The St. Louis County GOP web site announced an upcoming U.S. Senate (MO) debate at Lindenwood University in St Charles, Missouri:
Don’t miss the GOP Primary Senatorial Debate Monday, June 11th at Lindenwood University. It takes place at 7:30pm in the Bezemes Family Theater in the J. Scheidegger Center For The Arts and …
–by Gravelyvoice Jim
Since last month’s article on the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act revealing the absence of several members of the Missouri House delegation from the list of co-sponsors, most representatives have now signed on. The two remaining holdouts as of this writing are Republicans Sam Graves and …
–by Gravelyvoice Jim
Well folks, the spending spree continued this week when our Republican-led House of Representatives passed the 2012 budget extension through the end of the fiscal year (September 2012). It’s slightly comforting to know these statesmen and stateswomen will be home for the holidays with their friends and families, …
–by Gravelyvoice Jim
Akin and McCaskill head the list of Missouri legislators NOT co-sponsoring the STOCK Act…
The Stop Trading On Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act, written earlier this year to prohibit the type of “insider trading” by Congress to enrich themselves on stock and land deals, which was recently exposed on 60 …
–by Gravelyvoice Jim
Thank you, Todd– FINALLY.
The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives’ vote on November 17 to continue its spending spree by actually funding Obamacare, Planned Parenthood, and other liberal lynchpins of socialism had one notable dissenter– Todd Akin. Akin voted with stalwart congressional conservatives Steve King, Jeff Flake, Paul Ryan, and …
–by Gravelyvoice Jim
Remember when the president graded himself on Oprah as a “solid B+?”
Last month, The Heritage Foundation published “report cards” on the nation’s congressmen and women, their “Action Scorecard,” determining that Missouri’s “conservative” Republican delegation is near failing.
Using the standard grading range of most schools of 90-100 = A, …
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I attended the Republican candidate forum at Hidden Valley in Eureka, Missouri recently. Both of the U.S. senate candidates, Congressman Todd Akin and former state treasurer and senator Sarah Steelman, participated (Brunner had not yet announced). The demeanor of the two seemed like a stark contrast between a polished DC …
The U.S. Senate race in Missouri has been thought as Akin and Steelman vs. McCaskill for months now. Not much excitement, not a particularly interesting race.
With the announcement from John Brunner yesterday, the game is on. Brunner held a press conference at a warehouse for his manufacturing company Vi-Jon …