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Why is Missouri's Ag Director Avoiding Deposition?

2013-04-18T06:43:00-05:00

T he Cavalry Group has emailed the following press release about Missouri's Agriculture Director, Jon Hagler. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 17, 2013 MISSOURI AGRICULTURE DIRECTOR ATTEMPTS TO EVADE DEPOSITION Jon Hagler seeks to avoid deposition in legal challenge to the Canine Cruelty Prevention Act Saint Louis, MO - In 2010, Missouri voters narrowly passed the Canine Cruelty Prevention Act. The Missouri legislature subsequently amended the bill with what later became known as the 'Missouri Solution' in order to address vague language and unconstitutional elements in the measure. The Missouri Department of Agriculture was then tasked with writing the rules for...

Credit Where Credit is Due

2013-04-11T14:40:41-05:00

Heritage Action recently Key Voted against the American Battlefield Protection Program Amendments Act, and the entire MOGOP US House delegation took the solid conservative stance against another pork-laden bill. Ann Wagner, Blaine Luetkemeyer, Vicky Hartzler, Sam Graves and Billy Long voted against taxpayer handouts to state & local governments in a time when budgets should be tightening, not expanding. The bill passed with a minority of Republicans, violating a rule promoted by fiscal conservatives in the US House, including Matt Salmon. During Dennis Hastert's tenure as the Speaker of the House, if a majority of the majority party opposed a...

Carnahan Blog Now Signals End of an Era

2013-03-30T23:16:41-05:00

With both Russ Carnahan and Robin Carnahan leaving elected office last January, the time has come to wind down their family blog: FiredUp! Missouri. And so they have: Here at 24thState.com we have followed the hollow work of FiredUpMissouri (FUM) for years. Now seems a fitting time to remind our readers of the racist lies the Carnahans trumped up against Roy Blunt (R-MO). That was during Robin's failed bid for US Senate in 2010. We caught them red-handed manufacturing political "news" on multiple occassions in that campaign. Of course, FiredUp used similar tactics to go after Ed Martin when he...

Why Individual Liberty is Everything

2013-03-23T12:39:51-05:00

f you are one of those who believes that individual liberties should be subjected to popular vote, prepare to inherit the wind.

The Arch Tax: A Windfall for One California Business

2013-03-21T20:38:27-05:00

Darin Morley has submitted the following article about the April 2nd ballot initiative, Prop P also known as the Arch Tax. Morley blogs at Reboot Congress. . . . Those pushing the Arch tax have been promoting it's positive economic impact on the region. Here's a recent flyer that they mailed to area voters. One side promises that "Propostion P will Get People Working and Stimulate our Local Economy" The other side promises that Prop P will "Improve our Economy and Create Jobs: In fact, mailings like this one from the pro-Arch tax folks have failed to benefit the St....

The Arch Tax: Bryan Cave Lobbies for Neighborhood Improvement Project, Invoices St. Louis County

2013-03-21T04:50:00-05:00

Darin Morley has submitted the following article about the April 2nd ballot initiative, Prop P also known as the Arch Tax. Morley blogs at Reboot Congress. . . . Improving the Arch grounds has been a dream of Bryan Cave attorney Walter Metcalfe since at least 2007. As the St. Louis Beacon reported in January of this year: Back in late 2007, then-Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne took a walking tour of the Arch grounds with Bryan Cave attorney Walter Metcalfe and former U.S. Sen. John Danforth. Metcalfe said that Kempthorne, a former Idaho governor, wasn't impressed. “He said...

Monarch Fire District - Vote Cunningham April 2nd

2013-03-20T23:19:25-05:00

We have written on this race before where you kind find the bigger picture details, so we will not cover those here. It is entertaining watching fire board candidiate, Cole McNary try to have his cake and eat it too, meaning taking the union money while claiming to be the candidate of fiscal prudence. He actually claims to be unaware of their support while Mary Shapiro, a seasoned professional with the Suburban Journals, schrewdly points out that Steve Swyers, the man McNary claims he will model, is one of the two union endorsed sitting members of the board. Like McNary,...

Public/Private Partnerships are Bad For Taxpayers

2013-03-18T22:11:29-05:00

Prop P, the Arch Tax, which appears on the April 2nd ballot in St. Louis city and county, will distribute 60% of tax receipts to the Public/Private Partnerships of Great Rivers Greenway and CityArchRiver. These organizations collect taxpayer money and private donations to fund their operations. What makes this arrangement bad for taxpayers is that Public/Private Partnerships are not accountable to the taxpayer. If an elected official misspends taxpayer money you can vote that politician out. Public/Private Partnerships can spend your tax money on dreadful projects with no repercussions. Currently city and county taxpayer dollars fund 70 million dollars to...

Website and Post Dispatch Expose Missouri Communist Web

2013-03-09T00:55:11-06:00

The website Key Wiki just released a report exposing Missouri communists with very high level connections. Before the "clean fingernails crowd" dismisses the label "communist" as shrill they would be wise to review the writings of Glenn Burleigh covered here before. The former chief of ACORN actually proclaims in an argument against capitalism that the arguments of Marx, Engles and Lenin "stand up today". What is perhaps more impressive than the Key Wiki piece is the accidental collaboration in the outing of communists by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the most prominent newspaper in Missouri. We doubt that when the paper...

Subverting the GOP into Medicaid Expansion

2013-02-23T00:58:06-06:00

Serving on an obscure committee might seem like a minor point. It's not. At last summer's Republican convention there was a floor fight involving the Rules Committee's efforts to shut out the grassroots. Until a few days ago, Ed Martin, Catherine Hanaway, and Lance Beshore had a deal. Ed Martin was recently elected Chairman of the Missouri Republican Party and had an agreement with Catherine Hanaway and Lance Beshore that Martin would serve on the National Republican Rules committee. Hanaway and Beshore are the Missouri GOP's National Committeewoman and Committeeman respectively. Along with Martin, the three decide who serves on...