springfield and Cape Girardeau
The Springfield and Cape Girardeau mail processing centers will be consolidated this year by the United States Postal Service, at a cost of 136 positions combined. Some of those jobs may be transferred to the Kansas City and Downtown St. Louis Sorting and Processing Facilities, which are assuming ... More >>
News
February 16, 2012
Ask a Mexican: Donde esta donkey show?
The Springfield and Cape Girardeau mail processing centers will be consolidated this year by the United States Postal Service, at a cost of 136 positions combined. Some of those jobs may be transferred to the Kansas City and Downtown St. Louis Sorting and Processing Facilities, which are assuming ... More >>
Blogs
February 13, 2012
House Transportation Bill Would Gut Metro Funding
The US House of Representatives is scheduled to discuss today its version of the 2012 transportation bill -- a bill that could have major ramifications for the City and the counties.If passed, the bill, HR 7, states that mass transit would no longer automatically receive one-fifth of the fuel tax ... More >>
Blogs
January 26, 2012
Ed Martin To Run for ... Something
Republican Ed Martin has kiboshed his plans to run for Congress, because the Missouri Attorney General's job seems more appealing. Or more attainable, maybe. Martin has previously announced his intentions for Congressional seats in Missouri's 2nd and 3rd districts, as well as one in the U.S. Sena ... More >>
Blogs
December 28, 2011
Net Worth of Missouri Congressional Delegation Tops $47.9 Million
The Center for Responsive Politics recently released its report on the nation's wealthiest U.S. representatives and senators. No one from Missouri makes its Top 10 list, but that doesn't mean we don't have some worthy contenders. Turns out we actually have some of the richest -- and poorest -- po ... More >>
News
November 3, 2011
Village Voice Media asks for your support of Senate Bill 596
The Center for Responsive Politics recently released its report on the nation's wealthiest U.S. representatives and senators. No one from Missouri makes its Top 10 list, but that doesn't mean we don't have some worthy contenders. Turns out we actually have some of the richest -- and poorest -- po ... More >>
Blogs
September 15, 2011
America's Got Talent Winner Runs for Missouri Office: Eight Musicians He Should Learn From
Neal Boyd's American dream includes serving in Missouri House of Representatives.Neal E. Boyd of Sikeston has already won lots of American votes. Enough to win the 2008 season of America's Got Talent, when he wowed audiences with his pop opera skills. Before finding reality-show fame, Boyd ... More >>
Blogs
July 6, 2011
Claire McCaskill Third Most Vulnerable Senator, Washington Post Says
Claire McCaskill: Vulnerable, but not because her challengers are so awesome or anything.So Todd Akin is a smug know-it-all convinced that only those with his political beliefs are capable of respect for the Almighty. And so what if Sarah Steelman's campaign thinks 100 x 1,000 = 10,000?Never mind ... More >>
Blogs
June 27, 2011
Blagojevich "Stunned" by Conviction; Former Illinois Governor Guilty on 17 Charges
Our long, national bad-hair day is over. This afternoon a federal jury in Chicago convicted former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich of 17 counts of wire fraud, attempted extortion, bribery, extortion conspiracy and bribery conspiracy during his time in office, including a plot to sell the U.S. S ... More >>
Blogs
June 9, 2011
The U.S. Government Runs on Free Snacks -- So How Does Missouri Stack Up?
image viaHow things get done in Congress. (At least in the office of Representative Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania, which sports of model of the Capitol building made from boxes of Peeps.)In any office, no one is more likely to get visitors than the person who keeps a candy jar on his or her de ... More >>
Blogs
April 1, 2011
Federal Funding Cuts Could Hurt St. Louis' China Hub Project
Did our China hub just get grounded?The House of Representatives today passed an FAA Reauthorization bill that could thwart efforts to create a trade hub with China at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport. The bill includes funding for the Airport Improvement Program that currently allocates $ ... More >>
Blogs
March 22, 2011
Effort Underway to Shrink Missouri House From 163 Reps to 103
Missouri voters would be asked to trim the fat. If you work in the private sector in Missouri, chances are pretty good that your business experienced some downsizing (a.k.a. layoffs) over the last few years. That's not the case, though, for those public sector employees who happen to work on the ... More >>
News
March 10, 2011
Ask a Mexican! Why do Mexicans like to write in ALL CAPS?
