Tag archive for ‘corruption’
NEW VIDEO: MOGOP urges Missourians to “connect the dots” of Carnahan’s wind farm
October 7, 2010
Robin Carnahan supported Obama’s failed stimulus bill—a bill that ended up lining the pockets of her brother with $107 million in taxpayer subsidies. Despite the Carnahan family’s attempts to cloud the issue, this is a clear case of impropriety on the part of Robin Carnahan. Our new web video will help Missourians connect the dots between Robin, her brother, her brother’s hired lobbyists, and Joe Biden.
Carnahan family profits with massive ‘stimulus’ handout
September 18, 2010
Robin Carnahan and her brother, Congressman Russ, rubberstamped Barack Obama’s wasteful and ineffective $800 billion stimulus in 2009—and now we know why. According to a new government report, a massive amount of money, more than$100,000,000.00 taxpayer dollars were handed over to Robin and Russ’ brother, Tom Carnahan, to save his “Lost Creek” wind business.
Missouri voter fraud case highlights Robin Carnahan’s false assertion that 2008 election was free of fraud
May 19, 2010
Missouri’s highest-ranking elections official, the liberal Robin Carnahan, has egg on her face. According to the Associated Press, a St. Louis man was recently indicted by a federal grand jury for voting in Missouri and Illinois during the November 2008 general election. This revelation comes despite Robin Carnahan’s April 2009 report in which she declared [...]
Stand by your man: Nixon ignores another prominent appointee’s ethical lapses
September 28, 2009
JEFFERSON CITY—Despite a spate of resignations and guilty pleas by several St. Louis-area Democrats, Jay Nixon is sticking by his choice to serve on the scandal-plagued Missouri Housing Development Commission: John Temporiti, who is dealing with his own set of ethical troubles. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is reporting that Temporiti is at the center of [...]
MOGOP Statement on Guilty Plea by St Louis Democrat T.D. El-Amin
September 24, 2009
Lloyd Smith, Executive Director of the Missouri Republican Party, issued the following statement on State Rep. T.D. El-Amin’s guilty plea in federal court: “Our elected officials are expected to put service over self, but Democrat State Rep. T.D. El-Amin committed the gravest violation of the public trust—acting for personal profit rather than for the Missourians [...]
Has Jay Nixon created a ‘culture of corruption’?
August 26, 2009
A pattern emerges among top aides JEFFERSON CITY—Yesterday’s 22-page indictment of Steve Brown (available here) makes it clear that Brown was actively engaged in a conspiracy to lie to federal investigators while he was an employee of then-Attorney General Jay Nixon. Brown is the latest in a series of close Nixon advisors who have been [...]
Former top Nixon aide’s guilty plea raises serious questions
August 25, 2009
JEFFERSON CITY—Former longtime employee of the then-Attorney General Jay Nixon, Nixon confidante, and Democratic member of the Missouri House of Representatives Steve Brown today pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice. According to media reports and Brown’s own statements, he worked for Nixon from 1998-2007, taking leaves of absence to work and/or volunteer on various Democratic [...]
MOGOP statement on guilty pleas by Democrats Smith, Brown
August 25, 2009
Lloyd Smith, Executive Director of the Missouri Republican Party, issued the following statement on the resignations and guilty pleas by Democratic Sen. Jeff Smith and former top aide to Jay Nixon Rep. Steve Brown: “It is a sad day when those sworn to uphold the law admit instead to obstructing a federal investigation. Today’s guilty [...]
Whitewash in the works?
May 11, 2009
How bad was last week for Jay Nixon? Allegations of bribery, at least two witnesses, calls for a federal investigation… all of this equals front page news to media outlets like the Kansas City Star. But some in the media have begun whitewashing the allegations. The KY3 Notebook, which gives Nixon a weekly grade based [...]
Nixon will have trouble blaming others in job-for-votes scandal
May 8, 2009
In a new development, Missourinet is now reporting that two high-level Nixon staffers—Dustin Allison and Chris Moreno—approached GOP Representatives Anne Zerr and Chris Molendorp about rewarding them with jobs if they would support legislation backed by the governor. Nixon is denying the charges, but history shows that he is already looking for someone to blame. [...]