JEFFERSON CITY – The past few months have not treated Secretary of State Robin Carnahan well. The reclusive Carnahan, who shies away from engaging in debate on important state issues, was sued by the federal government in November for failing to bring the state into compliance with federal election laws. Carnahan’s reaction to [...]

JEFFERSON CITY – Today, Senators Jim Talent and Kit Bond proudly cast their votes to confirm Samuel S. Alito to the U.S. Supreme Court. They were joined by a bipartisan group of Senators who agreed that Alito was an eminently qualified jurist for the position to which he was nominated.
On the flip side of [...]

JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri Republican Party is pleased to announce that Senator Jim Talent’s campaign committee reports having raised $1.1 million for Talent’s reelection effort during the final fundraising quarter of 2005. The $1.1 million brings Talent’s total raised for the year to $6.1 million, which shatters the previous state record for fundraising in [...]

JEFFERSON CITY – Last week, DNC Chairman / Northeastern liberal Howard Dean spilled the beans to Missourians that Claire McCaskill opposed the nomination of the eminently qualified Samuel S. Alito to the U.S. Supreme Court.1 Dean’s announcement effectively placed McCaskill in the company of anti-Alito Northeastern liberals who handpicked her to run for the Senate [...]

JEFFERSON CITY – Governor Blunt today announced an innovative and creative plan to dramatically improve higher education in our state through the sale of MoHELA. Not surprisingly, liberal Democrat obstructionists were criticizing the proposal before it was even introduced.
“The predictable knee-jerk reaction from Missouri Democrats to criticize everything that Republicans propose is [...]

JEFFERSON CITY – Last week, much discussion surrounded Claire McCaskill’s role in the internal Democratic Party efforts to muscle State Senator Maida Coleman out of the State Auditor’s race as a favor to her self-financed, deep pocketed primary opponent, trial lawyer Susan Montee. Despite the controversy surrounding McCaskill’s role in reported backroom dealings, a critical [...]

JEFFERSON CITY – Last Monday, DNC Chairman Howard Dean, a Northeastern liberal, broke the news to Missourians that Claire McCaskill would oppose the nomination of Samuel S. Alito to the U.S. Supreme Court. In his remarks to a Kansas City audience that included McCaskill, Dean said, “If Claire McCaskill were in the Senate, there would [...]