Missouri voters would be asked to trim the fat. If you work in the private sector in Missouri, chances are pretty good that your business experienced some downsizing (a.k.a. layoffs) over the last few years. That's not the case, though, for those public sector employees who happen to work on the ... More >>
Blogs
February 18, 2011
Amendment to Defund Planned Parenthood Passes in the House
Imperiled.After a heated, three-hour debate last night, the U.S. House of Representatives this afternoon passed an amendment to defund Planned Parenthood by a vote of 240 to 185. The Senate, which retains a slim Democratic majority, is expected to vote on the measure in the coming weeks.The Pence ... More >>
Blogs
February 16, 2011
English-Only Driver's License Tests in Missouri? House Committee Says Yes
Image viaA committee of the Missouri House of Representatives has approved a bill requiring that driver's license testing be conducted in English -- and only in English -- sending the measure on to the full House for its vote.The House Transportation Committee yesterday voted 8-3 for the bill, fo ... More >>
Blogs
February 7, 2011
ClaireMcCaskill.com Officially Worth $4,000
How much would you pay for this web domain?From the Department of Why the Hell Didn't We Think of That?: The Post-Dispatch reports that a Columbia-based web designer named Brennan Hobart noticed that Senator Claire McCaskill's website was called claireonline.com. Hobart suspected that the do ... More >>
Blogs
February 4, 2011
Fox News, Robin Carnahan Settle Lawsuit
An excerpt from the advertisement in question.Three months after the election and nearly five months after it was filed, Fox News and its anchor Chris Wallace have settled a suit against former U.S. Senate contender Robin Carnahan. The network filed the lawsuit in response to a Carnahan' campaign ... More >>
Blogs
January 31, 2011
Ed Martin Announces Candidacy for U.S. Senate
Well, Ed Martin didn't tease us for very long. A week after making a non-announcement announcement about his bid for U.S. Senate, Ed Martin today made it official. He's in.
News
December 30, 2010
The 2010 RFT News Challenge
Well, Ed Martin didn't tease us for very long. A week after making a non-announcement announcement about his bid for U.S. Senate, Ed Martin today made it official. He's in.
News
December 23, 2010
Return to Sender: What would comprehensive immigration reform look like if the feds got moving?
Well, Ed Martin didn't tease us for very long. A week after making a non-announcement announcement about his bid for U.S. Senate, Ed Martin today made it official. He's in.
Blogs
December 3, 2010
Child Nutrition Bill Passes House of Reps, Headed to President
Despite being blocked by an unrelated amendment on Wednesday, the House of Representatives passed the Child Nutrition Bill yesterday. The AP gives the details of the final bill, and explains that the added amendment, pertaining to background checks for child care workers, was passed in a separate bi ... More >>
Blogs
November 30, 2010
Food Safety Bill Passes Senate
Image viaLegislation to overhaul the nation's oversight of food safety passed the Senate this morning by a vote of 73 to 25. The bill greatly increases the FDA's authority over food producers.Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill (D) voted in favor of the bill; retiring Senator Kit Bond (R) abstained ... More >>
Blogs
November 11, 2010
School Nutrition Bill Gets Post-Election Boost
Post-election, the outlook for the stalled school nutrition bill was pretty bleak. But it's looking better, thanks to Representatives Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut and Jim McGovern of Massachusetts opting to back the bill. According to the Associated Press, the upcoming changes in the House of Represe ... More >>
Blogs
November 8, 2010
Ed Martin Concedes -- But Not Before Taking Swipes at Election Process
Martin concedes even while continuing to suggest the election was stolen. Six days after the election, Ed Martin has conceded that he does not have enough votes to win the Third District race for U.S. Congress. The Republican challenger phoned incumbent Congressman Russ Carnahan this morning to c ... More >>
