Tag archive for ‘mismanagement’
Another day, another serious error by Robin Carnahan
September 2, 2010
It has been a bad week for Secretary of State Robin Carnahan. On Tuesday, Carnahan received the latest in a string of judicial rebukes when the courts overturned her decision to disqualify valid signatures from an initiative petition. Yesterday, the St Louis Post-Dispatch reported that a Carnahan error nearly cost a qualified independent a spot on the ballot.
Robin Carnahan receives another judicial rebuke
September 1, 2010
Robin Carnahan has a poor track record when it comes to defending her decisions in Missouri courts. Yesterday, she suffered her latest setback when a judge overturned her decision to disqualify a petition from the November ballot.
St. Louis County Council temporarily scraps controversial election plan
June 16, 2010
After the Missouri Republican Party raised serious legal and ethical questions about a plan to use 100 county employees to perform Election Day duties, the St. Louis County Council removed a discussion of the proposal from the yesterday’s meeting agenda.
Troubling and Unfair: Robin Carnahan’s biased ballot language
January 7, 2010
JEFFERSON CITY—Earlier this week, a Missouri court ruled on another Robin Carnahan ballot summary, and once again, the version that emerged is not the same as what Carnahan wrote. This is the fourth time Carnahan’s language has not been able to withstand a court challenge. In the past two years, Carnahan’s ballot summaries have been [...]
Democrats refuse to halt reckless spending spree
December 16, 2009
JEFFERSON CITY—Lloyd Smith, Executive Director of the Missouri Republican Party, released the following statement regarding Congressional Democrats efforts to raise the nation’s debt limit: “Led by Nancy Pelosi and backed by Ike Skelton and Russ Carnahan, Congress spent our nation into a $1.4 trillion dollar deficit in 2009—but that was just the beginning. By voting [...]
Major errors force Nixon Administration to rebid fee offices
December 10, 2009
Following the Springfield News-Leader story regarding the Nixon Administration rebidding 10 fee offices, Lloyd Smith, Executive Director of the Missouri Republican Party issued the following statement: “This is the latest in a series of setbacks for Jay Nixon’s scandal-plagued fee office system. Nixon has rewarded Democrat power players and campaign donors with many of the [...]
Carnahan covers up disenfranchisement of military voters that occurred on her watch
December 7, 2009
JEFFERSON CITY—Secretary of State Robin Carnahan today attempted to cover up her the disenfranchisement of military voters that occurred on her watch. Carnahan held a joint press conference to boast about new federal reforms meant make the voting process easier for men and women stationed overseas—but she whitewashed her own failures to ensure that members [...]
MOGOP Statement on E. coli-gate press conference
October 16, 2009
Lloyd Smith, Executive Director of the Missouri Republican Party, issued the following statement on Jay Nixon’s ongoing role in the E. coli-gate scandal: “Jay Nixon has placed protecting his handpicked personal staff ahead of protecting the public health of Missourians. Jay Nixon found his scapegoat, but his top aides involved in the cover-up have been [...]
E. coli-gate: Credibility in shambles, Jay Nixon protects those who protected him
October 9, 2009
MOGOP’s Smith: “Nixon has made a conscience decision to protect the members of his staff instead of protecting the people of the State of Missouri.” JEFFERSON CITY—For weeks, Jay Nixon has been desperately trying to change the subject away from evidence showing that his office was instrumental in withholding information—and later covering up their actions—about [...]
Years of Nixon mismanagement bankrupts Second Injury Fund
October 2, 2009
JEFFERSON CITY—After years of Republican warnings, the Attorney General Chris Koster yesterday announced that the state has stopped settling new settlement payments out of the Second Injury Fund (SIF). The announcement is no surprise to those who observed years of Nixon’s mismanagement of the fund. “Despite the evidence, Jay Nixon has flatly denied that there [...]