JEFFERSON CITY – Candidate Jay Nixon supports allowing lobbyists to pay for meals and out-of-state travel for lawmakers, their staffs and spouses and children after very publicly calling on Gov. Matt Blunt to veto ethics reform legislation restricting such gifts. Nixon’s outrage is apparently directed at a provision included in the bill by a [...]

JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri Republican Party today called on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch to respect the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and print an Op-Ed piece designed to cut through the liberal censorship at the paper that continues to misrepresent the GOP record in Missouri.
Despite multiple requests by email and telephone to [...]

JEFFERSON CITY – Candidate Jay Nixon’s vocal opposition to new campaign finance reforms makes perfect political sense for someone who received soft-money contributions from an attorney he awarded with millions of dollars for minimal work on Missouri’s portion of the national tobacco settlement.
Candidate Nixon told The St. Louis Post-Dispatch today that [...]

JEFFERSON CITY – Claire McCaskill’s incompetence has been exposed once again with admissions in court by her office that they mistakenly reversed labels on a financial table projecting state revenues and spending limits on a constitutional amendment proposing a state spending cap.
The latest mistake by McCaskill revealed today by The Associated Press comes just [...]

JEFFERSON CITY – While more than 70 percent of eligible Missouri seniors are now enrolled in the Medicare senior prescription drug program, Claire McCaskill continues to ignore the facts by opposing affordable prescription drugs for some of Missouri’s most vulnerable citizens.
McCaskill told the Columbia Daily Tribune that she would have voted against the plan and [...]

JEFFERSON CITY – In a big win for good government and clean elections, the Legislature today passed a voter identification bill to safeguard ballot box integrity against cheating and abuse perpetrated by Democrats for generations, most famously in St. Louis City.
Under the bill sent to the Gov. Matt Blunt, voters would establish identity with photo [...]

JEFFERSON CITY – Gov. Matt Blunt’s support for and the Republican-led Legislature’s passage today of legislation requiring a 10 percent ethanol standard will help boost the state economy and reduce Missouri’s dependence on foreign oil.
“This is a great victory for Missouri consumers and farmers because it will reduce our dependence on foreign oil and [...]