Blogs
November 4, 2010
Claire McCaskill: Will 'Absolutely' Seek Another Term in 2012
image viaStand by your man.Missouri's junior senator, Democrat Claire McCaskill, who won her seat in 2006 by beating out Republican incumbent Jim Talent, says that she will "absolutely" run to keep her Senate seat in the 2012 election, reports the St. Louis Beacon. Now that Republicans ... More >>
Blogs
November 3, 2010
Voting Maps Show Political Divide in Missouri; St. Louis and Kansas City vs. Everyone Else
If you need anymore convincing that the people of St. Louis and Kansas City have nothing in common -- politically -- with their fellow Missourians, consider these election results....In the race for U.S. Senate, Democrat Robin Carnahan won only three regions in Missouri: Kansas City, St. Louis and S ... More >>
Blogs
October 28, 2010
Attention Missouri Marijuana Smokers: Your Candidate Has Arrived
Behold: The campaign commercial for Libertarian candidate Jonathan Dine for U.S. Senate. Given his past prison sentence for marijuana possession (not to mention charges of stealing and identity theft) it's no wonder Dine wants the government off your back -- and his.H/T: Plog
Blogs
October 19, 2010
Politicians Want to Text Us, Ruin Last Spam-Free Area of Our Over-Mediated Lives
flickr.com/photos/kiwanjaShow us a campaign e-mail, and we'll show you spam. Call us on our landline, and -- oops, we don't have one. But send us a text, and Sweet Bejeezus we will drop the choking child we're trying to resuscitate and text you right back. JK! (It's true.) Politicians hav ... More >>
Blogs
October 1, 2010
Happy Fiscal New Year!!
image via...3......2......1...HAPPY FISCAL NEW YEAR!!Today, October 1, marks the first day of the fiscal year, or, as the kids in the hood call it, FY'11. Thanks to the U.S. Congress, the government didn't completely shut down at midnight. A miracle!In a late-night vote (12:15 a.m. EST) Wednesday ... More >>
Blogs
September 24, 2010
Slate Debunks the Fox News Lawsuit Against Robin Carnahan
To be blunt, Fox is full of it.From being represented by a law firm with ties to Republican Roy Blunt to using copyright law for the purpose of political censorship, earlier today Slate published a thorough take-down of Fox News and their "bogus" lawsuit against Robin Carnahan, Missouri's Democra ... More >>
Blogs
August 26, 2010
Jeff Smith Moves From Prison to Halfway House
Smith: Once step closer to freedom.Former state Senator Jeff Smith has been released from federal prison in Kentucky and into a halfway house. Smith was sentenced to 12 months in prison last November after admitting he lied to federal investigators over mailers his campaign sent out in 2004 when ... More >>
News
August 4, 2010
Ask a Mexican: Oh, Snap: What's a good comeback to anti-Mexican sentiments?
Smith: Once step closer to freedom.Former state Senator Jeff Smith has been released from federal prison in Kentucky and into a halfway house. Smith was sentenced to 12 months in prison last November after admitting he lied to federal investigators over mailers his campaign sent out in 2004 when ... More >>
Blogs
May 25, 2010
Post-Dispatch Changes Coverage at City Hall; David Hunn Takes over for Jake Wagman
Wagman is now politically independent, so to speak.Dagburnit! We thought we'd beat the Post-Dispatch to their own story -- but they just posted a quick item in front of us.Earlier today Daily RFT received an internal email for the paper outlying changes in the newsroom. Most noticeable among thos ... More >>
Film
May 5, 2010
Iron Man 2 will lead to 3 and probably 4, but that doesn't mean it's good
Wagman is now politically independent, so to speak.Dagburnit! We thought we'd beat the Post-Dispatch to their own story -- but they just posted a quick item in front of us.Earlier today Daily RFT received an internal email for the paper outlying changes in the newsroom. Most noticeable among thos ... More >>
Blogs
April 5, 2010
Ass Clowns of the Week: Pervert Priest James Grady and Emmitt "Hoggy" Gordon
A priest who allegedly solicited sex with a 16-year-old and pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography? Or...A gang-banger who fired a bullet that traveled three blocks and struck a two-year-old boy in the face as the child sat on his grandfather's lap?Hmm...tough call. So tough a call tha ... More >>
