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State Treasurer Clint Zweifel (D) - Missouri Boys State - June 17, 2013 - one word

Michael Bersin — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:43:45 GMT

Previously: Missouri Boys State - 2013 (June 16, 2013) Kansas City Mayor Sly James - Missouri Boys State - June 16, 2013 (June 17, 2013) State Treasurer Clint Zweifel (D) in Warrensburg speaking at Missouri Boys State on the campus of the University of Central Missouri - June 17, 2013. State Treasurer Clint Zweifel (D) was the keynote speaker this evening at Missouri Boys State on the...

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Campaign Finance: Chris Koster (D) is gonna need a bigger boat

Michael Bersin — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:11:48 GMT

Brody: You're gonna need a bigger boat. Today, at the Missouri Ethics Commission, the republican senate campaign committee had a really good day: C071094 06/17/2013 MISSOURI SENATE CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE August A Busch III 1 Mid Rivers Mall Drive Ste 210 St Peters MO 63376 Retired 6/17/2013 $25,000.00 C071094 06/17/2013 MISSOURI SENATE CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE AGC of St. Louis Political Action...

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Kansas City Mayor Sly James - Missouri Boys State - June 16, 2013

Michael Bersin — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:42:54 GMT

"...because I got to see what people were talking about and compare what I heard to what I knew and saw. The stereotypes that I heard in my neighborhood about people of a different color did not match up to the reality that I experienced when I as having lunch with them at school. The stereotypes that were pervasive with some of the folks at school about my neighborhood did not match up to the...

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With Apologies to Inigo Montoya...

--Blue Girl — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:34:19 GMT

By @BginKC My husband is a teacher. Specifically, he is a high school teacher and his students are, in order to get into the school where he teaches, "at risk." Because of his profession, the name "Michelle Rhee" is an epithet in our house, so there was no small bit of crowing on his part that this morning he learned, via Facebook, that the Missouri leader of her group is stepping down. Lea...

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Missouri Boys State - 2013

Michael Bersin — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 03:44:35 GMT

Missouri Boys State is taking place this week in Warrensburg on the campus of the University of Central Missouri. Close to one thousand boys from across the state are participating in the program. This year sixteen boys from the People's Republic of China are participating as part of the US-China Youth Leadership Exchange. Keynote speakers this week include Kansas City Mayor Sly James, State...

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Campaign Finance: All better now?

Michael Bersin — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 20:56:11 GMT

Previously: Campaign Finance: Oh, really? (June 13, 2013) Not particularly disposed toward introspection (June 13, 2013) Yesterday the republican sort of establishment gave itself a wedgie over Steve Tilley's (r) $7,500.00 contribution to Attorney General Chris Koster's (D) campaign committee. Today, via the Missouri Ethics Commission, the gravitational constant of the universe is back to...

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Not particularly disposed toward introspection

Michael Bersin — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 01:10:21 GMT

Previously: Campaign Finance: Oh, really? (June 13, 2013) Oh, this is just too sweet: Missouri Republicans are grumbling about former GOP speaker's donation to Koster, a Democrat June 13 By STEVE KRASKE The Kansas City Star ....Republican state Sen. Brad Lager from northwest Missouri said Tilley's move "underscores why we need ethics reform in Missouri. "We have too many elected officials...

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Medicaid expansion for Arizona while GOP lawmakers fiddle with Medicaid "reform" in Missouri

WillyK — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:06:55 GMT

Late in May I wrote about how Jan Brewer, the GOP Tea Party governor of Arizona, saw the light and went to bat for the Obamacare Medicaid expansion in her state, fighting tooth-and-nail against her once simpatico Tea Party legislature. Today I learned that she managed to prevail in her fight. Shows what all-out commitment will do - and maybe suggests just why our cautious, low-key Democratic...

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Campaign Finance: Oh, really?

Michael Bersin — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:45:40 GMT

Yesterday, at the Missouri Ethics Commission: 031159 06/12/2013 MISSOURIANS FOR KOSTER Friends of Tilley 100 S. Jackson Perryville MO 63775 6/11/2013 $7,500.00 [emphasis added] Interesting. Who'd have thought that Steve Tilley (r) and his friends would be so open in their support of organized labor and LGBT rights.

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Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): the period from January 2001 to January 2009 is kind of fuzzy in my memory

Michael Bersin — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 23:41:00 GMT

This wasn't an "average" recession. From Calculated Risk: .... [The] graph shows the job losses from the start of the employment recession, in percentage terms, compared to previous post WWII recessions. The dotted line is ex-Census hiring. This shows the depth of the recent employment recession - worse than any other post-war recession - and the relatively slow recovery due to the lingering...

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...in wonderland

Michael Bersin — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 03:02:08 GMT

Spotted today in the parking lot of an anti-union national chain store in west central Missouri: Maybe it's just to cover up paint blemishes.

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Campaign Finance: working people

Michael Bersin — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 01:00:58 GMT

Today, at the Missouri Ethics Commission: C031159 06/11/2013 MISSOURIANS FOR KOSTER UFCW Local 655 Elect Political Fund 300 Weidman Road Ballwin MO 63011 6/10/2013 $10,000.00 [emphasis added] Other candidates don't necessarily need the campaign contribution cash of working people.

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That's okay, we're held together with spit, baling wire, and duct tape

Michael Bersin — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:15:20 GMT

Didn't catch this earlier: PoliticMo to re-launch after brief hiatus May 28, 2013 JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - After a three month hiatus, PoliticMo is set to re-launch, editor-in-chief Eli Yokley announced on Tuesday.... ....The announcement came as Yokley announced the decision to leave his full-time role as managing editor of The Missouri Times.... What's up with that? And there's this, via...

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Campaign Finance: anticipation

Michael Bersin — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 03:24:17 GMT

Today, at the Missouri Ethics Commission: C081066 06/10/2013 CLINT ZWEIFEL FOR MISSOURI UFCW Local 655 Elect Political Fund 300 Weidman Road Ballwin MO 63011 6/10/2013 $10,000.00 C081066 06/10/2013 CLINT ZWEIFEL FOR MISSOURI Central Bancompany PAC 238 Madison St Jefferson City MO 65101 6/10/2013 $10,000.00 C081066 06/10/2013 CLINT ZWEIFEL FOR MISSOURI Thompson Coburn LLP One US Bank Plaza St...

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White House Petition: well, that didn't take long

Michael Bersin — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 02:58:58 GMT

Previously: Oh, so the government isn't spying on you through your toaster... (June 8, 2013) All the trees are down and an ill wind is blowing... (June 8, 2013) The NSA leaker has been identified. At the White House petition site: We petition the Obama Administration to: Pardon Edward Snowden Edward Snowden is a national hero and should be immediately issued a a full, free, and absolute...

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