Blogs
April 2, 2010
Who is Ass Clown of the Week? March 26 - April 2
A full moon always brings out the Ass Clowns.Did you notice it was a full moon earlier this week? How else to explain the bumper crop of Ass Clowns making headlines over the past seven days? You know the rules, vote for the newsmaker whose actions or admissions this week you find to be the most d ... More >>
Blogs
March 30, 2010
Video: KKK Leader and U.S. Senate Hopeful from Mo. Talks "Inferior Races"
Heard about Missouri's U.S. Senate hopeful Glenn Miller? The Springfield man is a former leader of the North Carolina Ku Klux Klan and has been airing bizarre radio advertisements throughout the state denouncing the white man for being cowardly and blaming Jews for all the country's problems. (Liste ... More >>
Blogs
March 22, 2010
How They Voted on Health Care: Missouri and St. Louis Area Representatives
Todd Akin: Health care reform = fightin' words.Updated 10:00 a.m. The health care reform bill passed the House of Representatives last night with a 219 to 212 vote. No Republicans supported the measure. Thirty four Democrats also voted no, including Missouri rep Ike Skelton.The bill now heads to ... More >>
Blogs
March 22, 2010
Tea Party Goes Crazier: Burn Russ Carnahan in Effigy, Spit on Mo. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver
St. Louis Tea Party lights it up for Carnahan.This weekend's health care vote in the U.S. House brought out the radical, right-wing fringe (again). At a St. Louis Tea Party rally outside of Russ Carnahan's St. Louis office on Saturday, an angry mob threw shoes at a photo of the congressman before ... More >>
Blogs
March 19, 2010
House To Vote on Health Care Bill on Sunday, All But One Mo. Congressman Toes Party Line
The legislative process seemed so simple as a child.After months of protracted debate, the health care overhaul bill is up for another vote in the House of Representatives on Sunday. If passed, the legislation could return next week to the Senate where it would receive an up or down vote -- allow ... More >>
Blogs
March 12, 2010
Ass Clown of the Week: Radical Right-Wing Edition!
Which ass gets the hat?Perhaps it was the presence in the Show-Me State this week of that good-fer-nothin', socialist Barack Obama, or maybe it was just that their haldol injections were wearing off. Whatever the case, Missouri's right-wing extremists were tripping over themselves this week for r ... More >>
Blogs
February 2, 2010
Curt Smith of Tears for Fears is "Head Over Heels" for a Missouri Democrat
Curt Smith (left) in his younger days.File under news of the weird: Jake Wagman of the Post-Dispatch reported yesterday that political upstart Tommy Sowers -- a Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in Missouri's 8th Congressional District -- had a number of famous donors ... More >>
Blogs
December 21, 2009
Claire "The Joker" McCaskill
Hours before the U.S. Senate vote on health care late last night, Heath Ledger-esque posters of Senator Claire McCaskill went up on telephone poles and lampposts across the metro region. Blogger GatewayPundit is curating sight'ems. www.gatewaypundit.firstthings.comSimilar caricatures of President ... More >>
Blogs
August 25, 2009
Jeff Smith Resigns Missouri Senate, Pleads Guilty to Two Felonies
Jeff SmithJeff Smith pleaded guilty today to two counts of obstructing justice. The first stems from an initial investigation into his failed 2004 campaign for U.S. Congress. The second charge comes from a follow-up investigation into his 2004 campaign conducted this year. According to a breaking ... More >>
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August 24, 2009
What the Post-Dispatch Missed About Milton "Skip" Ohlsen
Ohlsen's mug shot as it appears in an arrest report from March 2008 when police in Ladue found him in possession of a stolen .40 caliber Glock handgun. If you didn't see it yesterday, the Post-Dispatch ran a front-page article on Milton "Skip" Ohlsen, the man behind a federal probe into state Sen ... More >>
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